#alternately known as:

[yuukirita]

Here you can see the exact moment his spark broke in half

Here's where you can read this au!

[rocketbirdie]

is it tifa time? i think it's tifa time

[hey-hey-j]

"....Lisi?"

"Hm?"

"How would you feel about going on a trip?"

I can't decide if chronologically this takes place before or after this

(★ my Kofi)

[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.

[kimquatz]

i think it's so funny to remember Jishen is Hunter's deadbeat dad in another universe.

but even Funnier to consider that human!Jishen is just him without depression

[garpen]

Lian call Jason Apa But she is not filipino is she?

No she is not filipino in the comics/my au. She is half Vietnamese on her mother's side.

"Apa" is also a way to say "dad" in Spanish! It's a shortened version of "papa", just one letter less! I'm mexican, so I head canoned Jason as Mexican in my AU.

I thought it would be a cute lil thing to add. Like Jason speaks spanish at home and she's picked up on some of it. And she's heard him say "apa" and she asked him what that meant and he told her "dad".

So she stored that away in her head and one day when she was introducing him to one of her school friends she was like "This is my apa." And Jason most definitely probably tried really hard not to cry in that moment.

Like not only is she calling him dad, but she's doing so in his native language which means so much more to him

[ne-cocoa]

Witch au has returned for spooky season!! :0 enjoy :3

[zahri-melitor]

Tim suffers from a situation where he occasionally commits thought crime (thinks about how killing someone would be easier/how he would like someone to be dead/plans out how to kill someone) but does the right thing in person, and doesn't kill people and will act heroically to save even the lives of villains and people he hates. Which gets him cancelled as lacking in morals and being 'two seconds from killing at any time'. While someone like Jason, who commits actual crimes in person but validates the reasons for doing it in his head, gets lauded for why killing drug dealers is excellent and should be morally correct.

Maybe it's a bit law and justice and rules follower of me, but thinking the bad thoughts and still doing the right thing is a better approach than doing the bad thing while telling yourself it's for the right reasons actually.

Actions are more important than what you say in the privacy of your own mind. That's the bit other people can see and interpret.

[biscuit-munchies]

Koki knows tai-chi and karate, this has probably happened at least once.

[fjordfolk]

at this point both of my dogs' dams have passed so now every time someone refers to me as their mother i get to look them in the eye and say "her mother is dead."

[khaopybara]

THE GANG IN: HOW TO MAKE THE TWO IDIOTS CONFESS THEIR FEELINGS PT. 1

Because there's nothing better than inflaming an already burning Sun.

[fatallyfaee]

‘Praise kink’ this, ‘ddlg kink’ that.

Sometimes I just want someone to actually care about me as a person. I want someone to actually listen and care about my hyper-fixations when I ramble about them. I want someone to hold me and work me through my BPD episodes, no matter how irrational or out of the blue they may seem.

I just want someone to observe certain mannerisms of mine, to notice the little things about me, to take the time to understand the things that most people overlook.

I know I’m not mentally healthy.

But does that seriously mean I’m not worthy of being loved?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Critical thinking failure: did not consider all the options.

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[cranberryiii]

unsure if this is a hot take bc yknow. fridging women. but rowena saying she doesn't care about anyone enough to die for them but "I believe in prophecy. I believe in magic." is the best thing about the first arc of season 15. like she did that. she said I have had faith in one thing and one thing only my whole life, I have had one constant all these years and it was myself and my skill and my abilities and what i have divined from the earth and molded my body and my existence by and that belief is going to be what ends this impossible battle. I have been my own key my entire life and I will be my key again.

[ragsy]

when your tabletop system of choice says that everyone knows magic by default, you gotta get creative with how your otherwise completely nonmagical guy knows anything about casting spells

[ube-bluebay]

i would like to thank papa louie 2 when burgers attack for cementing these 3 as a trio in my mind even though they arent