mercies

by bloodletter

Summary

Of all the prisons in which she's spent time, Lotus Pier may be the kindest.

Notes

All three sections of this story will be going up today (Feb 17), I'm just posting them one at a time as I finish formatting. Credits, thank-yous, etc will be in the final end note.

This fic deals with a variety of heavy subject matter, which I've tried to approach in as serious and non-flippant a manner as possible. If you need more elaboration on the content warnings in the fic tags, please read the following note (contains spoilers). If you'd rather not be spoiled, please scroll past to the story itself.

CONTENT WARNINGS:

• Dubious consent: the fic involves a political marriage of convenience/necessity where the romantic feelings remain one-sided. Sex is consensual as possible within the circumstances.
• Pregnancy: the POV character is pregnant for part of the story. It is planned but she has complicated feelings about it. There are brief, nongraphic depictions of childbirth.
• Mommy issues: discussion of canon-typical child abuse; oedipal overtones.
• Major character death: applies to Jiang Cheng.
• Otherwise, as stated: canon-typical war atrocities, suicidal ideation, grief/mourning, under-negotiated kink.

Imported from Archive of Our Own. Original work id: 28840692.