Lunar Chronicles Headcanons

5- Cyborg

Cinder and Kai's first born daughter, Peony, was a complete tomboy and daredevil, never failing to do the most insane stunts. However, one day she went too far.

It was a normal day on Luna, and the thirteen-year-old princess was about to commit another one of her dangerous stunts.

She was in the throne room, and the windowless cliff jut out slightly over the lake. The queen before her mother — Levana — had supposedly used it as a way to dispose of the people she'd killed after their trails in this room.

Unlike her siblings, who were absolutely terrified of this place, she found a strange satisfaction with it. She always felt as if she shouldn't be there, as if there were some invisible force that wanted her gone. Cinder didn't like that room either, and never used it unless she had to. It was the one place that her children weren't allowed to go.

Peony was reading a bunch of ghost stories at the time, and thought that the people who died there thought she was Levana.

Pushing those thoughts away, she decided to continue with her plan. She quickly took off her t-shirt, revealing the expensive bikini underneath as she walked closer and closer to the edge. Pure adrenaline drove her on, she had heard of people down on earth jumping into the ocean off of cliffs for fun in the second era, this couldn't be much different. Taking a deep breath, Peony walked to the edge and jumped.

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She woke up with a sore ache around her right wrist, and a strange feeling in her right eye. Looking down she saw that where her right hand once was, a metal one had taken its place.

The fall from the the palace to the lake had crushed her hand, shattering her bone and disabling her nerves in it; so Cinder had to make a hard decision, either make her daughter a cyborg or let her live the rest of her life without her dominant hand, eventually she decided on the cyborg option.

Participating on the doctors surgery on her, she gave her daughter a hand she'd made herself. She only trusted herself to do maintenance on it, and eventually her youngest daughter Eli as well.

Cinder was the first cyborg queen of Luna. Peony would be the second cyborg, and first with both Lunar and Earthen blood in her veins.