Sunderin' Wights Since 1867

Anyone who ever wants to write any fics based on posts I make or anything else along those lines is always welcome to.

Shen Qingqiu of course has his wifebeam, but I like to that Yue Qingyuan has some sort of "depressed older brother" beam.

Like you will be a perfectly normal person going about your perfectly normal day, interacting with Sect Leader Yue, when suddenly you just get hit with this overwhelming sense of intangible yet bittersweet nostalgia and fraternal connection. You know in your soul that Yue Qingyuan would give you the last cookie in the box even if you were the most annoying human to have ever lived. You kind of want to push him into a mud puddle but also you'd kill anyone else who tried it. Bro-zoned but in the weirdest way possible.

Solo Leveling AU where Jinah is the older sibling who has to try and earn a living to keep her comatose mother and high school age brother afloat, and awakens as a hunter and then unlocks the leveling skill.

Thoughts:

-Jinah awakens as an E-rank healer. This, combined with her being a woman, means the flavor of scorn she gets is distinctly different from Jinwoo's experience. Healers are still in enough demand that she doesn't struggle to find work, but her abilities are not miraculous enough that she can just magic most wounds back together and call it a day. She applies her interest in medicine and first aid training to doing actual battlefield medic work on top of her magic, but she's still overworked and exposed to a lot of horrific outcomes and often blamed if the healing doesn't stick.

-Songyi is still an E-rank hunter the same age as Jinah (though this makes her older than in canon, since they're both young adults instead of teens) and narratively replaces Joohee, while also filling more of Jinwoo's original role as the E-rank combatant who is always getting injured. She and Jinah tend to go on missions together as they both view it as their self-appointed responsibility to ensure that the other doesn't die.

-When the double dungeon happens, they work together to figure out the statues, but Songyi gets too badly hurt for Jinah to heal and Jinah loses a leg. Song Chiyul can only carry one of them out, and Jinah tells him to take Songyi because she herself is going to die from blood loss before a rescue team can reach them in time.

-When she unlocks the leveling ability, Jinah is much more suspicious of the system than Jinwoo. She observes more of the fact that it will punish her for not doing what it wants, than that it is making her stronger, but it does still provide her key advantages to doing what she actually needs to do. She invests in healing and stealth traits, largely ignoring the main combat skills at first, since her ultimate goal is to find a cure for her mother. Plus she's a gamer, she knows how OP a good support class can be.

-Jinwoo is in high school. Joohee is his friend who recently awakened as a B-rank healer, but is reluctant to become a hunter. Jinah encourages her to study medicine instead, since healing skills have a lot of applications outside of dungeons.

-Of course, Jinwoo desperately wants to help support his family, so Jinah is frequently deterring him from dropping out of his school to try and get a job, and assuring him that she doesn't actually face much danger in any dungeons, since she's a healer and stays at the back. He doesn't take her stay in the hospital well at all.

-Because she's a healer, Jinah doesn't really Solo Level that much. It's far easier for her to grind exp by just going along on official raids and healing people. In the clutch, other hunters rarely understand the differences in healing ranks, especially the low-level ones, who are usually just grateful enough to have not lost a limb or bled out to understand that they were hit with a powerful spell rather than just being "lucky" about a blow missing something vital. Jinah still does plenty of first aid as well to make things seem more plausible.

-Of course, this does mean she has more trouble in the solo dungeons. Fortunately, a lot of the skills that work well for healers also work for mages, and stealth skills have a wide variety of applications that make other dungeons safer for her too. She also develops a keen interest in alchemy and how the system will let her combine various materials to craft potions. She discovers a recipe for crafting "lures" that will draw monster aggro, allowing her to position them away from her and deter attacks, and potions that let her imbue others with temporary stealth so that she can hide injured hunters, as well as miraculous cures, stamina boosts, mana rejuvenation elixirs, and so on.

-She tells people they're electrolyte drinks and hands a lot of them out to other hunters on the job. This almost comes back to bite her in the ass with Kang Taeshik, but he doesn't actually drink what she gives him, so thankfully he doesn't receive a stat boost before he goes on his killing spree. After that she reflects on the matter and resolves to be more careful.

-The fact that healers are just kind of mysterious in terms of mechanics to even other hunters, means Jinah can fly under the radar for way longer than Jinwoo did. She doesn't have to solve emergency situations by personally fighting, she can just buff everyone else's stats to the equivalent of a higher rank or two and only the really observant ones even suspect that it was more than just their own luck & skill that carried the day. Even the observant ones just suspect she might have reawakened as a higher ranked healer.

-Also, because she's focused on mage class skills and mana manipulation, she has more control over her mana as she levels up than Jinwoo did. This means she's not constantly giving off undesired Badass Aura 24/7, and when she decides to retake the hunter test to get a new official certification for her rank, she can manipulate how much mana she allows the test to read and tops it out at A-rank. Perfectly serviceable for her needs, many A-rank healers do also go along on S-rank raids because S-rank healers are so rare, but it keeps her and her family out of the news (apart from the miracle cure of her mom waking up).

-Jinah also wants to figure out how to treat people suffering from magically-induced diseases and complications to magic exposure, not just get a one-time fix, so she figures out how to replicate the cure's effects and then just quietly cures everyone else in the same ward over the course of a few nights visiting. Then the news is that several people miraculously woke up, not just her mom. Getting back into the medical field officially is more of a focus for her, so that she can start presenting her discoveries and samples through official networks.

-But, because she's kept herself more successfully off the radar, it happens that even though she gets involved with the big Jeju raid from the beginning, the organizers put her on the second line of defense at sea to block off the flying ants retreating from the island, rather than with the main strike force. After all she's A-rank support, not suitable for an S-rank strike team of such a high level. So she still only arrives after shit has hit the fan and she realizes things have gone and that she needs to use her shadows and get in there.

-When Jinah gets into the battlefield, everyone thinks Byung-gu's ghost is healing them or some shit, because she is NOT walking out on camera to personally fight that fucking ant herself thank you very much. No one knows where those shadow warriors are coming from either and she's keeping it that way as long as possible. She rescues the Korean S-rank squad, heals Ha Chae-in, and buffs the hell out of President Baek so he can kill Beru himself and chalk it up to grief-fueled adrenaline or divine intervention or whatever he likes.

-She does still resurrect Beru. Which is a good thing because her shadow army is sorely lacking compared to Jinwoo's. She watches television shows with him sometimes. He's very curious about learning new languages and he likes period dramas with royalty, of course. Jinwoo worries he's going a little bit nuts because sometimes he'd swear her sees eyes watching him from shadows these days, but it always seems to be a trick of the light.

-Also, Songyi knows Jinah's secret and is kind of jealous about it, but wants to figure out if there are other ways for hunters to unlock the system or gain some kind of leveling ability. She lets Jinah test buffs and things out on her, and being more of a brawler, she ironically draws a lot more attention and suspicions of being some kind of false ranker through her conduct. This works out in a kind of boy who cried wolf way, as allegations against Songyi are easily disproved (since she's ultimately still just an E-rank and tests as such), and Woo Jinchul is starting to think there's just some kind of sexism based issue going on in the freelance hunting squads, that he keeps getting called out to asses young lady hunters for allegedly being "too strong".