00:00The Dressmaker
00:07Once upon a time, in Zephoria, color wasn't just worn, it was owned.
00:14The aristocracy hoarded chromatic fabric rights, turning it into the ultimate status symbol.
00:21The more powerful you were, the more colorful the wearer.
00:28Did you see Lady Vos's ensemble at the Lunar Gala? Her silks barely shifted to Cerulean. Clearly her family's influence is waning.
00:38Perhaps she should consider a marriage alliance before her garments fade to Lower Zephorian Grey.
00:47In Lower Zephoria, color was forbidden to wear. A yellow scarf could mean imprisonment.
00:56What's this?
00:58Please, it's for my daughter's doll!
01:00Call her contraband. That'll be two weeks wages or five weeks in the jail.
01:14Shame you can't stitch half of those sketches.
01:18No limits. Just ink and rebellion.
01:22Just a moment.
01:30I got it!
01:31Chromatic silk? How did you-
01:33Don't ask. Upper Zephoria isn't as careful with their disposal.
01:36I can finally test my theory.
01:44Aaron! One stray thread of color and they'll shut this place down!
01:48We'd better stitch them quickly.
01:54Keep your head down, girls!
01:56Why are they so afraid of us wearing colors?
02:00It's not fear, child. It's control.
02:03What happened?
02:04The powerful claimed only those with refined sensibilities were worthy of wearing color.
02:11Oh, simple minds wouldn't be able to process the emotional complexity of wearing colors.
02:16Careful with that tongue.
02:18Have you told him?
02:21How?
02:22I've been studying the scraps from the factory.
02:24The living silks don't just respond to refined sensibilities.
02:29I think they respond to any human emotion.
02:32Thomas, color is everyone's birthright.
02:35For three weeks, she barely slept.
02:38The fabric defied everything she knew about textiles.
02:42It wasn't programmed.
02:43It was alive somehow.
02:45Not alive like plants or animals.
02:48But alive like... feelings.
02:52You don't just show color, do you?
02:55Interesting.
03:00You missed curfew announcements again.
03:03People are talking.
03:05Look at this.
03:06It doesn't just respond to emotions.
03:08It responds to everything.
03:10Heat, sound, touch.
03:14How?
03:15It's...
03:16It's like a conduit.
03:17Between the fabric and whoever wears it.
03:22What do you feel?
03:24It's warm, like...
03:25When someone hugs you.
03:27It's showing your feelings.
03:32What is that?
03:33Something I want you to try.
03:35Are you insane?
03:36If I'm caught wearing anything with color...
03:39Please, Lyra.
03:41Trust me.
03:42We call it...
03:43Empathic Silk.
03:47I can feel it.
03:48What's it like?
03:49Like...
03:50It really knows me.
03:52I've spent my whole life being told that color wasn't meant for people like us.
03:56Erin, what exactly does this fabric do?
03:59I think...
04:01It amplifies emotions.
04:03For the first time in my life, I feel seen.
04:06And if what someone truly feels is arrogance or hatred...
04:10Then we have to be very careful who wears it.
04:13We need to show others.
04:15A revolution, one garment at a time.
04:18Revolution often begins not with grand gestures, but with secrets small enough to hide against the skin.
04:26For the first time in generations, the people of Lower Zephoria carried color with them.
04:34Not as a badge of status, but as a reflection of what had always lived inside them.
04:38The colors were subtle, just enough to give them hope.
04:43You don't understand what it's doing.
04:47One boy who's never spoken in class.
04:50I gave him a bookmark with your fabric.
04:52Yesterday, he raised his hand for the first time.
04:56People linger like butterflies.
04:58Attractive to the scent of flowers at my stall.
05:01People are wanting to know where these things came from.
05:04Not yet. If the upper city discovers what we're doing...
05:09But this isn't enough.
05:12Lyra, the aristocracy won't simply let us have this.
05:16We need to be smarter.
05:18That means more risk.
05:20I know, but isn't it worth it?
05:22Prince Darius was unlike other aristocrats.
05:26San, you missed the council meeting. Again.
05:29Another discussion about punitive measures for Lower Zephoria.
05:34There are reports of color contraband appearing in the Lower Zephoria.
05:38Garments that respond to emotion, like living silks.
05:42That's impossible.
05:44Apparently not.
05:46Lady Isolde wants to implement random color scans.
05:50For what? To punish people for feelings now?
05:53Your Highness, if the Lower City gained access to the fabric,
05:59it could destabilize the entire social order.
06:03Ha! The social order.
06:06Perhaps it could use some destabilization.
06:09Careful, son.
06:11How long before they question why we deserve color and they don't?
06:15They accept what they must, as do we all.
06:18Perhaps it's time to see these emotional fabrics or myself.
06:34Zephoria thrives on order.
06:37Order thrives on tradition.
06:39And as your Royal Fashion Minister, I'm here to announce the Spring Gala event.
06:43A moment of pure, silent, electrifying rebellion.
06:50Then, fear gripped at Zephoria.
06:54As I was saying earlier, Zephoria.
06:58Order must be maintained.
07:02Find them.
07:03Lady Isolde's crackdown began.
07:04Lady Isolde's crackdown began.
07:17Lady Isolde's crackdown began.
07:21Where did you get this?
07:27No! Please! It wasn't me!
07:33We have a name minister. A tailor.
07:39Erin.
07:41Excellent. Bring her here.
07:45When she holds our baby, her scarf shows the most beautiful shade of purple.
07:51And how long before the Upper Shitty notices?
07:55Before they take even this small joy from us?
07:58We have to stop. It's not just fabric anymore.
08:05It's war.
08:06They raided the Tanner's district.
08:08I saw it.
08:10Just when it seemed like the rebellion had outgrown her.
08:15She's done nothing wrong.
08:19Nothing wrong, you say?
08:22No.
08:28No.
08:29No.
08:30No.
08:34Watch where you're...
08:37You saw nothing.
08:39That fabric.
08:41Wait.
08:43How did you make that?
08:44There she is. The color trader.
08:45What do we have here? A sympathizer?
08:47No.
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09:12No.
09:13A sympathizer.
09:15Get off me.
09:17Oh, Lady Easold will want to see this.
09:22Didn't expect a tailor as my cellmate.
09:25Didn't expect a criminal prince.
09:27What makes you think I'm a prince?
09:30That little pause before you denied it. Aristocrats are terrible liars.
09:34So, what's your crime? Improper hemlines?
09:38Yours? Crimes of fashion?
09:39crimes of fashion.
09:42Why risk everything for something as simple as color?
09:47Why sneak into Lower Zephoria just to see it?
09:53It's not just fabric, it's choice.
09:56They make us dress like ghosts, so we'll forget we're alive.
10:00What if you could change that?
10:02Truly.
10:03I expected some filthy Zephorian street rat.
10:20Instead, I find an artist.
10:23I will make this super simple for you, girl.
10:28Create for us the nobility for the upcoming Spring Gala.
10:33Use your gift to elevate our status, or watch your designs burn, your friends get hurt,
10:39and you rot in prison while Zephoria forgets you ever existed.
10:44I accept the tribute, please don't hurt them.
10:52Your talent deserves to be here, so long as it serves the right hands.
10:57You'll have access to the finest materials in Zephoria.
11:02Arryn, you should feel honored.
11:04The entire court will be watching.
11:07I expect perfection.
11:09I understand the importance, my lady.
11:17Whenever she saw all the colors she was never allowed to touch, wear or weave.
11:24Her silent rage would fuel her rebellion.
11:29At night, Arryn wore a gown, entirely made of empathetic silk.
11:34Her secret plan was to expose the nobility, who thrived on falsehood and pretense.
11:40But, she needed help.
11:44Taylor, you've been summoned.
11:49It's you.
11:51Sorry our conversation in the prison cell was cut short.
11:55So what now?
11:56You tell me that the laws are there for a reason?
11:58No, you're right.
12:00It's unfair.
12:02The color laws are built on control, not tradition.
12:06Then help me end them.
12:11Follow me.
12:14It's made of pure, empathic silk.
12:17I have heard of your work.
12:18It's remarkable.
12:20Are you going to report me?
12:21No, Arryn.
12:23You can trust me.
12:24An alliance was formed.
12:26Psst, Arryn, all of Lower Zephoria is planning a protest during the gala.
12:35What?
12:36For you?
12:37No, Lyra, the guards will massacre them.
12:40We have to stop it.
12:42I have a plan.
12:49The night of the gala, Arryn got the white gown delivered to Princess Lara, Prince Darius's
12:55sister, who was unaware of the gown's true nature.
12:59Your Highness, your gown for the evening has arrived.
13:02It's unlike anything I've ever seen.
13:06The nobles paraded past in stunning gowns Arryn made.
13:13Presenting Her Royal Highness, Princess Lara of Zephoria.
13:25The moment Princess Lara stepped under the chandelier light, her gown was no longer royal white.
13:33It shifted into hues of soft blues and golds, of kindness, then to deeper violets of empathy.
13:42What is that?
13:44All my life I've hidden who I truly am.
13:49I have never truly agreed with the chromatic laws.
13:52Neither has my brother Darius.
13:53Guards, arrest the tailor.
13:57She has bewitched the princess.
13:59This is me.
14:01These are my true colors.
14:04No one touches her.
14:06Darius, stand down.
14:08No.
14:12I'm so fed up of this facade.
14:14Can't you all see how hollow we have become?
14:17This is a trick.
14:21This fabric.
14:22This witchcraft is nothing but dangerous mind control.
14:28Mind control or truth?
14:31You would let a dressmaker unravel centuries of order.
14:35Order or control?
14:37You spend your lives pretending your titles make you more.
14:41But this fabric doesn't change you.
14:46It only reveals who you already are.
14:49If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
14:52Then prove it.
14:53Ridiculous.
14:53The fabric remained gray.
15:03Lifeless.
15:06Why isn't it changing?
15:08It seems your so-called magic is failing, Taylor.
15:13No, it isn't failing.
15:16There's just nothing to show.
15:19Enough of this.
15:21But it was too late.
15:23She was exposed.
15:24Stop.
15:37Zephorians.
15:38For years you were told color belonged to the privileged.
15:42But tonight...
15:43I end the laws.
15:49Color belongs to you, Zephoria.
15:52Zephoria.
15:54Uphold the tradition, princess.
15:59Tradition is not worth upholding if it suffocates those beneath it.
16:05I think we just won.
16:10Purple suits you.
16:13I'm 65 years old.
16:16Never thought I'd live to wear color.
16:19Ready?
16:21Lead the way, professor.
16:24Unreal.
16:25A royal academy where anyone with talent can study.
16:34The woman who showed us our true colors should do the honors.
16:43Color was never around to represent rank, but individual choice.
16:48All of Zephoria stood transformed, not by revolution, but revelation.
16:54And they all lived happily ever after.
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17:04Lord of Zephoria is a girl in this room.
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