So Far, I Have One (1) Idea And One Idea Only For Moriarty The Patriot:

So far, I have one (1) idea and one idea only for Moriarty the Patriot:

Hogwarts AU where all three Moriarty bros are placed in Gryffindor House, but everyone knows them as "the Hydra in the Lion's Den." You can thwart one brother's scheme, but someone else always pops outta the woodwork to finish the job.

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.

The Looming Autumn Gloom

ScaraKazu + Electro Archon!Scara, yokai!Kazuha, alternate timeline, canon divergence

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Raiden Muu often asked himself,

What use is there in a God of Eternity when eternity doesn't exist?

His path between his ascension as Electro Archon to the present day has been fraught with losses. One by one, he had less companions walking by side until only one remained: Kazuha, Patron Deity of Higi Village, the Raiden Shogun's Divine Emissary.

As the sole survivors of a distant time, Muu fretted over the minor god's mortality. Kazuha was undoubtedly strong, having survived the Archon War and millennia thereafter, but he wasn't invincible. Muu would be delusional to entertain such a notion, having experienced what he had. Then, the Cataclysm knocked on Inazuma's doorstep.

While the Raiden Shogun fought in Khaenri'ah on Celestia's behalf, his Divine Emissary contended with a darkness that threatened Land of Eternity. Both emerged victorious from their campaigns, but Kazuha was tainted by the filth the darkness brought. He deteriorated day-by-day before his archon's very eyes. He would vanish and leave nothing behind except a husk.

In the centuries that followed, his desperation mounting, Muu sought every method that would save Kazuha.

Everything failed.

Ultimately, the archon watched in abject horror as his beloved warped and contorted into something eldritch: an arborescent wretch with barely a humanoid shape. Only its cadaverous face, empty eyes, and dingy mane of once-shining hair reminded him of Kazuha, and the looming shadow of his death threatened to drive him insane. (Perhaps he already was after Kazuha lost the last of his wits and never spoke another word again.)

Just when he finally resolved to grant him the mercy of death, the Fatui harbinger, Dottore, appeared to him before the throne. With a wide grin, the Doctor offered him a solution to his dilemma as long as he turned a blind eye to their activities. Muu accepted his terms.

That was how he became part their project in Sumeru, helping them revitalize Kazuha as a new god.

ScaraKazu + puppet!Kazuha, A/B/O

Kazuha (O) was made as a companion for Kunikuzushi (A)—Yae Miko's idea. She said, "The world's easier to live in if you're suffering together," and Ei eventually gave in. Before discarding her first model project, she created another, and if he looked a little like the Kitsune Saiguu, it was a coincidence. Then, she abandoned the puppets together in the outer world.

ScaraKazu weren't designed to be lovers from the get-go, but they were compatible, and neither Ei nor Yae were surprised to learn they married. In equal measure, they weren't disturbed when the couple accepted an invite to join the Fatui. Kunikuzushi especially flourished in their ranks, eventually rising as No. 6 of the Fatui Harbingers: Scaramouche. Kazuha, on the other hand, didn't earn a title like that.

He didn't become one of the Eleven, but he was Scaramouche's right hand. No one sneezed at him. To be the cantankerous Balladeer's wife—a very well-loved wife—he had to be some kind of formidable. There was also his mastery over anemo to worry about. (A windstorm in a soft shell.) He wasn't so strongly disliked as Scaramouche was, tho, and that's why Kazuha handled most of the diplomatic affairs. Negotiations that were supposed to go smoothly tended to go smoothly when he represented the Fatui.

Scara was tactful when he wanted to be—e.g. when he first met the Traveler—but he almost never wanted to be. Genuine thoughtfulness was reserved for his wife and his wife alone b/c he was actually worth a damn. They were also the same. In his own words, "Neither mortal nor god, nor fate itself, is qualified to be my judge." Ofc the sentiment extended to Kazuha. They only had each other, and it'd remain that way 'til the end of time.

If JZX is resurrected…

After he’s brought up to speed, he explains his side of the story and expresses suspicion about the whole situation. JYL doesn’t care, ofc, bc he was still murdered. Why should any circumstances mean she has to forgive him?

He won’t refute her about her right to deny WWX forgiveness, but this quiet vitriol she spills is startling. He is equally disgusted when she says that WWX owed it to everyone to resurrect JZX at the cost of his own. There’s no need to be grateful.

JZX then tells her that she has revealed her true self, that she’s as wretched as he thought she was years before. He stalks away without listening to her pleas to stop.

Just saw some MDZS fan art on Twitter about JYL not being able to forgive WWX for killing JZX and it killed me, seeing those expressions so here’s what WWX does next: he uses a modified Sacrifice summon right then and there in front of JYL and brings her husband back. This modified version basically sacrifices his own life to revive JZX who wakes up right there in his own coffin, confused as hell.

https://twitter.com/jiminsi_arts/status/1491688269415092225

Oh my god I saw that on my twitter a few days ago and it’s just gorgeous! The artist did an incredible job capturing WWXs guilt and desperation to be forgiven and JYLs coldness and contempt and almost indifference to him. It gave me flashbacks to the JYL kills WWX au.

I am a simple-minded fool with a single brain cell, and as soon as I laid eyes on Vanitas, my immediate thoughts were, That man is very beautiful and wife material; thus, he is an omega.

Thank you for reading my nonsense.