#fang runin and altan

[nepttunnee]

rin and chaghan were so funny as a dynamic when altan was alive and even sometimes after because on one side rin was deeply struggling with experiencing familial love and her new powers/identity as a speerly/nikara girl and seeking validation from people she looked up to after being treated like dirt her entire life with altan who also didn’t know how to deal with family relationships because they were both war orphans and on the other side chaghan just rly wanted to fuck rin’s cousin

[polartss]

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Rin from The Poppy War by RF Kuang

[cikebabbler]

absolutely genius of rf kuang to elaborate on virtually nothing about speer's culture. the only things said about speer are "speerlies are mindless savages" and "speerlies are most definitely not mindless savages". there are no deep dives, no explanations of their way of life, nothing beyond the glimpses that disproves nikan's belief that they are nothing but a violent group. we saw that they had leaders that cared about their people and children. we saw that they are people who found joy in life. but that's really not much.

this emphasizes the horror of genocide. millenia of culture and history, individual lives filled with love, pain, and passion, just completely wiped away. there were only two surviving speerlies. one of them was too young when he was taken away, and probably doesn't remember much. the things he did remember was also probably buried under years of abuse and drugs people were plying him with. the other one didn't even know she was from speer until the last few months of her life, and there was really no one around to teach her about their culture. and if there was, life as she knows it was falling apart. learning about her dead people's culture probably didn't even cross her mind.

without saying any of these things and by intentionally leaving readers in the dark about what speer was truly like, rf kuang said so much about the horrors of genocide. by not saying anything, she said everything. she did the "show me, don't tell me" tip for writers and it was brilliant.

we will never learn most of speer's culture and history and that was the point.

[dudlesdudles]

altan and rin

[dcvina-claires]

everyone leave your favorite war criminal in the tags

[iambecomeyourvillain]

rin, while she still believed that altan was invincible: how did you learn to control the fire how do you block out the phoenix's voice in your head how

altan, with his crippling opium addiction: don't ask me how i did it i just did it it was HARD

[len-22y]

still waiting for rf kuang to release the fourth poppy war book where it’s revealed that rin just had a really long bad dream and everyone is happy and im happy too

[sweeetsh]

no genocide au rinaltan <3

[kalbaishakhi]

I find it so fucking funny that the three people Rin locked lips with in the series were

a) her cousin (in her head, but still)

b) the guy who stabbed her in the back

and c) HIS FATHER 💀

[nartml]

Don't you love it when they're so ruthlessly doomed by the narrative it's actually a bit impressive how you ever even had hope

[marsmel]

Imagine being the last two (known) members of your race but one destroyed her womb, the other is in a toxic situationship with another man, and they turn out to be cousins.

[ihuak-art]

chasing altan

[phialdudududu]

inspired by this post from @feyres-divorce-lawyer

@aboveapr2l hi pookie you have successfully ruined my life with this series tell me are you happy

[artsychanel]

more rin doodles

[arianwyn-art]

she’s never done anything wrong ☺️🫶🫶

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

headlines that remind me of the poppy war