#nigar hatun

[anielina13]

[magnificentlyreused]

These silver earrings with a pink stone was first worn by Mahidevran Sultan in the twenty-third episode of the second season of Magnificent Century. Two episodes later, they appeared again on Aybige Hatun. The earrings can then be seen on Gülfem Hatun in the thirty-sixth episode of the same season. They were also worn by Mihrimah Sultan in the fourth episode of the third season as well as by an older Mihrimah in promotional material of the same season.

The earrings become part of the plot in the thirty-seventh episode when they are used to identify Nigar Hatun as the kidnapper. However, Nigar does not wear them in the thirty-sixth episode when the viewer saw her commit the crime.

The earrings appear three times in the fourth season, first on Nurbanu Sultan in the eighth episode, then on Defne Sultan in the twenty-eighth episode and lastly on Hümaşah Sultan in the final episode.

[julyzaa]

Hopeful

Or where Nigar and Matracki Nasuh Effendi stay married and get the happy ending they both deserved.

@faintingheroine i finally wrote it!!!

Gif by @awkward-sultana

She was not foolish enough to believe her husband would immediately fall in love with her nor her with him.

In fact, him not divorcing her after Ibrahim told him about their affair, had been her only goal for the most part.

Nigar thanks Allah for giving her a man she knows she does not deserve.

Nasuh Effendi is kind, understanding and gives her freedoms most women envy her for.

He is quiet in those early months when they are strangers married to each other and she pines for the man who made her believe a life without him would have no meaning.

Then after he wakes up in the middle of the night in a frenzy to write down this discovery he found in his dream; Nigar listens attentively to his rambling about something he calls lattice multiplication.

Something in her decides it is time to give this wonderful man a chance. To open her heart to someone who genuinely cares for her and would never treat her like Ibrahim treated her.

“Can you teach me?” she asks and he almost stutters with a yes.

Nigar Hatun looks forward to seeing him and surprising him a set of swan quills in a box carved with her favorite miniature of his.

It was supposed to be a gift to thank him for the lessons in algebra and the form of calligraphy he has invented, but after a bout of illness at the harem yesterday, it became a way to tell him the good news.

She prays it is a boy, one to follow in his father’s footsteps and show Ibrahim she never needed him to be happy.

“Our children will play together, they will be inseparable like their fathers.” Hatice said as she congratulated her wholly unaware of the great betrayal Nigar and Ibrahim hide from her.

“Amin.” Nigar says with guilt gnawing at her heart.

One would think the guilt she carries is for the blood on her hands and not for having an affair with a married man.

But Nigar shoves that down and lives in the moment where Nasuh almost cries from the joy the news gives him.

Nigar finds herself hopeful enough to imagine a future where she loves her husband and he loves her.

When Esmanur is born, she knows her friends and neighbors are being ridiculous when they say he will be disappointed in her.

How could Nasuh be disappointed when he was the one who chose her name before he left for the campaign at Mohács?

We wait for your return, she had written in her latest letter, one that included a sketch of Esmanur napping with her little thumb in her mouth.

They write to each other, no longer as friends, but as lovers.

It had been a gradual thing and before she knew it, Nigar had fallen in love with her husband.

While neither spoke about it out loud, it was there.

She feels nervous, as nervous as she felt on her wedding day the day he returns.

“I love you.” She whispers to him when she gets up during the night to check on their daughter.

He won’t hear it, she thinks, the journey had been long and tiring, besides Nasuh could sleep through anything anyways.

“I love you too.” Her husband says it back just as quietly as she did.

[redrosecut]

I just realized that Nigar wears the same cloak in episode 71 that Hatice wears when she discovers Nigar is Ibrahim's affair. Like girl didn't just steal the man but also the clothes.

[redxluna]

@faintingheroine I feel like I found the origin point of your belief that Nigar might have gotten pregnant on purpose when she had, beforehand, been using a herbal (if however fictional) contraceptive?

[awkward-sultana]

Magnificent Century + Evolution of Hürrem's Family (requested by @skynerd157)

[velnat004]

WIP wednesday

Trying a different painting style with Nigar Kalfa and I rlly love how it's coming out ♡♡♡

Tagging @nicolajpg @oh-no-who-took-my-sushi @southernreaches @miseryscrowned @fuzzyhairedfreak @brother-genitivi uWu

[elizabeth-halime]

[palaceoftears]

Magnificent Century Rewatch: One Picspam per EpisodeEpisode 8: The Bleeding Wound

If we don't add these to the mirror's foil, the mirror will be flawed and we would look flawed in a flawed mirror.

[malachitezmeyka]

Two years ago I said that the identical glances were proof these two were mother and daughter and I stand by that statement

Also, Daye!!!!

[thevampiricnihal]

I am not crying, I just got reminded again that Ibrahim had a grave site that multiple characters visited, was known by everyone and history (within the show itself too), had his gay little diary buried under Süleymaniye Mosque, had all of his children remember him.

Meanwhile Nigar’s body was most likely eaten by wildlife, no one remembered her, and her daughter won’t even remember her name or her face (while she will certainly remember Ibrahim’s).

I mean Nigar is not alone, no one remembered Daye Hatun either.

I know that characters like Nigar and Daye are fictional but I only accept the within-show reality in my assessments and the contrast is so tragic to me.

[mahisultan]

𝐍𝗂𝗀𝖺𝗋 𝐊𝖺𝗅𝖿𝖺, 𝗂𝗍 𝗅𝗈𝗈𝗄𝗌 𝗅𝗂𝗄𝖾 "𝖫𝖺 𝖫𝗅𝗈𝗋𝗈𝗇𝖺'', 𝖫𝖺 𝖫𝗅𝗈𝗋𝗈𝗇𝖺 𝗂𝗌 𝖺 𝖫𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗇 𝖠𝗆𝖾𝗋𝗂𝖼𝖺𝗇, 𝗌𝗍𝗈𝗋𝗒 𝗈𝖿 𝗁𝗈𝗐 𝖺 𝗐𝗈𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝗅𝗈𝗌𝗍 𝗁𝖾𝗋 𝖼𝗁𝗂𝗅𝖽.

[magnificentlyreused]

This green cloak was first worn by Daye Hatun in the eighth episode of the second season of Magnificent Century. Three episodes later, it was worn again by Hatice Sultan. The cloak made another appearance on Nigar Kalfa in the ninth episode of the third season. The cloak was used three times in the fourth season, first on Fahriye Kalfa in the twelth episode, then on Gülbahar Kalfa in the fourteenth episode and lastly on Defne Sultan in the thirty-fourth episode.

Magnificent Century: Kösem saw the cloak on Mahfiruze Hatun in the sixth episode of the first season. The cloak also appeared twice in the second season, first on an unnamed harem member in the second epsiode and then on Meleki Hatun in the fourth episode.

It is also used on an unnamed harem member in the third episode of Mehmed The Conqueror (2018).

[dyingroses]

Magnificent Century + AO3 tags

[redrosecut]

Okay but Nigar’s night time look in Episode 16 really makes me think she could have scored a very good match if she didn’t go down the kalfa route. Clever and beautiful. This woman is gorgeous and unfortunately the costume and make up department didn’t do enough with that.

[redxluna]

"Whatever her relationship with the sultan, Gulfem knew him well enough to speak openly and candidly in her postscript to Roxelana's ability to manage the finances of her growing household. It seems he had extracted from her a promise to keep an eye on his favorite."–Peirce, Leslie. Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire