Have a weird, fluffy pre-canon (but with ramifications) AU for Nine Sols in mind that I'll lovingly refer to as the "Terror Four" AU, inspired by some pieces by @austin-arts and can be thought of as a variation on @velveteen-vampire's Childhood Friends AU.
The big change is that at some point Jiequan and Goumang ended up moving to Xia when they were younger and ran into Yi and Heng, and eventually became fast friends.
Now, the reason it's called the "Terror Four" is because that's a nickname given to them by their neighbors and the like. They got along like a house on fire and proceeded to raise absolute hell for the next several years. They mellowed out as they grew up but remained tightly-knit as ever.
Jiequan: This is mister "Heroism is forged in Agony" we're talking about. Responsible for half the (surprisingly well-thought-out) insanity that the four got up to.
Heng: Goes along because she thinks it's fun. Basically the team heart. Usually the one who manages to drag Yi into things.
Goumang: Genius she may be, but still a streetkid at heart. Has a lot of strategies and advice born out of experience.
Yi: Goes along because someone has to make sure that these three idiots don't end up arrested - or worse. Tends to be the one to bail them out if not involved. Ignore the fact that he's as reckless as they are. (See: that time he stood up to Jiequan's bullies and got a black eye and a partially torn ear for his trouble.)
To give you an idea, you know that scene from the beginning Big Hero 6 where they get arrested? Yi's Tadashi and the others are collectively Hiro.
Adding to this, what eventually put Yi, Goumang, and Jiequan on the map for the Tiandao council was that they collectively had a reputation not to dissimilar to the CalTech Rocket Boys (y'know, the guys who got kicked off campus after a rocket test blew up their building and eventually went on to form JPL).
That said, things do go different - e.g., the Mystic Nymph incident. Make no mistake, it still goes wrong, but Yi's okay because the other two took one look at the thing and banned him from working on it unless he agreed to run tests from behind a blast shield.
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