#tldr I wish we allowed SQQ to be stupid more often

[miixz]

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SQQ is the villain of SVSSS, and by that I mean SY as well as SJ, though obviously in different ways.

SJ was the irredeemable villain of PIDW, which sadly doesn't get acknowledged often enough (I cannot describe how much I wish I could find more fics with him there in which he's allowed to be the main villain tether than sad and deserving of nothing but sympathy)

But I also feel like we ignore SY's role as the redeemable villain of SVSSS.

If you take him out from the plot, it's amazing how much of the conflict can't really happen. He's allowed to redeem himself because not only did he raise Luo Binghe into someone who could forgive him, but he also seeks that forgiveness. He might not have meant to hurt him, and he had his reasons, but he did do so and he admits his wrongs on the end, wanting to do better by Binghe. But he did make the mistakes that led into the biggest messes on the plot and he knows it too.

I suppose you could argue it's on the system, who forced him into that role, but Shen Yuan/Shen Qingqiu himself realizes later that even his task of making sure Luo Binghe entered the abyss could have been handled differently, that he was needlessly cruel there.

To me that's a very interesting dynamic they have, that SQQ(SY) manages to fulfill the role of both love interest and villain at once. I really like it, but I don't see it much in the fandom, at least The corners I've been to.