#ling chen

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Sketched this back in 2021 and never posted it. I couldn't figure out where to go with it, colouring wise so I kinda gave up. Maybe I'll get around to it, maybe I'll revamp- not sure 😩 but there isn't enough Mothra/Chen twins content on this forsaken website even if they're literally THE mothra twins so I might as well post it.

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OC Bio: Ling Chen

[The cloak does not show it, but he has a ponytail i swear hhh]

Name: Ling Chen

Meaning of Name: "Ling" sound of jade, dawn. "Chen" dawn, morning; Grace, charm.

Sex: masculine

Gender: male

Age: 19

Species: human (?)

Class: rogue

Title: none

Magic: none, but has untrained potential, but since it's untrained, it's dangerous

Fighting Style: archery, stealth, shoot flaming arrows at exploding powder to blow up entire bandit camp type of guy

Faction: well...well yes but no

Appearance: long black hair that is tied back in a low pony tail. Golden eyes (one is covered in an eyepatch due to having been cut). Fair skin.

Traits: he has a higher vitality than most people, as well as a higher resistance against magic and illusions (though Ning Yun's illusions could still traumatize the poor boy with a direct touch)

Personality: Ling Chen is cynical and untrusting. He holds grudges like a vice and if vengeance is on his mind you best keep an eye out for vantage points. He is vicious in his killing, holding no mercy. He typically targets bandit camps, finding creative ways to route them from a distance. He keeps up walls because he does not want to lose anyone, and having spent a good amount of his life alone has done no favors for his willingness to trust others and let them in.

Backstory: Ling Chen was the man of the house for his entire life, as his father was not present. Ling Chen's mother always told him that his father was dead, and Ling Chen believed this. Due to being ill most of her life, his mother never remarried, so Ling Chen had to grow up very fast. He became a skilled tracker, allowing him to hunt for food to eat and pelts to sell. The only childhood Ling Chen had was with Yao Kang, who was his childhood friend. However, he would be made an orphan when a group of bandits attacked his home town. His mother would be assaulted and killed while Ling Chen was forced to watch while being held back. After she was killed, the bandits turned their attention to Ling Chen, ready to give him similar treatment. Ling Chen would fight tooth and nail against it. Kicking, biting, even snatching a dagger and attempting to stab them, however, that would result in the bandits taking the dagger back and stabbing the poor boy in the eye.

Bruised, scratched, half-blind, and aching, Ling Chen was full of hatred and a desire to watch these men burn. After a struggle, Ling Chen would suddenly throw himself at the bandit which held a torch, tackling him into the fire pit, setting him aflame and causing his own arms to burn. Ignoring the pain, Ling would grab the torch the bandit had, and throw it at the cots, setting them alight. The house burning down, the bandits would panic, and Ling Chen would run out and block the exit, leaving the men to burn alive. After that, Ling Chen was left to fend for himself for a while. Without any medical attention, his eye injury was starting to get an infection. He is, luckily, found by an apothecary who treats his injuries. Ling Chen, after recovering, the apothecary kicks him out, leaving him on his own. So Ling Chen creates his own bow and arrows and sets out on his own. [HOLY SHIT I DID NOT EXPECT MYSELF TO WRITE THAT MUCH. Also, if it seems choppy at the end here, it's because i had to make last minute changes because my girlfriend had pulled out two characters from his story when she altered things in their stories. I don't blame her, it just left me frazzled on how to make his story work hhhh So now his personality is completely different than how I usually envisioned him]

Fandoms: I actually have not used him in any fandoms yet. This one still has yet to be unleashed in the wild lol

Ships: none

Other Significant People: Yao Kang (His childhood friend)

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Ling Chen by Damien Krisl for Número Magazine April 2024

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Ling Chen at Giada, Spring 2023

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Episode 9

My girls *_* At this point Qiao Yi is mostly focused on trying to woo Ling Chen, but for now it is enough for me to see her get cute moments with the girl she has no idea one day will be her future wife

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Ling Chen by Gosia Nowak for Vogue Philippines October 2023

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ling chen for nume fw21 campaign

[beautifulphantomsandwich]

Rereading villain initialization and it all goes back to this. Past Ye Mizu did the "right" thing because that was what the rules told him to do. Current Ye Mizu does the right thing out of his own free will.

Also season 2 is so much angst like what is this

They sound like exes lol

Also Ling Chen's barely hidden suicidal tendacies never get resolved

[abigail-sweetorchid]

Qiao Yi: *about Small Ye Zimu and Ling Chen* They make a cute couple, huh?

Big Ye Zimu: HELL NO!!

Qiao Yi: Why not? They look like they came from a drama Series.

Big Ye Zimu: If my Ling Chen didn't like me then my younger version doesn't deserve his love. Give it to me. I'm the one who suffered not him.

[currently-not-studying]

What stuck with me from reading Villain initialization is how well it shows this bitter feeling of seeing your parents change.

As a middle child I've been both at the end of "our father is way too latiennt with you, he used to be so much strict" And also seeing said father change and grow and treat my younger sibling better than he treated me. And I've seen it in others. This regret and anger and "why not me? Why you want to become a father now and not 10 years ago?"

And I can see it when older Ye Mu is in our timeline. How he tries to push his younger version to abide by their father standards. And how bittersweet it is to see someone younger finally getting that validation you've been denied your whole life. "Why not me?" And being tasked with carrying a loving message from their father to a younger version of himself? He finally heard what he wished to hear. But also he didn't because it wasn't for him.

And there's more, there's this "my father needed to hear from someone outside of our family that he was harming me to finally notice. Even after I begged and pleaded it wasn't enough for him to care.." which the older Ye Mu doesn't know. No, this one is a thing that the younger version of him will carry. Just like older siblings can just brush away the pain of those who get the 'better version' of their parents.

Or how when their father is absent the older Ye Mu tries to install the same rules he had been tough. Without any thought about their sense if reason he followed them. This sunk cost fallacy that haunts the whole story is also right here "I've suffered so much because of those rules so they have to make sense. And you also have to suffer for them to make sense."

The older Ye Mu blames his younger self for wanting Ling Chen to stay, for not being a "real hero". But it feels so much like a child screaming "why not me?" Not seeing how much the other has sacrificed to get where they are. Just like my siblings don't or how I won't know how much my younger sister does

And all we can do is let them enjoy this slightly less shitty version of our parents. Because it's not their fault and they have suffered their own wounds. Maybe after seeing their mothers message Ye Mu will try to see his younger self as a brother that can use help and guidance. Instead of just someone who got love instead of him

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ROUND 1, PART 1

RINTARO OKABE: “hes such a dweeb doing dumb nerdy play science he literally invented time travel, then broke himself crossing time and fucking reality just to get his friends also the anime is VERY grounded so him breaking time travel is a huge deal its not some fantasy world”

LING CHEN: “He goes back in time at the beginning”

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Writing prompt! While Vivienne probably lived as a peasant scholar most of her life, who’s to say she somehow found herself in a situation somewhat similar to this at some point?

…(also, Ling probably finds the idea of being “kidnapped by a dragon and added to its gold hoard” really hot)

Well, this got away from me! Also I spent way too long trying to figure out what dragon!Vivi could've been doing in the 1530's and what was happening around then and what kind of armor she'd have...

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Turns out even dragons like to veg out in front of the TV now and then; Vivienne reclines back on the sofa to channel surf while Ling settles herself in to cuddle on top of her like an overgrown cat, settling on the History Channel because it's always a riot watching Vivienne angrily spit fire at brain-rotting garbage like Ancient Aliens because "I WAS THERE, DAMN IT!" Fortunately the show currently playing is Forged in Fire, which is good for Vivienne's blood pressure.

Suddenly Ling recalls a particular detail from when she first learned her girlfriend is a dragon. "Hey, I've been meaning to ask. What was that suit of armor in your treasure hoard?"

"The Maximilian plate with the beaked visor, 1536," Vivienne rattles off without blinking. "I got it for my knight job."

"I'm sorry... did you say night, as in after sundown, or knight, as in shining armor?"

"The latter," Vivienne replies, but then purses her lips. "Although, I wasn't officially knighted or anything, I just ran around pretending to be a knight errant for a time. It was all very Don Quixote. I still have my sword, a Zweihänder from Germany! Did you see it?"

"I actually don't remember. You'll have to take me on a proper museum tour next time we go to the hoard." Ling rests her chin on Vivienne's chest and bats her eyelashes. "Did you have a fair maiden to rescue as well?"

"Funny story, that. Do you recall I was apprenticed under Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa until he died? Johann Weyer was my first human friend? 1535, thereabouts?"

"I wasn't alive at the time, but sure."

Vivienne puffs the bangs out of Ling's face with a huff. "Wise-ass. Well, after Master Agrippa passed, Johann left to study medicine in Paris and I wandered around France, heard about all the chivalric romances going on and thought I'd have a go at it. Suppose I was trying to cope with depression over my teacher's death. Anyway, I commissioned an armorer..."

"I was gonna say, did you just happen to snatch up a suit while some poor sir was taking a bath or something?"

"Give me some credit, dear -- I'm a dragon, not a thief. Besides, stealing from a fellow knight wouldn't be at all chivalrous, would it?"

"So how did you end up with a damsel in distress, anyway?" Ling asks, now trying to picture how Vivienne would look in that armor.

"As it happens, my human shape shared just enough resemblance with one of the ladies of the French nobility. There was some confusion and before I knew it people thought Duchess Je Ne Sais Pas was kidnapped or something, which led to her actually getting kidnapped during all the nonsense and led to me donning the armor and chasing after the criminals to save her."

"And you still didn't get properly knighted?" Ling says.

"I was depressed and going through a rather expensive coping mechanism. Besides, I was a scholar -- and turns out horses can smell dragons and don't like being saddled by them. Now, there was this one time I wound up kidnapping a princess during..."

"You kidnapped a princess?!"

"Again, depressed teen dragon. Now, I want to say it was during the Italian War of 1536, '38...? In any case, I wasn't taking my loss well at all, there was a war going on, everything just built up until some nimrod set fire to my hut and I just..."

Vivienne clenches a fist, the skin around her knuckles hardening into reddish scales. Ling is always so fascinated when her lover's draconic nature begins to peek through the glamor, the mixture of familiarity and extraordinary. Vivienne cranes her head back and puffs out a small stream of fire into the air.

"...I rampaged. I'm not proud of it, no matter how young and dumb I was. Johann would've boxed my ears till they bled, said I was too choleric for my own good. In the moment, it just felt good to cut loose and let my wings stretch for a while. Didn't care where I went. I crawled up a tower, found a woman inside. Her name was Margaret. Next thing the poor girl knew, she was stuck in my old treasure hoard while a dragon bawled her eyes out."

Vivienne's eyes don't indicate if she's still bothered by her youthful mistakes (understandable on account of having literal centuries to get over things like that). She doesn't often go into dragon form to take Ling flying, due to not wanting anything to go wrong and their hectic schedules at Monarch, and now there's a particular itch growing in the back of Ling's mind.

"So, how'd Princess Margaret handle it?" Ling breaks the silence. "Because that must've been quite the whiplash."

Vivienne's mouth breaks into a smile. "She actually cheered me up, said that getting grabbed by a dragon like that was the most fun she'd ever had. It turned into a game. Knights started coming in trying to rescue her only for me to scare them off, which was her idea. Eventually the time came for Margaret to return, so I put on my armor and carried her home. I actually felt better after all that."

"...and?"

"And what?"

"What else did you guys do?" Ling quirks up her eyebrows. "Just the two of you, a dragon and a royal captive, all alone in your lair for an extended period of time..."

"Ling, I wasn't in the best place mentally or emotionally, and she was already engaged to marry. I'm pretty sure half the men who tried saving Margaret were hired by her betrothed. Nothing happened."

Ling blows a raspberry through her lips in disappointment and turns to face the TV. Unexpectedly, she feels claws combing through her hair and Vivienne's breath turns hot.

"What would you expect to happen...?" Vivienne husks, her voice turning low and growling, sending shivers down Ling's spine.

She tries to wave it off as just passing curiosity and is about to turn on the news, when the TV is shut off and the remote tossed across the room. Ling valiantly keeps her eyes averted, knowing what will happen once her gaze locks onto Vivienne's while she's letting her inner monster come out to play... not that her resolve hold on for long once the dragon jackknifes and sits up, leaving Ling curled up in her lap, and a thick tail wraps around her in a makeshift cage.

Ling swallows hard.

The dragon purrs, "Where you thinking I might... eat my pretty captive...?"

Ling's fingers dig into Vivienne shoulders; otherwise she'd be gripping those horns growing out from her dark hair. Grabbing those horns and holding on for dear life has become a regular occurrence now that Vivienne's become comfortable enough to bring out the dragon during intimacy.

Those claws run down the small of Ling's back, teasing at her hip, and slide up her thigh. The vibrations from Vivienne's purrs cause Ling to squirm in her lap and she bites her lip to hold back a needy sound when a long, hot tongue flicks at her throat.

"Answer me, Princess," the dragon growls. "Did you think I'd take you to my hoard... tear these bothersome clothes to shreds..." There's a telltale scrape of claws scratching into the fabric of Ling's pants. "...and feast upon you like ambrosia...?"

Ling whimpers and her eyes lock onto Vivienne's glowing green stare, pupils turned into vertical slits that widen once the scent of her arousal hits the beast's nostrils. That tongue slides out to lick pink her chops.

Now the dragon snarls. "Be a good girl and answer me, and I might do just that."

"Yes," Ling gasps.

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Ling Chen at Giada, Spring 2023

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Villain Initialization - Episode 6

Cute! Look how proud Ye Zimu is for making his crush laugh (while they're both being held as hostages)

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Ling Chen by Frida My for Arket SS 2024 Lookbook

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Ling Chen, photographed by Ruo Bing Li and styled by Jolene lin for Vogue Portugal February 2023