#Shen Quingqui dances

[mamaclownhunter]

I am- enamored- whenever the book or fanfiction refers to SQQ’s fighting as dancing.

Like- idk I am a fan of unconventional flourishing fighting. And in my brain I have like this fluttering light footed style that SQQ has.

Like that first fight with the demons and he has one hand behind his back and a fan in his hand.

I imagine he kinda fights like a airbender or Tai Lee like he is almost lightweight and the harder you try to hit him the wind and the strikes push him away like someone trying to swipe at a tree. I see him gleefully on top of his enemies weapons like he doesn’t weigh a thing. So like when Shen Quingqui is describing his fighting I imagine it as the very default Xianxia fighting- but also like this fluttering all robes very ethereal looking fighting

And Shen Yuan is internally being a huge fucking nerd

I am enamored with over dramatic but extremely competent and effective SQQ.

Also this is an excuse that Shen Yuan childhood sport was dancing that he was forced to do as a kid and he did like it but he also has adhd and had a hard time with executive dysfunction when it got competitive. He likes it for moving around and I imagine he dances when he thinks idly instead of pacing. Nothing crazy or complex. Gentle turns and little two steps.

Please please plleeeaaaase imagine a scene- with white lotus or post canon Binghe Shen Quingqui just dancing with him for fun. To pass time. Pass energy.

With White Lotus it is an important skill. For a cultivator, for a man to woo a woman, in general exercise. So he taught Binghe how to dance to improve his footwork and core.

He waves it off that women liked men who can dance. That being able to dance with someone is a great way to gauge your chemistry with them (bullshit but he is trying to narrow and raise Binghe’s standards and he misses dancing)

Binghe is just happy to have an excuse to be close to his Shizun. Another skill he is being gently taught and praised for. As he gets older of course he gets better at it.

Proficient enough to dance like SQQ fights, it is why he knows before SQQ instructs him- they have that chemistry to do that improv swing dancing and just seem to have choreographed despite making it up on the spot.

I want their fighting in the future post abyss to be dancing.

I want them to come back so easily and fall in sync. I know that is canon but I want the dancing flavor to it. I want Binghe to dip Shen Quingqui, I want him to still dance with him gently.

I want them to be in the bamboo forest just dancing their anxieties away.