#someone had a desi hc headcanon from what i’ve heard

[noragaming]

okay hua cheng’s desi origin agenda is here:

so the other day i was visiting the golden temple (harminder sahib, one of the spiritual centres for sikhism in this country) and i saw a nihang sikh on the way. and damn.

his turban was embellished in silver, with a silver crescent, chains, even his knee length tunic had a silver belt with his khanjar looping around him in a silver chain, and he jingled when he (i’m trying so hard to not use an honorific “they” re: my mother) walked.

that reminds me of my boy hua hua; the history of the nihang sikhs just adds to it. they’re a sort of a religious fighting sect (HUAHUA) and they’re also called akaali (beyond time, subject only to god) and my god does it fit hua cheng. my only question is about how that got introduced to a chinese kid, because indian devotion and religion have a LOT of stuff about belonging to and loving your god (i’ll write another post about it sometime)

just,,,, the way a chinese kid, a third son (playing into the widespread belief that the eldest sons were asked to enlist), has a lot of similarities to a religious order in a different place, of a different era. absolutely insane