#kye-sook

"I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul."

So......anyone realizing that Soo-won’s group has no idea that Hak x Yona is canon yet? like to the dragons and yoon and yona and Hak they know its basically a offical thing. They’ve known hak has liked yona for a while and even the fire tribe tae-jun knows. but I’ve realized that technically the windtribe and soo-on group has no idea that hak and yona are in love with eachother yet. so now I can’t help imagining jou-doh, kye-sook and others just having a heart attack or wondering when Hak x Yona became a thing.....honestly...I’m still wondering if his group even knew that Yona was in love with soo-won in the past. it was news to Soo-won that Yona was in love with Soo-won....

...but any thoughts about how everyone will react to Yona being romantically in love with Hak who doesn’t already know? I mean even when it was just platonic Hak was still super precious to her so it doesn’t change much over all.....

....but not even soo-won knows about Yona falling for Hak or Hak’s romantic feelings for yona right?

hmmm.....I wouldn't go so far that they haven;t been acting like the characters we know and love. its more like...they have been dealing with being out of their element in a spiders web. they can't just punch or attack there way of out this and thy know if they had refused originally they would have still been targetted. was it a smart move on yona's part to agree? probably not. but she did promise to get yoon books and  better education. she had just dealt with being kidnapped and used to force the dragons to fight her people and the creep priest and kyk-sook had clearly tried attacking them before. considering yona is a teenage girl and even hak was panicking from knowing he could protect yona and the dragons properly the choice made sense...especially with kyk-sook manipulating the fears and trauma she had just gone through. the dragons are definitely out of their element right now and I think that tentivness makes sense. they are all separated and thy can't just attack to get out of their and their leader yona isn't telling them to com get her.

 though honestly....I think a bigger issue there isn;t enough detail on palace life to make the political drama have a extra kick. we don't see old teachers yona had or people that she used to know like her maids. we haven't see the things she used to have contrast how she has grown now. people who remember the younger her. we don't see her haunted by memories or having flashbacks or ghoss of moments she used to have. wedon't see her opinion about having to be dressed her in elaborate robes or her hair oilsand things she used to use. something to really connect to her old spoiled naive self. we definitely have hints here and there in previous chapters that yona was a bit of a trouble maker with a sharp  tongue but I really want to see evidence of that. we have seen yona grow from what we sw was her being naive and spoiled...but we also know hak admired and loved her even then. so hints that there aspects of her that has been revealed were always there to some degree in small things might have a bigger impact. shoujo often uses people reacting to others often. 

 even more so we didn't really get a lay out of the castle even though that's were the story is taking place. there were a lot of close up show or already being in the building or hallway. 

honestly I need more yoon.

 a big benefit is Hak knows...but others don't know hak knows so he gets to deal with his feelings more now. this chapter has felt a bit fillery in that not much happened but they are cutting through the bullcrap as we all  know yona didn't do it and that most likely these people did it to start a war. the question is can they stop the war or prove yona's innocence?

 will yona try to look up more about what the dead guy said to her? Soo-won might feel rushed to war. and there's the potential lessons. Soo-won needs to learn to rely on others but he is in the position where he will resist it like no ones business. even more its help  from Yona. the balance of whats best for the kingom and whats best for his health begins. Yona has more inside but we haven't had rest to explore her thoughts about what was in the diary for long. and there could be a rushed war happening. 

 though honestly I really hope we get to hear more about il's reputation? yona being il's daughter helped her when it came to gaining trust of kourien and her sister tao compared to soo-wo son of war general yu-hon. considering a big theme was king il forbade yona to hold a weapon and was know as the peaceful cowardly king who hates violence...I wonder if that will affect the rumors about yona killing the delegate?

Is it weird that as much as I enjoy yona getting into the meat of dealing with these people from another country....I kindof wish we got more info on the workings of the castle....like are there any other servants or maids still around who knew yona? her old teachers who taught her music and dance? like I love her knew battle robes....but I kind of wish we got to see Yona still adjusting to not being chased anymore. waking up in her old bedroom...taking baths regularly. I wish we saw some people help yona get dressed in those robes and do her makeup and hair. especially since Yona’s fixation was her hair in the first chapter. likee I wish we saw people who intamatly knew the old more spoiled Yona. like this is prime opportunity to really show the differences in Yona.

and as much as I love seeing the differences in kye-sook and joo-doh’s reaction to Yona (getting a reminder yet again that Yona is freaking Royalty bitches! ;3)....we also don’t know what they are comparing her TO.

We kye-sook is a bit of a judgy asshole and looked down on Yona and saw her as a threat due to her connections, her legit right to the throne, her knowing of the murder and than her surprising competency to come up with a plan to use the connections she built up to back soo-won into a corner where he had to listen to her. but his master is also soo-won who’s competency makes anyone look like a shit leader by comparison. and while WE had a impression of Yona’s naivity, blinders and being a bit vain and spoiled in the beginning ....we don’t actually knows where he got his impression of Yona from. had he been watching her per king Il murder? was it word of mouth? Did he witness up close a not great first impression with Yona or something?

and we know Jo-dou had known her when she was young, had been passed over for bodyguard and was close enough that Yona called him a grump andhe knows of the close friendship and witnessed stuff. and he aparently in a secert corner of his heart wanted Yona to be safe, okay and not dead and feels uncomfortable with her having killed people or fighting with a bow.

but we haven’t seen a flashback of a moment Yona was young that helped for either of jou-dou or the advisors opinion of her. might not exactly be necessary.

but Yona did live in he castle foryears. we saw quite a bot of thtraining and stuff soo-won did to cultivate skills and his mentality and how he became as competent as he is now.

but I wonder....as much as we know Yona wasn’t very good at dancing and singing or certain stuff as mentioned a few times by Hak and Yona. and we know others see Yona as spoiled and naïve before. We also knowHak was still drawn to her and still respected her even in her ‘spoiled’ form. all everyone seems to think was Yona larned basically nothing from before and all her growth came from the loss of her dad and being released frim her house to explore and experience stuff and that she learned to be savy and awesome from those experiences.

but I kindof want to see a flashback or thoughs of someone who knew younger her to show she did learn stff from the castle before. like she had the dignity of a princess ut we just didnt get to see it since Yona had skipped out on the big speech due to being overly excited to see soo-won. We know Yona might have been spoiled but she is also good natured and had tried to be strong for her dad in her own way. 

We saw the seeds of soo-won’s curiosity, lov of people and how smart he was and where he got more info when we saw young him. but I kindof wish we sw proof tha Yona always had these seeds of strength even when she was spoiled and younger.

That the dignity and ability to talk to people and keep her composure had actually always been a part of her...its just she had been spoiled and chose to be more casual and free with her speech most of the time cuz she could get away with it.

like it was still HER home. HER home terf. Mari has grown in leaps ad bounds in ways she couldn’t in the castle....but I kindof hope we get to see reminders and hints that this was always kind of incharacter for her if people had really payed attention and hadn’t over looked her.

like we’ve seen the guys train and Yona trai and be strong in fighting, and spying and battle. but even if Yona was spoiled and trusting....Yona was still the princess and specifically female.

lik I wonder if there is stuff that Yona learned as the princess and as a girl in the castle that had value that none of the guys or soo-won experienced. Like Yona talking back to people. or Yona actually being pretty good at tricking people or with words.

like what did yona learn that was preparing her to become queen that might have helped in some way.

though I could just be looking for more details to flesh out the castle and what living there was actually like. I’m still thinking of tai-jun’s mother in the firetribe who was the ‘ideal’ lady who rarely spoke. I respect mari’s strength to tell her that Yona would fight beside her guys rather than just staying behind..but there is a certain strength in that lady still. and I want more insite on whats the norm for expectations of ladies. we know that strength, physical prowess, power and winning and drinking is valued in guys. military strategy ect ect. 

and we’ve see ladies like yona, gigan, lilli, and kouren showing strength in combat and leadership ability and using power to influence and get actively involved on the ground. but often with stuff we tend to expect from guys on the norm? as kouren cut her hair and was a warrior, kulbo’s sister was a warrior and leader. lilla snuck out and used her dad’s seal to influence her people an she had to sneak out to try to help and get involved.

the feminine character we’ve seen the most in the earth tribe leader’s wife with her tea hobby and cultivating a tea business. we got to see yona’s dance move peoples hearts. and we know dance and music and stuff like that was taught to her . and apparently tau-jun’s mom is considered the pinnical of what they say is the ladys role. and while she apparently keeps silent alot and speaks in her garden and keeps her thoughts to herself...mentally and emotionally that lady feels very secure and strong. and her view of the strength to hold down the household when the warriars are away(even if /i like Yona getting involved more I can still respect her). or kul’bo’s wife was pretty bad ass holding up the Homefront and her faith in her man and trying to defend Yona. and just the contrast of how she handled stuff while we know kul-bo’s sister was the strong main leader before apparently before she died.

but damn I kind of want to know more about the more female side of their culture just by itself rather than in snippets in contrasting with guy’s situation or lots of guys. like how do they deal with periods. what roles did the empress have to fullfill?