#6fd

OKAY. the plot of this show is: 1300s korea. politics are very corrupt, duh. into this world comes…

6 very grumpy individuals who band together to make a better nation:

Jeong Do-jeon: Mastermind Who Wishes Kids Would Stop Following Him Around, really just wants to make up a new political system and be left alone by everyone in the world, because everyone in the world is an idiot, including his #1 fan/closest rival, named –>

Bang-won: Righteous Murder Nerd Disappointed In All His Father Figures, always has 4000 emotions he is VERY excited to talk about with everyone who will listen but especially with the love of/greatest irritant in his life, who is –>

Boon-yi: Smol & Bossy Peasant Girl Who Is Always 100% DTF (Down To Fight), truly believes a family can be just 1 girl & 200 villagers that insist on calling her “Our General” and is incredibly irritated any time anyone makes her experience an emotion, particularly her older brother, called –>

Ddang-sae: Self-Hating Waif On Life Mission To Protect The Two (2) Things On This Hellpit Of A Planet That He Even Sort Of Likes, namely his sister & his ex-girlfriend, deeply exhausted by people insisting he participate in politics or society writ large, with special attention to –>

Moo-hyul: Big & Strong Dumbo With A Heart Of Gold, mostly just wants to get food for his 82 siblings and mean mom, but also very interested in getting famous, perhaps by way of fighting Ddang-sae for the title of Best Swordsman but also perhaps by teaching from  –>

Yi Seong-gye: Stern & Disgruntled War Hero Who Accidentally Adopts Them All, old as balls, very tired, just wants to keep his head down and run his army but keeps plucking angry children off the street and raising them instead

it’s 50 episodes of everybody falling in love with everybody else and being very irritated about it. also there’s a lot of speeches about how rich people suck & reading is cool. also, murder. really just ….. a WHOLE lot of murder.

additional & notable plot points:

this show features my ULTIMATE FAVE TROPE, which is ride or die siblings who hate everyone except each other

ddang-sae’s (ex)girlfriend has 0 time for his manpain and is very busy enacting a convoluted revenge plot

there is an ARMY OF LADY SPIES

a raggedy bang of beggars/ersatz theatre troupe is constantly showing up to be like, “y’all are SO DRAMATIC, and we are saying this as THEATER PEOPLE”

bang-won and boon-yi are vERY important to me, particularly because she is constantly biting him and he is constantly shouting, “STOP DOING THAT AND LOVE ME,” to which she usually responds, “THEN STOP DOING ANNOYING SHIT THAT MAKES ME WANT TO BITE YOU (also i do love you) (never mention this to me again)”

this show features a set of twins who are constantly getting mad that people are calling them by the wrong name, and one of them solves this issue by insisting on wearing bright blue eyeshadow

“Welcome To My Garden Where I Plant My Murder Trees :)”

loyal sidekicks abound

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