That Cat Girl with Hyper Fixations

*Actually used by at least one character (and/or the narrator) in canon

Maomao - Lahan's Little Sister*

Jinshi - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend

Lakan - Lahan's Uncle

Luomen - Lahan's Great Uncle

Lakou - Lahan's Father*

Lahan's Brother - Lahan's Brother*

Lahan - Lahan's Brother's Brother

Fengxian - Lahan's Little Sister's Mother

The Madam - Lahan's Little Sister's Grandmother

Yao - Lahan's Freeloader

En'en - Lahan's Freeloader's Lady-in-Waiting

Vice Minister Lu - Lahan's Freeloader's Uncle

Sanfan - Lahan's Infatuated Servant

Kan Junjie - Lahan's Brother's Devotee

Rikuson - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Sworn Enemy

Gyoku-ou - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Sworn Enemy's Sworn Enemy

The Emperor - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Brother But Actually Father

Gyokuyou - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Brother But Actually Father's Wife

Lingli - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Brother But Actually Father's Wife's Daughter

Crown Prince - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Brother But Actually Father's Wife's Daughter's Brother

Lihua - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Brother But Actually Father's High Consort

Shisui/Loulan - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Brother But Actually Father's Traitorous Former High Consort

Shenmei - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Brother But Actually Father's Traitorous Former High Consort's Even More Traitorous Mother

Anshi - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Mother But Actually Paternal Grandmother

Former Emperor - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Father But Actually Grandfather

Empress Regnant - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Paternal Grandmother But Actually Paternal Great Grandmother

Ah-Duo - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Birth Mother

Suiren - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Maternal Grandmother

Suirei - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Father But Actually Grandfather's Illegitimate Daughter's Daughter

Basen - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Milk Brother

Baryou - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Milk Brother's Brother

Chue - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Milk Brother's Brother's Wife

Taomei - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Wet Nurse

Gaoshun - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Wet Nurse's Husband

Maamei - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Milk Brother's Sister

Bakin - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Milk Brother's Sister's Husband

Lishu - Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Brother But Actually Father's Former High Consort But She's Way More Like A Daughter To Him And Everyone Hates Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Father But Actually Grandfather So Much For Causing Shit Like This a.k.a. Lahan's Little Sister's Boyfriend's Milk Brother's Girlfriend But, Like, They Haven't Really Made It Official Yet

Begins August 23, 2026 and will run until September 5, 2026

Rules/ What to Expect:

The event will be running for two weeks, with each prompt having two days to post (or work on if you're a procrastinator like me lol)

No word count limit/ restrictions, write how ever much or little you want

Traditional seven prompts with a "free space" prompt if you're not sure you can pull off one of the other ones

Can be for any ship you like, or you don't have to ship anyone at all

Please no "Dead Dove: Do Not Eat" or "Character Death" tags, I'd like to be able to read everyone's stories

Most importantly, have fun! This is a chance to explore the characters and their personalities in an alternative universe (AU)

I wanted to give everyone whose part of the fandom a little sneak peak to an event me and a few friends have been cooking up in the KnH Fanfic Discord Server! I plan on running a KnH/ The Apothecary Diaries AU Week(s) in late August/ early September in anticipation for the release of Season 3!

Rules: make a poll with five of your all-time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite.

@sabyg133 thank you for passing on this hell to me. ive pulled up so many blorbos from the cellar just thinking about them... muah thanks for the tag!

If they don't have the potential to be absolutely pathetic in one way or another, I don't want 'em!

I know I’m the one who cast the curse but it can still only be broken with true love. I’m begging you, somebody, please come and fall in love with these girls and make them leave, I can’t take it anymore, it sucks so bad. I can’t keep getting viciously bullied by one of the largest living species of waterfowl anymore. I’ve tried running away but they can fly so they just find me. I’m getting nothing done.

KNH Exchange Posting Day 5!

Our three last works are just waiting to be read on our ao3 collection. And remember, creator reveals will begin tomorrow!

down the line, through my veins for ryo (reviiely)

When Maomao is sent to the palace dressed as a bride to the elusive Moon Prince, she doesn't know what to expect. But it is safe to say she did not expect him to become her... pen pal? Or! Arranged marriage Jinmao AU!

Nightshade Reaper for LadySable

Jinmao Hades & Persephone grim reaper AU In a world where gods are real, a young nymph named Maomao wanted as close to nothing to do with them as possible. So far, she was doing great… until her life was suddenly flipped on it’s head overnight (quite literally) when Maomao found herself face to face with the fearsome and mysterious king of the underworld himself, proposing a unique arrangement that dragged her down the rabbit hole the moment she accepted. As Maomao starts growing comfortable in her new role, she starts discovering some uncomfortable feelings about sharing more in common with the infamously enigmatic god than she expected. The longer she stays in the underworld, the more insistently truths and realities starts bubbling to the surface. Ones that Maomao had tried to keep buried with the dead. Unfortunately, now she was surrounded by the dead.

So Easy (To Fall In Love) for VsettaCrescellie

Maomao bumps into a guy headfirst right as she crosses the street. The rest is history.

Sometimes you have to live a lie in order to survive. Sometimes you're twelve years old and people are already talking about your potential bed partner. You need to do whatever it takes it keep yourself safe, because you don't want to be forced to sleep with someone for the sake of a role. You've never felt like yourself to begin with, so you're willing to do whatever it takes to escape it. A lie on top of a lie. Does that mean you're a bad person?

You have only ever known love and sex as politics and cages. You spend your teenage years watching women have no choice but to surrender themselves to the Emperor and day after day you deal with being sexually assaulted and harassed. You make mistakes, mistakes that haunt you as you get older. No one stopped you, you learned to stop yourself. In a world where everyone eggs you on to take, to do your "duty" you teach yourself to hold back, to look at the bigger picture.

Jinshi does not manipulate for nefarious reasons, he's disgusted in himself for using his face to get things done, but he'll do it if it means good for the nation. He looks back at his younger self and shudders in embarrassment. He sheds his false eunuch image and eventually grows past his boundary-crossing actions, and he stacks weight upon weight onto his shoulders because all he knows is to put himself at work for the state, for the sake of the empire.

Is one's desire to be free, to have control over one's body, wrong? Jinshi wants to be human, he wants to bridge the gap between him and others. He wants Basen to be casual with him, he wants Maomao to not have to fear about the broader implications of their relationship, he wants to be anything but a royal. He feels so uncomfortable in the skin of heaven he is willing to tear and burn it off, leave scars and scabs, all for his goal.

Some people seem to think Jinshi is selfish or that his path to personal autonomy illustrates a tendency for moral failings. I am never going to say he's perfect and completely selfless on that journey, but I hope people can see what Maomao eventually does, someone so caged, that he's close to getting squashed.