#and the one constant they've had as they've climbed social laddrrs and built up wealth reputation and in Beidou's case a fucking fleet

[perkeleen-lavellan]

I've been on an insanity roll working on a beiguang one shot about how they might have met when Beidou was a freshly captained girl in her late teens, and Ningguang was still in the streets as it were. Or running a 'teahouse' if you know what I mean, because I love a sex worker rags to riches tale.

So far I've envisioned this scenario like this: Ningguang falls first but Beidou falls harder. She crashes down like the Jade Palace on Osial once she does fall. In the meanwhile though this is also a they slept together before feelings story because I also love those.

And because in my mind Ningguang then proceeds to play the long game of completely wrapping Beidou around her little finger for the next 30 years until she convinces Beidou that she wants to marry Ningguang. You know, while maintaining the illusion that Beidou came up with the idea all by herself (She did not. She had help, so so much help.)