#so cannon fodder side characters in a different epic love story falling in love despite everything over countless reincarnations

[functionalasfuck]

I need a Chen Yi/Ai Di AU of The Sign. But, like, the original book version of the sign. And the original backstory between Tharn and Chalathon.

Because, in the original The Sign storyline, Naga Tharn was in love with his childhood best friend Chalathon while Chalathon was in love with his cheating fiancée and never gave Tharn the time of day. When he confronted Phaya’s brother for stealing his intended, Tharn accidentally kills Phaya to protect Chalathon from an attack, and then gets killed himself. Chalathon is then sent to immortal being prison or something.

And it is only after seeing Tharn die due to his own failings that he realized he had loved him all along. So the first thing he does when he is released is find Tharn, only to see him living a terrible groundhog life repeating the same tragedy that killed his original self (and falling in love with Phaya over the course of this endless loop, but that’s not the point of this post).

The POINT is that while Tharn and Chalathon are not the original ship in The Sign, that story is so Chen Yi/Ai Di coded I need someone to do an AU on it.