#this started as me wondering if sqh actually considered sqq a friend

[thescumvillainiest]

Shang Qinghua’s Social Life As Seen From the Airplane Extras

To answer the question of how social is Airplane anyway, I reread the Airplane extras for the first time in a while, using the official English translation.

Pre-transmigration: He was a shut-in with no friends, at least in real life (page 218). His being a shut-in was both caused by and contributed to how much he was writing (10k a day, 25k a weekend, and sometimes releasing eight chapter bursts).

Post-transmigration: He only describes two people as having a friendship with him that I noticed, Mobei-Jun and Shen Qingqiu.

In Mobei-Jun’s case, he was who Shang Qinghua used as an example for being his friend. This revelation also scared him (page 218).

For Shen Qingqiu, he feels that “…the most reliable thing in this world was indeed the friendship of Peerless Cucumber, his comrade from the same hometown” (page 246) when he finally allows Airplane to have some noodles. There was also a detail that I found interesting from Shang Qinghua’s fight with Linguang-Jun, which is that Shen Qingqiu made the Black Sun fire for Shang Qinghua when he asked him to (page 230).

Other than this, he doesn’t seem to have any other friends. Additionally, as he doesn’t consider Mobei-Jun a friend until post-canon and at the start of volume three, Shang Qinghua said to Shen Qingqiu, “Since when did we have a friendship!” (page 17), which is the only other time I remember off the top of my head Airplane mentioning his thoughts on his relationship with Shen Qingqiu. There’s a very real possibility that Shang Qinghua didn’t consider anyone to be his friend until after the events of Scum Villain.

In conclusion, Shang Qinghua does not seem to be very sociable and this leaves the possibility of Mobei-Jun being the more social of the two somehow.

[lizhly-writes]

staring at my sqh/yqy peak lord fiance ficlet. consider this! sqh is still consorting with demons while this happens because why not. mobei-jun still exists and is fully aware of the whole "haha i'm engaged to my shixiong and everything is so fucking weird" and sqh is muttering about this as he looks through some northern desert stuff.

it's just. come on, yue-shixiong. we're engaged, you don't have to keep chasing after your xiao jiu -- not that sqh minds!!! if you two get along, great, that's everything that great airplane god wanted! but like, it gets really awkward when you run away while you're on a date with lil ole shang qinghua, and then everyone starts feeling very sorry for sqh for having a fiance so obviously in love with another man, which, okay, sqh absolutely took advantage of to get paperwork done at first, but it's starting to get wayyyyy more awkward now --

mbj finds himself in the wonderful position of being able to give sqh dating advice. does mbj date? no. but does he know what dating looks like? hell yeah. it seems a shame that his best spy/advisor/friend(?) doesn't know the answer to this.

"hit him," mbj suggests.

"what," sqh says.

"three times a day."

and then we get into a discussion on demon courting and sqh going "haha that's nice but yqy isn't a demon" and mbj is like "i don't understand why you don't try it, how else are you going to get his attention".

"humans don't court by punching people???"

"you don't appear to be making any progress doing this the human way." and mbj says this super condescendingly, too. like hey, sqh, you're such a loser. you have no game. of course you have no bitches. how can you have bitches if you don't punch people in the face.

well, yeah?? fuck you too, my king! it's not like you've ever had a date, are you not launching a boulder while being precariously balanced on your glass peak (me: i'm paraphrasing bu-ding-talk, check them out)? sqh could totally make progress if he wants to! not that he wants to! who wants to make progress with yqy??

anyway, this gets buried until the next time yqy pays sqq too much attention and sqh had the most resigned fucking look on his face. like come on. this again?

lqg is there. sqh makes incredibly awkward small talk. like haha hey how's your engagement to sqq. good? bad? ahahaha yeah, actually, sqh didn't have to ask, obviously it's bad. look, our fiances are running away with each other. people keep telling sqh that he needs to keep yue-shixiong's attention somehow, but all the advice is weird. in fact this guy last week said that sqh should hit yqy three times a day, not that sqh is going to try that --

"hmm," says lqg. "that's not a bad idea."

sqh is abruptly reminded that he is talking to lqg, a man who probably would be more interested in people if they punched him in the face.

"is that what you're doing with sqq???" says sqh.

the answer is no, of course not, don't be dumb. but like, if sqq WASN'T a poisonous snake of a man and a decent human being, lqg would mayhaps have his interest piqued with a good fight. that's so much better than flowers and haircombs. who wants courting gifts when you can have a good punch in the face.

"hahaha thanks liu-shidi but maybe not i think yue-shixiong could probably kill me if i tried," says sqh and scurries away.

fast-forward a week or two, in which sqh is having a stressful time. maybe it's tax season. maybe it's a shitty night hunt that he has no business being on. either way, yqy is there with him and good god is yqy zoned out.

is yqy actually zoned out? eh, maybe not. perhaps he is actually fully paying attention, but also he takes a look at a stand for fans while sqh is talking to him and sqh is like "shit, is this sqq again?" exasperation turning into anger while sqh is just, super stressed, and he just needs yqy to pay attention to him just this once, and the thought occurs -- well, at least two separate people have told him that he just needs to hit yqy --

all this to say that sqh just fucking decks yqy

[viper-commander]

What I’m getting from this.

SQH = introvert, does not like people

MBJ = extrovert, has the largest friend circle between the two

Shang Qinghua’s Social Life As Seen From the Airplane Extras

To answer the question of how social is Airplane anyway, I reread the Airplane extras for the first time in a while, using the official English translation.

Pre-transmigration: He was a shut-in with no friends, at least in real life (page 218). His being a shut-in was both caused by and contributed to how much he was writing (10k a day, 25k a weekend, and sometimes releasing eight chapter bursts).

Post-transmigration: He only describes two people as having a friendship with him that I noticed, Mobei-Jun and Shen Qingqiu.

In Mobei-Jun’s case, he was who Shang Qinghua used as an example for being his friend. This revelation also scared him (page 218).

For Shen Qingqiu, he feels that “…the most reliable thing in this world was indeed the friendship of Peerless Cucumber, his comrade from the same hometown” (page 246) when he finally allows Airplane to have some noodles. There was also a detail that I found interesting from Shang Qinghua’s fight with Linguang-Jun, which is that Shen Qingqiu made the Black Sun fire for Shang Qinghua when he asked him to (page 230).

Other than this, he doesn’t seem to have any other friends. Additionally, as he doesn’t consider Mobei-Jun a friend until post-canon and at the start of volume three, Shang Qinghua said to Shen Qingqiu, “Since when did we have a friendship!” (page 17), which is the only other time I remember off the top of my head Airplane mentioning his thoughts on his relationship with Shen Qingqiu. There’s a very real possibility that Shang Qinghua didn’t consider anyone to be his friend until after the events of Scum Villain.

In conclusion, Shang Qinghua does not seem to be very sociable and this leaves the possibility of Mobei-Jun being the more social of the two somehow.