Title: Guest of honour
Author:
malurette
Fandom: Arcane
Character: the princess from Mel's flashback
Rating: PG / K+
Disclaimer: Riot Games & Fortiche studio
Prompt: Day 14 – "Celebrations" for
halfamoon
Word count: 100
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She’s dressed in her ceremonial best. They’ve stopped pretending they’ll win this war and that the ostentation is for glory purposes. She knows all too well they’re losing and she can hope to save only face—nothing else, no one else. Assimilation is coming.
Her enemies make a big show of her defeat—well, of their victory rather. They parade her as a trophy, a hard-won prize. They don’t care about her as a person, barely as a symbol; they only care for her state’s riches.
They make her a guest of honour in their triumph party… and then what?
Author:
Fandom: Arcane
Character: the princess from Mel's flashback
Rating: PG / K+
Disclaimer: Riot Games & Fortiche studio
Prompt: Day 14 – "Celebrations" for
Word count: 100
She’s dressed in her ceremonial best. They’ve stopped pretending they’ll win this war and that the ostentation is for glory purposes. She knows all too well they’re losing and she can hope to save only face—nothing else, no one else. Assimilation is coming.
Her enemies make a big show of her defeat—well, of their victory rather. They parade her as a trophy, a hard-won prize. They don’t care about her as a person, barely as a symbol; they only care for her state’s riches.
They make her a guest of honour in their triumph party… and then what?