Considering a darkish chengxian AU where the Jiangs are a clan of yin yang masters/onmyoji, and Jiang Cheng is the most powerful practitioner in his clan's history, and the only one able to command the Yiling Laozu, a demon it had taken the entire Jiang sect to pacify when they suppressed him, many hundreds of years before.
Being able to summon the Yiling Laozu is a mixed blessing, because even though he's the most powerful demon ever, he's always fighting against Jiang Cheng's control.
Sometimes he's too strong to bid, and on those occaisions Jiang Cheng either can't get him to do anything, and he sits around drinking jiu and laughing at Jiang Cheng, or he fights with everything he has to get free, and it's literally all Jiang Cheng can do to hold him back.
His whispered threats are the worst. "One day, I'll get free, my dearest, prettiest 'master', and it will be my turn to enslave you."
The easy answer would be to not summon him at all, of course, but Jiang Cheng needs to access the awesome power of the Yiling Laozu power to defeat the Wen clan.
But he know's its only a matter of time until he loses control; a being as strong as this demon lord should never have been bound in the first place, but that's a calculated risk he has to take, and he just has to hope he manages to save his clan before he falls to the Yiling Laozu.
No one is 100% good or bad. We're a unique mix of both. And beneath us all, a beast lurks within, bearing our darkest and most taboo desires. You can never fully tame it—only at a limit. And those who do tame it tend to repress those primal urges. And the more they deny it—the more its claws scratch through the surface of their flesh through projections. The best way to manage that beast is to integrate it with your master. A balance of both is highly recommendable. Use the beast to assert yourself in situations where people talk you down to avoid being a doormat and the master when you need to stay calm in circumstances that expect reactions from you. That way, the beast and master in you can work hand in hand to make you whole. After all, there is no light without darkness.
劇情簡介 :
The world is on the verge of a devastating war with monsters who are coming to retrieve the Scaling Stone. Yin Yang Master Qingming's life is in danger and he travels to different worlds to prepare for the upcoming assaults. On his journey, Qingming finds that the key to all the calamities is embracing his hybrid identity of both human and monster.
Between TK encouraging her on indefinite island and Lifering encouraging her in this most recent episode, I’m convinced The Sinkers would have treated a Cabby way better than The Pinkers did,💔
Test Tube is still my second favourite and always will be. I also think she can hold quite the grudge and gets really stubborn when she thinks someone is in the wrong, whether or not they actually are and this episode kind of reinforces that thought for me. It’s actually something I love about her character as frustrating as it can be sometimes, and I’m glad it hasn’t changed in the new season. I think it’s her best and worst quality,
Unsure how to feel about Blueberry rejoining. I was hoping for Tea Kettle to rejoin (would have accepted Life ring too even though I think he’s annoying) but Blueberry’s whole steeze retroactively being part of a master plan to win the competition with as little effort as possible feels weird. Maybe the feeling will wear off for me in episode 16. I think part of it is who I wanted instead of him, and the fact that we haven’t heard much from him in a while,
Weird how quickly YinYang made up I feel like but on the other hand it would be kind of wild if it had to be a whole big thing for them to make up when the little tiff they were having wasn’t even that serious so I guess it’s fine,
Cabby, YinYang and The Floor are still the main 4 bright lights of my heart though. (As in, I like the closeness they’ve kind of been developing since episode 11 and would have them inseparable if it was up to me 😅) Also I like the little smile here when she looks down (either into the middle distance or at the milk),
As if she’s touched that YinYang would do something like giving the milk to her because they don’t want to see her go. It kind of felt like not just fear of no more alliance, but also like they would miss her,
PART 10 (FINALE) OF MY CABLOON ANALYSIS! GO TO MY #CABLOON-ANALYSIS TAG TO FIND THE FIRST POST!
(I’m gonna make it easier to access the older ones, I’ll make a master post, then I’ll make it so you can check the next part by a link so you don’t manually tire yourself, give me some time cause I need a mental break from my shutdown 😭‼️)
Literally one of the most precious moments I’ve screen recorded in my whole life, the way he’s sitting beside her, laughing just like her, writing in her files, both of them equally sharing the same annoyed stare at silver spoon (Which is something a lot more common than I thought it was)
THIS.
This is just.. *wipes away tear*
Too perfect..
I wonder what happens to Mephone..? (Good lord I am still traumatized till this
Now expect MANY MANY MANY random screenshots of my babies togethr
STOP HOW BALLOON EXCITEDLY INFODUMPS WITH CABBY JANSHEHSHQJJEDHHJWWJ
They’re autistics in love I tell you
LOOK AT HOW HE’S TOUCHING HER AHHH (please don’t thkae that out of context omfg—)
I have a feeling that she was slightly uncomfortable here (sTOP PROJECTING YOURSELF ONTO CABBY PEBIE!! STOP!!)
Its canon guys he was trying to impress her here too
Why else would he give her that smug ass look?!/vpos
Then he sees uninterested cabby and gets sad :(
stop guys it’s actually so sad
The way she got excited when she said that was SO SASAADDDDD
SHES SO STRESSED OMG I FEEL YOU GIRL AAHHHHHH
AHAHGSGAHHSHHEHGWG😭😭‼️‼️
I CANTT THE POOR GIRL IS HORRIFIED
Unsure if she was looking at Mephone or Balloon, but I guess they’re beside each other here, so uh excuse me lol
STOP
STOOOOPPP
THEYRE IN SYNC YALL
LOOOOOOOOK!!! HANDS ON HIPS, SAME FUCKING FACE TWICE, AND IN THE SAME SCENE TOO OMFG
CABBY AND BALLOON RAISE ONE HAND AUTISTICALLY, AND THE OTHER LIKE SILVER SPOON, FROM. THE. SAME. SIDE. AND LITERALLY HAVE A SIMILAR FACE!! I-I CANT BELIEVE HOW MUCH THEYRE ACTING LIKE EACH OTHER WITHOUT EVEN NOTICING IT IM FUCKING EVAPORATING AND EXPLODING… EXVAPORATING!!!
THATS LIKE.. 3 SYNCED POSES + EMOTIONS IN ONE SCENE IM GONNA CRY
GRRRRRR HOW COULD YOU SHAKE MY BOY LIKE THAT!!
ALSO. WHO THE FUCK DARES CALL MY BABIES INSECTS.. LOOK WHO THE FUCK CAME FROM THE DEPTHS OF EARTH ITSELF LOOKING LIKE ONE!!/silly /nsrs /omfgdontkillmeafterthisplease—
Erm actually… Cabby and Balloon are definitely engaging after this. Real. And uh she has AWESOME YINYANG, AAAAND BOT!! Balloom has an awkwardly clingy and.. well.. pathetic friend aswell, but hey! Even they have something to leave with! Look at silver spoon..
He doesn’t have candle on his side anymore
Btw.. look at this: You see how Balloon is holding his arm and looking at cabby?
Do you think he, well… wants to hold her hand?
LIKE— NO SERIOUSLY LOOK
STOOOPP AAAHHH MY HEART
YOU CANT TELL ME THAT HE ISNT WORRIED ABOUT CREEPING HER OUT IF HE HELD HER HAND
(Uh wow maybe me projecting myself up there could make sense— OH MY GOD IM GETTING SO MUCH HEADCANONS IM HAVING A HEADACHE YEEEOWWCH)
It’s either (Read this well cause it might confuse you the first time you read it)
He wants comfort from her
Or
He wants to comfort her
Or
This is all accidentally lining up too well
Or
I’m just delusional and this isn’t even lining up at all
WOOOOAAAAAHHH!! EPIC BATTLE SCENE IN REEAAALL LIIIFFFEEEEE?££\#+@}+++}={==£[&$]^)-][.
(Just distract yourself Pebie, ignore how AE made an evil alter of silver spoon aswell.. calm DOWN)
STOOOOOPPPP!! WE GET IT!! THEYRE SOULMATES!! H.. HOW DO THESE TWO HAVE SO MUCH SIMILAR MOMENTS LIKE THIS OMFG/vvvvvvpos
My babies are sticking together OMFG I’m actually exvaporting
STICK TOGETHER BABIES!! YOULL GET OUT OF THIS ALIVE!!! HH.HOPEFYKLU
IMANNAHAHWGSBHDJDJAKAKKSNDJD
IM SHAKKIIJHHHHH OKDMDHAHBBAHHHWHGGDGGDAAAAAA
WEEEE SHE SAID WE
SHE SAID WE OMFGGFGAFFSFVS
THE WAY SHE SAVED HIM IN CLUCTH IM FGGISNNG
IM GONNA.CRUY. IM SUBHIAJJJJSJ
LISTEN UP WALKIE TALKIE. YOU DONT DRAE THREATEN CABBY’S FUTURE HUSBAND AND GET AWAY WITH IT GRRRRRRYEHAHWJSJ
But let’s be fr, As much as I love Mephone and his silly shenanigans, this literally affected me the same way it did for them, just.. look at their faces man :(
NOOO NOOO!! STOP STOP STOOOP I DIDNT AGREE TO THIS!1 DONT HURT THEM!! PLLEEEAAAAASSSSEEEEEE 😭😭😭‼️‼️‼️ IM LITERALLY SHIVERING FOR THEM OMFG MY BABIES
I SWEAR IF YOU LAY A FINGER ON ANY OF THEM ILL FUCKING—
Deep betreath… breeaathehees… I’m not ANGRY. nooo wayhhhy. ,.,,uhm..—
HEY AE.. DO THEY MAKE IT SO THEY ALL LIKE MEPHONE IN THE END?? CAUSE LIKE.. It would be so awesome, it would be so cool—
Yeah WHOOOOH!! I took yesterday night, from 8/9pm to 11pm, STYAED UP ALL NIGHT CAUSE I COULDNT SLEEP FROM THESE TWO, stayed up until like.. 10am, fell asleep, woke up at 2:40pm and BAM! FINSIHED AFTER A DAY!! YIPPIEROONIES!!! (Edit: Two days, since I had to leave, came back at 9:50pm, finished at 11pm cause bedtime lockdown, then woke up at 10am today and started to do it again, so I technically finished at 2pm today)
I have a feeling that someone reading this started liking the ship, or felt curious about their rare pair interaction (if they had any/lh), but either way, I’ll tell you how THIS rare pair even EXSISTED.
(THE LORE OF WHY I EVEN SHIPPED CABLOON)
Let’s start from the beginning. In some of the episodes, before I knew I kin cabby, I always had a little fascination towards balloon, his issues living with him for so long and how he still struggles to make a good image of himself was just. Cute to me (stop I KNOW you simp for objects too.. DONT DENY IT!!)
And at episode 17, after I found out I kin cabby, I started to like their interactions more, and since this ship was a HEAVY SELF INSERT, It somehow made sense.
They both struggled to gain a good image, they both had a toxic friendship in the past that got resolved, they both have TOO MUCH ISSUES, and they both act like each other so much it’s actually wild
None of us EVER cared to really analyze hidden relationships in the show, and this is actually a good example, if I never simped for balloon like the ‘loon’atic I am
*knee slap*
I would’ve NEVER noticed their cute feelings for each other
As much as I wanna continue talking, I feel like this ramble will never end, so I give you a cabloon doodle!
For the WIP files game, I’d love to hear more about ‘jwy amnesia’ 👀💜 (though I did vote for the crowxian-wolfcheng fic because I’m extremely biased 🤣)
For this tag game. Hiiiiii~~ Ty again for the initial tag! This is probably the most interactive any of my tag/ask games have ever gotten 😅
WIP Wednesday! "JWY Amnesia' fic is actually the shorthand for my canon-div fic where the golden core transfer wipes Jiang Cheng's memory, and so he's lost for all of the war, while Wei Wuxian spirals worse than canon into Demonic Cultivation (not just ghost path) because he's going insane looking for Jiang Cheng.
It is my "dark fic" in that warnings apply. However the overall plot is actually based on a role reversal of the La Belle et La Bete the original Beauty and the Beast story. Jiang Cheng being the beauty and Wei Wuxian being the Beast. It's higher fantasy than canon though with like, animal and plant spirits and invisible servants and a shifting mansion which are all from the first The YinYang Master movie.
A SFW snippet!
The soaked purple tassel of Jiāng Chéng’s bell, left behind with the belt that Wèi Wúxiàn had laid aside, swings beneath his fist and flings water as Wèi Wúxiàn fights Lán Wàngjī’s hold.
Wèi Wúxiàn kicks out, and his shout reverberates through the air, “Let me go!” The solid hands of resentment and gummy shadows try to push Lán Wàngjī away, but he’s powerful in his own right, pure and unstained. He radiates qì so intense it simply denies the resentment from grabbing hold, shattering it when it tries. Wèi Wúxiàn seethes and grits his teeth, instead, striking out at the wagon, at the caravan, at anything and anyone else within reach.
“Wèi Yīng you must control this. Wèi Yīng, please.” Lán Wàngjī’s plea is calm in the chaos Wèi Wúxiàn inflicts. It shows no sign of strain as Wèi Wúxiàn lashes out and rends things apart, sending blood and wood shards flying. The Lánlíng Jīn cultivators, the horses that drove the wagons, the trees along the roads. “You are not yourself.”
The claim drives another nail of anger into Wèi Wúxiàn’s head. It’s a spike of pain and he roars with it, “Not myself! Who am I, if he doesn’t even know who I am?!” His entire world has gone red as his qì condenses as its strains to hold his body together while the resentment leaks from his every acupoint. “Who am I supposed to be?!”
His Jiāng Chéng. His shīdì, so long from him, and with his golden core seated safely away within. Jiāng Chéng who doesn’t know who his shīxiōng is. Doesn’t know Wèi Wúxiàn who gave everything to him. How— There’s no way—
based off of master yinyangs skin desc!
"Everyone believes he seeks vengeance on the Bai family and vows to replace them. But in reality, he only covets the secret of resurrection in the scroll."
I didn’t know what that was til you sent this, but NOW I HAVE
First of all, GORGEOUS ANIMATION. Second, Sora wakes up laying in a puddle in Scramble Crossing. The shallow water and mirror effect of the puddle(s) are similar to the salt flat-inspired Final World, the KH equivalent of purgatory… With the KH4 trailer having shown us that Sora wakes up 7 days after arriving in Quadratum, some part of him must still be asleep here.
7 days is the duration of a Reaper’s Game in TWEWY and since Neku also appears in Scramble Crossing after he dies, as well as this ending’s emphasis on the 104 building… maybe Sora has to deal with something like the Reaper’s Game to get a second chance at life. I doubt it’d be a direct crossover, but maybe. DDD does suggest Sora and Riku will meet up with their TWEWY pals eventually.
Sora’s side of this universe is golds, oranges, and reds, while Riku’s is silvers, purples, blues. Matching their character color schemes as well as their joint reality shift Keyblade. The first shot we see is the puddle reflecting a representation of these two sides. They stand across from each other, but they make up the whole puddle. They mirror each other as Riku and Sora’s characters do in this ending, but the puddle itself is also a mirror.
And Sora’s side is the only one with puddles/reflections/mirrors. While they seem to be in the same universe, I don’t think Sora and Riku are in the same world or on the same dimensional plane. Maybe a parallel dream world situation like DDD, a mirror world like Toybox, but then, I’m getting a lot of CoM vibes, too… I also like how Sora wakes up in water, which has always represented darkness, with the camera angled at the ground, while Riku rises surrounded by bright light, with the camera angled at the sky. I just think the constant yinyang-ism of these two is neat.
Anyway, something else that stood out to me is that one of the transitions from Sora’s side to Riku’s side is through this billboard that looks to be a PlayStation ad or some kind of gaming system. We go through the screen, similar to when Young Xehanort yeeted Sora into Verum Rex.
And Riku has Yozora on his side, who we know is a video game character in the KH universe. Clearly, probably, Yozora is gonna be the link between Riku and Sora, since he’s like a fusion of their designs, color schemes, motifs. Man even has one red eye and one blue eye.
But does that mean Riku’s in the Verum Rex video game that exists in the world Sora’s in, Quadratum, or is Verum Rex Quadratum? Is it a world you can go to in Quadratum like how you can go to Disney worlds in KH? Hmm.
Then we see a hooded figure in a black coat that I’m assuming is the Master of Masters making a heart in front of the moon — gee I wonder what that means! And I’m too lazy to find another pic, but MoM is in the same gold light part of the world that Sora is. Though like I said, in this ending, I’m pretty sure Sora’s not on the normal material plane yet. Not until he wakes up in KH4.
Ah, and then the theme is “Reconnect” and that could mean a couple things. The most obvious takeaway is Sora and Riku having to reconnect since they’re separated in this ending. But it could also mean reconnecting with the reality they come from… What I want to know is, MoM is originally interested in Quadratum because it’s a place neither light nor darkness is supposed to reach, right? But in this ending, we see his hands form the symbol for Kingdom Hearts. Why would he want to summon KH there?
My working theory right now — and I could be completely wrong — but my working theory is he wants to destroy Kingdom Hearts, rid the universe of darkness and light. Just based off of what we know about the MoM, he’s lived through multiple Keyblade wars so he’s seen the destructive influence light and darkness have had with their constant clashing, seems to understand light and dark cannot exist without each other, and was obsessed with reaching a world free of light and dark — a world he couldn’t even conceive… Maybe he gets to Quadratum and realizes he brought dark and light with him from the KH reality, thinks there’s nowhere he can go that light and dark can’t reach, and decides he’s going to destroy Kingdom Hearts, God, to liberate the universe, which would literally tear apart reality… And what he doesn’t realize is that so long as people continue to care and feel and have hearts, light and darkness, and thus Kingdom Hearts, will always exist. Cue shonen hero speech delivered by Sora and/or Riku about accepting the light and darkness inside of you instead of rejecting one or the other — because accepting the darkness is how Riku became immune to the corrupting influence of it (this is also where Xehanort went wrong wanting to create a new world of only light and Eraqus went wrong in his teachings believing darkness must be destroyed. One cannot exist without the other and both are necessary, reality depends on this duality). Cue epic boss fight.
But that’s just a theory! With some of Eraqus and Xehanort’s last words being about how it’s too late for their generation but not this one, before Xehanort hands Sora the X-blade, I think it would make sense to continue the theme of this generation understanding light and dark and how to create a brighter future better than the past generations did/do, which includes the MoM.
*Yinyang was 3 months old when her mother died at the hands of unknown murderers. Mrs. Shirai was a friend of Sara (Yinyang's mother) but for Yinyang's sake she decided to keep the secret of her real family's origins so As she grows up, the name of her biological mother is not mentioned, Harumi took in Yinyang as her younger sister without caring about her peculiar features and that they did not share blood, Harumi at the age of 7 taught Yinyang to master the back, Harumi Shirai was the prodigy of the family, Yinyang was somewhat clumsy but never tried to outshine her sister. In fact, she was happy to be the shadow of her light, Harumi. However, one day they were forcibly separated because of the secrets kept... .