Fic: Servant of the Sun [TVXQ RPS | AU]

[glitterburn]

Title: Servant of the Sun
Fandom: TVXQ
Pairing: Yunho/Changmin
Rating: PG13
Summary: Fourteenth Prince Changmin is sent to serve as an attendant at the shrine of the Sun. He must remain pure and chaste for a full year. He didn’t expect to fall in love.
Notes: AU. For light_on_oceans, who requested a royalty AU with Changmin as a prince. I am behind on my New Year

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[glitterburn]

getting really annoyed with LJ fucking up again and again and not letting me post replies... *sigh*... anyway I'm glad you enjoyed this. Usually it takes me at least a few days to write a fic and this took three hours *___* obviously alcohol and a deadline helped!

About the thing with his looks, I was thinking that since he's such an unimportant son then he's been overlooked even by his own family so instead of getting lots of flattery then he's just been teased by his brothers or ignored, so he's not even aware that he might be beautiful until he overhears the old solder say it. And then it sticks in his mind as maybe he *is* something to be valued even if it's only for his beauty, and he notices how attractive Yunho is as a complement to that, so in a way I guess recognising beauty is a way for him to find freedom. IDK I wasn't trying to be wildly profound in such a short space of time so I guess any interpretation is valid!

Yunho isn't technically a commoner, that's just Changmin's haughty assumption XD Yunho is senior fifth rank, which makes him a noble, but since Changmin is imperial even removed from succession then he's still too far above Yunho even though the difference in rank is not insurmountable. But yes Yunho is very plain-spoken and he should be a lot more respectful really! Bad boy XD

The seasons are such a Heian thing. I wish I'd had more time, I wanted them to have a proper Mid-Autumn festival poetry battle, but that would have been another story entirely. But I'd been longing to write Heian HoMin for a good six months now so I'm happy that I was able to do so - even though I was intending to write a medieval European castle AU! This happened instead and I'm glad it did, it has a gentleness to it that I probably needed at the end of the year.

Happy New Year!