#outside of ‘lbh has to go down’

[fangirlingpuggle]

SVSSS AU/Fic prompt where trial happens as soon as SQQ trial ends (with old palace master sentencing him to water prion with no real evidence LQG and other peak lords were easy to wage war) system is like 'trial is over as Shen Qingqiu no longer has prominent role host is no longer needed' as all SQQ does in PIDW is endure LBH torture so system 'rewards' SY by ejecting him back to his world.

SQQ body is just husk alive biologically but no soul.

Everyone is freaking out LBH end the old palace master. He'd been ready to anyway so he could amend SQQ sentence and just have him stay in Huan Hua palace with him, but now that plans gone since his Shizun's soul has been pulled from his body.

SQH tries to convince himself it's the mushroom body only he knows deep down it wasn't he asks his system and yep SY is back in their world. Everyone is freaking out to the extreme and SQH manged convey in another world can't tell you more but please go find him before you destroy this entire world...please.

LBH and other peak lords use Xin Mo and do find real world'

SY ended up back in body alive... only there's 2 of him. Him and SJ both looking like SY... he would be freaking out if he wasn't grieving that world and LBH... he's glad not being tortured but he misses the other..a lot. He keeps staring at all the LBH merch (not hard since it's everywhere) SJ does criticize him...when he's not reading PIDW and commenting on it with a hate only equal to SY.

(Within the other world SQH feels a sense of great dread but does not know why, he just clings tighter to MBJ)

SJ: All this *gestures to LBH merch* is disgusting

SY:YOU CAN'T THROW OUT MY MERCH

SJ:I'm not

SY:thank y-

SJ: I'm going to burn it

SY:NO!

While this is happening peak lord in modern world, Mu Qingfang ending up in modern hospital and it being like the scene in stark trek: they voyage home.

Also LQG and LBH fighting cars.

SY and SJ hear chaos outside 'what idiots causing all that noise' seeing LQG and LBH destroying traffic 'it's our idiots!'

[callmesel]

i know there is a bunch of liujiu shen yuan baby but I have an idea

Liu Qingge is hunting some beast in a forest near Cang Qiong Mt Sect and spots a little kid outside the forest that looks exactly like Shen Qingqiu so he goes "wtf". And because he's a man of action his first thought is go and confront SQQ, so he does just that and speeds to Qing Jing Peak.

He breaks down the door and sees SQQ grading papers and he's more piss because his potential kid is alone in the forest.

LQG: How dare you abandon your child in the forest!!!!

SQQ(piss because lqq broke his door): Have you finally gone mad, you brute!??!!

They start a screaming match and SQQ still doesn't acknoledge that he has a kid nor that he abandoned him so LQQ flies out again to find the kid and bring him to his door to see it.

Shen Yuan is feeling troubled. The system had an error and know he's in some random npc orphan. That's not the issue tho, the issue is that the system is changing his face so he can replace the current SQQ and it's playing with his genetics! Luckily is not going to bad and he actually looks good but he's like 10 so is not really convincing.

He was going to explore his surroundings to see where in PIDW he is in and what part of the timeline when out of nowhere a man grabbed him by the collar and dragged him (more like flung him) to a random house in the mountains. So he thinks he's being kidnapped by demonic cultivators.

Or not????

He's kneeling infront of the Scum Villain himself!!! And he's in screaming match with the War God about... paretnal rights??? What is happening???

LQG: See??? He's exactly like you!

SQQ: And??

LQG: So it's yours!!

SQQ: NO IT'S NOT!

LQG: YOU CAN'T ABANDON YOUR KID IN THE FOREST!

SQQ: IF YOU'RE SO PISSED, WHY DON'T YOU TAKE IT??

LQG: MAYBE I WILL

SQQ: YEAH???

LQG: YEAH!!!

And now Shen Yuan is a disciple in Bai Zhan peak and LQG's personal disciple because "he won't be like his deadbeat father"

Rumours spread like wildfire of how Liu Qingge had a child with Shen Qingqiu and SQQ refuse to acknoledge his son so LQQ is forced to be a single dad.

Luo Binghe is in Qing Jing peak shortly after but SQQ is so focused in being mad at LQG that he just ignores to boy to fight with the other peak lord. And SY is always sneaking to QJP to try and help LBH to not get bully but this is confused by the other disciples as SY wanting to connect with his other father.

LQG: Stop stealing my disciple!

SQQ: Maybe if your peak wasn't so shitty he would feel the need to be here in the first place!

SQQ: You know what?? He's staying because NOW he can start using his brain properly!

LQG: You bitch-

[scumvsss]

Give me an angry Shen Yuan. Not "protectively and selflessly angry" but rather so angry that the internet troll with countless filthy curses turns silent and has the most acidic glare and heaviest aura of sheer negativity.

We all know he's a Luo Binghe apologist thru and thru but come on. Shen Yuan obviously disagreed with a lot of LBH's choices!

I want Shen Yuan finding out about some shit LBH pulled and then he gets so mad about it. For all crying and begging Luo Binghe has done, Shen Yuan has never actually ever directed any REAL negativity on him.

Maybe some sort of demonic holocaust LBH did because they were rebelling? Peak Lords YQY, MQF, SQH could visit the bamboo house bc its actually quite concerning bc this particular tribe was providing valued materials or something.

It starts out calm, Shen Qingqiu (SY) greeting them calmly and offering tea. He's wondering why the sudden visit but was not rlly worried bc its not like it's rare for his martial brothers to barge in his house.

Then they tell him that an entire demonic tribe was razed to the ground recently. And they were gonna ask him if he knows possible alternatives to them but THEN. BUT THEN.

Yue Qingyuan clams up. Shang Qinghua freezes, all fight or flight instincts going haywire. Mu Qingfang immediately hides his hands in his sleeves, reaching for his needles.

Because Shen Qingqiu's eyes have narrowed, the usual jade green sharping into vile neon shade. He hasn't said anything. His cup of tea is carefully set down on its saucer, the faint porcelain clank deafening in the tension.

"Luo Binghe." His voice is calm, but there is an almost choked quality to it obviously belying an undercurrent of storm.

Luo Binghe, standing to side, near the kitchens where he's been scowling at the unwanted visitors, feels his heart lurch. He freezes too.

"...Shizun?"

"The hex-fox are known for being an isolationist race. They keep to themselves. They are reasonable. Fascinating creatures, if I must say so. Did you know that they are closely related with Huli-jings?"

Shen Qingqiu watches the idle wave on the surface of his tea.

"Well?"

"...Answering Shizun, they are crafty and poses an immense threat with their mastery over curses. They wouldn't hesitate to target anyone-" (target YOU, goes unsaid but so heavily implied) "-to gain an advantage and so this disciple decided they must be remo-"

A crack of porcelain interrupts whatever else Luo Binghe could've said. In Shen Yuan's grip, the teacup is beyond salvage, its content staining the wooden table.

"Is that so."

Shang Qinghua dares not breathe too loud. He desperately wishes he can just leave right now!

"Where have you relocated their children, then? The elders? The non-combatants?"

There was no forthcoming answer.

"Because it sounds to this Master as if there's no one left?" Shen Yuan finally moves. His head lifts, his eyes meet wide black gaze. He can see the panic, the worry, the guilt (oh but its not because of what he did, is it?) in those starry eyes.

"I- This one- Shizun...?"

Shen Yuan stands. The motion, while still graceful, is stilted. His hand comes down too firmly on the table when he supported his weight on it, and his eyes never leaves his husband. He takes half a step towards LBH-

"Leave us."

The three forgotten Peak Lords startle. They share an unsure glance with each other.

Shen Qingqiu's glare flashes to them at the audacious hesitance and immediately the three are in a flurry. Standing in haste and all but rushing out. Shang Qinghua and Mu Qingfang grabs the sect leader when it looked like he was about to open his mouth.

The bamboo hut's door slams shut.

Outside, the three Peak Lords loiter awkwardly for a few moments-

And then they hear a loud echoing slap.

And now they're loitering with wide eyes flicking to each other and to the door and before they can even decide what to do-

They hear a thunderous "Kneel." immediately followed by an unmistakable slamming of knees on wooden floor and.

Nope. They're out of there. They didn't hear anything.

[tsiftor]

Thinking about modern au scumcumplane before going into pidw.

Insignificant, cliche cumplane backstory:

Sy and sqh married overseas. They kept their last names as is, though. At first they only lived together as roommates for like, maybe three years? Sy knew that Airplane was struggling with keeping himself afloat, so he asked if Airplane wanted to stay at his place until he feels more stable. Anyway, sy finally figured that he might not be straight (never been) when he didn't want sqh to move out.

He tries to act normal about falling in love with sqh of all peeps for like a half a year before they had the talk. Sqh almost killed himself when he thought sy fell in love with some other guy while he had been crushing on sy for three years... They dated for two years before they got married, and its been a year since then. They are probably 27 years old...? They met when they were 21 years old.

Back to scumcumplane:

Sj!sqq appearing in the modern world, and he bumps into sy and sqh admiring his clothes (and his face). Then, sqq gets berated by sy because why did he have to cosplay as the scum villain of all character? Like, what a waste! He could've make use of his appearance to cosplay as lbh. Sy still doesn't know his lore because sqh never told him. How could he when his husband had so much to say about his novel?

Anyway, sqh tries to calm sy down. Your internet personality is showing! Sqq is obviously annoyed, asking several questions. "Why should he cosplay as that lowly beast? Who are you? Where is he?"

The two share a glance before sy jokes, "You're not even at an anime convention, there's no need to be so in character."

Sqq's glares at them. "You think this one is joking?" He scoffs. "Of course. No one ever believes me." He says it almost sarcastically, but the undertone of it was just... sombre.

Sqh ask if he has a place to stay, to which sqq paused before saying no. Sy does not stop sqh from inviting sqq over to his place.

Sy learns about sqq's backstory straight from sqq because sqh wouldn't tell him. He didn't felt it was right to when the actual character was right in front of them. Sqq knows sqh is aware of his backstory because he read the god forsaken webnovel, glossing over any papapa scenes until he dropped it not even a third into it. Sqq is also surprised how respectful sqh is treating him. Anyway, it takes like two years before sy finds out. Sqq gets coddled, platonically!

Sqq would be living with them for like four years. Who would've thought? Despite all the ups and downs they had, sqq also marries the two of them after dating for like two years. Although, what really triggered it was when sy had a serious health issue that put him back into the hospital. Sqq desperately hated not being allowed beside him because of the hospital's "only family members allowed" rule.

When sy gets well enough to allow outside visitors, sqq learns that the main reason why sqh and sy married was because of this same exact reason. Sqq so wanted to shout that it's unfair he can't do the same, but sy held sqq's hand and sqh held his shoulders asking if sqq would like to marry them. He said yes, of course.

Maybe two weeks after sy gets discharged, they work on the marriage prep immediately. It was a small wedding with only their supportive family members. They wore traditional clothes! (During cumplane marriage, they wore suits.) They have their honeymoon, and sqq's world breaks apart when he is forcefully pushed back into his old world without warning. Again.

Old man yaoi. They are not even that old, aside from sqq who is still immortal, and still has his abilities from his last world. That's not really important, though. Sqh and sy is 33 years old during their honeymoon phase with sqq, I guess?

Anyway, sqq wakes up to mqf. He slowly realizes the dreadful truth, and goes into another qi deviation when he realizes that he lost his loving family. Again. He's in his mourning phase. After several qi deviations (basically suicide), and having multiple peak lords take turns to calm him down, he lives his days practically bedridden. No one knows what happened to him. He doesn't say.

He doesn't even react to yqy visiting (intruding). He's the only one who visits often, really. He's pretty sure the other peak lords have long forsaken him. Then, one day, he is visited by the hallmaster. An unexpected, uninvited guest.

The hallmaster asks, "how are you feeling?"

Sqq doesn't reply. However, when the hallmaster continues to stay and yap, he gets ticked off. "Leave!" Bursting qi to scare the hallmaster away because he has always known them as a coward.

Despite that, the hallmaster stayed. "A-Jiu..." He said, eyes tearing up.

Sqq startled. There's only two people in the world that would ever call him down. Two people who should not exist in this world. He finally takes a look at the hallmaster, and he noticed how familiar the hallmaster is to someone. "...Y-Yuan...?"

The hallmaster—Shen Yuan—throws himself onto sqq. "I missed you so much, A-Jiu."

"You... how are you..." 'here?' Is not mentioned as sqq is lost for words. He wants to reach out for sy, but he's scared that his hand will phase through sy's body just like all the other dreams (nightmares) he had.

"I don't know! Last thing I remember was complaining about sqh's shitty update, and before I knew it, I woke up here." Sy lament as one hand wipes his tears away, and the other holds onto sqq's hand. And oh. Oh, his hand is warm.

Sqq slowly pulls sy into a hug, still in fear that if he did it too quick, sy will disappear into thin air. Sqq tears up when he realized this his husband is still there. They stayed like that for a quite a long time until sy shifts to look at sqq. The adorance in his gaze is remarkably the same gaze sqq know and love.

"I... I lived day and night wishing I was dead," sy looked like he wanted to say something, but sqq interrupts him. "But now that you're here, I found my reason to continue."

"Oh, baobei." Sy nuzzle against sqq. "I'm sorry you had to go through that."

"What happened during the honeymoon?"

"You just up and disappeared. We assumed you got transported back." Sy replies.

Sqq nods. He wants to ask how they fare after his disappearance, but his insecurity got to him. However, sy knew what he was thinking. "I missed you. We missed you. It felt like there was a gap in our chest knowing you weren't there."

"How are you here?"

"I don't know! Oh wait, I'm pretty sure I died. Choked on some meat bun..." Sy waves it off as if it was nothing. "There was this system telling me I can't go back to my old world or else I would be permanently dead. It told me to follow some role, but then it said there was an error, and deleted itself."

Sy was supposed to go into sqq's body, but due to all the qi deviations, he couldn't. He doesn't want to steal his husband's body, anyway! He gets put into the hallmaster's body. An npc who gets killed by lbh simply for being a man working in Qing Jing Peak, and not stopping the bullying. The npc doesn't even have a name or face, so when sy was pushed into the body, it became an original character. He looks exactly like sy aside from the long hair. However, he does not have a last name. (That's okay, he'll take sqq's last name.)

Eventually, sqq finally leaves his bamboo hut. He had to bring his strength and stamina back. He is accompanied by the hallmaster, that doesn't go amiss. Although, the peak lords had to ask (the disciples) who it was because they don't pay enough attention to trivial stuff. They brushed it off very easily. That change is noticed by sqh, who actually went to investigate (stalk).

Sqh transmigrated into pidw as a baby. He was forced about by the system, unable to help sqq. It wasn't the sqq he knew, either. He'll die regardless of whether he followed the system or not, so he just lived being pushed about. That is until the system kill itself after an error, and sqq was acting ooc. In particular, when sqq was acting familiar with some npc. He brawled when he realized it was his husbands.

Sqh and sy both died at the same exact time, but they got transmigrated at different time periods. Anyway, that is all for this idea.

[rhiangalaxy]

Gosh I love your baby plant au so much excitedly awaiting the next part.

Doodle ask: Binghe using his dream powers to cheer up Gongyi Xiao/ remind himself and xiao what the outside world looks like to give them both a reason to keep going (Kinda sounds more angst now that I’m writing it out then it was in my head :p)

For the XiaoBingYuan truthers o7 Thanks for the rq!! :D

[ID: A Scum Villain Doodle. Plant!Shen Yuan sits crosslegged between Luo Binghe and Gongyi Xiao. He has a bright closed eye smile as if he's chatting/laughing. On the left is LBH who is sitting on his knees and looking at SY with a smile and flushed cheeks. On the right, Gongyi Xiao is leaning against SY's shoulder with his back as he holds SY's butterfly on one of his hands, looking down at it in amazement. End ID]

[phoenixcatch7]

Luo binghe dies.

The system offers the widowed husband resurrection, the ability to continue the world even after the 'true' story has ended. Because the world cannot exist without its protagonist, it comes to a halt. No time will pass until he is revived.

Sqq gets dragged through stories and universes by the system, trying to wrack up the 10,000 points needed. It takes a long time. Far too long. He plays too many roles, spends too years unable to truly settle, goes through so much it all starts to blur together.

Seeing this, an unsatisfying, boring ending without closure getting ever more likely as Sqq continues to fail to remember why he's doing it, the system releases lqg, sqh and the ghost of lbh from the stasis of their world and sends them after him. As the only one with any real understanding of the situation, sqh takes the lead. After chasing his footprints through a handful of worlds (that sqh can sort of recognise, and he adapts rapidly) they are finally find him. But he can't recognise them. He's seen too much, been too much, hidden himself away in more and more layers, not wanting to think if anything outside of the immediate problems. He can only recall the reason he set out in the vaguest terms, deflecting and outright interrupting when pressed.

So lbh manages to pull them into sqq's psyche.

From there, it's like a really big, five dimensional onion. Each role Sqq has taken solidified into another barrier between him and the worlds he was forced to live in and lose in rapid succession. Nothing, individually compared to the world of pidw, but added up they're quite the defence. Inside each layer is a false Sqq hidden in the crowd wearing someone else's face, and an item or location important to that version of him that'll take them through to the next layer.

Each time, they find another thread to the peak lord they lost. Another habit, or memory, or trivia comes back to life. It gets easier and easier to identify him no matter the body he wears. They share stories about him during rests, or moments of travel, to help the others identify him too. They kinda sorta maybe bond.

Then, finally, after a world of zombies and inter sect wars, they find a mimicry of qjp, and Sqq at the table. He's confused but delighted to see them. Even sqh gets hugged. He's shaken at their story, but over the moon at finally reaching 10k points and more than ready to return to reality.

Congratulations! The system says, and offers them their return to the real qjp, with the points needed to save lbh and with it, the world.

Lbhs eager hand on the yes button is clamped in a vice grip.

Sqh is looking at Sqq. Sqq furrows his brows in confusion.

Every transmigrator can see the system. As such, every version of Sqq can see the system.

However.

To the outside world, there is no system. There cannot be a system. To play their role, a transmigrator pretends to not have a system. They do not see a system, they do not hear it, there is nothing there. They play as a native.

This shen qingqiu cannot see the system.

He too is a role.

Lbh presses decline.

They search the house. Fake Sqq, User 002, lets them with mild befuddlement.

In the bedroom, over the bed, they find the rip.

There is a glowing city of glass, a thousand people of every shape and size on the streets. Thousand more race past in cars and buses and trains. By the nature of the dreams, their appearance does not stand out, and they've learned quick how to adapt from the crowd.

They have no clue how to identify him, but for the hundreds of variations they've met. They know his tics, his stance, the way he words his sentences. The way he frowns when confused. By now, they would know him blind and deaf - and they're going to need to.

They split up. They meet back up when the sun starts to go down. Cultivators can work without rest, and they're all highly levelled. They keep searching, unwilling to give up, but they've been doing it for a while, not wanting to pause at the last stretch. They're tired, stressed and jittery from the flashing neon lights and constant roaring sounds and unmoving smog.

A man walks past at 2 in the morning with a luo binghe phone case. A luo binghe key chain. A luo binghe lock screen identifiable from ten paces.

Airplane feels it would be justifiable to punch him.

But he recognises them on sight. Probably. He seems (entirely bro platonically) entranced by his xianxia husband, so it's hard to say.

Congratulations, congratulations congratulations! The system says. Good things should be said three times!

The man startles.

Ten thousand points, lqg says, grabbing him by the wrist. Let's go.

The system doesn't break them out this time. Instead, they treck back to his apartment, where his bedroom computer is the only light.

FIN, it says, and underneath a blinking cursor in an empty comment box.

In the computer, shen yuan says, with the certainty of a dreaming mind.

In the computer?

In the computer, he confirms, shoving sqh forward. The computer is the rip. Aight, sqh says, and reverse girl-from-the-ring's himself back to reality.

He lay on a bed. Looking up: a white, gauzy canopy hung overhead, with finely crafted perfume pouches hanging from the four corners. Looking down: he wore a green robe of an ancient style. Next to the pillow lay a paper fan. Looking to his left: three handsome young men, also in that ancient style.

The one closest to him burst into tears and kissed him full on the lips.

[sun-and-moon-mushroom]

AU where, at some point after Bingge gets thrown into the Abyss, SJ decides he’s had enough of the murder accusations and having to listen to teenage attempts to play music and wrote poetry, and decides to fuck off. He tells YQY he’s going into ‘seclusion’ for his cultivation and proceeds to change his clothes, hairstyle, and wear something that covers his face as he starts travelling around as a wandering cultivator under his original name (if asked if he’s related to that Shen, he just tells the truth — he’s an orphan who never knew his family). This eliminates at least 60% of his stress and anxiety since he’s actually able to relax without worrying about insults or keeping his reputation as a cold and elegant immortal master intact.

Time goes on, and eventually Bingge comes back. Hearing that SQQ is away, he figures he’ll just use the time to focus on gathering power and collecting evidence before he can take his revenge. Along the way, he ends up in a small town, where he ends up going to a brothel because Xin Mo is being annoying and he left his wives at home. He steps in the door and — is that Shen Qingqiu???

SJ doesn’t recognise this handsome stranger who’s uncommonly polite to prostitutes. It’s been years since he saw LBH and he was an underfed teenager then, no taller than him. Even the name wouldn’t jog his memory since it’s not like he ever used the little beast’s name outside of the occasional bit of paperwork. So, he invites him over for tea and they talk.

LBH is immediately convinced that this cannot be SQQ because he’s actually being nice to him. He invited him to sit down and have tea! He’s asking for his opinion on the music! He’s smiling! LBH is pretty sure SQQ would rather drop dead than smile at anyone, let alone him! He goes into conspiracy mode: is this a long lost relative? amnesia?? an alternate universe counterpart??? possession????

SJ now has to deal with this strange cultivator following him around, always ‘coincidentally’ visiting the same towns he does and offering to help him on night hunts… because LBH is too curious about this not-Shen-Qingqiu to leave him alone. Eventually, SJ decides the best way to get rid of this stranger is to become disliked by him, something he’s got plenty of experience with. Of course, his entire life story (who’s going to connect it to the Qing Jing peak lord anyway? and it feels surprisingly good to actually tell someone) is the perfect choice.

This has the opposite of the intended effect, as now they’re bonding over their mutually awful childhoods. SJ complains about how at least LBH had a mother, LBH points out that maybe it’s better to never have someone than loose them, and SJ brings up Yue Qi. LBH says he was abandoned in the Demon Realm, because the Endless Abyss is a bit unrealistic for an ordinary cultivator to escape, SQQ points out that he would probably have preferred the Demon Realm to the sect he ended up in, and LBH has to agree. LBH talks about his shitty master and SJ can’t help but compare him to Qiu Jianluo.

Bingge is Bingge, so of course this ends up with them in bed together. In a moment of passion, LBH accidentally calls him Shizun… and SJ realises, and immediately goes into crisis.

[acearohippo]

What do you mean by Shen Jiu being female-coded? /genq

Hello! To preface, in a lot of fandom spheres calling any cis gendered character "[gender]-coded" tends to be negative, usually to highlight poor writing or usage of harmful stereotypes, i.e., male-coded women being arrogant and demeaning to other women or female-coded men being sensitive and the butt of jokes among other men. However, there are instances where it is done and, rather than promote negative gender stereotypes it rather... Emphasises a masculine and feminine natures that resonate with people.

I am not always good with words, but there is [gender]-coded that is basically thinly veiled sexism and there is [gender]-coded that is simply nature. Think along the terms of pre Christian colonialism, where many cultures and religions have masculine energy and feminine energy defined outside of biological gender.

I see SJ as female coded because of how the fandom reacts/reacted to him. We don't got a lot of info on him, canon wise, at least not without heavy (and unreliable) bias. But there is a stark difference to how fandom treats him compared to the other men in the story.

And I don't mean in the sense of "he deserved what he got/he deserved so much better" discourse that surrounds him, but how fandom understands him.

Depending on where you fall, the degree of SJ's childhood trauma could range from demeaning slavery with a historically usual amount of abuse and demands to underage sexual abuse and torture. Regardless, the common thread is that men have control over his autonomy. Men (and nobility) dictate what he does, how he dresses, what he will receive, and how others percieve him. This is something SJ does not escape, even when he becomes a Peak Lord, although the degree has lessened by this time. He fails not just because of his actions, but due to the words and judgement of people who only see him on surface level and, thus, scrutinise his every action as "evidence" to their preconceived judgement.

And boy does fandom run with this!

And it makes sense because, a huge portion of danmei demographics are women... Women who understand all too well the dangers a negative statement can have on their livlihood.

This is why Shen Jiu is female coded, to me. Qui Jianluo, Wu Yanzi, Yue Qingyuan, Luo Binghe, even Shen Yuan, etc etc all, in some way, have taken his autonomy. QJL and WYZ did it with their abuse and power over him, YQY did it by undermining him and placating him (while allowing the bad rumours and his bad behaviours to persist), LBH through his revenge (literally crippled him), Shen Yuan quite literally takes over his body and has no regard for its treatment for most of the story.

In fandom, I think its telling that Qi Qingqi, Mu Qingfan, and Liu Qingge also feature as a prominent antaongist that contribute to Shen Jiu's abysmal reputation. Unfortunately, the three kinds of people women should feel protected by and safe with- other women, doctors, and those who uphold justice- are some of the main contributors to the problems they face. They aren't taken seriously, they're ostracised or put down, they're ignored or labeled as over emotional.

Its also telling that, for most fanfics/discussions/art/etc where Shen Jiu is "redeemed" or given a second chance, the main reason why he suceeds is because others listen to him. They let him have a voice and respect it. He is able to advocate for himself and not be torn down or turned away. And if he is, usually there's a man that stands by his side and acts as the "ally" or "bridge" that gets people taking him seriously.

Or, him being attached to a well-respected man is enough for people to change their opinions. Fandom can't help but reflect real life in their works.

So, with all that being said... I understand that there's going to be people who think this is a "bad take" because I rely so heavily on how the fandom portrays Shen Jiu, and that's fine. There will always be Bible-thumpers in every piece of media we consume, and they're here for good reason. But I consume stories for the feelings they evoke and the influence they have on others. People make connections, that's just what we do, and this is the connection I made.

[sillygoofyqueer]

Banging pots and pans. We demand more panyuan. Is this an eventual LBH ship? Does nyy want to hold panyuan but sqq won't let her? Does panyuan get a spiritual knife?

Dude this is a quiet neighbourhood if you ignore the general chaos and screaming every time you look outside or open the door, put the pots and pans DOWN!!! Also I read this and was struck with the shock at the thought of Panyuan growing up and I think that's how Wei Qingwei should feel every time it's so much as mentioned. Unless I pull a DC and make Panyuan stay a child forever (Tim Drake, forever seventeen 😔), he actually has to grow up 😨 Anyway, I didn't even consider Panyuan being shipped with anyone - unlike in canon, there's no way Panyuan is really bothered about leaving the mountain and accidentally ending up in wifeplots! He's content on Wan Jian; even when he grows up, he's still following his baba around like a little duckling and is more interested in monsters (and woodwork now) than other people. It's going to take a lot to drag him away from such important matters (hey if you think can convince me to ship him with someone, go ahead, but he's my little baby!!) Ning Yingying definitely wants to hold little baby Panyuan but there's no way that Shen Qingqiu is letting her - she's a nice girl and very enthusiastic but she's also clumsy and there's no way that she can be trusted to hold him. This is for both Panyuan's sake and for Shen Qingqiu's own - he still hasn't forgotten the glare Wei Qingwei offered anyone who even joked about dropping him (RIP Shang-shidi someone had to do it). Panyuan can have whatever weapon he wants, all he has to do is ask!! Of course, he can make his own weapons, and he does, but he always prefers the ones that Wei Qingwei has made because "it feels more protective when baba has made them!!" (This made Wei Qingwei cry when he first heard the reasoning). He, very similar to pangolins, much prefers defensive measures so he doesn't even fight often.

[araksi413]

System SQQ thoughts (as in plural system, not SYSTEM, that comes in later)

- SJ is a trauma holder and host for most of their childhood, discipleship and then during their peak lord years. To him this is his life, their system is covert, and he's not aware of it.

- SY is a normal part, fronted sometimes during their childhood and life, in the calm moments. Especially during their disciple years when they were studying flora and fauna (SJ just thinks he zoned out.)

- The SYSTEM is the overseer and persecutor. It doesn't front, doing its job in the headspace and keeping the two from realizing they exist.

- But then The qi deviation happens, and SYSTEM decides that SJ is just not handling it properly anymore, putting their existence at risk. It pulls SJ into the headspace and shoves SY to the front.

- SY creates the "this world is a book i read" as an explanation as to why he doesn't have memories but knows how this world works (especially flora and fauna, must've been the only interesting part of the book!)

- The SYSTEM cofronts with SY a lot of the time, especially at the beginning, doing its job as a persecutor to keep SY in line. (None of the possession detection tests work, because it is the same soul. Just not the same person)

- SJ sometimes gets to see what's happening at front, especially when the SYSTEM is there and can't entirely block him out. SJ passively influences SY sometimes, especially when his Qi-ge is present.

- SJ hates SY at the beginning. SY stole his life, and is ruining it, and just doesn't understand what he's doing!

- Eventually SJ gets to cofront while they're teaching or doing paperwork, reluctantly helping SY. SY explains this to himself as just a kind of grumpy inner monolog. ("That form needs to go to An Ding right away, put it on the right pile idiot." "Right, right of course, right away me.")

- SY manages to save LQG in the Linxi Caves bc he has less of an emotional attachment to him then SJ, and it doesn't get in the way of stopping his qi deviation. Also he still views everyone as characters, which is an additional distance that helps him that calm enough in the moment.

- It's SJ fighting during the demon invasion. SY just doesn't have that much control, he has just enough to get by + muscle memory, but not enough to fight Like That.

- And of course, it's SY that gets them poisoned with Without A Cure. Of course. Life gets back to "normal", just with additional visits from LQG.

- Then the Immortal Conference happens. While standing at the edge of The Endless Abyss, SY heavily disassociates, only going through motions automatically, and only because the SYSTEM is there.

- Only when LBH is gone, he comes back to himself and breaks down. Collects the sword shards and disassociates some more, only getting back thanks to his martial siblings.

- SY is rarely not disassociated for a long time after LBH is gone. He stays at the sword mound most days, far away from the body.

- SJ hates this new development. He might even.. care.. for SY, though he'd never admit it. Eventually SJ starts fronting at night. Just to get them to eat something, to do their work, to help them live.

- When they get sent on missions outside of the sect, its usually SJ fronting. This becomes very confusing to LQG, who often comes with. SJ does try to act like SY, but it is a little off-putting.

- SY fronts during the missions when there's interesting beasts, or when it's something he needs to know to not get fully lost on what's happening.

- During succubus mission SJ comes to front, pushes LQG into the pond and runs away as fast as possible.

- When they're about to go to Jinlan city, they've got a pretty good system (hehe) down. SY is still mostly unaware, just knows that... something... is going on. Suspects its the "previous soul of this body" leaking through. He let's everything happen because he just doesn't care much anymore.

- Jinlan city is awful for both SY and SJ. Neither of them can handle seeing LBH, both of them are in a panic, blurring together. It's hell and terrifying and then they're in the Water Prison and it's so much worse.

- Those moments when SQQ doesn't say anything in the Water Prison? Noones fronting. It's all a mess. The SYSTEM tries to help, but it really doesn't work.

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that's as far as my daydreaming got me! since idk what SQH deal would be here (is he an actual transmigrator? is he the original SQH? is it smth else?), idk if the Sun and Moon Dew Mushroom bodies would even be here?

so they probably wouldn't try to escape without a backup plan, SY's pseudo-suicidal tendencies would be kept in check by the other system members.

i dont know how the plot would continue.

additional thought: Luo Bingge splits after they push LBH into the abyss. He was a fragment before, psrt of a little nightmare here and there, but after the abyss he fully forms. He's a persecutor, doesn't front (SYSTEM won't let him), but he does uh, torture SY in headspace. maybe SJ doesn't realize for a while? maybe he sees it happen and that's why he's also terrified of LBH in Jinlan ? idk. what do they do with Bingge afterwards? also no clue. He's a fun thought but too much of a complication i think.

if anyone else has thoughts please please please please share them <3

[priest-of-light]

I've been thinking about Front Man!Gi-hun lately.

And I'd like a disclaimer upfront that I don't like nor want it to become canon, but I'm beginning to strongly suspect it will be at least implied in canon by the end of the story. Why? Well, for a couple metatextual reasons:

1. A challenge to the viewer: Right now, a lot of fans (particularly casual fans) are happy to root against the Front Man because he's "evil" or a "psychopath." Isn't it interesting how we're directly shown the people in power, the system personified, and yet our attention continues to be pointed towards In-ho as where to direct our blame. But In-ho is and always has been Gi-hun's foil. I think he's more than that though, he's Gi-hun's parallel. That is to say, both were fired unjustly from their jobs (debatably in In-ho's case, but I think him telling the truth about it not being a bribe is more powerful in building on his similarities to Gi-hun), both were let down by the system, both lost someone they loved while within the games. And from LBH's comments, In-ho was someone who, at some point, also at least wanted to tear down the system before he became disillusioned and gave in to the system instead.

And yet he's vilified almost universally. This isn't me saying that he SHOULDN'T be, this is me arguing that viewers right now have a very black and white view of Gi-hun as the good guy, the "hero," and In-ho as the villain. But HDH has NEVER been interested in such simple thinking. And what better way to turn that on its head than for Gi-hun to become the Front Man. Suddenly, viewers are forced to confront the fact that their hero is now in the role of the "villain." Does that mean Gi-hun is evil now? Well, no, of course not (is hopefully your answer). Perhaps he does it to protect Ga-yeong. Perhaps he does it because he believes he can change the system from inside. Regardless, if you're willing to recognize Gi-hun's desire for change AS WELL AS his capitulation to the system, you may just have to recognize the same of In-ho.

2. The more depressing reason that HDH has said Gi-hun is somewhat based on himself, and from interviews he's done we know that he feels complicated emotions about the success of Squid Game. That it's reached a point where Netflix has an attraction where you can play the "games" or pay extra for the VIP experience. That so many casual viewers will watch it purely for it's entertainment, because to engage with its meaning is to confront the reality of their own existences. If you think of Squid Game as HDH's attempt to change the world (take down the games), I have to wonder if he feels like he has become his own personal Front Man in a way. I think that Squid Game fundamentally cannot succeed in the way that it has without it being a failure to its intention. And if HDH does feel like he's given in to the system, how could he not write the same thing happening to Gi-hun?

Obviously, as a disclaimer, this is speculation since I don't know the man and can only work off interviews.

For a character, it's a tragic ending for Gi-hun if we see him finally give in to the system. But as a metaphor...I don't know. I guess the ending will in its own way show us whether HDH believes it's possible to resist outside of the systems imposed upon us.

But what will always be more important is how we respond to the story if this is the case. Will we give up? Or will we let Gi-hun's bravery inspire us to keep going, even when it feels hopeless.

[benevadeca]

LBH/SY - SJ/YQY parallels compilation

For organizational purposes party A is LBH/SJ and party B is SY/YQY

Party A is an outsider to their environment who, due to circumstances they have no control over and (later) their nepotism-esque relationship with Party B, has difficulty interacting with their peers and becomes a subversive element that eventually breaks the status quo

B is willfully blind apologist to the crimes of A, known lying liar, while simultaneously believing in the worst of them for things they did not do that were learnt second-hand.

A and B have a period of their relationship where B, though well-intended actions, causes A to be trapped in a horrific, traumatizing place where they are very literally dehumanized.

A returns after years of separation in front of B in a situation where A is the direct cause of the death of innocents.

A, without understanding their power in the situation, forcefully attempts to convince B to tell them why they were abandoned/thrown away.

B is deeply hurt by said attempts but is unable to speak of the reason and the misunderstanding causes A to go down a path of wanton and careless destruction of both themself and others.

B is in a unique position of power that also actively constrains them / manifests as an overwhelming outside force that in some way limits their ability to communicate freely. And in their attempts to convince A to stop the wanton destruction thing unintentionally reinforces A's self-image trauma abandonment issues.

Something something....metaphor for SY and LBH make it out bc they are both subversive literal-outsider elements to the system while SJ and YQY are people from the lowest tier of the system who are intrinsically wrapped up in it and unable to break free of the coercive and shame-inducing dehumanization and alienation they faced their entire lives that they were unable to bridge with neither their peers nor one another. Lol 👍

[danmei-confessions]

Hey hey! New here in SVSSS and still looking for new JiuYuan food came to tumblr for JiuYuan but I hope you allow me to defend my ship's other half blorbo. Twisting the story to hate on Shen Yuan or diminish all he has done and what he has become to the other characters is not the way to go. Maybe because I am a JiuYuan Shipper so I will defend both but for now this is mostly about SY.

There are what ifs that we can think that SJ could have done to get a happy ending for him and the world he is in but we don't need what ifs for the good ending that SY already gave SVSSS despite nobody knowing his real name and his own sufferings because the system won't allow him to talk.

SVSSS is a horror story FOR SY's situation at first because he knows what is supposed to happen in PIDW. He died, is brought to another world to be FORCED to do the crimes of someone else and pay for it. The system plays it off as a game and has no care for what SY feels. "Fail to do it and die, succeed to do it and you get years of torture. YAY! Immersion!" Imagine getting transmigrated to the Saw movie before the torture happens and you know if you do this bad thing, it will lead to the torture ending for your character. You would be stupid to do it, not to mention you are not a bad guy so just thinking of doing that bad thing makes you sick. But system is there watching your every move. You decide you would rather die instead because wtf your choices are only die or be tortured. But system gives you hope that with enough points, you don't need to do the bad thing anymore. But then after years the system tells you, actually this one bad thing is canon event so you still need to do it which will lead to the torture ending.

Unless you're a scum, the thought of hurting a puppy and let wolves bully it until it bleeds will torment your mind. Now imagine you are FORCED to do it because it's part of the story. Even though SY thinks that the characters are just fictional, he still cannot do it and would sneakily find ways around the system's rules to save LBH. The moment he is free of the restrictions, he is his own. That's not SJ anymore That's all SY. ALL the peak lords notice that he is not acting as SJ. He has the face of SJ but he is is far from acting like SJ. He is acting as what he thinks a respectable immortal master should be. But as time flows by and as he grows closer to the others, he is acting as SY. Read the extras, he actually loves to gossip with other peak lords. He is playful with LQG. He starts to shed his immortal, aloof façade when he got together with LBH. They're literally playing and flirting inside the bamboo house and outside when no one is looking. Sure SY is a PIDW critic online but how you are online is vastly different from how you are in real life. He is like a person who is first closed off and likes to act cool but starts to unravel the closer you are to them (and actually matches your freak). I would say even the fan gestures are part of his old life. The moment he opened his eyes, he reached for a fan. That is SY.

SY is an unreliable narrator of the people around him because that's what Airplane has written in the book. That's what SY thinks because that's what Airplane wants his readers to know. SY does not know about SJ and YQY's past and even LBH's parents because airplane did not add it on the PIDW. Once he found out what happened to SJ, he understood SJ but he also knows that whatever happened in the past does not allow you to abuse children that you have chosen as your disciple and is supposed to be under your guidance. (My JiuYuan headcannon screams only SY understands him. This is only headcannon do not attack my ship please I promise I will focus on SY here)

SY is also an unreliable narrator about himself because his psychological defense mechanism is compartmentalization. He is literally downplaying all that is happening to him so that he will not break down. He even downplays all the good things he has done. MXTX is so great at this that readers missed the parts where SY actually is suffering because he makes jokes of it. SY doesn't allow himself to dwell on the memories of his loving family and the world he was taken from. SY is showing signs of depression when he pushed LBH into the abyss but in SY's mind he is saying he is not depressed. SY cried when LBH snapped at him in the Holy Mausoleum but his mind played it off as being tears of pain because of his leg. SY said that LBH began to like him because of a single smile but LBH actually only forgave him when he risked his life to save LBH and asked nothing in return. LBH and SY first time in Mai Gu Ridge is so painful and he is going through it alone because LBH is in Xinmo's control and out of his mind but SY still plans to make a joke about it to binghe until SY coughed up blood and did his best to comfort Binghe when the other regrets his actions.

SY keeps saying that he's just doing things to save his life but his actions shows more than that. He became genuine friends with the Peak Lords. He went to CQM when he heard that LBH was attacking. Also he initially saved LQG's life so he can use him to fight LBH and SY can escape in the future, but he compromised his disguise and steps in when LBH and LQG was actually fighting in CQM to stop them. Instead of using the characters as his shield to escape LBH, he uses himself as a shield so others can be saved from LBH even though his greatest fear is being tortured by LBH.

The take that LBH is infatuated/in love with SJ and SQQ body only and will not love SY as he is if there is a reveal is the most weird take I find and undervalues MXTX writing. LBH is not infatuated with SJ and his body. LBH as a child sees him as a teacher but is not in love with him unlike with SY. Like most case of child abuse, LBH is a kid who thinks he has nowhere else to go to and so stays with his family despite being abused. We like to joke that LBH is a shizun fucker but he only became a shizun fucker because he experienced SY's love. Throughout the story, it shows LBH is not in love with just the body. He might think SJ is pretty but he is not in love. This is the same as bingge liking all pretty women but then discarding them to the harem afterwards to be forgotten.

LBH is in love with SY. The love and care he felt is from SY. His kind shizun is SY. The body is just a way for LBH to connect with SY. Afterwards, even without a body, it is SY that he loves. Again, all the peak lords noticed he is not acting as SJ. The desciples has also changed so it can be said that they noticed this change too. This is SY!SQQ that they came to love. The plant body is also proof that SY is loved. LBH preserved SQQ body for years hoping that his shizun will come back. When he pieced together that the plant body (that looks like SY real face and his real voice) is his shizun, he made sure to capture SY first before going after SQQ body at CQM. He even said he went to CQM to “stall you out,” indirectly talking to SY. This also shows how scary binghe is because he knows that SY has arrived and is hiding. Once he got SY, that's the time he went for SQQ body and his reason was that if SY ever tried to escape to the other body (LBH is so smart because this actually happens) then LBH will be lost again. LBH talks about the bodies as if they are only containers for SY's soul.

Luo Binghe spoke first. “Are the meridians of that body working well?”

“That’s good. I preserved the other body for a few days, but it still withered in the end. That doesn’t bode well if anything goes wrong with this one.”

Basically he wants both bodies to ensure that SY is trapped with him no matter what body he tries to use because he doesn't believe SY will not leave him again (He mockingly tells him "Ive believed shizun plenty of times" when SY tells him he wont run away). Again, the body is just a way for LBH to connect with his shizun that he loves and that shizun is SY. When ZZL summons SY soul to SQQ body, LBH also tried his best to save the plant body until it withered.

There is also the factor that LBH and SY are soulmates and this extends to LBG. LBG is not in love with SJ. He is filled with hate and enacted vengeance for being abused since he was a child and then thrown to hell. LBG was even smiling sinisterly when SJ was so broken that YQY died. There is no infatuation or love there. LBG doesn't think anything of SQQ at first until he dived in and saw SY!SQQ memories starting from the skinner demon until the Mai Gu Ridge in one night and all that SY did for his Binghe. It might just be one night, but the events are what happened for years that SY had a headache when he woke up. Afterwards is the only time when LBG thought of SQQ as pretty. Basically LBG is not in love with SJ but rather fell for this other SQQ because of SY and how SY!SQQ loved his Binghe. The type of love that not even his wives can give him. I can explain this but I only want to focus on SY now. If there is a SY reveal, it will be the same, the question will be the same "why did this person get a kind shizun while I got the rotten one", the only difference is there will be no disgust in LBG's side and LBG will probably make an effort and try his best to take SY back to his world since he has no animosity towards SY and because he knows there is no SY in his world.

Also, I'm pretty sure LBH already knows or he has an idea just no way to prove it. He's already giving hints about things that SQQ should not even know. Also look at this line:

"Every time Luo Binghe caught Shen Qingqiu before, he had stared at him like he was trying to stare through him"

Bingge will follow soon after because the sun and dew mushroom body was used by one of his enemies so he knows how that works and that the mushroom body will look like the face of whoever's soul is using it. Looking into SY!SQQ memories and seeing that his face changed when he transferred to the mushroom body is a big clue for LBG to digest and with how smart he is, he WILL know the truth.

Bingmei will love SY if there is a reveal. He will love him even more if that is even possible. LBH: "Shizun actually never hated this disciple and never wanted to push him in the abyss?" LBH: "Shizun loved this disciple before coming to this world?" He will gloat that he won before the battle even begun. Then chug vinegar when he finds out it is bingge who is loved first. There is no reveal because LBH will be more insufferable and so MXTX saved SY from such fate. LQG will not go "You mean it is not SJ who saved me? You are a Traitor!" LQG despite not liking SQQ mellowed out when SY!SQQ saved him. It will make no difference if he finds out it was SY who saved him, has been with him and has saved CQM. The only sad part will be YQY but that is about SJ's side and again for this I will focus on SY.

I have to say SQQ role or body is not important. He can be Ming Fan, NYY, a random disciple, another peak lord, and do all the things he has done and perhaps more effectively without the system hindering him to act as a villain and it will be the same as SVSSS. Save LQG in the caves-> LQG is now his friend. Continue to be a fanatic of LBH and believing in his skills and also trying to save him from abuse-> LBH finds a friend who truly cares and after some time falls in love. There will be somethings that will be different like NYY. Because NYY under SJ is an airhead that gets herself into trouble that bingge needs to save time and time again, compared to NYY that blossomed under SY!SQQ guidance with a strong mind, attitude and love and respect for SQQ that shocked even bingge.

I've read that the disciples are a downgrade under SY because SQH called the disciples students with ADHD. SY is actually a good Shizun. NYY is proof of this. Ming fan is proof of this. SQH the author literally states that the disciples under SJ back then were posers with face full of bitterness and great resentment compared to the disciples that literally flock towards SY!SQQ in excitement whenever he returns to the peak. SQH called them ADHD students because they are lively! The disciples sit around grouped together talking to each other as friends and no one is left out. And there is nothing wrong about ADHD students either, they are wonderful if you just give enough time and patience to understand how their minds work and what best way you can get their attention to learn. The fact that the disciples are happier and better versions than that of PIDW is already proof that SY did make a huge effort and is a good shizun to his students.

In the end, SY played with the cards he is given and although the cards are not good, he still did his best. System tells him "do this or die, but if you also do this thing that I said you get to become a human stick and suffer for years! Ehe (^-^)" and SY instead tells the system to Fk off and saves himself, LBH, and in extent, the women from joining in LBH's harem, and the world from turning into PIDW which is seriously a bad end for everyone even the protagonist. SY saw people as fictional characters at the start because the system is treating the world (and him) as a game. He gets points for doing this, gets deducted points for doing that. But in the end he learns and accepts that everyone is real and that even though the book already closed in PIDW, the story continues for everyone in their world. From a horror story that is PIDW, it is now a hopeful story that is SVSSS.

So yeah. Imagine knowing that Shrek must go to the castle to save Fiona to marry her in the future but Shrek falls for your transmigrated number one shrek fanboy soul in Lord Farquaad's body instead. All this time you are acting kind and caring for Shrek because Shrek is love Shrek is life and also to save your ass. You are blindsided. While acting as his a wingman for your OTP Shriona, Shrek was actually making a move on you. "No way Shrek is gay and into midgets? And loves to play as house wife?! TF?!" But in the end you accept that your feelings has also changed and that the quote Shrek is love Shrek is life is literal not metaphorical. Fans speculating that Lord Farquaad is the first human to actually show Shrek respect by making him one of his knights (because he wants him to go to a dragon guarding castle where countless knights died) so Shrek has always been infatuated with Lord Farquaad and the moment you reveal that you are not a midget, Shrek will have a meltdown and won't care about you anymore. You save the mama bear because you know she dead in the movie but now she acts as your savior from the big bad ogre who they think has grown obsessive of you and the bear's whole family is also indebted to you. The baby bear ships Shrequaad so hard he wrote a fanfic that became popular throughout the lands. Fiona learns she needs no man, defeats and rides the dragon and is now dubbed as "Mother of Dragons" while you scream in your head "Director WTF?! Plagiarism?! Games of thrones?!" You found out Puss n boots is actually the author transmigrated, he is scared of Death because death will kill him someday but because of some changed events Death follows him because he loves him. It's far from the original plot but everyone is happy.

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[rarepears]

Nie Huaisang, Lan Xichen, Jin Guangyao, and Nie Mingjue all reincarnate together into PIDW, and become disciples around the same time as Luo Binghe.

The drama of this is of course enhanced by the facts that NMJ & JGY died "early," but NHS & LXC lived to the end of their natural lives as cultivators, and so some of their perspectives and opinions on events have naturally changed with age. (tfw the passage of time renders you unfamiliar to your once-loved ones)

Eventually they talk about their feelings and reconcile and such, and this ends up derailing the plot of PIDW severely as the rest of the PIDW characters confusedly observe quite possibly the weirdest disciples Cang Qiong's ever seen

NMJ on Bai Zhan, with no clue what's going on because he died first and NHS & LXC haven't told him anything

NHS on An Ding, thoroughly enjoying what's pretty much a vacation to him at this point and possibly running an interpeak illicit goods market (definitely not to distract himself from any of the emotions having NMJ & JGY alive and nearby would be causing him, Everything Is Fine) I haven't decided if he'd get involved with the whole og!SQH and MBJ situation tho

LXC on Qiong Ding, because I feel like he'd see himself in Yue Qingyuan and lowkey hate him for it and I think that could be interesting

JGY on Qing Jing, because he's the objectively the funniest/most interesting character to throw into the mess that is SJ and LBH. The way I imagine it, he's doing the most direct derailing of the plot, because he mostly accidentally gets right in the middle of the thing that is going on between those two

I feel like as I wrote this it became more serious than I originally intended so just know that I'm mentally picturing this like a fic that's interspersed with outsider POV of the 4 of them being completely deranged about eachother

(Also I'd feel bad taking away LXC's brother so LWJ and WWX + friends are busy doing hot girl shit being rogue cultivators. I think WWX should be a half demon so he gets to keep the cultivation and steal some of LBH's protagonist energy. If this was a fic then the rest of the Untamed gang would be perfect to use for side characters during off-peak missions)

*grabs popcorn and sits down to hear more*

Nie Huaisang is having too much fun waiting the two idiots called his shizun and shizun's poorly kept secret of a boyfriend go flailing around on these terribly unromantic dates BUT THE TWO WERE TRYING SO HARD that it was cute. He wonders if he should do something to help the poor idiots out... Should he?

Maybe he should...

(Watch Shang Qinghua and Mobei Jun suddenly have a number of sex pollen accidents over the next few months....)

Lan Xichen would be an old man and a good voice of reason for Yue Qingyuan. Although he's head disciple and a very good one at that (if only because his Big Brother instincts can't be held back and he MUST interfere to help prevent history repeating once more), Lan Xichen has made it very clear that he would never accept becoming sect leader.

Also don't forget Liu Mingyan in the background writing about a 4 person sex orgy. At least, that's her personal theory for why there's so much UNRESOLVED TENSION between these four sus male disciples. And also, because it's fun.

It's even funner when you consider that Nie Mingjue is out of the loop of Cang Qiong stuff even on Bai Zhan because he tags along on so many of Liu Qingge's missions that he's probably spending like 8 months of the year outside of the sect.

(Nie Huaisang gets "assigned" to missions that happen to take place near Nie Mingjue's hunts.)

Meng Yao is Meng Yao and he still craves the approval of Male Authority Figures That Could be his dad. Also Meng Yao still likes to climb up the social hierarchy and power. AKA Luo Binghe growing mushrooms in the corner at seeing ANOTHER QING JING disciple THE SAME AGE AS HIM being given SO MUCH ATTENTION AND APPROVAL by shizun.

Luo Binghe develops a complex over Meng Yao of course.

(Shen Jiu approves of Meng Yao because he understands these characters very well and know how to manipulate (cough kill or injury them physically or mentally) them easily. Plus Meng Yao is actually competent.)

[More in #Nie Huaisang Lan Xichen Meng Yao and Nie Mingjue reincarnate into PIDW and are Cang Qiong disciples at the same time as Luo Binghe is AU

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❛ this room... there's something wrong with it. i think we should leave. ❜ yeah and it's lbh that's probably the Wrong but anyway have one from Sunday

                  “  oh?  ”   Luo  Binghe,  who'd  been  just  about  to  take  another  step  forward,  found  himself  stopping.  his  attention  now  drawn  in  by  Sunday's  statement,  he  cants  his  head  to  one  side  and�� alights  his  crimson  gaze  upon  him.   “  really?  what  makes  you  say  that?  ”   to  Luo  Binghe,  there's  nothing  remarkable  about  the  place  they're  in  right  now   –   if  there  was,  he  undoubtedly  would've  sensed  it  either  through  his  spiritual  qi,  or  his  demonic  qi,  whichever  one  picked  up  on  it  first.  but  after  loitering  in  the  room  for  an  extended  period  of  time,  nothing  really  stuck  out  to  him,  so  he'd  instead  deigned  to  focus  on  the  task  at  hand.  the  two  of  them  were  supposed  to  be  investigating  a  lead  into  a  potential  stellaron  lurking  on  this  particular  planet,  but  had  thus  far  come  up  almost  completely  empty  handed.  normally,  Luo  Binghe  might  turn  up  a  little  frustrated  at  this,  but  he  was  in  an  exceptionally  good  mood  because  it  was  Sunday  he  was  assigned  this  task  with.  and  he  didn't  make  it  a  habit  to  hide  how  much  he  enjoyed  being  around  the  halovian.  if  anything,  he  was  almost  somewhat  obnoxious  about  it  to  some  degree.

                  he  rounds  completely  on  Sunday  and  draws  nearer  to  him.  things  might  appear  ordinary  to  Luo  Binghe,  but  there's  also  a  number  of  outside  factors  he  has  to  consider  might  make  Sunday  feel  otherwise.  it  being  night  time  for  one   –   the  eerie  silence,  for  another.  the  silence  was  something  they  endured  even  in  the  day  time  though,  as  this  planet  was  completely  dead,  it's  inhabitants  having  long  since  become  nothing  more  than  a  memory  of  the  past.  what  Sunday  might  not  have  been  informed  of  was  the  culprit  of  that  fate  was  standing  right  there  in  front  of  him,  looming  like  an  overgrown  beast  and  veiled  in  a  half-shadow  cast  by  the  moonlight.  this  world  was  dead  because  Luo  Binghe  had  been  the  one  to  kill  it  naught  more  than  three  years  ago  in  a  fit  of  mania.  it's  where  he'd  originally  turned  up  when  he  was  forcibly  transmigrated.  thanks  a  mixture  of  shock  and  disbelief,  Xin  Mo  was  able  to  capture  his  mind  just  long  enough  to  have  him  exterminate  all  the  living  beings  here  before  he'd  dragged  himself  back  into  reality.  and  this  room  in  particular  had  witnessed  the  deaths  of  this  world's  ruling  family.  so  what  Sunday  might  be  feeling  is  the  residual  madness  left  behind  by  Luo  Binghe's  assault.

                  “  i  don't  feel  anything  strange,  but  if  you  think  we  should  leave,  we  can  go  to  the  next  one.  there  might  be  clues  in  it.  ”     that  he  could  speak  so  casually  in  the  wake  of  his  own  violent  impulses  would  send  a  shiver  down  any  ordinary  person's  spine.  Luo  Binghe  finds  himself  wondering  how  Sunday  would  react  if  he  knew  the  truth  about  this  place.  would  he  be  terrified  of  him?  or  would  he  continue  treating  him  the  same  way  he'd  always  been.  he's  almost  half-tempted  to  divulge  the  information  for  the  sake  of  curiosity,  but  holds  back  and  instead  simply  places  a  hand  on  Sunday's  shoulder.   “  don't  worry.  ”   his  voice  drips  in  a  bone-chilling  concoction  of  sugary-sweet  and  poisonous  as  he  smiles.   “  if  you're  afraid,  i  won't  let  anything  hurt  you.  you're  safe  with  me.  ”   what  irony  there  is  to  be  seen  in  that  statement.   “  you  could  even  hold  my  hand,  if  that'll  make  you  feel  better,  little  bird?  ”   said  hand  rises  from  shoulder  to  palm  a  cheek  as  fingertips  briefly  brush  over  the  silken  feathers  of  one  tiny  wing.  a  glint  of  something  almost  maliciously  possessive  flashes  briefly  across  his  eyes,  but  becomes  overshadowed  by  the  warmth  he  forcibly  pushes  into  his  expression.   “  do  you  trust  me,  Sunday?  ”

[drivebypainter]

Hi! I love your sv peak assignment quiz (I got qian cao) 😁

I'm really curious about what some of the most common answers to the questions were though!!! Is there any way of seeing the responses? Would be willing to share? I've gotta know- was there a six balls sweep?????

Awww thank you <3333

Unfortunately though, the website doesn't let me see what the most common answers are :( However I can infer through that stats I can see and basically what fandom favorites are from popular tags on tumblr- what were most likely the common choices!

This is the stats on which peaks were chosen the most.

And as you can see Qian Cao, Hao Chi, Qiong Ding, and An Ding Peaks are currently the top four popular peaks! (also insane that 1k people took this quiz LMAO).

The reason why these peaks are the highest are likely because they have the most "passive" or "morally good" answers when it comes to the situation questions.

But, lets not get carried away! We are here for Six Balls!!

Q: "Which obscure SVSSS side character do you like the most?"

You get 6 possible choices for an answer:

A(1): "Antelope Demoness (A young demoness who looks after SQQ when he is kidnapped by Tianlang-jun)"

It is unlikely a lot of people picked this because she has no name (thus no real tag for her on tumblr or on any site) and I doubt many people remembered her. (Though picking her did give you a point towards Qiong Ding- the 3rd most popular result)

A(2): "Six Balls (The young demon who gives SQQ Liu Mingyan's sword tassel)"

Six Balls!! While the fandom behind Six Balls is small, he is definitely considered a fan favorite by the more dedicated SVSSS fans! (also if you picked this one you got one point towards An Ding, An Ding being top 4 in the popular results).

A(3): "LBH's Mother (The old washer woman who takes care of a young LBH)"

Now LBH's mother despite being technically nameless would be a relatively popular choice because of how often she shows up in fanfiction, fanart of younger binghe, and popular fanon ideas in the fandom <3 (Also her choice gave you a point towards Hao Chi which is the SECOND highest result!)

A(4): Yang Yixuan (The young man who helps SQQ, LQG, and MQF during the Jin Lan City arc)

Another fan favorite and he shows up for longer then a paragraph in the books! Yang Yixuan also has a pretty dedicated fan base, with lots of fanfiction either directly dedicated to him (via ships or little character studies) or involving him in some way (I.e. background/support character)! So I can imagine a lot of people choosing this option! (Also choosing him gives you a point towards Qian Cao Peak- which is the highest ranked result!)

A(5): The Unnamed Ku Xing Peak Lord (He is mentioned to have a harsh temper!) 

I dont really see a lot of people picking this guy, after all he is both nameless and barely shows up in canon- not only that he seems to be quite harsh! (Also if you chose him your points would go into both Qing Jing and Suan Ming- both relatively low on the popular results)

A(6): Ji Jue (A disciple during LQG's generation who fights SQQ outside of a brothel)

Another character I dont really see people picking, despite the fact he has a name, he doesn't seem that cool... plus picking a fight with a fan favorite like Shen Qingqiu..?? Yikes! (And yet again picking this option would not get you into a super popular peak based on results).

So basically to boil this all down, I think most people either picked Luo Binghe's Adopted Mother, Six Balls, or Yang Yixuan!

Also we could probably just settle this by running a poll.. oops!