#This is the format I usually use for planning fics lol nyk

[phoenixcatch7]

Just had an idea earlier that spiralled into a stream of consciousness huge story plot and I thought the svsss peeps would appreciate: might edit for clarity later I'm up late.

So

System uses masks ala majoras mask. When sy dies is forced into sjs body turned mask. Sqh recalls same when he arrived. With mask seam visible unless covered by makeup and his body being physically brought into pidw feels a lot more vulnerable. Possession tests still fail, given sj is technically possessing sy not the other way round. Can remove mask at will but doesn't unless really feeling rotten or system mandated, or with sqh (who feels REALLY weird doing it when someone else is nearby). Sy struggled a lot around yqy especially, the one person picking up the vibes.

When sy dies in sower central sqh manages to steal both the og mask and the new sy mask when he brings system to perform song of healing (severely creeped out by it) and replace with the false body they both made to cover their tracks generally (breaks into huan hua? Just gets there before lbh? Sy crashes on a roof and it hides the switch?).

Sqh takes 2 years to get the combined mask to the seed body and an extra 3 for it to bind to the empty body and provide enough energy to awaken the masks dormant soul (sy). Trying to steal his soul to the mausoleum fails, sqh gets killed!

Sy immediately does the same for him, and knowing what to do sqh is revived in mere months. Both hiding the og masks pose as rogue cultivator scholars, forming bestiaries and travelling to the places both have only dreamed of without worrying about plot (they're worrying about plot).

With lqg given the extra time manages to beat lbh on the sixth year and return Sqq's false body, only for it to turn to dust without spiritual energy to keep it stable (the bodies having been made with burial/destruction in mind and not long term). Furious, cq launches full scale attack on lbh, who responds with equal ferocity for same reason (also mbj is feral and long past mad with cq). This drags sy/sqh back, system forcing them to try and save the tatters of the plot.

Sy manages to self sacrifice yet again by performing song of healing, purifying lbh of xm influence while also ""purifying"" - removing - both masks from his seed body (grand reveal). In the ensuing chaos sqh reveals himself trying to get to sy, and mbj drags him off.

He manages to call for yqy to save sy to save the world, but... there is a sj mask too.

Yqy is forced to choose in front of a crowd of everyone important (who almost all have very strong opinions), with a time limit of a rapidly decaying plant body. He puts sy on at the last moment, but steals the sj mask to try and resurrect himself.

Sy manages to descalate the war by revealing the truth of the false body and lbh, freed from xm, is able to not immediately try and kidnap him. Sy hauls him off to the bamboo house to heal and his army is sent to the base of cq. Lqg gets closure and the realisation his sis is dating shl. Sqh is already back in the North clutching his og mask. Yqy is slowly slipping into desperation until sqh and sy regroup and provide a possible answer - there are still seed bodies.

With the vow (lqg enforced) that the 'new' pl won't lose their positions, sqh and sy bring yqy to the seed garden, where they spend several panicked hours searching for unrotted bodies. Sj gets the one intact adult one, and sqh (with mbj agreement) finds an unripe seed for, possibly, a bby og sqh down the line (its removed for stasis until they're ready, or if they decide to adopt him out. Sqh thought it was only fair for the soul to get a proper childhood).

A year later, sj returns, and yqy digs him out of the dirt himself. Sy and sj come to an agreement on sharing qj (to the disciples excitement) and talk lbh down (more time to spend at lbh Palace!) HEA.

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