#chaghan suren

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

textposts that remind me of the poppy war:

#the poppy war #r f kuang #r. f. kuang #the dragon republic #the burning god #fang runin #chen kitay #yin nezha #altan trengsin #chaghan suren #su daji #yin riga #jiang ziya

[zhi-liet]

“Chaghan would have commanded like a demon.

Chaghan would have shattered their minds.”

#this series made me sick #so consider this my love letter to chaghan #l have not stopped crying #I wanted to know so much more about him #rf kuang #chaghan suren #the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #chaghan #okyu’s fever art

[nartml]

Don't you love it when they're so ruthlessly doomed by the narrative it's actually a bit impressive how you ever even had hope

#chaghan suren #altan trengsin #yin nezha #fang runin #literally the entire cast of #tpw #this is about #the poppy war #obviously #ahahahaha im sick #rf kuang #the woman that you are #the writer that you are #im suffering #im too attached #im unwell #im still recovering #im not having a good time #how am i to gaslight gatekeep girlboss under these conditions #how can i live laugh love like this #satosugo #stsg

[sherlowlfalba]

ah yes cike my precious babygirls

#the poppy war #chaghan suren #altan trengsin #fang runin #tpw #art #digital art

[keiicom]

Altan Trengsin was doomed from the start. Mans had death flags written all over him, alongside all the regular red ones. And even after, he haunted the narrative, never letting go, forever ingrained in every step the others took, every action and decision and planned move. Everywhere they went, he was there. He became the epitome of rage, the incarnation of pure, unbridled fury. He came close to being a god, yet found that he was so incredibly human, so incapable of ever crossing the line into divinity (for his immense shortcomings rivaled his immense strength) that he was unable. He was set up for failure when he needed to win the most. He was let down by everything he ever put his faith into. He became anger. He became vengeance. Never in his life did he know the warmth of love, the comfort of reciprocated acts of kindness, the selflessness in caring and being cared for. And when he was faced with it he still couldn't understand. When he saw a glimpse of it he realized he had no place for that in his heart, for all left inside was charred bone and ash. And by "no place for that in his heart" I don't mean he didn't want it. Of course he wanted it. Though he wanted revenge a bit more. He had no place for selfless love in his heart the same way a body rejects medicine, viscerally, unconsciously, unwillingly, because it is incapable of carrying that with him, because it is a foreign thing he's never known, and it's far too late for assimilation. He tried. The phoenix knows he tried.

UGH I wanna study him like a bug

#meanwhile chaghan: I can fix him 🥺 #I know this is not how it went but it's exactly how it went LMAO #he's so tragic they're so tragic #altan trengsin #the poppy war #the poppy war spoilers #ACTUALLY LIES chaghan knew he couldn't fix him from the start but he still allowed himself to feed into those thoughts despite everything #chaghan knew he was doomed but he couldn't help but want to see. like the death of a star. he had to be there to witness it #and he fell in love with the star along the way and. and 😭 #okay I'm rambling now #chaghan suren

[nepttunnee]

rin and chaghan were so funny as a dynamic when altan was alive and even sometimes after because on one side rin was deeply struggling with experiencing familial love and her new powers/identity as a speerly/nikara girl and seeking validation from people she looked up to after being treated like dirt her entire life with altan who also didn’t know how to deal with family relationships because they were both war orphans and on the other side chaghan just rly wanted to fuck rin’s cousin

#the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #like literally every time they beefed it was so funny bc rin was dealing witb centuries long trauma but chaghan just thought she had #a crush on his bf #chaghan suren #altan trengsin #fang runin #fang runin and altan #chaltan #rf kuang #rin #books #tpw #tpw spoilers #kind of

[speerlyswhore]

Chaltan twitter AU

#they are in love ur honour #starting a go fund me for qara to move out #the poppy war #altan trengsin #chaghan suren #qara suren #tpw

[ephemeralzenith]

fate vs agency: altan trengsin and fang runin

The Phoenix outright states: ‘You humans always think you’re destined for things, for tragedy or for greatness. Destiny is a myth. Destiny is the only myth. The gods choose nothing. You chose.’ But is that true?

Altan and especially Rin were doomed by the narrative the moment Speer was razed, the moment they were whisked from their homes to a lab or an abusive household.

The thing is: nobody actually wanted them. They were dirty Speerly shaman trash; Altan was experimented on and Rin was abused for her entire childhood. Even in Sinegard, they were both discriminated against - Altan’s a freak of nature who is used for entertainment even if people fear him, and Rin is only her skin colour - even though they both worked so hard and DESERVED to go there. Nobody wanted them until they went to the Cike.

This fuels the anger that has been curated since they were literal kids. Of course they’re angry, and of course they don’t know how to express that in a healthy way - they’ve ALWAYS been abused, they’ve never known anything else. Obviously that doesn’t excuse some of the things they’ve done because of this anger (see: Altan’s abusive behaviour and Rin’s genocide), but the people around them, and society as a whole, failed them. There were two children, maybe Speerlies, but they were two hurt and scared children.

They did choose some things, but they were doomed the moment that Nikan decided to place them in Shiro and the Fangs’ hands. They were so angry, so hurt, so scared - they never would know anything else, really.

Fate doomed not only Rin’s fate, but the possible future she’d have with Nezha. They loved each other, but they could never have each other. Rinezha are the star-crossed lovers, the Romeo and Juliet, the Pyramus and Thisbe, the fleeting touch, the only kiss, the necessary betrayal and the leaving one behind. They are a walking juxtaposition - fire and water, general who wants absolute destruction and government official/ruler who needs Nikan to be safe for the future, poor and rich etc etc. And yet, they have these soft moments because they know how war destroys; they love each other in spite of all of this, but they can never have each other, because Nezha is the last Yin left, and Rin will never live in a world where Hesperians rule her home.

The Phoenix (and Rin by extension, I guess) doesn’t believe fate exists - that there is a choice for everything - but literally everything ensured Rin and Nezha would never be happy and in love: their race, their positions in power, their ideologies, their families, their relationships with other people, their thought patterns, their beliefs, their relationship with their power/shamanism… literally everything would’ve fucked them up. And yet, here they are defying fate, only to fall back into it again. Love is not enough.

The same goes for Altan and Chaghan. They can never have a healthy relationship where Altan doesn’t die. Altan cannot live, he’s self destructive and miserable and angry. He lives only to destroy and when he isn’t destroying, he wants to die.

They could’ve made choices, yes, but nobody makes rational choices in war. They were limited by the tools society gave them, and yeah, they were awful people, but fate itself doomed them before they were old enough to think.

:(

#altan is still my babygirl tho #my skrunklies #the poppy war #altan trengsin #fang runin #the poppy war trilogy #rf kuang #the dragon republic #the burning god #yin nezha #tpw #rinezha #altan #chatlan #chaghan suren #staring at my ceiling crying #thx for the tpw server inspiring all my little baby thoughts #character analysis #ish #the cike

[am-cogitoergosum]

So I made a thing

#the poppy war #tpw #the burning god #tbg #tdr #the dragon republic #fang runin #altan trengsin #yin nezha #chen kitay #hanelai #jiang ziya #su daji #yin vaisra #yin riga #ramsa #baji #chaghan suren #sring venka #i love all these guys. Except the house of yin. #i hate them

[rrylies]

i wonder if in chaghan's loveliest dreams, he dreams that altan kills him

#probably #chaltan #altan trengsin #chaghan suren #the poppy war

[pipsaura]

rin and chaghan are such an underrated duo. they’re so funny and they have the whole altan thing going on but when qara died and chaghan said “rin… what am i going to do?” i broke. “they were so similar when she thought about it. too young to be so powerful, not close to ready for the positions they had been thrust into”

#fang runin #chaghan suren #the poppy war #tpw #the dragon republic #r f kuang #the burning god #tpw spoilers

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

headlines that remind me of the poppy war

#the poppy war #tpw #the dragon republic #the burning god #fang runin #yin nezha #chen kitay #altan trengsin #chaghan suren #qara suren #su daji #yin riga #jiang ziya

[firstdeancashskeleton]

Remembering that chaghan canonly kissed altan's hand

#altan trengsin #chaghan suren #the poppy war #the dragon republic

[blackthornarchives]

altan trengsin the man you are

#altan trengsin #bookblr #the poppy war fanart #digital art #poppy war #art #character art #creative writing #booktok #fanart #r f kuang #the poppy war #rinezha #rin fanart #fang runin #yin nezha #sring venka #chen kitay #the dragon republic #the burning god #chaghan suren #artists on tumblr #artblr #writeblr #tpw trilogy #tpw

[hannahofathousanddays]

It has since been brought to my attention that his actual name is Yang Souji

#the poppy war #altan trengsin #chaghan suren #jiang ziya #Yang Souji #yin nezha #yin vaisra #yin riga #Jiang my beloved babygirl old man

[mimikrow]

Was thinking about how Chaghan and Qara knew how to break the soul bond yet didn’t tell Rin and Kitay and were basically just happy for them to be under the control of the Sorqan Sira. Like I get she’s their aunt and stuff and they (mainly Chaghan) were already pretty tired of her, but still 😭😭 like wtfff after everything? But I think more importantly it had to do with how they feared Rin. They saw how unstable she was, how she destroyed Mugen, and how closely she paralleled previous Speerlies so i guess in some sense their fear is understandable but it still stings a little.

But more widely how *all* the characters in tpw react with fear toward Rin. I feel like I could talk a lot about it at some point but I haven’t fully thought it through yet </3

#the poppy war #chaghan suren #qara suren #the cike #fang runin #rin :( #them :( #cike my loves