If You Told Shen Yuan That Something As Small As A Kitten Could Fix The Plot Holes In The Dumpster Fire

Heart of Chaos

A series in 3 parts

Cosmic horror Hualian AU in which Hua Cheng is an eldritch god and Xie Lian is a human (but not for long). 16k words in total.

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Part 1: dreams in the dark

[ rated E • monsterfucking ]

Stuck on a planet he'd rather never have seen, Xie Lian dreams. Faced with a tsunami of cosmic proportions that will destroy everything he's built, Jun Wu makes a decision. Given an opening, Hua Cheng uses it and takes everything.

Or: the story in which the most terrifying being in all of creation loves a mortal man.

“San Lang, you…” Xie Lian’s head starts spinning. Is it because of Hua Cheng’s proximity, or from elation at the prospect of leaving this backwater planet for worlds he can’t even imagine? He seizes that feeling and basks in it. “Who are you?” Hua Cheng inhales, then grazes Xie Lian’s jaw with his teeth. “Yours.” Hua Cheng’s kiss tastes like lightning. His touch sets Xie Lian’s skin on fire and reaches his bones to take root there, spreading flame through his veins until he’s full of it to bursting. At some point, he grabs fistfuls of Hua Cheng’s clothes and clutches them like they’re his only tether to the world. There’s a lightness growing in him, a feeling foreign and terrifying in its enormity.

@auchrauch drew this gorgeous painting for this part <3

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Part 2: broken dreams

[ rated M • POV outsider ]

This is how Feng Xin's world ends: in the rain of fire and death, as the universe comes knocking on his village's doorstep and brings with it flames of war. It brings a priest, too, one who calls to his god on the notes of his blood. And unlike the god of Feng Xin's home, this one actually heeds the call.

Or: the story of the end of the world. And the beginning of a new one.

Warships arrive at dusk. Clouded in interstellar dust, they appear on the sky and immediately start raining fire. Forests burn, houses lie in ruin, the world itself groans and cowers under the onslaught a fortress couldn’t have withstood, let alone a settlement without defences. There are no evacuation ships. Not that it would change anything if there were—the army blankets the sky so densely not even a sliver of starlight makes it through. Feng Xin looks up and, without a shred of doubt, knows this is how they all die. “This is insane!” Mu Qing screams as they run between burning houses and craters some of the buildings have already turned into, and try to herd the survivors away from the bombardment. “What do they even want?!”

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Part 3: i've touched my dreams, but still i bleed

[ rated E • body horror • transformation ]

Nightmares are a persistent thing. Xie Lian's greatest one raises its head from the dead in the least expected moment.

Xie Lian aches. Down to the marrow of his long-dissolved bones; to the deepest forces linking particles of what makes him himself; to the darkest, faintest thoughts that have ever run through his mind—he aches. He aches when he moves, aches when he lies still, aches when he lets Hua Cheng pour power into him until he’s full to bursting, aches until it settles and then after it’s long gone; he aches, aches, aches. Pain courses through him, sets what may yet remain of his nerves on fire and unleashes thousands of unseen worms crawling under his skin. They aren’t there. Never. They don’t exist, and the crawling is merely sensations firing up in echoes of his nerve endings and synapses in the memory of his brain that fails to process so many impulses all at once—fails to have realised it’s all but gone. He runs a fingernail down his chest. The skin splits easily in a clean, smooth, deep cut. There’s no blood. No fat, no viscera, no bone peeks out from layers of tissue. There is no tissue. There’s only light: blinding, potent, pulsating golden light.

From Everyone Want a Piece of Shen Yuan on ao3, the only clothes that have been mentioned is white. i did these doodles at work

shen jiu who keeps receiving random flowers. he thinks he's being mocked and wants to throw them away. however, before he can trash them, lbh darts in front of him and says he can't. when asked to clarify, lbh heavily implies its from shen yuan (another peak lord).

so now sj thinks he's being courted and he shows signs that he's accepting. he sits closer to sy when they're meeting, invites him to his peak, and is much more pleasant.

sy has no idea whats going on but he's happy with this turn of events

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61814137

I finally got around to writing a one-shot for the Tears of the Kingdom au I've been planning!

Summary:

For so long now, Ezran, with Rayla, has been desperately attempting to find his big brother. He's prayed just about every night that they would find something, anything, about Callum's whereabouts, but he wasn't expecting his prayers to be answered any time soon, and he certainly wasn't expecting them to be answered in such a painful way.

Or,

Ezran sobs out a whole Final Fantasy 7 reference after finding out his brother is dead in every way that matters because this is a Tears of the Kingdom au and Callum is Zelda (yayyyyyy!!)

Can we all join? Pwease

Dance party!

“What’s One Month If Not A Hundred More With You?”

“Hua Cheng, you’ve known him for, what, two weeks?” No, it was four weeks and two days. “And now you’re getting his name tattooed on your arm? Do you even realize how batshit crazy that is?”

“I don’t see the problem,” Hua Cheng responded breezily. “If he hates it, I’m willing to do laser.”

A story of how Hua Cheng falls way too in love with Xie Lian way too fast. Thankfully, they're both into it.

A short fic about two people who found the freak to match their own 🩷

Barbie is everywhere

Still can’t get over how beautiful Astarion is. Like goddamn

Bingqiu and Wangxian seem like the pair who’d be shocked that they’re having a baby despite banging each other without protection.

For Bingqiu it’s because SY is a man and he underestimated the power of protagonist halo. He knew genre turned into danmei, but he wasn’t expecting Mpreg!!! SOMEBODY GIVE HIM A REFUND!!!! As usual, SQH’s fault even though it was LBH who railed his way to genre change.

For Wangxian it’s because even though WWX baited LWJ and his breeding kink, and they used the Mpreg ritual just yesterday, WWX didn’t expect he’d be puking his guts out only one day later. It took only one try!!! Biology? Who’s she? Attempt the impossible!

But Hualian? No sir! They knew what they were doing. Xie Lian might have acted like he was babytrapped but that was just their usual roleplay. Everyone knew it was inevitable.

Some demon Shen Yuan fanart I drew, based on the fanfic, "Courting Demons," by Mayvn on ao3.