Jeanne, As An Alpha: If My Love For Vanitas Keeps Growing, And We See Each Other When I'm Like This,

Jeanne, as an alpha: If my love for Vanitas keeps growing, and we see each other when I'm like this, the moment our eyes meet, I'm afraid I may push him down and make him bear our children! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Tea shop owners!Zuko and Iroh are basically the Cabbage Man if the Cabbage Man was actually an important character. Like, Zuko abandoned his so-called "mission" once he came to the realization that his father is just hateful and all that jazz.

The ship is where they live still, but they acquire or build a transportable stall they take into (mostly port) towns to sell Iroh's magnificent blends. They eventually settle on something like "the Popup Tea Shop" as a name. (Hehehe. It rhymes.) True to their canon forms, they introduce themselves as Li and Mushi versus Zuko and Iroh to anyone who asks.

The Gaang's first encounter with them happens while the uncle-nephew duo are in search of a rare plant for a new summer special they've been concocting that can only be found in the South Pole. There's a conflict, of course, between the parties, but there's no time for it when the Southern Raiders appear to investigate the big-ass beam of light that lit up the sky. Everybody works together to defeat the Raiders, mutual understanding is reached, and they go their separate ways. Unfortunately, news of the Avatar's return escapes into the world still.

The Jasmine Dragon appears after the Siege of the North Pole; Zuko's ship is destroyed by Zhao because Zuko remains the Blue Spirit who frees Aang from Pohuai Stronghold. The pair can't just show their faces anywhere they want now and build a new life in Ba Sing Se until that investor gives them the opportunity to run a new shop of their own. Then, Azula ruins everything by infiltrating the city, and Zuko joins the Gaang officially in the Crystal Catacombs.

A Tomozuha Folktale

Inspired by: Erutan's "The Willow Maid"

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In the years Raiden Makoto still breathed, her sister and kagemusha, Raiden Ei, heard the singing of a young man as she patrolled Yashiori. A mortal, Tomo, sat beneath a uniquely-shaped maple that loomed over the rest on the island, and she found herself charmed. With a face that befitted his voice, she decided then that she would have him. She was gently refused, however, and he replied that he couldn't leave this ancient maple ("Kazuha," he called it) to which he was married. If Ei had sensed its spirit or taken note of its semblance to a mortal, she didn't show it and simply left.

She would return two more times to beckon Tomo to leave with her, but his stance was firm. He reasserted his place at Kazuha's side, and as emphasis, a boyish beauty emerged from the maple's base, clinging to his arm. Unfortunately, his presence did not faze her.

On Raiden Ei's third and final visit, she brandished her lightning and struck Kazuha down, declaring Tomo hers now that his "so-called wife" was slain. She forced him away from the blackened, smoking husk, triumph on her face until he collapsed after a mere few steps. A soulmate following his other half, Tomo took his dying breath before his form faded into a singular lycoris. It bloomed on that night and that night only. Thus, Ei returned to Narukami alone.

Been a long while since I thought about MDZS, and after reading a couple Royalty AU's, I began wondering about one in which the central characters are the Juniors. An omega WWX is enjoying retirement as Empress Dowager Zhehuang alongside his alpha, the Emperor Emeritus, previously the Hanguang Emperor. First Prince SZ was named Crown Prince despite being an omega and ascended as the dynasty's reigning empress. Before his coronation, he was already married to the only alpha son of the noble Jin clan, Prince Consort JL, and after him, OYZZ entered the household. LJY is Jiang Jingyi, heir to alpha JC and omega LXC. (I know: a ~real~ switcheroo.) As for a plot, there really isn't one; I can only imagine that a child of JZXun or any other uppity noble attempts to stir up trouble within the royal family.

Many years ago, I read a fic where Claude was Sebastian’s child with William. I still subscribe to that fic idea to this very day, and I came up with—what I believe to be—the greatest line,

“So, the child wants to eat from his mother’s plate instead of his own, does he?”

for when Sebastian’s talking about Claude’s intent to steal Ciel’s soul from him. Claude’s response,

“Well, I’m sure you’ve heard that there’s nothing quite like a loving mother’s home-cooked meal.”

Saw a funny FB pic that showed the difference between hares and rabbits, and I thought of WangXian, but it's Harexian and Bunji. Soft round boi next to tall, lanky menace.