#wangxian #dragonji #SituationjiSeason but not quite, modern with (secret) mystical creatures, mentions of littering and it’s consequences to wildlife
Noodleji is in a situation! He should have listened to his shufu and stayed home today, but he just wanted to see the world, ok?
And when he heard the distressed cries of a nearby animal, well, he had to go help! He managed to help the poor thing and it swam away except now he’s in a pickle!
Or, more specifically, he in one of those horrible plastic, six-pack rings that keep those equally horrible human
Drinks held together. Too sugary! Too fizzy! Too alcoholic! Blech
Regardless, noodleji is stuck, and the cries of the animal he rescued apparently alerted various humans in the area to its distress and they are now gathering around him!
“No, you have it wrong,” noodleji thinks,
“Please go away so I can transform into dragonji and break this thing off!”
Alas, humans are too meddlesome and insist on trying to get close, taking pictures of him (he’ll be sternly lectured on the importance of keeping their existence a secret later), and calling wildlife
Services.
Noodleji will not let any of the hovering humans near him, growling and nipping at any who get too close.
Eventually they give up and wait for the expert to arrive and noodleji is forced to listen while they discuss what in the world he could possible be.
Some kind of sea creature? He’s currently on land though. A snake? But he has arms. Someone is “googling” and another is “asking their followers”.
Noodleji has no idea what they’re talking about, but he has been taught that those things in their hands are NOT good for keeping
Secrets, and in fact seem to be designed for the sole purpose of gossiping.
Eventually the wildlife expert arrives and, well, it’s love at first sight for noodleji.
Everyone warns the young man, wwx, that the mystery animal doesn’t seem to like humans very much, and watch in
Shock as noodleji practically launches himself into wwx’s arms.
wwx laughs and gentle cuts the plastic rings away from his new little friend who… well wwx has no idea what noodleji either! He’s very affectionate though, nuzzling into wwx’s neck and refusing to be put down.
wwx can’t exactly leave the mystery creature here, it could be a pet or endangered animal, so he packs it into his car, which isn’t hard because noodleji refuses to be separated from his new mate (wwx doesn’t know he is now noodleji’s mate, of course).
Things get harder when they get to wwx’s office and noodleji still refuses to be separated from wwx. No cages for him! He’s staying with his human!
wwx is working alone today so decides to just… kinda… steal the creature? He couldn’t take the sad cries noodleji was making!
So he fills in his paperwork saying the animals from his call was a snake he sent back into the wild. Reading over his shoulder noodleji is split between “lying is bad” and “my new mate will do anything for me!”
wwx goes home with noodleji and noodleji isn’t sure how to proceed.
It’s not uncommon for dragons to mate with humans, dragons know their fated mate on sight and occasionally they aren’t other dragons. But usually they either abduct their mates (which, even in the slightly mushy and impulsive brain of his noodleji form he knows isn’t a good idea)
Or they pretend to be humans and live out their mate’s lifetime without revealing they are actually dragons to them.
But, as previously mentioned, lying is bad! And noodleji doesn’t want to lie to his mate! Plus wwx has already seen his noodleji form, maybe he’ll be fine with
Dragonji and humanji and his normal halfway-in-between form.
And maybe noodleji shouldn’t be making decisions with his tiny little brain, but one moment wwx is sitting on his couch petting noodleji’s tummy and the next he had a lap full of a very beautiful, very naked… man?
He has antlers and is apparently a shapeshifter so wwx isn’t completely sold on him being human.
But wwx has always been good at going with the flow, and if that means he’ll have to marry the man in his lap claiming to be his fated mate? And apparently work very hard to achieve
Immortality so they can stay together forever? Well, he’ll just have to accept his fate and suffer through it.
~end~
Not pictured: lqr doing damage control over noodleji’s pictures. He’s actually very good with social media and gets to work discrediting the videos and pictures.
He creates a “Save the noodles! Make sure your plastic is disposed of properly!” campaign to make it seem like an anti-littering publicity stunt. It’s oddly effective so he can’t be too mad at noodleji.
If I had better art skills I’d totally make it into a poster.
If anyone reads this and wants to make one go ahead!
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