#My brain is a hamster of a wheel starved for enrichment

[esamastation]

Vibes I want to write (with svsss AU examples)

1 Sci-fi character in a fantasy setting. Like, Detroit Become Human Android in Scum Villain or something. Shen Qingqiu is an Android owned by Shang Qinghua who used to be his editor. He became a deviant out of pure loathing of Sqh's writing. Then they transmigrate? Now there's an android in a fantasy world trying to blend in and survive. Can he cultivate? How does he recharge? I wanna find out.

2 Alternatively the previous one but reversed. Emperor Luo Binghe crosses universes to find his Kind Shizun and finds the perfect candidate. In a Star Wars universe, Crèche Master Shen Yuan doesn't know what he did to deserve this Dark Sider's attention, but he wishes Binghe would stop trying to fight droids/aliens/space ships for no good reason. The property damage is getting ridiculous. Actually no, that isn't too interesting, Luo Binghe is too op, hmm. Luo Binghe uses some sort of Banishment ritual and Shen Jiu finds himself in the Stargate universe. Ooh, Shen Jiu in Marvel. Tony Stark makes him new arms and legs and they fight about whether cultivation is magic or not. Shen Jiu loves/hates mobile phones. And then Shen Jiu makes his way back to PIDW and brings all his new sci-fi knowledge with him.

3 A kingdom built on misunderstandings. Shen Yuan transmigrates as himself and by applying Airplane Logic to the world, he accidentally makes himself out to look all knowing He's mistaken for so many things. Immortal master, legendary hermit, great seer. People start following him, thinking they're joining a great sect. His works and words get spread out and people think he's thousands of years old. Shen Yuan just wanted to find a nice place to read some local literature, but now he's the Great Scholar, a Sect Leader, the oldest immortal, probably divine in some way  and he can't say a thing without people taking it as gospel. Also somewhere along the way, he's become all those things and also there's a sect hall now? And he's not entirely sure how that happened.

4 Angry genre savvy. Shen Yuan has read PIDW back to back; he knows all of its bullshit plot devices. Most of them are mortifying or humiliating or just stupid, and way too many of them involve papapa, but they work. Absolutely furious about it, he applies those plot devices into situations as needed. And what to him is humiliation seems like incredible insight and mastery to others. Shen Yuan hates it but keeps doing it because, goddamnit, it works.

5 Immortality but make it uh, mentally Eldritch? Idk how to explain this one. Sometime ago I glanced at a webcomic where the main character was locked in some kind of liminal space for a million years where he trained himself to be op and came out literally none worse for wear and I was like, "Yeah he should've been mentally pulverised by that, he should've been absolutely disintegrated." So, if you have a magic system that has the ultimate goal of immorality, what does that do to your psyche after hundreds and thousands of years? There's gotta be some intentionally wrought changes with all that cultivation and meditation, because normal human brain capacity and just plain old sapience isn't built for that. What does the mind of a thousand year old cultivator look like? Pretty inhuman, maybe? Shen Qingqiu with a mind like carved jade, polished to perfection over generations, and utterly strange and terrifying to a normal human.