#i am rereading them myself and opal babe sweetie darling i would die for you

[words-writ-in-starlight]

I’m one and a half books into dfz and i’m in love with the spirt of dfz. Somebody gets my anger with gods who are restricted by their nature and gave me a god who is trying to change their nature. She’s trying to rules lawyer herself into what she wants to be! A god who just doesn’t accept her limitations! It’s great! (Also, in the dfz untamed au Wen Ning is basically Dr. Kowalski right. Wwx bargains with a... death god? That seems right. And wn is then the priest of a death god.

OH if you like the DFZ and the mechanics of gods and spirits deciding what they are, you should DEFINITELY read the Heartstriker books as well, which are about the Peacemaker and also the rise of gods and spirits in the DFZ!  It includes how the spirit of the DFZ was born and I love my rat daughter who throws skyscrapers when she gets angry so much!

I am NOT campaigning so hard for these books so that someone will read the fic I’m writing for them, and I don’t know how you could be so callous as to suggest that, by the way, my motives are pure.

But also has anyone read the Heartstriker books and if so, would either of the following be interesting to you:

The first time Chelsie and Xian have a fight after getting back together, featuring the fact that Xian’s luck is actually, if you think about it for five minutes, literally the shittiest hand ever dealt to a living being

Marci vs the Heartstriker Humans, round two billion, and the fact that she is, canonically, kind of gratified by being seen as Julius’ human as long as Julius doesn’t treat her that way--all I can think of is the scene where a bunch of humans condescend to her about belonging to a J, and how absolutely wildly different that must be when Julius is running the show in the DFZ

ALSO ALSO I still can’t decide whether a Heartstriker or a DFZ AU would be better for an Untamed mashup (on the one hand WWX as Opal is phenomenal but LWJ doesn’t really work as Nik? and on the other hand I could make the Jiangs the Heartstrikers, sort of...starring Madam Yu as Bethesda? and have the Lans be the Chinese gang? and have Wen Qing and Wen Ning sort of mutually be Marci?), but either way yeah absolutely, Wen Ning dies and WWX, in a moment of magically groundbreaking desperation, binds him to a death spirit then and there.

Is Wen Ning dead?  Yes, definitely, he is Legally Deceased.  Is he walking, talking, and doing magic?  Also yes.  Sometimes he gets possessed by the spirit of the Forgotten Dead.  Don’t ask questions and be nice to his cat.