#lg taking care of cxs >>>>>

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『So... This guy's been clingy』

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[aashidoodles]

Domestic Shiguang Yingdu Edition: Part 6

Except Lu Guang couldn't avoid this one

[dokjas-lostselfpreservation]

okay but imagine if cxs really believed lg and now whenever he meets someone who only knows english, he'll go "𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘺" instead of a "hello"

[psychopomp-namine]

oooh the differences in the way the post-earthquake dive happened between the donghua and the live drama are so interesting. 'cause in the drama, lu guang met cheng xiaoshi for the first time when they were already adults, not when they were students (and without any of the timeloop stuff, I presume). so drama!lg feels a bit... less prepared for the emotional backlash from cxs, especially from such an intense dive. and also he's almost a bit... cruel? or maybe not "cruel", I guess it's more like "insensitive" — it's just not an appropriate time to say cxs passed some "test" after that kind of dive.

live drama definitely has that "first time coworkers" feel compared to the donghua's "we've been best friends/roommates/coworkers for years" dynamic. like, lu guang has always been analytical, but I think drama!lg's arc is about learning to be more empathetic and not just idealistic, whereas donghua!lg you can feel that he already learned this lesson from cxs before the donghua even started (plus some extra baggage from the loops, that I don't think drama!lg has). donghua!lg loves cxs for his sincerity (genuineness? naivete? not sure what the right word is), and that's something drama!lg hasn't decided for himself yet.

so of course, donghua!lg puts more care into these things and is more aware of cxs's triggers (drama!lg seems to only realize mid-dive why cxs is protective about the mother). but I do have to give props to drama!lg for having the ability to snap cxs out of a dive any time he wants, and he uses that ability at an earlier point for the earthquake dive.

I do appreciate how the drama has more space to explore how much that particular dive traumatized cxs. the montage of him staring at an apple on the street, messing up his shots, the nightmares, flashbacks during work, etc. wish we had that in the donghua, but I understand they only had 11 episodes to work with. I really hope donghua season 3 gets to do more of this kind of stuff since it'll have a larger episode count.

both drama and donghua versions of lu guang deserve getting punched in this arc, imo, but I was almost afraid drama!cxs wouldn't commit to it. I'm so glad he did.

anyway, the drama feels refreshing in the sense that... donghua!lg does his utmost to be put together and have a plan for everything, so it's interesting to see an interpretation of him where he doesn't have the experience to be like that.

[just-honey-dewd]

I'd say several, at least a handful -- whatever number that allows him to still seem well-adjusted on the surface instead of completely detached and unfazed. Homura would prolly scoff at his number of dives /j

I also wanna say he has checkpoints regularly planted near dates that are close to important nodes he's experienced (or just generally when he thinks CXS's in danger), and doesn’t usually do full game over resets yk? It would explain why he took a picture at the hospital in s2,

took a picture of Vivian in Yingdu ep 1 (the Vivian incident seems like an organic snowball effect caused by CXS's defiance of LG's instruction, so LG seemed to not have it all under his controlled foresight),

and also in Yingdu, he meets CXS around uni instead of high school (i.e. that flashback from s1e5)

I think the reason Yingdu's first meeting is set later than high school could be because in his most recent previous dive, LG only lets himself meet CXS around university time for whatever reason.

I see a lot of Yingdu!LG's visible moments of being caught off-guard as a sign of not having dived that far back in a long time. But to what amount of times he's dived maybe a few months or so can't be said. Maybe enough to have ran out of all suitable photos he's taken recently?

feel free to add your thoughts below if you want!

[curapicas]

Why I think Lu Guang's answer to the riddle was the detective:

It's given at the same time Cheng Xiaoshi gives his own for misdirection. The one who gave the same answer as CXS was his own dad, a guy that for all his failings, was loved enough by SYY to try and change his death node - WQ is also attached to him, therefore we expect/hope CWM has an ethical side to himself; meanwhile the one who gave the same answer as LG was Vein.

It happens right before LG bets on Vein being murdered on that room, an antithesis to CXS changing the past for what he hopes is for the best to those involved (note: I'm fine with the guy trying to fix a death node by dumping a death node on his bestie's murderer, just pointing out them as a partnership don't EVER do things intending to eliminate the bad guys, ya feel me?)

CXS' answer presumes innocence (more on how to me, this reflects on link click's overall messages under the cut), but LG is analytical; he'd take in consideration that the detective is poor and the animals had a coin;

the riddle states that "you" are the detective. LG spends yingdu burdened by knowledge and trying to solve a disappearance along with CXS; we also know LG feels guilt over what he's doing and CXS' death (which is why he was harsh on Vivian not deserving CXS' sympathy when they were on the phone). Therefore, he not only has been functioning as a detective throughout yingdu and link click as a whole, but also presumes guilt for himself (meanwhile Vein presumes that ppl have hidden intentions like he usually does, I guess)

In other words; LG answers he's the detective bc he not only takes the seemingly innocuous clues into consideration, but by the end of yingdu he feels guilty and burdened by what he has done and feels he has to do. A far cry from the 1st episode, where he identified with the noble heroine who goes into a doomed quest; now he thinks of himself as the sharp detective who would burn a forest down to get what he wants.

Now, personally I vibe with LG and CXS pointing to two different directions: LG makes the audience aware that amidst all of the tragedies in link click, someone is benefiting; there's a person or a group who doesn't care others are being stepped on, which has been the case of the antagonists so far, be it LX or the typical bullies; and LG puts himself among them, since he doesn't justify to himself he has noble intentions so it's okay that they won't help with Emma's investigation, for example.

CXS is the other side of link click: actually, bad things will happen without anyone meaning to, as is the earthquake, the noodle lesbians' divergence, the time nodes getting messed up by well-meaning intentions.

Note: The big takeaway here is that LG thinks it's the detective bc he thinks he's the detective and LG knows himself as guilty. Not that his answer was (or wasn't) the most logical/obvious and CXS' was too naive, I'm actually trying to prove that even if he answers purely using logic, LG is being emotional about it too! A correct answer is NOT the point of the riddle

btw, the positive spin of LG going from the tragic heroine to the cruel detective is that he no longer is passive about fate, and sees it as something that can be seized, which gives him hope

[veifei]

HELLO?!? APPARENTLY IN THE LATEST (?) MANHUA CHAPTER LG TAKES CARE OF A SICK CXS??? SHIGUANG SICKFIC/HURT COMFORT ENJOYERS WE WON lg looks SO INCREDIBLY worried wowowowow im normal about this i Swear

[veinspookiebear]

Anyone know if there's a fic out there where CXS dives into LG and in taking on some of his feelings at the time feels the care and love for him when he sees himself. and thats how he finds out LG is in love with him. or am I going to write it myself

[pastorfutureletthembe]

Here we go again--

TRIP ABROAD TURNS INTO BUTTERFLY EFFECT

First thing worth mentioning is that the prime color in this artwork is pale blue. I feel like it's quite rare, most of INPLICK arts for Link Click have the same palette: burgundy red, shades of gray and black (except for the whole Surprise Beat thing which is splashed with flashy pink). All but this one:

(probably when they were 17 or sth)

For the sake of the argument, let's say it is a significant distinction to make. The reason is simple: the teaser taking place at the airport and the trailer prove that shit started three years ago, while CXS and LG's graduation trip. If this chronology is correct, then blue probably symbolizes Lu Guang's innocence or happiness. Blue used to paint Lu Guang but now he only sees the world in black, white and red. In the birthday official arts, blue is associated with his character. His flower is freaking Forget-Me-Not; Myosotis.

So yes, that's why I think the color palette here is relevant to the time period we're going to explore in the Yingdu Chapter.

The couch itself is blue when we're so used to the pair sitting on a brick sofa. The cakes and the flowers are the usual shade of red, though.

On the table: red roses in a vase. Petals are all over the place. Ominous. We actually see a roses bouquet in the PV of XETROverthink, held by Li Tianchen.

On the trolley: 1 bottle of wine, 2 CXS's feet, 3 glasses, 4 cakes, 5 individual desserts. The glass half full is Liu Xiao's, since it isn't on the trolley in the original artwork he is absent from. I said it in another post but the plate counts 4 portions, as in 4 antagonists, while the pudding might be Lu Guang's. The cakes are probably metaphors for timelines/curves, clocks dressed as desserts with a red fruit representing a dead Cheng Xiaoshi. V and VI are the only missing parts, just like Qiao Ling's one. CXS put his feet on the trail and I think it's both funny and tragic. I believe the correct saying is "put his foot in his mouth" but in french we say "mettre les pieds dans le plat", which literally translates "to put his feet in the plate" (to say something brutal with no tact or to do something stupid without thinking it through). He has both feet nearing timeline cakes and his head is five inches away from doomed flowers.

On the floor: 1 vintage phone. 1 camera. 2 envelopes, 3 pages of letters. 4 polaroids. Probably: 2 magazines and 3 pages of newspapers. The vintage phone could be relevant to THE TIDES, era-wise. The camera is taking polaroids and two of them are still dark, meaning they just took a shot and are yet to be revealed. The rest must be related to this chapter's plot. So much for holidays, guys (are they investigating CXS' missing parents?)

If you look closely, you'll see four different mentions of time:

Lu Guang's watch (hold this thought)

The polaroid: Big Ben

What looks like newspapers

The hourglass

We also have four mentions of information/communication

Letters

The polaroid: a public telephone box

Newspapers/magazines

Vintage phone (I was wondering why the phone had twelve numbers but after some research, I realized that some of them had # and *)

On another note, I don't know if their hands--

I mean, there's something definitely happening here but let's say for the sake of my sanity that what is supposed to be noticed are the sunglasses. If I'm being honest, this is the real oddity here and the teaser weirdly showed them off?? They're standing out because everything else is so blue for one thing.

They're pink-ish, which is close enough to magenta, so one of Lu Guang's colors (cf. Dive Back In Time). The color itself is weird for sunglasses. Lu Guang doesn't care about fashion, he wants practical. As a girl who loves pink sunglasses, I'll tell you: pink is shit at doing sunglasses' job. CXS told him to wear a cat hat, okay, but did he choose every other accessory?? My guess is that the pink served a purpose in connection with light.

And why is Lu Guang's watch on the other wrist in the artwork? I checked and LG wears it on his right wrist in the donghua and manhua. It can be the opposite for some artworks though... Or blocked from view for some reasons. It's almost as if we're not supposed to know which side is the actual reflection. 👀

Something else is reversed here, actually: the colors AND the pocket of Lu Guang's shirt. It could be a mistake, though.

>>>>> Basically, I think the artwork is telling us that the Yingdu Chapter is going to hurt and make us cry. If we're indeed about to see Lu Guang lose his humanity to try and save Cheng Xiaoshi for the first time therefore destroying worlds, I have no doubt it would be after Infinite Sadness™.

The real question this teaser isn't answering is either we'll go through the original timeline or a rewind. The last episode of season 2 makes me frown. How to be sure that the Lu Guang who dives exists before and not after the events we see unfold for two seasons? Is Yingdu Chapter a flash black or an actual dive itself? Lu Guang seems to be determinate and in a bad mood in the PV after all, could directly happen after one of CXS's deaths.

EDIT: someone mentioned that LG wears his watch on the left wrist when we get images of CXS getting stabbed. (It hurts right here in my meow meow)

[good-vs-evo]

okay i understand the reason why ppl put ivantill and shiguang in the same box (doomed black and white yaoi) but oh my godddd the parallels between shiguang and mizisua make me so genuinely insane and i don't see. anyone talking about it in fact. if you have i'm sorry but i need to do this for my sanity

LOTS OF SPOILERS FOR BOTH LINK CLICK AND ALNST UTC! <3

starting with the fact that i don't think their personalities align perfectly or anything but just the way their relationships operate are Pretty Damn Similar

your ignorance is my bliss

let's start with mizisua for this one!

it's abundantly clear from the fact that mizi was actively looking forward to singing with sua on the stage that she had no idea what had to happen. she was a sheltered kid from the start and she had this innocence and naivety about her that, in my opinion, is part of the reason why sua was attracted to her. mizi essentially represented all of the happiness that everyone else could have if they weren't burdened by the knowledge and the fear of their looming deaths. and sua wanted her to stay that way, she wanted mizi to take a simple kind of joy in just being able to sing with the person she loved the most. because she thought that was right.

the thing that's the worst about this is that she made this decision on her own. she never let mizi decide if she wanted this knowledge, and just as ivan said, it ended up being a burden to mizi.

and now, for shiguang :>

when lu guang decides that he's going to dive back in time to save cheng xiaoshi, he also makes the decision to never let cxs know. his mantra is to never change the timeline, and he sticks to these morals throughout it all, never giving cxs so much as an inkling of what he'd done. to him, none of it mattered without cxs. he refused lose the one he cared most about without a fight, so he fought and fought and hid it all from cxs. second only to saving cxs himself, lg's most important mission was to make sure that cxs never ever found out the true nature of what he did. because the knowledge would kill him, knowing that cxs's life was the direct cause of someone else's life would kill cxs, and lg wanted to protect him from that.

insert quote about how lu guang liked cheng xiaoshi's naive nature. head in hands. goodnight.

2. my god, my universe

i guess this one is more of a minor thing on the part of shiguang, so let's start with them lol

technically speaking, there's no confirmation of what lg's true true thoughts about what cxs meant to him, but there is that one line from the live action opening that's "i don't wanna lose my world". combine that with, you know. All Of Lu Guang's Actions. and you can take a stab at the fact that cxs meant the world to him.

and of course the famous mizisua line(s).

i mean idk what to tell you. repeatedly throughout canon, they refer to each other as soulmates, each others' universes, their gods, saviors, etc etc the list stretches for the eternity that they could've spent together but they were robbed from. thanks. i don't need to say more AHDSHFJSF

3. the meaning of death

this one's obvious i supposed but let's talk about it anyways! first, mizisua

sua's death drives mizi forward. it changes all of her actions in the future, from her lashing out at luka to her full-on rebellion against the aliens, it's all because of sua. she doesn't have the power to bring sua back, so she does everything she can possibly do to make sure nobody ever loses anyone the way she lost sua. in her memory, in a way, for her.

and now shiguang

i mean the entire premise of the end of link click was that cxs's death drives lg's every action. he, unlike mizi, has the power to go back and fix the things that went wrong, so that's exactly what he does! and when he manages to save cxs, he intends to do everything in his power to keep him

i thought i had a lot more to say about this but i guess that's it? most of my thoughts were related to that first part. and the fact that they Liked Each Other HSUHFHSDF (i love ivantill i pinkie promise)

aaaanyways this was so dumb but i'm going to post it because i'm not a quitter and it'll be more embarrassing if i spent this much time writing this out only for it to rot in my drafts so BAM hope you enjoyed this!

[temporary-joyride]

Thoughts I am Thinking about after Bridon finale

In love with the frame of unimpressed LG and distressed CXS after the latter thinks his friend signed him up for sex work

Episode name fits. A perplexing one indeed.

"Why is it every time you look at me you have this murderous intent in your eyes?" is such a killer line I love it

The whiplash I got from Vein speaking perfectly normal Chinese only to bust out "what a pity!' in the most British accent ever

No way it means literally anything but I just found it interesting how Vein and LX say the same phrase in this ep. Different circumstances, same conclusion. What a pity.

"They say she can see right through someone in just 5 minutes" really great psychologist? Ranpo-level detective? Got some sort of other supernatural shenanigans running amuck? Only time will tell

THINKING SO HARD ABOUT "I know I can't stop you. But I can make you stay a little longer" SHAKING LINK CLICK BY ITS SHOULDERS- WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT? WHAT EXACTLY DOES HE MEAN BY THAT???

The FUCK do you know, LG? It's ok you can tell me

So much to talk about but I'm 100% caught up on this. "But I can make you stay a little longer" I'm gonna leave the Xia Fei and CXS mom stuff to you guys, I'll take care of this one and think about it every waking second for the next two weeks dw

Allowing CXS an extra few moments to connect with his mom? Mmmmm sure. It's not like CXS promised to drop it all and not get anyone else involved, not like LG would have any way of knowing mother and son were talking unless son broke that promise

Genuinely not even joking I thought LG was trying to delay Vein by a few moments to get him hit by a bus or something

What exactly happened is even crazier. What was that, man. What was that. My guy's doing voodoo over here when did he learn that.

"I don't want to change the past. I just want to lead us all to a new future.." not entirely sure those statements are all that different but go off

LG screwed as hell Xia Fei was so serious about finding his boss's killer.

Or... non-killer? How long do you think until he learns Vein is still alive?? Imagine Xia Fei killing CXS in their photo studio in Vein's stead. Picture it. I'm having a vision here.

Pretty fun season but maybe a little awkward? Perhaps just because of the fandom on tumblr but I feel like I was so freaking immersed s1&2 but Bridon felt so silly at times I couldn't take it seriously

hrnngh one timeline, he says. over and over. what does it all mean. how does fate play out. if we're looping only one timeline multiple times then why does it feel like it's slipping through my fingers. the clock is melting right here in my palm. ripples in the stream at my feet. im not sure where the present even is anymore-

time's up!

[doublxpresso]

his hair grows fast

[cloverlooper]

So now we know that LG's dad knew about his ability and taught him the rules. But how did he knew about abilities?

This is when my brain started going weird places:

What if LG's dad had an ability similar to CXS? What if in this world only one person at a time can have a certain ability?

And what if(I sound crazy here) LG's mom had LG ability?

What if after LG was born his mother died and the dad tried to save her again and again but couldn't and just gave up. What if he taught LG about how death is an unchangeable node. His dad then could have died as a "punishment" for trying to change the past.

This would explain why LG knows so much about CXS ability and what is going to happen after 12 hours limit. His dad could have told him about how he couldn't save his mother.

This is a crazy theory but it would be a good parallel to what LG doing for CXS even if he knows from his dad that he will probably never change anything.

Even worse : what if LG's dad knew that he will probably die too and taught him how to take care of himself.

[timetravellingtelepath]

Lu Guang pretending to be ill so Cheng Xiaoshi didn't know he'd been a bad boy?

Cackling because it's hilarious to see him throw his clothes off, leg it, take a taxi (oh he's still rocking that uno card from s2 when he was injured) and mess with the elevator buttons, finally dive into bed, face sweaty and shivering from exertion (and fever).

And the concern on Xiaoshi's face for this deviant! 😂 Reminds me of that moment he found out LG was alive. Don't get me started on how loving caring it was for CXS to zoom off to his bro. Am I loving the Yingdu bromance and queer platonic friendship (especially that hair ruffle)? Oh absolutely.

P.S. Yingdu is so shiguang indulgent because we're going to be starved for fourish years 😭

[shermyy]

Link Click Spoilers Below

The new M.O.D. music video has sparked an entire theory about the true identity of Vein. If you would like to check it out it'll all be under the read more

Vein is Li Tianchen from the future

It could either be that he is literally a much older version of Tianchen or that "Vein" is actually someone who's body Tianchen has taken over, either way works for the purposes of this theory because I'm assuming he's likely been possessing him the whole time we see Vein.

For this theory I've used this translation of Veins player card from the M.O.D. mv done by u/educational_jello779 over on Reddit (if they're on here too I'd be happy to tag them). Any other quotes I use either come directly from the show or from the Link Click wiki.

--Vein is "unable to accept being outplayed in card games, if losing in a game, they will enter a "frenzy" state causing their magic power to decrease"

--In cxs's plan to capture Liu Min/Tianchen he says that "killers like him can't stand being provoked or bested" and he uses the photos of his victims to get him angry (and it works)

--"When his interests are threatened, Vein is capable of sudden intensity and violence, and isn't against manipulating or controlling others to achieve his goals" This quote sounds a lot like Tianchen to me. Not to mention the point about controlling others considering that's essentially Tianchen's ability

--During the fight with Liu Min/Tianchen, cxs absolutely outsmarted him with his tricks in the darkroom. After being bested in this way he became very angry and lashed out, "punishing" cxs by stabbing lg

--Vein has strong principles and dislikes it when others lie or break those principles. On multiple instances, Vein reprimands characters for having bad manners"

--"He (Tianchen) had a strong sense of justice and disliked people who pretended to be kind"

--Tianchen tells cxs (after stabbing lg) that their relationship needs to have honesty. Of course after this cxs attempts to lie about how his powers work causing Tianchen to get angry and retaliate by trying to kill Qiao Ling

--Tianchen being particular about liars makes complete sense. His mother was quite literally killed by lies and rumors.

--Qian Jin is shown to dislike poor manners as well, even threatening Xiao Ma for burping in front of him. Considering Tianchen was partially raised by/spent a lot of time around Qian Jin, it would make sense for him to also be particular about manners. I don't think we see Tianchen directly caring about that but maybe that was the purpose of this scene with Qian Jin and Xaio Ma

--Vein "loved playing tricks on human cubs in order to compete for food and made them cry, and also developed a hobby of mahjong"

--Tianchen was hunting people like animals (and seemingly eating them? More on that later) and making their "cubs" cry. While he's in the middle of this murder spree he meets cxs in Shanshan's body and essentially gets sidetracked playing this "game" with him

--In the M.O.D. mv Mahjong seems to be a not-exact replacement for what cxs and lg are doing. The studio is now a Mahjong parlor and they quite literally play a game of Mahjong with Vein. Mahjong is "the game" between Tianchen and cxs

--"Adventurers caught by the dragon (Vein) found that it just wanted people to play Mahjong with it for fun" Tianchen wanted to play "the game" with cxs and asks him if he'll be his new friend. He wants someone like him to have fun with just like Vein wants someone to play Mahjong with

Alright now it's time for the cannibalism

--We all know Vein is a freak and says shit like this or telling cxs "you look tasty" of course I don't think Vein or Tianchen are actually cannibals. I think it's more in a metaphorical sense, like taking the essence (or power) of a person

--During the scenes showing Tianchen hunting the forest "animals" they're also shown eating those animals

--Seems to be implying that Tianchen and Qian Jin/Liu Xaio (whichever the hunter is meant to represent, either one works for this) are eating the people they've killed. Given the idea that cannibalism is a metaphor for stealing a persons power, I don't necessarily think that they were stealing powers from any of these people. For these cases I'd say it's more like he stole their voices for lying and spreading rumors "shutting them up forever" which I feel like is a decent equivalent for people who don't have any powers

--So, if cannibalism is a metaphor for stealing someone's power, that makes Vein's introduction of "you look tasty" to cxs has a much different meaning. He's saying that cxs has intriguing powers that would be good to take

--Similarly, when Tianchen learns of how cxs' powers work his first thought is that they'd be nice to steal

--We also know that Liu Xiao has various abilities that we don't know about so surely he's done his fair share of stealing powers. If Vein is a Tianchen from the future then he's likely been working with Liu Xiao for some time now. By the time we see him in Bridon Arc he's probably "cannibalized" who knows how many people with Liu Xiao, collecting powers just the same (or at the very least understands the process and is very comfortable with it). If Vein is actually someone being possessed by Tianchen and not literally him, this would explain how he has the ability to remotely possess people without his sister. He's stolen someone else's power to do so

--This could also be why lg kept "you look tasty" from cxs, maybe lg already knows who he is and cxs isn't suppose to know yet

Tianchen/Vein's motives

--When Tianchen was fighting cxs in the tunnels he grabs lg and threatens him saying "He's you're best friend, isn't he? You want to save him? So if I kill him now, what will you do then?"

--All Tianchen really wanted was to go back in time (or have cxs do it) to save his mom. He's angry that cxs and lg refused to/couldn't so he decides to either steal cxs' powers or force his hand somehow, currently by threatening lg. By threatening lg like this he's also forcing cxs to empathize with his situation.

--Then Vein comes in with the biggest empathy bomb and literally puts them in Tianchen's shoes, killing one causing the other to want to go back in time to change it, exactly what Tianchen went through.

--There was always something about the way the fight with Vein played out that bothered me. Vein seemed to be after lg but ends up killing cxs instead and once he does he just...leaves? He didn't kill his target and could've easily kept trying. If it was Tianchen, however, it might make a little more sense

--What Tianchen ultimately wants is to save his mother and fix what happened to them. That would explain why he was after lg rather than cxs in the first place. If he kills lg he'll force cxs (the one actually with the power) to either jump back in time to try and save lg or he'll have at least made him experience the same thing he did when his mother died. But of course when cxs died instead he was aware that the power would transfer to lg and the same goal is essentially reached. Someone's going back in time to save the other

--If Tianchen forces one of them to go back to try and save the other, maybe he's hoping they'll make a different choice about his mother this time around. And each time around lg tries to maintain the timeline and doesn't save her causing Tianchen to eventually come back around and send one of them back in time to try again

Some random extras

--Vein is exceptional at cards games

--If Tianchen spent a lot of time with Liu Xiao he would probably be used to dealing with (or maybe even training against) Liu Xiao's ability or at least has likely played a lot of cards against him in their time together. This would likely make Tianchen pretty good at card games too having to play against Liu Xiao all the time

--Of course there's the fact that Tianchen's eyes turn red with his abilities. Maybe he's always using it or maybe he chose a host who already had red eyes to cover it up.

--not to mention the jump from a pink to a red color palate isn't crazy

--both Tianchen and Vein are teamed up with Liu Xiao for the purpose of maintaining/manipulating the timeline

--"They (Liu Xiao and Vein) both have motivations pertaining to maintaining the timelines" in the section on Vein and Liu Xiao's relationship implying that's the reason they're teamed up together

--"Liu Xiao offered to let Tianchen help him in his plan to "bring more parallel lines together", which Tianchen accepted" Also implying they're teamed up for messing with the timeline. Similar motivations

--This one is iffy but I noticed that both Tianchen and Vein have very pronounced K9 teeth. I can't think of any other characters that have that but I could be remembering wrong

That's pretty much it, I'm planning on re-watching the show very soon with this in mind so if I find anything else I'll add to the post. If anyone can think of anything to add or debunk I'd love to here it

Thanks for reading :)

[mykingdomforapen]

LC's Link Click fics that she holds close to her heart

So, during the SGDLR Gotcha for Gaza campaign that took place several months ago, I was so lucky to be gifted some INCREDIBLE fics. Like, INCREDIBLE. These generous writers took my silly little prompts and created masterpieces out of them and I want to shove them in the fandom's face and go LOOOK LOOOOOK they're just! So great! And I am on my hands and knees begging you to read and comment and kudos them because they deserve so much love.

Ling-jie by @bleppities

"One second, she's a sister without a brother, and the next, he's smiling at her through the lens, little fingers forming a V and reaching towards the sky." Or Qiao Ling has to make a difficult choice between the little brother forever gone, and the one left behind.

I reread this fic ENDLESSLY, especially when I need a good cry. Wowowow. This story is so moving, so tender in its raw and unflinching take on Qiao Ling's grief. This writer is so kind, so faithful, so loving of Qiao Ling and of her boys. It's so moving, and every time I think about it I get tight in the chest and throat. Oh, it is beautiful.

Porridge and Chicken Soup by kkomaism

Cheng Xiaoshi is sick. When he's sick, he's delirious, and when he's delirious, he thinks of his parents.

I am SUCH a sucker for sick fics for my blorbo, and this hit the spot so wonderfully. Cheng Xiaoshi wishing for his parents just gets me in the HEART, but I'm so so happy and touched by the way Lu Guang and Qiao Ling are at his side, showering him with tender and loving care. It's such a feel-good fic that scratches my itches, and I love it so!

hairball by Evyisevyl (00_EVY_00)

It didn't start with a hairball his cat coughed up nor did it start with his promise to buy cats. No, it started when Cheng Xiaoshi decided to get himself into an accident.

GAHHH THIS FIC IS SO GOOD!! It's such a quietly intimate portrayal of depression and post-trauma and grief as Lu Guang struggles to take care of cats while Cheng Xiaoshi is in a coma, and it is just so so gentle and tender. This fic feels like it gently picks Lu Guang and the reader up and cradles it and nuzzles it like a kitten. I want to cuddle this story.

His to Believe by @saelterlude

Lu Guang happens to visit the studio the one day Cheng Xiaoshi isn't around, thus what greeted him is Qiao Ling manning the counter. It naturally sparked a question in him.

“So where are his parents?”

Written by sael who likes to destroy me emotionally on a regular basis!!! I love this take on what was a rather vague prompt, which was simply, how did LG learn about CXS' parents, and they stayed so true to the characters and their natures. QL loves her brother so much and it exudes a deep closeness and dedication to him, which is such a moving portrayal of their relationship.

a bright sky, a place to stay by aaskew

The words ring in his mind nonstop, bringing together the need to puke. Cheng Xiaoshi’s inside curls into itself, something shy and wounded. Over the years, he’s fought trials against time and persevered amongst the most depressing circumstances ━ that moment, though? Nothing compares to how he was feeling right there.

Cheng Xiaoshi attends a party with a smile, but leaves with his heart aching.

Sometimes we gotta beat up Cheng Xiaoshi's emotions with a bat before we can shower him with love!!! This fic so firmly and intimately understands the value and strength of love and friendship, as it follows Cheng Xiaoshi navigating some deeply hurt feelings. It's so lovely and showers Cheng Xiaoshi with the love that he deserves (even if we gotta go through some heartache to get there!) and I feel like this fic is a big group hug.

swear you'll stay by Occasional Artist

Cheng Xiaoshi wants to make sure he can keep Lu Guang forever. What better way to do that than to swear brotherhood.

AUGHUGHGUHG THE DEDICATION THAT WENT INTO THIS FIC!! It delves into the culture, the history that I am so longing for, and portrays this beautiful and intimate relationship that is such a crux of ancient Chinese culture with our boys. Sworn brotherhood truly is the best way to describe CXS and LG, and this story honors that so, so much. It is earnest, it is joyful, it is so tender and sweet. AAHHHH!