#random tgcf thoughts

[fortune-maiden]

Random TGCF Headcanon of the Day:

Pei Ming’s boat was a gift from Shi Wudu

[whatmattersisyou]

Hua Cheng is the Simpest of Simps™ and I, as a simp myself, get him so much. Loving someone the way he loves Xie Lian is terrifying and also amazing. Been there, done that, still doing it and I don't wanna do anything for the rest of my life.

His love is in the big gestures but also in the smol things.

It's in the 10k statues but also telling Xie Lian to cry out if it hurts. it's in sacrificing his unlife so that Xie Lian can live and thrive. It's also in being the most sincere person he'd ever meet.

It's in the gentle way he paints Xie Lian, in the soft, delicate brush of hands at the Gamblers Den. It's in wanting to protect him without caging him in. It's in allowing Xie Lian to be himself, and be there with him.

Don't fight me on this cause I don't have the spoons, but I believe that love is a choice. And Hua Cheng has been making that choice for 800 years and will make it for the rest of eternity.

It's all-encompassing and it is so, so scary. When you love someone like that, you have so much to lose. Yet Hua Cheng always chooses love and I can't respect him more for that.

[shadowgale96]

Another idea: Hualian both get reverted back to kids with no memories beyond being 9. But they still have their powers.

So we have two children lost in the woods with the powers of a high God and a ghost king and no knowledge of how they got there and are Freaking out about the sentient silk and sword following them.

Honger doesn’t have his memories of Xie Lian, so he doesn’t have a purpose, but he starts to like this weirdly polite and skilled boy lost with him and might have decided he cares about him and is going to do everything he can to keep him safe while they figure out where they are and how to get back to Xianle.

Meanwhile, Yin Yu tracks them down. But they assume he’s a kidnapper and blast butterflies and spirit energy whenever he gets close.

He’s not paid enough.

[peridotlion45]

random FengQing fic idea that just popped into my head.

Mu Qing has loved Feng Xin for centuries, and has been able to not do anything about it for eight of them. Until HuaLian. He's confronted with the fact every time that he sees them be happy and in love that he never will be.

It's starts to bother him

Until one day (either by chance or seeking them out) he meets a ghost/encounters something that would take/lock his love away. Make him not feel it every time he thinks of or sees Feng Xin

So, picture this:

Feng Xin waking up one day to Mu Qing not giving a single shit about him. No secretive glances during meetings, no knowing looks that tell their own story, not half formed smiles, or seeking each other out for spars

nothing.

Just complete apathy

It drives Feng Xin *insane*

[mrcformoso]

I touched on this a bit on my Paper Flowers fic but --

What gets me about the height difference between Hua Cheng and Xie Lian is that, for most of Hua Cheng's life he was shorter than Xie Lian, and he must have thought of Xie Lian as this larger than life figure in his head. Much like how you look up to your idols and all that.

So to go to his true height and realize he's like a full head taller must've been so surreal for him. To realize that Xie Lian was relatively short compared to a lot of gods, as opposed to that 'larger than life' figure in his head. It must've been such a weird experience for Hua Cheng to have to look down to talk to him, or to bend down to hug him and kiss him.

And it must've been so painful to realize that that small body protected him when he was young, and suffered so much in front of him.

[hualianschild]

there's just something so beautiful abt hong'er being super conscious of his red eye and now hua cheng making the colour red his entire personality (also contributed by the fact that gege gave him a red umbrella and his coral earrings were red too 🥺 👉👈)

[animebookworm16]

Having just finished Heaven Official's Blessing Volume 6 here are some of my thoughts in no particular order:

White No-Face is a bitch and can fight me

Wuming is a precious baby boy and deserves all the good things

Mu Qing and Feng Xin just need to fuck already to get it out of their systems

Hua Cheng was way more normal about Xie Lian finding those statues than I would have been and he deserves some praise for that

The fact that Xie Lian was the one to ask to be banished for the second time is honestly kind of sad but also so sweet

I love Xie Lian giving both temples a bowl of his creation even though he thinks they both hate him

[in-wylds-beyond]

Now that I've read all of TGCF, I keep thinking about moments early in the series that have different meanings knowing the whole story. (Spoilers for Book 6 technically) Like Nan Fang and Fu Yao's reactions when they see Xie Lian's cursed shackle. Xie Lian asks if its their first time seeing a real one. But it's not. They're Feng Xin and Mu Qinq. They've seen Xie Lian's cursed shackle before, but they haven't seen it in 800 years AND it should have been removed when he ascended again (im pretty sure). Seeing the shackle sends them right back to Xie Lian's first banishment and all the hurt associated with it. Absolutely brilliant writing. It's making me feel so many things

[dark-elf-writes]

Wait also hear me out for the tgcf/mdzs crossover

Objects can become ghosts right? Specifically instruments of slaughter or those that have soaked up a lot of resentment. And if someone were to, say, try and fail to completely destroy said object there would be a pretty high chance that it would want revenge.

What I’m saying is there’s a non zero chance that the Yin Tiger Tally is not only around during this au but that it is actively hunting Wei Wuxian and is determined to kill him once and for all.

[white-flower-blooming]

We don't talk enough about Hua Cheng/He Xuan/ Yin Yu relationship!! We need more content about the calamity bros and the no.1 best employee in Ghost City

[kexingspoison]

Through the entirety of the novel we see how Xie Lian self deprecates and brushes off his own needs and all of that.

We see the backstory and everything for his first two ascensions.

What really gets me though is how pointed it all becomes, how blatant the deepness of his eight centuries of wounds go during the half a page in the 7seas translation of volume 7, in the heavenly capital when we see Xie Lian on the brink doubting everything about who he as a person is because he can see the potential in the accusation that he himself could be Bai Wuxiang.

Like my poor boy.

And the way that Jun Wu likely would have been able to pin *everything* on Xie Lian in that moment with Xie Lian accepting it fully if not for 1. Hongjing, obviously, exposing Jun Wu's true face, but 2 and more pertinent to what I'm attempting to talk about, Hua Cheng in four simple sentences dispelling all of Xie Lian's self-doubt about who he is.

Like damn.

So much hinged on that one moment, and it could have gone so very, very differently.

[fortune-maiden]

Random TGCF Thought of the Day

TIL that Feng Xin's bow Fengshen means "Wind God" and my mind went to some very strange places.

Places such as SQX should try using the bow sometime.

Places such as hey wouldn't it be funny if we had something like that scene where the martial gods turn into a sword, but Shi Qingxuan turns into a bow

Places such as AU where something something Shi Qingxuan are paired up and she is Feng Xin's spiritual device (is this soul eater? i've never watched soul eater but i vaguely remember something about sentient weapons in that)

Places such as an Utena AU where Feng Xin draws Fengshen from Shi Qingxuan's chest.

[whatmattersisyou]

Very random thought/headcanon about ghost fires burning the colour of what they're feeling, how they died, all the resentment they hold

Most of them are blueish/greenish/cyanish/cold colours at first cause they are very lost and misplaced and confused and don't know who they are or what to do

(ghost fire Qi Rong was green, envy?)

(ghost fire He Xuan was the deep blue he drowned in, the kind of blue that feels like a black hole, a depth with no end, a well dug so deep into the soil it unearths powers and creatures that should've been kept way underground)

Then there's smol ghost fire HC who is Not Lost who knows why he's there for, who he's there for, who burns crimson and yellow and orange cause those are the colours of a hearth fire and it reminds him of Xie Lian's robes when he caught him during the parade and Honger might have never had a warm home in his whole life, but he felt warm and safe in Xie Lian's arms and he wants to give some of that back to him even if as a smol useless cold ghost fire

[forestmonturiol]

So yea. I've been at Port Aventura for the last 3 days and I thought... TGCF characters at amusement parks headcanons >:3

- Xie Lian is definitely the type to always lose items in rollercoster. Making him quite sad sometimes. It can go from a necklace to a water bottle he forgot he had in his pocket? I feel like Xie Lian would enjoy all types of attractions. Especially if he's with his friends or partner.

- I feel like Hua Cheng would be the rich friend. Always buying fast pass for the group. Making sure everyone can do what they want (especially Xie Lian). And mostly know all the attractions that could be enjoyable by each of the groups thanks to Yin Yu's help in planning the trip, and being sure of what everyone can or can't do. + he loves thrill rides.

- He Xuan clearly enjoys amusement parks, especially those with country themes... for all types of foods, deserts, and mostly buffet. Despite most of them being low quality. He'll always rant at how expensive most of the food is. He also loves hearing the scream of does doing thrill rides. Looking at them while eating.

- Shi Qingxuan would love amusement parks but especially mixed with other events? Like Christmas or Halloween. To see all the actors, take pictures and have fun. They would take aesthetic pictures of food. Meanwhile, He Xuan eat in the background.

- Feng Xin would always be in a competition with Mu Qing, trying to show he can do more thrill rides than the other. But they would both end up mostly sick. So they would go chill together after. And maybe talk about the goods and bads of the rides... until Xie Lian would appear, and they banter would start again.

- Ling Wen would be the savior when the group would go in amusement parks in other countries. Becoming the personal translator of the group. She would mostly enjoy the time outside. Going to the pretty areas of the amusement parks. And look at parades while drinking coffee.

- Qi Rong would go to the kids' area and do all the attractions with Gu Zi. The duo runs from one side to another. Leaving Lan Qianqiu exhausted after half a day of running after them.

My brain start to die with the exhaustion so I'll stop here an maybe keep going if I have the strength tomorrow- if some of you have other headcanon please share 👀

Bubye uu

[shadowgale96]

If Xie Lian stumbled upon an erotic novel, he’d definitely skim through the sex scenes but stay for the plot

[levemetal]

As a true dumbass with a strong brainrot here's a random sleep deprived thought - Who's divinations are better, Madam Meiyin from SVSSS or Mei Nianqing from TGCF? Or are they equally good at it??? Is there a fic where these two interact?? Probably not but I can't get it out of my head. I might be back if more coherent thoughts to this pop up.

But like, it would be kinda funny to see them fighting about divination. Or share opinions like some sort of astrology star sign obsessed mean girls.