#yym: doe

[onmyo-jin]

[foxofninetales]

By any other name by fox_of_nine_tales

Written for the DMBJ Rarepair Exchange 2023 as a gift for @onmyo-jin​

Fandom: DMBJ | The Grave Robber’s Chronicles and related fandoms, Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity fusion

Relationship: Hei Xiazi/Liu Sang/Xie Yuchen

Rating: Teen

Tags:  onmyouji Xie Yuchen, Fox Spirit Liu Sang,guardian demon shishen Hei Xiazi, First Meetings, Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe          

Summary:

The ashes of the past are turned to snow, and snow melts into spring blossoms. A night-hunt, an unexpected meeting, and a new beginning.

Excerpt:

The creature moves warily; he doesn't trust at first that he has lost them, but as one minute follows the next and still there is no further attack, the pattern of his movement changes: slower, and more stealthy, looking around for any hint of pursuit rather than fleeing half-blindly. He spends half an incense stick just hiding in one spot, seemingly settled, until Xiao Hua can feel Xiazi's boredom rubbing against their connection like sand. Xiao Hua himself is starting to think that maybe they have guessed wrong when finally the demon begins to move again - and this time with more purpose. He backtracks for a ways, along the path they had all followed, and then veers to the east.

"Soon," Xiao Hua whispers to the night, and feels Xiazi sharpen.

Author’s commentary:  

(fic spoilers ahead)

My specialty in exchanges lately seems to be "extremely specific cross-fandom fusions that will only interest 5 people on the planet". Whoops! But I know my recipient is a big Onmyouji fan, and the world of the YYM:DoE movie is so lovely that I couldn't resist dabbling in it.

I knew I wanted to play with shishen names and their meanings, and have the meanings of the DMBJ character names be used as their shishen names, but... look, poor Liu Sang really does have a singularly inauspicious name. The kindest way I could find to twist a name full of death and endings was to look at them as part of the yin-yang dichotomy, as endings that must happen for new beginnings to take place. ...annnnnnd then the theme of the fic hit me like a Mack truck.

I did not decide for Xiazi to be a crow-demon, but he decided that, and I've learned that sometimes it's best to let the character do what they want. In little worldbuilding notes, I especially loved coming up with Xiao Hua's past shishen.

Read it on AO3

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[historicalasiandramas]

The most iconic het ship moments in historical Asian drama

Fangyue x Zhongxing (Yin Yang Master: Dream of Eternity): "I will always remember your name"/ "Let Fangyue [the sword] be with you when I [Fangyue the woman] cannot"

Baahudeva (Baahubali 1 & 2): human boardwalk & tandem arrow scene

[londonfogmonday]

"Before my master died, he told me to go to the Eastern Realm, where he would teach me one last lesson. At first, I didn't understand, but I do now."

[newkittypoom]

rewatching qingyaji and the juxtaposition of the convos between changping and shouyue, then boya and qingming????? yeah this show is as queer coded as fucking possible with chinese censorship

[hugemilkshake]

https://www.tumblr.com/hugemilkshake/753197827746922496/hey-can-you-do-more-uhself-aware-cookie-run-au?source=share

Incase you want another part...if not, feel free to yeet:

Y/n encounters dark enchantress with affogato...y/n panics and is like https://youtu.be/xSC910M-yyM?si=znWtTmUA_7CenRvk

Aaand then discovers DE just wants to spoil them to and so do the rest of the COD...

Theeen good guys burst in and y/n, thinking that good guy cookies are gonna think they are on COD's side and kick their butt...y/n again is like https://youtu.be/xSC910M-yyM?si=znWtTmUA_7CenRvk again.

Both sides gotta calm y/n down and both make sure y/n is comfortable...then two sides fight while y/n is set off to the side gently with their favorite snack, drink, and given headpats...aaand then winning side takes y/n...which I presume will be good guys! Like they bring y/n to their place, make sure they feel fine, enjoying their room, etc...

Enjoy the milkshake! I need more affogoto in my life. Idk why but to me, he’s skruncly

Panicking because of plot relevance

-platonic self aware-

-pt 1-

You have been traveling with Affogato for a while now and he’s honestly quite nice to have around! He will show discomfort with sleeping in the wilderness but you can’t blame him

Affogato does have some odd tendencies, like he always agrees with you no matter what and he just seems like he’s hiding something from you

But you don’t let that be a bother, your just glad to have someone to talk too… that was until you met the person who Affogato was working for…

Dark Enchantress.

You’ve heard of her and know she’s no good. So when Affogato introduced you to her, you were horrified. And well you wouldn’t admit it but you were willing to still travel Affogato because you were scared that if you didn’t, you’d end up dead

But to your surprise, Affogato started to brag about how great you are. Saying that you didn’t even know any “heroes” and you could persuade people pretty well since you had recently become a traveling merchant

To your surprise Dark Enchantress actually took you and Affogoto back to base???? You were confused but frankly too scared to speak up since you could end up dead if you cross this woman

But so far your stays been pretty nice, you’ve been getting good meals, a nice place to sleep in and it’s just chill. Affogato does stay by you most of the time.

But one day you heard a commotion… now everyone except some cake monsters were gone so that was odd… but you heard a very familiar name get called out… a name that Pitaya Dragon mentioned once or twice…

“Hollyberry Cookie…”

[olderthannetfic]

A bit of a distraction: The only reason I know that Onmyoji exists is because I saw a doll of one of the characters, black hair, big red symbols over his brows, fox ears. I kinda really wanted it but since those dolls are expensive as all hell, and I only wanted the doll because I like the head, I had to come to the conclusion that it wasn't for me. That smile tho, pity pity.😔Especially since I prefer getting a naked doll and making my own clothes, and the only option was getting all the clothing, make-up and hair. Seeing that it's not a show on netflix brought all those thoughts back, and now I'm gonna watch the show because I'd like to see who that character is, in case he's part of the show.

I hope this was a good distraction from some of the more tense asks. Confusion is also a form of distraction.

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Haha.

Sounds like a particularly foxy take on Abe no Seimei who is an actual historical figure but also basically Japanese Merlin—i.e. the prototypical wizard figure constantly borrowed into pop culture of various types.

One of the pieces of folklore about this guy is that his mother was a fox spirit. He accreted a pretty hefty body of legends in ye olden times, making him ripe for pop culture use now.

Basically, Yumemakura Baku wrote a bunch of novels about him in the 80s where he's hanging out with Minamoto no Hiromasa (another actual historical person, though not someone known to be buddies with the real historical Seimei), and it kicked off a feeding frenzy as everybody put five-pointed stars (Seimei's symbol) all over everything and adapted the novels a billion times.

Some of the more recent takes have been two Chinese movies: the lulzy Yin-Yang Master, based on the cell phone game based on the novels, and Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity, where Hiromasa got an upgrade via a lot of black leather and a bad attitude.

(Boya and Qingming are just the Chinese readings of Hiromasa and Seimei's names in Chinese characters.)

I'm partial to the old Japanese live action version that YYM: DOE was heavily referencing. Less black leather. Similar level of hoyay.

[forerussake]

What is YYM fic? 👀

hi marron :D wheeeee more fic talk time yay!

the YYM fic (first gradually) is this fic, with 7 chapters already up on ao3, but still about 2-3 to go to my best estimate. it's an attempt at a post-canon continuation of the Yin Yang Master: Dream of Eternity movie, examining the possible repercussions of Boya giving his life force to wake the Vermillion Bird. i started writing this for a halloween event of the DoE discord server, so it does strongly lean into the gory, body horror-y.

the basic premise being: what if the destruction of the Vermilion Bird statue fused Boya and the Bird's spirit together in Boya's body, and what if that started causing permanent changes to Boya's physiology? the result is a fic about bodily autonomy, about the fear of the unknown, about confronting our own demons, communicating the incommunible, and finding connection with the unconnectable.

i never got to that last part unfortunately, bc uni work got in the way, and then I watched Guardian, and there was absolutely no way back from that rabbit hole... but I really do wish I could maybe finish it one day, muse willing :)

thanks so much for the ask <333

[heyninja]

love not given lightly

Boya has trouble summoning the aspect of Vermilion Bird. Qingming gets some ideas on how to shake that loose.

M-rated, for non-sexual Shibari, praise kink, and a LOT OF FEELINGS - and @the-pudding-is-a-lie of course had a hand in this with their wonderful wonderful art.

This was a labor of so much love. Hope you like it!

[octoswan]

[sharkbeneaththelotus]

For @onmyo-jin s fic "One Last Dance"

[onmyo-jin]

[forever-in-phapundao]

possible watch options for tn:

korean bl (one of many i havent seen yet)

the other ying yang master movie

[londonfogmonday]

[newkittypoom]

is it possible to rewatch yym dream of eternity for the first time again???? i wish it was