#SunderWight

[theladysunami]

@sunderwight

#these are both good but i especially like the second one #particularly since unless it's a cold case we've got shen yuan like speedrunning his usual wifebeaming of the sv side characters + lbh #starts out and only yqy is willing to cover up his murders but six months later the entire community is just like #well if sqq killed somebody they definitely deserved it #lqg catches lbh destroying evidence and they spend 1 min glaring at one another but it's because lqg was gonna destroy that evidence too #mad that lbh got there first

I imagine the townsfolk are thinking something like, “So let us get this straight. On the one hand we have a rich asshole who regularly makes service workers cry, has a history of blackmail, and possibly has ties with human traffickers. On the other hand we have a super nice, amnesiac literature professor, who volunteers as a tutor at the local high school, drives drunk kids home from frat parties, and once sat with a student in the quad for four hours after his cat died... Yeah, fuck that Qiu Jianluo guy.”

To me, Shen Yuan as Shen Qingqiu would absolutely be the sort of professor that gives students his cell number, but with the instructions, “Don't start texting me about dumb shit, but if you're ever in trouble, let me know. If you have vehicle troubles and are stranded, are at a party where things are getting uncomfortable, or even just missed the last bus, I will come pick you up.”

Mentally he insists all his kind behavior is just him hoping to ‘earn some karma’ or maybe have positive character witnesses at his trial, but really he's remembering all the unfortunate side plots from the book, plus a bunch of stuff that happened when he was a university student in his past life, and he doesn't want any of ‘his kids’ to suffer. It's no wonder so many people take to him so quickly!

#but thinking about that red herring one and you know what would be hilarious? #if lbh was killing people who were horrible to sqq and the system interference was obstructing his efforts to MAKE SURE sqq wasn't a suspec #cynical secretly-blackened lbh finds all these people who wronged sqq in sj's exceedingly bleak backstory #and is just like well it's good of shizun not to take revenge but i'm not that nice #but then the meticulously constructed alibi he made sure sqq would have goes bust or sqq keeps arriving at exactly the wrong place/time #lbh is starting to wonder if sqq KNOWS and this is like some subtle way to dissuade him from killing more of his enemies #lbh: okay I'll stop *finds out about a new horrible thing someone did to sqq* ...after this one

This is great, and has inspired a shiny new Third Option:

When Shen Yuan refuses to murder anyone, the System actually swaps the “murderer” and “detective” roles between Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe. Only it doesn't tell Shen Qingqiu it did this (because it's a murder mystery obviously) and Shen Qingqiu is distracted enough by his supposed ‘Red Herring’ role he never actually notices. It's fairly common for the designated detective to also be accused of the murder at some point (at least in the stories I've read) so Shen Qingqiu frequently being accused of murder in no way prevents him from holding the detective role as well.

You could go for an especially silly variation and make it so Binghe has some ability that actually lets him compel other people to commit murders for him. The end result is a real version of that joke people make about shows like “Murder, She Wrote." “If literally anywhere Jessica Fletcher goes a murder is committed, she must be mind controlling people and making them commit murders, right? Or at the very least she has some sort of murder compulsion aura!”

I listen to a lot of audiobook murder mysteries, which has me thinking:

Shen Yuan transmigrating into a murder mystery… as the killer!

There are a couple of ways the story could go.

First Option: Shen Yuan lets his System know, in no uncertain terms, he will not be murdering anyone.

Its response: [Alternate Plotline Initiated. New Assignment: Designated Red Herring].

Poor Shen Qingqiu finds himself stuck in a whole murder mystery series, and any time anyone is murdered, he somehow ends up being the number one suspect!

The victim? Probably picked a fight with Shen Qingqiu at some point. (Shen Qingqiu tries to avoid such arguments, but it never seems to work!)

The murder weapon? Yeah, Shen Qingqiu is almost guaranteed to have touched it at some point. (Shen Qingqiu is severely tempted to start wearing gloves 24/7.)

The body? Either Shen Qingqiu finds it himself at some inopportune time, and/or it was stashed somewhere “only” he is supposed to have access to. (At some point it's just: Shen Qingqiu opens a door… sees a body… closes the door. “Time to call the cops, yet again.”)

Shen Qingqiu ends up a tad paranoid about the whole thing, setting up cameras outside his house, in his office, in his car, etc. just to (hopefully) stop people from planting evidence any of those places.

If anyone asks about the truly absurd number of (eventually dropped) murder allegations, Shen Qingqiu insists he's cursed. Even with genre blinders on (making the number of convoluted murders in the area seem normal somehow), it's hard for anyone to argue the point.

For Shen Qingqiu's day job (when he's not busy being charged with murder) he works as a professor at a university with a highly regarded Criminology & Criminal Justice program. I'm thinking the original goods was a literature professor, with a strong distaste for cops, who was known for grading anyone in the criminal justice program exceedingly harshly. Naturally one of his students is the protagonist, Luo Binghe.

After his transmigration, professor Shen Qingqiu suddenly becomes a very kind and doting professor with a real passion for literature. This leaves Luo Binghe quickly smitten and makes him a very motivated amateur detective, since he's determined to prove his beloved's innocence as quickly as possible and as often as needed!

Second Option: Shen Yuan takes over after the original goods already committed the murder.

He wakes up with a splitting headache (the victim attempted to defend themselves presumably), looks at his bloody hands… looks at the victim… looks at the weapon… looks at his bloody hands again. “Damn it, Airplane.”

He decides he doesn't want to try and hide a body actually, just to be caught by the protagonist later and charged with a whole slew of things in addition to murder, so he calls the cops himself. He might as well take advantage of the fact he has a concussion and literally doesn't remember a thing. Maybe he can get the charges reduced somewhat and get a lighter sentence.

Of course the first cop that arrives at the scene is Yue Qingyuan, who as the #1 Xiao-Jiu stan gives Shen Qingqiu way too much benefit of the doubt. The most obvious evidence also keeps being erased or damaged by weird as hell coincidences.

Shen Qingqiu knows he certainly isn't responsible for damaging evidence and wonders if the System is working overtime behind the scenes to ensure there actually is a mystery for Luo Binghe to solve. (After all, it wouldn't be much of a story if Shen Qingqiu was already charged and sentenced before Luo Binghe had a chance to even do anything.)

To his complete bewilderment, after a few days leave to recover from the concussion, Shen Qingqiu is actually allowed to return to his university teaching job. He decides to make the best of it, since who knows how long he'll be a free man.

As in the first scenario, a few months later and Luo Binghe is absolutely smitten, not to mention all the other students and faculty that have come to adore him.

As Shen Qingqiu has successfully endeared himself to pretty much anyone and everyone local that could actually charge him or provide eyewitness testimony, not to mention all shady shit about murder victim Qiu Jianluo the ongoing investigation keep digging up, the plot stalls for a bit until the state police (aka Huan Hua Palace) are finally called in by Qiu Haitang.

Unfortunately for the ‘HHP’ folks, the protagonist himself is on Shen Qingqiu's side, and Luo Binghe is perfectly happy to muddy the waters by conveniently “losing” evidence, sending them after every single red herring he comes across, and “accidentally” digging up dirt on all the shady dealings going on in their department.

The System keeps trying to motivate Shen Qingqiu to hide evidence, lie, or do literally anything suspicious to progress the plot further, but all its punishment protocols involve sabotaging Shen Qingqiu's coverup attempts (of which he has none) or revealing information to the protagonist (who is complicit by this point) so it's fresh out of luck.

Eventually the System gives up and Shen Qingqiu is congratulated for “getting away with murder!” despite the fact he didn't actually do anything.

“Seriously? Does it even count as getting away with murder when the original goods was the actual murderer? I didn't kill anyone!”

[...]

[laikathestar]

based on this post by @sunderwight in which SVSSS is an RPG gone wrong

[tk-duveraun]

Accidental sugar daddy sy au (see @sunderwight for the harem version)

LBH has a douyin account where he makes food from cartoons, webnovels, comics.

He does 2 versions per food: one that's as accurate as possible and one that's actually good

SY is obsessed immediately. He leaves tons of comments and when he finds out through research (e-stalking) that LBH is just barely scraping by financially, SY starts sending him money with... Messages.

"The meal from x novel was great, especially the dessert." (The dessert was extremely phallic shaped. SY liked it bc it didn't use the literal low hanging fruit of a banana)

"X drink is perfect. I'd love some of that." (LBH's cheap blender had an accident, the lid popped off, he got sprayed and it looked like a cumshot. SY just really loves creamy lychee beverages.)

LBH starts privately sending his sugar daddy extremely suggestive videos. SY thinks they're bloopers, meanwhile boiling his frog on his attraction to LBH.

After SY just directly sends LBH an expensive video camera, LBH offers to cook for SY in person. (He's pretty into SY at this point, but he wants a face to face discussion and hopefully a contract before actually pimping himself)

SY is the best host and great to cook for, but he misses all of the sexual suggestions and when LBH suggests a contract, SY is like "oh good idea, one of my brother's friends is a contact lawyer, let's get you set up professionally. You made an LLC for your account, right?"

At which point LBH realizes what he's dealing with and decides his career goal is wife. (Phrasing taken from thefeelswhale "Tongfang")

[mamaclownhunter]

Mobei is providing the heads of enemies to his most trusted and beloved advisor- on account of consort Shen informing him showing he is a protector is a sure fire way to Shang Quinghua…. (Not elaborating as revenge for SQH’s dating advice)

Oh and he got Mobei Jun cooking lessons with Binghe and told him to serve it shirtless….bc he IS a good bro and SQH can owe him later.

Deeply Inspired by this post by @sunderwight and how @deadgirldreaming and I were flooding your notes with our little ideas

Text in the pic under the cut

Mobei: (faded to show it’s thoughts) I am a good protector and Husband

SQH: (over and over) I am dead

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SQH: so THAT is why I put an Ace Attorney evidence thing

(Arrow pointing at SQQ): Absolutely know what is going on but getting revenge

SQH: THEN He serves me noodles SHIRTLESS. He wants me dead

SQQ: oh? (Still a good Bro and took one for the team to convince Binghe to teach Mobei how to make noodles)

[theladysunami]

I really like the idea of SJ being only part demon!

It’s super easy to imagine part demons being particularly common on the streets.

For human parents, if their child can’t pass as human they would likely fear the damage to their reputations if anyone found out about their demon child.

For demon parents, they might scorn the relative weakness of offspring that favor their human side too much, and either abandon them, or sell them to human slavers in exchange for human goods.

For human slavers, the situation really is ideal. The kids are weak enough to be managed as long as they are young (unlike full blooded demon children would be) but also more durable and easier to feed (as you mentioned). If the kids ever become particularly ornery or unmanageable, the slavers can just threaten to sell them to the nearest cultivation sect for target practice.

As for how these half-demon children come to be:

I could see some demon men having a fondness for human woman (TLJ for one) so they might regularly visit brothels, charm human girls while in disguise, or straight up snatch human women as trophy concubines. There are bound to be human men who would enjoy some “spicy” demon lady arm candy too (see the PIDW readers), and some of them may have the wealth to keep a demon concubine, either by enticing demon fathers with human goods or (in shadier circumstances) by buying implements that let them suppress their new bride’s abilities.

There are also those demons that feed from or use humans in various contexts, who may naturally find themselves having part human children thanks to spending so much of their time in the human realm. Succubi and Incubi are the obvious suspects, but Skinner Demons presumably hang around the human realm too, and they aren’t all going to have damaged cultivation that has them swapping skins constantly.

In some cases, part-demon part-human children may end up being a surprise to both parents. There is always a chance two seemingly human parents unknowingly carry demon genes after all, leading to their recessive demon traits showing up unexpectedly in some of their children.

Demon Shen Jiu is such a fun idea though.

Especially if he himself doesn't know. Like imagine, Yue Qi finds this abandoned baby and the baby is REALLY OBVIOUSLY not human. But this also enables Shen Jiu to survive being abandoned at such a young age -- a human baby would die without adequate nutrition or care, but demons are a little more resilient. Baby Demon SJ has a way more forgiving digestive system and can move under his own power from a much earlier age. By the time he's a year old he's hunting his own rodents and small birds, and has to be stopped from biting and mauling anyone he doesn't like. Which is most people. Qi-ge develops amazing reflexes.

Why do the slavers tolerate a demon baby hanging around? Maybe it's really not all that uncommon. Demons come across the borderlands from time to time, and are as liable to abandon their kids or die or etc as anyone else. It's maybe an open secret among slavers that demon-blooded kids are a better investment, even, because they can survive for longer on less. The only downside is if they don't ever look human enough to pass as human, because that limits potential buyers, but that's only relevant when the slavers are trying to sell them. For the purposes of having a network of street kids stealing and grifting and spying and etc, it's fine. A lot of the slavers themselves started out as demon-blooded street kids with no other options.

But in SJ's case, he pretty quickly starts passing as human. Mostly because he's quite strong, and he's convinced that he's the same as his Qi-ge, so he makes himself the same. Makes his hands look the same and his teeth look the same and etc. It's largely subconscious, and once he starts doing it, it becomes automatic. SJ forgets that he's a demon in the way that most people don't retain their earliest childhood memories -- although he remembers that some of the slavers were demons.

Then of course there's the question of why didn't the Cang Qiong cultivators notice?

A few options. One is that whatever kind of demon SJ is, it's really good at mimicking humans. Another is that he's only part demon, and like Luo Binghe, fully capable of handling both kinds of cultivation. So once he starts learning spiritual cultivation, even from a heretic like Wu Yanzi, he doesn't seem different from any other recruit with a patchy education on the subject. Anything else odd about him could be easily attributed to his exposure to Wu Yanzi and his wicked practices.

Although full demon SJ is a fascinating idea. (Also, it could contribute to all those qi deviations -- he's trying to cultivate AND "fake" human cultivation at the same time, I doubt Qing Jing's techniques are totally compatible with everything going on there even without the psychological turmoil.) Like I'd imagine Airplane wrote that SJ was abandoned on the streets as a baby, and the system was like "hmm he probably wouldn't survive that?" and then in some nine billionth wife arc, Airplane also creates a variety of demon that can fully pass as human (for some identity conflict with a prospective wife), even to the point of fooling human cultivators and demon-detecting tools. So the system just ties these two disparate pieces of world-building together in order to patch a critical plothole (Airplane doesn't know anything about babies). Which has the side effect that Shang Qinghua doesn't even know that SJ became a demon!

And SJ himself doesn't know. The only person who knows is Yue Qi.

Obviously this wouldn't come up much in PIDW, but it could be pretty funny in the SVSSS timeline. YQY just sitting there through the whole Luo Binghe being a half-demon reveal, wondering if he should say something. Subsequently being the most absolutely chill about the whole demon reveal thing anyway. Like he's definitely not upset that Luo Binghe is a demon, or part demon, and the multiple people who try to make a point about it just run afoul of his impenetrable smile and get nowhere.

Then eventually Yue Qingyuan decides that he should probably tell Bingqiu that Shen Qingqiu is a demon. For like, safety purposes if nothing else. He's kept the secret so long also for safety purposes (even if someone put Shen Qingqiu under a truth compulsion he wouldn't be able to admit to being a demon, because he himself doesn't know!), and he's done tons of stuff to prevent anyone ever finding out (although Xiao Jiu is so talented that he didn't have to do much), but Luo Binghe is the demon emperor. That changes things. If Shen Qingqiu is going to be visiting the demon kingdoms regularly then there's a chance something could reveal the truth unexpectedly, and that would probably be worse.

So Yue Qingyuan sits down and has a very serious discussion with Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe about how Shen Qingqiu is actually a demon, was just the cutest little demon baby in fact, here he drew a picture from memory of what Xiao Jiu used to look like before he learned to look more human, and also how a lot of slave kids and slavers and people who fall through the cracks in society have demon ancestry, some more recent than others, and Shen Qingqiu always retained a certain discomfort around his own kind because of the adult slavers who sold him off, and etc etc.

[sillygoofyqueer]

I’ve had a silly spin-off idea for crowyuan!

A while back @sunderwight suggested the possibility of Shen Yuan transmigrating as another heavenly demon (as a distant cousin or the like)… well how about Shen Yuan transmigrating as part heavenly crow demon!

I was reading about the Jinwu (golden three legged crows) that are said to be responsible for the sun. These crows were meant to take turns going across the sky, but one myth has them all deciding to go out at once one day, causing the earth to burn until all but one were shot down.

That certainly sounds like the sort of thing that would have someone cast down from the heavens, right? With that you get a bloodline of demonic crows that are in fact heavenly demon crows!

Imagine Shen Yuan transmigrating as some random demon (or half demon) crow that has nothing to do with the PIDW plot, and wondering about the oddity of his bright gold eyes, gold claws, and the golden edges/sheen of his otherwise ash black feathers. He also has a truly insane healing factor and a whole lot of fire and light related powers that were never mentioned as a crow thing. So weird!

This is FASCINATING!! I can't stop thinking about the idea of Shen Yuan just chilling out in the forest and contemplating about what a weird crow he is. He has no idea what he's even transmigrated as for the longest time, thinking that PIDW probably just filled in their own idea of crows because Airplane didn't go out of his way to describe them - far too focused upon the oddest ways to describe papapa to even think about the crows. He also could be surrounded by other demon crows (albeit not heavenly demon crows) so he doesn't question being able to transform into a human or anything - that must just be what demon crows can do in PIDW! Plus, they aren't even mentioned in the plot, meaning that he has no fear of being close to Binghe when he takes a dive into the abyss or even what happens afterwards! He's a demon crow!! He does what he wants with no repercussions from the demon emperor! Or- well, that's what he thinks. (the differences in appearance and abilities from demon crows is completely lost on him, it flies over his head with no sort of catching)

[the-night-gods-moon]

I love the idea that Luo Binghe and Shang Qinghua are like two repelling poles of a magnet. They would be so similar because before Luo Binghe was the wish fulfillment escapist power fantasy of any Zhongdian troll, he was the wish fulfillment escapist power fantasy of Shang Qinghua. Luo Binghe is all the worst of Shang Qinghua gilded with all the means for vengeance that Shang Qinghua never had— not in his first life and not even really in the second one.

Luo Binghe is beautiful where Shang Qinghua is described as “rat-like”. Luo Binghe rises from his awful circumstances; Shang Qinghua died alone in the glare of a comment section of the novel he cared nothing for by the time it finished. Luo Binghe is charismatic, and even if some anti-fans would claim that none of his hundreds of wives actually love him, well at least he has their attention. The little we actually know about Shang Qinghua leads us to believe he never got much of that.

I think both of them would recognize this about the other, like how sometimes you meet someone and everything about them seems so familiar in all the worst ways. Self hatred can make any amount of similarity a cause for dislike, and that is definitely one of the traits that they share.

(I was reading this post by @sunderwight and it seemed like bad etiquette to drop something like this in the comments so I just made my own post)

[in-my-loki-feels]

Title: There's A New Cryptid In Town Rating: G Fandom: Loki (TV) Relationship: Loki/Mobius M. Mobius (as Jotunn!Loki and Don) Some Additional Tags: Jotunn Loki, Don the Jet Ski Salesman, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Cryptids (sort of), Slice of Life, Fluff Word Count: 6.2k [complete]

Summary:

“There’s nothing,” Sean said quickly, even as Kevin blurted out, “It’s not a snake!” There was definitely something in the garage. “I know you guys want a pet, but trapping wild animals is really not–” Don froze with the door half-open. Sean and Kevin went silent behind him. There was a very large…person in the garage. They were entirely blue, from their head to as far down as Don could see. Their shoulder-length black hair looked normal enough, but their skin was bright blue and when they turned their head, a pair of red eyes–iris and sclera–fixed on him. Don yanked the door shut, his heart pounding.

What if on the way home from all the partying, Loki of Jotunheim crashed-landed in a certain jet ski salesman’s backyard?

This started as an idea by sunderwight, which then evolved with help from thisisreal-really. The full post, complete with the first statue design the boys use, is here. I hope you enjoy! 💚

[tk-duveraun]

LBH is SO NORMAL About Shen Yuan

Part 1/?

1 (here), 2

Based explicitly on @sunderwight 's idea here

System dialogue modified from the 7seas translation of svsss

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Everything hurt. Considering the last thing Luo Binghe remembered was metal and glass flying everywhere thanks to a truck t-boning his car, pain everywhere was only to be expected. Less expected was the mobile phone ringing so loud it felt like it was inside his own head. No one should have their mobile in his hospital room. Not since he was taken in by his biological father, who was the very definition of more money than sense.

He opened his eyes a crack to see if he could glare at the phone's owner until they silenced it. The ringing stopped, but his eyes were assaulted by an electric-blue floating window out of some badly CGI-d scifi movie.

He had to blink a few times before his vision was clear enough to read the words.

[Activation Code: "Who wrote this? Knock-off Chat GPT fed only a twelve year old's wet dreams?" System automatically triggered.]

The fu— Luo Binghe's eyes snapped fully open to stare at the screen. Yes, he had been reading the latest update to "Intricate Rituals with my Shixiongdi" while his driver took him to his father's house, but—

[Welcome to the System. This System operates in lie with the design concept "YOU CAN YOU UP, NO CAN NO BB"; we hope to provide you with the best possible experiene. It is our sincere wish that during your time, you can fulfill your desires and, in accordance with your wish, transform a stupid work into a magnifcent, high-quality, first-rate classic. We hope you enjoy.]

My wish? Luo Binghe went cold, then hot, adrenaline flushing through his body. I can finally wife Shen Yuan? He wanted to cry, to scream, but he was still saddled with enough pain that even the adrenaline didn't give him much energy to get up and run off his excitement.

"Ah, Shixiong is awake. Good," a voice came from his right.

Luo Binghe agonizingly turned his head away from the blue screen and saw an older teenager in neat hanfu and a starched apron standing next to him. The teen had a handbound book folded open and was holding a stick of charcoal.

"How is Shixiong feeling?"

"Hurts." Luo Binghe said. His voice was rough and his throat felt like he'd swallowed every shard of glass from his windshield. He tried wiggling his hands and feet and found the movement easy, if excruitiating.

"Mmm, to be expected given the severity of Shixiong's qi deviation." He reached out and took Luo Binghe's wrist. Having his arm moved hurt as much as moving it himself. It felt like being injected with saline to have his meridians checked or whatever the trainee healer was doing. "But Shixiong's system has stablized nicely. One of this shidi's seniors will be by to release you to Qing Jing Peak with the next…" The teen glanced at something outside of the room and finished, "half shichen."

"Thanking Shidi," Luo Binghe croaked. So it was confirmed: he had transmigrated into IRS. Had transmigrated into Shen Yuan's own peak. And as a disciple, if he was the same generation as this kid. Was he part of Shen Yuan's cohort? His heart thumped at the thought.

IRS was an excrutiating mess of will-they, won't-they between the protagonist, Shen Yuan, and his ever-increasing bevy of admirers. It was a mess with character growth and subplots dropped in favor of introducing another man in love with Shen Yuan's poise and genuine goodness. If Luo Binghe was part of Shen Yuan's cohort of disciples, he could cut through ninety percent of the garbage and save his beloved the indignities of countless 'wardrobe malfunctions' and plants with extremely dubious tentacles.

The teen — a Qian Ciao disciple — nodded politely. "Luo-Shixiong would be wise to consult with Shen-shibo before resuming normal cultivation."

A klaxon went off between Luo Binghe's ears even before the blue screen returned to his sight with a merry jingle.

[This system was sucessfully actuvated! Bound Role: Shen Yuna's demonic student, Luo Baixiao. Weapons: Amature Spiritual Cultivation, Demonic Cultivation (locked), Demonic Abilities (locked). Starting S-points: 100.]

Luo Binghe's mind raced with swear words in a rainbow of languages. He finished with an emphatic kurwa.

[You have triggered the System's execution command and have been bound to the Luo Baixiao account. As the plot progresses, various point types will gradually become available. Please ensure that no score falls below zero, or the System will automatically mete out punishment.]

What kind of shit luck. Luo Baixiao was boogie man of the entire second half of IRS, used as a punching bag by Shen Yuan's various suitors to show off. It was stupid, senseless! How was Luo Baixiao so powerful that he never died, yet so weak he was constantly defeated by the man of the week? Why did he start as Shen Yuan's student only to disappear after a few chapters only to return as a villain?

It made no sense!

Luo Binghe — Baixiao now, he supposed — bared his teeth at the empty room. Actually, that was weird. Who did that? Was that a demonic instinct from his new body? He'd have to do some intense examination and introspection when he could move his limbs without wanting to curl on the floor and whimper.

He was supposed to be Shen Yuan's worst nightmare? Well that whole plot could kindly fuck itself. Luo Binghe knew exactly how Shen Yuan's squirrely mind worked and he was going to slot himself irremovably from his shizun's life while the suitors of the week failed in attempt after courting attempt.

[Warning,] the System warned, flashing again before his eyes. [This proposed plan is incredibly dangerous and qualifies as a violation. Please do not attempt or the system will automatically mete out punishment.]

"What do you mean dangerous? Shen Yuan would never hurt one of his disciples, let alone one that made his life easier," Luo Binghe asked inside his mind.

[Currently, you are at the beginner level, and the OOC feature is frozen. You must complete a beginner-level quest to unfreeze it. Before unfreezing, any act in violation of the original Luo Baixiao character settings will result in a deduction of a fixed number of S-Points.]

"You must be joking," Luo Binghe deadpanned. "Disciple Luo appeared in three chapters. I managed the wiki. He didn't have a characterization at this point."

[This System utilizes all resources in defining characters.] Okay, that meant nothing. So it was going to pull characterization out of its ass and hold him to it? [To aid user, multiple reply options will be given during critical dialogue. User may complete side-quests to unlock Luo Baixiao character motivations. For now, review the complementary character sheet.]

Luo Binghe wasn't really much of a gamer, but the character sheet displayed by the System was pretty basic. Strength, endurance, charisma… It also listed the same 'weapons' the System initially told him about. Near the bottom right it said simply: Internally cold and resentful, externally polite and aloof. Thanks, System.

[User is welcome (✿◡‿◡)]

He was going to have another qi deviation.

[shizunitis]

Saw post and thought of u: https://www.tumblr.com/sunderwight/762999878368493568?source=share ❤️

giggled. giggled and kicked my feet. my reputation is in tatters

[simplynotcapable]

https://www.tumblr.com/sunderwight/757260897052999680/great-now-i-want-a-house-of-the-dragon-fic-where?source=share

if this happened, I think Westeros would be in flames within 48 hours.

i think 48 is generous

[blacktoothcomics]

transcription:

user "sunderwight" writes:

actually it's kind of wild that aziraphale left for heaven to try and save humanity and the human audience of the show has just been like "0/10 terrible decision go back to your demon partner" about it

aziraphale: I shall bravely sacrifice everything that makes me happy because I have a duty to protect the world

the world: boo no

#Badassaziraphaletakes

[tk-duveraun]

Headcanons Prompt: Shen (Yuan) Qingqiu makes a deal with the System and falls into the Abyss in Binghe’s stead. What are your thoughts? How would he manage? What are the consequences? etc.

I think @sunderwight has an idea that SY takes the protagonist halo which is good and hilarious.

There's also the Heavenly Demons are Shapeshifters au

........

So we'll say everything goes the same up until MBJ is gone and LBH is revealed. The protagonist has to be blackened, the System says in frozen time as SY pleads. (Please don't make me do this, don't make me do this. This is the will of the gods.)

Anything but sending him into the Abyss.

[User may purchase 1 non-refundable Alternate Blackening Token. Once the purchase is made it can't be undone. User is reminded that 'anything' is a broad category.]

Don't hurt him.

[The Protagonist must be blackened.]

I'll take it. I'll take whatever punishment.

[...]

[User may purchase 1 non-refundable Alternate Blackening Token. Once the purchase is made it can't be undone.]

Do it.

...

Time resumes.

Suddenly, it's like when he was first in SQQ's body and trying to cultivate. He knows exactly what to do. It's so simple he could cry. He could throw up. He could cheer for joy that he doesn't have to hurt his little white lotus.

Binghe, look at this master. The bell cannot be unrung. The breaking of your seal has filled this place with demonic qi, more than this crack into the Endless Abyss would generate.

He kneels and picks up a shard of the broken Zheng Yang. He takes a numb and stunned Binghe's hand. He slices open the boy's palm

The sigil he draws on Binghe's face is messy, the blood used to draw it making streaks of mud, but it's fine. It's okay. Demonic Cultivation is meant to be quick and dirty.

SY feels blood leak from his qiqiao as it starts working. It drains Binghe dry of his demonic qi and replaces the cradle seal with one that will feed all of his demonic qi into SY no matter how far they may part.

Binghe's yelling. He doesn't know what's going on, but Shizun is clearly hurting himself so it's WRONG.

SY can't hear him over the rush of power in his ears. This shouldn't work on a heavenly demon, but Binghe would do anything for him, give him anything.

When it's done Binghe looks human and so small.

"My precious boy" except SY's voice is wrong, it's cracked and broken and bloody. He draws Xiu Ya, its blade split through with black and red cracks. "Live well."

SY jumps into the Abyss.

[simplynotcapable]

https://www.tumblr.com/sunderwight/756261488703979520/i-love-hotd-fic-concepts-where-lucaerys-and-arrax

Pretty funny tbh

luke: hey so aemond’s dead

the blacks: what

luke: yeah you know i actually don’t really get it either

[fluffypurpleglitterdemon]

(via @sunderwight)

I love how mqf's oficial description is something like: a good heart who wants to help others but then you read the novel and his reaction to lqg trapping ten infected men who are crying in panic is "great now I can start to work in my experiments with decomposed people to find a cure" and gets out a lot of needles, which makes the man cry even harder.

Even if we only get bits of the other Cang Qiong sect leader's we can reach the conclusion that no one there is normal, sqq is just biased.

[theladysunami]

@stiltonbasket

#i think that at that point #(aka when it was time for the immortal alliance conference) #sqq would simply have chosen to die #rather than risk throwing binghe to his death #maybe he would fake an illness and stay home #and keep lbh at his side to take care of him #(because no way is binghe going off to the iac when shizun is sick in bed) #but he'd have to be sick enough to make his death in a few days/weeks believable #so NOW he has to fool mu qingfang which is easier Said than done #maybe he'd get some kind of illusion fruit or do something to worsen the effects of without a cure #or straight up poison himself with something else that can't be cured without dual cultivation with a heavenly demon #since he's going to die anyway #and maybe he ends up overdoing it with the poison and dying because of that instead of being yeeted back to the modem world #this has two main consequences: because since cqm has been suddenly plunged into mourning #NO ONE from cqms attends the conference #lbh is completely shattered but there's nothing he can do other than a lock of sqq's hair to keep with him #he doesn't know about the holy mausoleum or have the spiritual power to keep sqq's body from rotting ( #sqq is buried with the other deceased peak lords #ming fan and the other senior cultivators on qjp take over sqq's duties because lbh CANNOT #i feel like at this point binghe would just. leave and look all over the human and demon realms to find a way to bring sqq back #and once he learns about the holy mausoleum he ends up having to break his seal anyway #but first he has to grow a replacement body for sqq with the hair he took before the funeral #and after that's done he breaks his seal and resurrects sqq in the mushroom body #for sqq he just passed out in the bamboo house and then woke up in a coffin with binghe crying over him #but for binghe it's been like 7 years full of nothing but grief #there's hurt no comfort rpf that talks about how heartbroken disciple lbh scoured the realms for anything that could bring back his shizun #before ultimately vanishing #it's believed that lbh died too because no one has seen him since he realized that he'd have to break his seal #and THEN bingqiu rock back up to cqm #svsss

If Luo Binghe had died at the end of PIDW (and Airplane had properly finished the story before his own sudden and unexpected demise), how much do you think that would change Shen Yuan's attitude after losing his shit over it and then transmigrating into Shen Qingqiu?

So much of SV only really happens because Shen Yuan is comfortable in his certainty that the world at least won't let Luo Binghe, even if he suffers. Eventually he realizes that he can't really stand letting Luo Binghe suffering either, but part of how he compartmentalizes his no-win scenarios with the System (like the Abyss) is that, well, Binghe will be fine in the long run. He'll conquer the world, win all the ladies, live in sprawling palaces, ascend to untold heights of power, and reach a point where no one can ever threaten him again because he's just too strong to be threatened.

But if the story ended with Luo Binghe's destruction, all that would go out of the window, wouldn't it?

The idea that the world would ultimately see Luo Binghe safe would vanish. Now, it's just that Luo Binghe gets to live until his death is deemed poignant enough. What if something Shen Qingqiu does makes that point arrive sooner? But also, it's gotta be possible for him to thwart Luo Binghe's canonical death, and he wouldn't accept otherwise.

He'd be so stressed out.