So, I posted my first fork-in-the-road CQL fic:
sometimes amputation is needed to save a life
https://archiveofourown.org/works/49973917
"Ever since he was a child, A-Ning always wanted to be like his jie. He later learned he’d never be like his jie but that’s alright. A good healer knows that to allow healing, sometimes you need to cut the rot off."
AKA
BAMF WN decides to poison the wen occupying Lotus Pier instead of just drugging them.
Second fic in my cql what if... series:
fading into white
https://archiveofourown.org/works/50279806
"Instead of leaving, Lan Xichen stays and follows Jin Guangyao and Nie Mingjue to the platform where he witnesses Jin Guangyao taunting Nie Mingjue and confessing how he poisoned Nie Mingjue’s qi through a song.
...and everything changes."
AKA
LXC learns just what a snake JGY is and acts accordingly.
(So apparently I totally forgot to pimp these...?)
Part 3 of my cql what if... series:
i will remember you (keep the pain alive)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/51667942
"What if Lan Xichen (and others) didn’t just take Jin Guangshan’s claims at the face value but demanded to play Inquiry to find out what really happened in the Wen prison camp? Well, this isn't quite that but close enough."
AKA the Qiongqi Path Inquiry we all wanted but never got.
Part 4 of my cql what if... series:
dark into sunlight
https://archiveofourown.org/works/52072111
"Meng Yao sees the look in Nie Mingjue’s eyes and makes a split-second decision:
Mingjue hates groveling.
So, he’s not going to."
AKA what if NMJ did't throw MY out of Qinghe after seeing him kill the commander during the Wen attack?
Part 5 of my cql what if... series is POV Yu Ziyuan:
sunrise within shadows
https://archiveofourown.org/works/53364043
"…what if Wen Zhuliu was about to crush Madam Yu’s core and Wei Wuxian jumped in to shield her? With the Core-Melting Hand dead and the leading pair of Lotus Pier still alive, a great many things can change."
Part 6 of my cql what if... series is about Lan Wangji's punishment.
hold it all
https://archiveofourown.org/works/54443881
"LWJ was supposed to die from his punishment. He didn’t.
Now the Lan sect has to live with the consequences."
The title is from Linkin Park's Powerless, thanks Chester for making me cry again.
Part 7 of my cql what if... series: So, what if JC figured out the golden core transfer during the time WWX was dead?
first things first — don't be a moron
https://archiveofourown.org/works/54955771
"Head Disciple duties covered a lot, including but not limited to herding the disciples, organizing night hunts, testing new spiritual weapons, revising the training curriculum, and generally making sure the sect was running as it was supposed to.
Sometimes, it also included telling your sect leader he’s a moron. On multiple occasions.
Good thing Qiaolian is a Yu."
Part 8 of the cql what if...? series (aka the procrastination fic I wrote in about 1,5hrs instead of editing my nano):
oh, it's you
https://archiveofourown.org/works/55199470
"What if—as terrible as WWX’s rendition of wangxian.mp3 was—the melody stuck in LJY’s head and he hummed it when they cleaned up in the Mo manor? LWJ hears it and promptly freaks the fuck out.
Jingyi is just scared (albeit a bit horny) when SIZHUI’S DAD keeps giving him that kind of looks."
Part 9 of the cql what if...? series, the REASON I started that series in the first place:
the grandmother rule
https://archiveofourown.org/works/55579534
"Baoshan Sanren was more than happy to seclude herself in the quiet of her mountain, slightly removed from the plane of the Cultivation World. That was, until some children decided to do questionable medical procedures in her name.
Well. That just wouldn’t do.
(Or, BSSR is a gremlin who doesn’t give a flying fuck about the gentry.)"
Part 10 of cql what if...? series:
Madam Lan lives and gets the family she deserves
to be blind, only my heart to guide me
https://archiveofourown.org/works/57257605
"Xue Xiurong never thought she’d have a family or that she’d be allowed to keep them."
Part 11 of cql what if...? series
After JC finds WWX and drags him to Lotus Pier, they pray at the ancestral hall. What if JC actually heard what WWX muttered and calls him out?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61387204
"Jiang Cheng has finally found his wayward first disciple and everything is going to be alright again.
…or is it? As they pay their respects to Mother and Father at the Jiang Ancestral Shrine, Jiang Cheng hears Wei Wuxian say something he sorely wishes isn’t true. But it is. And it changes—not everything but definitely a lot."
@shipperslist Oh this sounds amazing!!
@thalassa
It was very much fun to write and I'm sort of tempted to turn it into a series.
@shipperslist Oooh! I'm sure that will be much appreciated although I haven't read the first one yet :)