#but for the record rin=binghe

[fistfuloflightning]

So do you have any head canons for MoShen? I know you likened it to SessKag, but do you have any solid ideas for it? I kind of like the vibe of SY being kidnapped by LGJ for some kind of monster or demon knowledge he has and SY and MBJ working together to ruin his uncles plans. There’s some interesting ground to be tilled here.

I honestly had no specific ideas for MoShen outside of rogue cultivator!Shen Yuan and his demonic parole officer Mobei-jun until you asked. And then it just. Kept going. Maybe some vague ideas about Shen Yuan transmigrating early and trying prevent Tianlang-jun’s sealing and Su Xiyan’s death (tho being completely unaware of the plotline he’s about to gloriously derail). Maybe he succeeds, maybe he doesn’t, maybe he gets stuck with a screaming baby that he knows he can’t raise on a rogue cultivator’s income. (I just want LBH to grow up in all universes happy and mentally healthy with a parent figure he doesn’t become sexually attracted to 😭).

Which gives us a nice interim period where the demon realm is figuring their shit out/trying not to collapse beneath the massive infighting over the power vacuum left by TLJ. Maybe one of TLJ’s lieutenants takes over, maybe LGJ. Perhaps he’s rather paranoid with his nephew gaining support among the stronger demons and so when news crops up of a supposedly non-demonic cultivator with suspiciously intimate knowledge of demonic creatures going around not killing/exorcising said creatures, it’s the perfect excuse to get his meddling nephew investigating something trivial and getting him out of the way (for a little at least, not knowing he’s practically handing over the former demon lord’s heir and his rival for the leadership of the demon realm to his other rival).

SY isn’t gonna let his son get taken and brainwashed into a mini demon lord but accepts that it’s LBH’s birthright. And so he makes a deal: help MBJ overthrow his uncle via some weirdly specific plant/cursed artifact/magic creature that can nullify a demon’s power, and in exchange keep LBH out of the fighting until he’s old enough to fight back (plus allowing SY access to the demonic leader’s personal library afterward, but that’s an afterthought. of course. 👀).

MBJ has some childhood trauma of his own, caused by his uncle and some nasty humans, so he doesn’t trust SY in any way shape or form but the human’s requests don’t seem…outrageous.

But the problem is that he needs the human alive for this to work and SY is making that incredibly difficult. He has a panic attack every time the human returns back to camp with some incredibly poisonous/venomous/carnivorous/bloodsucking monstrosity, fully intending on “examining it and maybe bringing it home” in SY’s immortal words. MBJ is not convinced the human isn’t suicidal. Only LBH’s sheer existence at this point makes him question how this idiot kept himself—much less a small child—alive.

[legfish]

trible baka + cosplay