The Ironwood Trees Are Stained With Childhood
Language: English
Blood and Injury Canon-Typical Violence Character Study Completed Crane (Kung Fu Panda) FanFiction Father-Daughter Relationship Found Family Gen Indirect Self Harm Kung Fu Panda (Movies) Mantis (Kung Fu Panda) Monkey (Kung Fu Panda) Oogway (Kung Fu Panda) Po & Tigress (Kung Fu Panda) Po (Kung Fu Panda) Pre-Canon Self-Harm Shifu & Tigress (Kung Fu Panda) Shifu (Kung Fu Panda) Tai Lung The Furious Five Tigress (Kung Fu Panda) Viper (Kung Fu Panda) and Tigresses poor self worth featuring Shifu's poor parenting tigress-centric
Publisher: archiveofourown.org
Published: Apr 26, 2022
Description:
At first, she does it because her hands hurt. Looking back, it is a foolish reason to do anything-pain is a part of any martial art, an expected consequence of training and fighting. But she is six then, bright eyed and hopeful. Life up until this point has been isolation, living in Bao Gu Orphanage, existing as something feral and unlovable. Shifu’s mentorship, guardianship-it seems new and beautiful. Finally, someone sees something in her.
In the coming months, her paw pads crack and bleed. She strains her wrist, cracks a tooth because she keeps gritting her teeth in agony. Master Shifu scolds her recklessness but does not ask where she received her injuries. He does not tell her to stop. Oogway smiles at her in the hallways, invites her for tea, teaches her how to garden. He is trying to help her, somehow, but Tigress cannot make out how. If he really cared, he would help her train, help her please Shifu.
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Tigress throughout the years.