My Head Goes Around

- Luo Binghe is basically the Rocky of this crossover AU, but instead of an engineer, he's a researcher from Qing Jing research facility

- Worked under, and was an assistant to, his senior Zheng Yang on the Xin Mo

- only survivor, and throws all his effort into trying to figure out why those around him are dying for seemingly no reason, even abandoning the original mission out of grief and anger

- Shen Yuan (The Grace of this AU) only much later figures out that the crystals that grow in the cracks of his body are the only thing that keeps him alive against the radiation

- this trait is only on him, and his parent, Tianlang-Jun, as the rest of their lineage had died to a natural disaster because they didn't want to ask for help from the other eridians

- these cracks are extremely fragile, and Lotus had a few good scares during his Pebble years becuase of bullying from other pebbles that said he "sounds funny" (the markings are a weird smooth texture not usually seen on living eridians, and they Don't Like That)

- Shen Yuan on the other hand thinks that they're beautiful, and is a little disapointed that basically no other Eridians have them, becuase he assumed that if one did, they all did

- when he meets Tianlang-Jun for the first time, he still thinks his Lotus has the most beautiful marks, especially becuase he associates it with a comforting night light like when sleeping back on the Hail Mary

- Lotus tries to come up with a good name for Shen Yuan, but something gets lost in translation, and he ends up with "Endless Abyss", which is what eridians call space becuase they 1 cant see anything and 2 cant see the end of it

- Shen Yuan does not know this

- Lotus and Shen Yuan have a lot more trouble making it back to Erid here, becuase while Lotus knows how to capture and make the contraption to capture Tomeba, that doesn't extend to actually making it (hes a reasercher, not an engineer)

- Though it doesn't take as long to get to Erid, becuase Lotus realized the Tomeba is literally eating Xin Mo pretty quickly, like Shen Yuan is only a week away instead of a few months. This also means they have more time to siphon the asteophage fuel completely to the Hail Mary so they can go faster

- Other Eridians are basically anyone whose not a Cang Qiong Peak Lord, mainly demons or wives, im thinking Mobei-Jun as Adrian for one, becuase Big and Blue

- Lotus and Polar (Mobei) are probably not romantic Mates here, but are best friends becuase Polar is the only one who would actually intervene with the bullying (ther would be others that didn't bully him, but wouldnt DO anything about it, like Orchid (Ning Yingying))

- Polar visits the reaserch station a lot to see his romantic Mate, Hamster (Xiang Fei), not that Hamster knows this yet

- Polar ends up being able to get Hamster as a romantic Mate while Lotus is gone, and there's a whole thing with Lotus thinking that Polar has moved on, but Polar insists that Lotus was their first Mate, and they intend to keep it that way

- While Shen Yuan and Lotus are still completely OBSESSED with eachother, and are both Monster Fuckers, its completely platonic. They save their worlds through the Power of Friendship.

- For the other characters I'm thinking Shen Jiu = Strat, Yue Qingyuan = Carl, Liu Qingge and Og Shang Qinghua as Shen Yuans cremated that died in the coma, and Wei Qingwei and Qi Qingqi as the ones that died in the explosion

- All of Lotus's patches and marking had to be put on one leg becuase it was the one with the least amount of markings, and was the least likely to be damaged by the carvings

- Polar and Lotus had only just become official mates and had not even got the Mate patches yet, because it takes a long time to plan out where one would fit on Lotus without hurting him, before Lotus was asked by Zheng Yang to be his assistant on the Xin Mo mission

- When Lotus returns to Erid, he gets four carvings, one 'remembering those who have fallen', one 'first successful mission into space', his and Polars Mate marks, and a band that circles his Lotus mark with two large circles and a small star in between (Earth, Erid, and the Hail Mary, which was more of a home than Xin Mo ever was)