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(r. f. kuang’s version) 🫂 🪩 dream team & the poppy war

[yinnezhasgf]

my writing :) 🌌

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when nezha remembers rin, he remembers her laugh. sharp, sudden, too quick and too cynical. he remembers how much she loved steamed buns and

when nezha forgets rin, it happens in fragments. pieces of a painting worn and weathered by time, its inks and paints fading bit by bit beca

“Once, very long ago, Time fell in love with Fate.” — The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern this gives me rinezha vibes because well,, ti

[dreamsinmyrinehzaeyes]

Low-key love the headcanon that the Hesperians studied and experimented with Rin's dead body because it would make so much sense and it's so painfully tragic.

Can you imagine how ANGRY she would be if she knew they reduced her to a footnote in history and desecrated her corpse?

Can you imagine how much pain Nezha felt when he stood by and did nothing knowing they were cutting her open?

Knowing that he was powerless because he couldn't afford to anger the foreigners that were keeping the population of Nikan alive.

And after they're done studying her dead body Nezha's probably going to be the one in charge of handling her corpse, assuming they don't try to drag her body back to Hesperia. I think that might kill him honestly.

Just imagine him having to bury/burn her and he walks into the lab to retrieve her corpse after everything and he sees her lying on the table, her skin cold, her body stiff, eye sockets empty, stitches littered all over her form from where they cut her open.

And he couldn't do anything to save her from it.

He feels the dead body mocking him, taunting him for being so utterly useless in protecting the people he loves.

Idk personally I love that idea🫶❤️

Low-key I actually wrote a fic where I explored that concept on AO3 because if there's one thing I love it's ANGST.

Bai 🐍💓

[corneliaavenue-ao3]

Rereading The Burning God and reminded just how much of a condescending asshole, but yet still such a flirt Nezha was in those letters to Rin.

"I mean, knowing you, you've probably had them all thrown in prison. But at least let Minmin and Little Xing back into the kitchens. They make excellent steamed buns. And you like those, don't you?" SIR!

[trashwhattrash]

Rin and Nezha, the egoist and the altruist, the peasant and the prince, the sun and the moon, the fire and the flood, the Phoenix and the Dragon.

Both are bound by their blood to be opposites. They are victims of their upbringings and they both want what the other has but cannot fathom living the other’s life, not truly.

They are opposing forces, they are an unstoppable force and an unmovable wall, they are two cardinal directions on opposite ends of a compass, they are north and south poles on the same magnet and at the end of the day they do love each other so much.

But a love like that is destined to fail because they cannot change the rules of this plane of existence so they can either coexist without interacting at all to keep the balance or risk destroying one another in the chaos of their union.

What a cruel and beautiful tragedy they are.

[wesperskanej]

The Poppy War Litjoy Covers (art by carissa_s_art)

[lynsstrange]

My Roman Empire is that despite representing the epitome of wealth, power, and influence to Rin, Nezha is ultimately powerless his entire life.

He is born to be a political pawn for his father, who's only job is to serve his country, and he accepts this fact eary on. He knows deep down his parents will never love him enough because of what he is, but he still seeks his father's praise despite knowing that he will never be respected.

He has all the power of a nation and its military behind him, but he still is forced to concede to colonizers that he see him as subhuman and backwards because of his race. He has divine shamanic abilities, but is controlled and abused by the Dragon as nothing more than a plaything. He wants to die, but is forced to be immortal by a god he never wanted to serve.

He loves Rin, but knows that that has "never mattered" because of the cycle of history they've trapped themselves in. And at the end of the series he's forced to stab her in the heart, by her own hand and decision, not his.

He's left completely alone, and even though there's a glint of optimism for his nation, he knows the rest of his life will only be a series of sacrifices made for it.

[lynsstrange]

btw the only times rin and nezha kissed were when he blew air into her throat underwater to save her life, and when she blew fire into his to try to burn him to death underwater

[noahnomore]

[clauonacloud-deactivated2022071]

[latinajedi]

[gay-jesus-probably]

YOU GET THE FUCK BACK HERE AND EXPLAIN THAT RIGHT NOW

[riluri]

well damn

[ospreyonthemoon]

[letslipthehounds]

Every time, I know what's coming, but every time, I just lose it at "Uh. That"

[risingoflights]

well, there's a pool named after the prime minister that disappeared on a swim so we must've all cared at least a little

[platonicau]

rin and nezha as actors on the poppy war because i’m still coping ☹️💔 (og post)

[st4rrgiirl]

the poppy war: nikan vs mugen

the dragon republic: nikan vs nikan

burning god: rin vs everyone

[sollkorolevaa]

Nezha knew Rin for like what, 5 - 6 years? How iconic do you have to be to traumatise a man so badly he’ll mourn you till he dies while yall just knew eachother in hs and college AND YALL WERE FRIEND FOR LIKE ONE OR TWO YEARS😭 moral of the story situationships ruin lives

[solemn-druid]

art credit: @whyamiheretm

[agnes-writes]

I forgot to ever post this but I had this modern Rinezha AU artwork commissioned by artist @x_oiii_ (on Twitter and Instagram, go follow them!) last year and my children are so gorgeous, I can't breathe

[therantspot]

i love rin bc she gives into her rage. that's not smth i can afford half the time, so she's like the outlet to mine too. the satisfaction she gets when she hurts those who have hurt her? yeah that's me. i feel it too. it is so gratifying actually. that's what you get for messing with my girl you bitch

[sweeetsh]

“The night air had suddenly become very cold, which at that point seemed to Rin like a good excuse to sit closer to Nezha.” or, top ten moments before disaster

[wondering-whispers]

One of the many heartbreaking things about tpw triology was that Rin did not have an identity outside of being a soldier. Kitty would have been a scholar. Nezha probably would have succeeded his father. But Rin? What would she have become. The more I think about tpw,the more it hurts

[maplepixy]

if only they were this happy

another masterpiece that i commissioned! from @/kalalalus on X 💗 absolutely in looove with this art