Pyeonggang

**[Show Spoiler]*** Lord of Silla (Husband)

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Pyeonggang is a major supporting character in **Blade of the Phantom Master**. She is the princess of Chilgap Kingdom whom Munsu needs to find her happiness.

## Appearance

A young and beautiful woman with a cute round face. She has a slender body and her hair style is short with symmetrical swooping bangs that is cut just above her cheeks. She also has her hair tied up in an extravagant hair pin. She wears many extravagant royal clothing. She has the kingdom symbol on her left arm.

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## Personality

An extremely kind woman with an benevolent aura but is also very naïve due to her caged life style and her schizophrenia. However, when she was force to see her kingdom was about to be taken, she fights her hardest to the reality of the truth; proving her determination against her illness despite being afraid of what was real and fake. Afterwards, she is more confident in herself and faces danger ahead as she leads her men into battle.

## Background

The daughter and later ruler of Mt. Chilgap. From birth, she had a disease called "pernicious anemia," which results in her childhood being sheltered and feeling caged. Later in life, she was in love with Ondal, who lived in the forest, but their love faced many challenges, to which Mito asked Munsu to help her achieve happiness in exchange for fixing his Mahai.

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It turns out that in reality, due to her sheltered life, she developed a mental illness where she sees and hears people. Pyeonghae and Ondal are all part of her imagination. After Munsu, upon Pyeonggang's request, travels to the bamboo woods to save Ondal, that is when he realizes that these people didn't exist. As the westerners invade, Munsu attempts to help her wake up from the illusion, but she is not able to until the last moments. She becomes the ruler and declares it an independent country named Goguryeo. She participates in the final battle against Ajitae.

## Plot Overview

### Past

Since she was born, she was very fragile due to her pernicious anemia. Which results in painful sessions from doctors in trying to get rid of it. Due to this, she was sheltered. Her father, worried that she won't be fit to be a ruler in the future, tells her many folk lores and gifts her many statues, toys, etc to invoke her interest. She was indeed interested, in particular of "Ondal the Idiot." She was told of this story by her father whenever she cried easily.

Later in the future, possibly around when her kingdom is dealing with Fredenica, she developed a mental illness where she imagines Ondal and Pyeonghae. The first was when she was at a hunting party with Fredenica's colonel Mark. She parted away despite Pyeonghae's disagreement and fell unconcious when she was carried by Ondal. Suddenly, she found by the hunting party as she laid in the snow. As she awakes, she sees Ondal hiding. In reality, she simply was unconsious and imagined the whole thing. She came back to the forest to find him and was ambushed by rabbits. Ondal came to help. In his home, she interacted and is interested with him and leaves later on.

Sometime later, she decides to invite Ondal but Pyeonghae came across him and beats him. Which Pyeonggang saw and stop them. She brough him into his room and cleans Ondal, seeing his full appearance and became attracted. Soon after, Pyeonghae arrived and confronted Ondal. Which led to a fight but Pyeonggang stopped them. She later decides to formally invite Ondal to be a soldier for the kingdom. She then declare to herself that she loves Ondal.

### Present

#### Fixing Mahai Arc (Finding the Black Smith)

She arrives to Mito to visit but sees Munsu was being rude to him and demanded him to stop. After her short discussion with Mito of her marriage to Ondal, she leaves back to her kingdom

#### Denial of a Princess Arc

At her kingdom, she meets Munsu again, but allows him to enter as he posed as a writer in writing her story and the kingdom. Her father called upon her that she is forbidden of marrying Ondal, which leads her to be upset. In multiple occasions, she embraced Ondal despite her father and was confronted by the antagonstic Pyeonghae. One day, Pyeonghae sexual assaults her while ripping her clothes and revealing that Ondal is her brother.

When Munsu was jailed again for entering her room, she approached him at the jail cell and asked why he didn't reveal the truth that he didn't attempted to assault her. Munsu revealed to her that he empathize of her feelings and that he is a royal inspector. She asked for his help. Back at her room, she asked him to find Ondal at the training ground.

At the next day, she and everyone realized Pyeongwon passed away from exhaustion.

Munsu arrived back as Pyeonggang while grieving of her father's death, asked if Ondal was fine but Munsu realized her mental illness. During this, Fredenica attacks. Both Munsu and her elderly servant tried to convince her that she is imagining it all but she refuses in denial. Regardless, they were about to leave but Pyeonggang sees Ondal wounded and fainted. She is then captured by Fredenica.

She was forced by Colonel Mark to give up her kingdom. She couldn't decide but through Munsu's assistance and Sando's diversion, she was able to stop her schizophrenia and made Ondal and Pyeonghae dissappeared. She declares she won't give up her kingdom just as Munsu recieved his tablet from Bangja and turn the tide. After their enemies defeat, she was then formally crowned as the ruler of Chilgap Kingdom but declares it a new name of Goguryeo.

Mandrake Dream Arc

When Mito escaped with Munsu, her soldiers found them. Pyeonggang was happy to help and essentially joined in defeating Ajitae's Legion. Then they hear that Munsu has woken up.

#### Final Battle Arc

She joins Munsu and the others to fight against Ajitae with her own army and kingdom although there were friction due to the Fredenica empire also joining to help. She also bickered with Lord of Silla before the battle which Youngsil and Bangja teased they were a bickering couple.

During the battle, she leads her men to battle despite her servants asking her to be behind the lines. During the battle, she was injured by an arrow as the Lord of Silla helps her up. After the battle that lead to Ajitae's defeat, she survived. A month after, she marries the Lord of Silla after burying the dead and held a wedding ceremony.

#### Epilogue

Later on, she and her husband on horseback spot something in the ground as lighting etched into it. They peer in the crater to find the Oz Symbol from the Housekeeper dimension.

## Relationships

**Family**

* Pyeongwon (father)
* Pyeonghae (Step Brother) - They have a conflicting relationship as he is very threatening and have sexual harrass her. In reality he was just a hallucination from her mental illness.
* On Dal (Brother) (lover) - When she first met him, she was very interested and soon turn romantic. She loved him dearly but when she realized he was her brother, she was very distraught of her own emotions. In reality he was just a hallucination from her mental illness.
* Lord of Silla (Husband) - At first, they didn't like each other when they first met.

**Allies**

* Mito - She sees him as a grandfather and loves him like he is part of her family.
* Munsu
* Youngsil -
* Bangja -

**Fredenica**

* Colonel Mark
* Marlene Von Lucid

## Abilities

She doesn't really have any abilities but as a princess, she has vast amount of protection, wealth, etc from her kingdom. However, when she was forced to step up to being leader, she slowly gain her skills. Especially during the fight against Ajitae.

## Trivia

* Her name is based on Princess Pyeonggang, a Goguryeo Princess, daughter of King Pyeongwon, who married General On Dal.
* In ep. 102, a Cacutar from the Final Fantasy Series appears in her room
* In the Super String Mobile Game:
	+ She is voiced by voice actress, *"Lee Seungwon."*
	+ Her schizophrenia is reference in her skill albeit differently. The skill's name is *"Denial,"* as she shrieks at her opponent much like how she screams in the webtoon,

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### Short Gallery

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## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess\_Pyeonggang