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starting an argument about The Dragon King's Forbidden Maid, and I know this one's unpopular.
The moment she could have run, she didn't. She stayed inside the sentence, because leaving meant leaving him behind.
Noble. Also: she raised a child inside a building that had already decided she was disposable, and taught him that was normal.
He grows up useful to that court. He gets a place at that table. And he learns, by watching, exactly how much a person is worth when they stop being convenient.
She protected him from the road and handed him the palace instead. I'm not sure that was the safer choice.
✨ What worked for me:
- Her son is never shown resenting her. That's the tragedy.
- Nobody in the show ever asks what he witnessed.
✨ Bottom line: staying for a child is a decision made on the child's behalf, too.
Did she make the right call?
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starting an argument about The Dragon King's Forbidden Maid, and I know this one's unpopular.
The moment she could have run, she didn't. She stayed inside the sentence, because leaving meant leaving him behind.
Noble. Also: she raised a child inside a building that had already decided she was disposable, and taught him that was normal.
He grows up useful to that court. He gets a place at that table. And he learns, by watching, exactly how much a person is worth when they stop being convenient.
She protected him from the road and handed him the palace instead. I'm not sure that was the safer choice.
✨ What worked for me:
- Her son is never shown resenting her. That's the tragedy.
- Nobody in the show ever asks what he witnessed.
✨ Bottom line: staying for a child is a decision made on the child's behalf, too.
Did she make the right call?
— GSH, guilty pleasures, well served 🥂
#DragonKingsMaid, #MoralDilemma, #Motherhood, #Palace, #ReelShort
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00:00He is not welcome here!
00:05A boy raised by humans cannot rule dragonkind.
00:10Dragon Lord demands you prove your blood before the court.
00:13There is to be a trial. If you pass, you will be asked to rule us all.
00:17And if I fail...
00:19...you will die.
00:25Alistair Quinn, you have been challenged by Varkos the Fire Lord to prove your blood for all to see.
00:31By ancient right, you are tasked to walk through the sacred flame.
00:37An eternal fire of judgment and truth which reduces false claimants to ash.
00:42You are the child who used to bring me roses. When did you become this nab?
00:49It was wrong to ever call you brother!
00:54By the ancient laws of dragonkind, I accept your challenge.
00:57I have nothing left to lose.
00:59I volunteer as sacrifice.
01:04You are young to have such a death wish.
01:06I am 18, your majesty. My only wish is that my life means something.
01:10Very well. Before you go, I must ask. You are so young, why would you give up your life so
01:15freely?
01:15I am an orphan.
01:17Found near the Dragon Valley as a child. I have no true family to mourn me.
01:20That is because my family already treats me like I am dead.
01:23Though it was not always the case.
01:26I was raised a noble of House Quinn.
01:28By Lord Quinn and Lady Quinn.
01:33They took me in as a child and brought me up as one of their own.
01:40Lord Quinn taught me to run.
01:43I am doing it father, look!
01:44That is it Alistair. Soon you shall be riding a horse like a knight.
01:48My mother, Lady Quinn, taught me to be gentle.
01:52Remember Alistair, delicate.
02:00My older sister, the brave knight Kaya, taught me to fight.
02:04Better luck next time brother.
02:08And my sister, Elaine, blinded by a fever, taught me to see more than just what was on the surface.
02:21What is that open?
02:23Savage!
02:25Dorian, the son of a defeated noble sent to my father as payment.
02:29I thought I found a brother that was like me.
02:32An orphan, except he came from noble birth.
02:36But it was not meant to be.
02:46While hunted, Dorian blamed me for a stab wound he gave him.
02:54There is room for only one foundling in this family.
03:01My family believed him.
03:04Father banished me from the house, ordering me to live in the stables.
03:09I have been there ever since, despite the pain.
03:12The quins loved me for many years.
03:16They saved my life.
03:18Now I can repay them by saving their lives and the realm.
03:21No one will miss me.
03:23You are very brave to do this, Alistair.
03:25I will make sure you have the finest clothes from my palace and you can travel home in my private
03:29carriage.
03:30Majesty, I do have one request.
03:31Name it and it is yours.
03:33I wish that my identity stays a secret.
03:35But no one outside of the people in this room will know what I have volunteered to do.
03:39I promise no one will know.
03:41Let no one here ever speak Alistair's name or mention what he promised to do today so long as Alistair
03:46is alive.
03:47This is my command, under penalty of death.
03:52Three days.
03:53In three days.
03:54In three days I will be gone.
04:02Just as I had hoped, the manor was quiet this early.
04:06There would be no family around to see me arriving from my secret trip to the capital.
04:11Though perhaps I've spoken too soon.
04:14They seem angry.
04:17And where have you been?
04:18There are dragons on the loose, boy.
04:20You should be guarding this manor with your life, not disappearing like a common coward.
04:24Forgive me, my lord.
04:27A stable rat dressed as a prince.
04:29You probably stole these clothes.
04:31You're lying!
04:32A thief in fancy clothes.
04:34Are the clothes we give you not enough?
04:36Did you have to go steal these?
04:38Yet again you embarrass our family.
04:40Your stolen clothes don't look so nice now.
04:42Come on, Kaia, ignore him.
04:44You are just a stable boy.
04:46The mud is where you belong and where you should stay.
04:50In three days I will be gone.
04:59Tell me, when do you plan to tell the quins that you volunteered as the dragon sacrifice?
05:03You know? But how?
05:06People see me as nothing more than a loyal butler.
05:09But there is more to me than meets the eye.
05:13Sir?
05:23I've decided not to tell them.
05:25They'll find out soon enough.
05:26Will you keep this between us?
05:29Yes.
05:30I will keep your secret.
05:31The realm needs a sacrifice, not a family scandal.
05:34A heart can break twice, boy.
05:35Once from cruelties and once from silence.
05:40Then let mine break quietly.
05:44Emrys was the man who found me as a baby.
05:46Later he would come to work for my family.
05:48I know I can trust him.
05:50Certainly more than my family.
05:55That scream came from Lady Quinn's rose garden.
05:58Mother!
06:02Mother!
06:02My roses!
06:04My beautiful, innocent roses!
06:06They're dead!
06:11Mother, someone put salt in the soil.
06:13Nothing can survive in your garden.
06:15Who could have done this?
06:16Alistair was angry that you praised my pruning yesterday.
06:19That's not true.
06:20I've been gone and only just now returned.
06:21Gone where?
06:22To destroy the evidence.
06:24We should search his room.
06:28There is nothing to find.
06:30I swear, please believe me.
06:33There! Under his bed!
06:38You're dead.
06:38You're dead.
06:42You're dead.
06:42You're dead.
06:43I don't believe my eyes.
06:45A sack of salt.
06:47Half empty.
06:52I told you he did it.
06:54Those roses were the one thing I trusted you with.
06:57How could you?
06:59Oh!
07:01I swear I didn't harm your roses.
07:03I haven't even seen them.
07:04I haven't even been here long enough to do it.
07:05You saw me arrive early this morning.
07:07That's true.
07:08Alistair wasn't here this morning.
07:09Yes.
07:10Very convenient that he was absent.
07:12Almost like he knew he needed an alibi.
07:14What? No, that isn't what I was doing.
07:16Then what were you doing?
07:17Where were you exactly, Alistair?
07:19I can't say.
07:21But it will become clear in three days.
07:22It's clear to me now.
07:24You intentionally destroyed my wife's prized roses!
07:27I didn't!
07:28Please, Mother!
07:28Do not call me that.
07:31You've changed, Alistair.
07:32I don't know this person you've become.
07:34I'm not your mother and you're not my son.
07:36My heart is breaking.
07:38Her words hurt worse than any beating ever could.
07:43First, you crippled Dorian on the hunt.
07:45And now you murder Mother's prized rose garden!
07:48I didn't do any of those things!
07:51Isn't it suspicious that Dorian knew exactly where to find the salt?
07:54How dare you accuse Dorian!
07:59Please, Kaya.
08:00Please believe me.
08:04Don't hurt him, dear sister.
08:05We should feel sorry for Alistair.
08:07It's been hard for him to adjust to having me around as a foster brother.
08:10But I understand.
08:11Dorian, you're so kind despite everything Alistair has done to you.
08:14It's a shining light that even I can see.
08:16If only they knew the truth.
08:19That it was Dorian who stabbed himself to turn the Quinns against me.
08:22The Quin family will blame you for this and love me in return.
08:28It doesn't matter.
08:29In three days I'll be gone and never return.
08:33It took so long to clean the mud off me that I arrived at dinner late.
08:36But, to my surprise, I found Dorian sitting in my usual seat at the family table.
08:41Excuse me, Dorian.
08:42There must be some mistake.
08:43You're in my seat.
08:45Rather than fight Dorian, I figured it best to treat him with kindness and hope he did the same.
08:50But Lord Quinn had other ideas.
08:52The only mistake, Alistair, is you thinking that there is a seat here for you at this table after what
08:57you did today.
08:58You may dine with the servants.
09:00Until you stop these desperate cries for attention, you will remain as you were when we found you.
09:05An outsider.
09:10Yes, my lord.
09:11You'll regret the way you've treated me when I'm gone.
09:13If you only knew that I've already promised to save your life.
09:25Now that he's washed the mud off his stolen clothes, I'd like to propose a toast to Alistair, the cleanest
09:30stable boy I know.
09:33If only they knew what I have promised to do.
09:35My sacrifice to the Dragon King would earn a real toast, not this nasty joke.
09:45My lords, the family sheep, they have escaped from their pins into the night.
09:50How could this have happened?
09:52Alistair is the stable boy.
09:53It was his responsibility.
09:55He must have let them escape.
09:58I couldn't believe it.
09:59I cared for those sheep and would never let them loose.
10:02But there's no time to argue.
10:04With dragons in the realm, I must hurry to save their lives.
10:12Come on sheep, come back to your pens.
10:17My worst fear.
10:19A dragon at my family's home.
10:23It will kill me.
10:25Now I'll never make it to the Veil.
10:26Never save the realm.
10:29Just make it quick.
10:44Why haven't you killed me?
10:48Well, well, well, there you are.
10:51Dorian, come to rub it in my face.
10:52He has no idea the danger he's in.
10:57Dorian, you must leave.
10:58I wouldn't miss the sight of you scrambling for the world.
11:01You see, I was the one that let the sheep out of their pens.
11:07I did it because I knew that you would be blamed.
11:10There is only room for one of us in House Quinn.
11:13And it will be...
11:14Me.
11:17Finally, Dorian admits his plan.
11:19He wants to make my family hate me and love him.
11:27But Dorian has no idea what danger he's gotten us into.
11:29I need to act now or we both will die.
11:33Brother, watch out!
11:34No!
11:41No!
11:42No!
11:43No!
11:43No!
11:43No!
11:46No!
11:48Alistair attacked me.
11:49He spooked the sheep and caused a stampede.
11:52It's not true.
11:54There was a dragon.
11:55I was only trying to save Dorian.
11:57The dragon that almost burnt us both alive has disappeared.
11:59And where has this dragon gone?
12:01Why do you keep lying?
12:02Father, please.
12:03Don't be so hard on Alistair.
12:04He only lies like this because he is so jealous of me.
12:10Hey, brother.
12:11We just had clues.
12:12I'm sorry.
12:14I've chatted you.
12:16Mother.
12:18Father.
12:21Please tell.
12:21Yeah.
12:22Okay.
12:32My hidden magic will reset your broken bones, but it will be painful.
12:37God.
12:40The pain of Emerus setting my bones back into place was great, but nothing compared to the pain of how
12:45my family treats me.
12:49you have done so much for the quince
12:52you saved your sister kaya's life
12:57don't worry kaya i'm here
13:01alistair go save yourself i'm done for brother
13:07the hell you are you're gonna make it i'll get you to your horse
13:14and nearly lost yours
13:18you nursed your blind sister elaine through fever
13:21back back and protected the animals of the stables with your life
13:27but still your family leaves you on the ground like trash
13:30it's true that i love my family even though they treat me so poorly
13:33but they once loved me too and i can never forget that
13:35it doesn't matter i'll soon be gone from this place forever
13:39gone gone to where my sister's heard my secret plan
13:43i've been caught what have you been hiding from us
13:48what's your plan rob us in the night leave us with nothing
13:53i don't want your money he's probably already taken it
13:57search his pockets
14:03what alistair means is that he intends to leave quinn manor and find work elsewhere
14:08alistair alistair is this true how could i tell my mother the truth
14:12that i didn't need money because i would be dead from dragon flame in three days time
14:16yes it's true i intend to take a job that's far away from here
14:21why wait why not leave now
14:24sister please alistair is clearly lost and lashing out
14:28do you expect us to beg you to stay after everything you've done
14:32kaya enough
14:34how could you
14:36a job
14:37if you wanted attention
14:39this is a pathetic way to get in
14:42i spent my entire life wanting a son
14:45someone i could look to as a man worthy of the quinn name
14:50thank the gods we found dorian
14:54you make me sick
14:55it's all right
14:57in three days i will be gone forever
15:00that is the queen's messenger
15:03why on earth would the queen's messenger come here
15:05they must have come to arrest alistair for the stolen clothes
15:09now you've done it
15:11you've brought the law to our home
15:14no
15:15there must be some other explanation
15:17those clothes were mine i swear it
15:22it's time you face justice for your terrible crimes
15:26let me go let me go
15:28i swear i didn't steal these clothes
15:31just the opposite
15:32the queen herself gave me these clothes when i volunteered a sacrifice
15:35here is your thief
15:37thief
15:38i bring news from her majesty
15:40a brave volunteer has stepped forward to sacrifice themselves to the dragon valley in two days time
15:46a volunteer
15:47we are saved
15:48whoever this person is
15:50their bravery is beyond measure
15:54well they're just someone whose family wouldn't miss them if they were gone
15:57i wondered if my family was about to guess that it was me if i had given away too much
16:01but then i realized that they wouldn't believe me even if i told them
16:04i hate that my injuries prevent me from sacrificing myself
16:07i know that i would have done it easily if i weren't so crippled
16:10don't be modest dorian
16:12you have exhibited bravery in the face of injury
16:14i know that the volunteer whoever they are would be impressed with you
16:19you think that's funny
16:21what's so funny about bravery
16:26you've flinched
16:28enough
16:30get up and stop embarrassing us
16:36good sir
16:37please tell us this brave volunteer's name
16:39we would love to thank them personally
16:41my lord i cannot do that
16:42it was the volunteers wish that they never be known
16:45this person is truly honorable to not ask for fame or attention
16:48we should host a banquet in their honor to celebrate the safety of the realm
16:52a splendid idea
16:53we shall have a banquet tomorrow night
16:55tomorrow night
16:56you will attend
16:57i will not hear one more word about your leaving
17:01try and leave again and i'll make sure the doors of your room are locked tight forever
17:05there are no cowards in the quinn family
17:10father if only you knew the banquet you're holding is actually in my honor
17:13after tomorrow night
17:14will you miss me when i'm gone
17:22how can you do this alistair
17:23working with hands that aren't even healed
17:25and for people who despise you
17:27no matter what you do
17:29i will be gone in two days time
17:31and i will never forgive myself
17:32if i leave without curing elaine's blindness
17:35i promised her
17:37elaine dreams of seeing the sky
17:39and garden again
17:40and i want her to have it
17:42even if she hates me
17:45for many nights
17:47i changed the cloths on her forehead
17:49as she burned with fever
17:53i promise you elaine
17:55that i will always protect you
17:57no matter what
17:58she recovered
17:59but the fever left her blind
18:01i spent years searching for how to make the right potion
18:07and i finally discovered it
18:09the potion that will cure elaine's blindness forever
18:13you are too good for them sir
18:14they can forget what i did
18:16i won't forget who they were
18:25sir you're too hurt
18:26please
18:27bring me more spices
18:29and make sure that no one sees you
18:33what are you doing here
18:34i came to bring embress a menu for the banquet
18:36but didn't expect to find you
18:39what is that smell
18:41cinnamon
18:41cloves
18:42what possible reason could you be hoarding these
18:44you don't cook
18:46are you stealing from us
18:47elaine has mistaken my potion making for stealing
18:49but i can't possibly tell her the truth
18:51i can explain
18:52you are hoarding our supplies ahead of running away aren't you
18:54no don't touch that
18:55you have no right to take from us
18:57why don't you want me to touch what is rightfully mine as a quinn
19:00because
19:03it's poison
19:04what
19:05alistair is clearly making poison
19:07why else would he be so secretive
19:09he doesn't want you to have it
19:10because it's intended to kill me
19:12alistair how could you
19:14he's tried it many times before
19:16it breaks my heart that he cannot bear to let me live in peace
19:18you snake
19:20alistair i forgive you
19:21first you crippled our brother dorian
19:23now you try and finish him off with poison
19:24it's not poison
19:27then what is it
19:28i can't reveal that
19:33i rest my case
19:35i defended you once alistair i won't be fooled again
19:37guards take alistair to his room
19:47no no it isn't true
19:49and throw this poison away
19:50no leave it alone
20:07with only two days left
20:08how will i save elaine's sight now
20:15emrys
20:16alistair
20:16not just as your servant but as your friend
20:18it breaks my heart that you do not tell your family but
20:21i have something i know you'd like
20:23there is much work to do to repair the damage to this potion
20:26but
20:27i will try my best
20:30coming
20:30i'm coming
20:33what the hell is it
20:34i am looking for a man named alistair quinn
20:39alistair
20:40what could a servant of the queen possibly want with that obnoxious filth pile
20:44what has he done this time
20:46the queen's messages are only for those she addresses them to
20:48they are her secrets alone
20:51he's not here
20:52then i shall wait for his return
20:53i wouldn't hold my breath
20:54he disappears for days at a time
20:57he is cruel to all of us
20:58on my honor as a quinn
21:00i shall see that this gets to alistair
21:01very well
21:10to the volunteer chosen by her majesty queen isold
21:15alistair is the sacrifice
21:18who was that outside
21:20if the family discovers that alistair is the savior of the realm
21:23they will love him forever
21:25i must ensure that no one ever learns of his secret sacrifice
21:29who was that outside
21:30no one
21:31just a beggar asking for orbs
21:33i sent him away with coin
21:36poor wretch
21:38now sister
21:39not all of us can be so lucky
21:41i thank the gods every day that i am a quinn
21:49now that the evidence of his sacrifice is hidden
21:51i must make the quinn's hate alistair even more before he leaves
21:56so there is no chance for redemption
21:57i've stolen father's favorite ring and intend to blame alistair
22:14where has my sapphire ring gone
22:16your sapphire ring
22:19search his travel cloak
22:23here it is
22:24just a story and guest
22:26i'll bet he planned to sell it for coin and run off
22:29you were the child who used to bring me roses
22:32when did you become this knave
22:33after tomorrow mother
22:34you won't have to see me ever again
22:35enough
22:36i demand you start acting like yourself again
22:40i've had enough of your pathetic drama
22:43with no one to believe me
22:45i returned to the stables to prepare lord quinn's horse for the evening hunt
22:48only when i arrived i received quite the shock
23:02you've poisoned father's warhorse
23:04help please come quickly
23:06alistair has done something terrible
23:07you monster
23:09you aim to blame this on me but i won't let you
23:11go ahead
23:12hit me
23:14it will be the end of you
23:15i promise
23:24what has happened here
23:25i came here to talk to alistair brother to brother
23:27to try and get him to change his evil ways
23:29but i found him feeding the horse poisoned
23:31he is dead
23:33my beloved warhorse is dead
23:35you murderer
23:37so that is why you were stealing spices from the pantry
23:40to make a poison for father's warhorse
23:44is there no end to your evil
23:46my lord please
23:47it's not my fault
23:48i swear it's not
23:51i never should have trusted a foundling with a knight's horse
23:55you are no longer worthy to serve as my squire
23:59my short sword
24:00the same blade that kaya gifted me for saving her life all those years ago
24:07don't worry kaya i'm here
24:10alistair
24:10alistair
24:11go save yourself
24:13i'm done for brother
24:17the hell you are
24:18we're gonna make it
24:19i'll get you to your horse
24:23alistair
24:25i was wrong to ever call you brother
24:29after tomorrow night i will be dead
24:32and this will all be over
24:40hang the banners high
24:42we may never learn the true identity of the volunteer
24:45but nobody will ever say that we didn't treat them as the hero they clearly ours
24:49my lord
24:50my lady
24:51the guests for the banquet have arrived
24:53i'll fetch dorian
24:56what about alistair
24:57alistair is not welcome
25:03where do you think you're going
25:05i'm here to honor the volunteer who'll be saving the realm
25:09you're no longer a queen
25:11you are forbidden from attending this banquet
25:13or celebrate the realm's savior
25:14whoever they are
25:17they're ten times the person you are
25:19lord quinn
25:20who is causing trouble at your door
25:22nobody
25:24nobody at all
25:25if that's how you feel
25:27then i'll leave and not come back
25:28nothing would make me happier
25:30but what about my happiness
25:31how could my family be so blind
25:33throwing a party for my honor and not even know it
25:36i can't stand it anymore
25:38i have to tell him the truth
25:40father there's something i must tell you about the volunteer
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