#dangerous and mercenary guy with freaky eyes who actually has a heart of gold?

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pondering things i could do in a very small amount of time for hei xiazi week (unlikely i will but i still /think/ about doing something ok) and was struck by the realization that there hasn't been a pitch black au????

there's literally an afab character who prefers to present as male *in the movie* - so like, trans xiao hua rights?????

#hei xiazi #like you'd want to age xiao hua up - instead of a runaway teen a dispossessed heir on the run from assassins or ??? #and maybe leave off any dysphoria-type plot points #or you could have him in the radha mitchell role i think that would work equally well - final 'girl' syndrome even #but otherwise i mean come on running from creepy unknown monsters in the dark? #dangerous and mercenary guy with freaky eyes who actually has a heart of gold? #i mean my mind goes to heihua always but like knowing the fandom you could easily do heixiuhua? #either with aged-up trans xh or let xiuxiu be the claudia black character i was always mad she got killed off #or write it closer to canon and give chuchu a chance to be the action star #the main question would who would you cast as johns? hendry cox would be my vote for the resemblance #but also a wang or jiang zisuan on wang pay or even like chen pi a si #i actually can't think of any real villains that are specific to hei xiazi? i think they don't tend to live long #if you vaguely trace subsequent riddick canon i guess zhangs could be necromongers #just bc i like to have an idea of the emplacement the other important dmbj characters in any au #really there's such a lot of potential and even the vibes match up with dmbj - survival horror and characters with secrets #oh man now that i thought of xiao hua as caroline i have the image of su wan as xiazi's duckling #imitating him and following him around ugh you could totally go tiger trio with li cu and yang hao #as wu xie's 'sons' if you have him in the imam role ...