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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.

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.

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.

the dragon republic: nikan vs nikan

if only they were this happy