Hualesbian au but the only thing that changes is just the gender of hulian. Xie Lian is androgynous/dresses masc(ish)/uses he/she though, so some people think she is a man. Ik this sounds contrived but hear me out
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SQX: You should change into your female form, it's so much fun!
XL: I am a woman
SQX: ...
XL: ...
SQX: Even better!
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PM: So you and Hua Cheng huh? I hear she's an evil seductress that has broken many men's chastity, though she's not my type I think you should be warned
XL: What's my chastity have to do with a friendship between two women?
PM (forgot XL was a woman): oh... well you never know
XL: ????
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Jian Lan (who simply forgot that XL the princess XL and the scrap god XL are the same person): He's the father!
The whole court room: gasps
FX: ????
MQ: ...
XL: ...no
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HX: Her Highness said-
SQX: Oh! You actually knew that he was a woman?
HX: *flashbacks to all the anatomically correct drawings he's seen, and HC constant yapping*
HX: unfortunately
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also I think it would be really funny if people started getting convinced that XL has a sister because MQ and FX switch between his Highness and her Highness
Still honoring my divine mission of making them as small and stupid as the universe will allow :3
Ok so I finally figured out the general plotline for this au!
You first meet Xie Lian next to the area where the gravedigger ghost is in Dirtmouth. He's seemingly muttering to himself unless you already have the dreamnail, in which case it's fairly clear that he's talking and responding to the gravedigger. He mentions something about being a wanderer, but that he's been feeling a pull within the depths of this kingdom.
Few places you can meet him after this. Resting next to a bench, looking up at the statue in city, and various locations where it's pretty obvious he just fell down a hole.
You might get only some of these before you trigger his main event by going back to the tunnels under the resting grounds after you go through the first time. You'll see his hat and bag haphazardly fallen next to a patch of ground that is continuously shaking and making the dive-able location noise without you walking over it. You can free him by doing the dive spell, and then meet him at the godseeker/sarcophogus afterwards, were it becomes clear that this is what was drawing him down into hallownest.
As for Hua Cheng, you can find his body in the area behind the coliseum where you have to chase down the Pale Lurker. His ghost will pop up, and if you talk to him you will ask you to please look for a wanderer in a golden mask for him, as he cannot leave his body and his senses only go so far. You can talk to him again after seeing Xie Lian at least once, whether before or after you first meet Hua Chang, and he will ask you to deliver a delicate flower to Xie Lian. If you agree a small silver butterfly will fly towards you during the scene where you gain it. You can get various dialogues from him about his devotion for Xie Lian and his search for him that's ended in his death.
Now, endings for our couple! There are several ways this can go.
Xie Lian can either be saved from the hole and then show up again at the godseeker in the trashpit, or he can become infected if you fail to save him either before the crossroads become infected or you fight him in godhome. If you fail to save him before then and go back to the area the patch of ground will only shake when you walk over it, and if you dive down you'll find him infected stuck in a hole. A white cloth band will attack you occasionally if you get too close(fool eater style), and if you dreamnail Xie Lian post infection you'll get some very devastating lines about him still trying to escape from being buried alive. You can hit infected Xie Lian as many times as you want, but after a certain amount the only thing that happens is a flash. he doesn't die.
With Hua Cheng if you attack him at any point, or if you let Xie Lian be infected after taking the flower quest and then go see Hua Cheng again, you'll trigger his boss fight. Ghost King Hua Cheng! Defeating him and absorbing his essence obliviously means the end of him except for in godhome.
You can only deliver the delicate flower to Xie Lian outside of Godseeker, although if you visit him after he gets infected more than once you'll find that a patch of delicate flowers have grown up above and around him, implying that Hua Cheng was able to find him and that's why he attacks you if you go back.
If you deliver the delicate flower to Xie lian by the godseeker he'll remark that it seems faintly familiar, and then the butterfly that was originally seen will pop out and go to Xie Lian. he'll be struck by surprise, and the next time you go down he'll be missing from next to the godseeker. Some backtracking will show you that his new final location is sitting next to Hua Cheng's corpse, amiably chatting away.
Xie Lian's godhome fight can have a few variations. It begins with him on the other side of the arena sitting in his usual gear, and then a black nail is flung down from the ceiling, blasting away his hat and bag and revealing him as Banished Prince Xie Lian! The background will be either the Trash Pit or the resting grounds with some delicate flowers depending on wether or not you saved him. if you completed the delicate flower quest a cloud of silver butterflies will appear during the opening sequence as well, and dispel the seal on him, giving you the Flower Prince Xie Lian fight with the background of a golden palace filled with delicate flowers!
Hua Cheng just gets his Ghost King fight, but if you succeed in reuniting them there will be Xie Lian hanging out in the background during his fight!
I am what I am.
Feel free to use any of my ideas, but don't forget to send me a link to the fanfic! I want to read it too!
(Calamity Ruoye??!)
At some point before Xie Lian's third ascension, Tonglu Mountain opens up again. As usual, Xie Lian is unlucky and, fleeing from a crowd of angry ghosts, he finds himself on the Mountain's territory. Not knowing where he is and having no way out, the only thing left for Xie Lian to do is fight. So, for several years, he fights and explores the territory of Tonglu, at some point probably finding the caves with his statues.
Eventually, he breaks out of the Kiln and if he were a ghost, he would become the Supreme. However, only Ruoye is the ghost among them, but Xie Lian gave the orders and thus they share their newfound powers.
Ruoye can now take the form of any weapon Xie Lian needs, and its shields are impenetrable. Perhaps it can now take the form of a white-haired child, still mute, who looks exactly like Xie Lian. Xie Lian's clothes are now black with ash and demonic blood, and golden with his own divine blood. The power given by Tonglu Mountain has broken one of the Cursed Shackles (only one, because the power was divided between Xie Lian and Ruoye). Later, Xie Lian noticed that he can grant death with a single touch if he wishes, because when the mountain was opened, he was in his right mind and tried to make all his killings quick and merciful.
And now he walks through cities and villages, granting quick and painless relief from suffering to those who ask for it, and people begin to pray to him as the god of merciful death.
Water Lilies painted by Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
Strawberry hualian :3🍓
Because sometimes, being a good believer is also fucking your god's self sacrificial tendencies and genocide ideation out of him
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Xie Lian in a cuddle pile with multiple Hua Chengs
A Wu Ming, a Foxcheng, and of course a San Lang
The Foxcheng is purring
Illustrations for vol.1 of the russian edition by anteikovich
Pictures by hourlyfengqing on twitter and 28oi's official site
20↑ | Any pronoun | FR/ENG | Hualian on my mind 🍁 On twitter/AO3 as tiny_gege
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