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Just me rambling on an idea for a fic I had, feel free to share your thoughts

- so

- basically, you ever wanted to read a fic where sqq just says screw it and leaves the peaks? Yea, we'll get there

- let's run with the idea that we could, maybe, possibly get to a point, after a lot of other points happening, when sqq and lbh could be called perhaps even friends

- don’t be mistaken , there will still be a shit ton of angst

- but we could get a cool, fun dynamic based on some similar trauma, the fucked up societal systems, and slowly healing from individual traumas in a healthier way than destroying everyone around you

- that goes for both, obviously

- things to adress - sqq and yqy past, get them to talk about it instead of just walking around the bush, which is not helping anyone and just adds to the misunderstandings and anger and whatnot

- also, I think that I'll take the angle that sqq didn't really want to be a teacher

- make no mistake, he knows all the things he has learned, he had worked hard to learn them and match the others, even excel, but they don’t really have classes on how to be a teacher, so

- the point being, yes, he knows his stuff, no, he does not know how to teach children, so you could say he just wings it how he thinks is best

- so he is like a fresh college graduate who was put to teach other students immediately

- he has at least three internas crises a week, not that he would ever share that

- are we going for a straight up crack or layered angst? you will never know until the last hypothetical word is written

- sqq is dealing with leading his peak, the other peak lords believing all the rumors and just being not great, and doing his best to ignore his own unresolved issues

- lbg shows up to study

- the tea ordeal goes a little differently

- and the rest of study years as well

- just, less ‘I hate you because I think you got luckier than I did when I was your age’ and more ‘I was not all that lucky and your past is not my fault’ ‘I recognize that, though I’m still bitter, but more at the society that didn’t help us than you personally’

- less comparing and projecting that leads to more hurt, more finding common ground, even if reluctantly

- have sqq be bitter about lbg having a mother and then he hits with ' first of all, I was adopted later in life, second of all, she is dead now thanks to the shitty family she served' 'oh'

- not quite friends, but they are somehow connected/can relate when they look past their masks and they recognise this, so they talk sometimes

- but would they talk completely openly? honey no, not just yet

- they also get a moment when lbg asks about sqq’s opinion on demons

- which is answered by that he doesn’t think that they are much worse that humans

- like, ‘shitzun, do you think all demons are evil?’ ‘read the human history books and compare them to what the demons have done’ ‘there are quie a few similarities’ ‘exactly’ - ‘so, no, not more that humans’

- conference shit happens

- they stand at the edge of the abyss, demon mark is glowing, no immediate danger, monsters around are dead, no one is around for now, but the peak lords are approaching

- sqq notices them

- lbg is focusing on sqq

- they argue for a bit

- sqq holds lbg at the edge by the front of his robe

- ‘’Don’t you dare not survive!” or something along the lines, still not exactly nice, but clear enough that he doesn't want him dead

- we first see this from the outside perspective, i.e. what the peak lords saw

- we learn the truth gradually as time passes and both lbg and sqq reflect on what happened that day as they move forward on their own

- I think the whole thing with sewer demons getting blamed on sqq as well as qhaitang appearing and the whole thing turning into a sort of a trial is gonna happen

- to the surprise of everyone, lbg kind of… defends? sqq? like what is happening? and it also kind of works? because, again, surprisingly it seems to be the only constructive/least subjectively villainizing speech

- because he had snuck in to the prison where they held sqq prior the trial and their conversation left him with questions

- so he had run a little personal investigation on his own to answer some of them

- lbg then leaves to tend to his kingdom then

- where instead of a harem he is establishing more of a safe haven for those unwelcome elsewhere, and just trying to somehow make the thing work, like economically, and with some laws and shit

- obviously has help,we get shenanigans with mbj, sqh, sha hualing etc.

- meanwhile, sqq goes back to his peak

- while some (def more that in original, but maybe not as sy) students (mainly nyy) are happy he is back, and peak lords seem somewhat apologetic, it is still not… great

- as in, we kinda got one thing resolved, but in general, societal problems remain

- we also get an honest conversation with sqq and yqy when sqq snaps after one more ‘sorry’, which at least cleans the air somehow, but does not repair the relationship

- after that, sqq is just… fed up with it all

- and so one day not long after that conversation, he just leaves, to nowhere in particular

- running into lbg after a while

- they go to visit his kingdom, cause why not?

- we will figure out what happens after this point later

- maybe shenanigans, the peaks actually asking sqq for help, the doctor who audio ‘do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?’ between sqq and yqy, referencing their past and their last conversation

anyway, this barely coherent string of thoughts is made just for fun, and it is very late where I am

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