Okay so first and for most, I haven't been active in the starry court/eclipsed sounds fandom for a long time now, so I don't know the theories that had come up, or how many of them have been answered or are still vague. But here's an idea:
Pretty sure we still remember the drawing that had Hxvoc standing next to his car and we see (what I assume) the Earth's remains in the background. (The photo I'm talking about:
With that out of the way:
What if... One of the Starry Court's member did?
What if they have gotten into a fight with the humans (for some reason) and one of them didn't watch how much they used their powers and ended up blowing up the whole Earth?
But another question arises:
How are still humans alive on Luna II?
Simple! They were already colonizing Luna II when it happened, they saw the whole thing go down, and now they fear the Starry Court (which was, I honestly think, wasnt their intention)
I do think the story also takes place the future (compared to the mentioned theories above). I mean, how could it not? The remains of the palent look cold and dark, no signs of anything burning or anything reaming on the surface of it. (Although it might only look like that because of how it was drawn). And the original story of how the humans angered the gods is a long lost tale now, and honestly this could explain why Hxvoc was literally mad at them in one of his demo songs (if I remember correctly)
Now another question: Which Starry Court member did?
I think it would have been Saros, simply because they feel more carefree then the others... But if you guys have any ideas let me know.
(edit: I decided to visit the THS forums scanner twitter account, and saw that the story, does take place in the far far future. I mean there was a guy asking if the cactus was real or not or how to spell it. It was sweet to see how others explained it to them tho.
Also this kinda could conform to the long lost tale part, if they don't know about the basic biology of old Earth, how could they know what some gods did all those years ago)
I like to play with random ideas about my favourite characters, for example:
How would Suirei react if she saw Shisui (Now Tamamo) alive and well. I honestly think there are two options (for me at least)
First: If Shisui gets the random idea to go back to Li and find her sister and children (although I think that would never happen). I feel like if Suirei saw her at the front gate of the villa, she would tear up and run straight towards her, hugging her tightly in fear her sister wasn't actually there, wonder if Shisui is actually alive, or she had died and her sister's soul has come to guide her.
Second: If Ah-Dou (for some god forsaken reason) decided to go out and visit the country (AGAIN mostly CANT happen) the other side of the sea (the same one Shisui resides in) and she brings Suirei along (I mean, based on LN5 apparently she can bring her out of the villa, so). And somehow COINCIDENTALLY their destination is the same place where Shisui is (the cherry on top would be if they brought Maomao along too).
They're walking around the market when Suirei would see a familiar, too familiar in fact! She would stare at it for a long time. The last time she saw that face, the owner it had been shot at the chest with a bullet, she sees the Cicada carved out of jade, wearing as a necklace. She looks at her, both of their eyes can't believing what it's seeing, then the short girl rans. The other dashed after her, and Ah-Dou only notices her niece is gone, when she's deep into the crowd still running after something, or someone? She follows her. Suirei runs and runs, she feels her left leg getting tried, but she can't stop now, she can't loose her. The other girl dashes through the crowd with more ease, blending well into the other people around her. But somehow she can't get her off her back, she can feel it in her spine, how is she doing this?
Meanwhile Ah-Dou gets close to Suirei. She calls out but that falls on deaf ears, she's only focusing on one thing, and now Ah-Dou sees who Suirei is after. The short girl turns and seems like she had vanished into an alley, there's a wall she has to climb, anything for her to forget the past. She stacks some boxes she can use as a stair, but she falls. She thinks she still has time, but when she stands up, she hears a name that hadn't been heard in this country yet, it's her older sister, they look at eachother, neither moves, neither says anything more than that name. The girl hears, who she assumes, is the care taker of her older sister, calling out in vain, why would she answer now? She has so many questions that she wants answers too.
Two girls look at eachother, both of their faces tainted with confusion. Then Suirei hears her little sister say "I'm sorry"
while i've been reading the LNs (i'm only on the ninth one currently, so there's still plenty i don't know), ever since Tianyu was introduced, i've had this feeling that his name sounded strangely familiar but couldn't quite put my finger on it. and then, unrelated to that, i was looking something up about Suirei (since she's my fave <3) and was reminded about something else - the name she went by when posing as a eunuch was Tian. i checked and it looks like it uses the same character as in Tianyu's name, even
might just be nothing more than a coincidence, but i thought that was a fun detail, considering the two and their somewhat similar but also very different dynamics with Maomao. they're both really skilled in medical areas (Suirei with drugs, Tianyu with surgery) but while Maomao, despite their tense history, seems to respect Suirei's skills a great deal and still thinks about her positively every so often, she clearly doesn't hold Tianyu in high regard at all. she's also a little more jealous of his surgical skills, compared to with Suirei, where she instead seemed excited by the thought of this person matching her intelligence. Maomao and Suirei did have a bit of a rivalry too, but Maomao and Tianyu's doesn't have that same mutual respect at all, with Maomao thinking he's irritating and Tianyu considering her a nepotism hire
I know I talk about the Jinshi, Suirei, Shisui, and Lishu being siblings in my head a lot (not biologically, more like three were adopted) and Ah-Duo as their mother.
But oh my god it's just so sweet and cute to think about them. And the chaos they would bring if they were introduced to eachother in childhood.
I like to think Suirei accidentally called Ah-Duo "mom" one time, and Ah-Duo was over the moon, same with Lishu, she usually calls her Ah-Duo but sometimes she says mom, and she doesn't even realises it.
Here are some concept doodles of Suirei as a lindwyrm (which is a dragon type that is from northern/central European folklore) and Jinshi as an Eastern dragon (or more commonly known as the Chinese dragon)
As somebody who also has a modern au, i want to know more about yours? Like if the monarchy is abolished or if baby swap never happens.
Okay, so before I start: like how mentioned in the hashtags, I did not write this story down. (Only bits and pieces about the Ka family, since I like to focus more on them then any another)
Yes! There's is no monarchy in my au, like I don't mean they aren't rich, most of them can live pretty comfortably, and they're also popular in their own town. However, that doesn't mean that the tension between families is also erased. Like for example: The Late emperor and Shishou were on good terms. But him and Yang are not. (Especially after Yang found about what Shishou's wife, Shenmei, did to Suirei and Shisui).
Now, about the baby swap. While the late empress regnant did force his son to adopt his child with Anshi. (Because she has this twisted mind set that only boys can rule, and the Late Emperor is still a pedo here, but now an underground one) She never had the urge to stop him, because he "died" in prison before anything could happen to him. She (Anshi) still hates him to the core. Now the Ka family originally lived in a different town than the rest and then they moved to the town that they're currently living in. (Again now, this is related to the Late Emperor)
(now just as a reminder, I DIDN'T WRITE THE STORY DOWN (or at least, not fully) so something most likely will change as we go on, and also Im trying to make some sense of the jumbled mess that's in my head, because originally, I just simply saw Jinshi, Suirei, Shisui and Lishu as siblings, and Ah-Dou as a single mother, but as you can see, it shifted quite a bit)
Honestly I do wanna dwell on more about my au, but I really didn't want to go far away from the original questions. So feel free to ask more! ^^
A little bug has crawled into my brain and said, "psst, you should do this"
Fun fact about this au:
Suirei, Shisui and Lishu, were taken away from their parents when they were young (Suirei was 8, Shisui was 7, and Lishu was 5) and all of them got adopted by Ah-Dou and Yoh a year later after they got taken away. So those four above have a sibling relationship between each other here.
I got so bored that I started to think about some alternative ""badass"" names (like, names that may appear next a character's name in a fighting game, or something like that idk) for some apothecary diaries characters: