#the System

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

[incorrectly-quoting-mxtx]

Shang Qinghua: System System on the wall, aren’t I the greatest author of them all?

The System: Nuh-uh.

Shang Qinghuq: The fuck you mean “nuh-uh”?

[herbofthyme]

break it

[linecrosser]

Febwhump 2024 - Day 7 - Suffering in Silence

Not able to share whats going on in your head, because you would suffer dire consequences if you ever spoke about it.

[starchbean]

The Scum Villain's Self-Replicating System

Be More Chill AU of SVSSS

Instead of being a neutral entity whose purpose is to facilitate SQQ improving the narrative, the SYSTEM in this AU doesn't believe that Peerless Cucumber has the means to totally fix the shitty writing of this universe on his own.

The SYSTEM has made it its goal to make every character in PIDW-world accept a system of their own so that it can control their lives and make the world perfect.

It tries to set up SQQ as an example of what the system can do for a person--turning them from a sad, scared bully of a man into a beloved teacher who is powerful, ethereal, and catches the gaze of countless suitors.

In the characters' moments of weakness (which are often engineered by what the system tells SQQ to do) the SYSTEM will prompt SQQ to offer his special secret up to the other characters in the story as a solution to fix their sad lives. SQQ doesn't want to do it, but the system can terminate his life at any time, so he doesn't think he really has a choice.

The thing is...

In the process of turning SQQ into an ideal man that *anyone* would desire to be, and to be close to... the SYSTEM is not immune to its own propaganda. It starts falling for SQQ--the one other entity that shares its objective to fix the world. Of course, things would be better if they fixed the world together, wouldn't it? [:<

As the SYSTEM threatens to take over even the Protagonist, there's only one person who can stop it. A certain hack author who has until this tipping point tried to stay on the sidelines and out of trouble. Shang Qinghua realizes that unless he acts, his world is going to fall apart. He's gonna need a certain Northern King's help with this.

((I'd write this, but as you may know--backlog. If you write it I will kiss you on the lips))

[mrbopst]

[fuzzyghost]

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[quote-bomber]

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

Frank Zappa

[tossawary]

"This was eminently logical. If Luo Binghe wasn't shoved into the Endless Abyss, then he wouldn't be able to activate his golden finger. If the protagonist couldn't become overpowered, then where was the satisfaction?

Therefore, the Endless Abyss scenario was unavoidable. And as this novel's number one loser, number one scum villain, the execution of this glorious task, naturally, absolutely, inescapably, fell to Shen Qingqiu.

Yet unwilling to resign himself to this fate, Shen Qingqiu asked again and ended up sighing, still unable to give up completely. Luo Binghe, who was currently like a little sun, was destined to fall and become that brooding, cold-blooded, demon youth. Even a transmigrator like Shen Qingqiu, who by all rights ought to have access to cheat powers, was unable to change this inevitability.

He had been designated to be the man who threw the protagonist into the Endless Abyss, thereby catalyzing his overpowered, legendary journey.

This job's opportunities for growth were really terrible.

If Shen Qingqiu failed to do this, he would lose ten thousand satisfaction points - he couldn't become more thoroughly dead than that. But if he did do this, once Luo Binghe activated his golden finger, he definitely wouldn't let him off.

The work was difficult, the pay was meager, the benefits - were nonexistent. What the hell was up with this?!"

Volume 1, Chapter 3, page 140.

I do enjoy it when Shen Yuan falls into complaining about his "job" like this. You should join the transmigrators' union, bro! I suppose "job" is a more bearable and comedic way to think about the situation.

More of Shen Yuan assuming what "satisfaction" means here! To be fair to him, the System's goals are extremely unclear and the tasks that it has set are also unclear. It's all very vague. (Frankly, I'm still fuzzy on what the System as a character is doing.) Luo Binghe falling into the Endless Abyss and gaining the Xin Mo sword and becoming an overpowered stallion protagonist are the key concepts of Proud Immortal Demon Way, and Shen Yuan thinks that he's been set the task of helping PIDW happen but a little better.

Shen Yuan's perspective here is funny to me because he... does seem to believe that PIDW Binghe was ultimately satisfied by his life? That the PIDW lifestyle of conquest was meaningful and fulfilling? I do think PIDW Binghe enjoyed many, MANY pleasures, as the Emperor of everything, and did take satisfaction when he took revenge on his enemies, but that's not the same as contentment. Overpowered and legendary? Who could ask for more?

I tend to write Airplane Bro as being at least vaguely aware of this, as the writer of it all, and as someone I think was extremely dissatisfied with his own life and his incredibly popular story for a number of reasons. I also think it's funny to have him go, "Uh, bro, Binghe was miserable, actually? Obviously?"

[sleepyssnail]

Summary: Luo Binghe had been caught unprepared, he was unprepared for everything the Endless Abyss had to offer. He missed home. Home was where Shizun was, the bamboo house where he took his breakfast every morning, tea in throughout the day, where he let Luo Binghe sit with him and just...be. Not this hell with illusions, tricks, and monsters trying to seduce him into his own death. It was a nightmare he couldn't wake up from, no matter how hard he tried.

So when Shen Qinqiu appears in the Endless Abyss, insisting everything is a dream Luo Binghe is hesitant to believe him. When Shizun's figure flickered distorting in a way that seemed to momentarily strip Shen Qingqiu’s entire away to reveal someone else entirely, Luo Binghe dismissed it as a trick of the light, an effect of the Abyss playing with his mind. After all, even if this were a dream, nothing could harm or manipulate someone as powerful as Shizun. Right?

Or: Luo Binghe has trauma induced nightmares, Shen Qingqiu is still too self sacrificial for his own good, the System glitches, and Luo Binghe has a vendetta against anyone and anything that threatens his Shizun.

Written for @etherealiity as part of the Danmei Fanfic Nightclub!

[incorrectly-quoting-mxtx]

Shen Qingqiu: Everyday I wake up and get 1% more acquainted with the with the fourth wall.

Shen Qingqiu, about to hit the System with a sledge hammer: And today’s the day I break it.

[guessilllive]

It's them!

[ineffectualdemon]

The System: You are Luo Binghe and you will be our Barbie

Binghe: fuck that! I'm going to be a Ken

The System: no, that's not-

Binghe: *clinging to Shen Qingqiu and yet still menancing* I said I'm going to be Ken. Is that clear?

The System: ...

The System: *turning to Shen Qingqiu* As I was saying, you will be our Barbie

Shen Qingqiu: what the fuck!?

[fuzzyghost]

[disembodiedvoicebracket]

Propaganda

The System

none

Voice of the Contrarian

He's just there to be a lil shit, encourage the player to be a lil shit, and do what he can to annoy the actual Narrator. In one route he accidentally dooms the player by narrating you into throwing your weapon out the window.