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? What's this?
00:58Please! It's for my daughter's doll!
01:00Color 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 at their disposal.
01:36I can finally test my theory.
01:45Erin! 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.
02:25The 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, but 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?
03:16It's like a conduit between the fabric and whoever wears it.
03:22What do you feel?
03:24It's warm, like when 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, trust me.
03:41I call it empathic silk.
03:43I can feel it.
03:47What's it like?
03:49Like, it 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 it amplifies emotions.
04:02For the first time in my life, I feel seen.
04:05And if what someone truly feels is arrogance or hatred...
04:09Then we have to be very careful who wears it.
04:12We need to show others.
04:14A 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.
04:39The colors were subtle, just enough to give them hope.
04:42To give them hope.
04:45You don't understand what it's doing.
04:48One 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.
04:55People linger like butterflies, attracted to the scent of flowers at my stall.
05:01People are wanting to know where these things came from.
05:05Not 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.
05:29Again.
05:31Another 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.
05:49For what? To punish people for feelings now?
05:54Your Highness.
05:56If the Lower City gained access to the fabric, it 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?
06:14They accept what they must.
06:17As do we all.
06:23Perhaps it's time to see these emotional fabrics for myself.
06:26Zephoria thrives on order.
06:36Order thrives on tradition.
06:38And as your Royal Fashion Minister, I'm here to announce the Spring Gala event.
06:42A moment of pure, silent, electrifying rebellion.
06:48Then, beer gripped at Zephoria.
06:52As I was saying earlier, Zephoria.
06:58Order must be maintained.
07:01Find them.
07:02Find them.
07:16Lady Isolde's crackdown began.
07:21Where did you get this?
07:22No, please!
07:23It wasn't me!
07:25We have a name minister. A tailor.
07:27Erin.
07:28Excellent. Bring her here.
07:30When she holds our baby, her scarf shows the most beautiful shade of purple.
07:36And how long does she hold her baby?
07:37And how long before the Upper Shitty notices? Before they take even this small joy from us?
07:54We have to stop. It's not just fabric anymore. It's war.
07:57They raided the Tanner's district. I saw it. Just when it seemed like the rebellion had outgrown her.
08:15She's done nothing wrong.
08:20Nothing wrong, you say?
08:22No.
08:27Watch where you're...
08:35You saw nothing.
08:52That fabric...
08:54Wait, how did you make that?
08:58There she is. The color trader.
09:09What do we have here?
09:12A sympathizer?
09:14Get off me!
09:16Oh, Lady Isolde will want to see this.
09:22Didn't expect a tailor as my cellmate.
09:24Didn't expect a criminal prince.
09:27What makes you think I'm a prince?
09:29That little pause before you denied it. Aristocrats are terrible liars.
09:34So what's your crime? Improper hemlines?
09:37Yours? Crimes of fashion?
09:40Why risk everything for something as simple as color?
09:45Why sneak into Lower Zephoria just to see it?
09:46It's not just fabric, it's choice. They make us dress like ghosts so we'll forget we're alive.
10:00What if you could change that? Truly?
10:03I expected some filthy Zephorian street rat. Instead I find... an artist. I will make this super simple for you, girl.
10:25Create for us. The nobility. For the upcoming Spring Gala. Use your gift to elevate our status. Or watch your designs burn. Your friends get hurt. And you rot in prison while Zephoria forgets you ever existed.
10:43I accept the tribute. Please don't hurt them.
10:52Your talent deserves to be here. So long as it serves the right hands. You'll have access to the finest materials in Zephoria.
11:01Erin, you should feel honored. The entire court will be watching. I expect perfection. I understand the importance, milady.
11:11Whenever she saw all the colors she was never allowed to touch, wear or weave, her silent rage would fuel her rebellion.
11:26At night, Erin wore a gown. Entirely made of empathetic silk. Her secret plan was to expose the nobility, who thrived on falsehood and pretense. But she needed help.
11:42Taylor, you've been summoned.
11:49It's you.
11:51Sorry our conversation in the prison cell was cut short.
11:55So what now? You tell me that the laws are there for a reason?
11:59No. You're right. It's unfair.
12:02The color laws are built on control, not tradition.
12:07Then help me end them.
12:08Follow me.
12:12It's made of pure, empathic silk.
12:16I have heard of your work. It's remarkable.
12:20Are you going to report me?
12:22No, Erin. You can trust me. An alliance was formed.
12:30Psst. Erin! All of Lower Zephoria is planning a protest during the gala.
12:35What? For you?
12:36No, Lyra. The guards will massacre them.
12:38We have to stop it. I have a plan.
12:40The night of the gala, Erin got the white gown delivered to Princess Lara, Prince Darius's sister, who was unaware of the gown's true nature.
12:58Your Highness, your gown for the evening has arrived.
13:02It's unlike anything I've ever seen.
13:06The nobles paraded past.
13:09In stunning gowns, Erin made.
13:13Presenting Her Royal Highness, Princess Lara of Zephoria.
13:19The moment Princess Lara stepped under the chandelier light. Her gown was no longer royal white. It shifted into hues of soft blues and golds, of kindness. Then, to deeper violets of empathy.
13:42What is that?
13:45All my life, I've hidden who I truly am. I have never truly agreed with the chromatic laws. Neither has my brother, Darius.
13:55Guards, arrest the tailor. She has bewitched the princess.
14:00This is me. These are my true colors.
14:03No one touches her.
14:06Darius, stand down.
14:08No.
14:12I'm so fed up of this facade. Can't you all see how hollow we have become?
14:20This is a trick. This fabric. This witchcraft is nothing but dangerous mind control.
14:29Mind control? Or truth?
14:31You would let a dressmaker unravel centuries of order.
14:35Order or control?
14:38You spend your lives pretending your titles make you more.
14:42But this fabric doesn't change you. It only reveals who you already are.
14:49If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Then prove it. Ridiculous.
14:53Ridiculous.
14:57Fine.
15:00The fabric remained gray. Lifeless.
15:06Why isn't it changing?
15:09It seems your so-called magic is failing, Taylor.
15:14No, it isn't failing.
15:16There's just... nothing to show.
15:20Enough of this.
15:22But it was too late. She was exposed.
15:24Stop.
15:36Zephorians. For years you were told color belonged to the privileged.
15:42But tonight...
15:43I end the laws.
15:44Color belongs to you, Zephoria.
15:56Uphold the tradition, princess.
15:59Tradition is not worth upholding if it suffocates those beneath it.
16:03I think we just won.
16:11Purple suits you.
16:13I'm 65 years old. Never thought I'd live to wear color.
16:20Ready?
16:22Lead the way, professor.
16:26Unreal. A royal academy where anyone with talent can study.
16:29The woman who showed us our true colors should do the honors.
16:42Color was never around to represent rank, but individual choice.
16:48All of Zephoria stood transformed, not by revolution, but revelation.
16:53But revelation. And they all lived happily ever after.
