#meanwhile in the North: why's the Lord's advisor so keen on hunting down beasts and strong materials all of a sudden???

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@arsonisticscholar I love ur brain, that reasoning makes like perfect sense holy shit. I made SY a juvenile dragon to fit the fanon(?) interpretation of a twenties!Shen Yuan, since dragons live way longer and probably develop slower. But, we can also have quick to mature dragons! Make SY a full fledged mama dragon already experienced in The Ways™ and has raised his own damn successful kids! Ah, his babies were absolute prodigies, already able to challenge him from such a young age!! They even managed to put aside their differences and team up to go at him, he's so proud and he spent his last moments making sure they knew that. And then he popped up here, in a peak full of kids, and decided that he did such a good job parenting his last batch that the universe wanted him to continue on. Will do!! He'll raise the best, most powerful younglings ever!!! What happened to the mom? No clue, mb they split with their fair share of dragonets to raise after they were done making them, who knows.

SQQ totally adopts the BZP disciples. Does he assume he and LQG are mates now and therefore share childrearing responsibilities? No idea. He feverently hopes the new younglings can influence his green batch to attack him as well, look at them doing such a good job trying to wound him! SQQ retaliates with delight and gets the reluctant respect of his blue batch of kids. Are they on the same page about what's going on? Oh, absolutely not. Too bad the Bai Zhan kiss gradually stops attacking him as much after awhile. SQQ freaks out and fusses over them, then morosely goes to find LQG to tell him he accidentally broke his kids. Hilarity ensues.

I wonder what would change with a fully adult and experienced SY. I imagine he'd be less goofy, for one. Or would he just get crackier and crackier OvO. Aged like fine wine, but it's the sanity. Food for thought, good food. Thinking about super proud mama Shen is so cute. Hmm but there's just naturally more funny shenanigans you cld write with a younger character too... Thoughts, thoughts...

Ohoho, he's a chomper. You have Proud, Aloof Immortal Shen, Peak Lord of Qing Jing, Second in Command of the Top Sect™ in the world, and he just... Chomped on his own Shidi. Are, are they a thing?? What is going on there...

Airplane has had to replace, so many brushes. Even before he knew why he was replacing them. He just assumed Shen-shixiong had another one of his tempers and snapped the brush in anger. But oh no, it was much worse. Or better? He has a transmigration buddy! But who was going to tell him dragons actually existed in his old world?!?!

Also, the reveal totally happened much sooner. SQQ isn't exactly subtle abt how he acts differently, and a single WTF while witnessing one of his Moments™ had SQH immediately caught. Once their identities were figured out, SQQ proceeds to try and chomp him, fan be damned, and oh, what sharp teeth you've got there, cucumberbro-

So dragons are more of spiritual beings, even being openly revered as beings of worship, a long time ago, before people lost faith and science became the explanation for the once supernatural happenings on Earth. But in the world of PIDW? That faith is still going strong in some parts. Anyw I digress. Point is, dragons have power on a more spiritual level, and they can absolutely take different forms, humans being one of them. The Shen family was one such example. A wealthy, well-established family full of eccentrics that went for long family vacations to the mountainsides or other natural habitats to enjoy the wilderness. On paper.

What this means is SY knows how to human (well that's debatable-), but he also needs to fuck off once in a while to destress and equilibrate. But he has kids now- he can't just leave them alone for long stretches of time! (He technically could, the peak is designed to function without too much need for the peak lord, as long as they plan things properly before they go, but SY is not only a first time parent of many, many very weak and squishy kids, but also first time dragon parent of many many weak squishy kids, sue him, he's overprotective). So, chomping, increased aggression to outsiders (never his sweet buns) amidst other things. (The Peak Lords breathe a sigh of relief(?) that he's finally acting more like himself(???), wait did he just bite-)

And being a spiritual being, SY's new immortal human shell is already gaining some draconic characteristics (he'll have to relearn his control over that real soon) and they definitely pop out more when he's stressed, agitated, or even just relaxed. Also yes, he cld tots transform into a dragon again once his form stabilized, that feature is an absolute must. Big noodle chomp coming right up. His martial siblings start noticing differences as time goes on, I estimate this change is relatively slow, and they don't meet often anyw, so it takes even longer for them to rlly find anything wrong. Confrontation... Not many ideas on when or how it happens, or how they even accept him... Hmm, I'd say maybe after IAC and around the incident w disciples mentioned previously. By that point his disciple-kids are all pretty darn loyal to him, and there's clearly been no damage to the sect even after so long... Also the canonical attraction beam strikes pure and true even as a dragon, it's just a given.

Don't know how that turned to worldbuilding... Lol. And once again my favourite reblog-taggers: @arsonisticscholar @howam-i-theparent

Is there a way to copy paste people's names? Rn I'm just manually typing. Anyw if the words don't flow well, I'm sleepy but refusing the call of the bed, so that might be why. Thoughts jumping everywhere...

Just had a sudden thought of Dragon!Shen Yuan (or any creature really) AU, where it was like a normal rite of passage for parents to raise their young (protectively, they're not jerks, just uh, very unsafe for human children, or just humans in general...), then throw them into some sort of extreme trial to prove their strength, when they're deemed ready. Oh, and it was normal, expected, even, to take a go at your parents and try to murder them as a proof of superiority, or smt like that. Doesn't mean they don't love each other! Dragons just have a different way of showing care, that's all. What's a lil play fighting?

Anyw, main point is, SY transmigrates into SQQ with this mentality. Sees his cute little sheep. Falls in love instantly and adopts him. But oh! Oh, the protagonist is so weak, so malnourished! He's gonna nurture him and make sure he's well taken care of! Such a scrawny little sheep can't possibly survive anything! Oh? What's that? He has to push the scrawny baby into the abyss? Well! Makes sense, but that's years into the future, and he has time to make sure they grow up big and strong yet! Cue all the canonical pampering.

I'd imagine during LBH's disciple days, he receives a lot more comments about him going out into the world, and there's less matchmaking from Shizun, since SY believes that girls will flock naturally to him if he's strong enough, so there's also more emphasis on his training, as well as the training of other disciples on the peak. I'm not sure how he'll react to Bai Zhan disciples. Does he comment on their strength and set off the QJP disciples, causing an interpeak war? Does he still hold the same annoyance for them and property damage?

By the time the IAC rolls around, SQQ has already sent his not so little white sheep all over to gain experience, and deemed him ready for his 'coming of age' (close to human adulthood too, he'll do fineee). There is far less tears and hesitation. When the time comes and LBH's seal is broken, SQQ feels the increase in power and the last of his worry dissipates. He basically just looks at his kid, nods, and chucks him in. Dusts off his hands and pats himself on the back. One child down, however many more to go. Oh, they grow up so fast... (Was LBH freaking out during this? Oh well, must be the nerves, he knew the feeling well. But he's read the book and knows what's going to happen. His kid will be okay, and he'll naturally gain confidence after surviving in there!... No one ever said dragons were GOOD at feelings ...)

Of course, it takes some time to adjust to the absence, but there's less grieving and freaking out over his impending doom. Sure, he's judging the original work a little. Limbless and hanging, really? SY much prefers a clean death, thank you. (How he died in his previous life is up to interpretation). But that's besides the point, his favourite is off on his trial, and it's about time to test a few of his other kiddos too (single dad to, uh, how many?)

Shen Qingqiu gains reputation as a sadistic (?) teacher that puts his disciples through dangerous missions seemingly without care, but unlike in the past, he seems to love the kids and dotes on them off-missions, so no one's really sure what's going on with... That. (He's still waiting for one of them, any of them, to try and kill him? Where's the bonding?? Was he not doing enough???)

So when LBH returns, things go uh, differently. SQQ is just here, waiting in anticipation, appreciating how his kid's all grown up, and seeing the scheme to unfold. Safe to say, people are confused. (Him, especially. What do you mean, his kid isn't trying to kill him?? Really, where did he go so wrong in parenting? None of his kids want to bond with him the proper way!!)

(I imagine SY being a better fighter than in canon due to literal trial of fire as a dragonet, and I'm not sure if he would've gotten hit with without a cure at all during the invasion in consideration of this)