Title: Phonophobia
Rating: ...K-ish? idk it's sad but not super sad since we all know there's an eventual happy end here, right? :o Tiny, non-explicit mentions of a possible messy death, but yeh KUNG FU PANDA 2
Characters: Mr. Ping
Mr. Ping doesn't know any of the smaller details about his son's latest journey to defeat this diabolical Lord Shen. He knows there is a new weapon, one never seen before, that crackles and booms and kills without difficulty or remorse, and his heart plummets in his chest in horrified panic every time he thinks of it. He doesn't understand the idea of something that sounds like a firework but ends in blood and death. He can't imagine something so horrible.
He thinks, occasionally, that if he only knew, if he was only privvy to the details, that he would stop hearing explosions every time he closes his eyes, terrifying visions and designs that have no grounding in reality. He would stop seeing Po, smiling as he walks straight into this noisy deathtrap. He would stop cringing and flinching at every loud clatter of dishes; he wouldn't be forced to huddle in his bedroom at every impromptu firecracker set off by an exuberant neighbor.
He would stop wishing, however briefly before guilt and horror chase it away, that to avoid this kind of pain, he had never become a father at all.
A/N: Dude, you guys, this took me so long to figure out because I was like loud noises? what the heck kind of loud noises would Mr. Ping have run into? Thunderstorms? Fireworks? (maybe that's why he didn't go up to the Jade Palace for the tournament)
But then I realized. Shen's cannon. If all he knew about it. was that it was very loud. and there was no way to stop it. and that's what his baby was going off to fight against.
And now you know how this got here. `~`;;