#where the fire gets reforged in mei and hates it that its nearly whole

[frogbehindthewaterfall]

Me: *just chilling in class*

My brain: hey what if you made a super long oneshot with an AU about the Samadhi Fire. The five parts of it(the four rings plus Red Son himself) could represent the five stages of grief AND the five elements(because in jttw the Samadhi Fire is made of all elements and that's why it's inextiguishable and super powerful) and the rings took not ring forms and for example the blue ring could be depression and water(despite the obvious choice of having the dragon ring be the water one) and it could take the form of a fish and just imagine it swimming around in nonexistent water in a crater on the moon as if it's a lake, but it's really just swimming around in the air.

And so on, and they arent exactly conscious, but they are constantly trying to go back together, but the one that ended up in Ao Lie DOES have a teensy weensy tiny bit of consciousness and it can experience everything the current person it's in experiences and it hates it because the wanting to go back together again is way more painful like this that it can experience things, and you know just the general feeling of not being able to do anything, being locked inside a foreign body and having to see everything they see.

And Red Son would sometimes randomly get insane, like, immobilizingly painful flashes of pain(aka the pain of the samadhi fire (aka him) being ripped apart) and even more rarely he would, in his dreams, see flashes of what the dragon part sees and like-