Flowers are often used as a metaphor for the female characters in the Apothecary Diaries. And for the first time, we, the viewer, are given the direct comparison to which flower is meant to represent Maomao: wood sorrel (also known as “cat’s foot”).
It’s a flower that can treat poisons. A flower that is used to enhance the beauty of the courtesans by painting their nails. A flower with a name associated with cats. A flower that, in hanakotoba, represents maternal tenderness. It’s also one of the flowers that Lakan specifically associates with Fengxian, and by extension, Maomao herself.
In the first opening—aptly titled, “Be A Flower”—the wood sorrel is the only flower that gets special attention. The other flowers are shown together with other varieties, but only the wood sorrel is shown by itself, and more than once.
We see it again in the second opening, with an infant being held by a parent, while flitting between images of Lakan and Fengxian’s backstory.
It’s such a simple flower, too. Small, unassuming, but full of diverse uses and qualities, be they medicinal or ordinary. A very fitting flower for Maomao, and what she brings to the story.
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Narre tod mein spielgesell (Fool Death, My Playmate), Franz Fiedler, c. 1925
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just a woman dealing with the passage of time
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よむ on X: "#さらなみ https://t.co/COHStJsfRp" / X
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placing morifinwë carnistir in your hands, please keep him safe 🤲
or torment him if the urge strikes, both are for his enrichment
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"The sun's now rising and you're sighing, color in the day hereafter and you'll be okay,
Without the bitter sweet and savor, I hope that this happiness will one day come your way!" - 88☆彡
Im alive guys schools just kicking my ass so for now *drops this and enters back into the ring*
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Even Though We're Adults (おとなになっても) // Takako Shimura
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