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Orange Marmalade: Episode 9byLollyPip|July 5, 2015 |33 Comments

Thankfully, this episode begins where we left off and ties up the Joseon portion of

our story quite nicely. Everything comes to a head as Lady Won puts into motion her

plan to rule Joseon, and nobody will be able to save their world alone. Everyone

must decide which side theyre on in this conflict, which will affect their lives,

current andfuture.

EPISODE 9 RECAP

Jae-min waits in the cave with the other Soldiers of the Silver Blood for a vampire to

show up, and when she does, they waste no time attacking. Just in time, Jae-min

realizes that its Ma-ri, and quickly slashes the arrows out of the air with his sword.He tells the Silver Blood that theres a mistake shes not a vampire.
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One of the soldiers says that she must be, and holds up his mirror to show Jae-min

that she has no reflection. Still, Jae-min begs them to wait, and things get tense

when he pulls his sword on his own men.

Suddenly Shi-hoo drops in (literally) to stand beside his friends, and he pushes Jae-

mins sword arm down. He whispers to Jae-min to get Ma-ri out of here, and tells theSilver Blood (who dont recognize him because they always wear masks) that hes a

vampire. To prove it he allows his claws to extrude, and tells Jae-min again, with

glowing eyes, to go.

Jae-min actually looks like hes going to stay and fight with his friend, but a black

cloud descends and all of the Silver Blood fall instantly unconscious. The men of Ma-

ris clan come, and the blind elder tells a terrified and confused Jae-min that they

have no power to hurt people beyond erasing memories.

Jae-min begins to accept that these people he trusted really are vampires, as Ma-risfather Baek assures him that they never drink blood. They live in harmony with

humans. Jae-min turns betrayed eyes on Ma-ri, and she can only duck her head in

answer.

The pregnant queen sets out to give tribute to her dead brother, apologizing for not

even having a funeral for him yet since it could invite harm to her unborn child. Jae-

hee interrupts, and takes her hostage on Lady Wons orders.

Jae-min goes to the hideout and shoots arrow after arrow, until Shi-hoo steps in front

of his bow, still looking bleak and ill. He asks Jae-min to shoot him now that hes
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Ma-ri asks what the vampires did that was so wrong, and he growls through his teeth

that they drink human blood to live. Ma-ri corrects this assumption they only drink

the blood of the animals that humans kill to eat. Humans kill animals to live, and they

even step on their own kind to increase their own status. What makes humans better

than vampires?

Shes got a point, and Jae-min pales to realize it. Sadly, Ma-ri continues that he

probably doesnt remember the first time he saw sunlight, but she does. She

remembers clearly the day her mother took her into the sun for the first time, and

shes always loved being alive because she can see the sunlight.

Ma-ri says shes never wished to be human, but when she met Jae-min, it became

harder to be a vampire. She continues that she doesnt like herself anymore, and

Jae-min seems to try to pull her closer but she yanks her hand away. She says that

shes disappointed in him, and walks away.

Shi-hoo waits in Ma-ris room, and she brings him his first meal of blood and the

sunlight drink. He asks why she fed him her blood, and she answers that she just

knew she needed to keep him alive. He sincerely thanks her for saving his life, butshes distraught that he blames her for making him a vampire.
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Shi-hoo decides to make an effort for her sake, and drinks the blood while thinking

that its at least comforting, now that hes the same as Ma-ri. He talks to Baek later,

who tells him about the human blood-drinkers and how they cant come into the

daylight. He tells Shi-hoo that he must drink the sunlight medicine to be able to go

into the sun.

The young queen is discovered to be missing, and troops are sent out to find her and

bring her back. Jae-mins father seems to be in charge of the search, and in light of

the queens disappearance, his assistant suggests they put the matter of the

vampires on hold for now. Nobody showed up at the cave, and they can just quietly

search for the owner of the butchers knife.

Shi-hoo and Baek are also discussing the missing knife, and they both suspect

theres a connection between it going missing and Hwasawon, the establishment

where the women go to be pampered. Jae-min is also thinking of Hwasawon, and

how Ah-ra had told him she was giving information to its owner, the leader of thevampires. Ma-ris words that shes disappointed in him reverberate in his mind.

Ma-ri runs into Ah-ra on the street, and Ah-ra admits to having sent the letter calling

her out to the cave. Ma-ri demands her fathers knife back, but Ah-ra doesnt have it,

and warns against Lady Wons grudge against Ma-ris family.

She asks Ma-ris forgiveness, saying that shes never hated anyone before but that

Ma-ri made her feel lower than a butcher. Shed felt like Ma-ri took everything from

her, and that if Ma-ri took away her hope of marrying Jae-min, she wouldnt be able

to live. So she tried to kill herself, but even then her only thoughts were of ruiningMa-ri. Now Ah-ra says that she wants herself back.


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Lady Won watches Jae-hee visit Lady Yang-pyong though her crows eyes, and Jae-

hee reports back that he took the queen to a secret hiding place. Lady Won asks him

if he knows Lady Yang-pyong, and orders him to kill her. He dares to ask why, and

she notes that the coldness in his gaze is melting recently.

Lady Won visits the queen in her prison room, and promises to take her back to thepalace soon. But first, her baby will become part of their family. She says she will

bring someone to help the young queen with her childbirth, and hopes that she

produces an heir to the throne.

Ah-ra is cornered by a pair of vampires that night, intent on taking her to Hwasawon,

but Ma-ri coming flying out of the dark and fights them off with her reed flute. They

recognize her as one of the Banchon clan, but she quickly says that she came to tell

Ah-ra to protect her place with her fianc. She holds her own against the vampires

until Ah-ra gets away, but they eventually overwhelm her.

On Lady Wons orders, Jae-hee goes to Lady Yang-pyongs room that night and

brandishes his sword at her throat. He says simply that she needs to die, but the lack

of fear in her eyes makes him pause. She says that when she met him, his eyes

were kind, and she knew he would never hurt her. Jae-hee just grumbles, I hate

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Instead of Ah-ra as planned, Ma-ri is taken to the queen to assist her in childbirth.

Lady Won says that her clan wont dare interfere in her plans in the future, now that

Ma-ri will have helped them. Meanwhile Ah-ra runs to Jae-min for help, telling him

what happened to Ma-ri and where shes been taken.

Shi-hoo practices his new vampire skills, and repeats the Hwasawon name as thehideout of the vampire clan. And Jae-min suits up for battle, but leaves the silver

neck armor behind.

Jae-min finds the vampires who kidnapped Ma-ri and kills one, directing the other to

take him to the vampire leader. Jae-hee meets him first and smiles at his

fearlessness, then kills his own vampire entourage. Shi-hoo drops down from above

and he and Jae-hee recognize each other from their fight over Ma-ri.

Jae-hee tells both boys Lady Wons plan to turn the queen and her baby into

vampires and rule Joseon. The vampires that Jae-hee struck down are healing andrecovering, and call him betrayer, but he says hes tired of thirsting for human blood.

He mutters to Shi-hoo that a vampire fight only ends when one dies, and urges him

to leave, but Shi-hoo quips that Jae-hee isnt the only one who gets to be cool.

Inside, the queen is going into labor, and Ma-ri promises to protect her. At the same

time, Ma-ris father has heard of Ma-ris kidnapping, and tells the rest of the Banchon

clan. But he knows a way to the chamber where Ma-ri and the queen are being held,

and decides that they can no longer hope for a peaceful coexistance with the

Hwasawon vampires.


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With no other choice, Jae-mins father, the Defense Minister, vows to lead the

Soldiers of the Silver Blood himself against the Hwasawon vampires. This will be his

last battle, since hes despondent that there was a spy selling information to the

vampires within his own ranks. Dying on the battlefield is the only way he feels he

can wash away the sin of allowing that to happen.

Je-min is already inside Hwasawon, and he faces off with Lady Won. He manages to

slash her throat and she heals immediately, but shes terrified that a human could cut

her while she was still protected by the power of the eclipse. She runs from him and

bars the doors magically, cutting Jae-min off from chasing her.

Outside, Shi-hoo and Jae-hee fight off the Hwasawon vampires together, but Jae-

hee takes a vicious wound just as Shi-hoo reaches his side. He thinks of Lady Yang-

pyong, whose life he spared, thanking her silently for helping the hatred in his heart

to disappear, then he falls dead into Shi-hoos arms.

As he tries to figure out how to break through the magical barriers, Jae-min is joined

by Ma-ris entire family clan. The combined power of the vampires allows them to

open the door for Je-min, and he runs deeper into Hwasawon after Lady Won. Ma-ri

faces a similar barrier that, try as she might, she cant break through but the

barrier suddenly comes down with the rest, and she and the queen are freed.

The Defense Minister issues orders to the Silver Blood to be careful of the queen,

and they rush into Hwasawon just as another wave of vampires is about to attack

Shi-hoo. Inside, Jae-min finds Lady Won in her lair, as Baek and her clan hold the

barriers open.


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Lady Won and Jae-min fight violently, and Jae-min is pinned with Lady Wons claws

to his throat just as Ma-ri sees them and comes running. Shes thrown across the

room and Jae-min rushes to catch her, and in his distraction Lady Won is able to

sink her fangs into his throat.

He quickly takes a silver arrow from his quiver and stabs her in the stomach and,gravely injured, Lady Won escapes into a mirror. Jae-min fires another silver arrow

at the mirror, ending Lady Won for good.

With her death, the magical barriers come down on their own, and all of the

Hwasawon vampires dissolve into ashes simultaneously. Jae-min staggers and falls

to his knees, and manages to ask if Ma-ri is alright and hold a shaking hand to her

face. He reassures her that hes fine, but its clear that hes far from okay.

Baek finds them and begs Ma-ri to leave with him since the humans are coming. He

drags Ma-ri out, and Jae-min whispers after her that hes relieved shell be safe. Hemanages to get the queen outside before he collapses, shaking, and his father finds

them.

Jae-min suffers from his vampire bite for days, and Ma-ri can only watch him from

afar. She goes to the blind elder for help, who says that theres no way to restore a

person whos been bitten by a vampire to their humanity. Even if there were, theres

nothing she can do. But while hes sleeping, Ma-ri finds an old book among his

belongings, and starts reading.

Lady Yang-pyong entreats Jae-mins father to rest, and he says quietly that when hewould see men die on the battlefield, he always remembered that they were


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someones precious son. He felt dishonored because he couldnt send his own son

to war and take the same risk those parents did by sending their children. But there

was also a part of him that was relieved.

Ma-ri goes missing, and her clan search for her in the woods with no luck. Shes at

her rock when Shi-hoo finds her, playing her flute, and she says she knew he wouldcome. He notices shes sweating and pale, and she says that if a vampire refuses

blood, it becomes close to human before it dies.

She tells him that she can save Jae-min and restore his humanity by giving him the

blood that flows at the moment of her death. She asks Shi-hoo to take her to Jae-min,

and he stoically asks if she has to do this. He agrees, though he cant hide his tears.

Shi-hoo piggybacks Ma-ri to Jae-mins home and sweetly removes her shoes for her

since shes so weak, and takes one last long look at her. Ma-ri goes in to Jae-min

and caresses his face one last time, then uses her knife to make a cut in her arm.Her face grows paler as she feeds her blood to him, and she looks at peace with her

decision.

Jae-min wakes in the morning to find Ma-ri unconscious beside him, and he instantly

knows something is wrong. He gathers her into his arms, calling her name, and she

opens her eyes weakly. He asks why shes here, and she just says she wanted to

show him that shes wearing the ribbon he gave to her.

Jae-min tells her that its really pretty, and says that she should show it to him many

times. He asks why shes cold and weak, and Ma-ri admits that she lied to him. She


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was never disappointed in him and because she met him, she was happy. Ever

since they met, shes been as happy with him as she was to see the sunlight.

Shes fading fast, but she manages to gasp that she wishes him to be safe and at

peace, and that in her next life, she will be the same kind of being as he is. Then she

gently closes her eyes for the last time. Jae-min cries and begs her not to go, but itstoo late.

Later Jae-min goes to the forest to their special place, and buries a beautiful box

under a tree. He swears her that, even though he couldnt keep their promises now,

someday they will be kept. He will wait for her.

In the present, Jae-min stands beside the large stump in the middle of his schools

courtyard. Hes been drawn to it all this time, though he still doesnt know why.
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Epilogue

In the Joseon days, Ma-ris father Baek bows in front of the king. The king beckons

him closer to see the treaty hes written between the humans and vampires, and

declares them equals as the respective leaders of their people. The king thanks

Baek for saving his grandsons life, which makes Baek smile shyly, though the smile

fades when the queen asks after the young girl who saved her life.

COMMENTS

Ive enjoyed this Joseon era part of the story quite a lot, because I very much feelthat it shed a lot of light on the present-day events. Ill go so far as to say that the

main issue this show has had, for me, is that I believe they showed the timelines in

the wrong order. Maybe its not as edgy and creative to show everything in the order

it happened, but so much moremakes sense if we had only known then what we

know now. I feel that the story and its elements would have been much easier to

follow, if we hadnt spent the first four episodes wondering why in the word these

people behaved in such extreme ways. We had no motivations for their actions, such

as why Jae-min hates vampires so viciously and why Shi-hoo and Jae-min took such

an instant disliking to each other. We were shown those things, but we were never

given any reasonfor their behavior, so instead of being intrigued we were just

confused. If we had seen their Joseon era lifetimes first, or at least had them

interspersed throughout the present-day events, I think many people wouldnt have

been so confused for so long. I get that people in entertainment want to tell stories in

new and interesting ways, but if youre risking losing your audience for the sake of

innovation, youre just shooting yourself in the foot.

My biggest source of confusion in the present-day was: Why in the world does Jae-

min hate vampires with such ferocity? Now that Ive seen his and Ma-ris origin story,

of course it makes sense that he hates vampires! His whole life was destroyed in thepast just because vampires existed he lost his best friend, his love, and the dream

of the happy life he wanted for himself. It was no one persons fault, which could

explain why his hatred of vampires in the present is so intense yet has no focus. He

never does articulate exactly why he hates them, he just does, and I never felt like

even he really knew why. But at least now we as viewers know why, so my hope as

we go back to the present day is that well be able to sympathize with him more,

instead of him just seeming like a royally spoiled brat.


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One thing I wanted to comment on was Ma-ris statement as she died, that in her

next life she would come back the same as Jae-min. Since she came back as a

vampire and he as a human again, Im assuming that in this worlds rules, you

cannot be reborn as something you were not (since Shi-hoo would have had to die a

vampire, and was reborn a vampire). But yet I still feel that Ma-ris statement was

accurately prophetic, though maybe not so literal. Although she and Jae-min are still

different creatures, in the present day theyre finally on equal footing. They dont

have the class divide they faced when they first met, and now its acceptable (though

there will always be those with prejudice) for humans and vampires to marry. So,

while she wasnt exactly correct, it is true that in their next lives, they were born as

equals. That is, of course, if Jae-min can get over his mental block against vampires

and accept her for who she is.

So now that Ma-ri has proven her love with her willingness to die for Jae-min, Im

ready to see him step up and grow and fight for her. Hed started to do that at the

lighthouse when he said that he didnt care that she was a vampire and that he loved

her anyway, but I still feel thats not good enough. Loving someone in spite of who

they areisnt love, its tolerance because you feel attraction. Its not a lasting sort oflove, like the love that is willing to give up everything for the others happiness. Ma-ri

knew that Jae-min would rather die than become a vampire, and she remembered

that when it was time to make a decision.

If shed been selfish, she could have made him a vampire against his wishes and

tried to convince him to stay with her (from what I understand, its canon that

vampires live about 150 years, so they could have had a long life together). But she

loved him enough to give him the life he wanted as a human, or at least as close to it

as she had control over. So now that were back to present times, I want to see Jae-

min prove that he loves her in the same way. Not I love you even thoughyoure a
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vampire, but I love everything you are. Weve even seen Shi-hoo give up his life

for the person he loves (*sob*) and Jae-min is the only immature holdout. He made

great strides in the Joseon era, but clearly his soul hung onto some serious issues

when he was reborn. Its time for him to take a cue from his mother, and learn to see

the personinside, and not just the outward assumptions hes clinging to. I know hesgot it in him to feel real, unselfish love.
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