#Bingdi AU

[byk23]

The creature did not die easy but it was a better death than what half of this world had.  Luo Binghe envied him his release as the enormous rhino-like creature thrashed in its death throes.

When it ceased moving, Luo Binghe walked towards where the Saintess was waiting for him. The sun was starting to set in the forest, turning everything into shadows. She was shivering on a boulder atop a hill, her thin gauzy outfit not much of a protection against the incessant rain. Luo Binghe would have offered her his cloak, but it was his only one. And he was cold too.

She stood and bowed when he approached. "Our tribe is grateful to Junshang"

"I will hunt the rest of the herd eastward, do not let the survivors leave the caves until I’d return"

"Junshang" She placed a hand on his arm, "would you like to come warm up in the cave for the night?"

Luo Binghe looked at the woman. Her look was flirtatious but her eyes were resigned. Her offer was more survival that desire. She was probably trying to make sure he did not just leave in the middle of the night.

"Thanking Saintess for the offer" Luo Binghe replied, brushing her arm off, "But I must see to the corpse"

Turning away so he does not see the relief on her face, he made his way down the muddy hill.

The Black Moon Rhinoceros-Python was where he left it, bleeding on its side, abdomen burst open.

Luo Binghe pulled out his cutting knife. Rhino meat was nothing to write songs about but it was meat. He had eaten worse things.

"Stupid Author. Stupid Novel"

Luo Binghe was surprised to hear a voice coming from behind the creature. He carefully stalked around the looming mass to the other side.

There was a man standing next to the giant head of the creature, his arm deep inside the slack mouth.

The first thing Luo Binghe noticed was that the man was young, and slight. He barely came up to the horn of the rhino head. The second was that his white cultivator robes was abnormally clean and bright. In a world where blood, dirt and generally poverty turned everything grimy in a sichen, he shone like a beacon.

"And this is not even the fun version of the novel" the man continued to grumble, screwing up his face in concentration. "a blue-grey filter does not automatically make this a serious wuxia drama, you hack author"

Luo Binghe looked around to see who he was talking to but did not see anyone else. Was the man ill in the head?

Luo Binghe is intimately familiar with madness himself.

"What are you doing?" Luo Binghe asked as the man's whole arm almost disappeared into the rhino's mouth.

The young man startled and stumbled back onto the ground. He quickly raised his hands at the sight of the dagger in Luo Binghe's hand.

"I was taking the snake-tongue" the young man said "to make medicine. It's very good for boils"

When Luo Binghe did not say anything but just stared, the man scrambled to his feet, "This one is Shen Yuan, a travelling apothecarist"

"Did you kill this beast?" He added "I'm sorry I did not realise it belonged to anyone."

There's something strange about this man. It was like there was a focus on him that made everything else in the background blur away.

Just when the silence was starting to turn awkward, "You can have it" Luo Binghe surprised himself by offering. 

"Really?" the young man's face lit up "Thank you, kind sir!"

Luo Binghe found himself helping a random stranger pry open a rhino mouth so he could reach in to grasp the phyton head.

"You must be a very good hunter" Shen Yuan said, slicing the phyton head just below the hood. "Black Moon Rhinoceros-Pythons are very hard to kill"

"I had some luck" Luo Binghe grunted as he let go for the rhino mouth to snap back. He did not feel the need to mention that he was immune to the rhino's qi blasts. He quite liked the admiring look the other man was giving him.

"Here"

Luo Binghe looked down in surprise at the small jar of medicine that was tossed into his hands.

"This is…"

"Medicine" Shen Yuan said "For your throat. Do you have a cold? Your voice is really scratchy"

Luo Binghe cleared his throat in embarrassment "I'm fine"

Shen Yuan shrugged and then smiled "Keep it. Just in case"

Luo Binghe stood there, feeling lighting struck by the smile. He can't remember the last time anyone had genuinely smiled at him.

The man bowed cheerfully and waved the snake head at him before running away into the gloom.

SCUM VILLAIN WRITERS, THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS!!

instead of bingge or bingmei, what if we spoke about OUTLINE luo binghe? i will be calling him bingdi from here on out

bingdi wasn’t supposed to have a harem. he was supposed to end up alone. like yeah he’d bang when he wanted to but no wives. shen jiu was supposed to have a fleshed out back story. the entire thing was supposed to be deeper and darker.

let’s drop shen yuan into the mix (as per usual) and see what happens. i personally think he’d be a wandering cultivator and shen jiu’s little brother. that adds to his og fleshed-out backstory. ofc he’s gonna meet airplane (platonic soulmates in the worst way possible) and he’s gonna wifebeam bingdi into submission

i just think it would be fun and new and interesting to drop him into THIS universe because i’ve never seen anyone use the draft as a setting. it’s just so fun to think of a non-bingmei binghe not occupied with wives. wtf is that guy doing? i wanna know. AIRPLANE ANSWER ME. anyways what is svsss fanfiction for if not experimenting??

also if anyone has recommendations like this tell me please i’ve looked everywhere

[kaptainkoalaoshiz]

Whil writing God's Little Emperor, I've of course been reading fics and posts on bith twitter and Tumblr, one of which was about Hong Jing potentially ousting Meng Mo while he's hitching a ride with Binghe.

In the post, it talked about how Shen Qingqiu totally forgot about it for the reason of Hong Jing being talked about maybe once as a "Cang Qiong Mountain Sect relic" and vaguely described as reacting to demons/demonic possession. We've seen the other peak lords use it with Shen Qingqiu to try and tell if he'd been possessed (and fortunately not reacting), and there's no mention of it ever reacting to Meng Mo being inside Luo Binghe when he went to get Zheng Yuang.

Another fic I've been reading and loving is "why destroy the world when I can get baba kisses" (or something really close, I'm sorry for forgetting the title..!) and Xin Mo reacting to Shang Qinghua and seeing it as his god/father. Hong Jing, being a spiritual weapon, may have a similar "soul" and reaction, but more subdued. He's the older kid, the very filial one that has learned to reign in its behavior not to cause trouble for his baba. Obeying him when he asks for favors is the most it could do for creating it, even if it means letting a demon inside the rhe sect. After all, baba knows best.

On the other, other hand, what if Bing-di saw Shang Qinghua (who he, at this point, have a very complicated relationship with) laughing and being buddy/very close to Wei Qingwei and that sparks.. something. Something he doesn't realize is jealousy. He sees the way Shang Qinghua looks at his shixiong, at the muscles and the way WQW is taller& bigger and .. is that Shishu's taste?

(that's a big can of worms waiting to burst open.)

[opalfairy]

Actual question... if Binghe was genderbended (idc if by the power of trans or by the power of cis swap, that's not relevant here), would the nicknames to distinguish between PIDW Binghe and SVSSS Binghe be reversed as well??

Or in other words, would we have Bingjie and Bingdi or would svsss Binghe stay Bingmei? Or literally any answer, I want your opinions, fellow scummies

EDIT: When I said genderbended I meant an "always a girl" AU. An AU where PIDW's Binghe was known to be a woman and not a stallion protagonist (she probably had a reverse harem going on or something I don't know)

[ophieli]

bky23, i am madly in love with you.

first of all, THANK YOU!! i didn’t expect anyone to actually write anything from my desperate late night post. seeing that someone wrote something made me so excited i got nauseous (GOOD! :])

seeing a binghe TURN DOWN sex was so odd, but considering the context of this being emo goth binghe it was right

shen yuan i love you but quite frankly you are odd and unusual

“a blue-gray filter doesn’t automatically make this into a serious wuxia drama, you hack author” i want to study him

binghe saying that there’s a focus of SY means that he’s attracted to him OR the narrative is PUTTING that focus there. i wonder which

“luo binghe stood there, feeling lighting struck by the smile” i want to hug him

also you tags mentioning batman… idk how i didn’t realize it sooner but you’re so right. bingdi is wuxia batman

SY embarrassing binghe by offering medicine for his voice 😭 he’s a sweetheart

all in all i’m obsessed and i owe you my life. sorry for treating this like an AO3 comment section but i had to show my love. more accurate show of appreciation would be an audio recording of me screaming but this is more polite

SCUM VILLAIN WRITERS, THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS!!

instead of bingge or bingmei, what if we spoke about OUTLINE luo binghe? i will be calling him bingdi from here on out

bingdi wasn’t supposed to have a harem. he was supposed to end up alone. like yeah he’d bang when he wanted to but no wives. shen jiu was supposed to have a fleshed out back story. the entire thing was supposed to be deeper and darker.

let’s drop shen yuan into the mix (as per usual) and see what happens. i personally think he’d be a wandering cultivator and shen jiu’s little brother. that adds to his og fleshed-out backstory. ofc he’s gonna meet airplane (platonic soulmates in the worst way possible) and he’s gonna wifebeam bingdi into submission

i just think it would be fun and new and interesting to drop him into THIS universe because i’ve never seen anyone use the draft as a setting. it’s just so fun to think of a non-bingmei binghe not occupied with wives. wtf is that guy doing? i wanna know. AIRPLANE ANSWER ME. anyways what is svsss fanfiction for if not experimenting??

also if anyone has recommendations like this tell me please i’ve looked everywhere

[ophieli]

SCUM VILLAIN WRITERS, THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS!!

instead of bingge or bingmei, what if we spoke about OUTLINE luo binghe? i will be calling him bingdi from here on out

bingdi wasn’t supposed to have a harem. he was supposed to end up alone. like yeah he’d bang when he wanted to but no wives. shen jiu was supposed to have a fleshed out back story. the entire thing was supposed to be deeper and darker.

let’s drop shen yuan into the mix (as per usual) and see what happens. i personally think he’d be a wandering cultivator and shen jiu’s little brother. that adds to his og fleshed-out backstory. ofc he’s gonna meet airplane (platonic soulmates in the worst way possible) and he’s gonna wifebeam bingdi into submission

i just think it would be fun and new and interesting to drop him into THIS universe because i’ve never seen anyone use the draft as a setting. it’s just so fun to think of a non-bingmei binghe not occupied with wives. wtf is that guy doing? i wanna know. AIRPLANE ANSWER ME. anyways what is svsss fanfiction for if not experimenting??

also if anyone has recommendations like this tell me please i’ve looked everywhere