#tundra lovers don't interact

[tadhop]

tundras have always been ugly as sin to me so I'm glad I can just replace them completely with these nice good looking new lads

[chocoenvy]

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tsarita x Phoenix!Darling

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GET BACK HERE-!

okay but actually

The two of you met before she had become the archon, when you were both happy teenagers/young adults and caught up in puppy love.

Of course, we don't know much about the Tsaritsa's past but I think something happened to her. Perhaps a situation similar to Qiqi's where the only reason she's now alive is because she was granted the power of an archon or something to that effect. And perhaps that's why she's fairly monstrous, because after she died she didn't remain completely human.

And perhaps you were caught up in that as well and had died. But you didn't come back. When the Tsaritsa had woken up, you weren't beside her like you always were. Instead, you had died.

That's what she believed anyways.

I did some minimal google-ing and from what i've seen phoenix's tend to live in deserts like Egypt and the Arabian desert. And I believe Sumeru has a desert!

So my thinking is that reader was perhaps reborn by the original dendro archon or the new one or something like that- idk timelines are weird. Either way I think you'd end up in Sumeru as a phoenix, unknowing of the fact that your lover is alive and the new archon.

The angst potential with this is terrifying :) like imagine if you took up a lover while you were in Sumeru bc you thought the Tsaritsa was dead. Imagine in the Tsartisa did the same thing and-

and imagine you decided to visit Snezhnaya, your homeland, out of nostalgia. To see your home no matter how much its changed over the decade(s) you've been gone.

Perhaps you fly there since you're a phoenix and you're spotted and taken in. Because no ordinary phoenix, burning brightly with fire, would travel to the cold tundra of Snezhnaya. Surely you must have some other motivation?

Blah blah blah all that stuff, and in the end you end up coming face to face with the cryo archon. and it's her.

You were both alive and so so happy to see each other. GOD the potential with this is so scrumptious <333

And bc i said so, you have an extremely high body temp while Tsaritsa has very low so it's very cute and all that <33

and... what if i added a bit of spice into this? Sometimes I'll see people writing about the Tsaritsa being jealous of the reader interacting with other archons. Very delicious. BUT what if this was because in the past, before you knew the Tsaritsa was still alive, you had taken up one of the other archons as your lover?

You admit this to the Tsaritsa, the guilt eating away at you, tears pricking at your eyes, and she's heartbroken. But she understands. That doesn't mean she's not jealous, quite the opposite in fact.

If you wanted we could shove some yandere-ness in here. Making it to where the Tsaritsa kept you all to herself in her cold palace and you thinking it's alright because you're so sorry for the fact that you were with someone else while you thought she was dead.

Or we could keep it relatively fluffy with a big pouty and jealous tsaritsa <333 Needless to say you two are inseparable. Even when you inevitably die and have to be painfully reborn from the ashes, she'll remain by your side and keep you safe in her cold cold palace.

if my depiction of phoenix's were wrong ....uhhhh oopsies