AU where Shang Qinghua is a god and Shen Yuan is his high priest. Not because SY is a super devout follower or anything, but solely because he is the only person willing to drag SQH out of the heavens and berate him for over an hour over an otherwise minor mistake (he's also the only one who will call SQH down from the heavens to have a massive bitch session with and share all the gossip).
Then for funsies, have god! Luo Binghe meet high priest SY exactly once and go absolutely feral for the man, to the point that he gets his own high priest (Mobei-jun) to start trying to seduce SQH (Mobei-jun is very down for this plan, like to the point where LBH barely had to suggest it because Mobei was already chomping at the bit to court SQH)
Happy birthday gift for my amazing friend @anachronismstellar and her amazing fanfic Airplane vs the System. I wish you the best of days, the best of months, and the best of years. May all the Airplane 10k-a-day juices flow like rain in the Amazonas and bless you to continue creating such incredible stories <3
Gif version + some frames (and Baldhua) down below
A funny way the would get caught as gods were when the peak lords are dealing with this religious cult
So basically a peaklord got caught and they tryna sacrifice them, and sqh being the closest god in the vicinity keeps getting the request, so he steps behind wqw to test it, and he no longer gets the request, wqw gets it instead, the pair tries to not lose their shit
AND this fic reaching 35 pages (someone save me) here's more Airplane vs The System!
Let the games begin >:)
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There was only one thing Shen Yuan hated more than being considered stupid and it was actually acting stupid.
Because why, WHY haven't they checked the bane of their existence, the persona non grata of binary code, the absolute most devilish collection of pixels and fuckery, aka the System?
It was right there, the notification blinking in green, marking it as a mission in progress.
He clicked, actually expecting more trouble on top of the Mobei business, only to be presented with-
Mission in progress: Author's favorite.
UV002 objective: aid UV001
Mission progress: 47%
What. The fuck.
He hadn't accepted any new missions, there wasn't even an obnoxious notification! And what's up with his objective?! Aid UV001?! How?! It didn't give him any other hint of what to do!
Oh he wasn't just angry, he was furious.
To the point that he had almost torn the door off its track when he opened it, the noise loud enough to startle Shang Qinghua into throwing his brush at him.
As if that would help against a real attack.
“Have you seen the new mission?!” He snapped as he entered Shang Qinghua's improvised office, glaring at the other trasmigrator.
“W-What?” Shang Qinghua blinked like a deer in the headlights, eyes puffed red as if had been crying moments ago.
Shan Yuan swallowed his pity, hardening his heart to focus on the task at hand. He closed the door to buy himself time before approaching the desk covered in parchment, slowly putting both hands on top of it to get closer to Airplane.
“Have you seen,” he pitched his voice low so they wouldn't be heard, doing his utmost to convey his fury through whispering. “The new. Mission.”
“Uh,” Airplane blinked again, scrubbing tears away, looking as lost as a puppy dropped from the moving truck. “Cucumber-bro-”
“Don't! You Cucumber-bro me,” he held himself back, closing his eyes to not lose his temper. “We're going to talk about your murderous ways later. Right now I need you to shut up and check. Your. System.”
He could see Airplane about to ask why, but his expression might have been terrifying enough because he just nodded and opened up his system, immediately frowning.
“What the fuck?”
“What? What is it?” Shen Yuan moved to get next to Airplane to better read what he was seeing. It never failed to amuse him how different their systems were: his looked like a proper video game menu, while Airplane's just looked like a lazy programmed blog.
“There's stuff missing. And I can't click on any missions. Like, I could at least check my old stuff? But now it's all gray?!”
“What do you mean?” At this point he was almost putting his face next to Airplane's so he could see, the bland white screen making his eyes burn. “Urgh how can you stand this, can't you change to dark mode? And go check for new missions.”
“As if, your system is way nicer than mine. Wait, do you have a new mission?”
“Yeah, it's called Author's Favorite. But it says nothing, just to help UV001. It's your user, right?”
An AU where Shang Qinghua was the God of stories who got cast out for crafting an abomination. Something that would've grown to have the power to conquer the heavens. Most of the world forgot his name and doesn't worship him anymore.
Then there's the Shen Family. Who has a shrine to the Storyteller and had remained faithful to him for generations. They never forgot him. In turn they have been blessed with prosperity. Until along comes Shen Yuan.
He's sickly and frail so his family appoints him as the family shrine keeper. An easy job but it would make SY feel important. It also keeps him safe from meeting strangers and getting sick. Or attempting to become a cultivator only to end up with several broken bones during a sword fight.
Shen Yuan doesn't REALLY believe in the family God. Sure, their family has done well. His mother is a respected philanthropist. His father is a very rich merchant. Even er-ge had become a powerful cultivator. But Shen Yuan has taken care of the shrine for years. Their god had never even deemed him worthy enough to help him recover from his flu last winter faster. Surely if he were so powerful others would worship the Storyteller too.
The shrine never gets visitors. Until one morning, while going to clean the shrine Shen Yuan stumbles upon a stranger. Just sitting by the shrine. Sloppily writing on a scroll. His sleeves are splattered with ink and he pays no mind as Shen Yuan approaches.
That is, until Shen Yuan asks what he's doing here and why he's disturbing the shrine. Then the stranger looks up at him with wide eyes.
Ok children, gather around, it passed the time for a master post of this so my fixed post looks less insane.
Here it is! The master post for the Airplane vs the System fic:
[part 1 and part 2],
WITH!!! ART!! CHECK THIS SYSTEM MADE BY NOTSOFROZT
and [part 3] and [part 4]
[part 5] and [part 6]!!
And [part 7]
and part 8 last update 29/12
The scenes are out of order because this insanity took over my life, and is the one responsible for me writing nonstop since September lol that being said, it had become my child, so if you wanna ask me stuff about it to make me write faster, feel free to do so!
As always, thank you everyone who showed this fic some love, really you guys made my year a better one <3
