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Springtime in Gusu✦.

“Lan Zhan~!” Wei Wuxian smiled and stretched his legs out over his husband’s lap, watching those snow-white ears perk up with a poorly veiled peak in interest. Lan Wangji lowered his book somewhat, those beautiful, wintery, golden eyes peering over the pages as if greatly inconvenienced, but Wei Wuxian knew better. “Wei Ying.” Wei Wuxian grinned, stretching out his bunny feet without a thought before rolling over and hooking one of those long legs over the man’s shoulder. “Didn’t you know? It’s spring.”

Read the full Ficlet on Ao3! (It is rated Mature so keep in mind!)

THE AU IS NAMED "Sun's Out, Buns Out!" ❤ (so, SOBO!)

This is a gift for @mdzs-owns-my-ass-i-guess and as a secondary perk, a feel-good bit of writing for you guys to read after the GOM update! I hope everyone has a good week, it seems everyone's having a hard time lately.

Hi,

Sobo, Bade, and Agassou are all considered royalty within Haitian Vodou, along with a lot of Rada spirits in general. While some spirits had significant changes when they crossed the Middle Passage with the kidnapped and enslaved Africans brought to the island of then Hispaniola, those ones really didn't change that much.

Sobo and Bade are considered brothers and military generals and they do have a lot to do with thunder and lightening. In the asson lineage, they are often considered to guard the djevo/initiatory chamber and the new initiates. Their energy is carried quite a bit in the laplas and pote drapo ceremony that happens during larger fetes and is a part of kanzo. Folks will say they don't come in possession any longer, but that's something that really only been said in the US...they are seen often in peristyles in Haiti.

Agassou is also royalty and is probably even less changed than Sobo and Bade. In Dahomey, he was the progenitor of a royal lineage in what is now Allada in Benin. Alada figures heavily in a lot of songs for Agassou and other lwa. In Benin and nearby areas all the way into the Congo, he is or was heavily associated with men's secret societies. Some of that translated through the Middle Passage to places like Cuba, but that is not how he is present in Haiti. He is embodiment of the connection to Ginen.

Sobo, Bade, and Agassou also have a significant presence in the Dahomey rite as practiced in the Souvenans area in the lakou there. They are also regarded as royalty from the Dahomey kingdom. Gran Lakou Souvenans Mistik is considered to have a direct portal between Haiti and Benin, and count their rite as descended from Dahomey.

Agaou is a little different. He is associated with storms that have thunder and lightening, as well as hurricanes, sometimes earthquakes, and other types of natural phenomenon. He is generally considered to walk much more closely with St Jean Baptiste and the Ti Jean closely associated there and Kouzen. A lot of people fear Agaou and consider him dangerous and violent, but it depends on relationship and lakou, really. Some folks say Agaou is closely associated with the office of the head of the Allada army prior to the founding of the modern states in Africa, and some associate him with the father of Touissant L'Ouverture who held the title of chief of the army of Allada.

At one point, Agaou told me he is in the air and sees everything from where he is above, but your mileage may vary, of course. Similarly, I had a dream a very long time ago about Agaou working very closely with Sobo and Bade (and inviting me on a road trip in a red convertible, but that's neither here nor there), but again...YMMV.

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