gracefall | head canon ✭ misc info

HEAD CANON

❀ she's a little bit embarrassed about the great beauty thing. she's half convinced it was a horrible joke. she knows she's not sophisticated and graceful or anything. she does know that she's adorable though. she was a klutz when she was younger...it's under control now.

❀ she jokingly calls Sun Ce her rival in love. she's aware that she is not the first in her husband's heart and she doesn't mind. it doesn't change the fact that he's the first in hers.

❀ she refers to Sun Ce as her brother since...he might as well, he's her brother-in-law due to her sister and her husband is his sworn brother. he's family.

❀ speaking of her husband she really wasn't in love with him when they got married. she was kind of in love with the concept of marrying him ( he really impressed her in the fight, okay ) but gradually fell in love with him as she watched him.

❀ she married when she was around 14/15 which wouldn't have been that unusual in her time. & that age thing. I generally play it that she is 16 when her husband is 25 (both of their "official" ages in DW) therefore depending on if she's from before Chi Bi or up to the battle of He Fei she would be between 23-29 but because this series' timeline makes no sense I will avoid referring to her age directly.

❀ yes, she did catch a panda for her and Zhou Yu :| she's also kept horses from when she was quite young. she's pretty good with animals, they tend to like her.

❀ PRETTY GOOD ALCOHOL TOLERANCE. you'd never know it looking at her but she can drink the average man under the table, she's got practice.

❀ she's a good swimmer and is decently adept with boating as well given the area that Wu is located in.

MISC. INFO

✭ Wu dialect "is often subjectively judged to be soft, light, and flowing." obviously she would not speak modern Wu dialect when speaking Chinese but that is what it'd most closely resemble I guess :|a

✭ Chang Jiang ➡ Yangtze River; given her time period she would not recognise the second name.

✭ Era names/years...she will have no idea how far into the past she comes from. Unless someone recognises who she is and tells her or someone who is familiar with Chinese era names talks to her and figures it out. When referring to specific events or a specific year she will refer to it as "the nth year of [era name]."

This timeline has the year/era each of the major battles she may had been around for. These are the rulers & corresponding era names for the Three Kingdoms period. Though technically Xiaoqiao is more a figure from later Han (just scroll up if you want to see).

✭ courtesy names, primarily used with males. if available she will probably use courtesy names to address people or by surname. ( she is confused with western names dude. she'll just use whatever name you use first and tack on an honorific by default. ) Women do have style names as well but generally a woman's name is extremely private and even when it is known it wouldn't be appropriate to address a woman by name. That said DW doesn't really follow these same restrictions (especially amoung the women) so she won't be so startled that girls are giving out their full name left and right.

bonus! good link that explains style names

✭ honourifics...chinese honourifics are a pain in the ass to translate. defaulted to Master or Lord/Lady unless I figure something else out.

✭ traditional age system: children are born at 1 year old, not zero. A person adds a year to their age every lunar new year. I avoid mentioning her actual age but this is ...just in case.

✭ ETC...