#xia gaojun

[aishiteru-kenshin]

Raven of The Inner Palace | 後宮の烏 | Kōkyū no Karasu

“When I saw you by the lake, I thought, "This must be what a goddess looks like.” I’d never seen anything so beautiful.“

[tobiasdrake]

My cynical ass being introduced to the obvious hetero love interest in Raven of the Inner Palace. Like.

Gaojun: As emperor, I want you to be my actual consort for realsies. Shouxue: Ew no. Me: Alright, here we go. He's going to get pushier and pushier until she inexplicably decides it's charming and-- Gaojun: My bad. I will literally never bring it up again for the rest of the season. Me: Wait. What. Gaojun: Also I've taken efforts to flatten the power imbalance that exists between us so that we can engage with one another as equals. Me: Hang on. Gaojun: Now that we're able to meet on equal footing, would you be willing to be my friend? I'm not asking for any strings attached or promises of anything more, and also I don't fully understand what being friends means, but I would like it if we could learn together. Me: OH MY GOD.

And now I want to have his fucking babies. Are you kidding me with this guy!?

Hooooooly shit. The show is actually putting in the work to make him likable and give us legitimate reasons to root for these two characters getting together. Other media's just like, "Uh, he's a guy, why wouldn't you want him to get his dick wet with the Most Waifu in the series?" but both Gaojun personally and his relationship with Shouxue are being handled with so much care to make this guy likable.

I just.

I know it's probably because it's shoujo so the shoe is on the other foot (trying to write men as desirable husbandos instead of writing women as desirable waifus). This guy is the Chinese inspired but Japanese written equivalent of a Disney Prince. But. Still. I just. This hits so different. It hits so different.

Men, what is stopping you from putting this much effort into your male protagonists?

[nocandnc]

To date this is actually my favorite scene - establishes their character dynamics perfectly while also being damn hilarious.

[pandedios-carli]

Shouxue's love for food it's so cute but at the same time so sad

Food as the only way for her to connect with the world and with the people

[koukyuu-network]

Raven of The Inner Palace | 後宮の烏 | Kōkyū no Karasu

[ruthserbel]

Raven of the Inner Palace

[tsukinomask]

MYSTEEEERIOUS!! 🎐🌸

[cercasinomeworld]

FAVORITE ANIME AND MANGA CHARACTERS pt.17

Trigun - Vash

Tokyo Mew Mew New - Purin Fong (She'll always be my favorite)

All Saints Street - Ira Blood

Raven of the Inner Palace - Xia Gaojun

Chainsaw Man - Aki Hayakawa

Blue Lock - Rensuke Kunigami

Play It Cool, Guys - Shun Futami

Tomo-chan Is a Girl! - Tomo Aizawa

The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague - Komori

Special mention: To Your Eternity (season 2) - Bonchien Nicoli La Tasty Peach Uralis (Bon)

[aishiteru-kenshin]

Raven of The Inner Palace | 後宮の烏 | Kōkyū no Karasu

[fluffygreenkoala]

So since there aren't any Kokyu no Karasu/Raven of the inner palace fics anywhere and that's BLASPHEMOUS, I started writing some one-shots revolving around Shouxue/Jusetsu and her friendship with Jiujiu and the tongue-less sweet lady (can't remember her name, I'm horrible).

Also except some Shouxue/Jusetsu and Gaojun/Koushun BROTP + Wei Qing/Eisei being in love with his master

AND Shouxue/Jusetsu x Wen Ying/Onkei, because they're my OTP.

[eyesofanapothecarian]

Any aet requests regarding RAVEN IN THE INNER PALACE???

[bellaroles]

Recently resume watching Koukyuu no Karasu. Really like it.

I guess I have to draw them.

[koukyuu-network]

Raven of The Inner Palace | 後宮の烏 | Kōkyū no Karasu

[freakuotes]

"Esta bien que tengas miedo,..." - Xia Gaojun a Liu Shouxue (Koukyuu no Karasu)

http://freakuot.es/oNH

[aishiteru-kenshin]

Raven of The Inner Palace | 後宮の烏 | Kōkyū no Karasu