Cosmic horror Hualian AU in which Hua Cheng is an eldritch god and Xie Lian is a human (but not for long). 16k words in total.
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[ rated E • monsterfucking ]
Stuck on a planet he'd rather never have seen, Xie Lian dreams. Faced with a tsunami of cosmic proportions that will destroy everything he's built, Jun Wu makes a decision. Given an opening, Hua Cheng uses it and takes everything.
Or: the story in which the most terrifying being in all of creation loves a mortal man.
“San Lang, you…” Xie Lian’s head starts spinning. Is it because of Hua Cheng’s proximity, or from elation at the prospect of leaving this backwater planet for worlds he can’t even imagine? He seizes that feeling and basks in it. “Who are you?” Hua Cheng inhales, then grazes Xie Lian’s jaw with his teeth. “Yours.” Hua Cheng’s kiss tastes like lightning. His touch sets Xie Lian’s skin on fire and reaches his bones to take root there, spreading flame through his veins until he’s full of it to bursting. At some point, he grabs fistfuls of Hua Cheng’s clothes and clutches them like they’re his only tether to the world. There’s a lightness growing in him, a feeling foreign and terrifying in its enormity.
@auchrauch drew this gorgeous painting for this part <3
*****
[ rated M • POV outsider ]
This is how Feng Xin's world ends: in the rain of fire and death, as the universe comes knocking on his village's doorstep and brings with it flames of war. It brings a priest, too, one who calls to his god on the notes of his blood. And unlike the god of Feng Xin's home, this one actually heeds the call.
Or: the story of the end of the world. And the beginning of a new one.
Warships arrive at dusk. Clouded in interstellar dust, they appear on the sky and immediately start raining fire. Forests burn, houses lie in ruin, the world itself groans and cowers under the onslaught a fortress couldn’t have withstood, let alone a settlement without defences. There are no evacuation ships. Not that it would change anything if there were—the army blankets the sky so densely not even a sliver of starlight makes it through. Feng Xin looks up and, without a shred of doubt, knows this is how they all die. “This is insane!” Mu Qing screams as they run between burning houses and craters some of the buildings have already turned into, and try to herd the survivors away from the bombardment. “What do they even want?!”
*****
[ rated E • body horror • transformation ]
Nightmares are a persistent thing. Xie Lian's greatest one raises its head from the dead in the least expected moment.
Xie Lian aches. Down to the marrow of his long-dissolved bones; to the deepest forces linking particles of what makes him himself; to the darkest, faintest thoughts that have ever run through his mind—he aches. He aches when he moves, aches when he lies still, aches when he lets Hua Cheng pour power into him until he’s full to bursting, aches until it settles and then after it’s long gone; he aches, aches, aches. Pain courses through him, sets what may yet remain of his nerves on fire and unleashes thousands of unseen worms crawling under his skin. They aren’t there. Never. They don’t exist, and the crawling is merely sensations firing up in echoes of his nerve endings and synapses in the memory of his brain that fails to process so many impulses all at once—fails to have realised it’s all but gone. He runs a fingernail down his chest. The skin splits easily in a clean, smooth, deep cut. There’s no blood. No fat, no viscera, no bone peeks out from layers of tissue. There is no tissue. There’s only light: blinding, potent, pulsating golden light.
While people are crying, screaming, trying to kill jayce and etc...
Let me give an AU idea(prob cause im bored and idk if someone ever thought about it too so..)
Vi as a half-wolfbeast...imagine!
Cait be like: Oh shit, my (ex)girl is a furry girl now...wanna f%^& her so bad wtf...
Trying to make relationship charts for the peak lords + Airplane,,, here's the Shens
Adora:HM? You left?..... Why?
adora wants her lap cat back
POV: You decided to take Shen Yuan out to see some monsters, and his Gege found out
JiuYuan plot bunny
Shen Yuan transmigrates/reincarnates waay before the plot even begins, as a somewhat rich second or third son of a merchant family (cliché or clasic background? You decide) not specially sick nor a priority for his family as he's not likely to inherit almost anything he is send to cultivate to a small sect. Because who else will want their unremarkable son?
Turns out ranting about poetry in the street with a vendor is a sure way to make someone important want their unremarkable son.
Enter the current Lord of Qing Jing who saw a gremlin with taste and opinions and immediately wanted him. Also the immediate moment when Shen Yuan finds out where exactly he was reborn in (pray for him). So Shen Yuan gets to join directly into QJP if he passes the other test and well, the story wont go on if he doesn't so let's say he does.
His dumbass tries to make everyone believe he's lazy to avoid work like he did back home but Aha! Shizun is on his bs so in no time he's made head disciple. Natural teacher, excellent memory and talented swordsman (This nerd got too excited by swords and practiced so much he now is the best of his generation and he desperately wants you to know he didn't want for this to happen) it's like he was made to lead QJP!
Side note: LQG will be made head disciple of BZP in a year or so, that's why SY is the generation's best, currently.
Here comes the boy! Absolutely traumatized feral kitten Shen Jiu gets into CQM and QJP out of season and with his general attitude immediately gets enemies everywhere. Not problem! Da-Shixiong will show you around and- Oh? You don't want Da-Shixiong to speak with you? Alright. Just remember to get to dinner and sleep well, goodnight!
And just like that you get an oblivious Shen Yuan respecting a hesitantly curious Shen Jiu who, in turn, decides that the best thing to do with this interest is to find blackmail on SY and take his place as head disciple.
Cue shenanigans and hijinks with stalker SJ and unsuspecting SY. And them getting closer by basically respecting SJ's space and time and being a decent human?! What?!
So like bonding with a cat. Slow, respectfully and with lots and lots of treats. Once Shen Yuan figured out Shen Jiu's weakness is just sweets it's all over. Now hes SJ's shixiong and no one else's. No, shut up A-Yuan, they are not worth our time.
Does he trust SY unconditionally? He's getting there. Nighthunts and being saved like a damsel in distress once in a while helps, even if he gets hissy and pretends to not like it. More so when SY immediately turns to him for both counsel on investigations and to make sure he's safe while in the hunts. Also Shixiong spends almost all his time helping him in fixing his cultivation and teaching him the arts, even when no one else would give a shit, so he gets extra points by being a good boy to his A-Jiu.
Shen Yuan? He thinks he's being a good bro and helping SJ fix whatever made him such an ass in PIDW. He doesn't know what happened before SJ went to CQM nor his past as a slave, only thought he looked like a feral cat and acted accordingly. And yes, calling him A-Jiu is absolutely necessary to that recovery.
In the middle of this SY tries to make contact with TLJ to help him either run away with SXY or take out the OPM so the tragedy doesn't happend. But shit hits the fan and SY gets outed as a demon sympathizer when the sealing under a mountain still happens but he tries to reason with the CQM's sect leader that the demon was innocent.
No one can prove that he was a traitor but under the added presure of public sentiment he's punished severely. Sect leader gives him two choices; He either leaves and retrieves a mega ultra rare mcguffin that'll take him 20 years to get or gets banished immediately and losses any standing he has with the sect.
In simple terms: Prove your loyalty with this very difficult quest or leave.
As a pseudo-compromise sect leader promised no one will take his place if he leaves for the quest nor will they banish SJ for being so close to a posible traitor. SY, naturally, accepts the quest with all the spite and grief of someone who failed his true quest of saving his best friend and the world too he supposes.
But QJP cannot be without a Head disciple nor a Peak Lord! Because plot twist, the lords are preparing to ascend in the next like 5 years. Sect leader knew this, and this is his way to force QJ's peak lord to appoint a different head disciple when SY is away anyways. If that happens SY will lose everything anyways, even if he comes back.
So the strategists get together and make a plan.
Shen Yuan will leave in his quest but before that he'll marry someone trusted that can be acting peak lord in his absence but will not usurp his place. Doble plot twist! That person is Shen Jiu because just as SJ got mellower with SY's influence so did SY get more paranoid. He only trust his dear shidi and no one else but oh how could he force his shidi into- Oh? You'll do it? Why do i have to be the wif-
And they marry in semi secret, taking a small moment for SJ to make him doble promise to come back for him and to give his own doble promise to wait for his return. SJ doesn't like this, not one bit. But this time he's safe, in a position of power and tentatively ready to trust again. He'd rather have his husband with him at least for their wedding night but oh well, they don't get that. They make arrangements for SY to send letters to the WRP so SJ can know how he's doing even if he can't receive any in exchange. It'll be a lonely 20 years.
Shen Yuan leaves and Shen Jiu gets appointed acting head disciple and then acting peak lord. With his silks and his husband's name as a shield (Qingqiu is SY's, but he can use it because they married) he rules QJP much more detached than in PIDW, almost completely ignoring the disciples. This is his A-Yuan's work after all and if he wants it done he better hurry and come do it himself. They've always joked that SY would teach while SJ would govern the peak, even before ever discussing marriage (It didn't matter that A-Yuan didn't know they would eventually get married. They would have regardless)
And Yue Qingyuan you didn't ask? He's in the background wanting to talk to Xiao-Jiu constantly but SJ doesn't need him nor want him. SY's therapy helped him let go if not forgive YQY, he's at the point where he can just ignore him. YQY on the other hand is guiltily ecstatic SY is out of the picture and Xiao-Jiu can be peak lord and rule at his side. Just like he wanted!
Like that 15 years pass. SJ still gets a reputation of going to brothels even if its to read his hubby's letters and sleep. And at this point all other peak lords either forgot he's technically just acting peak lord or never knew there was another Shen-Shixiong who should be peak lord instead.
At this point I'm not sure how to proceed. It'll have to be either:
a) Shen Yuan comes back during the demon invasion or
b) He comes when they are having a peak lord meeting for conveniences sake
Let's do invasion for dramatic purposes.
So you have a supremely pissed off SJ dealing with the demons and watching as the runt of his peak desperately tries to beat his opponent while making a mockery out of their QJP fighting style (LBH is actually doing pretty good, SJ is just Like That™) when suddenly a sword only he recognizes flies faster than a bullet to stop the defeated demon from attacking the little beast and the whole place falls into silence. SJ can hear his pulse in his ears, he almost can't breathe.
The disciples are looking at him for instructions but he can't think of anything as the most beautiful face he has ever seen slowly walks out of the trees into the improvised arena. His hair is finally long now, but not even close to well cared for. His clothes dusty and well worn but not threadbare nor stained with ink like it usually was in their disciple days. His A-Yuan is glorious as he makes the demons run like the pathetic bugs they are.
LQG has come too but there's not more fighting to be had, only a couple reunited at last. SJ sends decorum through the window and yanks his A-Yuan into a long awaited kiss in front of basically every disciple and an enraged and flustered LQG (Man is having the weirdest awakening)
SY is surprised at first but quickly reciprocates, finally at peace with his feelings. Because guess what, 15 years of pinning + letters that slowly become romantic without the fear of retribution will do just fine for him to admit he fell in love with his husband at some point. He was scared shitless of SJ reaction to him coming back and it was only that promise what made him go home regardless. A-Jiu can hate him, but he is NOT breaking that promise. He even made it 5 years earlier, isn't he such a good husband?
Later in the emergency meating LQG is still screaming at them for shameless and inmoral and how could this be the first thing Shen Yuan does when he comes back when they could've just spared
And everyone else (minus YQY, SQH and the beast peak lord) are just like What? Who's this? And SY looks at YQY disapprovingly (He knows YQY covets his wife and purposely didn't tell them) and explains he's the QJ peak lord and SJ as his husband has been ruling QJ in his stead for the past 15 years. And yes, that's why SJ is sitting in his lap.
When the whole story comes out everyone is more surprised to know they are married than the fact SY made the last sect leader so angry he was basically given a suicide mission (Not even YQY knew that) but don't worry! He has absolutely no inclination of taking his A-Jiu's position away. He'd rather teach his little disciples and let his wife to berate their martial siblings as is his right (Someone said they'll be happy having SY instead of SJ in meetings from now on and He Did Not Like That) So they'll share the name Qingqiu as QJ has two peak lords from now on.
Now if they'll excuse them they have a wedding night to finally enjoy.
Luo Binghe vs [ERROR UNKNOWN ENEMY]
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Hey so…. This is Tea cup the dragon.
Stay tuned for lore!
THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN
Deku squad!!
She's petty but she may have a point, Adrien.
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Goodbye i’m thinking about how different transmigrated binghe bingyuan and binggeyuan roommate au’s are
It’s hilarious because bingmei and bingge are the same person but on completely different ends of the binghe spectrum
bingmei->shen yuan: 🥰😍❤️🫂🌹😭😭 (in mind: 🔞🔞🔞🔞🔞)
bingge->shen yuan: 😠😡🔞🔪🧍♀️🧍♀️🧍♀️(in mind: 🥰😍❤️🫂🌹🔞🔞)
You may have noticed the vast difference of 🔞 between bingmei and bingge and is like to explain this with a “it’s bingmei.”
You, dear svsss enjoyer, should know why there’s not much i can say. little freak. (jk sorry bingmei we love you stay freaky)
You could argue that bingge would have a lot more 🔞 Yeah sure, but i think not as much as bingmei because even though bingge was the local harem collector in another universe, he genuinely hates SY so much that if he could, he would beat the shit out of him and leave his guts on the wall so his sister would find them (yk classic bingge behavior), but can’t because he’s admitted to himself that without SY’s care he’s useless
Bingge would hate SY so much because SY treat him like a baby. A stupid, little baby who doesn’t know how to operate the damn washing mashing. Bingmei would stand in front of the washing machine and patiently wait for SY to catch him loitering about like an NPC just so he gets the thrill of being noticed by his yuan-gege. Meanwhile, bingge would shove his not-safe washing machine clothes that SY bought for him online with clothes that can stain the entire clothes bunch into the machine and press a bunch of buttons not fully understanding what everything says because it’s in traditional chinese, and watch hours later as SY picks through the waching machine, face distraught as he folds every piece of clothing that’s now stained with pink (bingge accidentally added one of shen-mei’s shirts into the pile without noticing)
he would sit crisscrossed on the floor, seething in raw hate as SY towers over him in his skinny, short glory, pulling on bingge’s ear as he crashes out about hundreds of clothing pieces being ruined. It’s not even his clothes. It’s bingge’s. Which is why he’s even madder, because… gee, SY doesn’t know why, but this seems like a reasonable crashout reason and he’s been needing a reason to go apeshit, so yeah
Bingge’s hate would turn to despite because SY would force him to wear said pink clothes for a whole month. Everywhere.
LBG: Shen Yuan if I have to wear pink One More Time to the grocery market, I Will Slam Your Body On The Wall Headfirst
SY: try it. i have a google doc of how you look like and other information about you ready to be given to the police in case of my sudden death
LBG: no one would even know. No one would come looking for You
SY: your harem betrayed you.
LBG: Damn.
SY was half lying about said bingge information log. It’s not on a google doc, It’s on a word document. In a hard drive duck taped to his inner thigh. Why on his inner thigh? idk, SY isn’t that smart sometimes. He supposes that when he’s stripped for an autopsy they’ll just find this hard drive taped on him and mark LBG as a main suspect because SY’s word doc said so
Later on in their roommate-ship, binggeyuan goes from being liujiu toxicity levels to romantic, and when bingge is stripping SY for papapa SY completely forgets about the hard drive taped on him, so when bingge removes his lower clothes and spreads SY’s legs he just blue screens
LBG: yuan
SY: extremely horny, almost whining ?????
LBG: you weren’t lying about the “google doc”, weren’t you
SY: what.
So now the papapa is paused because SY now has to plug in the drive into his computer and show bingge what’s on it and bingge’s like “damn. he’s an even bigger obsessor than i am.” And bingge just get more horny from that. Binggeyuan bed shenanigans ensue
meanwhile while all of this is happening bingmei is desperately trying and embarrassingly failing to make SY understand that He!! Has!! A!! Crush!! On!! Him!!!!! SY, please!!!!!!!!