anonymous mimi · 2mo
hiya hops on the unrequited jrh train i don't know if you're familiar with a fic called "until death arrives" but i remembered it because of your tweet. it focuses on jingxing (tragic but required) and it's scrumptious, but there's this one little thing that makes the whole work somehow even better, that is to say: unrequited fengxing (df is said to "have thrown away his life for love of a man betrothed to another"). and i have to say i absolutely adore the idea of df, imbibitor lunae, the high elder of the vidyadhara, one of the most powerful and influential individuals in the alliance, suffering from a one-sided love. like, all this power and glory and you can't even make a mortal fall in love with you? pathethic. plus it's refreshing to see jy NOT being the one who's in love with someone unavailable for once (love to see him suffering but he deserves a break sometimes)(also i like my stopid lizard hurt and unhinged, what can i say). now i lost what i wanted to say but what you said. unrequited jrh. yeah
HELLO ANON omg first of all i have not heard of that fic before so tysm for the rec but second of all, yes yes YES!!!!
my idea was jing yuan who has an idolized unattainable sort of crush on dan feng who sees yingxing as his equal and is feeling things he’s never felt before, but yingxing is 1) married to the forge and 2) in love (?) with baiheng
and like not that yingxing is straight, but i think he would have been concerned with perpetuating his family line bc 1) revenge 2) he’s the only one left and 3) short life species
i haven’t really fleshed out the idea yet/where the story would go, but im so glad you see the vision !! and yes the pain of dan feng having all this power, all this prestige, and yet he can’t have the one thing he wants most: companionship mmmMMMMM that’s a good flavor of angst
