#their paths are destined to cross and all that but for now we're hopping between them

[aethersea]

hi hello I'm lurking the tags on that wuxia spiderman post and you said my sleeper agent activation phrase, "that show with all the badass women" - I don't suppose you remember enough identifying details for me to find it?

(the wuxia spiderman post)

I do! I watched it on Netflix, where it was called Handsome Siblings. it was extremely fun, but I do have to warn you that I watched this just after finishing The Untamed, which has like three women who all die tragically. so my standards were ROCK bottom.

however! this show begins with a helpless damsel revealing herself to be the biggest badass in this ambush, and then she and her husband are accosted by not one but TWO other badass women, and the three of them have a big showdown. they are totally fighting over a guy, but this was already more women onscreen at once than I was expecting. I was absolutely not prepared.

then we flash forward twenty years and meet our heroes, two brothers separated at birth who are traveling the land. one of them was raised by the martial sect of badass women, and he travels everywhere with two lady bodyguards who are cooler than you and will make sure you know it. the other promptly runs into a woman disguised as a man, who's got a deadly rivalry with another woman (not disguised as a man) and the two of them have a massive showdown. the woman disguised as a man joins our travels and becomes one of the major characters.

we hop between the brothers as they run into villains, heroes, people in need of aid, etc. many of these are women, and many of these women are stone cold badasses.

also, one of the brothers is nobly honorable in all his dealings, while the other is a conniving sneak who's just here for a laff. they're trying to kill each other. obviously I have a preference for the conniving sneak, but they're both a lot of fun to watch.

this show was adapted from a novel (or series of novels?), the one mentioned in the spiderman post, and I got the strong feeling throughout that the novel was full of Ye Olde Sexism, but the showrunners made a concerted effort to give all the women a personality and a spine and all that to fix it. but it's possible I'm wrong, and they were already cool! sometimes Ye Olde Feminism is a little hard to recognize when we don't have the historical context, and it's doubly hard when watching a modern adaptation, so really I wouldn't know. but wherever it is all these female characters get their, y'know, personality and moderately believable goals, it's a great time!

[atzmxsyn]

empty promises.

[ soulmate au! heavy angst | choi san ]

word count: 433

note: it's sani's day so i decided to drop this hehe, part 2 is still currently in works :p

you're supposed to be happy now that you've met your soulmate but how come things changed when he starts introducing you as his other half.

❝ i-i just don't feel the same way about you, san. ❞

❝ b-but you've been waiting for this time. we've been waiting for this time! ❞

❝ i don't know what went wrong between us, but i-i just don't feel the same anymore. ❞

that's when san realized that maybe fate was just toying with them all along. there's no soulmate. in fact, there's no such thing as soulmates. or maybe there was one but not all soulmates end up together and that's the case for him and y/n.

he chuckled, a bitter one.

❝ i guess we've both come to realized that things don't always go our way, right? that you and i aren't destined to end up together. no matter how hard they try to connect us, it just won't because from the start, we're only meant to cross paths. ❞

it pained you to see him cry, because all this time, you have never seen him this fragile. you've been bestfriends since you were little and growing up, he took care of you, you even looked for your soulmates together,

until it came to a point wherein he'd make baseless promises, saying that he'd make sure you'll see colors everyday.

he wasn't lying about that. one day you woke up, seeing colors and you were excited to tell him about it but to your surprise, he started seeing colors as well. you should be happy right? but how come you're feeling the other way around?

the colors didn't last that long though, even during your relationship, there were grays. sometimes you'd wonder why the colors fade in to gray, sometimes it'd be bright.

you never really talked about it with san since you'd still spend your days in the same routine. watching movies, cuddles, museum hopping, café dates. admit it or not, you enjoyed his company, not as your childhood best friend but as your soulmate.

you can't deny, he did become your source of happiness but lately things have been rough. you've been coping up with the grays until san decided to confront you.

he was confused. he tried everything to make the colors stay. he observed you, you seemed to be doing fine but how come he's seeing gray.

he couldn't understand it at first, you were his happiness and the fact that he's losing his ability to see colors, meant that he knew that he was about to lose you.