#sorry idk how to draw yue qi.... i always want to draw him with pink hair.

[thegoldenavenger]

Maybe QiJiu (Yue Qinyuan/Shen Jiu) for the ask game?

divorcees of all time.... them being FATED but even being fated can be erased???? dissolved..... yue seeing that shen qingqiu's whole personality changed and is like "hmmm seems wrong" but not. doing anything about it. my dude. kicked puppy dog of all time.

i said previously how much i love unrequited love so like, this ship is a gold mine. unfortunately i, like shen jiu, cannot abide a spineless man so like. literally all yue qingyuan has to do is open his mouth for once in his life and resolve how mad shen jiu is ............. i want to shake him. the miscommunication makes me CRAZY (shen jiu did nothing w-- [is dragged off stage]) i like my ships to have deep seated traumas but. like. please ..

watching them revolve around each other like giant planets, forever orbiting but forced to stay at a distance less they destroy each other in a fit of orbital decay.... the reflection of light off their surfaces forever blinding them to each other. it is very romantic ...

as for an au for them. a parent trap au would be so funny even if i could not for the life of me be forced to read one or plot it out. can you imagine???? terrible gremlin children trying to lure their forlorn (yue qingyuan) and grumpy (shen jiu) together.

probably a suitably angsty time traveler's wife type AU oh no!! spirited away type au where shen jiu and yue qingyuan have to rely and grow to like each other and shen jiu realises yue qinyuan is his old childhood friend who disappeared unaccountably when they were younger and shen jiu briefly thinks that hey! this time he can save qi-ge, but instead it turns out yue qingyuan was never meant for the human realm (maybe he can be a river spirit too) and after shen jiu is freed of whatever bathhouse contract equivalent yue qingyuan can't go with him when shen jiu has to leave the spirit/fantasy world and shen jiu can't stay. very bittersweet and angsty. maybe a little bit of hope, at the end with shen jiu visiting the river enough times he gets to see or hear yue qingyuan again during a sunshower or something.

or for MAXIMUM ANGST it's shen jiu who is the haku-metaphor and barely remember yue qi but knowing he's missing something and when yue qi gets spirited away he's surly but helpful towards him and when yue qi finally releases shen jiu of his curse yue qi still leaves hUAHAH (he has to, he's human, he cant stay) and yue qi remembers the boy he played with by the river of course but he'd kind of thought the boy was an imaginary friend because even when they promised to stick by each other's sides, whenever yue qi had returned to the river shen jiu was never there again. so yue qi gets the guilt of forgetting shen jiu and shen jiu gets to feel abandoned! there. perfect parallels.