#it's such a goddamn cool au tho imo

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(walks tentatively up to mic)

hey what if i wrote an infinity cycle swap au where emil gets the corruption arc and brighton is a decent fucking brother just to see if it can be done

(i am booed off stage)

[afsosville]

Here are the Calamity Shen Jiu headcanons>>

There’s going to be some ATLA references so be warned.

PIDW is a cultivation setting where demons and humans are the prevalent races, whereas TGCF and MDZS feature ghosts instead of demons as the entity that cultivators and gods exterminate. I’m gonna have to actually do some worldbuilding so I don't have plot holes like Airplane bro.

Luo Binghe's reign over the realms was like a forest fire in the eyes of the heavens. That is one of the reasons why they never interfered with the demonic emperor's tyranny until the very end and let the wheel of fate run its course. To extinguish the current world for a new one to come to life in its place. The human realm is preserved, while the demon realm no longer exists. Demons, demonic/spiritual beasts, and the like have long since died out/were killed or very few of them remain. There is now an abundance of ghosts, spirits, and undead corpses (and everything else that is native to TGCF) as a result of the grave amount of deaths and mass carnage in PIDW. The undead weren't as big of an issue until now. Luo Binghe wiped out the demon population almost to extinction and a good chunk of the human population, cultivators and civilians alike. 

Soooo guess what type of creatures run rampant now? Ghosts!!! Demons become a distant thing of the far past. Come centuries later after a change in the Heavenly dynasty and Jun Wu happened, so did the rise of ghost kings to replace demon lords. 

Ghost kings cultivate all their (resentful) energy themselves to reach the devastation level. They go through their own trials and tribulations, like Mount Tonglu, to become ghost kings. Compared to heavenly demons, whose power is simply given to them at birth, ghost kings are definitely the more powerful beings imo. Not that heavenly demons can't cultivate to become more powerful, but seriously, you think smn who came fresh outta the kiln is smt to scoff at?? 

See, now we have an actual green calamity that is a devastation, not whatever sorry excuse of a calamity Qi Rong is! (Love that green gremlin too tho, but please!) Shen Jiu takes on a different name, and wears darker shades of green, and black. He has Earth centric powers and is an elemental calamity like He Xuan. Think of Earthbenders from ATLA but OP. He’s moving mountains and can create peaks, valleys, canyons, and is responsible for earthquakes with the highest magnitudes. Just hurling landmasses with abandon and slicing through the Earth like no one’s business. Lava/glass bending is also in his domain. Speaking of which, it would be cool if Shen Jiu was the one making the terrain and lanscapes move on Mt. Tonglu, and can also talk to the mountain spirits. He can also give sentience to Earth golems and lava monsters. If Shen Jiu’s ghost king design gives off Kyoshi vibes then I did smt right. I believe Shen Jiu should have access to lethal war fans no matter the AU. Kyoshi controls the elements with her fans, and I’m making that Shen Jiu’s thing too. He can also see through his Earthbending abilities like Toph can.

Fighting a ghost king that can use the very ground you walk on to kill you is terrifying, yes. And worse, you're not safe anywhere, and there's another calamity that rules the goddamn oceans. 

I wanted Shen Jiu’s hair crown to look like a halo for no other reason than making it look like Shen Jiu is mocking the Gods. Plus it looks pretty. He doesn’t have eyes bc, one was plucked out by Luo Binghe ofc, and the other one was burned by the acid in the water prison. I imagine that whenever he talks, his voice echoes in a haunting way and he doesn't even make the effort to move his mouth because he's using his qi to project his voice. Bro doesn’t have a tongue. As for the limbs, they’re made out of stained glass that he managed to temper/regenerate in the kiln. 

I’m thinking… that the name Shen Jiu gives himself is Shen Heishan, meaning dark mountains. Probably. This would be a reference to the burning of Cang Qiong. Also alludes to his Earth-centric abilities.

The death of Yue Qingyuan was what killed him. He swallowed the shards of Xuan Su, and had become a wrath the moment he died. I wanted this to parallel Hua Cheng, when he became a wrath ghost when he saw Xie Lian be pierced by a hundred swords -> Shen Jiu became a wrath when Yue Qingyuan was pierced by ten thousand arrows. 

Shen Jiu is called Jaded Night Shatters Heaven because, just shortly after the kiln, he started a massacre on the current dynasty of gods, under an ethereally lit emerald night sky. I know it was originally White No Face who did the killing and that fact is so cool. Like imagine just slaughtering every single god in existence and rebuilding heaven itself with their fucking remains. On top of taking over as heavenly emperor and fooling all the gods that ascended afterwards??? Absolutely insane. That's pretty much it. I want to see a calamity who’s known for slaughtering a dynasty of gods, and well this AU is about Shen Jiu so let him do it. 

The whole heavenly bridge incident with Bai Wuxiang happened 500 years prior (making Shen Jiu about 1500 years old currently, and the 2nd eldest ghost king), and it was during the events of PIDW and Bingge taking over the two realms did Bai Wuxiang plan on killing all the gods in the middle of all the mayhem. Too bad Shen Jiu got to it first. Bai Wuxiang was silently killing the gods Shen Jiu didn’t in the background. Shen Jiu was just killing indiscriminately in a blind rage, while Bai Wuxiang wanted to kill everyone methodically. Shen Jiu’s resentment is aimed at the heavens bc well, where else? The already charred human and demon realms? Or the third realm that watched the suffering run its course and did nothing to prevent ruination from happening? 

Piggybacking off of Levemetal’s idea, Shen Jiu would be a recluse, not wanting to be involved on any matters involving the ghost realm, and least of all the heavens. He made his point all those centuries ago lol. Yes, everyone keeps their distance from all the ghost kings, but Shen Jiu’s name provokes a whole other level of fear. 

As for weapons, I don't have anything concrete other than the war fans. If Shen Jiu has a blade, whether it be a daggers, a sword, or a scimitar/sabre, they would be forged when Shen Jiu coughs up the shards of Xuan Su. He would imbue the shard(s) with resentful energy to transform them into the blade. 

He could also use chains to fight. The chains are the same ones that held him up when he was being tortured in the water prison. I'm applying the same logic here with Xie Lian's Ruoye. His silk bands became sentient because it was drenched in Xie Lian's blood when it was used to tie him down while getting stabbed a hundred times. Xie Lian's parents also used it to kill themselves and Xie Lian *tried* to kill himself with it and it somehow got cursed with all that death qi/energy. Similarly, the chains from the water prison became poisoned by Shen Jiu's resentful qi, and it allows the chains to do what they want and have a mind of its own. 

And that's it!

I already have an AU with Shen Jiu in MDZS, so ofc I had a TGCF one backed up somewhere too.

*Slaps this onto the table*

GHOST KING SHEN JIU !!

A friend of mine also has a Calamity Shen Jiu AU of their own so check it out too! @levemetal

I'll rb with the headcanons later, but first, fics>>

Tales of the Five Calamities by FakeAlice

No Prayers for the Gods by Otno

To a Life (Never) Forgotten by Orphan Acc

These 3 were the only 3 I could find, like Calamity Shen Jiu is such a slept on idea fr.

And his Calamity title? Jaded Night Shatters Heaven

Here's more content abt Calamity Shen Jiu I posted a while ago as well if you've got the serious brainrot that I do>

[droidmom]

Eleonor from The good place, Wash from Terra Nova and Sam Carter

Ty!!

Eleanor (im not caught up so this is based on my fading memory of the previous seasons)

First impression: horrible person who i am still rooting for because she is sooo prettyy and entertaining Impression now: i would say "she's come so far" or "im so proud of her" but i have no idea how many redos have happened since i last watched kljsdhfkljsdf still proud tho Favorite moment: all of the gay shit she's said about tahani Idea for a story: i feel like after all the redos nothing i can think of hasnt already been done so! AU where eleanor and tahani meet instead of dying and they cant stand each other but the gay (aaaand possibly eleanor realizing tahani is rich) keeps them in each other's lives long enough to develop a littleUnpopular opinion: i dont rly care about eleanor/chidi tbh. like it's important representation and it's v well written, it just isn't my style. Favorite relationship: either the brotp of her and michael or her/tahani Favorite headcanon: nothing's coming to mind atm 

Our Lord and Savior Lt. Commander Alicia Washington 

First impression: "i don't know where guzman went but WOW i am not complaining that this strong beautiful goth gorl who just ate a goddamn insect replaced him"Impression now: absolutely amazing and beautiful and the whole colony would fall apart without her and that's why we couldnt have a season 2. the ppl behind this show really really did not know what they had nor did they deserve her. Favorite moment: !! when she fought off a bunch of sixers on her own. simone kessell did ((most)) of her own stunts and it was sO so cool. and of course it resulted in the "still doing taylor's dirty work?" confrontation with mira which sparked so much gay angst headcanons. really that whole episode was great?? i love that she still had her wounds from the fight later on. like we've seen their med tech being advanced enough to heal cuts in an instant but she really just let it be. between that and her hair being down and her being so good with leah and just !! it was so nice in the earlier episodes when wash actually got scenes lol :/Idea for a story: that episode where mira and taylor keep imprisoning each other out in the jungle before realizing they have to work together to survive?? that but mira + wash. Unpopular opinion: im not super into wash/taylor. i see where it comes from but i love them more as a brotp than anything i think? Favorite relationship: threeway tie (lol) for wash/ayani, wash/mira, and wash/being alive. Favorite headcanon: she lowkey adopts a bunch of kids by accident. like she already has leah clinging to her, and with leah comes her brother sam. then if mira's daughter sienna ever makes it to tn (because i just rly need the sixers to reintegrate and wash/mira to reunite and rebuild the colony) there's that. plus the security team is basically a bunch of kids who look up to her.  

Sam Carter

First impression: "i started this show so i could get to claudia black's episodes at some point but i think im a little in love with this adorable blonde ray of sunshine" Impression now: ADORABLE BLONDE RAY OF SUNSHINE Favorite moment: is it cheating if i say the blooper where amanda calls rda "mr. mac-useless"? if so, then the time she was wearing a leather jacket and yelled in maybourne's face.Idea for a story: really i just want her and that pretty russian scientist dr. markov to have more missions together. Unpopular opinion: i feel bad all my unpopular opinions are about ships for this kljsdhfsdkljf but uhhh while i see the chemistry for sam/jack, it isn't something i personally care for. also! i wanna mention linnea Somewhere in here so like... lowkey i ship them (while acknowledging it would be an absolute mess, of course). it's just interesting imo and me shipping both that and sam/ke'ra is literally how i knew ke'ra was linnea before the reveal. really if this show had more girls to ship sam with i probablyyy wouldnt need to be like this and yet, Favorite relationship: sam/janet kfhkljsk. i also rly like her brotp with daniel early on though.  Favorite headcanon: so between her dead mom and (previously) shitty dad, i just rly want catherine langford to have kinda sorta taken over as a maternal figure for her back when they wouldve been able to work together more.

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yulma for otp questions ! (yes fresh wound still open, will never close)

OTP Questions!

Send me “OTP + Number(s)” or “OTP+All” if you want me to reply only a few questions or all of them

Oh my god you’re really suffering aren’t you :’D

I’m doing them all since we talked about it in private and... let’s go!

1: Who spends almost all their money on the other?

They would both, tbh, especially Alma. I think Kanda would have a better understanding of hoarding money and Alma would just go “but Yuu I need to buy it for you.” That being said, Kanda does it a lot too so how can he blame Alma.

2: Who sleeps in the other’s lap?

Alma. Kanda doesn’t often initiate affection, not the way Alma does. Not that Kanda minds tho

3: Who walks around the house half-naked and who yells at them to put on some clothes?

..... I don’t trust any of them to be honest. They would probably both do this kind of things and both would have to call each other out. 

4: Which one tells the other not to stay up all night and which one stays up all night anyway?

Kanda has the most trouble sleeping, so Alma is often the one to call him out and tell him to rest. But Kanda would cake up from nightmares eventually, and Alma would always wake up after that to keep him compagny.

5: Which one tries to make food for the other but burns it all by accident and which one tells them that it’s okay and makes them both cookies?

I have this headcanons that Alma is super enthustiast about cooking but often makes a mess, while Kanda just knows how to do the basic necessity (ways too much Sôba, stop him). But when it comes to cookies tbh, Kanda doesn’t like sweets, so I’d see Alma cook them and try to have Kanda taste them - and Kanda would because what wouldn’t he do for Alma.

6: Which one reads OTP prompts and says “Oh that’s us!” and which one goes “Eh, not really”?

Alma is the “that’s us” person. Kanda  would grumble “Eh not really” because he’s a grumpy cat.

7: Which one constantly wears the other’s clothes?

Alma! Definitly! Although in a “Alma survived AU” I think Alma would probably burn Kanda’s uniform and act like the uniform never existed all by stealing the rest of Kanda’s clothes.

8: Which one spends all day running errands and which one says “You remembered [thing], right?”

I think Alma would run everywhere? Like, Alma seems to be the most curious about anything from the outside world, so going outside will take h o u rs and it’ll be so distracting! Kanda has to make tons of reminders.

9: Which one drives the car and which one gives them directions?

huuuh hard to say. I wouldn’t trust either with a car and I wouldn’t trust either into giving the good directions. They’d be fighting after 5 minutes because “I told you we had to go right!” “I went right, just, not your right!”

10: Which one does the posing while the other one draws?

ngl I picture Alma drawing more than Kanda, it would help keep the agressivity in check y’know. Kanda gladly takes the pose, he just do the bare minimum complaining that Alma will tease about later.

11: If they were about to rob a museum, which one does backflips through lasers and which one is strolling behind with a bag of chips?

Huuuh hard to say. Canonically Alma sneaked up into heavy infrastructure much more than Kanda ahah. Kanda would be like “oh time to be sneaky? Okay. I’m gonna destroy this place.” 

So I’d say, Alma would be the one to be sneaky. But Kanda wouldn’t be eating a bag of chips, he would look at the whole thing and think “It would have gone quicker if you let me destroy it.”

12: Which one of your OTP overdoes it on the alcohol and which one makes the other stop drinking?

In canon they both have the regenerative ability to not get a hangover, even if it’s failing lately for Kanda. So in the end, Kanda would probably be the one overdoing it and Alma having to keep him cool ahah

13: Which one likes to surprise the other with a lot of small random gifts?

Both, but especially Alma. Alma would always find a reason to give a gift - like there will be a picnic planned or something like that. Although, I love to think that since Alma loves the little things, Everytime Kanda would go outside he’d find something really silly like, a rock or a seashell and brings it back to Alma because he knows Alma likes this kind of stuff and it’s always nice to see Alma smiles.

14: Which one keeps accidentally using the other’s last name instead of their own?

That’s kinda the tricky one since in canon their last name only happened later and they didn’t have any for a while (Alma became Alma Karma because of what happened to the Asian Branche, Kanda started using Kanda as a way to sneak from the Order when he was with Tiedoll and distance himself from the trauma linked to his name imo, which is why he reacts this badly at being called “Yuu” since only Alma and his abusers called him this way)

So taking that into account, I think Alma would hate the name “Karma” for a while because of how it’s associated to such horrible things. “Kanda” became a comforting name though, so eventually Alma would probably ending up picking it up.

15: Which one screams about the spider and which one brings the spider outside?

Kanda screams about the spiders and tries to kill it - Alma tries to bring it outside safely. 

16: Which one gives the other their jacket?

Huuuh both? Both. Honestly they’d probably both fight because “keep the goddamn jacket you’re the one who’s cold”

17: Who keeps getting threatened by the other’s overprotective older sibling?

Well Alma only have Kanda, while Kanda has the Order, so... I think so, in Kanda’s side, Lenalee would probably expect the both of them to be the  bigger person, and she will always hear both of them all the time to know who to lecture. Komui basically saw Kanda grew up, and I wouldn’t be surprised he’d be lowkey protective at time. Tiedoll would be a total mess and wouldn’t be overprotective, he’d be mostly crying on how his son is now a grown up. But let’s be real he has adopted Alma as soon as they met ahah. Marie is always extremely gentle with Alma, and would most likely lecture Kanda instead of lecturing Alma.

The thing is that honestly? Allen would be the one to start threatening Kanda as a protector of Alma. It would drive Kanda nuts because he’s half convinced Allen just takes Alma’s side to go against Kanda ahah.

18: Who’s the first one to admit they have feelings for the other?

To their face? Huuh hard to say. In canon it had been such a mess for them to tell each other their feelings, so it’s a mess to think about how a proper declaration would come. I think eventually, in a normal setting, Alma would have more chance to remind Kanda all the time of how he feels for him and it’d take some time for Kanda to declare it back.

19: How good would your OTP be at parenting?

They probably would be okay? In their past lives, they wanted children. But after all they’ve been through on the canon timeline, I think that they wouldn’t even think about it. Even in an au where they have no problem and all, I don’t exactly see them raising kids, at least not in the setting of a holy war. In a modern au, eventually, but it’d take them more maturity and it’s a little hard to picture when their lives had been shapped by the war so far.

While Kanda would be a grumpy dad, I think he’d be really sweet if not awkward with his children. Alma would always be very sweet I think.

20: Which one types with perfect grammar and which one types using numbers as letters?

Hard to say? I think Kanda writes well, but not perfectly, he often uses words to rudely and doesn’t care much. Alma would probably try harder with grammar.

21: Who gets attacked by a bully and who protects them?

.... well in canon, it’s Kanda who gets attacked and Alma who gets to protect him. And honestly I think that’s how it’d go generally. Kanda is always up to pick up a fight, but Alma doesn’t really let people bully them. But if Kanda gets lowkey attacked? Alma would unleash hell. Fear Alma.

22: Who makes the bad puns and who makes a pained smile every time the other makes a pun?

Alma makes the bad puns, Kanda would be pained. in an “Alma survives” Au you can’t tell me Allen and Lavi wouldn’t team up to teach Alma new puns to use against a very grumpy Kanda.

23: Who comes home from work to see that the other one bought a puppy?

It’s canon that it’s Kanda who loves dog ways too much, so honestly, I think one day Kanda will come back home with three puppies and be all “I didn’t bring them here” while he totally did. Alma rolls with it tho, it’s cute. 

24: Which one gives the other a piggyback ride when they’re tired?

Both, but Alma does it more often. when Kanda pushes his limits, he pushes them ways too far so Alma would probably have to look out for him. ... also if Alma ends up too tired, Kanda would probably carry them bridelike style *coughs* like in canon *coughs*

25: Which one competes in some sort of activity and which one does the overzealous cheering?

Mostly, Alma cheers on everything Kanda does- it annoyed Kanda a lot when they were younger, but now he just like it and only pretend he doesn’t. When Alma does stuff, Kanda often sneaks cheers, but they are far less loud than Alma’s. But every words Kanda would say would cheer up Alma tbh.

26: Who takes a selfie when the other one falls asleep on their shoulder?

Alma. Definitly Alma. In a more modern AU you can’t tell me Alma wouldn’t be obsessed with taking pictures of everything, especially of Kanda.

27: Which one would give the other a makeover if they asked?

I don’t think Kanda would want one, Kanda would let Alma bread his hair though, but that’s the further he’ll allow. Maybe Alma would ask for a makeover and Kanda would help with whatever Alma wants.

28: Which one owns a pet that the other is absolutely terrified of?

Kanda sticks to cute doggos - Alma comes back home with huge spiders and say its their friend and Kanda would not be pleased. I mean. He’d let Alma do anything but why this

29: Which one holds the umbrella over both of them when it rains?

Huuuh I don’t see one doing it more than the other. Eventually Alma I think?

30: If your OTP went on vacation, where would they go and what would they do? Who would take the pictures?

I’m still holding to my headcanon that Alma always wanted to see the world, so they’ll visit any places Alma wants to visit. Alma would take all of the pictures. It makes Kanda happy to see Alma that happy though. They deserved a break and be happy, didn’t they?

Here you go ❤ Thanks Sweetie!!