#blind au

Okay now…hear me out. There is two ways this can go, I’ve been cooking this for a while in my head and I finally need to get out of my system.

So this first one is for my TangChung enjoyers who are starved (me too)

Okay so first way this can go is, during the war against Cheon Ma, Chung Myung becomes blind when one of the Demons is able to target his eyes and SOMEHOW manages to injure his eyes. Tang Bo is there to help him get steady and then flee despite Chung Myung’s protest that he was fine—!

Tang Bo obviously ignores this and gets far as possible and hides away nearby with an angry Chung Myung in his arms. He’s terrified when he turns to look at Chung Myung’s face because, it’s so bloody, marked with claws that so clearly wanted to do more that just claw at Chung Myung’s face, those claws wanted to crush his head. Tang Bo tries his best to salvage the situation but what was he supposed to do?, Tang Bo cleaned and bandaged Chung Myung’s face, who had gone silent, just hissing and grunting when Tang Bo poured alcohol on his open wounds. The unspoken reality that was rapidly becoming a scary truth weighted heavily on the two inside the cave they cowered in. Despite being one of the best doctors in his Tang Family, some things weren’t just salvageable, not when he was running dry on medicinal ointments. They were far from Sichuan too—matter of fact they were far from the Central Plains surrounded large mountains and hills. Chung Myung had fallen asleep after the hasty treatment Tang Bo had given him, Tang Bo decided it was best if he watched over him and monitored his injuries.

—later on

Chung Myung wakes up to pure darkness. He could hear Tang Bo shuffling about across the place they were in. He knew Tang Bo’s footsteps the best after all. He squinted his eyes open but he still couldn’t see. Assuming he had bandages on his face his hands reached to touch his face but Tang Bo immediately grabbed his wrist, “what are you doing?? Don’t touch your face I was changing the bandages! You might infect yourself with your filthy hands!” Chung Myung stopped, he blinked, squinted his eyes…still nothing. “Bo-ya, are my eyes open?” “Yes, Hyung they are—“ Silence. It was a deafening silence. On the rain that had begun to pour was comfort to Chung Myung. “Hyung…Can you..not see me?” Shaking his head Chung Myung frowned “…No.” Chung Myung could feel Tang Bo go stiff, his grip on his wrist tightened and Chung Myung couldn’t care less because he had something far worst to worry about.

AND SO ON, maybe a little more canon compliant but this is my first idea. Basically just Healing TangChung right here.

SECOND IDEAAA—Chung Myung gets accidentally reincarnated into a blind child. Again still a beggar child…just more kind of more pitied than in canon; I don’t really have a story for this one HOWEVER I do have some pretty good headcanons :D;

- Nobody in Mount Hua realized that Chung Myung was blind at first. Everyone just kind of assumed his slight clumsiness was normal. (Within the month that it took him to reach Shanxxi he had managed to learn how to use Qi to see his surroundings as “echoes” of his surroundings)

- (idk how they find out about his blindness, I’m still cooking up an idea for that) Only Mount Hua and alliance knows about Chung Myung being blind.

- Chung Myung instinctively touches the faces of the 5 swords as a subtle way of imagining their faces—his excuse? Well he has to make sure who is the best looking so he can put them as the face of Mount Hua! That’s the only reason of course.