silver morsels worldbuilding
for my next Guy I want to make a virtuous and upright fairy from the summer court that gradually unearths the corruption of the concept of "good" yet still persists in believing in the kindness of the human heart even at its bleakest (haruie lin)
and then his counterpart (kagurasuzu) who is from spring court and is one of the most ancient and powerful living souls in fairyland but is also just a mischievous and evil sillyguy* (evilhehe)
*genuinely dangerous and terrifying though, without loyalty
this is set a long time ago where suzu is living in the time of a young shiragiku, who is like the equivalent of a teenage queen growing up in spring court (who just seized power after slaughtering the previous ruler) (this is before she fucks off to ghost valley to play puppetmaster and shadow king, and then leaves ghost valley to xianming before returning to her spring court throne).
suzu and haruie lin are yuzu/haruichi ancestors (suzu/haruie lin, who goes by lin normally but suzu calls him harucchi / haru-chan)
I think they are dead or gone by the time empress xianming starts. shiragiku lore where the chain reaction of haruie's attempted? suicide fucks suzu up bc he is like. ah. a human emotion. I was just playing with him trying to see how far I could go before I break by toy / disillusion him to the point he loses all faith in virtue and becomes chaotic. but that never happened, he is a pure soul like none that has ever existed before. and I care whether he lives or dies or loves me. Unfortunately.
and then basically uses a magic array to time-stop/freeze his body before he can die and then gets into conflict with young shiragiku over Heaven's Secret which she stumbled across a piece of and which he Needs to Save haruie but in the end he can only cast them both back into the reincarnation cycle, utterly dispirited, broken, and alone.
but before he does that, he divides himself and his memories and clones/replicates the ghost/kernel of his soul and jumbles them, so half gets sent into the reincarnation cycle and half gets trapped in a dream where they can be happy, but it's unclear which halves are "real (the truth)" or "something beautiful"