Accidental Batman ZZS is such a funny concept to play with. He's not trying to be anything, he just has insomnia, a fondness for long walks at night, & an unholy mix of curiousity, combat training, and a death wish 1) ZZS is recently 'forcibly retired' from his job which did extra-legal services for a combined like, medical research + hospital that funded its early years & charity services through well, ZZS's team. Now that it's got a steady income, it cleaned up it's image & income stream

Please consider #WordOfHonor AU where Zhou Zishu runs into Bureau of the Unfaithful pre-canon and accidentally teams up with them out of "fuckit, may as well" energy.

just bear with me: ZZS intervenes in a guy being a Huge Fucking Asshole (bc he's interfering w/his drinking) Beauty Ghost was on her way to pick up HFAssole bc he was on her list of dudes to collect for the next funeral marriage and ZZS clocks her as using disguise techniques from 4seasons manor and is like "unfortunately, my only weakness: a mystery about my old sect"

animal transformation fic in #WordOfHonor would be hilarious in every variation. in order to leave window of heaven you have to be transformed into an animal? wen kexing randomly transforms into a tiny kitten uncontrollably? chengling is transformed into a songbird! Zhou Zishu leaves window of heaven and the magic takes hold as it does for every operative - animals tell no tales. But he invented it and keeps his human mind and ability to speak and sets out to wander the world, truly free of human concerns, exploring feline wine tolerance

thinking about wtf Wen Chao thought he was doing with the indoctrination bureau because he was clearly making zero effort to keep anyone alive and: imagine an AU where no one made it out of Xuanwu cave like - what would all of the sects DONE!? Like - Nie Huaisang wasn't on the hunt in CQL so he goes back home and NO ONE ELSE DOES because they're 'dead'. Wen Chao is all "wow so tragic how this powerful beast took out all the indoctrination disciples and sect heirs and only I was able to slay it after a long battle!!

just reminded myself of idea of "wen ning, secret and accidental romance novel writer of the burial mounds" from a while back and started laughing again Wen Ning, who doesn't sleep and has a very active fantasy life for all the people around him with Doomed Romances going on that he imagines various other worlds and scenarios where everyone could end up happy to combat the gloom and encroaching howling of the resentful energy