Makoto's birthday inspired so much great fanart and fanfic throughout the free!dom, it was hard to keep up with it all! If you missed any of the seriously excellent fanworks created as part of the 2013 Makoto Birthday Exchange, fear not: we'll be highlighting two works every week until each piece of art, comic, and fic has been in the spotlight.
FEATURED THIS WEEK
July 6, 2014
Warm Love – by Mari (Makoto/Nagisa)
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One Thousand and One – by Risotto (Makoto/Rin)
Except things have changed in his absence.
It’s his father who updates him on the changes. The good and the bad. Everything. Why the Hazuki sisters have gone. Why the bazaar, once lively and bustling, has dwindled to small sullen crowds and hushed curses. Why Ran is unable to sleep just days before she is of age to marry.
The Sultan has been executing his consorts. Rumors as to why float like smoke over the towns and villages under his rule. Some say it's because his heart was broken, others say he's simply gone mad. Or both. It's difficult to say, as no one's lived to tell the tale and the guards have been sworn to secrecy under pain of death.
The only certainty in this mass of confusion and despair is that the grand vizier picks, at random or with prior notice, a consort of marriageable age and stature and summons them to the Sultan's chambers. Come dawn, the consorts are never heard from again.
“Father, I have a request to ask of you,” Makoto says one day in the courtyard of their home after a long day of peddling wares to morose faces and thinking, maybe, he ought to do something of it. “Will you grant it to me?”
“Yes, of course.”
“Allow me to marry the Sultan.”
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