#The SHI

[friedrichnapier]

-The Empress's order-

[bellonathedragonborn]

I made Harriet on 76 finally. I’m having it to where after becoming a ghoul she sticks around the Wayward area (her siblings kicked her out of their homestead) and she ends up befriending Myla’s family centuries later.

Myla’s mom was a Vault 76 legacy while her dad was a Shi member. So her mom already knew her.

Later she gives her house to Myla’s sister (who is a Mistress of Mystery) and leaves with Myla to the Commonwealth. Then settles at a fledgling village in Lexington.

[twosides--samecoin]

13 and 20 for the Fallout Asks, please!

13. Which companion quest did you enjoy the most?

RJ. Only because it kicked me in the ass to start writing fanfic and to be a creative person again after a really long hiatus. It was left unfinished, for me to finish it and lay it to rest. His story is deserving of a game of its own, let alone a DLC-sized adventure to actually complete the story. I kinda don't care that it's canonically left unfinished anymore because I made his story mine.

20. Which is your favourite faction? Why?

Shi in Fallout 2 are a faction that inspires me a lot. In my fic, Long Time Running, my two Sole Survivors Jack and Olivia have a background in melee combat. Jack was a successful boxer and met Nora when he was not quite yet a champ, right when she started law school. Olivia grew up in Vault 150 and they had a dojo where her father was the judo sensei. She is worried about getting her red belt (basically a master's ranking) and Deacon points out to her that she can get training in Chinatown on the west coast. He's referring to the Shi.

The Shi are kind of the one example of the games really showing off hand-to-hand combat in the worldbuilding. Like, yeah, we have Veronica Santangelo using a power fist in FNV. You have baseball bats and super sledges. There is always unarmed/melee available but it's largely up to the player - It is a "hey you can do this build if you want". The modern games don't show unarmed as part of a lifestyle in the world, when martial arts/hand to hand combat really is a part of you. I was in judo as a kid and really loved seeing the Shi - these games are much quicker to encourage gun use.

Who else, faction-wise? F3: The Little Lamplighters, obviously. Love those rag tag kids :) Bonus: When the Hubologists appeared in Nuka World my mouth dropped. I really cherish the shoutouts to F1/F2 in the Bethesda titles, rare though they are.

[moonieee]

How i see Wei wuxian leading the band of disciples through out the book:

[laarems]

Pay attention to me

[wisteriaphoenixx]

Another drawing of Wei Wuxian from Mo Dao zu Shi because I’m obsessed😩

[twistedappletree]

[askew-d]

the wildest thing about lan wangji is the way he’s immediately enraged at his own feelings for wei wuxian. because we’ve seen wei wuxian fall in love slowly and surely, right? he goes from a quick interest to an oblivious attraction to liking lan wangji then being infatuated after his return to life, then to straight-up loving the guy intensely. we watch him develop his sexual and romantic attraction equally.

but lan wangji’s different. from the very first second he’s desperately smitten — all it took was one sly smile and he was going through the four stages of love: the desire to marry, kiss, bed and die with him. and he’s so goddamn outraged, because how dare this troublemaker trespass into his house and steal his heart so easily??

he was so conflicted that he didn’t see any other alternative if not to unsheathe his sword and fight the hell out of that idiot. feelings?? for a rebellious teenager?? right in front of my clan’s three thousand rules??? not today, devil.

[cosmicxstar]

lan wangji is the funniest bitch ever and we don't talk about it enough

[rakiah]

✨ MXTX’s boys Polaroids ✨

[searyuu]

HanGuang-Jun ☁️

[qourmet]

this isn't the first time @cerbykerby had an idea that i've impulsively drawn... rest of the comic under the cut!

[bellonathedragonborn]

Oh HEY! Another Children of the Wastes fun fact!

The Free Radicals became a mercenary group! Myla’s family are part of it!

(They’re the descendants of Njada and the Raider Punk).

[double-m-b]

MXTX protags my beloved. Prettyboy table for the win

Bonus page:

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

the high guards littlest fan