#Shen Jiu

[eggsolotl]

[seaside-tropical-sun]

Inspo from the case of the golden idol:

Also couldn’t resist~

[teazart]

I was thinking about an AU where SY and SJ met each other through the Qiu manor and instead of SJ studying under the demonic cultivator he escapes with SY. SY and SJ struggle and finally get to Cang Qiong where SJ gets into Qing Jing and SY goes to the Beast peak [not very imaginative i know :') ]. They both move through the ranks and reach peak lord status. I like to think its a slow burn and they both end up falling in love. SY and SJ both helping each other heal. I'm not a good writer sorry I just really love the idea of SY/SJ. And I also wanted to practice on my two favorite brushes.

[rhiangalaxy]

SQQ, internally: The fox isn't the only thing that's pretty-

Piece chosen by this poll! :D

[ID: A Scum Villain Drawing. The top half shows Beast Peak Lord! Shen Yuan with a happy and endearing expression. He is dressed in greens and browns with his hair pulled into a ponytail, holding a red, white and pink spiritual fox in his arms, as if showing her off, and saying "Isn't she pretty?" The bottom half shows SJ!Shen Qingqiu in a chibi style with his fan held up to cover the lower half of his flushed face, as he gives SY a slightly sultry and admiring look as he replies "mhm." End ID]

[pr0cyon-lotor]

AU where SJ is a horror movie director and actor. All the movies he makes aren't overly gore filled and they focus on psychological horror (and have an all female cast with very few exceptions because of course). However, all the movies he acts in have him get brutally murdered (it's in his contract).

SY is a horror movie nerd and got hooked on SJ through his acting. He loved the monsters and the creative deaths. The interviews he watched of SJ, he's enamored (in a TOTALLY PLATONIC AND PARASOCIAL WAY) with the way SJ says he's usually the one writing his own death scenes. That led him to find SJ's movies and he was even more hooked.

But SY is also an actor, but he plays love interests in cheesy romance dramas (he did it originally to beat his sister in a bet but it's not a bit anymore). He's charming and sweet with all his co-actors and even amassed his own irl harem. He wishes he could act in horror movies, but he's too well known as the kind pretty boy from the romance genre. And people will most certainly riot if his characters die, so :(

And as cheesy and sappy SY thinks his roles are, SJ is absolutely enamored as well. His guilty pleasure is watching cheesy romance dramas. He loves them in secret and wishes saintly men like SY's characters existed in real life.

Anyway, during an interview with SY, he's asked what genre he likes, and he tells them that he's actually fond of horror. They ask what type of horror and he immediately starts gushing about SJ. About his acting, his genius, his writing, his directing skills, etc. He tells the interviewer that his dream is to either work with or under SJ, but he laments that he always gets rejected for horror roles.

In the distance you here all the woman SY has enchanted wail in unison as they realize they don't have a chance because he likes men.

SJ obviously sees this and doesn't know what to do with the obvious praise. He panics as SY says he wants to work with/under him, and is struck with inspiration (he had writer's block for a long time). And he writes a script with a kind man that gets everyone to love him with a few words that is actually a siren that secretly consumes his admirers (or something IDK I'm uncreative. it doesn't matter it just has to be a monster role that is obviously made for SY)

He refines the script and starts casting. SY hears SJ is looking for roles openly, which is rare because SJ usually has closed castings. So he hurries over and auditions for the main villain, and he gets the role (to no one's surprise).

When they start the filming process, SY has basically enchanted the whole crew and they all agree that SY was the best option. And then one of the scenes where SY reveals himself as evil, and everyone had something awake in them.

The entire time SY is hoping he's doing well so SJ will like him. And in SJ's corner, he's fighting demons to stay professional. Everyone is fighting their battles while SY keeps looking at SJ after each shoot to see if he's doing a good job. But SJ keeps leaving, so obviously he's not. So he tries even harder (causing so much emotional distress in everyone that wants him desperately)

When everything wraps up, SY asks if SJ would be interested in dinner so he can pick his brain. SJ hesitates thinking SY was going to reveal that he too was two-faced like his character. But no, SY genuinely asks him so many questions and looked stary eyed when he answered. SY didn't try anything and they left with SY walking SJ to his car before going to his.

SJ drives home conflicted because apparently a prince charming does exist and he casted him as a murderer in his show/movie. And SY is happy because he thinks he did so well in getting his favorite actor/director to finally like him.

The movie/show releases and everyone also has a violent awakening and want SY in more villain roles.

SY is happy because he can finally be in horror movies. SJ is actively making scripts to just invite SY to act in them (the most productive he's been in a while). SY is over the moon when he gets an invite to act in another of SJ's scripts and puts his all in his characters. He ends up shining so much that even if he was a side character, he'd be a fan favorite.

And eventually he and SJ get invited to play in a movie. SY is excited to act with SJ (he didn't read the script before accepting the role), and SJ is so conflicted because not only does the movie have a kiss scene between their characters but SY kills him. It's like evil, toxic yaoi or something.

SY finally reads his damn script and is having a whole sexuality crisis, but he shuts up because he doesn't want to lose this opportunity (and he doesn't want to offend SJ, who is openly and maliciously gay). The director (Airplane) is doing this for the love of the game and fan service, so he makes them redo scenes over and over again until he liked a shoot.

SY locks in and tries not to think much of it. Then SJ tells him they have to practice the kiss scene because it has to look authentic (Airplane is a tyrant and demands it to be sloppy and crazy and REAL), and suddenly SY is thinking WAY too much about it. They try, SJ tells him he kisses stiff, and that he figured all his romantic main lead roles would make him a better kisser.

SY doesn't know how to say that he uses stage kisses instead of actually kissing his co-actor because he always felt uncomfortable with it, so he settles on saying something accidentally suave. Probably something like "It's different to kiss someone you admire so much".

SJ takes at least 15 points of psychic damage and tells him that they better practice for him to get used to it (excuse to kiss SY).

Then the day of the scene comes and like... I can't think of anything to end this with. Idk they get caught in the moment and have weird sex on set or something and Airplane calls it genius and takes the movie to production.

This optional if you want to write this au. I just don't have a way to end this post :3

[ankyrea]

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[loachpearl]

shen jiu and shen yuan. king and jester, respectively.

they don't switch, ever, of course. why would they, when shen jiu obviously has no interest in such a ridiculous life. he can already say whatever he wants, he's king, and a king who doesn't care if he offends his vassals. who cares about the opinions of those beneath him, not shen jiu. they don't switch, ever. shen jiu just gets into moods where he wants to binge read a book or something, so he'll spend it in the library, royal guards at every entrance forbidding anyone entry. or he gets a horrible headache and lies abed all day. that sort of thing just happens sometimes. he's a particular, somewhat delicate, man!

and if the jester is off to the...seedier parts of town while the king's stacking bestiaries into a tower, so what!

(shen yuan is terrible at impersonating shen jiu but shen jiu's essentially flawless. the only person who can tell is yue qingyuan and that's only in very specific circumstances that hardly ever come around)

anyway i love twins and jiuyuan so i do think they should fuck but also. very fun if shen jiu starts getting romanced by tianlangjun while he's supposed to be the jester (they keeps running into each other when he visits his jiejies in the brothels. perhaps literally. shen jiu has a terrible impression of him. tianlangjun, enamored already, is doubly endeared as a result)

meanwhile shen yuan keeps feeding a stray (luo binghe is a very accomplished little street rat, very light on his feet, quick with his fingers, has lifted a good number of things from the palace already, but ever since he met yuan gege the things he makes off with have steadily decreased in value to others---scraps of paper with half finished drawings of beasts, a very chewed quill, a bit of thread snagged upon a splinter---but are priceless to him, on par with the pendant his mother left him)

at the end of one of their swap days, shen jiu's wiping all the paint off his face before getting in bed---shen yuan's already there, reading---and he asks, casually, if anything interesting happened today:

shen yuan, fumbling his book and nearly dropping it, equally as casually: no!!! haha!!! what about you, ge???

shen jiu, pausing for less than a second as he wipes his eye: also no.

they look at each other in tacit understanding to pursue this further perhaps tomorrow

Horrible fantasy idea:

Every time the royal firstborn happens to be twins, the dispute of which one is the one who is the rightful heir to the throne is settled by division of labour: One of them is to become the future queen/king, and the other one is to become the royal jester. One can do whatever they want but must be very careful with what they say, the other can say whatever they want but must be very careful with what they do.

It is not exactly uncommon for the two to fight over which one gets to be the jester. But in the occasion when they agree to take turns on which one sits on the throne and which one at the foot of it (in disguise of course), it's considered polite to at least pretend to not notice the ruse.

[sunshineastro]

shen jiu makes me crazy because he truly was doomed by the narrative. there’s so many points in his life that you can look at and say “if this had gone even slightly differently, he would still be a good person.”

[fangirlingpuggle]

Silly SVSSS AU/fic prompt when Shen Jiu is away on mission finds baby Shen Yuan and takes him back, Shen Yuan looks like his previous self similar to Shen Jiu but not identical. So everyone is convinced he is biologically Shen Jiu's child.

The peak lords find out and freak out...only instead of assuming that the child other parent is a concubine they think it's one of the other peak lords.

Shen Jiu: I found that brat on a mission he's not mine

Qi Qingqi: So you just happened to find a abandoned newborn who looks almost just like you while away on a nine month mission

Shen Jou: Yes

Qi Qingqi:...

Just every single peak lord looking at all the others like 'Which one of you is the other parent?' just constantly looking between Shen Yuan and other peak lords trying to find similarities.

Shen Yuan terrified thinking all the peak lords are onto him when really they're just trying to figure out which of them gets to claim him as the other parent. (Also some of them really want to court Shen Jiu and are ready to propose... they're all been trying to court him for ages 1 look at Shen Jiu being all sweet with baby Shen Yuan and suddenly the wife beam KO'd all of them)

(Apart form Shang Qinghua who when people suspected him raise both hands like

SQH: NO WAY I DIDN'T HAVE SEX WITH HIM I COULDN'T HAVE I'M ENGAGED TO A DEMON...

Peak lords: Your what?

SQH:...oh fuck

Cue Shang Qinghua awkwardly asking Mobei Jun to pretend to be his fiancee please... Mobei Jun thinks his courting has finally worked)

[emi-su-art]

[liss-art]

I'm not finished yet!!!

Happy fool's day 😅😅😅😅😅

[drivebypainter]

“Shen-shixiong, Yue-shixiong, that’s the one I was telling you about..”

“I see…”

“How interesting.”

[ID: Shen Jiu, Shen Yuan and Yue Qingyuan stand together looking at the viewer. Shen Jiu, on the left, holds up his fan to hide the lower half of his face, he looks vaguely interesting and disgusted as he peers over his fan at the viewer. Shen Yuan, in the middle, has an open mouthed smile, seemingly in the middle of talking to Shen Jiu and Yue Qingyuan. Yue Qingyuan, on the right, faces Shen Jiu and Shen Yuan and keeps a calm but strained smile while staring at the viewer from the corner of his eye. End ID.]

[lambiesvault]

You know what fucks me up but also makes my heart sing?

The fact Shen Jiu The Person™, living breathing and being is nowhere in the canon. We know of a Shen Jiu in the novel and all the character information is gleaned off anecdotes, author's notes and second hand reports, reactions of others to him and their perception of him.

We got what Shen Yuan's thoughts are on him (The scummiest villain to scum), we got Airplane's scraped backstory for him (erased and forgotten), we got reactions from other peak lords to the before and after in SQQ's behaviour and their limited interactions. We even get Luo Binghe's gratefulness for the 180 personality shift. That's all in reaction to ripples to Shen Yuan's presence and is again filtered through his biases.

The closest we could get to a real portrayal of Shen Jiu would have been from Yue Qingyuan but that man would not speak of what SQQ would not bring up himself. And it will still just be a portrait, very much flawed and altered.

He is the one character we will never truly meet.

All of those are outside of Shen Jiu. We never actually see him, only glimpses of him through others.

There's no Shen Jiu in the canon. He doesn't just show up in the novels, not even for a scene. (Even og Bing-ge does what the hell). Point being, Shen Jiu was whatever people saw him as and as what changed, even us readers.

But here's the kicker

We ourselves participate in building him anew from love and that makes me so feral

We as a fandom decided to make him whole, beyond the canon, because we saw those crumbs and said, no, he's more than that, he's a person, he deserves a voice that's his own and we will write to give him it and we will make him whole rather than the sum of others' perception of him.

(I might not make sense but tldr, Shen Jiu doesn't ever show up in the novels and he still got people who love him enough to create for him makes me so weak)

[allpiesforourown]

Shen Jiu is not a tsundere he's a deeply traumatized person who's reasonably wary of the world and uses anger as a way to protect himself. But he is also kind of a huge tsundere

[tboesart]

Finally managed to throw some color on and finish @wyyvoren 's dtiys 🩵

Rip Shen Yuan, enjoy never having a day of peace again with Bingpup and Shennyan in the house 😔

(until they ban together when the interloper Liu Qingge shows up at the house)