Title: Rainbow Dragon
Author: Kady the Red Panda
Fandom(s): Tintin
Pairing(s): gen
Rating: K
Warning(s): none
Summary: Prompt: Puzzles. A freshly superpowered Chang finds out he's only a small part of something even bigger than he ever knew.
Word Count: 870
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters. That's a good thing IMO.
Other tidbits: I'm so sad there's not much Rainbow Boy fic. Granted, it's a superhero AU that a few friends and I did but I just love the idea of sweet Chang kicking butt with the power of rainbows, love, the weather or however. I originally pictured Chang as first transforming with a locket, so I decided to make it more significant here. Chang's life at this point would be a puzzle, as he doesn't even know why he became a magical boy in the first place; the locket is the first clue. This would be early into the story before Tintin joined him or that they found out about other superheroes, assuming that this was a real series of course LOL Other prompts this piece could work with are communication and mythology.
Apparently in Chinese mythology the earliest sign for "rainbow," which is also the one used in Japanese kanji and Rainbow Boy's name, originally resembled a double headed dragon: one head for each side of the rainbow. Further, there are tales of dragons falling to the ground in China to die. The most recent accounts I know of are in early WWII China. Dragons symbolize good fortune in China and seeing one is considered so as well.
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