Prince Yu Apologist

Jiangzuo Alliance (sort of) Leverage AU?

For my @nif-exchange recipient, @star-shadows, who prompted “The brotherhood of the Jiangzuo Alliance”. Sadly I’m not good with words/art/ideas so I just made… this. I hope someone else fills your prompts because I’m also into them!

This is mostly animated because I can’t actually draw anything more complicated than basic shapes and wanted to distract people from looking too closely at the details. I also had to come up with increasingly contrived ways to cover up the hands, because hands.

Art references:

MCS & Li Gang

Gong Yu

Tong Lu

Zhen Ping

O. FOOL: Lin Shu I. MAGICIAN: Fei Liu II. HIGH PRIESTESS: Consort Jing III. EMPRESS: Mu Nihuang IV. EMPEROR: Prince Jing V. HIEROPHANT: Eunuch Gao VI. LOVERS: Gong Yu VII. CHARIOT: Meng Zhi VIII. JUSTICE: Mei Changsu IX. HERMIT: Yan Que X. WHEEL OF FORTUNE: Crown Prince XI. STRENGTH: Liyang XII. HANGED MAN: Prince Qi (haha) XIII. DEATH: Lin Chen XIV: TEMPERANCE: Qin Banruo XV: DEVIL: Xia Jiang XVI. TOWER: Prince Yu XVII. STAR: Yan Yujin XVIII. MOON: Emperor of Liang XIX. SUN: Xiao Jingrui XX. JUDGEMENT: Xia Dong XXI. WORLD: Changlin Army

For @swankitty/NiF Exchange 2018: the Nirvana in Fire characters as the major arcana, as inspired by the Persona 5 tarot.

I used the screencaps in NIF REFERENCE ALBUM for most of these, so thanks again to the person who uploaded that!

I’m never going to work on it, but I like imagining an alternate deck that includes the NIF2 characters (sorry, swankitty! please don’t read this part haha) because intially I had no one but Pingjing and Pingzhang in mind for FORTUNE and HANGED MAN. Lin Xi would have been LOVERS, the card about choices and crossroads, or maybe DEATH, like Tae in P5; Meng Qianxue might have been EMPRESS as a reference to her motherhood storyline, or STRENGTH.

Also see: Part 1 and Part 2 of this AU

Okay, I’m rehydrated. Let’s get back to crying.

JINGRUIIIIIIIIIIII

Prince Jing: I really can’t help but notice how you talk just like my old friend and have the same mannerisms as him and you know all the same stuff as he did.

Mei Changsu: …

Prince Jing: You would’ve been great friends.

Mei Changsu is not a morosexual but if he was he would be stripping right now

Liyang is too good to this dude

Prince Jing being confused by his father being nice to him is both adorable and sad

Mu Qing! My sweet baby boy how I’ve missed you

General Meng and Prince Jing meeting in the secret chamber by accident has big ‘Spiderman pointing at Spiderman’ energy

“I do this often” HAHAHAHHAHAH

All I can picture is just Meng Zhi constantly hopping around and all his subordinates just *Sigh* “oh look there’s the general again. Communing with the birds.”

Look at his face! General knows what’s up. Heeee!!

(holy shit this is the last distance drabble what is happening)

(you have like 10 hours left to submit finale prompts!)

72: Rainboots | Perfume 64: Mei Changsu/Lin Chen/Xiao Jingyan

When this was all new, when they were still prickly with sharing Xiao-Shu, and caught out in their attraction to each other, Lin Chen’s scent had kept him up at night.

Now that they’re a bit more settled, it’s something he looks forward to, seeks out with his nose against Lin Chen’s neck at the end of long days.

So this morning is disorienting. Not only are Xiao-Shu and Lin Chen fighting, but Lin Chen somehow smells completely different.

(btw I’m currently taking prompts for the Distance Drabbles finale)

01: 1920s AU | Ink 67: Consort Jing

There may be more gin joints in the city than cops, but The Palace is special. Best drinks in the city, and reliable too. This is not the sort of place anyone goes blind.

They keep a serious clientele, the kind who carry and don’t take kindly to troublemakers. Fights are not tolerated. There are rumours, too, that the proprietress is married to a don, or was and killed him.

Guzhuang Appreciation Month: favorite fashionista

Prince Jing: These ministers you introduced me to are so competent and honest.  They’re good people.  I feel a little bad that I can’t be more open with them.

Mei Changsu: mmm yeah can’t do anything about that, instead we should think about MAKING SOME PROBLEMS FOR THEM

That reunion with Mu Nihuang was amazing

Seeing Yujin be a sad puppy is very weird and wrong

Jingrui looks at him with such fondness I’m

I almost feel bad for Marquis Yan as he tries to figure out how Mei Changsu knows literally every damn thing

Mei Changsu: no I very much get where you’re coming from and there are definitely going to be murders, just not this murder at this moment

Li Gang: ‘lmao wouldn’t it be wild if they’d swapped in some random dude for the guy they’re supposed to execute?’

Mei Changsu: *looks at the camera like he’s in The Office*

Can we talk about how much I love the fact that Mei Changsu keeps a box of wooden tablets with the names of the people he’s going to ruin because that is a Choice

Xiao Jingyan: Thirteen years ago, I lost my best friend and dear cousin, Xiao-Shu.

Mei Changsu/Xiao-Shu: That’s right, you did.

Xiao Jingyan: Sometimes I can still hear his voice.