#im waxing poetic about Shen Yuan nobody mind me. i want to talk about how long his hair is and when he speaks you can hear windchimes
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mmmm musical cultivator shen yuan again. Feng Xuanlu, the Wind Song. He has this well-loved wooden pipe he inherited from is adoptive father that he uses on occasion. When the traveling day gets slow and he doesn't feel like singing, when he's stressed, when night falls and he's sitting around a fire with his troupe and they've all had a little bit to drink.
His hair is long and black, always tied up into a ponytail or a braid of some sort. When he's in camp he loosens it up until its splayed messily over his shoulder. He has crows feet around his eyes that scrunch up when he smiles. His eyes are bamboo green and his hands are rough and callused from years of plucking strings and work. He has scars on his back that he won't explain the origins of.
His voice is low and warm like a fire, it gets raspy in the mornings or when he's been humming or singing for too long. He speaks like there's sunshine dripping off his tongue. He speaks soft, he speaks and his voice takes up the entire room. He's spent over a decade hearing his praises getting sung and he still gets shy over it sometimes.
Whenever he goes into town he has to have at least three other musicians with him at all times -- not his decision of course, but the unanimous choice of his companions. Shen Yuan gathers admirers everywhere he goes, and his companions have long since learned that their dear friend and leader is completely unaware of it. So they have to beat off these suitors with sticks.
#svsss#shen yuan#svsss au#scum villain#mxtx svsss#musical cultivator shen yuan#ive been thinking about a shen yuan who smokes for DAYS. do i think Shizun SY would smoke? mmmm depends on if he thinks the OG would#and he'd probably stop as a villain reformation thing. but im saying this SY smokes. he's 40 (60) years old and an immortal cultivator.#let him have this! its not like he does it OFTEN either. plus i want to kill binghe via horniness gripping.#this is mostly me just playing with character design. bc i love it <3#im waxing poetic about Shen Yuan nobody mind me. i want to talk about how long his hair is and when he speaks you can hear windchimes#and how he sings songs from his old world but wrapped in a thin paper of PIDW context. he lounges and stays up late to listen to his#companions sing drunken songs and tell stories. he complains to them about stories and inconveniences. he's just out here living his life#he complains about how he was mistaken for sqq AGAIN. 'maybe i dont look like shen qingiqu! maybe its shen qingqiu that looks like ME!'#'laoshi you've said this before hahaha' 'AND I WILL SAY IT AGAIN' 'are you sure you dont wanna just take a blood test?' 'yes'#'how could we be related? it could just be a coincidence! the gods playing a joke.' he doesnt want to be related to the scum villain#that paints a target on his back! its read as SY being in denial bc he doesnt wanna think about how he could've abandoned or been abandoned#by family. they have no way of knowing if they're related and whose older.#lmao someone mistakes SQQ for the Feng Xuanlu once. he's NOT happy.
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