#dilruba sultan

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MAKE ME CHOOSE MEME | anon asked - dynasty born sultanas in mc or mck

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This tiara was first worn by Nurbanu Sultan in the series finale of Magnificent Century.

It was worn again by Dilruba Sultan in the twenty-third episode of the first season of the spin-off Magnificent Century: Kösem.

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Sultans and Their Colorful Clothes + Dilruba Sultan is wearing a dark blue caftan, yellow buttons and a huge blue crown on her head

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Magnificent Century: Kösem + Menekşe Mothering Mustafa & Dilruba (Requested by anonymous)

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halime and menekşe are in love, mustafa and dilruba are their kids

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Dilruba Sultan's dark blue dress Magnificent Century - Kösem episode 21, 23

requested by: @sultanimgif

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In defense of my girls Halime and Dilruba

I recently wrote posts about Turhan and Safiye, and thought why not make a series about Kosem's villains?

Today we're talking about my girls Halime and Dilruba, two characters that are both heavily villainized by the fandom and framed as in the wrong in the show, despite their motivations being really understandable, and their actions not much different from the ones of beloved character.

Halime

Halime is often accused of being responsible for Mustafa's suffering, because she kept trying to enthrone him. For me, this lowkey comes from the same place as people who say Hurrem could have just ended the fratricide law if she just let Mustafa (from MC) ascend because Mustafa is kind and would never kill his siblings. Let's be objective here, the Ottoman dynasty had been practicing fratricide for generations, what mother of a prince would believe it is completely finished and her son is safe just because the new sultan just said so? Her son would essentially be living with a damocles sword over his head for his entire life, that's not acceptable for a mother. And indeed, we see that it took two other generations of sultans for fratricide to truly end (Osman II killed Mehmet, Murad IV killed all his living brothers except one).

Also in the beginning of the show Halime was reeling from terrible trauma. Her eldest son Mahmud had been executed a few months ago for very flimsy reasons. He was only 16 and made one fatal mistake, asking his father to let him lead the army against the jelali bandit. On top of that, it was found out that Halime was consulting fortune tellers to see if Mahmud would ascend and that played a part in the decision to execute him, which means she would be crushed by guilt.

Also it's worth pointing out that when Ahmet made the decision to spare his brother, he was only 13 and had no heir, Halime had every reason to believe that once he had a son, Mustafa would be killed (and Safiye indeed says as much), which explains why she tried to prevent Mahfiruze from giving birth. And on top of that, Handan was working behind the scenes to get rid of Mustafa so even if Ahmet truly wanted to spare Mustafa, his closed one did not want too (just like Mustafa/Mahidevran in MC)

On top of that Ahmet often went back in forth in his decision to spare Mustafa. Even on episode 1, after escaping from a trap once, he was already deciding the best thing was to get rid of the toddler, how can Halime trust him?

As for her attempts to kill Ahmet's children, it's bad but it's no different than what other mother of princes had done and honestly if Halime had been smarter and gotten rid of all Ahmet's children (except maybe Bayezid since he does not have an influential mother to guarantee succession), she would have prevailed.

Dilruba

A lot of the arguments are the same as for her mother. She was a little girl who went to extreme trauma as her own father killed her brother, and then her little brother's life was constantly under threat.

Some people hate on her for revealing Handan's secret love for Dervish but honestly, I like Handan but why would Dilruba care about the woman who tried to kill her brother? Also Kosem calling her this little girl evil when she's the one who forced Handan to denounce Dervish, leading to his death and Handan's depression, is just next level hypocrisy.

Her decision to bring back Mustafa when the coup was happening also makes perfect sense. Safiye is terrible but at least with her, her brother would be sultan and "safe", whereas if she stays with Kosem, she's taking the party of Ahmet, whose an active threat on her brother's life, and even more now that the coup has been set in motion.

Also she was cruel as an adult but she was right in her reasoning and had good motives, again if they had gotten rid of these children, they would be rid of Kosem and there would be no threats to Mustafa's reign. And some might say but the army might depose him anyway but I find that truly unrealistic, the end of the Osman dynasty pretty much means the end of the Empire (there's a reason why its the same dynasty from start to finish) so even a weak, crazy sultan will be preferred. Case in point : Ibrahim was enthroned despite being mentally weak and everyone was anxiously waiting for him to reproduce, they were not looking to take advantage of his weakness to establish a new dynast

Her killing Osman's baby was terrible but also no different than Suleiman ordering Mustafa's son death or Selim ordering the death of Bayezid's children. This baby for being a male was a threat to her brother and it's also a fact that Osman had already killed his brother and announced his decision to make his son his heir, so how long before he went after the other male members of the dynasty ?

In short, these two women are no saints but they are way too villainized even though their motivations are the same as beloved character like Hurrem, and they both had traumatic experiences that shaped who they became.

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I think Fahriye’s death was very hard for Dilruba not just because she was close with her aunt and her aunt died young but because to her it shows that sultanas can also be killed in their game of thrones

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This Blue and golden dress is worn on Mihrimah Sultan in Season 3 (2013) in Magnificent Century.

The Dress is worn again two times in Magnificent Century: Kösem, First on Dilruba Sultan in season 1 (2015) and later worn on Muazzez Sultan in season 2 (2017)

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Dilruba Sultan (Öykü Karayel) — Magnificent Century: Kosem

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This red and black cloak is first worn by Aybige Hatun's lady-in-waiting in the twentieth episode of the second season of Magnificent Century. The cloak is then seen on Aybige Hatun in the thirty-first episode. Three episodes later, it appears again on Hatice Sultan. The cloak is then worn by Rakel Hatun in the thirthy-eighth episode of the same season. It briefly appears on Fatma Sultan in the third episode of the fourth season. It is seen next on Rana Sultan in the twelth episode. Despite the lighting being rather dark, the cloak is also recognizable on Fidan Kalfa in twentieth episode.

After this use, the cloak was altered as the neckline is slightly different and the hood appears to be missing. This new version is debuted by Mihrimah Sultan in the thirty-fourth episode of the fourth season.

The cloak appears again on Yasemin Hatun in the twenty-first episode of the first season of Magnificent Century: Kösem. Dilruba Sultan also wears it in the thirtieth episode, however the hood appears to have been reattached to the cloak. The cloak makes another appearance on Zarife Hatun in the twenty-fifth episode of the second season.

This post is an updated version of an older post.

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Dilruba Sultan and Black Color

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Dilruba Costumes 2/??

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ngl davut and dilruba scratch my itch for evil people with an evil cooperation doing evil shit together. they have zero development and make zero sense and they're both terrible and reprehensible and completely merciless. they have excellent cooperation and see eye-to-eye on everything. they want no one but each other. they're like the healthiest couple in the magnificent century verse