What animals would the current four dragon warriors in yotd be?
Please leave comments or reposts of what you would think (especially Zeno! Hak and Yun or even your favorite characters as animals would be lived also! I wanna write a fanfic of the dragons turning into animals)
So uh anyone remember Abi? Yeah the one who started the whole generational trauma with Seiryuu's power bit. Unintentionally, ofc(no one wants to be kidnapped and tortured, duh). Yeah, og blue dragon warrior Abi, that Abi??
Quick headcanon that he is a huge part of the reason og dragon bros left. Not just for his own sake, but also because future generations and Guen an Shuten and Zeno being left to deal with the aftermath. But also just. His healing process? After Hiryuu dies, I highly doubt the four bros get too touchy feely, Hiryuu was the one that united them, after all, but I'd like to think that at least for this one instance, all dragons just kinda came together for support. Because yeah, these are three fully grown, emotionally stunted men with a teenager who's constantly trying to live up to the hype of the legend surrounding them, but they love each other. They're rough around the edges, but I'd like to think they can take care of each other and support each other when need be. Hiryuu definitely would have wanted that. He would've taught them that.
*siiiiighhh* this is just an incoherent og dragon ramble lol. also this line has been sitting in one of my docs for well over a year now so:
“Thank you.”
Abi turns to him, the bird perched on his shoulder cocking its head. “...What for?”
“For smiling again.”
Either Zeno or Guen is the one speaking, probably Guen. Because Abi's state after the incident is really sad and it just makes Shuten angry (because he couldn't do more) Zeno depressed (because he feels useless yet again and is definitely the one taking care of him and trying to cheer him up) and Guen lost (because he's the eldest. He should know how to handle these situations and be able to fix it because again. eldest. but it's literally just after Hiryuu's death and everyone is still dealing with so much grief). So uhhh... Abi recovery fic? He gets better, starts healing, even if he doesn't let people see his eyes before he leaves, and I really want some og dragon and youngster Zeno fluff. That was the original point of this post but I got so sidetracked lmao.
LISTEN. Abi, Guen, and Shuten just. Hit different. They hold a very special little place in my heart, I really want to write that fic sometime but i'll just leave this here for now/also for future reference.
SPOILERS for Zeno’s backstory under the cut, and also some minor ones regarding previous White Dragons.
Summary: Zeno can see the ghosts of other dragons attached to the current ones—and that includes his original brothers. In which Abi is perpetually done, Shu-ten’s sole purpose in life is to be The Annoying BrotherTM, Gu-en was not prepared for all these ghosts, and Zeno just wanted to chill.
Thanks to @bookdancerfics and @tinydemondragon for your help betaing!
A link to the AO3 version will be provided soon.
I don’t own Akatsuki no Yona.
Zeno didn’t let himself look at the new dragons head-on until he joined the Miss, but when he did, his legs buckled. He hit the ground hard, and the living gathered around him worriedly. He had no eyes for them, though. No—his eyes were fixed entirely on the ghosts hanging out in the background.
“I hope he’s ok,” Abi sighed, peering over Seiryuu’s shoulder.
“Course he is,” Shu-ten snorted. He crossed his arms and turned his back on the spectacle that was Zeno, but one of his index fingers tapped an uneven rhythm on his elbow. He might as well have yelled his worry aloud.
Gu-en, though—Gu-en was—Zeno wasn’t sure what to make of Gu-en.
“Is he ok?!” he yelled, craning his neck over the dozens of ghosts attached to Hakuryuu. “Oi, let me through!”
“Our boy,” one of the ghosts warbled, and Gu-en cursed.
“Your boy is right here and fine, let me through!”
A hand on Zeno’s shoulder jolted him, and he managed to turn away from his past to peer up at the person.
“Zeno?” the Boy asked, feather floating in the wind. “Are you ok?”
“Zeno is fine,” he choked out. Then, remembering Gu-en—“Zeno is fine,” he repeated, louder. “Just tripped, that’s all!”
“You were standing still…” the Boy said slowly.
“Yes, yes,” Zeno waved off, hopping to his feet and beaming his best smile. “No matter. Let’s eat!”
“You just ate?” Hakuryuu wondered. Zeno chose to ignore him. Food solved everything; surely it would solve the mystery of his old friends’ ghosts. Not to mention how, exactly, he was supposed to talk to them without letting the new dragons know they had the original dragons riding pillion.
Now that Zeno had noticed them, it seemed the original dragons were never out of his sight. During the second dinner, Shu-ten reached as far away from Ryokuryuu as he possibly could to wave his hand through Zeno’s food in an attempt to steal it. He could hear Gu-en chattering away and Abi’s occasional quiet response, though he refused to look at them. By the time dinner was over, Zeno was more than ready to confront them.
Thankfully, Little Miss and the Boy took one tent, while the dragons and Mister took another. First watch went to Mister, so for the moment, it was just Zeno and the other dragons. All three of them dropped off to sleep quickly, claiming a need for “beauty sleep” (Ryokuryuu), exhausted from the day’s excitement (Hakuryuu), or just following the others’ lead (Seiryuu). For a moment, Zeno just lay there… and then he sat up, pasted a beaming smile on his face, and turned to face his ghosts.
“Hey! How are you guys?”
The looks he got back weren’t impressed.
“Really? ‘Hey, how are you,’ after hundreds of years?” Shu-ten cocked an eyebrow. “Not ‘guys I’m so sorry I didn’t tell you I’m immortal, let alone bother visiting over the years, not even when you were on your death beds’?”
Gu-en huffed and folded his arms, leaning back and using the pile of snooping White Dragon ghosts behind him as support. “I’m still bitter over that.”
“You’re not the only one,” Abi sighed, rolling his eyes. “Shu-ten may have taken a while, but we all settled down eventually. With our bond, it shouldn’t have been hard.”
At that, Zeno couldn’t keep quiet. He hadn’t wanted it at the time, but—“That goes both ways!” The other original dragons startled, and one of Hakuryuu’s ghosts shushed them as the new dragon rolled over. “That goes both ways,” Zeno repeated, quieter than before. “You knew where I was, and it wasn’t impossible to avoid the castle guards.”
“You’re right,” Gu-en agreed. “That’s on all of us. We’re brothers, and we shouldn’t have waited around for someone else to go first. And—”
“And nothing,” Shu-ten interrupted. “What is this, a funeral? The gang’s finally back together! Let’s celebrate now, and do the serious stuff later.”
Gu-en groaned, but didn’t point out that Shu-ten had been the one to start the ‘serious stuff’ in the first place. Sharing a glance with him, Zeno and Abi agreed to do the same.
“What would you rather do?” Abi asked.
“Story time!” Shu-ten beamed, purposefully drawing his lips back as far as possible to show off his fangs. “I want to know aaaaalllllll about what my little brothers have been up to in the last millennia!”
Shu-Ten: do you have a kink?
Zeno: A healthy relationship with a significant other in which we both love and support each other.
Shu-Ten: that’s stupid stick to bondage like everyone else
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Akatsuki no Yona | Yona of the Dawn
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Jae-Ha/Yona (Akatsuki no Yona), Son Hak/Original Character(s), Kaya/Zeno (Akatsuki no Yona)
Characters: Jae-Ha (Akatsuki no Yona), Yona (Akatsuki no Yona), Zeno (Akatsuki no Yona), Kaya (Akatsuki no Yona), Son Hak, Kija (Akatsuki no Yona), Shin-Ah (Akatsuki no Yona), Yoon | Yun (Akatsuki no Yona), An Lili, Ao the Squirrel (Akatsuki no Yona), Abi (Akatsuki no Yona), Shu-Ten (Akatsuki no Yona), Gu-En (Akatsuki no Yona), Original Dragon Warriors (Akatsuki no Yona), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Character Death, Afterlife, Alternate Universe, Grief/Mourning, Wakes & Funerals, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Past Character Death, Death, Ghosts, Character Turned Into a Ghost, Spirits, Alternate Universe - Afterlife, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Self-Reflection, Moving On, Angst, Family Secrets, Family Angst, Married Couple, Widowed
Series: Part 8 of Tumblr Prompts
Summary:
Continuation off my Four Dragon’s Week final prompt ‘Let’s Fly Together’ Warning angst and character death ahead!
Jae-ha meets some interesting people in the afterlife, the original dragons warriors and Zeno's wife, whom teach Jae-ha some things he can do in the afterlife and can learn some things he never knew... Suggestions welcome!