My brainrot over it is driving me crazy, so I will now be rambling about my Honkai Star Rail x Hualian AU. I haven’t been able to discuss it with anyone because I’ve got no friends who are TGCF mains, who also enjoy HSR & know a decent amount of lore…

(If you are that person and are 18+, then please please please please let me spill the contents of my overfilled brain in your presence, thank you. I need more friends… especially ones who like TGCF.)

Anyways, time to let my rambling begin. For now I’ll talk about Hualian and relevant info about them, the plot I have in mind is still being sorted out.

Their lives take place on the Xianzhou Luofu, and the plot starts when they’re young childhood friends, around 100 years or so before the present (in game.)

Hua Cheng and Xie Lian are both from the Vidyadhara race, though they’re drastically different. Hua Cheng isn’t as pure in blood, thus he resembles the various npcs with pointed ears you see walking around the Luofu. No horns, no tail, and no important social status. Xie Lian on the other hand, is more pure in blood. (this may be going slightly against canon hsr lore, since I’m pretty sure only those chosen as successors for the High Elder position can have a tail and horns. I think that’s silly though, so in this AU horns and tail can exist on Vidyadhara who aren’t the High Elder, it’s just rare to find one. They merely lack the power which is strictly for the High Elder position.) Xie Lian is a rarity among Vidyadhara as he has horns and a tail, thus he was held in high regard even in his past reincarnation. He has no interest in learning about his past self though, and was adamant about it ever since he could express it after hatching from his shell.

I am still debating where to place the “present day” plot. I’m not sure if I’d like to have everything occur before the Stellaron burst, or have it occur during and after. Most of my plot takes place in the present, as the past is for showing the childhood friendship between Hualian prior to Hua Cheng’s mysterious disappearance.

Now, for their paths, elements, and affiliations.

Hua Cheng:

• Path of The Destruction / Quantum / Stellaron Hunter

Xie Lian:

• Path of The Erudition / Imaginary / Judge in the Ten-Lords Commission

As for their weapons, Xie Lian will normally wield a sword which I will design based off Fang Xin’s manhua look. Ruoye will exist, I am just trying to figure out how to make Ruoye fit in.

E-Ming exists as well, and I DO have lore for it, thanks to the latest patch in hsr. E-Ming is a Heliobus that Hua Cheng encountered outside the Luofu, it took the form of a Scimitar. It approached Hua Cheng with a singular wish, to be wielded and used as a mighty weapon by a capable swordsman. Hua Cheng is not a fool, however, and knows that the Heliobi are parasitic in nature… at least, the ones he heard about on the Luofu were. In exchange for wielding E-Ming as his weapon, the Heliobus must agree to be bound to him permanently, and sealed in a way where it was under his control, not vice versa. Thus it explains how Hua Cheng lost the red eye he loathed so much. E-Ming was sealed within the eye Hua Cheng tore from himself, and with the blood he had spilled, E-Ming was then bound to him. E-Ming had no issue with this though, as it had not been exposed to human emotions and remained an innocent being. (This is me just taking the fact that a Heliobus can be sealed inside someone (HuoHuo) and running with the idea to make it fit Hua Cheng.)

That is all I shall share for now, forgive the fact that this is all kinda unorganized…

Maybe I’m just snippy, but I get so bitey whenever I read a Fengqing Canon fic that involves sex. I know it’s not malicious and I’m not like super pissed at people, just as an ace person who doesn’t care for sex it gets irritating seeing it shown as love and just like,,,

Imagine being Mu Qing who has control and abandonment and trust issues. And then ur partner is like “lmao yeah we should fuck and I’ll protect you and you can just live under me forever because I have powers and love you.”

Yeah THATS not going to cause problems

The dude has control and abandonment issues that would make Jiang Cheng buy him a drink. I know Xie Lian was willing to do it to get dicked down but Hua Cheng is literally the most powerful living creature and can do literally anything and Xie Lian is a fucking powerhouse when his magic is sealed away anyways.

Can Feng Xin drop everything and just be there at the drop of a hat? Is Mu Qing safe without his powers? Can he just Survive random bullshit that should kill anyone even a god 10x over? No. Also again control issues and Mu Qing would just stab himself instead. Dick ain’t worth it.

Look me in the eyes and tell me Mu fucking Qing would give up his power to get railed? He would Fucking Not.

Maybe it’s a Me thing but it’s,,, it’s not romantic for a character who purposefully chose a life of abstinence and be 100% okay with that and tie your powers to it and then to decide “Oh to prove my love for you, I’m going to break that oath and take away a very real form of safety and basically my job because I love you.” Like even HC wouldn’t have asked XL to do that, XL didn’t have to prove anything and also XL is again a powerhouse and like even without powers he’s still a bamf, he’s not really giving up anything after all his years being shackled. He’s not giving up a form of safety or risking his job as God of the [Blank] like other abstinence cultivators are for it. (Also HC just like, Yknow nothings going to touch XL, also XL doesn’t have major control issues)

Also let’s be real if Feng Xin found out that Mu Qing was going to fuck, he’d be grabbing Xie Lian and yelling that someone mind controlled Mu Qing and they need to go save him. Xie Lian would also agree that Mu Qing has been mind controlled and Mu Qing would have to have a very annoying conversation.