#baekcheong

All members of the Heavenly Comrades Alliance (well, or the majority) roughly understood the habits of the feline species. But after the arrival of their commander, they had to delve much deeper into them.

For example, it was customary for snow leopards, which Cheong Myeong was one of, to carry their tail in their mouth when walking, as it was too large and got in the way.

Because of which, all members of the alliance had to watch as their commander, with a proud and bitchy expression after beating up yet another bastard, took his comically large, fluffy, and damn cute tail in his mouth and walked with it.

"Maybe we should tell him that this completely ruins his whole image of a strong and fearsome opponent?" one of the disciples asked cautiously.

"Don't you dare, or Dojang will stop doing it."

"And then we'll send you down the mountain headfirst."

"...Crazy bastards."

And the fact that it was two alliance leaders saying this– Seol Sobaek and Namgung Dowi, made it all the more sad.

* * *

"Wait, would catnip affect Cheong Myeong the same as ordinary cats? Or not, because he's a leopard?" Jo Geol suddenly asked, because of which everyone in the room turned to him.

"How do you know about that?"

"Oh, for God's sake, you're all just like that rascal Cheong Myeong! I was born into a merchant family!"

Tang Soso nodded thoughtfully and abruptly stood up.

"We'll check right now."

.....

For the sake of the experiment, the Five Swords and the monk unanimously decided to deceive Sasuk, who usually got the most of the catnip during training, and observe.

Baek Cheon tried to refuse, of course, but who cares about his opinion.

"..."

Baek Cheon's face began to sweat under the intense gaze of the vertical pupils.

After a short period of rampage and beating up the disciples, Cheong Myeong completely calmed down, which was out of character for him. And what was even stranger, he simply got really close to his Sasuk and... Rubbing against him, began to emit a quiet purr.

"Lord Almighty."

"Is this the end of times? We're all going to die now."

The disciples' reaction was unequivocal. But paying no attention to them, Cheong Myeong had already literally climbed onto Baek Cheon's body.

"..Soso, I think the experiment was a success. Maybe we should rescue Sasuk after all?"

"Did you see his eyes?"

"Huh?" After looking closer, Cheong Myeong's pupils really were too dilated. "Oh. He's high."

"And what do you think he'll do if we try to take Baek Cheon away?"

...

"We're leaving. Someday the smell will fade and we'll take him back."

" Traitors!" Baek Cheon shouted, as Cheong Myeong began to lick his cheek, and his long tail completely wrapped around him like a rope.

(A small sketch of snow leopard Cheong Myeong that I drew a long time ago.)

had to draw these two once i saw that canon baekcheong stretching art it's crazyy (ref pose here!)

I have been craving BaekCheong, girl, but like... Cheongmyeong falls first, you know? There's so much where Baek Cheon falls first and is pinning around and i love that but i'm stressed af these days and i need these two chaotic idiots being happy, i think everything is funnier if Cheongmyeong is the one all worried for feeling things and having to sort it out by himself first (without torturing Baek Cheon with the uncertainty)

The worst thing you can do to me is those fics where Baek Cheon is so in love with Cheongmyeong but that dude isn't over Tang Bo and that one is even still dead, i'm going to kms at least revive him, pleASE

I actually am also sightly insane for an idea i myself had in a sleep deprivation hallucination where Cheongmyeong falls in love with Baek Cheon and they get together all shyly because Cheongmyeong, for all he can do and knows, is only familiar with the worst of humanity but he doesn't know about those soft feelings and forms of affection, Baek Cheon is the one more emotionally intelligent, so he keeps expressing love in all the ways he can so Cheongmyeong can choose which ones he likes best

And then he keeps reflecting on this and how much he loves Baek Cheon and how weird is using that word for that feeling because is unlike anything he ever felt but he knows how to love because he loved Cheong Mun and Jin as his family and Hwasan as his home and...

And Tang Bo.

And that's the thing. He did love before but he didn't care, he didn't understand it, he barely even demostrated it. (TangCheong here can be unilateral or bilateral as you like) He doubts Tang Bo ever considered, suspected it, nothing, they were friends and brothers and the closest person to each other, but...

Is only now, until Baek Cheon, that Cheongmyeong can say that he knows how to love. To care, to protect and be protected. Baek Cheon tries to find him halfway everytime and even in this new relationship he's the one teaching Cheongmyeong and taking all his firsts. All of these moments that belong only to Baek Cheon now and he loves him loves him loves him so much.

And now he knows he loved Tang Bo too and it hurts so fucking much because is one more thing that he wasted in his first life like the time to train and every word of his sahyung, but also is so funny and stupid to realice now that he loved him and Tang Bo didn't notice either because he was supposed to be more emotionally aware that Cheongmyeong but is clear now that they both were two halves of the same idiot, none of them doing anything about those feelings, such children they were.

He has Baek Cheon now and he likes the closeness and their similarities and their differences, he likes that Baek Cheon cares so much for his hair and his beautiful face and even more beautiful sword and his stuborness and his eternally honeyed lips. He likes him when he's clean and brave and when he's a mess and stupid because his heart is pure and Cheongmyeong can trust him to point a path in the dark, even if it isn't the best one, but towards the correct place.

Tang Bo is a memory tinted pink now, a first love and he must be laughing so annoyingly in the heavens knowing that. But Cheongmyeong somehow is glad to not miss him for that, even if Baek Cheon can't replace Tang Bo, the truth is that Tang Bo can't dull nor overshadow the vision of Baek Cheon now before him.

Or something like that idk my mind is a mess heLP ME all interspersed with scenes where Baek Cheon and Cheongmyeong hold hands and get drunk and, specifically before the moment Cheongmyeong finally conects that he loved Tang Bo, a moment where Baek Cheon buys him another green ribbon because he bought one for himself and the vendor had one in that expensive-looking green that they seem to find only in Sichuan and thought that it would look nice in Cheongmyeong since he likes green and Cheongmyeong is all like oh fucking hell why do you torture me like this and Baek Cheon is like the fuck are you talking about and then Cheongmyeong goes to complain about it to Cheong Jin and cuts there

The scenes should be only about moments with Baek Cheon, there can be other people, but not flashbacks of the past to keep it ambiguous, only Cheongmyeong using brain cells around Baek Cheon and suffering about it

Oh my god i wrote this but not my fucking paper i need someone to end me oh my goooooddddd