The Snake Among Spiders [HxH]

DISCLAIMER and Some stuff about Yu Yanmei [Re-edited]

Minor edits will be made - 1/26/24

HunterxHunter does not belong to me, and neither does any MDZS characters I may or may not mention.

This fanfic is mainly for my amusement and I wanted to share this idea with you guys.

About Yu Yanmei:

[Pic at the very top is the guzheng that she has. The pic above is basically just a genderbent Jiang Cheng, but that's how I imagine how Yu Yanmei looks like (after all, she is Jiang Cheng's twin sister). The clothes she is wearing in the pic is what she wears the entire story. These pictures do not belong to me.]

Yu Yanmei is my original character, and the twin of Jiang Cheng. She uses her mother's surname because she doesn't quite like how her father favors Wei Wuxian over her twin brother and herself, but she doesn't blame Wei Wuxian for anything. In fact, she quite likes Wei Wuxian, in a sisterly way of course. In other words, she broke traditional norms and has no care of what others may think of it.

She is a highly skilled cultivator and will be the head disciple instead of Wei Wuxian. She has a crush on Lan Xichen, but knew that he would never feel the same way so she didn't tell him. She regretted this decision, however, and would sometimes spend her free time thinking about him.

Her last memory of her mother was the shock of her mother hugging both Jiang Cheng and herself, as if they were the most precious people in her heart. She had even included Wei Wuxian in the hug, after shouting at him about how much she hated him. Yu Ziyuan had handed Yu Yanmei a black ring and told her that the name of the spiritual whip is named Heidian before the attack on Lotus Pier. Yu Yanmei was bound by some of Zidian's electric ropes and was pushed by her mother into another world.

She landed in front of the Phantom Troupe a few days after they had massacred the Kurta Clan, right into Chrollo Lucilfer's chest, looking through the portal with wide eyes as she screamed for her mother, a woman that the Troupe saw push a boat away from the dock she was standing on, before turning her back on them and walking towards the burning buildings. The Phantom Troupe took her in, and they were soon made quite clear about her aversion to killing innocent people, so they wouldn't take her with them whenever they had a mission to do. However, they were pleasantly surprised at her change in attitude when the portal opened again a few months later and they saw her twin brother hand her a golden hair ornament that they soon realized was from her mother, their mother's bell, a dark purple sword which was named Shédú and say something to her. Time flew the same in their worlds. Shédú has a purple hilt and it's dark purple scabbard has scale-like designs on it, much like her twin's [in the live action]. The blade is slender, crystalline and transparent, much like the blade of Lan Wangji's Bichen sword, but it was just as strong as Bichen, able to cut through almost anything like butter. She uses the guzheng as her musical weapon, and the strings of it were reinforced with her Qi to make them unbreakable. Her guzheng is called Dōnglián.

(Shédú means Snake Venom. Dōnglián means Winter Lotus.]

That was the day her personality changed and was the day she started participating in their missions. Two years later, she was taken to the Zoldyck Mansion and requested to be trained by them, and they allowed it.

Yu Yanmei found out that the mountain that the Zoldyck's lived on was seeped in dark and resentful energy, and while training there for two years, the dark and resentful energy there had successfully and permanently changed her personality. Jiang Cheng often visited her in her new world, and didn't seem surprised at her personality change. He would sometimes bring along Jin Ling, who Yu Yanmei (and surprisingly, the Phantom Troupe, along with anyone else she met) would always dote on. Sometimes he brought Wei Wuxian, Jiang Yanli, Jin Zixuan, or anyone else who wanted to see her again, as she refused to go back to her original world unless she was really needed.

(In this story, Zidian and Heidian will be able to create portals, open up 'windows' to the world either whip is in, as well as have the same abilities. Heidian is Yu Yanmei's spiritual whip and it means Black Lightning. It's the sister-whip to Zidian)

About her cultivation and skills, along with yet another summary:

Yu Yanmei is nearly at the point where she could reach immortality, which is why she is the head disciple. This is because while Wei Wuxian caused trouble and with her twin brother cleaning up his messes, Yu Yanmei was meditating, and training her sword skills, becoming better and better every day. She also practiced with a regular whip after seeing her mother's Zidian in action and became just as good at wielding a whip just like her mother. Her mother gave her Heidian before Lotus Pier was attacked. She is ranked first in the strongest female cultivator ranking, and also ranked first in the most beautiful maiden rankings.

Yu Yanmei has photographic memory and only needs to see a move or music piece be used or played only once and she would be able to replicate it flawlessly. Of course, she couldn't just replicate someone's cultivation skills, so this is something that she works on by herself. As a result of this, she is also a very excellent actress, able to twist the words of someone around and able to shift her attitude in a split second. Much better and more flawlessly than Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao himself. She is also ambidextrous, able to fight with a sword and a whip simultanously.

She became a valued member of the Phantom Troupe soon after and became the 13th member of the Troupe. However, she chose to not have a spider as a tattoo, but chose to have a snake as a tattoo. The snake was coiled around the Chinese character for 13, as if it was protecting it, and the tattoo was put just below her left collarbone. She was close to Feitan, and the two would occasionally poke fun at Phinks. In their own native language of course.

There was one thing that bothered her though. And that was the fact that she had somehow caught the attention of both Kurapika and Chrollo. Both of whom didn't plan on letting her go any time soon, and both of whom had no plans to let the other take her.

Ah, just who would she choose, when her heart is already taken by another? Will they share her? Or will she eventually fall for one of them?

Edit: So, after re-watching HxH, getting endless ideas all the while, and getting to the Chimera Ant Arc, I had a sort of idea that Yu Yanmei becomes a Chimera Ant? She'd be a Royal Guard, and still retain her human memories, her peerless beauty, her long black hair, and her abilities, along with all of her skills, though they will be heightened to almost inhuman capacity. She'll look like a human, though she'll have royal-purple eyes that has gold specks in them and slit pupils, along with black cat ears and a black cat tail, and she'll have a sort of ethereal presence. The only things that changes, other than her appearance, is her personality, and her Nen reserves, which will grow to almost rival Meruem's...

Key word is almost.