#dichotomy au

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During an intersect event Shen Qingqiu is poisoned. How do we know he was poisoned? Because the dumbass that did it immediately jumped from the public to gloat about it.

The CQM delegation promptly then grabbed their unluckiest peak lord and dipped back home to try and not have him die. (They also grabbed the dude that poisoned him, to get info on the poison and all that)

It's supossed to steal half of a person's lifespan; and as Shen Qingqiu has lived for a while the dude thinks it will just kill the Lord. It doesn't do that thought... It splits the Lord into two young adults, each half of Shen Qingqiu's age. They are both fucking confused and looking at the other wide eyed.

SQQ#1 blinks and ask everyone to leave. SQQ#2 just agrees when asked by the other peak lords. It's an exercise in patience to get Yue Big-Brother-Extraordinaire Qingyuan to leave his favorite shidi who suddenly multiplied. He is rabid. Overdosing on shidi.

Shen Yuan is both terrified and ecstatic to be free from SQQ's fate, but also guilty? of leaving the other to deal with it. He's 90% sure the other SQQ is the original goods.

Shen Jiu is just looking at the body-snatcher, trying to decide whether to kill the other or kidnap him to keep such a wonderful teacher for his peak. Finally, someone to deal with the brats.

SY: Well, sorry for stealing your body, my bad. I will now leave you to-

And SY gets grabbed by the scruff and forced to spill all his secrets. The system doesn't register SJ as a separate entity so they are free to converse and make plans. By the time the other peaklords (mainly YQY, QQQ, and WQW) come back for gossip the Shens are gossiping about them and sharing some little cakes with their tea. BFFs.

Oh, they are 100% roasting eachother. Don't mind them too much, they are trying to decide who gets to be the older one and thus the one in charge.

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Wish Carefully x Dichotomy -

Bakugou: How the fuck did some loser with a weak-ass Quirk like Brainwashing manage to tie with me?

Shinsou: Wait, how the fuck did Midoriya do better on the entrance exam with Brainwashing than he did with super strength?

Lol. Lmao even

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"Shidi" Yue Qingyuan says calmly, like talking with a tantrumy child. "Qingqiu-shidis were not being malicious. Take it like a mischievous shidi doing a prank. Harmless, right?"

The smile on the Sect Leader was cold and forced, looking down to one of his closest friends, Liu Qingge, like a bug that crawled too close to his liking. No one can reason with him lately, and its all fault of those two, for which they haven't had a name for since they separated:

Shen Qingqiu and the other Shen Qingqiu.

Qi Qingqi is refering to them as Qing and Qiu in her mind. Qing is the happier one, the one she is sure was taking charge of Qing Jing these last years; Qiu is the sour one, the one she banned from her peak so long ago. She is not 100% sure because they act the same and never do things alone anymore, but that's what she is going with.

Liu-shidi sure is not making things easier for himself either though. Coming here, kicking doors, and demanding punishments for Zhangmen-shixiong's precious dumplings? Easy recipe for disaster. And that's without taking into account how high strung Zhangmen-shixiong has been these days; The man has been even more pathetic than when Shen Qingqiu first joined the sect-...

And speaking of the devil and he may appear! The little shits are in the doorway, the picture of poor, abused children. Sadly holding hands and looking down while one tries to hide behind the other, shuffling shoes and sneaking peaks of the other peak lords.

If Qi Qingqi didn't know, for sure, that the poison didn't affect their minds at all and are thus still the same age mentally, she would've bought the pity act. As it stands she is most unimpressed.

Yue Qingyuan, however, is vibrating in his seat, barely holdin the urge to run to their side like a dog given the 'stay' command.

Liu-shidi has no such compulsions. He immediately jumps to scream at their faces about desecrating his peak and yada yada.

A quick peak at Zhangmen-shixiong confirms that, yep, the man currently wants to eviscerate their littlest shidi. Or wait, are Shen Qingqiu the littlest shidi now?

A barely audible sniffle gets their attention towards the Shen Qingqiu hiding behind his copy, who is leaving his hiding place slightly to looks towards Zhangmen-shixiong with the most tragic big fat tears holding into his long lashes, (when did Shen Qingqiu get so comely? So lovely? Like a shy maiden being harassed by a brute of a man) and whispers in a small voice. "Qi-ge... Are we in trouble?..."

Yue Qingyuan is up and across the room in an instant, covering the Shens with him impressive high and build, which he has never, not once, used against his shidis like this. And it's all to protect the brat that Qi Qingqi CAN SEE is currently smiling viciously behind him. Both of them are! Those little shits!

"I must ask for Qi-shimei and Liu-shidi to leave. Immediately" The man is not smiling indulgently anymore, his grin is cold, and made of pure steel. Figures Shen Qingqiu could still manipulate the man like his well trained puppy.

They leave quickly (How could they not? The man is scary when he gets like this), but Qi Qingqi cannot help herself to a last peak of the brats looking at them leave smugly. They didn't just catch the canary and stole the cream, those little shits can rule this whole sect now and they know it.

Well, that was easier than he thought. Shen Jiu trully has a talent with those tears, Shen Yuan is almost moved.

Looking at poor Liu-shidi stomp away, Shen Yuan can't help but remember the conversation that took them here, just half an hour ago; Where Shen Jiu's smug victory over Bai Zhan got dampen over the reminder of Zhangmen-shixiong, which they very specifically haven't talked about since the splitting.

Shen Yuan couldn't take it anymore, he had to open his big dumb mouth and say: "Yeah right, like Zhangmen-shixiong wasn't the most indulgent older brother ever."

After just a couple of murder attemps he could get (more like force) a reason for his hate out of A-Jiu. To say he was upset would be an understatement.

Yue Qingyuan? Are they talking about the same dude? The one that went into an obvious trap to try an rescue Shen Qingqiu? (They now talk about that name as a role, a character in a play they put on). After his confounded questions both of them were upset. A-Jiu knows about the system and what not so its not like Shen Yuan wins anything lying to him.

A quick stop for Shen Jiu to destroy some Bai Zhan trees to decompress and they arrive to Zhangmen-shixiong's office for some good 'ol confrontation, accidentally coming in at the perfect moment for some troublemaking. A-Jiu is a natural at the bullied younger brother role, seriously, he should just accept Shen Yuan as the older one and just be his Didi.

"We need to talk, Yue Qi."

After an hour and a half of relentlessly bullying the Sect Leader into saying something else than 'I'm sorry' (Seriously! He didn't know this man was SO. FUCKING. INFURIATING. He takes everything back A-Jiu, you are in your right to want to hit this man in the head with a shovel), their combined forces force a horrific confesion out of the man. And now everyone is fucking upset because Yue Qi didn't abandon Shen Jiu! It was a massive misunderstanding spanning oh nothing much just two fucking decades.

Shen Yuan doesn't feel like he should be here to be honest, this is a private conversation between the strained brothers and he is just some bastard that stole the younger brother's body for three years. Oh god, Yue Qingyuan will know he is the fake one. Fucking shit why did he spoke up?! They had such a good thing going on! Now he is going to be executed or something worse. What if they torture him for his knowledge of the future and-

His subtle attemp to escape is thwarted by a snake quick hand grabbing him from the collar of his robes like a misbehaving kitten. Which, rude.

"And where do you think you are going?"

"Oh ah... You know... Letting you two have a private... Meeting?"

"Oh no. You are staying right here and telling Qi-ge everything"

"EVERYTHING?! THAT WILL GET US KILLED!!"

Shen Jiu grabbed him by the chin to speak directly in front of him. "Every. Single. Thing."

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Yue Qingyuan is pacing the front door of the Grand Hall and no one can get him to stop. He is vibrating out of his skin, making a trench by merely walking back and forth, muttering something about little nines and tens.

Almost every Peak Lord is inside already, they are waiting on the Sect Leader and their dear disaster magnent (Or is it magnets now?) to arrive.

Since the attack on their second ranked lord two days have passed, and the lords who didn't attend the gathering are dying for gossip. Even the ones who did are dying for gossip.

Did Shen Qingqiu truly separate into two young men? Or was it that he inhabits two bodies at once? In CQP they are saying he gave birth to his clone and he-

The doors to the hall open without fanfare and in slip a pair of fresh faced beauties with their Sect Leader tailing behind, smiling like nothing in the world could sour his mood. If they weren't peak lords and thus had excellent hearing they wouldn't even notice their arrival!

They're dressed the same, down to the same subtle pattern of leaves in the sleeves.

Did-... Did Shen Qingqiu buy outfits for them to match? Or did he have several copies of his robes already? No, the robes fit their reduced statures perfectly, this was a commission! (Shang Qinghua is crying blood tears)

Yue Qingyuan hovers over them until someone clears their throat and he gets no other option but to sit down at the head of their formation.

The boys because they are practically babies now don't even aknowledge their martial siblings or the big puppy looking at them longingly, just keep whispering about something or other and throwing insults back and forth. One would think that if someone calls you an "uptight asshole" you wouldn't then serve them tea and push the plate of sweets closer. This is mystifying.

Then one of them looks away from their twin? to say "We will be taking on new names" and go back to bantering with their clone.

They try to ask for clarification or even to go ahead with the meeting but everyone is just too focused on this new mystery.

Shen Qingqiu, that asshole, wont tell them anything or aknowledge something happened even if he splits into two.

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There is a rat on An Ding Peak.

Shang Qinghua is not sure when they managed to weasel their way in, but there is for sure a rat amongst his children.

What's heartbreaking is that his own kids won't tell him who is suspicious! Traitors! This wasn't supossed to happen! He taught them too well.

Snitches get stitches is so frustrating when you are the one who needs information! Worse of all, he can't even go to Cucumber-bro to complain because he now has the Original Goods hanging from him at all times! His life is so hard.

He thinks he narrowed the possible mole down to two new disciples who came to the sect at 16 last selection. He hadn't seen them yet, because like anyone they are very busy at all times, but word of mouth tells him they are; twin sisters, smart and quick like snakes, beautiful, and as lazy as a house cat. Why someone like that would choose An Ding of all places to blend in Shang Qinghua can't say, but he is so close to catching them.

And as luck will have it, he sees a group of his children tailing a pair of ponytails swaying on what little wind there is, sadly they rounded a corner and Qinghua only saw their backs, but most importantly. Why are his children not working?! They do not have time for them to follow the moles like lovesick puppies! This must be their plan; to enamor all his disciples and bring ruin to CQM via lack of resources. Shang Qinghua might just need to kill a child.

After following them for a while, the girls separate from the group and slink off to the forest without looking back once. This is his oportunity.

"Shidi needs to up security on An Ding, this is too easy." Um... What? "Shidi is good at many things... security might jut not be one of them."

He is confusion. Um hello little spy, WHY ARE YOU CALLING HIM SHIDI?!

Ah... Twins... This is just Cucumber-bro and the Original Goods.

...At least it wasn't a spy?

But it got worse.

Shen-Shixiong and Cucumber-bro must have known he was there because he now sees them EVERYWHERE.

Im the canteen? There they are, eating prim and proper like a king's favorite concubine. In the warehouses? There they are, sleeping on a shelf or perusing the wares. On the offices? There they are, again! Reading the accountant books like they were high literature.

The worst part-

"Shizun! Shizun!"

-is that they know he can't say no to them, for fear of having Yue-Dage come for his head. That man is really going crazy these days.

With a tight smile, Shang Qinghua turns arround to see his undercover shixiongs running towards him -like spoiled children- and hide behind his back while some Bai Zhan disciples run to them. Oh god they are haunting Bai Zhan too?! "Um... What were my disciples up to?..."

"Shizun, those brutes were badmouthing An Ding-"

"So we taught them a lesson-"

"And now they want to fight with us."

Shang Qinghua is crying tears of blood, trying so hard to stay standing. Ah, Cucumber-bro, why must you get along so well with the Original Goods?! He prefered when you only raged about his writing!!!!

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Lounging on a shelf is not what Shen Qingqiu would have done with his time, before. Before the deviation, before the body snatcher... Before A-Yuan.

But well... He is not quite Shen Qingqiu anymore, right? He is not sure he is Shen Jiu anymore. He doesn't know quite what or who he is.

The other is equally as strange; sauntering around the warehouse picking up fluffy pillows and blankets like he owned it all. Shen Jiu could never get away with something like that, before. But A-Yuan can, and he does.

Xiao-Jiu was an expert at crying prettily for charity; an expert of tugging in heart stings until the weakest link of expecting mob breaks and allows a little coin slip, or a piece of food drop. What he never was, is an expert at being a bratty little shit that flutters his lashes just right to get Qi-ge Yue Qingyuan to ignore everything they are doing and even intimidate Shang-shidi into staying quiet too. He was so mad when it happened... How dare this thief also try to rob him of Qi-ge?!

But A-Yuan only did things in their benefit, and never once tried to get rid of Shen Jiu too. When Liu Qingge tried to parce which one was the one he liked, Shen Yuan just... grabbed Shen Jiu's hand and left.

Just like that, without words, they decided to never let anyone know which one is which. Shen Jiu doesn't really know why A-Yuan did this; surely he must know that everyone preferred him, that they would give anything to keep the good one and throw away the rotten one. But he is grateful to have someone in his corner for once, someone who doesnt flinch at his barbed words and gives as good as he takes. Someone who understands the urge to bask in a comfortable sunny spot and shit-talk everyone who walks by.

Also this shelves are comfy as fuck, like A-Yuan would say.

Dressing as disciples was a weird thing at first. Reasoning being that, as A-Yuan didn't experience being one and Shen Jiu didn't enjoy his turn, they could try and have fun now that their place in the sect is secure and they have convenient disciple age bodies to get away with it. But still weird. Also Bai Zhan is not the first place he'd chose, but it is surprisingly quiet and pacefull in the storehouse.

Maybe its because the little brutes here don't even know what this building is for... Or because they let all of them on a wild goose chase.

A-Yuan comes back with his spoils, smug like the brat he is before Shen Jiu helps him climb to the highest shelf. They then build a little nest to nap in.

His Peak has been attacked.

Liu Qingge is furious.

All barracks and classroom have been vandalized, the comunal eating hall, even the bathhouse! All painted with drawings of pigs and "Brute Peak" writen all over. The fact that not a small part of his kids asked another what it said, in his presence, does NOT mean Shen Qingqiu was right when he said, all those years ago, that his peak was full of illiterate children.

It must have been those brats at Xian Shu, because he still maintains a secure border with Qing Jing and no one crossed over. Or maybe the pushovers at An Ding finally grew some balls and retaliated like they should've done for years.

The worst part is the complete betrayal from Zhangmen-shixiong. He merely smiled like the world was in peace and offered him some tea! Yue Qingyuan! A traitor! The only one who could possibly get away with things in front of Zhangmen-shixiong is-...

Shen Qingqiu.

Liu Qingge still doesn't know what to make of the situation with Shen Qingqiu. First he is a spineless dishonorable bastard, then a most infuriating yet kind man, and now a pair of children than won't talk with anyone but themselves and rarely if ever are at their own peak... It is most infuriating.

He is sure too, that one of them is the bastard and the other the kind man, but they won't interact with anyone or tell anyone their 'new names' either! So they are stuck calling both or them 'Shen Qingqiu'.

Liu Qingge will attend two whole peak lords meetings in a row just to get some damn answers.

Still fuming, Liu Qingge kicks the door to the storehouse. A trail of his kids behind him ready to grab cleaning brushes and soap. This should be An Ding's problem to clean! Not them! An Ding deals with the inconsequential things, but Shang-shixiong is refusing so vehemently to deal with the attack, Liu Qingge is starting to thing he knows who did it.

After watching the kids fumble for a bit he orders them to get to work, and turns to leave. Not before hearing a quiet giggle from up hight, near the roof, where a pair of vibrant green eyes watch his misery with mirth.

"I will tell Zhangmen-shixiong about this!" Because surely, with this new information, he will punish Shen Qingqiu for vandalizing his peak, surely.

"Shidi can certanly try" One laughs at him while the other sticks his tongue out at him most childishly.

This is worse than their actual disciplehood. Liu Qingge is beginning to realize, with horror, that he prefered when Shen Qingqiu would sneer publicly and throw sand in his eyes.

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Dichotomy x Apprentices: This seems like a fun combo, although idk if it would help Izuku's imposter syndrome or make it worse.

Might be both honestly

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Saiyan + Dichotomy: What kind of training does Bakugou do to equal a half-Saiyan even once, let alone consistently?

He's built different