have tiny art block but here's a few sketches of the au. i was thinking of having mu qing be kurama in this au, only because the plan i have makes it work. originally, i wanted to have mu qing and feng xin be the shrine spirits but i want them to have bigger roles instead. here's a few ideas i'm thinking, especially if i do a mxtx crossover:
nanami - xie lian
tomoe - hua cheng
kurama - mu qing
mizuki - lang qingqiu
himemiko - luo binghe
kotaro - shen yuan
dragon king - wei wuxian
otahiko - shi qingxuan
i plan to keep who mikage is a secret cause i wanna make maybe a little comic in the future. i STRUGGLED about who mizuki would be for it to make sense, and i mean w lang qingqiu's relationship w xie lian and his hatred for hua cheng, it only makes sense for him to be mizuki since him and tomoe butt heads over nanami. kurama!mu qing i have semi plans for, theres just one little issue i need to think of. and yes, feng xin does have a role in this, it just so happens though his character appears a little later in the manga but he fits him perfectly, especially w kurama's character hehe... obviously, shi qingxuan has to be the wind god otahiko, especially w how flamboyant they are. originally, i wanted qingxuan to be himemiko for the fact of he xuan or even he xuan as himemiko, but i need he xuan for someone else... and if i do a mxtx crossover, i can make it work somewhat. i will be working beefleaf and fengqing into this au, no worries. it'll just be taking a bit of tweaking, just like how wwx is literally the dragon king just for this to work, and he'll have lan zhan too. but this is a hualian focused au, or them center stage w a tgcf focused background. im not covering himemiko, that's obvious why luo binghe is her if you know the plot haha.
im working on something else too, that im not really talking about it so i had worked on that instead of the au and then i got bored and wanted to draw tomoe!hc. xie lian gives me art block, im not comfortable drawing him really yet, so mq was next best. plus i wanted to show him off.















