#BAMF SQH

[happypeachsludgeflower]

I would pathetically (and very hamster-like with big pleading begging eyes) like to request more bamf Shang Qinghua please. Like sure, he’s going to grovel and be sticky and pretend like he can’t do shit so he can con other people into doing shit for him (and then sit on the side with a bag of popcorn watching), but the moment he’s by himself and there’s no one around to shirk the dirty work onto, he just kinda sighs and then grudgingly does it himself without breaking a sweat.

[notsofrozt]

@fireflysugarpie I think you'll like this

Soooooo is there an unhinged Shang Qinghau au or am I gonna have to make one?

Cause like, there is so much potential there. Imagine an enemy that knows everything about you, and enemy that can blackmail the most powerful of demons and cultivators, an enemy that knows exactly where to find the most dangerous of weapons, plants, and creatures, an enemy that knows the layout of dangerous places like the mausoleum like the back of his hand,

and imagine that enemy is terrified, that enemy has spent so long barely surviving he doesn’t know how to live without checking behind his shoulder, that enemy knows so much, but he is sure that the few things he forgot are going to be the death of him.

Shang Qinghau at his core is a man convinced he could never be good enough, convinced that the moment he’s genuine people will see the real him and laugh. He made a very successful web novel that pays enough for rent, and yet he still doesn’t believe anyone reads that novel for anything but the smut!

An angry man will fight till they get a message across but a scared man will fight until they know they feel safe. Tell me, how do you feel safe when you don’t believe you can kill your enemy? You get stronger. But Shang Qinghau will never believe himself strong enough. Not until everyone he believes to be strong is gone.

I’m drawing this but, tell me if anyone’s made anything even remotely similar please! I’d love to see it

[konjiang]

Sometimes, I forget how much power Shang Qinghua actually has. He may not remember all the content in his book but was still able to utilize the knowledge he has to help Mobei-jun. If he wanted to, he could have destroyed everything because no one knows the inner workings of the demon realm better than him. In conclusion, we need more unhinged and BAMF SQH.

[lurkinginnernarrator]

Yk what would be interesting?

Shen Yuan as a beast hunter.

Him taking into account SQQ's unstable cultivation, the fact that while he is a suitable actor he's not a perfect one, and promptly deciding on a course of action.

"Zhangmen-shixiong, Qing Jing is the scholarly peak. If we are not hunting down knowledge, and capturing it for the future generations, what kind of scholars would that make us? This master cannot allow such a thing to occur.

So this master will be setting an example for my disciples by going out myself on such an endeavor.

And not only is Qing Jing the peak of scholars, but we are cultivators as well. Is it not our duty to be intercessors between the spiritual and demonic things and the common people?"

Yue Qingyuan can do nothing but agree.

Cut to SY!SQQ hunting down rare and powerful beasts, his hunts taking months, as he stalks the beasts and observes their behaviors; compiling valuable information about countless beasts. He then cleanly kills the beasts, all the valuable parts go to Cang Qiong, usually to Mu Qingfang.

The rare beasts improve SQQ's cultivation base and level by leaps and bounds.

And! He doesn't have to navigate the original goods personal relationships because he's not at CQ! Being a poser is so much easier when you just have to be untouchable immortal.

Whenever SQQ comes back to CQMS it's to drop off a carcass or because he absolutely has to for peak lord business. Otherwise he's always out on some sort of quest.

The Qing Jing Peak Lord's skills shoot up by 100²

His steps are silent, when he's not thinking about it he just fades into the background, continually being on hunts where silence is necessary, being less than a whisper becomes muscle memory.

His gaze isn't only scathing anymore, it's also piercing. He observes everything.

His movements are quick, graceful, full of power and yet incredibly calculated. You can't hit a Blood Blossoming Demonic Hummingbird too hard, or it'll crumple, but if you don't hit it hard enough you'll be an exsanguinated husk.

He also takes to wearing a fur mantle: it's from a Heavenly Moon Snake-Leopard, some poachers had been stalking the Snake-Leopard for months, driving it into madness. SQQ dealt with the poachers of course, but the Snake-Leopard was beyond saving. While unfortunate, the fur is so useful! Warm, water repellent, regenerative, acid resistant, and excellent camouflage! The Snake-Leopard also gifted SQQ its fangs for killing the poachers, and they make impressive daggers.

Qing Jing Peak cannot get enough of this cool badass Shizun who puts even the Liu Qingge to shame when it comes to beast hunting! And whenever he comes back to the peak he has lessons on his hunts! He even brings back specimens!!

Mu Qingfang appreciates Shen-Shixiong's newfound hobby immensely. Not to disparage Liu-Shixiong's contributions, but Shen-Shixiong brought him not one, but TWO intact Yellow Butterfly-Lizard carcasses, liver, wings AND tongue intact! The downside Shen-Shixiong hunting so much Liu Qingge has less to do, which unfortunately means more work Qian Cao, patching up Bai Zhan Disciples. And the Sect Leader seems... Depressed? MQF will have his Head Disciple drop off some Blue Lily of Uplifting tea for him.

Liu Qingge is upset at being benched and very confused???

Yue Qingyuan just smiles painfully. "As long as Xia-— as long as Shen-Shidi is happy..."

(LBH is of course enamoured with his powerful and righteous Shizun)

And of course, SY!SQQ's skills do help him out quite a bit, his reaction time improved drastically, meaning no Without-A-Cure. And canon goes just a bit easier. Maybe.

[sweetiebunbuns]

The hand of god ✍️

[al3zthecat-blog]

I read a fic where SQH can speak all the languages from PIDW because he created the world and doesn't even realize that he can do this. In the fic it's not even an immediate thing, but the longer he spends with someone speaking a different language or dialect he starts Learning by Osmosis TM. And I actually LOVE that idea. It could be that all the languages/dialects from PIDM were downloaded in Airplane's brain since birth, but because of The System shenanigans Airplane has no idea he can do this and he doesn't notice when he starts speaking another language. Or it could be that once he meets someone that speaks a different language/dialect the System starts downloading it in SQH'S brain (without telling Airplane), so the first time Moshang meet Mobei doesn't understand him. Or Mobei is speaking the same language that cultivators speak, but either by the time Mobei wakes up or the end of the week SQH spends nursing Mobei back to health, SQH already speaks the same language he does, so from then on that's what they speak to each other. Which would be fucking scary but also impressive. Not only because it would give an edge to SQH's work as spy, proving that he was not lying when he offered his service to Mòbei-jun, but also: How unnerving that this random CQM discipline knows your mother tongue? Something that only Ice demons are supposed to know. How did this fucker learn this if Mobei barely speaks to him! add to the hilarity SQH doesn't know he is the only one that can understand what Mobei says (when he speaks that is), because of course if SQH can speak his language why bother "speaking human"? Bonus: SQQ is driven insane by how SQH switches languages.

Sometimes, I think about the world of PIDW having multiple languages and about Mobei-Jun not even speaking the same language as Shang Qinghua. Let's say that Airplane Bro made an offhand reference to ice demons having their own language, and therefore accidentally implied that Mobei-Jun actually learned a second language from the original Shang Qinghua.

The funniest part is that Moshang having even less ability to communicate in the beginning might somehow actually make their relationship better, if they're so entirely dependent on physical cues. (Or worse, of course, because Moshang can always make a situation worse.) Also, I think it would be funny if it took at least several days for Shang Qinghua to realize that Mobei-Jun isn't just being silent because he's refusing to speak to a "lowly human", but because Mobei-Jun genuinely has no idea what Shang Qinghua is saying.

[notsofrozt]

Ruthlessness, rats, and gods by Frozt (Me :D )

Pair: MoShang

Rating: M

Main tags: BAMF Shang Qinghua, Identity Reveal, Angst with a Happy Ending.

To Shen Yuan he was a friend, even though Cucumber knew better than to say that out loud. Or to get on Airplane's bad side.

To Luo Binghe he was an annoying presence that he had to tolerate, though the Emperor was aware of his Shishu's many, many, secrets.

To Mobei-jun he was his eyes and dagger in the shadows, his heart, his everything.

But the reality was that, under all his ratlike facade, Airplane was the ruthlessness of a God incarnated.

Pity no one survived to tell the tale.

or: Shang Qinghua rescues Mobei-jun from a series of wannabe villains and plot devices by using his brain, charms, and rage.

My second entry in the DxD event, @moshangevents, with @anachronismstellar's amazing prompt. Hope y'all like it ✨️

[anachronismstellar]

It's raining too much for me to turn on my pc, but I wanna write so-

Send me an ask with Shang Qinghua/anyone and I'll see what I can do about it :D

Pls I need to write but I also need a break from airplane vs the system

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Also I can't stop thinking about @artsarasp post of SQH getting freaky with all peak lord's and my brain is going BRRRRR

And maybe I'll even write a little cont of warplane who knows my brain is all scattered today lol

[breadandblankets]

boy toy mbj agenda PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

most of this fic is Very not safe for work so i'll post some of the sfw bits but mbj is literally here to look good and watch sqh's back as he kills a bunch of regular humans and then gets dommed at the scene of the crime 👍

"Husband, this one is dirty." The sword in his husband's hands turns back into a pin to be slid right back into his bun. Qinghua's hair is messier than when he can in. Mobei-jun wants to run his fingers through it.  He produces a handkerchief from his sleeve and stalks over to Mobei-jun with a soft huff. "You wouldn't get this dirty, snowflake, if you weren't so clumsy." "This husband couldn't help it" "Oh?" "Hm" "What to do with such a clumsy husband? What to do." "This husband may sugg-" "No, he may not," a hand winds into his hair.  "Kneel." His knees hit the floor into a pool of bloody dirt, the chains chiming melodically. He's going to need at least two baths by the time his husband is done with him. An excellent afternoon. "Good boy." The sudden rumble in Mobei-jun’s chest surprises him. He doesn't purr often, but Qinghua was always special wasn't he. His husband uses the grip on his hair to tip back his head, pulling a groan from Mobei-jun’s mouth. He leans down to press a quick kiss to the glowing mark on his brow.

[artsarasp]

I have a few options and can't choose only one, so.. here's some fic recs for y'all!

[Truth serum] — if it can be destroyed by Tossawary

Description: Mobei-Jun doesn't trust his servant and decides to use truth serum to reveal Shang Qinghua's real plans (30k words, finished)

My impression: I love BAMF Shang Qinghua and how good is written emotions and fear. And all events.

[Plot twist] — Deus Ex Aēr Planus by koalaoshiz

Description: original Luo Binghe comes back to svsss and then he meets Shang Qinghua.. (4k words, finished)

My impression: short one fic for mood and I love scene with.. face.. y'know..

[Time Loop] — Echoes of You by Blackberreh

Description: This day Luo Binghe dies. Everytime. It cannot be changed. Nothing can be done about it. So Shen Qingqiu decides to change it completely. Not only this day. (5k words, unfinished) (moshang)

My impression: GORGEOUS, but unfinished fic. It already has its art, but I still think that it deserves more. I wish to write a sequel to it one day (of course, after asking permission from the authors)

If it can be destroyed by Tossawary

1/5 for the fanfic game!

I didn't realize I missed how Tossawary writes SQH until I read this! Like, I've read "pride is not the word I'm looking for" and for a while that was all I was reading, SQH has such a fun inner voice.

This fic was great!!! I really enjoyed it!

[xi-vz]

I have this Shang Qinghua hc where he’s an actual all-out BAMF. Like, he knows how to kick ass and take names. He can fight better than everyone, he’s powerful af, and he’s practically perfect at anything he does. He created the PIDW world, and he bends it to his will. Like, he’s legit a God™️. And he keeps that tidbit to himself, but sometimes he has trouble hiding it.

One time he beat Liu Qingge in a brutal training fight (one that SQH didn’t even want to participate in), but accidentally-on-purpose trips and hurts himself afterwards, making everyone believe it was a one-off thing.

He’s a better cook than Luo Binghe, although no one knows that until the chef for A Ding gets sick and SQH has a bunch of starving kids to deal with.

SQH is also super charming and naturally flirtatious. He’s on the logistics peak, meaning he has to talk to merchants and negotiate prices and deals. He has a fucking silver tongue. Not in a slimy way, but in the same way as Binghe. (LBH got his personality from somewhere.) SQH’s charm was partially what got Mobei Jun to be interested enough not to kill him when they were teens.

SQH can use The System to his advantage and become omnipotent if he wanted to. He doesn’t, because it takes a lot of work, but he could. In fact, he hacked The System when he was still an infant, it does whatever he tells it. Including giving him infinity points. Sometimes it’ll give him a mission, but SQH treats it like an annoying pop-up ad.

SQH is ruthless, manipulative, and can crush anyone like an ant mentally, physically and emotionally. He actually put a lot of himself into LBH while writing the book. And he kind of regrets that because the two really can’t stand each other due to how similar they are. Although LBH doesn’t realize it.

His cultivation is top tier. He’s actually the strongest cultivator in the world—but it wasn’t because he worked his ass off. He just rigged the game.

I can see him acting pathetic and dramatic to deflect because then he’s underestimated af. Also, the fake tears? His son does the same exact thing. But SQH on the inside is highly amused by everything. Especially Binghe. He loves his son, and knows what LBH is capable of, but it only makes him laugh. Internally, of course. Like, this whole world is hilarious to him.

SQH is smart and because these are his creations, he can outsmart any of them. It’s lonely though, being a God among men. So, instead of using his actual abilities, he doesn’t. Why would he interfere with anyone’s lives? Why do anything for people who were cruel towards him at times, not realizing they should fear him. He has an ego, but at the same time what was the point? He’s a selfish and lazy God™️.

When Shen Yuan transmigrates into SQQ he becomes the only person Shang Qinghua doesn’t know how to read. And it’s refreshing, it makes SQH feel human for the first time in decades.

TL:DR - HC that SQH is a literal God™️ but keeps it a secret. He prefers being an underestimated dude.

[sicklyworm]

Hi yes I would like to hear your thoughts on Shang Qinghua and his characterization (both in canon and in fanfic). I've always really enjoyed the fics with the like,, BAMF!Shang Qinghua tag, but i also can't decide if his cowardice is an act or not, if that makes sense? Or if it's a bit of both.

Oh my gosh thank you for this ask. Please forgive me anon for the absolute rant that's about to happen because of it!!!

I'm going to break down this ask into chunks so properly and thoroughly answer every part of it!

Starting with,

SQH's cannon characterization:

I spent several hours trying to type out a good yet manageable description of his characterization but I found that no matter how hard I try it's a bit too long for a reasonable Tumblr post.

So instead of just ditching this like a normal person I instead started on a essay going over Shang Qinghua's characterization with quotes and analysis!

At the moment of posting it is not currently completed but I'll make sure to reblog this post with the link to the document once it's done!

Now moving on to,

SQH's characterization in fanfiction:

I'm an avid fanfiction reader myself so I see a plethora of different authors writing different arcs for SQH so obviously he's going to act differently in each one.

The thing I think makes or breaks alot of fanfiction with him is whether the author can properly distinguish between their voice and his. As a highly relatable character a lot of us writers can have a pretty hard time distinguishing him as a character from ourselves! When this happens writers can accidentally take bits and pieces of themselves that don't quite match up with him and kind of force them into the characterization of him!

There's also like the cases of hyperfeminization or character bashing but I feel like those are more of a generalized problem then something SQH specific.

Next is,

Is SQH actually a coward or was it just an act?

This question was one I wrestled with quite a bit when I was first starting to dissect his character.

He plays dead and grovels easily when he feels threatened yet displays tremendous courage when it has to do with MBJ. Whether it be saving MBJ from falling to his death or from MBJ'S own uncle, he is necessarily putting himself in danger just for the safety of someone else.

These behaviors by definition conflict with SQH being a coward but It still feels incomplete to just say "he's not a coward case closed." Because he does act incredibly pathetically at times and has betrayed quite a few people!

So after a bit more deliberation I came to the conclusion that "his coward status is determined by his personal connection towards the subject"

If the subject is not close to him or his heart then it is completely subjected to all of SQHs shady and cowardly tendencies. Even if the subject is kinda close to him I believe these cowardly behaviors will definitely cut back some but under enough threat he will ultimately choose his own personal safety.

But in the case he has a deep emotional connection to the subject he seems willing to show tremendous courage and bravery in order to protect said subject.

Example of this playing out in cannon is:

The Sect - low emotional attachment = full rat bastard mode.

Shen Yuan - mid emotional attachment = normal level of courage but will cave under pressure.

Mobei-jun - high motional attachment = huge levels of courage that won't cave under pressure.

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Extra:

My ADHD was going off the rails with this post so I have no idea how coherent it is.

Anyways i am also a big fan of the BAMF!SQH tag and would love if you dropped off some recommendations in my ask box!

[passions-and-pupils]

New SVSSS project!

A collection of short fics describing the slow unhinging of Shang Qinghua through different POVS

I’m not sure how many I’ll end up doing but here are the current pitches for the major ones (all subject to change)

Shen Qingqiu- When Shen Qingqiu is first confronted by Shang Qinghua and threatened with blackmail into becoming his private fighting instructor, he is determined to find a way to destroy the An Ding Peak Lords life. This changes as he slowly recognizes something familiar in his martial brother, the distrustful spirit of a man who doesn’t know what it’s like to be safe, and the injuries, physical and mental, of a man who is beaten daily.

wolf demon- The whole pack was done for, about to be eaten by a massive spider demon as an afternoon snack when suddenly, a beaming light appears in the darkness and takes their assailant down in a marvelous display of skill. As is tradition the pack swears their loyalty, placing there lives in their saviors hands. What they didn’t expect was to be immeadietly handed over to a powerful demon noble as a gift. Of course, they were all still loyal to their savior above all else but, if a gift was what he wanted, a gift they would be.

Mobei Jun- It was an event of a lifetime. Some arrogant human cultivator had the gall to challenge a demon noble for the crown. Of course, he had to be there, to show face if not to watch the show. He got good seats in the arena and thought he would have a nice day free of responsibility and stress while he watched some jerk get publically pummeled to death. That all changes when he recognizes the human in the ring as his own servant and spy, Shang Qinghua. He considered leaving, not sure if he could stomach watching someone he had known for so long get beaten to death but then, in an even bigger twist of fate. Shang Qinghua kills a demon noble in less than half an hour and is crowned Shang Jun.

Shen Yuan- you’d think learning you aren’t the only person who had transmigrated here from the modern world would be a good thing, a great thing even. But when this other transmigrator actually explains that he has blackmail on all the local peak lords and some of the demon aristocracy, Shen Yuan begins to feel mildly threatened. That mildly is slowly redacted as over the course of a few months he finds that not only does this man have an army of wolf and crow demons, but that he has done something very wrong, something that is slowly destroying him spiritually. If only Shang Qinghua would tell him what he did!

Shang Qinghua- Shang Qinghua doesn’t want to die, but he can’t kill Mobei Jun, not like this. Placing the rock beside him he tries to make a plan but, everything he thinks of ends in one of them dead. He considers becoming Mobei Jun’s equal that way maybe, just maybe, he wouldn’t have to choose. He wasn’t sure that was exactly possible with Shang Qinghua’s completely human lineage but, he could try. He already knew he would fight and scream and bite his way to the top for his own life, so why not fight for his favorite character while he was at it ? What did he really have to loose other than his life?

[m0owu]

kinda announcing (not officially) my cumplane fic guys with revealing part of commission art that I ordered.

If you are curious you can read this one perfect fic by @willowwispflame , bc I'm writing continue for it

It's going to have 20-40k words and I'll probably finish it in one or two months. Funny tags for y'all:

• Out of character + bc sqh isn't a mess + and I like to make characters more traumatized and mature

• BAMF Shen Yuan + but after he's getting better + not at being BAMF

• Not Shen Yuan's Mental Gymnastics, but maybe kinda, bc his brain is working and if you ask me really good

(and I'll probably have problems with English so if someone know good beta reader — let me know)

update (23.01): a lot of things changed (IT'S 100K+ GUYS), but main ones stayed.

[horsegirlwarcrimes]

I just read your fic What I Need Right Now Is Some Good Advice for the second time and it's even more amazing then I remember. I adore how you write sqh where he's bamf in his own right but also has weakness with physical combat. It's such a nice balance I don't see very often. And I adore the peak Lords growing friendship I love peak Lords as family even if it's ooc. But you managed to balance the found family/friendship while staying in character! I adore it! I also love how it's never explicitly said who is binghe's father but us as the readers can make some pretty good guesses. Thank you again!!

wahh thank you!! this is so kind (╥﹏╥)ᯓᡣ𐭩 im so glad you enjoyed (and so flattered it was worth not one but two reads!! ahhh!!), thanks so much for letting me know!! literally making my day (ㅅ´ ˘ `)ꕤ*.ﾟ

[fangsforthevenom]

i love bamf!sqh fics surely this says nothing about me