absolutely crying over hua cheng forever worshipping xie lian as a god but also coming to fall in love with him as a man
obviously HC has always loved XL as a god-- his might, his kindness, his ever-present desire to look after even the smallest, most worthless worshippers, his presence. the first xie lian he knew was him as a young god, filled with gentle fire and gilded with heavenly god
Xie Lian as a /man/ though...
he has atrocious bedhead. talks in his sleep. his sleeves are always dirty, and he flits like a restless butterfly around his house. he never stops to rest. he never uses bandages for his cuts, even though he should. when he concentrates, he has a
dreadful frown on his face. he bends over backwards for everyone else, and never himself. he's clumsy, always breaks things and himself. he has nightmares. sometimes he talks so softly he can't be understood. he burps. his hair is always dirty and messy. his hands are calloused.
Xie Lian as a man is the unrefined, human incarnation of himself as a god.
Hua Cheng didn't know he could love his god more than he already did-- until he loved him as a man as well.
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Eventually, as all things go, the era of the gods comes to an end. It’s an idea met with resistance—immortals are always slow to change, always clinging on to the things they already know and love— but in truth, the gods have no say in the matter.
Humans stop building temples so frequently. Stop making so many offerings. Start focusing on building things like roads and cars and metal and cities. Theirs is a short life, and they live it fast. No time to worship immortal gods anymore.
Aight I do surprisingly have a bunch of these, hit it up I guess
monster hunter skk au :o based on monster hunter world wherein chuuya is a hunter and dazai is his handler. atsushi is a hunter as well and aku is his handler
sheltered church boy x succubus chuuya that was a birthday gift for a friend that didnt get finished 😭
But he has to find them, and he figures there’s no better place to look than in the bowels in the city, a place that even the uptight politicians and government officials turn a blind eye to.
They’ve already buried this place as best they can, built a second floor on top of the
old city—the /original/ city— and stacked a new, clean city on top of it so they never have to look at the /unsightly/ things beneath their notice ever again.
The buildings in the old city used to stretch up toward the sky, their tops gilded by sunlight—
But no longer. The
only things that live in the old city now are the forgotten, the poor, the undesirable and the /criminals/.
Chuuya tucks his jacket around him more closely, the sounds of old Yokohama drowning out the sound of his steps. It’s not cold down here— it’s actually /devastatingly/
There is a point where Dazai slips away for a few moments while everyone is crowding into an ice cream shop for dessert. There’s a convenience store not even a block away, and he ducks in to buy a pack of cigarettes.
It’s been a /long/ time since he’s smoked regularly, but it’s
been a /stressful/ day, so he deserves a little stress relief.
Besides, he’s fairly certain Oda still smokes, and it’s a good excuse to catch up with him. They haven’t really talked since Dazai pointed a gun at him, and while he’s sure there won’t be any hard feelings— it’s far
from the /first/ time they’ve held a gun to each other’s heads— he’s sure Oda will be /less/ happy that he indirectly threatened Kouyou.
The man takes his job seriously. If Dazai were anyone else, his existence would’ve been wiped from the planet by now. Oda might not be /cruel/
The room is cold. Not because of the temperature— Osamu knows it’s always been a balmy 30 degrees Celsius at all times because his father is from Hokkaido and it’s left him with a general dislike of the /cold/ that drives him to keep his office warm at all times—but because of
the /circumstances/.
Osamu's eyes watch the twirl of the knife in his fathers hand, mesmerized by the spin. Through the fingers, twist of the wrist to bring the hilt spinning over his knuckles, another twist to bring it swinging back down, the momentum caught and maintained by
his thumb and index finger pinching the blade, repeating the cycle again, spinning over and over and over again.
It's a display of unconscious skill as much as it is a /threat/, because Dazai Kazuki's eyes never /once/ leave the woman sitting to Osamu's left, his brown eyes--