Katara: BOY???? HOT BOY?????? HOT TEENAGE BOY?????????

Zuko: *speaks*

And then it hit me.

Iroh: *sitting in a teahouse at a paisho table* Iroh, deadpan: I must capture the last airbender.  Iroh: It is the only way to make sure the powe rof the Avatar won’t be turned on the Fire Nation. Iroh: Only then will I be redeemed in the eyes of the Fire Lord for my failure at Ba Sing Se. Iroh: … Iroh: Anyway, it’s your turn.

he was the eldest son of fire lord sozin, who knew the avatar was the greatest threat to the fire nation, but also knew the new one would be a firebender and he couldn’t exactly merc his own people, now could he? but he always planned to order a convenient little assassination on whoever the new avatar turned out to be and in the meantime took out the air temples so that avatar couldn’t learn the next element in the cycle. of course, when it turns out to be his son, sozin, stellar dad that he is, thinks “if you want something done right” and shoots a fire blast at his firstborn.

zuko enters the avatar state, blows up half the palace, etc etc as one does, gets a nasty scar for his trouble, and escapes, hence why he was hanging out far enough south to necessitate katara and sokka cracking open a cold boy a century later.

all this is to say 1. i think it’s a good way to maintain zuko’s background and characterization in an au like this and 2. it leads to a secret second roleswap

What if Danny, after he becomes king, realizes that living criminals (?) and dangerous items are being dumped in the realms and he has both create a space to keep them contained/protected while figuring out who is dumping them there.

The GIW try and use this as a reason the Anti-Ecto Acts are very morally correct only to have literally every magic user and a large number of lawyers refute this.

Luthor, knowing humans become ghosts and that this is against Superman, becomes Pro-Ecto due to post-humans able to deft Superman, who is weak to magic and its like.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It happens during disciple days, Shen Jiu doesn't recognize the egg as an egg at first, dragon eggs tend to look like large rocks to deter predators from snatching them away while the parents are out.

It's just a smooth looking rock that SJ takes notice of (It's directly in the pathway of one of his shortcut routes), nothing special. Until it hatches. See, in his disciple days Shen Jiu wasn't the most liked nor the most respected, is wasn't uncommon for select disciples to group up and chase after him--spewing some nonsense about honor for that brute Liu-whatever his name was. So currently, SJ--who is using his shortcut to escape from pursuit--stumbles across the egg in the midst of it's hatching.

When a slimey--snotty dragonling peeks its head up and starts chirping loud enough to give his location away, SJ can only scoop the entire egg up (much too light to be a rock now that he's holding it) and book it.

It's not easy to hide the fact that he has a dragon but SJ manages, climbing the ranks is far easier when there's a dragon helping him regulate his qi now.

When SJ becomes a PL there's no real reason to hide it anymore, however rather than drawing attention to himself and putting a target on his head, he allows SY to assimilate naturally--leaving traces of SY everywhere until LQG "Stumbles" on SY during the caves incident and is saved. (SY is huge btw)

From that point on it's known that CQMS has a DRAGON. SY enjoys his freedom in roaming across the peaks but always returns to Qing Jing peak (the pls assume that his nest is there but SY just loves his mama actually, even though he acts all snooty and standoffish and judgemental)

Anyways so SY is fond of LBH (and trying to change the story and his mama's fate) or whatever so when the whole demon thing happens (if SQQ somehow gets affected w/ without a cure) I'd like to imagine SQQ just standing in front of the demons, a manic glow in those green eyes of his as he closes his fan and points it at the demonic elder guy. These demons go wide eyed as a huge ass dragon descends from the sky, landing in front of SQQ defensively all snarls and spilling flames from its mouth.

As she supports her shizun's drunk self back up to the bamboo house, Yingying can't help but worry. Her Shizun has never gotten drunk like this before; and though he isn't saying much, his usually stoic face is twisting in unusually open displays of emotion. It was...unsettling.

But it was also an opportunity.

"Shizun," Yingying starts quietly. "Shizun, lately..."

"Mm?" Shen Qingqiu turns his head to look at her. At the same time he stumbles, and Yingying has to quickly correct his balance. "Ah, careful, careful!"

Yingying feels the urge to smile. Her silly Shizun...

She smothers it.

"Yingying wonders if Shizun will do her a favor?"

The words take a visible moment to register. When they do, Yingying feels warmed that her Shizun’s first response was worry.

"Is Yingying in trouble? Is someone daring to trouble my disciple?"

Yingying nods, mustering up all her daring. "Shizun has been, yes."

She watches his face closely, waiting only long enough for his face to twist in confusion before barreling forward. "Shizun has been grieving- no, Shizun, don't deny it. I have seen it. More than that, though, Shizun has been withdrawn and will not confide in even this Yingying. What is wrong, Shizun?"

Her shizun tries to deflect, but Yingying expected that. In a way she couldn't have when her Shizun was sober, she maneuvers him into a verbal corner, waits for him to make a mistake, then stikes.

"Shizun, what happened at the conference?"

It was strange to see Shen Qingqiu so open with his emotions. She almost didn't recognize the shapes his brows took or the curve of his mouth like this.

Almost.

"....Shizun looks so miserable. Was it really that bad?"

".......worse than you could imagine," he pauses, glances to the side. Something flicks through his eyes- Surprise? Outrage? Exasperation??- before focusing back on her. ".....if you truly wish to know, then it's best we speak elsewhere."

Yingying gets the hint. They continue to the bamboo house.

Once she's settled Shizun in on a seat, she takes the seat across, not daring to make tea lest Shizun changes his mind.

"Shizun, what happened?"

He purses his lips. "Yingting must promise to speak of this with no one-...."

-and for the next half-hour Yingying hears of the conference from her Shizun's perspective. The chaos, the fighting, and also- also-

Oh, A-Luo...he must have been so scared.

Shizun seems to agree. There's this far off look in his eyes as he explains how A-Luo begged and pleaded. He spares no detail of the confrontation, telling Yingying exactly what he did. What he said. Giving himself no excuses to hide behind as his eyes mist and stare somewhere past her head.

Yingying doesn't need to hear his reasoning. She can guess why he did what he did. However, she still asks him anyway. She just...needed to know for sure.

"They would have killed him, Yingying. A Heavenly Demon, discovered at the sight of an invasion in progress?" He shakes his head. "There is nothing so hated amongst the four cultivation clans as one with his blood. The Abyss is hell, but atleast he would live and come out of it stronger. Death is not something so easily beaten."

"I only regret," He continues. "That I said such terrible things to him before pushing him in." He deflated, hunching in on himself. "Undoubtedly, Binghe hates this master now; and while I know I deserve it, it is a hard pill to swallow."

Yingying blinks, silently reeling. She's barely processed any of that before she's blurting out, "Then why say it at all? Shizun is not usually one to say what he doesn't mean."

"This Master panicked. Binghe has always been so sticky. He needed a way to cut ties, otherwise..."

Oh. Otherwise A-Luo would just come right back.

Yingying understands now. Shizun...really had tried his best for A-Luo, hadn't he?

That said, "Shizun must know that A-Luo could never hate him."

Resignation lined his entire body. "You more than anyone must know that Binghe, while a sweet child, gives back exactly what is given to him." Which...yes, that is true. But still-! "If he returns, it will be to return the harm I've done to him ten times over." Shizun sighs, "But that's alright. This Master will accept whatever he plans to do with me."

She can see that, in this, Shizun is resolute.

Except...

Except.

Does it really have to be like this? When her shidi returns, will she really have to watch the two people she loves suffer and fight?

No. "Shizun should find a way to save A-Luo."

Shen Qingqiu watches her with confused eyes, but she is sure. Determined. It...almost seems to fill him with a new light.

"Remind me of this conversation tomorrow."

A month later, they have a plan, and it's simple: Shizun will find an item or spell that will allow he and Binghe to switch bodies. While Yingying is helping A-Luo readjust to the human realm and hiding that he's taken over Shen Qingqiu's body, Shizun will navigate A-Luo's safely out of the Abyss and return it to Binghe as soon as possible! This way, all debts are paid, and A-Luo won't be left to stew in suffering in a pit designed specifically just for that!

(And while Shizun is gone, Yingying can secretly dissolve the entire misunderstanding! A win-win!)

Yes, a simple, foolproof plan. Nothing could possibly go wrong!

Shen Yuan transmigrates into pidw, system free he decides to frolic around the world finding monsters, being a nerdy monster biologist, staying the hell away from anything vaugely plot shaped because he is not getting caught up in that mess no thank you.

Anyway, he inadvertently winds up becoming some sort of cryptid/boogeyman to the regular citizens of the human realm. He always appears right before or alongside the attack of a dangerous monster of some sort. (It's not his fault honestly, he'll be tracking some rare beast, or following one and just happens to be around when it goes on a rampage. Ofc he uses his knowledge and cool new cultivation powers to subdue the monster, or humanely lead it away, but noone ever sees that part)

Eventually the legend of this terrifying beast master that leads monsters to villages to wreak havoc gets large enough that the cultivation sects hear about it and decide to do something.

Liu Qingge decides this is his job, terrifying demonic cultivator who can summon even more terrifying monsters to aide him? Sounds like it could lead to a battle that could actually challenge the war god.

It's almost insulting when he gets to the bottom of things and finds Shen Yuan, who definitely couldn't hurt an innocent person if he tried.

the gender ratio for azurill is 75% female whilst for marill it’s only 50%.

Wildlife rehabbers only grab animals that are hurt in some way or are in danger of being hurt because they are living where a human does not want them (such as removing a racoon from an attic), or might even be a health hazard for the human...

So... what this implies is that the original spaceship either suffered a malfuncrion and the aliens - noticing how the little ship with the migrating apes on it was suddenly breaking down - swooped in to take care of them and restore them to full health before returning them to their home planet and a popluar human colony.......

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