Tallaria

By the end of the third season, an idea came up for this au. another reality, where Marinette was born much earlier than the current time and herself discovered a ladybug’s  miraculous. Tikki told the girl about his abilities and how important it is to find other miraculouses   to prevent terrible consequences. Marinette fought evil all her life and collected information about talismans and kwami, but she was not an open superhero and her descendants began to perceive her exploits more like fairy tales. Many years later, little Adrien was presented with a book about the adventures of the Miraculous Ladybug. the boy fell in love with the heroine and his interest did not pass years later. thanks to school friend Alya, Adrien was able to get enough information to understand that this is not a fairy tale. He met Luka, who had recently learned about the Ladybug and her story inspired him to work. the guys became friends and later were able to find the cat and snake miraculouses. However, the cat’s miraculous was damaged. Sass warned about this. The guys decided to find the rest of the talismans and restore the story of the ladybug. Luka used the image of Viperion for complex missions or scrum with the enemy. Adrien helped with the collection of information.

Mary: Not really, you had a crush on a little boy at your preschool

Dean, choking on his beer: what

Mary: *shrugs*

Dean: I was talking about angels being real?????

It’s not addressed often, but based on what little we’re told, it’s very likely that Ah-Duo was (and still is) the love of his life.

She was the Emperor’s childhood sweetheart. She was his only consort for over a decade. Ignoring how rare that is—how it would have been encouraged for a prince to take more than one concubine—he refused to take on any other consorts for the first ten years after Jinshi's birth. He only accepted other concubines after the former emperor passed away, and he ascended the throne.

For as the current emperor, he could no longer avoid the obligation of taking other consorts, producing heirs—especially since he knew Ah-Duo could no longer bear him children.

Despite losing her womb, the child Ah-Duo gave him is the only one that has survived into adulthood. A child he dotes on, loves dearly, and who he deeply wants to be his heir, despite Jinshi's clear objections. And it makes sense why he'd want Jinshi to succeed him. He's the only child he bore with the woman he loves most, who bears such an uncanny resemblance to her, who shares her intelligence, charm, and cleverness.

He loved her so much that he kept her—a woman who could never get pregnant again—in the rear palace for over eighteen years. It hurt their relationship to have her caged there. The one solace they had was being able to be near Jinshi as he grew up.

And by the time the Emperor gives in to the political pressure to replace Ah-Duo with a younger (fertile) consort, he does something that we haven't seen any other emperor do so far: he allowed Ah-Duo to leave the rear palace. Not only that, he gave her the Southern Imperial Villa: an entire compound (comparable to a small palace itself) to call her own in the royal capital, where she can live her life comfortably and privately. It isn't true freedom—not really—since she doesn't have jurisdiction to travel the world as she's always wanted, but it's a hell of a lot more freedom than any other consort has ever received up to that point.

And he leaves the palace often to visit her there. This is extremely uncommon; in theory, an emperor should have no further reason to interact with a former consort if the woman cannot serve the baby-making purpose she was chosen for. He gave her a residence in the royal capital because wants to keep her close. He wants continued access to her, even after she's comfortably installed in her new life outside the palace.

Jinshi knows all of this, and is painfully aware of how easily history could repeat itself with him and Maomao. Jinshi knows how trapped and stifled Ah-Duo felt in the rear palace, knows it strained her relationship with the Emperor, knows that it ultimately pushed her away from him, emotionally. It did not affect the Emperor's love for her, but it did affect Ah-Duo's love for him.

finished apothecary diaries s1 yesterday!!

Maomao and Jinshi!