#OH I FORGOT TO DESCRIBE HER PERSONALITY IM SO DUMB OOPS

[tiny-stack-of-knights]

Morpho Knight is finally here! Wahoo!!! Now I can ramble about her and finish up the general notes I have for the Galactic Crisis AU….

sorry this took me almost a year to finally get done……

If you want more context, refer to Galacta and Kirby’s old refs! I’m gonna briefly summarise the setting here in case you don’t feel like reading all that because boy howdy is it a lot…and thats the super condensed version. Anyway!

To recap.

-The AU takes place during the time of the Ancients. There are two factions of ancients who used to be one group, but split into two factions: the Halcandrans and Jambandrans.

-More specifically, this AU takes place during a sort of cold war between the two factions. The Halcandrans are building new technologies to possibly use in war such as Novas, while the Jambandrans are creating magical items like the Master Crown to possibly use in this hypothetical war.

-One of the main reasons for this arms race is because of a series of mysterious disasters that each side blames the other for.

I think that’s the main gist of the setting….so let me go onto Morpho’s story…this should hopefully explain a lot more of what was happening in Galacta and Kirby’s references.

-So here’s the big reveal that’ll add a lot of context to the story….Morpho’s a reaper!

Why exactly? Well

-Before her death, Morpho was an insanely powerful knight. She was ferocious and feared by her enemies and revered by her followers. She was a force of massive destruction and she loved it.

-She lived a life of glory before her untimely demise…since she was so powerful, she was immediately enlisted in the army of Reapers.

-For some context (I’m still working out how they work so this may be a little vague) the Reapers in this AU are a collection of souls who were powerful warriors in life. They work to maintain balance in between the living and the dead, and to harvest souls who will then be appropriately placed. The Reapers themselves are like the army of the dead.

-Well, the Reapers existed pretty normally for a bit, just harvesting who they had to and not interfering with the living. That was, however, until fears of a massive galactic war started when the Ancients divided into two factions.

-Cue the start of the mysterious disasters. These disasters were actually the work of the Reapers, who were harvesting more souls than were being given to them by the living in preparation for this massive war, in which they would need more workers to help sort the massive amount of souls that could be lost in this war.

-This is, quite obviously, insanely hypocritical. But the organization behind the Reapers is….well…we may come back to this later while I develop them more but just know that this organization is pretty damn corrupt.

-Back to Morpho specifically. Since she had a reputation for being so brutal and ruthless in her living days, the powers behind the Reapers thought she would be perfect for their new job of harvesting souls before they were supposed to be sent into the afterlife.

-And so, that’s what she did. However, instead of living a life of glory like before, Morpho was horrified by what she saw, and what she was forced to do. When she was alive, she fought great battle that always had a purpose. But this, she understood as mindless slaughter. And then that made her seriously reflect on her previous life….cue an existential crisis.

-Her first mission was to a small village on Halcandra….and if you’ve kept up with the lore, you may very well know what happens from here….

-This was Galacta Knight’s village….he returns from his knighting ceremony just in time to see Morpho shocked and horrified at what she had just done.

-This is where the two start to bond…Morpho feels immensely guilty after Galacta breaks down in front of her, and she comforts him.

-I just. Want to point out how similar their situations were….both of them were recently appointed to a new position, and soon after experienced a major crisis of faith. They’re able to seriously connect and bond through this, which is why they both latch onto each other so quickly.

-Morpho explains that she’s a Reaper and had to take the souls of the people here after a “natural disaster” wiped out the village. Before she’s whisked away back into the underworld, she tells Galacta Knight where her next assignment is supposed to be, and to meet her there.

-If you remember from Galacta’s old ref sheet, this is why the two are forced to meet at the sites of tragedies. Morpho intentionally asks to reap Jambandran souls so that Galacta won’t be so upset.

-After seeing this rising star in the Halcandran army at the sites of the mysterious disasters, the Jambandrans begin to suspect that Galacta is some sort of super weapon, and is the cause of disasters.

-Oh, I should mention here that Reapers ARE NOT SUPPOSED to interact with the living! Morpho can disguise herself as butterflies to avoid detection. Also she can summon her butterfly swords from the underworld and they appear through a flock of glowing butterflies….which is also how she manifests and disappears….I just thought that would be fun to mention….

-Anyway! This fear of Galacta Knight leads to a retaliation from the Jambandrans in the form of the Jamba Heart. Halcandran intelligence learns of this Jambandran super weapon, and, unaware of their perception of Galacta (who, at this point has risen the ranks to Halcandra’s most respected knight), send him and a crew of knights to seal the Jamba Heart. Things do not go well.

-Galacta’s entire squad is wiped out, which summons Morpho (she always keeps an eye on Galacta from the underworld….). She holds off the Jambandran troops defending the heart while Galacta is thrust right into it…

-After making contact with the Jambe Heart and manifesting Kirby (see Kirby’s ref for more elaboration on this), the heart is sealed, Morpho is called back to the underworld, and Galacta inadvertently starts a war.

Here’s where things get nuts.

-Halcandra sending Galacta Knight, the supposed super weapon against Jambandra, to take down the Jamba Heart, was seen as a declaration of war. The Halcandrans blame Galacta Knight for the start of the war, and send troops to find him. Morpho is able to warn him of this before she is suddenly called back to the underworld.

-Morpho’s interference with the living world is suddenly uncovered, as she was not assigned to reap the souls of those who died in the Jamba Heart incident.

-Before she can be placed in like. Hell jail. She flees from the underworld to be with Galacta Knight.

-So. Now the two of them and their strange….child…. are on the run from Halcandra, Jambandra, and the forces of the Underworld.

-Somehow, they manage to escape detection for about 2 years.

-During these 2 years, Galacta’s possession from the Jamba Heart worsens despite Kirby’s influence.

-A brief note about Galacta’s possession, since its still based on his wish for a peaceful universe and for a family, it twists this into an obsession with protecting them, which sometimes manifests in the slaughtering of those after the trio.

-Morpho and Galacta know that something is happening to him (I mean…his eyes literally change color of course something is wrong with him), so they sneak around Jambandran ruins to try and glean any information about the Jamba Heart.

-Eventually, Galacta’s rampages get too much for Morpho and she has to take a break for a bit. It’s really hard for her to see her husband going down an even worst path than the one she had in her life, and the one she immensely regrets.

-Unfortunately. Now that she’s away from Galacta and Kirby, Morpho is ambushed by Reapers and dragged back into the underworld. Her contact with the living world is severely cut off.

-Morpho’s smart, so from the beginning she thought of a backup plan in case this happened. Remember the side note about how she can turn into butterflies? As well as how she keeps an eye on Galacta? She does this through butterflies…so she can still kind of keep an eye on him through her butterflies.

-Anyway. Galacta is too far gone to be able to even think of this, and assumes Morpho completely abandoned him. This is what causes him to finally break.

-Galacta starts a rampage, sometimes even forgetting about Kirby because he’s so desperate to somehow get Morpho back. In his mind, he thinks he can ’summon’ Morpho back if he kills enough people.

-This, however, never works, as Morpho is in hell prison.

-Anyway. Now that Galacta starts leaving Kirby to go on his crusades, his possession only grows stronger. He doesn’t care about staying hidden anymore, so, obviously, both sides of the still raging war are desperate to take him prisoner.

-They’re no match for Galacta, so instead, they go for Kirby.

-Well, once Galacta notices that his child his missing, he goes absolutely ballistic. He knows they took him back to Halcandra, because he knows they’re setting up a trap for him.

-Enter the Galactic Crisis. Galacta destroys Halcandra in a fit of rage and retrieving Kirby again.

-Once back in Kirby’s presence, Galacta has a brief moment of lucidity and realizes what he’s done, and allows himself to be imprisoned by the remaining Ancients.

-I’d like to point out that Galacta destroying an entire planet had MASSIVE repercussions for both sides of the war. At this point, the war had been raging on for 2 years and was nearing a close, as Jambandra had invaded Halcandra. So when galacta wiped out the planet, he wiped out most of the Ancients.

-This sent the underworld into complete chaos, and in this chaos Morpho managed to escape.

-After this crisis event, the Reapers were disbanded, and the underworld was sent into a shambling mess. Because of this, Morpho lost some of her powers, and still had to restrict her presence in the living world to butterflies.

-Anyway. Since she was still keeping tabs on Galacta, she saw what he did and was absolutely destroyed. From this point on, she vowed to find a way to get her husband back from whatever was possessing him, and to give their child a better life than either of them had.

-Galacta was sealed and removed from time by the remaining Ancients, who eventually died out/integrated into other societies, as they were left a broken, scattered mess.

-Back to Kirby and how he gets to the future…well, the Ancients didn’t just seal Galacta knight….they sealed Kirby away too.

-From here on out, Morpho rummages through the ruins of civilization to find a way to unseal her child, and cure Galacta.

-It takes. A long ass time. For her to unseal Kirby.

-I don’t have too many specifics on how she manages to do this, however I imagine she found a way to repair and use a broken Nova from the war.

-I would also like to reiterate that Morpho can rarely exist as her humanoid form, she has to be butterflies most of the time since now that the underworld is also a broken mess, it’s hard to get back into the world of the living.

-When Morpho retrieves Kirby, she takes him to a safe place and watches over him as the signature red butterflies.

-Since it took Morpho so long to get Kirby back, the world has changed drastically. Now, Galacta Knight is only a legend, a cautionary tale told to aspiring warriors. And sometimes, she’s even brought up in those legends, which gives her more of a reason to refrain from using her humanoid form so as not to be recognised.

-Furhtermore, any races that were a part of the Ancients are few and far between. Which, as I’m sure you can guess from Galacta Knight, means that the legion of puff knights in the ancient armies were largely wiped out in the Galactic Crisis. What I’m trying to say here is that puffballs and wizards like Hyness are really rare now. And really, evidence and knowledge of the Ancients is very rare as well.

-Well…this leads us to a certain bat winged knight who I will discuss later….since I’m redoing is reference too! So stay tuned (:

I hope this massive lore dump was worth the wait….if you actually read all of this thank you for helping me indulge in my AU! I have way too much lore for this…like. Believe it or not this is me trying to condense things.

Anyway…thank you all for your continued support and interest in this AU! I’ve got a few things planned that I hope you all will enjoy (:

[knoxhq]

► ( rudy pankow & cis male ) according to the school’s records, knox drury is a 22-YEAR-OLD senior studying political science, and he lives over in moriarty. he is a gemini, so that must be why others describe him as dignified, humorous, cowardly and naive. when i see him, i’m reminded of walking into class an hour late with sunglasses on, the feeling of anticipation as you wait for a firework to fully blossom, the sound of party music leaking through the walls of a bathroom. ( gibby, 20, they/them, est. ) ◄

hello everyone !! so i won’t even lie to u guys, i am NERVOUS and it’s literally only bc this is the first group i’ve joined in so long like dfdhkjsfjad the last group i was in was almost a year ago but i ended up having to leave due to personal reasons and didn’t get to write so like !!! idk i’m excited !! anyways w that in mind, pls bARE with me bc i have like one (1) braincell and i forgot how to write intros. anyways enough of me rambling, lemme give you knox !!

also this is a bad intro pls dont judge me im trying 2 like. rewrite what i had b4 the storm took it out n like, i lost the braincell

basics. 

full name: knox hale drury.

nicknames: drury.

age: twenty two.

gender and pronouns: cis male and he/him

sexual & romantic orientations: bisexual, biromantic, femme leaning.

major: political science.

housing: moriarty.

backstory.

triggers: implied bullying, police and incarceration ( dw i didn’t make him jj 2.0 ).

nobody gets to pick their beginnings. it’s something that people tell knox all the time, hell, it’s plastered in every stupid coming of age movie, book, film, everything he’s ever seen. you don’t pick who your born into, you don’t pick who you get to be. and to an extent, he does think that this is true but he can’t help but wonder if maybe, if people could pick, if they’d pick differently. because he knows he certainly would pick differently.

it’s not that he even came from a bad home - hell no, he had the most loving family ever. his mother was a saint, a warm sensation bubbling up in his chest when he thinks about her warm cookies or the way she tried to still tuck him in even as a teenager. his father had his flaws, we all do, but he was a good and honest man. hardworking, he showed knox what that stupid american dream is that everyone likes to preach about. 

no, it had nothing to do with them but rather the overall opinion on him and his family. see, the drury’s weren’t well liked - they were seen as lowlives and as shady, the kind of people who you’d only go to if you wanted to get stabbed in the back. generations of drury’s fit this narrative but no, his father was determined to change that. and so was he, even if nobody around him seemed to want to give him a chance. 

knox would go throughout school with this name attached to him like a dagger to his throat - whisperings in the hallway of, “oh, my mom said the drury boy might be steal things if you let him over,” and other random, rude remarks. of course, the people that get close to him know better - they see him for who he really is.

that person is knox. he’s a golden light, often more selfless than the rich pricks who run that small town. he’d give his jacket or umbrella to people even if they didn’t ask if it just so happened to be raining outside, and despite the fact that his family didn’t have a lot, he’d still go out of his way to try to give when he could. 

he eventually graduated high school - one of the top people in his class due to his father’s encouragement, and after a lot of debate, settled on attending haddon university - miles away from that sweet, small little hometown he knew, but a fresh start where he didn’t have to work for anything. he could just go in being him, with nobody attaching a new narrative to him. it was what he wanted, what he dreamed of.

and he loved it. his first semester there was memorable as he found himself surrounded by new friends and people he even considered family. back home, however, things were slipping.

the drury family was never rich, ever by any means, but business was low. nobody wanted to go there, fearing that his father was just as shady as his grandfather. as things got worse, his father had to resort to other needs - stealing, lying about taxes, and doing everything he could to try to make it by. 

it finally caught up to him when knox came home for spring break - red and blue lights flashing outside as loud noises went on throughout the house, until finally someone swung knox’s door open and briefly blinded him with a flashlight, demanding to know where his father was. by the time knox got a grasp on the situation, his father was being rushed off in the back of a cop car. 

he plead guilty almost immediately and for the next few months, knox did school from home to stay with his mother. it was then that he switched his major from what had initially been just a vague, business degree to political science in hopes of going into law after getting that degree - a way of changing things, of helping people so they never got to that point. 

for now though, he’s gone back to haddon’s campus where he study’s away and occasionally finds himself slipping and partying, glasses always covering his eyes as he slinks back class, getting almost nO sleep every night.

study.

so i need u to know right now... knox is baby, FDSHJDFSHAJK

like he’s not by any means like he’s kinda a gross dude like, absolutely randomly burps n is like lol oops n shit, very little manners, will grab clothes off of the floor to put them on kind of man BUT LIKE as a whole ?? he means very well FDSJFAHJ he’s very gentle and will sit there and admire flowers on a bush and then get mad if u pick one bc ur hurting it like. he’s baby.

he also is very loyal to the ppl he’s friends w tbh like. damn he will never leave ur side

that also makes him kinda... super, actually, naive. you see, while knox is incredibly loyal, he often finds himself ignoring signs of toxicity for the sake of preserving a friendship - he fights for people who won’t fight for him, he lets people back in too easily, he just. he sees the good in everyone, even if there isn’t any good.

regardless, he’s not easy to just... manipulate to an extent. while he’ll fall for you being innocent, you can’t ever try to make him think he’s something he’s not - he knows his intentions and he knows they’re usually pure and he’s not gonna fold for anyone if it comes down to him or them. 

bt like again he’s baby

like i dont think he ever gets mad but damn when he does its probs scary as shit like bc he nEVER gets mad !!! hes like. a golden retriever ig

if u cannot tell im trying really hard not to make him too much like jj bc i realize that might be a big thing ppl do n i dont think jj is baby bt like. knox? knox is baby DSFHJKFDHKJ 

he’s just. idk. he’s very protective and cares about his friends a lot and will walk you home even if you went to HIS place and like is always ready to give you a jacket if it’s raining and he’s just lowkey a big, kinda dumb at times, teddy bear and i think that’s valid tyvm 

wanted connections.

friends. — please. knox will lOVE ur muses just let him be their friend tyvm plus he’s a bit of a social butterfly now and i think he’d honestly have a lot of friends.

best friend. — i’m gonna keep this to one muse bc idk i think it’d be really cute if knox got to have his own like, ride or die where they care abt him as much as he cares about them and they’re always there for each other and like !!! that’s cute !!! also found family trope bc i think that is.. again, kyoot, ty

frienemies. — so these are always like, super fun to plot out and i think there’s a lot to work w here... like give me ppl who are happy that knox is loyal and would defend them but would push knox to the side n not do the same for him... also friendships where knox fucked up ?? where knox, despite his goodness, couldn’t keep his mouth shut and revealed a secret to their friend group bc u see he can kinda be a gossip fsjfdaskj. idk there’s a lot u can do n i’d love to brainstorm!

enemies. — pls. like. we can brainstorm this too so i dont just ramble but pLEASE?? please.

flings. — honestly romantic ships are not the point of rps but romantic flings and stuff can be really fun to plot and i love getting soft about them so like ?? idk dude lets fling it up n have muses date for two weeks n then break up like thats swexi, dramatic, 10/10

exes. — i mean this is kind of like flings but i have an idea... give me an ex of knox’s who really was like. everything knox wanted. hell, the two had a really good relationship - they were in love and etc etc gushy details but they ended up breaking up bc they just. they weren’t meant to be! as sad as it is like it was as simple as that! and then the angst comes in after they break up bc god they still love each other so much but they just aren’t meant to be and they see them with other people and oh it just hurts but like, bonus points if they manage to become good friends even after this !! (sidenote, idk i wouldn’t want this to be a full ship tht gets back together bc idk i think there’s a bittersweetness in stuff like this n its just. like. its ok !!! idk !!! )

roommates. — and they were roomates- fdshjkfdsahjk

other things. — honestly these are half assed plots but i’m down for anything !!! i’m still fleshing out knox a lil too bc i really did make him on the spot so pls bare w me :)

[wandering-bitch]

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FiLwL(A) is my 3zun cinderella which is actually just about the importance of qin su and also reuniting with your exes. Here’s my behind the scenes/notes/lore for chapters 9-11. 

ch 9: nie mingjue being hot

i wrote this before i’d even written the Murder in ch 6;;;;; i just love nie mingjue

i so deeply believe in nie mingjue being smart and able to see through meng yao because he’s straightforward and strategic. 

“hmm” i said to myself. “how do i write the bois getting together??” after much thought i decided on “by stabbing one of them a bunch”

bits of this are still funny to me. rip meng yao sometimes you gotta be up close and personal with a hot dude’s bare sweaty chest 

also my version of “romantic and sensual” is just “doing math and deciding yeah, against your better judgement, you’re gonna smooch” because i love an overthinking murder twink

“on the bright side, the late-night guest was not jin guangshan’s type. unfortunately he was exactly meng yao’s type: nie mingjue” i can’t believe i let myself write this, bc it feels way too modern, but also the tone of this fic is just sarcastic enough that modern grouchy shit works 

ever since i discovered that camel was a delicacy in tang china i became OBSESSED with it. i nearly included it in ‘i have always loved the door’ and it makes an appearance in ‘blood in the cut’

the guan reappears!! or at least is mentioned.in case u forgot it from chapter 1 it is Definitely Not A Glass Slipper Or Anything

“i love ruining a twink’s life” i said in the author’s notes. i was not lying. my hobbies are making nie mingjue look cool and making jin guangyao suffer.

“xichen was disappointed when he didn’t see you there” “and you of course, weren’t” “on the contrary i was happy to see you” is one of the exchanges that was like. core to this fic. similar to “i met someone” “i don’t know what you want me to say to that” “neither do i”

when outlining fics i tend to include some key dialogue/exchanges that strike me as the Mood TM and half the time these exchanges go through incredible rewrites or just get deleted, but it’s always nice to see them survive

the xiangqi was so much fun to write, not bc i have played the game a bunch (i haven’t) but bc it gave me a fun way to talk about the conversation without talking about the conversation.

“a controlled leak qould have been very useful” makes me so happy it’s such a MOOD and nie mingjue immediately going heart-eyes over it is complete wish fulfillment. when will a hot sword lesbian be enamored over my ruthless scheming???? im taking sword lesbian gf applications over in my ask box

“But it hadn’t been easy” this paragraph originally included “Nie Mingjue had broadened his moral compass, and Meng Yao had learned to trust” or something but i couldn’t  really figure out how meng yao would describe his own personal growth since he left qinghe. like he DID grow he DID learn that he can trust the people he loves to trust him and that it’s worth bringing people in on your schemes and plans.... but he’s too dumb to describe this. 

the xiyao troll’s comment on this was “LMFAO that oocness from both meng yao and nmj where nmj is suddenly JGY levels of cunning and JGY is dumb enough to make mistakes XD”

this has stuck with me so hard

how do you read Falling in Love with Love and only discover after 16k words that i think meng yao makes mistakes?????

how do u consume any adaptation of mdzs and think that nmj isn’t smart enough to go “huh that cunning twink who is absolutely mooning over me and xichen and also plays weiqi like my old buddy seems REAL FUCKING FAMILIAR” nmj canonically sees thru jgy machinations all the time

anyway i love nmj and the xiyao troll

did you know there’s an exchange to celebrate the troll’s works??? i discovered it after signups closed but im going to enjoy reading all of them

ch 10: and with very little trouble

this took me like a month to write oops but that’s just because a lot has to happen

the opening where meng yao is being mean to qin su was so hard to write. meng yao getting overworked?? fine. meng yao getting abused??? cool. meng yao being slightly short with his sister, who is in no way hurt by this bc she can tell it’s not about her??? HORRIBLE!!!

the detective scene happened. there’s not a lot to say about it, i don’t think, except to note that han meilin did try to stand up for qin su

ch 11: impossible things are happening every day

cinderella time mother fuckers!!! this is another one that took time!!

ch 10 took time bc i wasn’t 100% sure how it would play out

this took time bc even though i knew exactly what would happen and how, it has to be Real Good, y’know? it’s tying up the entire fic. if these 2k words don’t work, then the rest of the fic will feel less good and ppl won’t come back to it

(please everyone come back to this over and over if only to laugh at my obvious qin su agenda)

qin su and meng yao fighting over who gets to take the fall for their joint murder. i love them.

i wasn’t planning for this fic to start the sunshot campaign but here we are. in the war. 

How did this version of the sunshot campaign go? Well. not good. because someone has no reason to invent necromancy. But not as poorly as you’d think. Jiang Sect isn’t destroyed, and the Cloud Recesses are functional (although not at full capacity), so they have more strength on hand. Plus, Meng Yao encouraged Koi Tower to funnel money and resources into the Qin Sect, specifically so if the war started before he expected it to (whoops!!! it did!!!!), those resources would be somewhere he could encourage to fight. 

on the one hand, the sunshot campaign’s territory is divided in half by the wens. on the other hand, that means the wens are fighting on both the northern and southern border (since, again, jiang sect is still alive)

anyway i’d say it’s a more steady war, as opposed to my recollection of canon where like. everyone’s fucking miserable until our sexy goth boi comes out with his corpses and wrecks shop. 

then han meilin and qin su look at their families and say “if you do not let us marry right now in a way that combines our sects equally...... we will just do it anyway.” 

(meng yao in the background, holding a thin knife: fucking try me. try me. i want you to be mean to my sister just so i can stab you with my knives.)

anyway it’s time for the epilogue where meng yao is vice general and there is no more wen sect

(have i thought about the dafan wens in this ‘verse? no. i probably should not, either, as wwx would be less ride-or-die for them and that means maybe wen qing and wen ning would die in a war camp)

never mind!!! happy thoughts only!!!! like how qin su and meng yao are getting ready to kill again bc they are the bi crime sibling club!!!! 

jin zixuan is invited to family brunch but he’s never invited to bi crime sibling club because qin su and meng yao refuse to let him lose his innocence. 

“ge, jie, i’m married with children, i don’t have any innocence to lose--” “oh didi, precious baby, our infant brother, shining beacon of our heart...”

mo xuanyu is also forbidden from joining bi crime club. he’s too baby. 

they do discover other jin bastards and invite them to lunch and sure, there might eventually be another bi criminal.

3zun visits each other in 2 month chunks, with one to two month breaks as needed. so the epilogue is the beginning of 2 months hanging out in meng yao’s house, and then later in the year they’ll hang out in the cloud recesses or whatever

qin su and meng yao both have secret lists of places to acquire babies for each other. han meilin knows about both of these lists and laughs every time she sees the same orphanages on both lists.

the final comment from the xiyao troll on this was: “Interesting choice to write a bland ooc AU, but I guess this is all you can manage with your writing skill. ;) This way you don't have to worry about JGY lying to Xichen for years, murdering NMJ, attempting to murder Xichen's family in the second siege, stealing secrets from the Lan sect, corrupting a healing song Xichen trusted him with, and fully betraying LXC's and NMJ's trust.”

like. yeah. of course i sidestepped the bad things. that’s what a fix-it au is for. it’s where i say “here’s an alternate universe, where certain bad things do not happen.” it’s where i say “if meng yao had always had qin su around to counteract the messaging his mother gave him, he might not have gone so far in his quest for power”. duh. 

also like kiddo, troll, friend. the pitch for this fic is “cinderella except with murder and qin su rights”. i’ve been clear from the top that this is an Indulgent Fic with No Pretenses of Quality. im proud of some sentences and passages, but this ain’t Blood In The Cut where im tryna Say something or either of my jiang cheng-centric fics where im focusing on good characterization. 

it’s a cozy murder where qin su gets to live and have a cool wife