#The endless abyss

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Febwhump 2024 - Day 9 - Bees

LBH in Abyss

[3kidsinacoat]

Niche svsss things that I'd like to see more content for:

Zhuzhi-lang's real form

The endless abyss

the disciples! Especially in Liushen fanfics, I think Yang Yixuan is underused

The PIDW universe, specifically the situation of the wives

Corpse-zun / Plant-zun

Tianlang-jun and Su Xiyan

Luo Binghe, Mobei-jun & Sha Hualing friendship

[sleepyssnail]

Summary: Luo Binghe had been caught unprepared, he was unprepared for everything the Endless Abyss had to offer. He missed home. Home was where Shizun was, the bamboo house where he took his breakfast every morning, tea in throughout the day, where he let Luo Binghe sit with him and just...be. Not this hell with illusions, tricks, and monsters trying to seduce him into his own death. It was a nightmare he couldn't wake up from, no matter how hard he tried.

So when Shen Qinqiu appears in the Endless Abyss, insisting everything is a dream Luo Binghe is hesitant to believe him. When Shizun's figure flickered distorting in a way that seemed to momentarily strip Shen Qingqiu’s entire away to reveal someone else entirely, Luo Binghe dismissed it as a trick of the light, an effect of the Abyss playing with his mind. After all, even if this were a dream, nothing could harm or manipulate someone as powerful as Shizun. Right?

Or: Luo Binghe has trauma induced nightmares, Shen Qingqiu is still too self sacrificial for his own good, the System glitches, and Luo Binghe has a vendetta against anyone and anything that threatens his Shizun.

Written for @etherealiity as part of the Danmei Fanfic Nightclub!

[itscherryterry-again]

And I said: I do not want to be great, I want to be loved.

– Sue Zhao

[meltedmush]

I did a bunch of SVSSS doodles to cope while I was in the 2ha pit 😭

[remi-harbinger]

i bet yqy talks so much on a regular basis because its how he gets people to let their guard down and relax but when hes drunk he just says variations of sqq's name with different tones and only mqf can understand him

yqy, sadly: qingqiu sqh: ??? i was asking you for your opinion on the recent imports of silk yqy, mournfully (theres a difference): qingqiu mqf: yeah so he says that the silk is okay for him but he wants better quality for shen shixiong

[crowlyne]

Action RPG AU where SY is the final boss in Endless Abyss, and Binghe has to defeat him to get Xin Mo (how he defeats him, you decide)

[sunderwight]

If Tianxi were T4T they'd both have survived.

Especially if the Old Palace Master didn't know about it (and why would he? I don't think Su Xiyan would tell him and TLJ definitely wouldn't). Somehow word gets around that the demon realms are celebrating because Tianlang Jun is going to have a child. OPM, already aware that Su Xiyan has shacked up with him (and furious about it), takes this to mean that Xiyan is pregnant and does his usual thing of locking her up and forcing an abortive on her while plotting to ambush and trap TLJ.

Except of course, Su Xiyan isn't pregnant enough for the abortive to do more than make her somewhat ill, and Tianlang Jun is too busy giving birth to fall for an ambush. Su Xiyan escapes, Tianlang Jun safely delivers Binghe, and they all ride off into the sunset with Zhuzhi Lang and threats of declaring open war if the other sects ally with Huan Hua Palace to try and make any kind of move against them again.

The old palace master never does figure out why his plan didn't work.

[cheerkyuuu]

sky cotl au (has not been playing regularly)

[blue-mood-blue]

I have been thinking about the blackening (as one does)…

…and it’s so interesting to me, the penalty Shen Qingqiu is faced with should he not decide to yeet his disciple into hell.

Account termination. Instant death. Sent directly home to his already-long-dead body, and that’s it for the villain of the piece who outright refuses his villainy. The protagonist needs a blackening for the story to continue, and Shen Qingqiu is going to provide it or get written out of the narrative. Either way, Luo Binghe is going to lose him. Either way, this is a turning point.

I wouldn’t claim that this is the intent of the penalty, but it fascinates me that the System has, potentially, backed the plotline into a corner - because Binghe still stands to be blackened even if Shen Qingqiu took the other choice.

Think about what that would look like, to him. He’s at the Immortal Alliance Conference, and everything is going wrong. He’s been outed as a demon, and not just a demon - the top tier of demon, as bad as it gets from the perspective of a righteous cultivator. His beloved teacher, the person who has been kindest to him and opened his home and heart to him, is standing there with his sword in hand, deciding what he’s going to do about what must look, to him, like a horrific betrayal. Binghe is apologizing. Binghe is begging for his life.

Shen Qingqiu hears him. Maybe it shows on his face, or in his voice, that he already knew; maybe there’s no hint at all, but Shen Qingqiu is suddenly talking quickly with an abrupt sense of urgency that Luo Binghe is having a hard time keeping up with. Telling him he’ll be wonderful - telling him he’s the best. Telling him the world will be his, with emotions cracking through that aloof mask that Binghe has never seen on Shizun’s face before, and it’s terrifying for reasons that Binghe cannot identify.

(He will, later. When he has time to think, he’ll realize it sounded like a goodbye.)

And then Shen Qingqiu is bleeding. And then Shen Qingqiu is on the ground. And then Shen Qingqiu is dead. There’s no countdown for Binghe - there’s no System, there’s no warning, there’s no answers.

Luo Binghe is a heavenly demon in the middle of a conference sabotaged by demons. Luo Binghe is alone. His fellow competing disciples are scattered, some dead or injured. The Peak Lord of Qing Jing Peak, the second in command of Cang Qiong Mountain Sect, maybe the only person he loved and who loved him back, is dead at his feet. No one will believe him if he says it isn’t his fault.

(He can’t believe it isn’t his fault.)

What choice does he have but to run? The last heavenly demon the cultivation world went up against has been sealed under a mountain for years, and one of the people responsible for that is probably looking for Shen Qingqiu already. They’ll be looking for him, too. There isn’t anywhere to hide; there isn’t any time to mourn.

There isn’t even enough time to ask why. Why again.

There is no closure waiting for him, because there is nothing to explain what happened. It just is.

It would be a different kind of blackening, certainly - less intense, probably, less of a warping, desperate thing. But how many times can one person have all the love and safety in their world torn out from under them before it starts to show? Before they just don’t allow things like love and safety to touch them, because that’s the better option?

Interesting to consider that, simply by offering the choices it did, the System rigged the story to guarantee that Luo Binghe would end up in hell (deliberate or not).

Interesting to consider that, even if Shen Qingqiu made what might have seemed like a kinder choice, there was every chance it wouldn’t have been.

[sleepyminty]

Same energy

‘We are all Asian AND have witnessed the horror of multiple possibilites and multiverses’

[sleepyssnail]

hiii I’m prompting for danmei fanfic nightclub! could I please request some bingqiu hurt/comfort?♡ 

Bingqiu you ask? Without specifying the parameters or prompt for the hurt/comfort? Oh my goodness you've opened yourself up to some Endless Abyss time!

I got a nasty headache after I started on this and had to take a break, but here it is! In it's finished glory!!!. Then it kind took on a mind of its own!

I'm inspired and have been contemplating a MoShang companion piece to it so if anyone is interested in that...👀My ask box is open for Free for all Friday :)

[rarepears]

Okay I'm thinking - very dangerous, I know.

Luo Binghe was away and pretty much completely out of contact with human life in the Endless Abyss. He's popping up in people's dreamscapes, sure, but it's still a dream at the end of the day and it's not an exact reflection of reality. Things he learn from people's minds still have to be taken with a grain of salt; he knows from Qing Jing's teachings that one man's truth isn't the whole truth. And from Shen Qingqiu himself, Luo Binghe knows how easily one can convince themselves that the truth isn't the real truth but a lie; delusion is a powerful force.

Anyways, what I'm saying is that Luo Binghe was away for 3 years. All sorts of things could have happened in the cultivation world! It's basically like being in a coma for three years!

You know what would be the worse year to fall into a coma? 2019.

(Can you see where I'm going with this?)

It would be freaking hilarious if Luo Binghe falls into the endless abyss in the cultivation world's equivalent of 2019, an epidemic hits human civilization, and Luo Binghe returns, none the wiser of what happened, but he's sure as fuck wondering why face veils have become such a Fashion Statement that Everyone is wearing it. By then, the illness that had struck most of the human town and cities isn't as bad so it's not so talked about - also it's been a couple years now so everyone is used to it - but it's still a Concern. Not everyone can be rich enough or well connected enough to get the special medicine from the Qian Cao peak to stave off catching the illness.

Luo Binghe is also pretty sure everyone can tell he's a demon because they keep looking and glaring at him. He's very self conscious of his skills of maintaining his glamour hiding his demonic attributes.

(No, Luo Binghe, it's because you cough and sneeze without a face covering on. And also because you aren't maintaining 2 meter social distancing rules. StoP TOUCHING anD insPecTinG eaCh FruiT and vEgetablE at hte markets omfg are you trying to spread your germs everywhere and get people sick!!! )

[datrava]

Endless abyss, endless sadness.

And my very first attempt at speedpainting

[mellorine-dreams]

This is so suburban-dad-Mihawk-core.

He gets tired of Zoro’s and Perona’s bickering and in a futile search for solace he puts this baby on, goes out to sea, cracks open a cold one, and casts that fishing line

[alistairs-raven]

It's my birthday today (March 20). Here's a gift I drew for myself. It's Alistair the Hatbox Ghost and his raven servant, Abyss.

More info below

I realize I haven't introduced my OC, Abyss on tumblr yet. When Alistair was a mortal, he mastered a spell where he could put souls inside of objects. His first successful attempt was putting a human soul inside of a dead raven. He named the enslaved soul Abyss.

Alistair has a personal pocket watch. Abyss was interested in it, so the man offered it as a gift, which the raven willingly accepted. This forced him to become bound to Alistair. He kept the raven chained in his study until he was murdered by his servants. As a ghost he broke the chain, which now dangles from Abyss' leg.

The pocket watch Abyss carries has many secrets. It has it's own time, which moves very slowly. When it reaches midnight, he can give the hatbox ghost his powers early. The watch allows the raven to recreate emotions and memories, which is how Alistair is able to torment his victims so realistically. And finally, the pocket watch contains part of Alistair's soul, which will play an important role later.

Abyss is undead, meaning he can interact with ghosts and mortals. He has the ability to speak but generally prefers to remain silent, a trait that Alistair is grateful for. He is a loyal, devoted soul who has no motives or goals beyond serving the man who summoned him.