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master-of-cosmos · 4 years ago

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since i'm not sure when i'll get the chance to write this stuff out in fic like i usually prefer to, i'm gonna add to the hcs for what season 5 could've been like, serpent-centric ofc 🥺

lee would go back for him before they left coral grove ofc and the trip home would be very tense, and most importantly, serpent’s gonna hold off on telling sue who he is. after his emotional display when he was captured, it seems like he would at least want to spare his mother the knowledge of what he became, and when they arrive to a lizardman invasion, it would just get put off, but eventually she finds out anyway

his name would be revealed this season but everyone would stick with what they've been calling him. i can hear cam being like "dude your parents gave you guys the same name? that bites man. like talk about feeling like a replacement" and lee would just be looking at him like ಠ_ಠ

i think li would struggle with revealing details about his past to his family once they all know who he is because he gets how much it would hurt them. like maybe in keeping with the show’s comedic tone, they’d be having their first family dinner and he lets something slip that makes silence fall over the table, only broken a few moments later by his hyena laugh. so on the one hand, he loves seeing people squirm and he especially wants to take a little revenge, but he'd also have to tell himself that it wasn't their fault. he compromises by at least not telling lee anything which just aggravates his brother's paranoia until they reach an understanding

oh, so i think the details of the meeting with alfred and his eminence would also be revealed in this season. based on li’s 180 about ‘we’re fambly :)’ between the hospital and freeing lee’s friends, the meeting was mainly about his eminence putting all the blame for li’s kidnapping on cassandra (cause i don’t believe for a second that his eminence didn’t order it). like i don’t think he knew that exactly until the meeting, that eminence only said, ‘cassandra’s always told you that you don’t have a real family, but you do. go find them and i’ll tell you more’ before that to make li work for him. so when li goes into the meeting still absolutely fuming, assuming his dad gave him up on purpose, eminence claims that cassandra stole him before alfred got the chance to give him the tattoo, explaining that the pings had nothing to do with it. i’m sure there’d be an awkward but heartfelt attempt to make amends on alfred’s part as they’re leaving, but li’s not quite ready to deal with it and goes on to fry the bigger fish

anyway holger would definitely warm up to him first

and on that note, while li's a master at giving fake affection and flirting, he clams up, maybe gets a little defensive even, when someone surprises him with genuine love. the first time holger braves the stink necklace to give him a hug, being all "no more life of sadness, now only the happy times," li just freezes. he never forgets it, and it begins to soften him to the team

then further along into the season as he's starting to get on everybody's good side, jenny's probably the last to be okay with him as she should be, and she'd treat him the way she did tina at first anytime he's around. eventually he's able to apologize to her and then say something like "no more riding off with strangers, mkay?" the moment would play kind of comedically but it's really to show him being deadly serious and now caring about her safety along with the rest of the kids

“creep ninja, we’ve talked about this” jokes would abound as li has to learn simple lessons like ‘you don’t break into people’s houses while they’re sleeping’ and 'making your friends bet their actual life during a poker game is bad’ lol

also i'd expect to see the head bouncer at the casino get real screentime. imagine li realizing he's friend shaped if they aren't buddies already lol

ooooo yo i mean just, what if bouncer got a name and had his personality fleshed out and while he's contributing to plot, it's established he sees li as not just a paycheck but a leader and someone he's always respected, and li never knows this until they’re like charging into the fray together. just, ugh, what if bouncer was to serpent that biffy is to lee. i need it

now for the brothers themselves, neither one knows how to function around a sibling. serpent would have to make the first moves tho as part of his redemption. although we saw lee already starting to feel protective in the capture episode, he would possibly ‘take it in stride’ by ignoring anything about his brother in s5 to put off freaking out while he’s in the middle of a lizard war. so yeah, we’d have serpent making laughable, horribly misconstrued attempts at bonding while lee’s like ‘....thanks, idk what to do with this,’ until slowly but surely, lee gets more and more attached

he’ll like, give serpent the good controller so they can play video games during a rare moment of downtime, and lee will praise him for his skills, and serpent will sit there pretending not to be shocked like inosuke from demon slayer feeling the warm fuzzies

despite that, lee still can’t be 100% sure that he’s a good guy now, so going back to the foreshadowing in ep21, serpent’s gonna go from ‘no one messes with priscilla’ to ‘no one messes with my brother’ and takes a lizardman hit meant for lee (◕ᴗ◕✿)

there’s multiple purposes for this and why i think it was definitely meant to happen in canon, no wishful thinking about it. for one, since we’d presumably be at the climax, it would be lee’s time to shine, and serpent is just too op. it’d be a believable way to briefly take him out of the equation. secondly, it plays to my favorite thing about him - he’s arrogant, self-centered, hateful, hurting, yet he told cassandra that she can mess with him all she wants....he doesn’t care what happens to him if it’s to spare someone he loves. showing that kind of self-sacrificing devotion for the person he wanted to hate just hits the right notes and expands on that previously established characterization ;v;

there’s also the fact that serpent was part of the story since before we were even 10 episodes in so brad’s line couldn’t have been written thoughtlessly

anyway that’s all i got for now

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