semi-incoherent endgame-sangyao sexy-curse-gone-horribly-wrong whump idea that appeared in a dream. thread or no thread? here we go!

(warnings: very little effort has been made to make this any more logical than i dreamed it, also mentions of self-abusive language, disordered eating, implied hallucinations, and... i think that's the worst of the unpleasant stuff?)

#ruosang for @Meirun5
The Whump Wheel chose... Mind Control! (man, these keep being creepily on the nose)
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The Undying Sun slowly paced around the small figure writhing against the bonds holding him up and the collar that was sealing itself to his skin.

Stopping, he reached out and pressed his fingertips to the large jade centerpiece of it, activating the small array carved into the stone.

"I hate seeing you in such misery, little bird," he crooned soothingly in response to the gag-muffled screech the second half of the spell drew from his victim.

I have no idea what the ship tag for this is, but Zhuzhi-lang/Huaisang for @solacegrief
The Whump Wheel chose... Poisoning! (hand to god i shit you not)
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The snake yao was bigger than him, but also more slow moving and much dumber. Once Zhuzhi-lang had finished biting it full of holes and then tearing it to fine shreds, he abandoned the corpse and rushed back over to the human curled up on the ground.

Nie Huaisang's breathing had started to turn into shallow, desperate gulps for air and sweat was pouring from his skin even as he shivered.

#sangyu for @TheLadyLudovica
The Whump Wheel chose... Migraine!
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Though he still had to keep quiet enough not to draw attention to himself, Mo Xuanyu made his way through the halls as quickly as he could.

Even though Nie-xiong always forgave him when it happened, he *hated* it whenever his... his *"lessons"* made him late for their usual appointment for tea.

And it wasn't just for the fact that meeting with Nie-xiong meant much more food than he usually got for a meal. He genuinely adored Nie-xiong's company, and Nie-xiong genuinely seemed to like

#zhansang/#wangsang for @onlydinnerfor2
The Whump Wheel chose... Deafening!
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Even at the distance he'd been standing, the shockwave of the blast had been enough to nearly knock him off his feet. As he regained his balance and looked around at the smoke and debris and wounded and disoriented cultivators picking themselves up off the ground, he felt his stomach start to sink.

Nie Huaisang had been much closer to the center of the explosion, almost enough to take it point blank.

Where-

Using some spiritual power to help clear the smoke, he inhaled

#sangcheng for @mirellasnape
The Whump Wheel chose... Burned!
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The plan had seemed sound when it was made.

The younger disciples would use flares to drive the creature into the clearing where he and the older disciples were waiting, and then he would use Zidian to snare it so the disciples would have an easier time to kill it.

And, at first, everything had gone as expected.

What they hadn't been expecting was how much the creature could still thrash even in Zidian's coils.

What they hadn't been expecting was that one of the juniors would

#sangyao for @micchikureshima
The Whump Wheel chose... Drugged!

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Nie Huaisang was not in his guest room.

While the Nie sect heir was just as prone to chasing birds and finding interesting spots to paint in Koi Tower as he was at home, Jin Guangyao was... concerned. There had been *certain things* said during dinner that had his well-honed instincts on alert.

Pressing his mouth into a thin line, he set off to check the usual places.

When he spotted familiar green and gold robes near the lotus pond his brother had built for Jiang-guaniang,

#sangyaoFES thread fic time!
Note: I have a vague outline but I'm mostly making this up as I go, so it'll get posted in chunks.
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Considering it was both his first public appearance since the funer- *his ascension*, **and** the first inter-sect conference since the same, Nie Huaisang was holding up surprisingly well under the scrutiny of the other sects. He was still pale and underweight from his period of mourning and he seemed to still be somewhat mentally distant -never *quite* looking *at* anyone, just the space they were occupying-

Thread fic for @gr_tr3 !
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His new sect leader had warned him that of all the sects, Qinghe Nie's was the coldest when winter hit.

Staring out at the heavy piles of snow as he shivered despite being wrapped in the thickest blanket out of the supplies he'd been provided, Meng Yao thought that Nie Mingjue had still managed to undersell just *how* cold it could be.

Well, there was nothing to be done for it.

He turned his attention back to his desk, trying to concentrate on the day's unfinished records, but it was only a matter of moments before

I have no idea how coherent this idea is but I'm typing it before mind wanders off into Dissociation Land *again*.

So.

Endgame #sangyao that starts off pretty bad. Huaisang has a crush on Meng Yao, his tutor, but his confession gets shot down. (Meng Yao tries to be gentle about it, but a series of related miscommunications result in Huaisang being pretty crushed and he stops going to the extra lessons at all.)

They end up avoiding each other long enough that Meng Yao graduates and moves on (I have no idea what time period this is in, but it has

having thoughts about a fucked up sleeping beauty #sangyao timeline where nhs got caught and jgy sealed him away in an inedia coma so he couldn't keep interfering.

then hundreds of years later, exhibits assistant guo yao goes to start cleaning an ancient bronze mirror for display and is very surprised when he falls right through it and finds himself in front of a tiny, strangely designed house in the middle of a forest.

#sangchengyao bittersweet birthday fluff.

Jin Zixuan realizing (possibly with his wife's help) that if he doesn't intervene, his brother will be stuck planning *his* lavish birthday party and getting nothing for it, so he enlists Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang to kidnap A-Yao for a week so his mother and father can't dump the party planning on him.

Nie Huaisang comes up with a surprisingly plausible (complete bullshit) story about investigating a Wen artifact that's been dug up because the possibility of power is the only thing that would get

(I have a little bit of time before we head to the next place so Imma start this.)

https://twitter.com/undeadbiscuit/status/1625175304141520918

The rain has been coming down in torrents all day, so Meng Yao isn't expecting it when there's a buzz on his apartment's comm.

"I- I'm sorry, I would have called ahead, but- but he- he broke my *phone* and I-"

Ah. So it's finally happened.

This one had been surprisingly

All the votes are in! Let's see what #sangyao brainrot I can make of your answers.

https://twitter.com/undeadbiscuit/status/1622310367517982727

The ruling families of the jianghu from ancient times to modern have always been of Ethereal lines.

Thus when the Nie clan, almost entirely made up of Feral wereshifters, begins gaining political prominence, the other clans decide they must be stamped out.

concept collab with @micchikureshima:

based on the manga "pupa", the Nie brothers wind up cursed during the early days of the Sunshot Campaign.

Nie Mingjue now has almost complete injury regeneration (more on why that's actually a curse later), while Nie Huaisang's been inflicted with a cannibalistic hunger and the fangs, strength, and speed necessary to feed it.

trying to keep his brother safe from the war and everyone else safe from his brother, Mingjue unwillingly locks Huaisang away, using his own severed and regrown limbs to feed him for

a line in a fic chapter i did a quick lookover for gave me an idea for some very-slightly-dark #sangyao where meng yao manipulates nie huaisang just a little bit to find out how genuine his crush is.

he "confronts" nie huaisang about how much of a cuddly touchy-feely person he is, and while he doesn't outright accuse nie huaisang of taking advantage of the help the way, say, jin guangshan flagrantly does, the implication that that's what people *think* he's doing is there.

for the next several weeks, he observes as nie huaisang, appropriately troubled

for christmas eve, i give you more #sangyao angst, feat modern cultivators

meng yao is a killer for an underground syndicate, taken in as a child as a "favor" to his mother (she doesn't know what he actually does for the group and he's not about to tell her).

his boss hands him a folder containing his next target, a conservationist with a local museum who basically told the syndicate to go fuck itself over some extremely old and extremely valuable (both in the monetary and magical senses) paintings and sculptures.

when meng yao looks at the picture of

having weird thoughts about huaisang getting stuck in a reverse universe where everyone is the opposite of what he knows (awkwardly funny to see jin guangshan as a loving monogamous family man, not nearly as funny to see his brother as a megalomaniacal schemer). it's also not funny at all to find that in this universe, neither he nor meng yao were ever even born at all. meng yao for obvious reasons, and him because his mother was discarded by the much crueler reverse-Papa Nie when she started taking ill during her pregnancy.

thinking about throwing ALL my "cursed in romance" ideas into one big painful concept. huaisang has never been able to find love for himself, but is a master at matchmaking others. just the absolute BEST wingman... especially for people who rejected him. it's an absolutely miserable way to live, but he feels compelled to make everybody happy no matter how much it sucks for him.

and maybe he IS being compelled to do it.

(maybe a curse from a previous life? someone jealous he (or she) won the boy and got black magic revenge?)

time for pain!

https://twitter.com/undeadbiscuit/status/1598456634971406337

Rather than a slash, Baxia aims for a stab.

The resulting scream of pain is decidedly *not* that of Jin Guangyao.

The red haze of hallucinatory rage fading from his vision, Nie Mingjue sees instead *his brother* slumping to the ground, Baxia buried in his shoulder and part of

throwing out a #sangyao endgame concept that incorporates several of my favorite modern au ideas.

meng shi never told jin guangshan she was pregnant because she has heard The Rumors of what happens to his side-pieces who did. no one's ever been able to prove he had anything to do with the disappearances, but she's not taking chances and quickly finds herself a new place to live as soon as she realizes she wants to go through with the pregnancy.

it's not an easy life, but she and little a-yao are getting by fairly well for themselves.