still thinking a about accidental baby acquisition trope with lqr acquiring baby foxxian!
dragons are notoriously homogenous, rarely straying far from their mountains . lqr is on a routine hunt when he finds the tiny, shivering fox cub, napping in the middle of dragon territory
lqr almost steps on him, mistaking foxxian for a leaf he is so tiny
he managed to avoid at the last moment, the action causing his jade token to drop, right into the gap between little sleeping foxxians legs and body
“shi—“
lqr has no hands, being a dragon and all, so he instead has to lean down and gently nudge at foxxian with his head, trying to get the cub to roll over
unfortunately for him, foxxian wakes up, and is immediately presented with rows upon rows of shining, white teeth
foxxians scream can be heard from the top of the Lan mountains, a good 100 miles away
unbeknownst to the others, the scream shakes a little blue egg, that keeps on shaking, dislodging itself from its nest and beginning to roll away down the mountain
if you listened closely, you would be able to hear a tiny battle cry coming from the egg
but that’s beside the point.
eggji rolls all the way down to lqr and foxxian, remarkably quickly given the rough terrain
he bonks right into lqr’s foot, who is stunned to see his nephew so far from his nest
foxxian sees this strange new thing, and decides to investigate it the only way he knows how—
he starts trying to eat eggji
foxxian discovers he bit off more than he could chew (literally)
Eggji may only be an egg, but he is also a DRAGON egg, & that means he is big.
foxxian slobbers for a bit, grabbing onto eggji tightly incase he tries to run away
(Eggji will never run away. Eggji is in love)
and that is coincidentally how LQR accidentally acquires another nephew
as it turns out, it’s quite hard to separate a fox from a dragon egg, especially when that dragons egg is your own nephew who growls at you and plays hot potato with anyone who isn’t wei wuxian
lqr flies back to cloud recesses with an additional cargo.
all the other dragons are so curious. they have never seen a fox before, especially not such a little one !!
“a-ying is not a baby! a-ying is 6 and a half!!”
the dragons sniff at bby foxxian, who quickly gets overwhelmed by all the big teef. he may be a fox, but compared to the dragons he’s still prey!
he starts crying, & eggji takes that personally.
the usually serene mountains of gusu lan become an active dodgeball (egg) site
lqr, narrowly avoiding being brained by his own egg shaped nephew, spares a moment to wonder how his accidental acquisition of a fox cub resulted in this absolute chaos
foxxian declares eggji his hero, and after eggji hatches foxxian gives him a big, smacking kith on the cheek as a thank you
dragonji blushes so hard he tries to crawl back into his egg to hide
this accidentally turned into foxxian dragonji shenanigans sorry 🤣
lqr is still the typical “I don’t want a pet” dad who then becomes the pets bestfriend except it’s foxxian and lqr threatens bodily violence to whoever hurts him 🥰
foxxian is the most well protected fox in history! He has an entire mountain of dragons who would do anything for him
one day a bigger fox spirit picks on baby foxxian, making fun of his missing teef.
let’s just say that fox comes in the next day with a few singed hairs
thinking about lqr catching wwx at 4 in the morning in the kitchens, wwxs hand stuffed into the jar full of lqr’s favourite cookies
“what is the meaning of this?!” lqr fumes. wwx panics, shoving the jar behind his back and blurting out “I’m pregnant!”
bonus points if he’s not actually with child yet, he just panics and being himself comes up with the most ludicrous, out of pocket excuse in the hopes it will through lqr off his trail.