I’m throwing Byakuya at everyone today. What are some of your muses reactions to Byakuya Kuchiki hugging your muse? You can provide context if you’d like!
Plum Blossom AU: What kind of things would other characters like Mei, Red Boy, Tang, and Pigsy hear/see if they entered the woods?
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so one of the main parts of the cleansing ritual is that you have to either want to be cleansed or if has to be fully preventing you from being who you were meant to be and sending you down a bad path for it to begin.
So here we go
For Mei, she most likely wouldn’t see anything at first, but lets say she went after the samadhi fire stuff, she would most definitely. Although the fire was traumatic she would still mainly see her family. The weight of her ancestors legacy appearing in an illusion of all the dragons looming over her. She’d probably also hear her mother calling her with a ‘if you don’t get over here you’re in big trouble’ but Mei can never find her.
For Red, he would immediately see stuff in the forest. His mother and father are kind of neglectful/emotionally damaging towards him most of the times so he’ll most likely hear the voices of his mother and father when they put him down. Red remembers every word of praise and scorn they’ve ever said to him and the scorn vastly outweighs praise. He’ll also see visions of LBD’s mist circling him just out of view, thanking him for her freedom.
Tang wouldn’t see anything until he either wanted to or felt useless. We don’t know a lot about Tang’s past but I have a hc that he doesn’t have a good relationship with his family for coming out as gay. He’d hear disembodied voices of the family he tried to forget. Even though they’ve hurt him and he’s tried to move on, Tang won’t ever admit this but part of him misses them dearly.
Pigsy would most likely hear his grandmother. She’d say encouraging words and that she was so proud of who he had become. (Pigsy deals with grief and trauma in the best way out of all of them and just wanted his grandma to see who he had become)
xingqiu, gold accents, ginkgo leaves, the light golden color tea gets in sunlight
hu tao, also gold accents, mahogany wood, smoky things, spider lilies unfurling in the dark. but it would be cool to edit her art so it’s more high contrast (darker outfit and hair) with stark black plum branches against winter snow
chongyun, white, clouds, wisps of chill wind. fluffy things and a big fur coat
majority red palette ningguang would also be cool
and of course, zhongli with gold orange. old man can’t beat the geo lord cor lapis soulmates (ambiguous relationship) with azhdaha allegations