though my soul may set in darkness it will rise in perfect light; i have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night
[Claire x Jane parallel requested by @erinmangerer]

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though my soul may set in darkness it will rise in perfect light; i have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night
[Claire x Jane parallel requested by @erinmangerer]
So like- my last idea but kind of the opposite-
Macaque, Wukong, and Xiaotian from RWTS were just simply eating breakfast one day, when suddenly a small portal opened above them.
Standing up and ready to fight, only for calf Redson to fall through, bloody and whipped, and weakly whimpering and crying, the portal closing after.
Obviously a thing that connected their world with another for merely seconds.
What would they do?
Oh they're adopting him.
But first.
Poor little Red Son gets to see Wukong and Macaque, the two he barely remembered and who his mother had spit nothing but venom and pain about, r a g e.
They were angry. Furious. Wukong's war form was barely contained, golden power leaking over his skin, and Macaque's shadows were slowly reaching across the entire room as his mystic ears spread wide and glowed, trying to hear who had dared to harm his godson. It takes them a while to figure out that this Red Son wasn't their Red Son.
Then...
There's Mk. Xiaotian. The little Star.
Who gently touches the wound of the other boy. Who looks at him with a pain and horror he doesn't understand.
Then his head tips back and a screech of wrath and anger comes from the small child. Red Son suddenly finds himself being cradled by small arms that are so strong and safe feeling, and soon the two are scooped up into the glowing arms of the Monkey King as he rushes them to General Ba to assist him in healing the small calf.
Revenge on whoever dared to do this can wait.
First it is time to make the injured calf healthy and safe.
It LITERALLY PAINS ME when people think Dolls distancing himself from Wynonna is just because she’s pregnant/pregnant with Doc’s kid (presumably) when that’s not really it.
He’s distancing himself because he thinks that letting Wynonna go to be with Doc is best for her and the child. He is doing what he thinks is right for the greater good, which in this case is the woman he loves and her unborn kid. He’s doing what he believes is proper and respectful, by bowing out. He would rather completely repress his total and complete devotion to Wynonna so that she can be happy raising her child with the father of that child.
He’s is obviously SO FUCKING WRONG IT’S NOT EVEN FUNNY, but that’s what makes it tragic. Wynonna is not a traditional person. She wouldn’t choose Doc just cause he’s the daddy, she doesn’t give a flying fuck about what’s “proper”. She wants Dolls, but she is terrified of accepting good things in her life because deep down she doesn’t think she deserves them, so when Dolls puts up his walls, she’s gonna let him. I also think she’s having a hard time really believing that Dolls loves/likes her, and so when she’s just on the verge of accepting it, and he runs away, it’s kind of like, Oh, I was right.
If Wynonna was straight up like, Dude, I want to be with you, let’s raise this kid with Doc around, too -- Dolls would not hesitate in the slightest. That’s not the kind of person he is. He would love that baby like it was his own.
He just won’t let her make that choice on her own :(
(For proof of my reasoning, you can read this EW article where Andras talks about Dolls repressing his feelings for the greater good)
Kinda feeling down so obvious we're overdue for some angst-
Mk, son of Sun Wukong and The Six-Eared Macaque, emperors of the three realms, was just six when he heard the news.
That his godmother, godfather, and godbrother were missing without a trace.
The boy has never really met them, only knew vague details about them but he knew, from his parents' words, that they loved him so very much and had wished to meet him.
When Xiaotian hit eighteen, he decided to live alone on the mortal realm.
As a test for himself.
Wukong personally had his advisors choose staff to accompany his kid despite how Xiaotian didn't want to.
A few months passed and everything was fine.
Except, well.
He always heard the staff talk about one servant.
A servant who was mute and made not a single sound.
And they were talking badly about him, strangely he never heard a name, just heard them complaining about "The mute one"
Talking about his appearance, about his work, disregarding him and calling him stupid.
Every time Xiaotian went over they fell silent and that one servant would already be gone, moving on to the next task.
It was frustrating, cause Xiaotian never wanted someone to be mistreated in his home.
Today he was determined, today he hunted down each of the staff and gave them an order.
Leave now, and you get the day off.
No one argued, all left.
He was sure he left no one but that one servant he never saw.
He searched the castle, cause his parents were that extra, and finally found him.
Red hair, tan skin, fire-like eyes, gnarly scars across his neck, and a strange mark right in the middle of his collarbone.
Xiaotian recognized the mark as..some kind of seal...? Specifically..a silencing seal...? But the way way already mute...then...why...?
Oh.
His heartbeat was silenced.
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH BUT THAT'S SO SAD AND I LOVE IT-
Erin I swear if I write this and get more people angry at me-
I- I may have gotten another idea-
So- my darkest like- idea I have you, where Redson is kidnapped-
What if the RWTS characters fell into that AU?
Right where baby Redson is being held?
What would happen then?
Oh there would be bloodshed.
So much bloodshed.
Macaque and Wukong would first yell at Iron Fan for being so arrogant to allow this to happen(something along the lines of "YOU ARE LITERALLY A CELESTIAL ABD THE DAUGHTER OF A WAR GOD, I KNOW DAMN WELL THAT YOU KNOW BARRIER MAGIC AND DEFENSIVE SPELLS-") while Xiaotian would have his War Madness(and if people don't know, Sun Wukong suffered from war madness which was essentially what most people in the fandom called his war form!) activate for the first time in his life.
Que the monkey family hunting down the person who dared to take their Godson/Godbrother/future husband.
I will say this.
For every single wound that they find on Red Son, there would be a joint taken away from their body. For every cry that Macaque and Xiaotian heard, a extremity would be removed. And every tear that Sun Wukong's sensitive nose picked up would be repaid with a chunk of flesh being ripped out.
There might not be much left of the person once they're done with him, and Red Son wouldn't be returned to Pif until he's healed and she's proven that she's got her head on straight and can properly take care of him.
Considering you're already angry- should I not send in an angsty ask?
............ Hit me you demon-
This one is kinda bad- it contains death- so warning-
Soooo everything was fine, more than fine it was absolutely amazing just like in RWTS but without any time travel.
So Xiaotian and Redson are just young babies without all their experiences.
So when Redson gains his Samadhi fire, which is later because plot, it kind of- ah- well- it burns him alive and Redson is no more-
Long years later, Mk is walking through the big city Megapolis when he sees very familiar red hair.
Mk runs and runs and when he catches him he sees the one person he longed to see.
Same red hair, same red eyes, stunning tan skin, Redson in the flesh in front of him.
Mk thought Redson was reincarnated, but then he saw it..
The scar..the same exact scar Redson got protecting him....
WHY DO YOU WANT TO HURT ME-
I hate everything today and to top it all off I'm positive I'm getting sick.