#blue sword au

[words-writ-in-starlight]

Hi, I just found your blog (I love it) and as I was scrolling I noticed your tags for a Blue Sword AU and I just... please let me know if you ever write it, because now I want to see it

@indigo-night-wisp said: 

i would give you whatever you asked for if you wrote an untamed blue sword au

It ain’t a whole AU but here’s some headcanons, I’m appealing to my girlfriend’s better spirit because she’s Mad At Me about the Nie brothers thing.

Crown Prince Lan Wangji is heir to the throne of Damar, which would be fine (his elder brother, the king, is young, healthy, and strong in kelar) except that the Outlanders are really making themselves a presence and the Northerners are pushing south again under the leadership of their warlord Wen Ruohan.  It is not, strictly speaking, an ideal moment to be royalty in Damar, because those things are now at least partially his problem.  Lan Wangji is not, shall we say, a diplomat, but here he is anyway, in the Outlander fort, listening to the administrator, a young man named Meng Yao who is definitely in some kind of exile, do his best at Damarian.  Lan Wangji speaks perfectly fluent Outlander with only the faintest hint of an accent, but he doesn’t want to be here so he’s going to make everyone else as uncomfortable as he is.  If Lan Xichen has problems with his technique, he can come do diplomacy and leave Lan Wangji to shore up their defenses, which is what they usually do.  He would be at least slightly less annoyed if Lan Xichen had explained his change of plan.  But no.  

Wei Wuxian and his adoptive siblings were sent to Daria after the deaths of the Jiangs, mostly because...well, what else was anyone going to do with two noble children with excellent bloodlines and one ward of suspect breeding but intensely charming nature, during a politically unstable moment.  So the Queen sent them into the back of beyond to join everyone else she sent away for political reasons, including the remnants of the Jin family.  Jiang Cheng is at least in passably good standing with Song Lan, the general at the fort, but Wei Wuxian is “not suited for the army” or whatever, so he has a lot of time to kill.  This is how he comes to be out riding with Jiang Yanli in time to catch a glimpse of the Darian prince and his blazing golden eyes.

Xiao Xingchen, one of the King’s Riders, makes a few very straight-faced comments about the fact that Lan Wangji, of all people, has decided to kidnap the laughing Outlander boy, but hey, whatever, he’s been asked to do weirder in his time.  His shijie ran off and married an Outlander too, so, sure, if the prince is going to indulge in a bit of kelar-induced madness, that’s fine.  He insisted on coming, after all, when he was offered the chance to stay behind.  All Lan Xichen would say, with his familiar pleasantly noncommittal smile, was that Xiao Xingchen would be spending plenty of time in the desert soon.  Whatever that means.  Kelar-madness is going around, it seems.

Wei Wuxian gets kidnapped, which is not ideal.  He’s fairly sure that the entire camp thinks he’s been kidnapped as...maybe a concubine?  Unclear.  Especially unclear because the prince and his (secretly excellent, Wei Wuxian wishes he could see Meng Yao’s face) Homelander haven’t said more than five words strung together since the first night, when he said firmly that Wei Wuxian wouldn’t be hurt, nor mistreated, while in his care.  But the prince is beautiful, and the food is delicious, especially once Wei Wuxian learns enough of the language to ask for spicy food, and he’s given a horse, one of the magnificent Hill horses that Jin Zixuan always spoke of with such obvious envy, a stunning black mare who he dubs Chenqing and who flies across the sand beside the prince’s white stallion.  And the rest...well.  If the Hills seem to make themselves at home in his blood like an illness, if he can still sometimes taste the Water of Sight on his tongue when he swallows, if he dreams of his own voice shouting through gleaming blue light....  It is what it is.

(Lan Wangji watches the black flag of Wei Wuxian’s hair crack behind him as he leans down over his horse’s neck, as if he was born to it, as if he was crafted out of a desert wind and the brilliance of desert stars and given life with the breath of kelar that blazes in his eyes when he rages.  He names the loyal hunting cat that follows him around Suibian just to watch everyone scowl at him, and Lan Wangji tries to remember that it is unsuitable for a crown prince to be jealous of a cat.  Lan Wangji wonders, privately, if Lan Xichen has plans for their mother’s blue stone garden.)

After being drilled silly for six weeks at the hands of Xiao Xingchen--who is NOT nearly so easy-going as he led Wei Wuxian to believe, in fact, Wei Wuxian would like to register complaints--Wei Wuxian drifts through the laprun trials like a dream.  He utterly sweeps them, except for the tiny incident of clipping his final opponent’s lip when he took his mask.  Lan Wangji doesn’t say anything, just nods to him and dabs his fingers at the blood, and Wei Wuxian is swept away by his defeated opponents and the Riders.  Some of the other fighters are quite charming--a young woman named Mianmian insults him and compliments his horse in the same breath, and a young man named Nie Huaisang, who barely made it through the first melee round, cheerfully bemoans his murder at the hands of his brother, apparently a King’s Rider himself.  That night, just before the stimulant crash hits Wei Wuxian, there’s a banquet.  The nameless sword that unseals itself at his touch is the most beautiful thing he’s ever handled.

By the end of it all, Song Lan and Jiang Cheng have formally bailed on the Outlander fort, Song Lan gets made a King’s Rider (and marries Xiao Xingchen, but that happens later, after Xiao Xingchen recovers from his injuries), the filanon literally melt out of the woodwork to help handle the Northerners, led by Wen Qing and Wen Ning (long story, but suffice it to say that Northern blood mixes more gracefully with Damarian than you might think), Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli get married and become a major line of diplomatic connection between the Homeland and Damar, Lan Xichen maybe possibly has an affair with his most favored Rider and the Outlander administrator, and, of course:

Lan Wangji is waiting for Wei Wuxian, when he returns to the Damarian camp with every intention of turning himself in.  But he’s not just waiting, he’s standing there, with Wei Wuxian’s scarlet sash around his waist as if it belongs there, and Wei Wuxian is tumbling off Chenqing into his arms, and it turns out that, just maybe, Wei Wuxian is in love with this solemn Hill prince after all.

Wei Wuxian hears Jiang Cheng half-shout “Why are we cheering” over the roar of approval from the army, and then he hears Song Lan say “Your brother’s going to marry the prince,” and then he doesn’t hear much at all because kissing Lan Wangji is vastly more interesting than Jiang Cheng’s meltdown.

[othervio]

@kaitopitoo and I have been drawing lots of ideas back and forth for a Vampire AU and I’ve been having so much fun with it 👀

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[kaenith]

A little comic based on this AU created by @heading-down-to-georgia and also this addition by @2xlee

[heading-down-to-georgia]

some drawings of @kaitopitoo and @othervio four swords vampire au- I am in love with their designs for the characters and wanted to try redrawing some of the panels from the manga

[larrytheflute9]

Hello I am very tired and presenting to you the fs magic girl au complete with one terrible comic.

This is all because someone commented in the tags of my fairy queen design that the keys looked like magic girl transformation items and it has never left my head since I first saw it.

[kaitopitoo]

Captain Green and General Blue proceed to lead their men, along with their supporters Red and Vio, to hunt down the source of darkness: Shadow, the Lord and last one of the vampires.

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Four Swords (FS) Vampire AU, me and @otherviosmainblog started off as a joke cuz vampires are cool. So, I took it seriously afterwards.

My concept on how they look. They mostly have different shirts, their pants and boots are the same as their default design.

Haven't had so much fun out of a vampire au in a long time. I might go on about this don't mind me.

[cy-tick7]

ZITDF 2 (For Reaching To 200 Kudos!! Thank you!! :) )

(After Chapter 7)

Law: *uses a normal sword an average kid could carry*

Zoro: *uses two katanas* Pathetic

[ask--shadow-link]

So yeah, let's say they are designs based on an unnamed AU, lol.

I have this HC where Zelda is a little taller than Link

(BTW, let's just say the clothing is a bit influenced by Dragon Quest designs-).

[zarvasace]

...spaceship AU? Yeah? (forgive the doodle quality, I just wanted to get the beginnings of an idea down.)

Okay, so I meant to go to bed earlier, but I was seized—nay, possessed—by Feelings About Space. 🪐 I did mention a Four Swords sci-fi AU before, but didn't give it much thought... until now, obviously.

These are just preliminary brainstorm ideas as I mull things over. I'd like to add a lot of aliens and weird technology, and I'm not sure quite what flavor of sci-fi I'll go with, but I like this direction so far.

I have thoughts as to the boys' roles in their little spaceship, but not much as to story, yet. I'll go left to right, since it may not be so obvious who's who, and dump some ideas at yall.

Blue is kind of the everything-doer. Like a liquid, he fills in empty places and makes sure things get done. That means getting food, doing maintenance, topping off supplies, and dusting, because nobody else will. He's the med guy, too, might've gone to school for it for a little while there. He's the lifting-heavy-things guy and the scowl-until-they-agree guy.

Red's the one you go to if you need an explosion. He has an affinity for whatever power source this AU uses, whatever it is that powers weapons and ships and technology. He's the instigator of shenanigans and moral questioning, the heart and the heat of their group. He's the cheer-up-there-are-animals guy and the look-at-that-BLASTER guy.

Green is, shocker, the one who flies the dang ship. Red might come up with something they should do, and Blue might make sure they have the stuff to do it, but Green's the one who organizes them and makes it happen. He's the one who talks to people, and he spearheads every goal. He's the let's-break-that-down guy and the strap-yourselves-in guy.

Vio likes the tech, but mostly because it gives him a vast number of resources to beam directly into his brain. He has preferred topics, but almost anything could spark his interest, and he's off like a boulder down a hill. He stays in one spot to fiddle with solder or information all day. He's the you-know-what-could-work guy and the don't-panic guy.

Zelda and Shadow are also here, probably, but I have no idea where yet. Ideas are beginning to percolate, but it is, in fact, past my bedtime, so it's time to let my subconscious have a turn throwing this rubber ball around. :)

[ryssbelle]

Fractured timelines 'Legend', a knight in Hyrules army, couldn't decide on a red cape or blue cape (theres a certain someone who doesn't think the blue tunic is superior when it is-) so I have two for you guys to decide if you want to help lol

he is not technically Legend as most people know him, tho I did steal the Lu hair from dtbs from myself, he took the name after mysteriously gaining the memories of the past hero and finding a connection with him.

[winterlinksandotherlinks]

Happy (belated) birthday to these guys! Friday last week (29/9) it was 18 years since the first Four Swords Manga came out!

[othervio]

[kaenith]

I've had Pokemon on the brain recently, and I have Four Swords on the brain always, so here're my MirrorMirror!AU boys with Pokemon :3

I guess that makes this an AU of an AU?

[heading-down-to-georgia]

still thinking about the Shadow disguised as Red au...

[fourswordsfairworld]

More Glueposting because I'm obsessed with them.

[kaitopitoo]

A weird prologue.

Dunno. But hey after a while, some more stuff of the Four Swords Vampire AU.