China/France - M. Butterfly AU
M. Butterfly is a play based on the real-life story of how a male Chinese opera singer (who's actually a spy) wins the affections of a French diplomat who thinks he's a beautiful woman; it helps that said singer passes himself off as female so well that he's able to have sex with him (in the dark, but still!) and convince him that an adopted child is his. Long story short, the singer plays into the diplomat's stereotyped preconceptions about Asian women to make him fall in love with him, the diplomat doesn't realize he's been had for twenty years, and it's actually rather tragic when all is said and done. (More detailed info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Butterfly)
I haven't actually seen the entire play or movie, but this plot sounds like a great one for China as the singer. France is the obvious choice for the diplomat, and I'd love to read some China/France as that pairing's rare (and especially to see devilish womanizer France get the tables turned on him), but any other Western nation like England or America as the diplomat is fine too.
Bonus: The line "Only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act" is worked in somewhere.
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I haven't actually seen the entire play or movie, but this plot sounds like a great one for China as the singer. France is the obvious choice for the diplomat, and I'd love to read some China/France as that pairing's rare (and especially to see devilish womanizer France get the tables turned on him), but any other Western nation like England or America as the diplomat is fine too.
Bonus: The line "Only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act" is worked in somewhere.
Request Link: here
Status: unfilled