#beiguang mafia au

[yuniemaki]

Dancing in circles

A beiguang mafia au. Beidou x Ningguang. Art by Taro Rating: M Status: Complete Content Warnings: organised crime, gun violence, drug dealing, gang violence

Summary: Thirteen years ago, Ningguang vanished, but Beidou will not give up on her first and only love even when she returns a criminal. After all, in a time long lost, they made a promise.

Chapter list on AO3

Cruelty in red

Just business

Stasis

Secrets

Dancing in circles

Rules of the game

Weeds in the garden

To play the game

The right thing

Consequences

Turbulence

Web of lies

Lingering feelings

Love

Blood oath

Kind-hearted

Mine

Equilibrium

One last game

What is love?

Caduceus

Yours

Restoration

Ours

[ineffablewives]

hey everyone, Gaya here!

Uni is killin me rn but I managed to still edit ch 5 of my beigguang modern au, so i'll leave yall a sneak peak and the link to previous chapters!

Ningguang chuckled softly: “I really hope this event will be a nice experience…” she added then, more to herself than to the other woman.

“Don’t worry, remember, if ya ever get bored, ya can always call me and I’ll come there to save the day!” she proudly announced, hands on her hips and a wide grin across her face.

“I appreciate the thought but, please, don’t come and crash the party,” joked Ningguang, a faint laugh escaping her pink-ish lips.

Beidou would do that tho.

Only if necessary, obviously.

A lil short this week, but see ya on sunday for the whole thing!

[beiguangauzine]

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Beiguang week day 1 to 4, im still doing the rest, i just got commissions to finish :D

Mafia Au

Mythology Au

In which Beidou found a giant fox, tried to beat it, lost her eye, tries to find it again, only to find a lady in the forest.

Supernatural Au

Where Ningguang is a ghost who's been following Beidou since she's the only one that can see and hear her. of course, she fell in love with Beidou because i make the rules 🤣

Modern Au

based on this

[cadriona]

WIPs and Bunnies

Came back to edit this post a bit, so here’s the ao3 account and below are the current ongoing fics and potential fic ideas I guess? might make a complete fic collection under a line break idk

Current Ongoing Fics(?):

Mora for a myth (complete)

potential mora snippet/oneshots (kokomi chapter)

atla x genshin cross: beidou, ningguang, keqing, and yelan yeeted into atla via reincarnation (book 3).

feral!beidou au: baby beidou is adopted by haishan and co., there are consequences (assumed longfic, currently has like 700 words to its name and im actually going to make an outline for it) (progress since last update: nil)

Amnesia au

superhero/vigilante au (ongoing)

anni video inspired au

...trigun stampede ep12 canon divergence amnesia fic (chap 1/5?)

mermay beiguang! i blame the vashwood big bang server (affectionate)

Plot Bunnies (the list that I look at and cry):

arcane x genshin: beiguang gets yeeted into runeterra 2 years pre plot and accidentally adopts most of the main cast (longfic?) idea yeeted

Yeet Liyue cast into Marvel via reincarnation and watch the fires as they give fury an aneurysm

at most would be series of tumblr posts??

tokyo ghoul au?? also beiguang, see post here

idea yeeted to plot bunny graveyard

...beiguang witcher au (probably yeeted, because i am a petty person ig)

miscellaneous crack fics that spawn willy-nilly

EDITED: JUNE 30 AND IM DONE MY DEFENCEEEEE

Completed fics (see below the cut)

Beiguang fics:

mora for a myth

5 times ning saved beidou and the one time beidou returned the favor

Beiguang weiqi match in the forest

modern au chaos

fireman au crackfic

good omens au

mafia au

post ningguang dress reveal crackfic

crackfic (there are a lot of finches)

post jade chamber fall

vacation pre drinking event

beidou dies, ningguang suffers

sickfic! to fix the hurt no comfort of the prev fic aioehgaoie

dragon god beidou and human ning (...lemons)

soft morning after (unrelated to prev)

beiguang week fics as nicknamed by prompts

first time (lemon)

moonlight (werewolves and midautumn)

dragon and phoenix (set post mora for a myth)

vacation (post bartending event)

toys (LEMONS, also set in taro’s dragon god beidou au)

family (beidou meets ning’s parents)

hurt no comfort as inspired by yet another art by taro lmaoo

xianxia oneshot for the genshin femslash server zine

...sex pollen

soulmate (shared pain) au

spy x family au

possessive ning that can see an eldritch god au...?

Others:

mona/keqing wing au

mona/keqing historical fantasy

ATLA au where beiguang, yelan, and keqing are yeeted into the elemental nations

Eisara wings and healing

shenlan 3+1 meeting fic

yelan matchmaking beiguang

eisara modern semi-mafia au

guiping fic: a final melody (oh singer of the dust), much character death, much author’s misinterpretation of history

[jesterjangles]

b. beiguang mafia au my beloved

[tinylethologica]

wip challenge

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs. You can make your own post or reblog this one! This isn’t just for writing either. Sketch titles? Comics? DND campaigns? If you have an unfinished project, it counts!!

tagged by @liquorisce—thank you so much for the tag (even though i'm horribly inactive on here hehe...) not naming the multichapter stuff i've already posted, and i'm tossing only some of my stuff in here since a few pieces are zine-locked rip, but! here we go, with my absurdly boring titles:

eremika merman au

eremika vampire au

twiyor, rain

xiaolumi, arranged marriage au

guili, to bend what cannot be bent

xiaolumi, on bondage and love

venlumi, at the edge of nothingness

chilumi, boomer (this reads like a crackfic i swear to god)

kokosara, mafia au

xiaolumi, ghost lumine

guili, lost interludes (still need to get this done)

beiguang, dress (if anyone asks i'm going to spontaneously combust)

eimiko, religious play

guili, on the meaning of desire

albelumi, cannibalism

scaralumi, nightingale au

shenlumi, first time

xiaolumi, nightmares

lumine x reader (because why not)

zhonglumi, why protect?

albelumi, create and repair

ayatolumi, playing coquettish (this one is long overdue i'm not sure if i'll ever finish it rip)

akaza history (demon slayer)

mona app

[sheriffgaymelia]

There is a Beiguang Week on Twitter but we wanted to share it here as well ❤️💛

First prompt : Treasure / Pirate /Mafia AU

Ningguang loves money but she is Beidou's most precious Treasure✨

[beiguangevent]

Welcome to the finalized list of prompts and AUs for Beiguang Week, based on everyone’s amazing suggestions and feedback!

We’ll be running from ✨ March 8 to 14 ✨

use as many or few prompts as you like! 

be sure to tag us @/beiguangevent and/or use the hashtags #beiguangweek2021 and #beiguangnsfw2021 

we ask for SFW previews for us to RT, if possible! 

go out, create, and have fun!!

Prompts:

Treasure / Pirates / Mafia AU

Flowers / Devotion / Mythology AU

Storms / Sacrifice / Supernatural AU

Letters / Distance / Modern AU

Bodyguard / Scars / Role Swap AU

Stars / Promises / Sci-Fi AU

Happiness / Firsts / Free Day!

[yuniemaki]

Dancing in circles // ch18: equilibrium

Read on ao3 Series: Genshin Impact Words: 70k+ Rating: M Pairing: Beidou x Ningguang mafia/triads AU

Summary: In their story, twin serpents will reunite in the shadows, entwining together like a caduceus.

Sneak peek:

When the door closes, Ningguang allows herself to pay full attention to Beidou — to her quivering lower lip and her trembling frame. She lays a hand on her arm. “Beidou,” she softly calls, drawing the other woman’s attention to her.

Beidou shakes her head, swallowing her words and staring at the floor.

Ningguang’s eyes narrow. She grips Beidou’s chin tightly, forcing the brunette to look only at her. Beidou scowls.

“Speak.” Ningguang’s order falls like the lash of a whip. Beidou flinches, but keeps her silence.

The Tianquan lets go of her chin, tangling her fingers into the other woman's hair, and tugs. Beidou winces, following her motion and sliding off the chair. She kneels before Ningguang, her head tilted up by Ningguang’s hand. 

The brunette is still quaking. Ningguang’s grip in her hair loosens, and she silently cards her fingers through Beidou’s brown tresses, smoothening the tangled ends.

“Ning,” Beidou finally whispers, “I can’t…” She sucks in a deep breath, pressing her knuckles on her knees as she seeks comfort in Ningguang’s eyes. “I can’t lose you again.”

“Neither can I,” Ningguang replies, quashing the bile rising in her throat at the thought of Beidou wounded, hurting, lost to this world. She cups Beidou’s cheeks in her gloved hands as she bends, pulling her face forward until their lips meet. “You cannot,” she murmurs between kisses, “Give your life away… so easily.”

“Speak for yourself,” Beidou growls, rising from the floor. The brunette pushes her back into her chair, her grip painfully tight on Ningguang’s shoulders as she leans in, sealing their lips again. This kiss tastes of possession and desire and pure, unbridled selfishness. “You’re mine.”

[yuniemaki]

Ch20: What is love? // Read on ao3 Series: Genshin Impact Words: 90k+ Rating: M Pairing: Beidou x Ningguang mafia/triads AU

Summary:

I love you to Celestia and back; I'd give my life for yours— I promised you the world; don't make me break my word.

Sneak Peek:

By the time Ningguang turned 23, she had formed a plan.

She was born out of wedlock, a misstep in her parents’ meticulous plans. Their second misstep was attempting to pass off as a normal family, for in that mistake Ningguang found her. 

It had been a series of coincidences, a cruel twist of fate. 

Ningguang never intended to sit next to Beidou at recess, never intended to make a friend. She had wanted a moment to herself before she’d head to the rooftop of this school and put an end to her parents’ little games with her. 

But Beidou — that new transfer student, sitting sullenly by herself on a bench away from the others, wearing her sorrow like a cloak — Beidou had drawn her attention and captured it in the palm of her hand. There was something about her melancholy that Ningguang understood almost instinctively, the way an animal might recognise one of its kind.

Beidou, standing strong in a swirl of cruel rumours presuming to know why she was orphaned, taught her what her parents could not.

Beidou, through all her kindness and love for life, taught her how to utterly destroy them.

Ningguang started small, whispering venomous words into the ears of her peers, the ones she knew admired her mother, adored her father. She wondered aloud why they’d spend a few years pretending to be a normal couple, letting their only daughter attend a public school. Why, it didn’t make sense at all. Hell, they were nearly killed on that fateful night.

Indeed, they agreed, it was ridiculous. What possessed them? Why did they give birth to Ningguang away from the triads, in a home away from their family? It was unfair that they would celebrate the birth of their daughter without the ones who made their power possible. Why was she not born directly into violence; why did they keep their daughter away from their work in the beginning? 

There was only one answer.

She planted the seeds of doubt in their heads, leaving throwaway remarks and parallels that she lovingly cultivated into hatred. Hatred not for the Qixing, but for the love that existed between her parents. 

You see, brother… love is a weakness. 

She met with Bolai, the Liyue Police Department’s most promising police captain, in the dark of night. She handed her parents’ plans to him on documents paid for in blood, be it her own or her brethren’s. She crafted layers upon layers of deception, endured beating after beating in silence when her parents inevitably suspected her of double-crossing the Qixing. She doctored her own files in the police department’s archives when she learned Beidou joined the police, determined to keep her far, far away. 

Love is a weakness.

Ningguang fanned the simmering waves of dissent, the susurrations that love had blinded the Tianquan’s judgements. She watched these soft, barely audible whispers grow in strength and numbers until she heard her own goals echoed back at her: the Liyue Qixing should not be led by weak lovebirds, but by one.

She made her move two years later with the full support of the Qixing’s inner circle and their finest sniper by her side. She watched her parents drop to the floor like useless sacks of meat, and closed her fist around their unimaginable power.

But as her eyes met Beidou’s for the first time in 13 years, she was wrenched all the way back to a precious time — a time where it was just the two of them skipping rocks on a riverbank, daring to dream of a future brighter than the stars. 

Beidou, who taught her everything she needed to know for her to finally sit on the throne — was now an enemy. She turned away before her heart could shatter, before the memories she cherished so dearly could break her once again.

Love is a weakness indeed.

[yuniemaki]

Ch22: Yours // Read on ao3 Series: Genshin Impact Words: 90k+ Rating: M Pairing: Beidou x Ningguang mafia/triads AU

Summary: After all, light always casts a shadow.

Sneak peek:

“I’m sorry, my heart,” she murmurs, cradling her cheeks tenderly. “I wasn’t going to risk a repeat of what happened at Baizhu’s. Their leaders may be dead, but” — she pauses, recalling Ningguang’s own harsh words — “the game takes no prisoners.”

And I won’t let anyone use us like this again.

A faint smile tugs Ningguang’s lips upwards. “You… remember.”

“I remember many things about you, Ning.” The way her eyes soften every time she looks at her; the way her smile crinkles the corners of her eyes; the way her hand feels just right in Beidou’s palm. Being here, with her, feels inevitable: as if Beidou could trace their love all the way back to that day when Ningguang first sat next to her at recess and discover roots there, the seed that would blossom into this. 

The other woman's cheeks redden, almost as though she can hear her thoughts. 

[yuniemaki]

Dancing in circles // Ch17: Mine

Read on ao3 Series: Genshin Impact Words: 70k+ Rating: M Pairing: Beidou x Ningguang mafia/triads AU

Summary: But they have always been two sides of the same coin. Nothing more; nothing less.

Sneak peek:

“Beidou.” Her name rolls so very gently off Ningguang’s tongue, despite their weeklong silence. “A word?”

She sits.

Ningguang takes a deep drag. Beidou briefly entertains the thought of slapping the vape pen out of her hands and putting an end to these petty little attempts at hurting herself. “Do you know” — another drag, and Beidou wrangles her fingers under the table — “why my parents were jointly called the Tianquan?”

Beidou freezes. Her mind completely blanks, and she simply watches Ningguang puff smoke out of her nostrils. 

“Celestial balance,” she breathes, a hint of wistfulness in her voice, “Balancing the very heavens. That’s what it means.” 

Equilibrium. It is, Beidou supposes, just like how light always casts a shadow. One cannot exist without the other, for their joint existence gives it value. Take the perception of power, for instance. Power corrupts, blinds, enslaves. Beidou has always feared power for those reasons alone. But Ningguang embraces power precisely because.  

Two sides of the same coin. Twin serpents that maintain equilibrium. One led its people into the light; the other stayed in the darkness, grieving as it ate its own tail.

“Balance,” Beidou repeats, and understanding dawns on her the way the rising sun illuminates a slumbering sea. If Ningguang is the bloody darkness, then Beidou is her—  

Ningguang’s eyes never leave hers when she says: “How can there be balance if there is only one?”  

For just a moment, Beidou struggles with words the way a juggler with too many items would. “You, uh… you have a very creative way of saying you’d like me around, you know,” she finally jokes when the words settle in her throat.

Idiot.  

Ningguang doesn’t smile. As she slowly lowers her walls, Beidou lets her gaze wander over her, tracing the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, down to her dark circles and quivering lower lip. Quietly, the brunette rises, rounding the table and kneeling before her. “I’m sorry,” Beidou whispers, laying a hand on Ningguang’s thigh. “I… I needed the time to work through… to find answers. For myself.”

Ningguang looks down at her, one hand slowly carding through Beidou’s brown tresses the way a queen might love her consort. “Have you found your answers?”

Beidou leans forward to rest her head on Ningguang’s lap. Slender fingers close around the back of her head, keeping her still. “Yes,” she breathes into soft, supple skin, her mind on the sins she has committed and has yet to commit. 

She stays on her knees for several heartbeats longer, held in place by Ningguang’s hand in her hair. The Tianquan finally unwinds her fingers from Beidou’s tresses, and she lifts her head to look into tenderness, quiet and red.

[yuniemaki]

Ch19: One last game // Read on ao3 Series: Genshin Impact Words: 90k+ Rating: M Pairing: Beidou x Ningguang mafia/triads AU

Summary: When have things ever gone according to plan?

Sneak peek:

When Ningguang turned 21, her parents did not throw her a coming-of-age party. Instead, they brought her out of the Jade Chamber for the first time in three years. She was blindfolded in a limousine and brought to a warehouse, the name of which Ningguang never learned. Shipping crates and boxes were stacked sky-high to form a labyrinth within the space. She lost count of the number of turns she'd had to make, though she recalled passing a cabinet of hammers and a shelf of rifles. Finally, her parents stopped, and removed her blindfold. She laid eyes upon a young man around her age, bound to a chair with a plastic bag tied over his head.

The Qixing thugs around him yanked the bag off, and he gasped and sputtered for air. 

“What did he do?” she demanded, eyeing her parents warily.

“Killed a brother,” her father replied, “He has broken our oaths.”

“Hand,” her mother said.

Ningguang held out her hand, feeling the cold weight of a gun drop onto her palm. She deftly gripped the handle, checking the cartridge. One bullet. 

“Kill him,” her father ordered.

She stepped forward, years of isolation and training leaving her numb. She pressed the muzzle against the man’s forehead, noting how it slid across his skin, damp with sweat. She too, had shivered and shook staring down the barrel of a loaded gun. But unlike him, she would ensure her parents never found out.

Before she could pull the trigger, Ningguang made the mistake of looking into his eyes.

Brown, almond-shaped eyes, wide with terror; his mouth opening and closing like a fish out of water; his pupils darting nervously from side to side. Beads of sweat trickled down his forehead into his eyes, and he squeezed them shut. “M–mama,” he whimpered, “I–I’m scared—”

Of course you are. She pressed the gun harder against his forehead, watching more tears spill from his eyes. The visage of utter horror on his face, the ghostly pallor of his skin — it reminded her of Beidou, the way that spark in her ruby eye died when she spoke of how her parents passed away.

They died like this, shot in the head, innocent bystanders in a meeting between Wangshu and the Qixing that quickly turned ugly on her parents’ orders. They'd told her themselves. The game showed no mercy to those who succumbed to pity. But Beidou had been an innocent child, caught in the crossfire. The shotgun bullet had blown through flesh and bone, embedding shards of her father's skull in one eye. 

Only once had Beidou ever let her see her scarred eye. A pearlescent white iris, encased in faint hues of red.

“Ningguang.” Her mother’s voice was stern. “You cannot hope to succeed us if you can’t even kill a man.”

She didn’t answer; she stared at him, feeling her hand starting to tremble. What would Beidou think of her, if she took a life? She’d just be another criminal, like the ones who killed her parents in cold blood. This would kill what was left of her heart, the piece of her that still treasured life, the only thing that set her apart from the crime lords she called her parents. Would Beidou ever forgive her? 

Would Beidou still love— 

Her thoughts screeched to a halt when the barrel of a gun rested on her own skull. She stiffened. “Shoot,” her father breathed in her ear, digging the barrel mercilessly into her hair. She winced, cheeks burning in humiliation as hot tears stung her eyes. “Kill him, or I will kill you, darling.”

Tears fell unbidden as a familiar icy terror calcified in her veins. Her very blood seemed to stop flowing in her body, freezing all the way to her heart. This fear would be here to stay, she knew. Once she committed this sin, it would make its home in her bones; it would devour her until there was nothing left to love. Even so, Ningguang thought, perhaps this was exactly what she needed for fear to consume everything left of her; for fear to become her greatest weapon. If she could conquer this fear — she could conquer even them.

“Ah-Ning,” her father hissed, jabbing the gun violently into her temple. She whimpered. “You’re taking too long.”

“And you’re being too merciful to our daughter, bǎobèi,” her mother said, a hint of tenderness creeping into that deep voice of hers. “Hesitation will kill her long before you do.”

Tenderness she reserved only for her husband, never to her child. All these years they kept her hidden away in a massive prison, learning the art of blackmail, bribery and torture; to be their scapegoat when the inevitable happened. They imparted all their knowledge to her so that she could be the perfect bait, so that she could take the fall when their enemies struck, and none save for the Qixing itself would be any wiser. The day she was finally murdered in their place as the 'Tianquan', they'd start over. She'd be buried six feet under, if not hung from a tower for the world to see.

Ningguang felt a pitcher in her mind tip over, filling her heart with molten rage. Hesitation would kill them long before it killed their only daughter. She would make sure of it. She would play the game and turn all their knowledge against them. After all, Ningguang was taught by the best. She would not lose.

Her brow furrowed in determination; her grip tightened on the handle. No matter who had to die — even if she had to give up everything —  she would take their lives with her own hands, as much for Beidou as for herself. She would reign over the underworld that her parents loved more than their child. Ningguang stared at the hapless man quaking beneath her. He was nothing but a pawn; a stepping stone to the future she now saw. 

Ningguang poured her love and her dream with Beidou, all the memories that made her smile, into that single bullet sitting in her gun. Her gaze hardened like water freezing into ice.

The safety lock disengaged with a flick of her finger.

I’m sorry, Beidou.

Bang.

[yuniemaki]

Dancing in circles ch14: Love Read on ao3 Words: 50k+ Rating: M Pairing: beidou x ningguang mafia au

Summary: Love ruined them once and love can ruin them again. But despite it all—

Sneak peek:

Ningguang traces the scars along her arm, each one a memory of a fight or a murder in the name of the Qixing. She forged numerous friendships in the triads, fanned the flames of dissonance against her parents. Most of these friends have died in service to her, even those who had originally carried out her plan to kill her parents. One by one, she’d traded the lives of those she trusted to cement her power, until only one remained.

She can’t possibly touch Beidou with these bloodstained hands. But by Morax, she longs to. Or perhaps, if touch is too much indulgence for the sins she has committed, she’d settle for just hearing her name fall from Beidou’s lips again… before she dies.

The embers flare, yearning to ignite.

Ningguang keys in Beidou’s number once more. She stares at it, downs her fifth shot, and exhales. The buzz in her head is strong, and it whispers softly in her ear, what can go wrong?

What indeed?

She presses the call button, watching the screen as it begins ringing. A pause, and the screen loads: 0:01. Ningguang imagines Beidou saying, “Hello?” and rests her hand on the phone—

A gun presses against the back of her head. She says nothing, stiffening ever so slightly at the feel of cold metal digging through her hair, pressing into her scalp.

[yuniemaki]

Chapter 15: Blood Oath

Read on ao3 Series: Genshin Impact Words: 60k+ Rating: M Pairing: Beidou x Ningguang mafia AU

Summary: A blood oath is sworn; their paths now intertwined. But terror is a powerful monster that only time and persistence can tame.

Sneak peek:

No sooner has the door closed that Beidou feels the cold muzzle of a gun pressed against the back of her head, and hears the sound of a safety lock being disabled. She stiffens.

“She’s mine,” Ningguang says, her authoritative voice carrying across the silent chamber. She lets go of Beidou’s arm — Beidou spots her jaw hardening in pain — and joins the older man in front of them.

The pressure on Beidou’s head lifts. She swallows thickly, finally noticing the gangsters lurking in the shadows, just barely out of sight. 

The Tianquan turns, the splitting image of the criminal lord Beidou has glimpsed countless times as a police captain. The artificial light of the safehouse bathes Ningguang in a fiery golden glow, weaving across her silvery-white hair like an ethereal crown. Despite her flimsy hospital garb, Ningguang still looks ever so regal, even more so when the members of the Qixing emerge from the shadows to flank her and the older man. Beidou lifts her head to see more gangsters on the second floor of the safehouse, some leaning on the railings and others sitting with their legs dangling over the edge. 

Her gaze returns to Ningguang, whose presence is breathtaking, mesmerising, suffocating. There is a beauty to her, cold and clear, like a finely-honed blade glinting in the light. Not a single soul dares to breathe in the silence, and Beidou knows that she would bend her knee long before Ningguang even asks for it.

“You stand before the Liyue Qixing,” the Tianquan says at last, “Beidou.”