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May. 21st, 2013 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Hello, Accession! My name is Orange Crates and I bring with me a character from a series set in a psuedo-Chinese fantasy country by the name of Hyou Ruka from Saiunkoku Monogatari.
To summarize, the series begins with an emperor who is too busy sleeping with men to actually do any ruling so they hire a girl to enter his harem and teach him how to become a good emperor. He falls in love and at the end pushes back centuries of tradition to allow her the chance to take the state exam to become a government official. Which basically covers the plot of two out of 18 books of this series.
Ruka doesn't get a mention until book...8? Doesn't sort-of-appear until book 12 and doesn't physically appear until book 16 and I've taken her from the end of 17th (i.e. second to last) light novel so I'm afraid there will be spoilers. If that might be a problem feel free to drop me a line about it.
That being said, she is the High Priestess and basically leader of a family of supernatural power users that are matriarchal in a society that is largely patriarchal. I can't say she hates men but she is more likely to be more forgiving to female characters, haha.
She's a bit of an ice queen (famous for it, even) but she's not a bad person. Really. (She's also over eighty years old but due to a number of reasons she will be appearing in game as the physical age she is seen appearing in the books as. Well, mostly.)
EDIT: Forgot to mention that she will be a daughter of Zeus both because it fits her personality and because it would be funny given her opinion on men in general.
To summarize, the series begins with an emperor who is too busy sleeping with men to actually do any ruling so they hire a girl to enter his harem and teach him how to become a good emperor. He falls in love and at the end pushes back centuries of tradition to allow her the chance to take the state exam to become a government official. Which basically covers the plot of two out of 18 books of this series.
Ruka doesn't get a mention until book...8? Doesn't sort-of-appear until book 12 and doesn't physically appear until book 16 and I've taken her from the end of 17th (i.e. second to last) light novel so I'm afraid there will be spoilers. If that might be a problem feel free to drop me a line about it.
That being said, she is the High Priestess and basically leader of a family of supernatural power users that are matriarchal in a society that is largely patriarchal. I can't say she hates men but she is more likely to be more forgiving to female characters, haha.
She's a bit of an ice queen (famous for it, even) but she's not a bad person. Really. (She's also over eighty years old but due to a number of reasons she will be appearing in game as the physical age she is seen appearing in the books as. Well, mostly.)
EDIT: Forgot to mention that she will be a daughter of Zeus both because it fits her personality and because it would be funny given her opinion on men in general.