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mccromy · 3 months ago

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I can't believe I forgot about Ming Fan.

Ming Fan knows Shen Yuan is 21, he just can tell.

At first, he thought Shen Yuan was Shen Qingqiu's long lost son who finally came home but, after witnessing Shen Qingqiu smack a child, look at Shen Yuan for approval, only to wither away at Shen Yuan's unimpressed glare, he comes to the conclusion that Shen Yuan is Shen Qingqiu's sugar baby.

Now, that's very scandalous, isn't it? No wonder they're going to such lengths to hide it. He is of the assumption everybody has been fooled by their "father and son" facade, and he's the only one who's seen through it.

And he's nothing if not a filial disciple, he can't let people find out about Shizun's boy toy situation. The man deserves to indulge in some carnal pleasures, and Ming Fan is just glad he's doing it supervised, safe at home, and not on some disreputable establishment or worse, in the streets!

Shen Yuan is kind to everybody, and although he shows a clear preference for Shizun's company, it's very obvious that Shizun's attachment to Shen Yuan is stronger than his lover's

Oh, perhaps Shizun didn't bring him as a Sugar Baby exactly, but met him at one of those disreputable establishment he frequents and, captivated, brought him back as a bride? But oh, sect politics. Shen Yuan, even if they officially wed, would never be seen or treated anything more than a lowly concubine, and both his and Shizun's reputation would be tarnished forever, so they're forced to live this lie to remain free and untouched by the outside world's less than kind eyes! Since a Peak Lord and his filial son sharing a home is something commendable, while a Peak Lord marrying his favorite prostitute most certainly isn't!

It's alright, Shizun! This disciple is rooting for you! You do whatever makes you happy, Ming Fan won't let anybody get in the way of your happiness!! He's a good disciple!!

Unfortunately the world conspires against him, since, eventually That Beast figures it out and wants in!! He's trying to take Shen Yuan's place—!

"He really, really isn't Ming-Shixiong," interrupts a long suffering, utterly done Ning Yingying.

"—as if Shizun would ever settle for a mutt like him. I won't stand for it!"

Luo Binghe, in the middle of his steal his wife era, thinks Ming Fan is trying to help his cruel master keep Shen Yuan locked inside his gilded cage, like the horrible little minion that he is! When will his beloved Shen Yuan ever be free!?!

"Luo Binghe ought to know his place!"

"This one is well aware of where he belongs," on his knees, between Shen Yuan's legs (Kyaa!).

"I don't believe he does, for he clearly covets what belongs to others. But no matter how hard he tries, he cannot rise high enough to even reach the hem of Shizun's robes with his filthy fingertips!"

You're not becoming Shizun's sugar baby! You're not breaking them apart!! Shen Yuan makes him happy, he hasn't whipped anybody in a month!! Screams Ming Fan inside his head.

Meanwhile Luo Binghe chants CUCKZUN, CUCKZUN, CUCKZUN

(Luo Binghe is going to make sweet, sweet love to his despicable Shizun's wife. Then, they're going to kill him, flee the sect, marry under the moonlight, build a home in the forest, eat from the same plate, drink from the same cup. When ready, they'll both take turns getting pregnant with beautiful, beautiful babies, and then they're going to found their own sect with their hundred of children's as disciples! You just wait Ming Fan, this Luo Binghe will show you!)

Then the sect leader enters the picture and everything becomes so messy

Because Shen Yuan is clearly in love with Yue Qingyuan!

Oh no!

He's so accommodating to the sect leader, so desperate to get him to like him! And the sect leader seems so skittish around him too! Does he know that Shen Yuan is sleeping with his shidi? Is he unaware of the true nature of their relationship and thinks his martial nephew has a crush on him?!

Shen Yuan!! What are you doing!! Shizun treats you so well, and he's clearly so in love with you, how can you be so greedy!! So heartless!! is the second highest peak not good enough for you??? You're aiming for the top?! Is this pile of gold you dug not good enough for you, you gold digger?! You want to empty out the whole mountain, is that it?! What's next? Huan Hua?!

Shen Yuan is going to break Shizun's heart! and then, like a vulture, Luo Binghe is going to swoop in and take advantage of their Shizun's vulnerable state and become Shizun's official wife!!! THIS IS A NIGHTMARE!!

Ming Fan develops an ulcer.

The Shen Jiu & Shen Yuan dynamic I need to see more of is Shen Jiu coming to see Shen Yuan as a father figure, perhaps even a mother figure. And not in the way you think.

We are always talking about Shen Yuan's wife beam, but we don't talk about his mommy beam. I think Shen Jiu could resist the wife beam if subjected to it, but I don't believe he has any defense for the mommy beam. Now, I'm not talking about Shen Yuan transmigrating earlier than canon, meeting a child Shen Jiu and adopting him.

I'm talking about Shen Yuan transmigrating after Shen Jiu has already taken over Qing Jin peak. I'm talking about 21 year old Shen Yuan transmigrating into the body of a nameless rogue cultivator, meeting fully grown man already in his thirties Peak Lord Shen Qingqiu, and hitting him with his mommy/daddy-issuesinator and causing him a life threatening Qi deviation.

Shen Qingqiu can't help but trust him, and eventually looks up to him, sees him as a wise elder he seeks out for advice. He fucking hates it but he can't help himself. This homeless man he met in the forest is the closest thing he's ever had to a father. Also. He sort of wants Shen Yuan to breastfeed him in a, and he means this, non sexual way and he can't cope with that. He would just feel so safe!!

Shen Yuan, 21 years old, rogue cultivator, first time transmigrator and the father who stepped up, thinks he befriended the scum villain, and maybe? He can be a good influence on him? Be a good friend and guide him towards a fully limbed future. He's practically raising him but nobody tell him that.

Shen Jiu lost his childhood to slavery and his teenage years to violent madmen. and now he's behaving in ways he doesn't understand. He once lost sight of Shen Yuan in the town's market, ran towards a man who looked exactly like Shen Yuan from behind, and almost had a panic attack when the man turned out to be a stranger. It's all good because Shen Yuan found him before he started swinging Xiu Ya ("Have you seen my friend? He's this tall, clearly traumatized, but we haven't had the talk")

People think they're lovers at some point because Shen Jiu is quite possessive of Shen Yuan's attention, but everybody realizes that there's something way more innocent, and also weirder, and worse, going on between them when Shen Yuan drags Shen Qingqiu by the hand to apologize to the sect leader for being so rude when poor A-Yue is trying his best, and stands there with arms crossed, eyebrows raised, until Shen Qingqiu mumbles an apology, glances at Shen Yuan, and runs away.

"I'm sorry about that, Sect Leader Yue, he's had a bad day. I'm sure he didn't mean it."

Yue Qingyuan, someone who did actually sort of raise Shen Qingqiu, who's stood in Shen Yuan's shoes before, extracting reluctant apologies from an indignated Shen Jiu, to authority figures so he wouldn't get in trouble, is overcome by an intense, never before experienced wave of jealousy, so sudden it makes him spit vinegar flavored blood.

Then, a panicked Shen Yuan accidentally hits him with the mommy beam by accidentally adopting him (trying to befriend this guy who clearly needs a friend he can confide in!). And now he's placed himself in the young step-mom role who's desperately trying to bond with her new husband's teenage children but they're wired to not like her! (He used those exact words when explaining to Shang Qinghua where that new tension he has with the Sect Leader came from)

Liu Qingge is afraid of him. Maybe. He runs away when their eyes meet but he keeps leaving dead things at his feet so like, he's probably threatening him? He feels intimidated by him? Or something?

(Liu Qingge thinks Shen Qingqiu's older brother is so cool and really wants to hang out with him, but if Shen Yuan calls him Didi one more time Liu Qingge's barely held back "Yes, Gege?" Is going to jump out of his mouth and he WILL Qi deviate and EXPLODE)

When Binghe enters the equation shit gets a lot weirder.

First, he believes Shen Yuan to be Shen Qingqiu's neglected spouse (Shizun keeps leaving his poor wife alone when he goes out on night hunts and to visit brothels! Shen Yuan has needs!! He should be with someone who cherished him!! Someone who would treat him as he deserves to be treated, someone who'd wait hand and foot on him!!!) needless to say, Luo Binghe's teenage fantasies take on an even more illicit turn than in canon (it goes from "STERN TEACHER POUNDED BY STUDENT AT BAIZHAN TRAINING GROUNDS" to "NEGLECTED WIFE CHEATS WITH STUDENT ON HUSBAND'S BED!! IMPREGNATED WHILE HUSBAND IS AWAY")

Luo Binghe, of course, does his best to seduce him, but ends up being coddled and cuddled.

"it's like I'm his handmaiden, his shadow, the only witness to my lady's heartbreak at her husband's cold regard and indiscretions. Shizun won't spare him a moment if not to discuss cultivation or business! He won't allow Shen Yuan more than a head pat! and move away from any other touch! How ungrateful! They don't even share a bed! I brush his hair, I dress him every morning, I pour him tea and he lets me rest my weary head on his lap. The intimacy we share is not sexual, but Ning-Shijie, I wish it was! I saw the outline of his dick yesterday and I need it!"

"A-Luo please stop talking."

Then, he realizes he misunderstood. Shen Yuan is a cultivator so of course he looks so young! Shen Yuan is clearly Shen Qingqiu's father. He's constantly worried for his un-filial son and remains by his side!! That explains everything!!!(LONELY DILF RIDES YOUNG MAN ON QING JING'S LIBRARY!! HE WISHES YOUNG MAN WAS HIS SON!!!!)

He goes from trying to steal Shen Qingqiu's wife to steal his father. He could be Shen Yuan's friend, lover, and son. His student. His confidant. His silly rabbit.

Shen Qingqiu KNOWS this. But nobody will fucking believe him!! The jiejies at the pavilion giggle and tell him he must be exaggerating, and when he went to Yue Qingyuan so he could intervene and fix it, Yue Qi just looked at him dead eyed and said to "Let him." !!! Let him what?? Deflower our father Qi-Ge??? Shame on you!! That beast is trying to break this family apart!!

But wait!!! look!!! a crack opened in the fabric of space and reality, leading directly to hell. Wouldn't it be a shame if someone were to, accidentally, drop kick this homewrecker inside it?

Luo Binghe is gone when Shen Qingqiu realizes oh wait, that was a demon mark on his forehead wasn't it. Oh good, now he has an excuse. Baba will understand.

(Baba doesn't understand. Baba acts as if he's lost his soul and won't look him in the eye. He's also growing mushrooms bodies in the garden, and added a drop of Shen Qingqiu's blood in the seeds before planting? Which is odd. but at least if he's gardening then he's not staring at that swordmound for hours on end)

I don't even know where I'm going with this

#ming fan #svsss #i cant believe I forgot about ming fan my nervous wreck of a baby #nyy: ah shizun gave home to a homeless man how kind of him :)#nyy two weeks later: hey what the FUCK is up with everybody?#mip

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dramaddict-and-proud-of-it · 1 year ago

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Love You Seven Times

Year : 2023 | Country : CN | Nb of episodes: 38

My rate: 7/10

Synopsis :

This show tells the story of Xiang Yun, a fairy of the Moon Elder Pavilion, and Chou Kong, a disciple of the Star King of Mouri, who were sent down to the mortal world by the Jade Emperor to experience seven lifetimes of love. Xiang Yun (played by Yang Chaoyue) was originally a cloud, but was later transformed into a fairy by the Moon God and worked in the Moon God's Court. The two of them quarreled and accidentally messed up the red rope, leading to a marriage chaos in the three worlds. The Jade Emperor found out about it and punished them both for going through seven lives of love before they could return to the heavenly realm, and the story began from there.

Main cast :

Yang Chao Yue as Xiang Yun / Song Xiangyun / Yang Xiaoxiang / Cang Hai

Feng Xue Ya as Xiang Yun (teen)

Qiao Hua as Xiang Yun (young)

Ding Yu Xi as Chu Kong / Lu Changkong

Xu Wei Luo as Lu Changkong (young)

My thoughts on this drama :

Tale as old as time….No, this is not another beauty and the beast drama, but the sentence is fitting. The drama's title is apt and sums up the story pretty well. Two soulmates, bound by fate, forced to go through several "tribulations"/"incarnations" and in so doing finding out the grand truth of the past.

I won't comment too much on the cast. They did their job, the performance is like it or hate it, but they made it work. One thing though: our hero's big bro had one of the most amazing voices i've ever heard. I don't know if he was dubbed or if it's his real voice but wow. Gave me chills every time he spoke!

I give a 9/10 for the costumes and sceneries. It's dreamlike and pure Xianxia. It fed my fantasy loving heart very well.

A Favorite ?

#cdrama #xianxia #love you seven times #ding yuxi #yang chaoyue

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meimi-haneoka · 2 years ago

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Hi! I have a quick question about the Clear Card manga & the English translation. When Nakuru first explains to Yue why she & Spinel are back in Tomoeda, she refers to Yukito as "Tsukishiro-kun," but when we get to volume 9 and she's explaining she and Yukito made sweets, and later, when she's explaining his contract with the Tsukimine shrine, she calls him "Yukito." Is that change present in the original Japanese, or is it just in the Eng. version? Thanks!

Hello anon! Thank you for sending me this question, which is completely legit because we KNOW how the Eng translation sometimes can mess up, especially with names and such (Shinomoto turned into Shinohara, Hiiragizawa turned into Hasegawa, Syaoran being back to be "Li" for Sakura for one panel, naming Kaito as Mana out of the blue etc), but I'm happy to say: this time it isn't a mistake! 😁

Let's briefly show to everyone the visual proof of what you're talking about: I personally checked the tankobon scans because those are the definitive version of the story that we should always keep in consideration (yes, sometimes CLAMP or the editors themselves mess up on the serialization on Nakayoshi, or they change their mind on something, and they fix those mistakes in the tankobon release, which is the definitive one, unless stuff gets modified in further prints/releases).

Volume 7, chapter 32: Nakuru just arrived in Tomoeda and she holds Yukito back in order to have a private talk with Yue about why she and Spinel are back in town. We can see here she calls him indeed "Tsukishiro-kun".

Volume 9, chapter 43/44: Sakura and Kero are at Yukito's house for a snack after school, and Nakuru is there with them too, along with Spinel. She'll be the one explaining to the beast guardians what Yukito did at Tsukimine Shrine. We can see in the panels above that she consistently calls Yukito "Yukito" now, and what's more surprising is that she straight up ditched any kind of honorifics for him, while she still keeps calling Touya "Touya-kun".

So yes, this isn't a translation mistake! If I can take this opportunity to make a couple of considerations about it, I'd say it's a beautiful way to show how close she grew with Yukito in the matter of the 2 volumes' time that passed ever since she came to Tomoeda. We haven't always seen them "on screen", but those two pretty much never separated this whole time, due to the "battery" remedy, and they had the chance to deepen their acquaintance of eachother and their bond too. I happened to come across some criticism about this depiction of their relationship in the past, or rather, of the "triangle relationship" depicted between her, Yukito and Touya, accusing Nakuru of being an "hindrance" to Touyuki's lovestory and crossing lines she shouldn't cross. Personally, while everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I've never seen their relationship that way. Nakuru's got literally the personality of a 5 years old little girl, she's loud, cheeky, always wants to be at the center of the attention, and so she wants to be "at the center" of TouYuki's attentions too, but I don't see malice in it. Suppi gently tried to make her understand when she was intruding too much (like with her proposal of the three of them going on a date, which to some might have even looked like a proposal for a threesome 😂and maybe it was, who knows), but I don't really see her behavior as an attempt to separate them or anything, more like a playful "hey, pay attention to me too". TouYuki's relationship keeps going strong, if the latest "power couple" developments are any indication! And in the middle of all of this, I really think she grew fond of Yukito as a brother, to the point of switching from last name to first name basis, and calling him without suffixes. And if you think about it, they somewhat are, brother and sister. They're both magical creatures, not really human, but taking human appearances and living as such. Both created by a strong magician, whom in his past life was called "Clow Reed", and now after being reincarnated is called "Eriol Hiiragizawa". Their particular bond, even magically, is basically what made possible the "battery remedy" that's saving Yukito's life and thus making him an active player/actor in this fateful story that is currently being told.

Off-topic but, I also want to briefly mention what a cute nickname Nakuru found for Kero-chan, which was left out from the Eng translation: Keroppi! 😂

#reply #cardcaptor sakura #card captor sakura #yukito tsukishiro #nakuru akizuki #clear card arc #anonymous

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vodkassassin · 4 years ago

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You've been bullying SQH too much, he needs a break! Maybe some cuddles? A vacation? An emotional support animal? All of the above?

Two of the above, as a treat. Other options to be considered at a later date, perhaps... ;3 @dancibayo

Warnings for injury and near drowning >.>

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There is a reason that, way in the beginning of all this peak lord business — before then, in fact, when they were all still just head disciples, brand new to the job and still figuring things out— there is a reason that Shang Qinghua signed the paperwork making Mu Qingfang his mission partner. And only Mu Qingfang.

It wasn’t because Mu Qingfang was the only one out of all of his martial family that Shang Qinghua liked, or could actually deal with… though it was kind of for that reason, but not entirely! The main reason, here, is that Shang Qinghua was not at the time entirely sure how to work with his martial siblings, and when he had tried, it… didn’t really work out.

There are a lot of examples in which missions with a martial sibling other than Mu Qingfang have not worked out, but the paragon amongst them all was that first mission with his fellow head disciple, Liu Qingge. Whenever Shang Qinghua thinks about why Mu Qingfang is his preferred mission partner, that one clusterfuck with Liu-shidi always comes to the forefront of his mind no matter how he wishes he could just forget about it.

A lot of the reason that mission had been such a total failure, in hindsight, really doesn’t have anything to do with Shang Qinghua at all, and a lot to do with the fact that Liu Qingge had, at the time, held such a low opinion of Shang Qinghua that it made working with the man an absolute trial.

In Liu Qingge’s defense, he’s much better nowadays. Like, a lot better. He barely glares at him anymore, even! Well, Liu-shidi glares at everyone, that’s sort of his default expression, but the glare is much less scary when pointed in Shang Qinghua’s direction than it had been even just a year ago! Progress!

Shang Qinghua ducks under the heavy swipe of one colossal, furry paw, complete with wickedly sharp claws that peak out just above the oversized toe-beans, and resists the urge to wail. He yanks out his sword and hops onto it like it’s a snowboard, and directs it into the air with a monumental push of his qi. The claws miss the edge of his robes by mere inches, and Shang Qinghua starts to daydream, a little bit, about what kind of headstone he wants for his memorial.

There’s another big reason, which he’s being reminded of right now, why Shang Qinghua would actually rather be partnered on a mission with anyone other than Liu Qingge.

The man loves monster fighting.

Now, listen. Listen! Shang Qinghua, he is a big fan of the monsters of this world. Mainly because he created most of them himself. They are just as much his beautiful (and sometimes incredibly less-so) babies as the characters he’d spent hours crafting with his words. Seeing them in full-form, brought to very real life in this world that is fashioned after his story is so fucking cool, but also! Actually mainly! Very, very fucking terrifying. Because those things, most of them, can, will, and have certainly tried, many a time in the past, to kill him.

And Liu Qingge’s absolute, favorite pastime is hunting these creatures down and facing off against them, for fun.

So like, sue Shang Qinghua if he can’t really see the appeal.

He’d rather be stuck in his office surrounded by stacks of unfinished paperwork with a deadline, than be dragged out by his martial brother to face another monster. At least then, he would be safe, and not have to deal with nearly being shredded by giant titan tiger claws, thanks!

Unfortunately for Shang Qinghua, ever since Liu Qingge had decided, for some reason that he still couldn’t figure out, that they are friends, he’s been coming to An Ding to regularly kidnap Shang Qinghua and force him out on what the man probably thinks is fun, bonding time between martial brothers or something.

It’s not. It’s not fun. It’s certainly bonding time, perhaps, if only because of the many times Liu Qingge has been forced to come over and save Shang Qinghua’s skin. Then again, Shang Qinghua has also been forced to save Liu Qingge’s skin, through vastly different means than Liu Qingge has saved his, so maybe it is some type of bonding? Experiencing life-threatening situations together is a sure-fire way to form close ties with someone. Like, that’s a legitimate trope. Shang Qinghua has used that one in his own stories many a time before.

So, Liu Qingge might be onto something here. But Shang Qinghua wishes he’d choose some other way to level up their apparent friendship than monster hunting. Can’t they just stay home and have tea? Play some go? Not potentially die?!

“Qinghua!” Liu Qingge calls. He sounds a little exasperated. He’s exasperated, huh? Shang Qinghua is exasperated with this entire trip! “Pay attention!”

Shang Qinghua ducks again, aiming his sword down sharply as his shidi’s sword shrieks by overhead in the spot he’d just been, to parry the monster’s attack with a serious OP swing of the same blade.

It’s really unfair, sometimes, watching how easily powerful his martial family can be. And then there’s Shang Qinghua, who… isn't, really? Just, nowhere near as powerful as the likes of Liu Qingge, or Yue Qingyuan.

Then again, maybe that’s trying to compare 5G internet to dial up? They’re simply in entirely different leagues.

Shang Qinghua’s eyes water as he rockets toward the ground, to where there huddles a cluster of disciples that stare with wide-eyes and awed faces as Liu-shidi does his thing. Their expressions are practically meme-worthy. God, he misses the internet so, so much. He might cry.

Wait, no, he can’t cry right now, the Bai Zhan disciples are right there, and they will make fun of him for it. Absolutely no respect with these kids. Liu-shidi, please teach your peak disciples some manners!

“Shang-shibo,” one of them complains, sword unsheathed entirely and obviously rearing for some action. “Does Shizun — does he want —?”

Shang Qinghua holds up a hand. The disciple falls silent, and the entire group of them watch him like over-eager hawks waiting for their prey to make a mistake. He takes a moment to catch his breath.

“No,” he eventually says, sending a brief glance over his shoulder to where the Bai Zhan peak lord is going head to head with a flying tiger the size of a dragon. “Shizhi, does your Shizun look like he wants help? Does your Shizun ever want help?”

One of the other disciples, a girl this time, bearing biceps that might be bigger than melons, grumbles. “He doesn’t. But why can’t we fight, too? It’s not fair, Shibo!”

“What wouldn’t be fair, is having both your arms ripped off before you can even graduate Jiedan.” Shang Qinghua refutes, and begins to herd the lot of them back toward the tree line so that they are at least out of sight. “This beast is a third-rank Flying Thunder Deity, it is so far out of your league in terms of strength that I’m currently questioning whether we should have brought you all with us on this mission in the first place.”

The disciples look disgruntled.

“But, Shibo—!”

“Nope!” Shang Qinghua holds up a finger and gives them all a stern look. Liu Qingge may not give a fuck whether his disciples remain unscathed or not — honestly, the man likely assumed them to all have fled like smart disciples of their level would, but he obviously greatly underestimated their enthusiasm for a good fight. Which is just incredibly fucking ironic of him. Anyway, no disciple of Cang Qiong sect is going to be in harm's way, if Shang Qinghua has any say about it. “I don’t want to hear it. All of you stay here, if I see a single limb out of these trees, I’ll assign the lot of you as aids to my paper-pushers for three months.”

At their adequately horrified looks, Shang Qinghua decides that his job here is as done as it can be, and so he turns around to peer back out at the currently thunderous (as the name of the beast might suggest) battle currently being waged. If any of the disciples decide to actually take their chances — both at potentially becoming paste on the ground and being stuck helping his disciples with copying out fresh requisition forms, then that’s not exactly his problem, is it? Shang Qinghua tried his best!

He rises up on his sword to where his shidi is fighting the Flying Thunder Deity several hundred feet up in the sky.

Aerial combat has never been Shang Qinghua’s strong suit, and quite honestly it’s neither the strong suit of any other cultivator, strong in battle as Liu-shidi or not. There’s just something about attempting to juggle needing to balance on your soul sword to stay in the air and also needing that same weapon to fight with, that is just altogether difficult.

It’s fifteen minutes of ducking and weaving and praying that he can move just fast as to be an irritating enough pest to the Deity that it turns it’s attention onto Shang Qinghua and consequently gives Liu Qingge the opening he needs, when Shang Qinghua’s hopes come true a little too well.

The thunderous (ha-ha) expression that graces Liu Qingge’s face when the Flying Thunder Deity snaps it’s huge, hulk of heard forward and encloses him in its massive jaws would have been gratifying in literally any other circumstance. Shidi! You do care! Or are you pissed at Shang Qinghua, for being so slow and requiring rescuing yet again? He’s sorry, Liu-shidi, he really is! Next time he would move faster! Or better yet, not come at all! Just as he’d originally begged you, shidi!

Shang Qinghua wishes that people would listen to him more. It would make his life so much less stressful than it is.

“Qinghua!” Liu Qingge shouts, with a tone to it that makes Shang Qinghua’s heart stutter oddly. Or maybe that’s because he’s, you know, currently trapped in the mouth of a vicious monster that probably won’t hesitate to swallow him whole? But, could it be, that Liu-shidi really does care?

Such ponderous thoughts will have to be shelved for now, to be ruminated upon later when he’s safe. For now, Shang Qinghua curls up into a ball, shaking like a leaf, his elbow bouncing off a curving incisor that’s nearly the length of his entire body, and he can’t help but let out a terrified cry.

This is it, isn’t it? Nearly a century of surviving against all odds, making it through perilous situation with no hope after perilous situation, avoiding death flag after death flag, to be eaten by this hungry, flying tiger the size of a small mountain.

Truly, he’s so blessed to be going out with such a bang.

System! Shang Qinghua wails miserably inside his head, a series of loud whimpers bursting from his mouth without his permission. Be useful for once and lend me a scenario pusher!

The cheerful ding that rings throughout his mind is incredibly ignorant of the current circumstances. [Request acknowledged! Please contact customer support to undergo an eligibility survey.]

There is no such thing as customer support, Shang Qinghua knows. He’s neither a customer, nor is he sure that the System actually has any higher power that it answers to. It clearly loves fucking with him, though, and he clenches his jaw and screams through his teeth in frustration as the sharp point of one of those too-close teeth digs viciously into his side.

I don’t have time for that! Fuck! System, please! I don’t want to die! Be nice to me for once in your miserable existence! I deserve it, dammit!

There’s a brief pause, and during it Shang Qinghua thinks he can hear his shidi yelling amongst the sounds of battle.

[... Host’s complaint has been posted and reviewed.] Oh, wow. That’s a first! [Due to Hosts exemplary services rendered, compensation has been rewarded. Would host like to exchange for a scenario pusher?]

Just save me already! Shang Qinghua demands, curling into an even tighter ball. The tooth digs into his flesh painfully, and he bites back a sob.

[Compensation loading…]

The tiger is growling, now. Shang Qinghua can feel the coalescing vibrations of the sound as it emanates from behind him, from deep within the beats chest, rippling sound waves that travel up it’s throat and make him tremble from the force of them alone. His skull is split by a resounding headache, and his vision doubles. It’s like being trapped inside a subwoofer box, and it hurts.

Shang Qinghua is struck rather suddenly by a massive fit of vertigo, as the tiger seems to shake its head in response to whatever attack Liu Qingge is throwing at it. Being inside its mouth, the motion sends the An Ding peak lord sprawling, and he nearly impales himself on one of it’s incisors. Thankfully, being covered in its saliva, though disgusting, seems to be a silver lining of some sort, because he’s by now slippery enough with it that the tooth only deals him a glancing blow. Despite not being as fatal as it could have been otherwise, it still hurts enough, sharply enough, that Shang Qinghua can’t hold back the cry of pain and surprise that escapes him.

The deep vibrations of the growl come to an abrupt halt. Shang Qinghua only has time to hear Liu Qingge make a distant sound of confusion and anger, before he’s unceremoniously spat out into the open air.

It’s a relief! Truly, it is, to be freed of the tight, damp space that was a beast’s hungry maw at long last. However, there’s still a problem! A big one!

Shang Qinghua doesn’t have his sword, and they’re all still hanging out several hundred feet up in the air! By the laws of physics, he has only a brief millisecond to feel any sort of relief before he goes plummeting to his death. He brings up his arms to shield his face from the turbulent air, robes flapping in its vicious currents.

“Qinghua!”

He peeks open eyes that he doesn’t recall closing to find his amazing, beautiful, talented shidi diving down beside him, sword under his feet and hand held outstretched toward him. Shang Qinghua doesn’t have enough air in his life to breath out a sigh of relief as he reaches out for him, ready to cry, because within the very next second he’s ripped away from the help by a big, furry blur that knocks him out of the sky entirely.

He continues to fall for a few long, terrifying seconds, and then he’s fighting to breathe not because the air is moving past him too fast to catch, but because he’s been submerged in water.

He panics, kicking his legs uselessly against the heavy weight of the tide that wraps around him and shoves him roughly to and fro. He’s not entirely certain which way is up and which way is down. His lungs are tight and painful with their pleas for air, and Shang Qinghua can see spots begin to dance before his vision.

Something grabs onto the very back of his robes, then, and he’s dragged out of the water and lands heavily on a patch of what he’s able to eventually identify as grass, once his mind has enough ragged gasps of sweet, sweet oxygen to get itself into working order again.

He rolls himself over and onto his knees, fisting his hands in the grass as he spits out mouthful after mouthful of water. His eyes sting with tears, but thankfully he’s so soaked he doesn’t think they will be all that apparent to anyone who thinks to look at him now. He brings up a hand, to press the back of his fist into his mouth and smother the sob that wants to burst free. He doesn’t really succeed.

There’s an odd sound from nearby, almost like an engine of some sort, which is incredibly confusing because Shang Qinghua hasn’t heard anything of the like since his last life, where the world was much more industrially advanced. There’s a brief moment of confusion, where his mind races in trying to correlate the sound with something that makes more sense, before something big and warm presses against his side and nuzzles heavily into his neck.

Shang Qinghua blinks, dumbly, vision still swimming in such a way that it makes his aching, pounding head revolt in nausea, but after a moment he’s able to turn his head to the side and get a mouthful of fur instead of a visual.

He splutters, reeling back, which of course gives the Flying Thunder Deity, which is no longer flying nor deity-sized, to press forward even more. It knocks the befuddled Shang Qinghua into the grass and clambers over him, purring loudly and aggressively all the while as it nuzzles him and butts it’s head into his again and again.

“Um,” someone says, and Shang Qinghua blearily looks up from the now normal-sized tiger to find a group of disciples staring down at him, looking just as confused as he feels. “Shang-shibo?”

He blinks, head canting toward the side as the Flying Thunder Deity shoves at it with it’s leathery nose. It’s purring so loudly he can feel it in his jaw. “Yes?”

“Would you, uh…” The disciple speaking gestures at him and the tiger. “Would you like help?”

“Hm,” Shang Qinghua considers the offer, laid flat out on the ground as he is while being aggressively cuddled by a suddenly, oddly, terrifyingly over-affectionate tiger that had literally, just a few moments ago, tried to eat him. “.... Hmm.”

“Mwrrrr,” the tiger echoes, long whiskers tickling Shang Qinghua’s face.

“...Shang-shibo?”

“Qinghua!” Ah, look who finally decides to join them!

Liu Qingge barrels to a landing in the grass right beside him and barely has time to yank his sword up from under himself when the newly enamoured tiger jumps to its feet, bristling and hissing like a house cat facing an annoying, yapping dog that’s intruded into their home.

Liu Qingge is very visibly confused at the newest course of events, but there’s still a level of rage that thrums underneath it, and he readies his sword against the Thunder Deity, muscles twitching in anticipation that far exceeds his usual excitement for a fight. For some reason, that Shang Qinghua is currently too dazed to even guess at, it has become personal.

The tiger’s tail flicks, it’s sharp teeth bared as a growl erupts from its throat, and Shang Qinghua apparently had lost all common sense during his fall into the lake, because he props himself up on one elbow and reaches out his hand to curls it into the damp, wet fur around the tiger’s neck.

Immediately, the beast stops growling. It even turns its back to Liu Qingge! In order to plop down into Shang Qinghua’s lap and nuzzle it’s face into his neck, purring once again at full blast. The Bai Zhan disciples that are gathered a few hundred feet away make a series of quietly alarmed sounds. What the fuck! Liu Qingge looks just as confused.

“Qinghua?”

“I don’t know, shidi,” Shang Qinghua says, shrugging. It sends a ripple of pain that spikes in his lower abdomen and winds up his side, and he winces. “Ow.”

“You’re injured,” now Liu Qingge is frowning at him, but he doesn’t move to come any closer. His hand is whit knuckling the hilt of his sword, and he glances between Shang Qinghua and the tiger in open puzzlement.

“Yeah, kinda got impaled on its teeth,” Shang Qinghua replies, and makes a face. “When they were, uh, you know, bigger. Before...”

“It shrunk.” Liu Qingge states, scowling.

As if on cue, there’s a bright flash of light that momentarily blinds him, and the weight in Shang Qinghua’s lap shifts. Once his vision clears, he glances down to find a small, fuzzy little tiger cub gazing up at him with big, round, glistening eyes.

Shang Qinghua stares at it. The cub purrs, much softer than it had in its adolescent form, and gently butts it’s head against his chest, mewling quietly.

Shang Qinghua tears up. He can’t help it. He struggles to sit up, gathering the cub into his arms as he goes, and holds it against his chest. It’s fuzzy little ears perk up, tickling against his collar bone, and Shang Qinghua swallows.

Liu Qingge stares, as well, about as absolutely befuddled as the rest of them. After a moment, though, his face clears of its confusion, as if he’s decided to simply discard it, and he gives a shrug, hefting his sword arm up a bit and taking a step forward.

Shang Qinghua startles, scooting back a bit even though it pulls at his injury. “Shidi?!”

“It will be easier to kill, like this.” Liu Qingge says, nonchalant.

Shang Qinghua clutched the tiny, purring little tiger to his chest, aghast. “Shidi, no! It’s a baby!”

“It’s not,” Liu Qingge frowns at him. He points at the cub, who continues in its mission to aggressively cuddle the An Ding lord. “It’s a fully grown adult Flying Thunder Deity. It can just change its size.”

Shang Qinghua pauses. He pulls the still-purring cub away from his chest and holds it up to his eye-level.

“You tried to eat me,” he accuses.

The tiger cub blinks once, slowly, and lets out a tiny mewl in response.

“....” Shang Qinghua wraps his arms around the tiny thing and cuddles it to his chest. “I forgive you!”

“Shang Qinghua,” Liu Qingge exclaims, exasperated. Which! Not fair! Shang Qinghua wouldn’t even be here if it weren’t for him! So really, this is all Liu-shidi’s fault to begin with!

He tells him as such, and Liu Qingge scowls grumpily one response.

Shang Qinghua stands to his feet. And immediately tilts to the side. Liu Qingge steps forward, sword sheathed, to catch him around the waist, and the tiger gives a startled meow as it’s suddenly squished between the two of them.

Both men stare down at it. It blinks up at them for a moment, before turning to nuzzle it’s face into the dampened collar of Shang Qinghua’s robes, closing its eyes as if it's decided to take a nap then and there.

“You can’t tell me you’re going to kill it,” Shang Qinghua says. His words are beginning to slur together. “It’s too cute, Qingge!”

Liu Qingge tenses slightly at his given name, as he always seems to do when Shang Qinghua uses it. If he didn’t want him saying it, he shouldn’t have given him permission in the first place! After a moment, the man relaxes, and something about his face is… not as fierce, somehow.

Shang Qinghua doesn’t know what that means.

“You’re soaked,” Liu Qingge says. “... And injured.”

“Impaled,” Shang Qinghua reminds him, blinking his eyes slowly. They feel a little heavy. Maybe the tiger had the right idea of a nap. “Almost drowned.”

Liu Qingge frowns at the reminder. He stoops down after a moment and scoops up Shang Qinghua’s legs. Normally, he would protest being bridal carried like some maiden, but right now he’s way too tired. He rests his head against Liu Qingge’s shoulder, the tiger purring sleepily on his stomach, and closes his eyes.

There’s a quiet cough. “Shizun.” One of the disciples speaks. They sound embarrassed, for some reason?

“We’re heading back to the sect.” Liu Qingge announces.

“The, ah… the tiger?”

There’s a long moment of thoughtful silence. Then, “It’s your Shibo’s.”

“Ah…. okay….”

Shang Qinghua turns his face into his shidi’s collar and falls into a doze.

#svsss prompts #shang qinghua #liu qingge #liushang #scumbag villain self saving system #vodka answers #vodkassassin fanfiction #dancibayo #monster hunting

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touchmycoat · 3 years ago

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qijiuyuan Handmaiden AU

for my hyper-niche AU interests?

[ACT I]

Rags-to-riches conman Yue Qingyuan solicits commoner Shen Yuan to join him on a plot to seduce and steal away the Lady of the Qiu Household. Shen Yuan enters the house as a butler to the Lady, who is introduced as Qiu Haitang—beautiful and frail and gone a little bit nutty after her beloved childhood friend and fiancé died in a tragic fire before their wedding. Indeed she is beautiful, but Shen Yuan’s job is to play her confidant and subtly convince her that she’s falling in love with the visiting Lord Yue, so that she will agree to elope with Yue Qingyuan, and that Yue Qingyuan can cash out her inheritance and throw her into an insane asylum after.

Shen Yuan wonders how he’s going to achieve this given the gender barrier though, but one day discovers, as the lady calls him in to help her bathe, that she does not have soft breast tissue or a cunt. She tells him handmaidens can get so shy about this sort of thing, even though they’re all women, and she won’t mind if Shen Yuan doesn’t. Shen Yuan doesn’t—he fetches the soap and dolls up his lady all fragrant and sweet, but does his gentlemanly best to keep his gaze above water level.

They spend more time together, and Shen Yuan hides his snickers at Lady Qiu’s poorly hidden, bitchier remarks, while Lady Qiu genuinely laughs for the first time in a long while at Shen Yuan's utterly serious account of a legendary beast in another country. As they grow closer, Lady Qiu tells Shen Yuan that he kind of resembles her childhood friend, her fiance Qingqiu. She brings out his old clothing, all rich fabrics and pretty paper fans. Shen Yuan’s enamored, and it’s Lady Qiu’s turn to dress him up. “You can be so handsome and elegant too, given the goods and opportunity.”

“Anybody can be anybody, with the right costume.”

“Oh? And what about me? Is this the right costume for me?”

“...No, You’re no lady.” And before Lady Qiu’s expression can go cold, Shen Yuan is chuckling, “you’re more of a tyrannical empress, if I’m to be honest. But that’s no costume, that’s just you.”

“Are you calling me a bitch?”

“...Yes?”

They bond. Lord Yue comes to the manner, and of course is immediately “entranced” by the lovely lady. Shen Yuan watches both of them playact this blushing romance over painting lessons and guqin lessons and suddenly feels awfully uncomfortable about all this. He doesn’t want to screw over his new friend, and tells as much to Yue Qingyuan. Yue Qingyuan is struck, asks him what else could they do? Shen Yuan takes a deep breath and goes, “you’re giving me 150 grand, right? I’ll take that and marry her.”

“...You’d take care of her? For the rest of your life?”

“It’s only fair. Besides, she doesn’t seem to like it much here anyways. It might be nice, actually.”

“You want to save her?”

“...From this? I’d like to help her get out, yeah.”

The next day Lord Yue sends Shen Yuan away to fetch them supplies, and when Shen Yuan comes back he finds Lord Yue and Lady Qiu kissing. He’s upset because Lady Qiu is falling for somebody who only wants her money, who will ditch her as soon as they’re out. Lady Qiu sees his upset and jealousy and summons him to bed that night. She says she refuses to be caught off-guard on her wedding night, that she wants Shen Yuan to teach her the things men want in bed, and she needs practice too doesn’t she? She doesn’t know how to please Lord Yue with her body. Shen Yuan should help.

Shen Yuan does, hopelessly affectionate. They fuck. The next day, he’s extra surly toward Yue Qingyuan. Lady Qiu tells him she’s scared of marrying Lord Yue, that wouldn’t it be easier, so much easier if Shen Yuan just married her instead? If she’s going to elope anyways, she should do it with someone she has affections for.

But Shen Yuan knows there will only be money if Lady Qiu elopes with the Lord; he doesn’t have the connections to cash out. Which means Lady Qiu will have to marry Lord Yue, and they’ll have to sleep together on their wedding night. As much as it bothers Shen Yuan he still encourages Lady Qiu to go through with it—after all, he will be there to marry her once Lord Yue is done with her! With them both! Lady Qiu slaps him, furious, shoves him out.

But they go through with the elopement. It’s tense, and Lady Qiu is getting more snappish, more desperate, more insane every day. After the marriage, Shen Yuan sleeps right next door as Lord Yue and Lady Qiu have sex. When Yue Qingyuan goes off to get the money business squared away, Lady Qiu collapses in Shen Yuan’s arms and begs Shen Yuan to call her Shen furen, begins calling Shen Yuan Shen Qingqiu. As they wait around, they hear rumors circulating of what happened at Qiu Manor. Shen Yuan’s pretty taken aback by how wild the tales are getting—not an elopement, but a kidnapping. Not by an esteemed Lord, but by a mere servant boy, Shen-something. That they’d set a fire before they’d gone and killed everybody in the house.

When Yue Qingyuan finally returns, it’s with suitcase after suitcase of cash. They take a car, and Shen Yuan thinks about how to break the news to Lady Qiu.

But instead of the train station, Yue Qingyuan stops at the asylum. Annoyed that they have to go through with the theatrics, Shen Yuan nevertheless helps Lady Qiu out of the car. The lady is gripping him tighter than usual, and he tries to smile and soothe her while Yue Qingyuan speaks with the officials in front.

“This is Lady Qiu? And the servant?”

“I’m afraid so.”

“You don’t want to press charges?”

“Aristocratic benevolence. She only wants to help him.”

Shen Yuan is beginning to lose track of the conversation, but it’s difficult to misunderstand when the asylum guards grab him.

“What’s going on here?”

“Shen Qingqiu, you’re hereby taken into the custody of [NAME] Asylum.”

“What are you talking about? I’m not Shen Qingqiu, Shen Qingqiu’s dead!”

“Lord Qiu’s final act of communique was a request for a warrant for the arrest of a servant from the Qiu household, Shen Qingqiu, a.k.a. Shen Jiu. We’re happy to see the Lady Qiu is safe and sound, Lord Yue, it must have been a difficult situation to navigate.”

“Indeed. We appreciate your support in these difficult tim—”

“Lady Qiu! Tell them!”

And Lady Qiu looks at him. That’s the first time Shen Yuan sees the person behind those eyes in full—this isn’t Qiu Haitang, the fragile flower of Qiu Manor, this is Shen Jiu, Shen furen, willful and tyrannical in her reign.

Shen furen takes Yue Qingyuan’s offered hand and tucks her head sorrowfully into his neck.

“We grew up together, I can’t just throw him to the police and let him be killed. I know he’s done wrong, but—please, please treat him with mercy.”

Shen Yuan is silent when they drag him into the asylum in chains.

#shen yuan #shen jiu #yqy #handmaiden AU #this was all i could think about at 5am last night #yeah ofc there's an act 2 and this is underdeveloped on the 79 side of things #it's a happy ending i promise #plot stockpile

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missturtleduck · 4 years ago

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Fake dating anon-I think it would be cool if it wasn’t a modern au? But thank you!!!!

Sorry for your wait, anon! I hope you like what I wrote for you <3

Fake It Till You Make It

Sokka x Reader - FakeDating!Trope

Needless to say, Y/N was slightly shocked by Sokka’s proposition.

By the age of sixteen, they had been crucial pai sho tiles in the gambit against the once Fire Lord Ozai. Returning home was odd for many reasons, but notably the reminders that they were still children really, or at least in the eyes of their families. It was Zuko who had suggested a gang trip – a joint life changing field trip – after the nations settled down from Ozai’s defeat.

The first to return home was Y/N. Her mother lived in Fire Fountain City. It was only a short journey away from the capital, and Hakoda had already travelled to see his children at the palace. Sure, she had joked about pushing off her mother’s insistent affection, but she definitely cried a little bit when she got to hug her mum, and even more when her brothers piled on too. Ever the monarchist, Zuko was welcomed into the house with open arms and plenty of celebration. Toph especially got on with her family, rough-housing with Y/N’s brothers like it was nothing.

Since Toph didn’t want to see her parents as of yet, the only family member left to visit was Sokka and Katara’s Gran Gran since Suki’s family were doing work in the Fire Nation anyway. It took some convincing for Toph to put on snow boots – “I’ll risk frostbite if it means seeing, Katara!” – but soon they were travelling all the way to the South Pole. It was on their stop at Kyoshi Island that Sokka had approached Y/N.

“I need you to pretend to be my girlfriend.”

Y/N barked out an incredulous laugh. “Tui and La, what?”

“Exactly what I said,” Sokka nodded, face solemn. “Katara wrote to Gran Gran a couple of times and mentioned Yue and Suki, but you know how that ended.”

“One turned into the moon and the other is a raging Sapphic in a relationship with Ty Lee.”

“Exactly!” He looked distressed, throwing his hands in the air. “And Gran Gran sent a letter back saying how excited she was to meet my girlfriend!”

Frowning in confusion, Y/N looked at him. “You could just tell her what happened.”

“But, Y/N, she was so excited!” He simpered the way a child would, and Y/N couldn’t help but laugh. “Obviously, we’re just friends, but would you do this?”

Ouch. Sure, they were ‘just friends’, but it hurt anyway. Maybe it was the terseness with how he said it, or the fact that since the war had ended all Y/N could think about is how pretty Sokka looked when he could finally relax. Whatever it was, it stung in her chest, panging with the intensity of heartburn. Heartburn seemed a fitting enough description regardless of its denotation.

So that was how she ended up fake dating Sokka, all for the sake of his ego and his gran gran’s happiness. As they travelled over the ocean on Appa’s back, he was as physically far from her as he could possibly be. Ouch, again. For a fake boyfriend, he was doing a crappy job at it. Staring daggers at the back of his head, Y/N sulked quite contently next to Zuko, who seemed to be comfortable with her mood – something about being friends with far grumpier girls. That had made her laugh.

Her laugh had made Sokka stare.

The sharpness to her gaze melted almost immediately when she saw the concern etched on his face. Instead, she beamed at him. Sokka grinned back, turning away to continue his conversation with Suki.

Y/N could feel Zuko’s gaze on her. “I swear to the spirits, Zuko, if you say that’s rough, buddy, I’ll chi block you.”

The crown prince was kind enough to stifle his laughter, though it seemed contagious. Her frown shifted into a small smile and she took to staring over the edge of Appa’s saddle at the canvas of blue beneath them. There was something tranquil about the polar water, the great water beasts breaching the waves only to dive back down into the impossible depths. Being from the Fire Nation, Y/N had never experienced such wonder in a single image – nor such freezing weather. Pulling furs over herself, she readied herself for what would happen on the ice.

Gran Gran looked to be the loveliest but scariest woman she would ever meet. The woman stood as the leader of the tribe; a gaggle of children stood behind her in uncertainty. However, as soon as Sokka hopped off Appa’s back, they were screaming and charging past her to tackle him to the ground. Her heart warmed as they hugged him and cried, shouting at him for leaving them without a warrior in the village.

“What are you seal pups on about?” He snorted, trying to avoid being winded by tiny elbows. “I trained you better than this.”

“That’s enough of that.”

At the woman’s words, the children picked themselves up, leaving Sokka in the snow. He didn’t last long though as he and Katara took their turn in charging. Embracing their grandmother with the tightest hug Y/N had ever seen, she left them to their moment, opting to instead help Toph down from their trusty steed.

“I hate this,” Toph muttered, holding both Zuko and Y/N’s arms in her own death grip.

“I know,” Y/N said softly, “But you’ll be able to take those boots off once we get inside one of the igloos.”

“And this must be Y/N.”

With wide eyes, she pried herself from Toph, trusting Zuko to make sure she didn’t cause any avalanches. Stepping to Sokka’s side, Y/N tried not to startle as he wrapped his arm around her hip. “Sokka, let me meet your grandmother before you steal me away!”

She felt smug satisfaction at how he flushed.

“Let me look at you, dear,” The matriarch ordered, though not unkindly. Presenting herself in the woman, she brushed off the scrutinous stare with a smile. “You’re very beautiful.”

“Thank you, erm- “

“Please,” She beamed, and all Y/N could see was the saccharine threat that Katara often fronted, “Call me Gran Gran.”

As the woman turned away, she swatted Sokka’s arm, meeting his gaze with a scowl. Stalking past him through the snow – which was harder than she had assumed – Y/N was followed by a curious flock of children tugging on her sleeves. Patient as a saint, she laughed with them, answering all of their burning questions.

Why is your hair like that? Why are your clothes red? Is that the same scary man who attacked our village? But he doesn’t look scary. Why is Sokka smiling at you?

Whipping her head around, Y/N met Sokka’s eyes. He was grinning like a dope, chin rested on his palm as Katara talked Gran Gran’s ear off. Somehow, he hadn’t realised that she had caught him staring, but the children soon fixed that; a snowball to the face promptly brought him out of his stupor. Had he hit his head on the way down from Appa? Whatever it was, it made her heart hurt and she had promised Toph a warm igloo anyway.

The sun was beginning to set behind the glaciated mountains on the horizon, illuminating the village in the evening light, dappling the ice with sunspots. She had never seen something so beautiful before, but as the sun disappeared, so did the warmth; the igloo more than made up for it.

As she sat with Zuko, Suki, and Toph – Sokka and Katara obviously busy whilst Aang promised the children some airbending games – Y/N grumbled to herself. Not only was she playing fake girlfriend, but fake girlfriend who was hated by the family. Well, it probably wasn’t hate. She wouldn’t blame Gran Gran for being protective over one of her two grandchildren. In fact, thinking of how her brothers reacted to Sokka, maybe she had it good.

Laid flat on her back, she listened to the gossip of the Fire Nation, of how Ty Lee was doing, and how Toph was seeing some weird stuff under the ice. Whatever it was, it couldn’t spike her interest enough to join in the conversation.

“Y/N?”She barely turned her head to see an anxious looking Sokka in the doorway.

“Yes?”

He looked around the room at all the faces and fidgeted. “About earlier- “

“Listen, I don’t care, okay, Sokka?” She said, trying her hardest to not seem entirely mean, nor upset; Toph scoffed, muttering something that sounded like liar.

“Just,” He sighed, “Can we talk outside?”

Pulling furs back over herself, she looked pleadingly at her friends to rescue her, but to no avail. Trudging after Sokka, she was growing more and more vexed as they moved further from the village and into the cold. The moon began to rise in the sky, glossing the ice with an ethereal glow, which was perhaps the only nice part about being out in the bitter cold.

“What, Sokka?” Y/N finally huffed, putting her foot down. “Am I not being a convincing enough girlfriend for you?”

“It’s not that Y/N,” Sokka started, waving his hands in a panicked motion as if warning off a polar dog.

“Then what?” She interrupted, not having any of it. “Did you want me to hold your hand? Maybe give you a cuddle?”

He flinched at the venom in her tone. “No, Y/N, if you’d just- “

“Just what?” Y/N snapped. “What you asked of me what really inconsiderate,

Sokka, but I did it anyway because I'm your friend – just your friend.”

“Spirits, Y/N,” He sighed, realisation passing behind his eyes.

“But it’s fine! I’m a great actress, Sokka, because I wouldn’t be acting. See? I can hold your hand, hug you, even kiss you if you needed it, but it hurts me.”

Looking down at the ice, Sokka kicked some snow under his boot, looking very ashamed of himself for a second. It pierced through her anger in a way that was unfair. Instead of dealing a final blow, all she could think to do was grab his hand and comfort him. Yes, she still felt she was in the right, but Y/N didn’t want one of her closest friends to suffer at her hand, retribution or no.

“Gran Gran shouted at me, y’know,” Sokka said, a small smile quirking at his lips as his eyes fell on his hand in hers.

Y/N frowned. “Why?”

“For thinking she was a ‘dumb old lady’ apparently,” He chuckled, meeting her eyes. “It seemed Aang had let slip that we weren’t actually dating, so she told me off for that.”

“You deserved that,” She grin, bumping his shoulder.

“And then she called me dumb, which I didn’t appreciate.”

His smile said otherwise, so Y/N pushed. “What did you do now?”

“Try to fake something I actually wanted.”

Shocked, Y/N dropped his hand, and for a moment his heart fell heavy in his chest. This was the perfect chance to be with her, he thought, now that the war was over and she knew her family was safe. Now they had autonomy, surely they could focus on each other.

“Y/N, I’m so- “

His apology was cut off by an insistent pair of lips, begging him to be quiet and just enjoy their moment. Deepening the kiss, she looped her arms around the back of his neck, the scruff of his unshaven hair brushing against her arms. His heart was soaring, hers no longer burning but glowing. She pulled back and reaching up to his face, Y/N felt the warmth of his cheek in the bitter cold, radiating warmer than the sun. Whatever light had been taken by the night was captured in them.

“Gran Gran likes you by the way,” Sokka said quietly, leaning his forehead against hers. “Says you wrangle those kids better than I do.”

“Praise Agni,” Y/N gasped, letting out a bated breath she hadn’t realised was stuck. “She does the same scary face Katara does.”

Sokka chucked, rubbing his nose against hers. “Don’t you worry, Y/N. Me and Dad are just as scared by it.”

With a giggle, she rested her head in the crook of his neck, basking in their embrace for as long as she could.

#atla #fic request #sokka x reader #fake dating #sokka x f!reader #zuko #toph #aang #katara #suki #the gaang #gran gran #fake it till you make it #anon request #angst #happy ending #missturtleduck

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hellofavillain · 5 years ago

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Fic rec - Hualian

Hi! I haven’t been feeling well recently but hualian fics always manage to cheer me up so I thought I’d make a fic rec with some of the fics I’ve read! Maybe someone is in a need of a fic as well ♥

all these renewals for a moment with you by riverdanceeee - a modern AU in which Hua Cheng is a carpenter and Xie Lian is a single father who needs a lot of fixing in his new house. Hualian getting to know each other, Ban Yue being adorable and even the whole work process - everything about this fic brings me comfort ♥ It’s a WIP and I can’t wait to see more!

"Have you heard?!" by Naamah_Beherit - “Or: a story in which Xie Lian ascends for the third time even though he didn't want to, and freaks the hell out of Heaven by claiming he's married.” I love the concept of this so much! Also, I didn’t even know I needed Xie Lian and He Xuan’s friendship but I DO NOW.

Crimson and Clover by Naamah_Beherit - it’s a whole series with canon divergence and it’s simply amazing. I’m looking for words to describe all the emotional scenes that captured my heart but you really need to read it yourself. (Also, check this author in general, so many great fics!)

you'll know, you'll fall by mme_anxious - a modern AU mainly focusing on hualian (especially Xie Lian) getting comfortable with intimacy. There’s something about it that makes it perfect, the way they talk about it and how open they’re with everything. It’s tagged with “this all looks very kinky but it's really a Puddle of Feelings” and I couldn’t agree more.

Let this be real by imacutsleeve - a really sweet fic about their reunion, it has all the softness you need!

Farewell by hypermoyashi - a vampire!AU with a great world-building and captivating story! You can see how much thought went into it, even by reading the notes in the beginning. I can’t wait to see where the story will go!

Such selfish prayers by gusutianzixiao - the peak of Hua Cheng’s gay panic, it’s all I need to say :D

eight hundred years under by atomicmuffin - AU inspired by Hades and Persephone, told from the POV of other characters (Three Tumors). I loved both the concept and the outsider POV! (and honestly, check other fics by this author as well, you’ll find Beauty and the Beast AU, hualian with a pet dragon and so many other stuff!)

狐狸精的故事; the fox spirit's story by yiqie - “This is Xie Daozhang’s first Lunar New Year in the Ghost City, and it’s all hands on deck.”. A heartwarming story told from the POV of a fox spirit living in the Ghost City. I think it’s worth reading for this quote alone:

““Body in the abyss, but heart in paradise,” He Xuan finishes, mumbling most of it around his mouthful of meat bun.

More like body in food, and heart also in food, Xie Lian does not say.” :D

Paying respects by BeneaththeBrim - Hua Cheng trying to impress Guoshi. He tries very hard and I love him a lot :D

A Life in Your Shape by etymologyplayground - purring Hua Cheng!! what’s better than this!!

Putting the D in Dysfunction by whispersharp - Xie Lian wants to seduce Hua Cheng and goes to General Pei for an advice, you can imagine how it goes :D Also, some moments are so adorable that I can’t help but smile at the screen :’)

bonus: of self-care and love - I can’t promise it’s good but I had fun while writing it! I was inspired by the first line of the Thousand God Cavern extra (“As Xie Lian laughingly pushed Hua Cheng away […] off his body, their passionate mood having yet to fade”), I really love them being happy and simply having fun ♥

#tgcf #hualian #heaven official’s blessing #xie lian #hua cheng #fic rec #i'm so thankful for all the writers #and there's so many more fics!#i need to get to the ones i marked for later

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starsfic · 5 months ago

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Summaries:

AU where Sun Wukong has mind-reading. Dinners with the Brotherhood are awkward with Azure and Macaque's fantasies of him. Smut.

TMNT, my incarnation: April O'Neil makes a new friend when staying up late studying at the public library.

After learning about his parentage, Mikey sneaks inside an art auction of Hamato Yoshi’s art, learning both about his father and Draxum.

No magic AU where Spicynoodles are getting married at the same chapel but both are left at the altar. Both meet and decide, after a few too many drinks, to get married instead

Long Xiaojiao is put in charge of Red Son’s bachelor party! Bits of smut here and there.

Red Son, serving as one of the groomsmen for an ex's wedding (he's not sure why but he has theories) and ends up getting frisky with one of the strippers hired for the bachelor party. The same stripper, still wearing his red bandana, is at the wedding as a waiter. Smut.

Set sometime before Agony of a Witch, Raine Whispers is sent to the weekly Coven Head meeting- which is basically just an excuse to hang out at a bar and bitch. They meet up again with Lilith, drinks are drunk, and Lilith ends up drunkenly confessing the truth about Eda’s curse to a less drunk Raine.

In an AU where the Brotherhood and the pilgrims must co-exist in Wukong's life, both groups try to offer Spicynoodles advice on how to court. What should be a simple thing leads to both boys acting wildly out of character and Tripitaka and Azure entering a battle of snark and wits over Wukong.

A year after her husband is sealed, Princess Iron Fan stumbles across the god of marriage Yue Lao and decides to ask who her son will marry. The answer enrages her.

AU: The costar of famed actor Red Son is terrified of his true form...which is an issue considering they're doing an erotic version of Beauty and the Beast. However, one of the caterers doesn't mind beef. Smut.

#next year planning #LMK #Monkie Kid #LEGO Monkie Kid #TOH #The Owl House #TMNT #Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #Dawn of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #DotTMNT #poll

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dreamingsushi · 3 years ago

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The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity

So I was looking for clips of Zhao Youting for animated gif making and I stumbled across a video of this movie starring him and Deng Lun, and that was of course on my long long long watchlist on Netflix. And it's been a while since I haven't done any reviews, so many projects are still ongoing, but what a better way than to start with a movie. Because after two hours, it's done and I can just go back to whatever else I was doing and it doesn't cause sleepless nights since I won't need to keep on watching when the two hours are over. As usual, I have actually totally no idea what this is about, I guess from the bits and parts I saw (and the title) that this must have some xianxia background to it and I wouldn't mind that at all. After all, that's just my favorite genre when it comes to drama. And movies. So wither further do, let's dig into this!

Right from the start, beautiful sceneries and images. I feel mesmerized by what I'm seing. It all starts with a little boy, Qing Ming being taught by his teacher how to cast a protection spell however he can't seem to master it, even after years of practice and finds a way to protect himself otherwise. But his master isn't pleased with his side ways and even though he's the best disciple, if he can't master something as basic as this, he will never become a Yin-Yang Master. Then, the big ice wall starts to crack up and the master sends Qing Ming away and summons three magic beings. Beasts? Not sure yet what are they. But the special effects are gorgeous, everything is gorgeous.

But no matter how hard the master tries, a bad snake comes out of the wall and when it's time to conjure the protection spell, Qing Ming tries his trick but of course it doesn't work, so the master sends his shield to his disciple and ends up being badly injured but the snake and one of his minions jumps in the snake's mouth to kill it. And it was all in vain because it won't cure his master since it wasn't the real snake. So the master will die. Qing Ming is afraid to be left alone and he doesn't care about people remembering him, but his master calls him the Yin-Yang Master.

Seriously, this really beautiful, as far as I am concern. The costumes. The setting. I'm really impressed. It really immerges you in the spirit of the movie.

Ouuuuh a Deng Lun playing the flute. That is nice. Him and Qing Ming both sense that there is a demon somewhere near and start moving, and so they meet. But somehow, Qing Ming saves the pipa playing demon? I'm so confused. Ah, that's because he's not a mean one. So Deng Lun's character hates demons, but Qing Ming thinks some demons are good. So they end up fighting while the demon flees. The choreography of the fight is beautiful. So well executed. In the end, Qing Ming wins. And he drops Deng Lun on the top of a roof.

The demon waited for Qing Ming because he wanted to thank him for saying that demons have feelings too. And he asks to become... hmmm... like his servant? It's more complicated than that obviously, but I can't quite put the right word on their relationship now. Some concepts are so hard to translate to be honest, because we have actually nothing similar in Western culture. Anyways.

Deng Lun goes back to his academy or temple, wherever it is that he's training, to receive orders regarding the bad snake from the beginning of the movies. Some of his shadows are coming back to stir up troubles. He has been sent to attend some worship ceremony and bumps again into Qing Ming, which angers him because he believes that someone sympathizing with demons shouldn't have the right to attend. So he challenges him to a duel, but Qing Ming declines. Then some girl comes to ask if he's declining because he's afraid of losing. Then some other man comes over and tells them to go have a rest, but when he sees him, something seems to shock Qing Ming. Probably he knows him from somewhere else? We'll see. That girl and that guy are both creepy. Like they give me chills. They are too soft spoken.

As cultivators, I feel it's kind of weird that hey get dressed up by other people, even though it's a special day. They are not royalty.... And I don't like Qing Ming's hair for that part. Then a princess comes around. The creepy girl spreads the gossip about her: she isn't married even though she's over 30 and she might know of demonic cultivation. One of the cultivator wasn't there, and when they ask about him, they hear he died. So the creepy guy will take his place during the sea,ling ceremony. The guy was killed by a demon. Qing Ming suggest the killer is in there. So the creepy girl suggests they use her technique to detect demonic energy, so they decide to. The fishes in the bowl all converge to Qing Ming: it is said that his mother was a fox demon. Oh interesting. The princess orders to take him away, but Bo Ya says Qing Ming wasn't the one to kill the master. How does he know? What is he going to say??? So he put that little bell in Qing Ming's room that night, the one he noticed. So he didn't go out of his room. The Princess says it's not enough to prove his innocence, but Qing Ming has another evidence: someone stuck something on him and that thing actually lures the fish when he passes it over to Bo Ya. Then the fishes move to the princess. She gives them three days to summon the beasts to lock away the bad snake.

Oh so they all spied on each other. Hahaha.

I really like Qing Ming's character. He was asking Bo Ya to have a drink, but he's in a hurry to leave. Then one of his servants comes around and Bo Ya almost kills it again because it's a demon. He tells him to become a demon instead of a cultivator if likes them so much. His answers really angers Bo Ya. But I just love how Qing Ming is really calm about everything, he's so relaxed.

Okay, I'm not digging the thrid eye in the middle of Bo Ya's forehead. That's creepy. Like it's well done, but I really dislike it. Anyways, they all go around killing demons, I guess to wake up the guardians as they feed spirit balls to their statues. Except for Qing Ming. He's drinking with a bunch of women. I like that he's relaxed, not that he's some womanizer. But I guess there's something more to it than that so I'm not too worried yet. Later on he meets with Shou Yue and asks him if they ever met. But he never left the palace. He asks him if he killed the other master, but actually he's a servant of his late master, so he's going to die soon.

Ohhh so he was collecting information as to find the demon spirit to feed the dragon he has to awaken. As he's explaining that to Bo Ya, a servant comes for Qing Ming as something happened to the princess. While he's trying to treat her, Qing Ming notices some worm-like shapes moving under her skin. So he takes it from her body to his. It makes him ill and thanks to Bo Ya. The spirit is enough to awake the dragon.

Bo Ya and Qing Ming share a little of their past. Bo Ya's mom was killed by a demon, so he started cultivating to rid the world of demons. Whereas Qing Ming was mistreated by people because people branded his mother for being a demon. That the only nice person to him was his master. So he shows Bo Ya how he died at his hands.

Okay so the four masters end up fighting each other while someone tried to enter the emperess's rooms. Ah long, the creepy girl with the fishes noticed something odd about the princess and she gets killed by a bunch of hair. Before dying, she tells Qing Ming that the princess is the murderer. Later that night Bo Ya threatens Qing Ming while the princess asks Shou Yue why he betrayed her. So Shou Yue is controlling the hair demon and killed Ah Long because she knew their secret. He wants to bring back the snake. And he killed the other master earlier. Now he plans on killing Qing Ming and Bo Ya. Qing Ming is convinced that the killer is the Princess from what Ah Long told him, but Bo Ya still doubts Shouyue. But then Qing Ming tells him the relationship between Shouyue and his previous master. So Bo Ya thinks it's a conspiracy against the princess, since he grew up with her. So they're both convinced that they friend isn't the bad guy. They both are. I guess they are somehow lovers too? Confusing much, but she doesn't kill him.

Boya and Qing Ming both go their way to discover who is the murderer. And they each tell each other to call if they need help. So of course, Shouyue betrayed the master and he's going to try and kill Bo Ya. The hair demon kills the princess before Qing Ming can ask anything and it stole the sword Qing Ming's master entrusted to him. I think? I'm not sure. Okay, so the air demon killed the princess by itself and not under the orders of Shouyue. She broke out of the controlling spell, as she was a servant spirit. But not I am kind of lost. Qing Ming finds a portrait and it seems to be revealing of something important but... haha I lost some bits and parts I guess. Because I don't understand.

Qing Ming rushes to see Bo Ya. The princess isn't dead. She's actually the empress. Her body is actually sealing away the bad snake. She got eternal life. When she starts feeling unwell after telling all about her past, when they try to attack, Shouyue sends them in boxes filling with sand. Qing Ming manages to save Bo Ya in extremis.

Omg, the girl is the sword. She was in love with the master? And now she gave birth to the bad snake and Shouyue eats it, preventing the sword to kill it. So now Shouyue is not dying anymore. So that's what they were trying to do. But it's not enough. Qing Ming and Bo Ya comes in too late. The snake is now huge and the guardians didn't wake up because Shouyue didn't feed his. The snake is trying to kill everyone. He's trying to take her away from Tiandu. But then the Princess jumps from the snake, bringing with her Shouyue so they shall die together. The snake eat both of them. Qing Ming calls his servants to fight away the snake. However, Shouyue didn't die and he comes out of the snake, battling the servants like a badass. Bo Ya is asking Qing Ming to make him his spirit servant, whatever how I should translate that, as he will sacrifice himself to save the princess and awake the last guardian.

I said that Shouyue guy was creepy. Like so much. I don't get his motive.

Okay so now Bo Ya became the guardian. But like... where are the three other ones?

Qing Ming goes into the snake to look for the princess. She's stuck in an illusion where she sees Qing Ming's master. So Qing Ming takes her to when his master died. The master gives her the dagger/sword, however you like to call it. It was named after her name, by herself, so the master could remember her. She makes me so sad. Poor lady. Cursed to live eternally to birth a big bad snake ):

Qing Ming takes her back to the world and send Fangyue to Bo Ya. Who sends it to the snake, but he uses a protection curse. So the princess threatens to kill herself and does it so Shouyue can't use the protection spell. Bo Ya jumps in front of Qing Ming to protect him. Then Shouyue comes back to attack, Qing Ming's protection spell fails to work, but in the end he manages to do it because he found someone he's willing to protect: Bo Ya. So Shouyue was made out of his master to always stay by her side. So that's why he looked so similar. Because he wanted to look his master. So in the end, his motivation was to live forever to protect Fangyue.

That's it, now I'm crying. Even the bad guy was a good guy in the end. He was just doing what he was asked to. And now Qing Ming and Bo Ya are parting ways. Seriously. Why are they always making me cry so bad?

What the heck. Why is she not dead? I mean the creepy girl. Why is she breathing again now? How can they do this to me? And there's nothing else, it's over... Seriously TT

This definitely was a very good movie. It was well executed. The plot line seemed a little bit chaotic for me at first, I was already taking out points to this movie because of that, it felt as if it wasn't going anywhere. I was wondering what was that story telling and everything became so clear at the end. I wasn't expecting the princess at all to actually be the empress, nor Shouyue a part of the master (or maybe I didn't understand that when he introduced himself first?). It was just such a touching story. Loved the dynamic between Zhao Youting and Deng Lun, even though their friendship and trust built a little too fast for me. But overall, there were not loopholes in the plot. The special effects were really good. The costumes, gorgeous. The music perfect. I just really highly highly recommend. Seriously. Put that on your watchlist. It's so so so worth it.

#yin-yang master #zhao youting #mark chao #deng lun #allen deng #wang duo #he shouyue #olivia wang #princess zhang ping #Jessie Li #longye #chinese movie #c-movie #xianxia #cultivation #costume drama #movie review #movie recap #movie reaction

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lilychestnut · 4 years ago

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Fictional ESTJ pairings with every other MBTI type

I did a version of this for ISFJ here with my methodology and some notes! Enjoy! I’m going to attempt to eventually get around to doing this for every Myers Briggs type. Both canon and noncanon pairings are included!

ESTJ x ESTJ: Jerry/Elaine (Seinfeld), Hermione/Draco (Harry Potter series), Pansy/Draco (Harry Potter series), Guzman/Lucrecia (Elite)

ESTJ x ESFJ: Charlotte/Dan (Lucifer), Eric/Tami (Friday Night Lights), Chris/Cassie (Euphoria), Robb/Talisa (Game of Thrones), Fred/Daphne (Scooby Doo), Shirley/Kevin (The Haunting of Hill House), Maria/Angel (Dexter), Catra/Scorpia (She-Ra)

ESTJ x ESFP: Cordelia/Buffy (Buffyverse), Cordelia/Doyle (Buffyverse), Blair/Serena (Gossip Girl), Hermione/Ron (Harry Potter series), Tiana/Naveen (The Princess and the Frog), Tom/Daisy (The Great Gatsby), Veronica/Kevin (Shameless), Michaela/Asher (How to Get Away With Murder), Mini/Alo (Skins)

ESTJ x ESTP: Blair/Chuck (Gossip Girl), Hermione/Ginny (Harry Potter books), Quinn/Santana (Glee), Quinn/Noah (Glee), Rosalie/Emmett (Twilight), Cersei/Jaime (Game of Thrones), Leia/Han (Star Wars universe), Claire/Owen (Jurassic World), Sif/Thor (MCU), Maria/James (Dexter)

ESTJ x ISTJ: Dwight/Angela (The Office), Prue/Andy (Charmed), Melissa/Ian (Pretty Little Liars), Emily/Richard (Gilmore Girls), Guzman/Nadia (Elite)

ESTJ x ISFJ: Paige/Emily (Pretty Little Liars), Lucius/Narcissa (Harry Potter series), Wesley/Angel (Buffyverse), Cordelia/Angel (Buffyverse), Sokka/Suki (ATLA), Sokka/Yue (ATLA)

ESTJ x ISTP: Wesley/Gunn (Buffyverse), Joss/John (Person of Interest), Lucas/Max (Stranger Things), Cheryl/Toni (Riverdale), Holly/John (Die Hard), Li Shang/Mulan (Mulan), Jack/Kate (Lost)

ESTJ x ISFP: Blair/Nate (Gossip Girl), Hermione/Harry (Harry Potter series), Draco/Harry (Harry Potter series), Quinn/Finn (Glee), Quinn/Joe (Glee), Katie/Freddie (Skins)

ESTJ x ENFJ: Catra/Adora (She-Ra), Vivian/Elle (Legally Blonde), Melissa/Wren (Pretty Little Liars), Maria/Miguel (Dexter), Veronica/Fiona (Shameless)

ESTJ x ENTJ: Zara/Diego (Dark Artifices series), Veronica/Svetlana (Shameless)

ESTJ x ENFP: Claire/Phil (Modern Family), Prudence/Sabrina (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)

ESTJ x ENTP: Wesley/Fred (Buffyverse), Cordelia/Xander (Buffyverse), Anya/Xander (Buffyverse), Lisa/Lucas (House MD), Prudence/Ambrose (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Kim/Jimmy (Better Call Saul), Michaela/Gabriel (How to Get Away With Murder)

ESTJ x INTJ: Wesley/Lilah (Buffyverse), Anya/Giles (Buffyverse), Lisa/House (House MD), Rachel/Bruce (Dark Knight Trilogy), Katie/Effy (Skins)

ESTJ x INFJ: Elliott/Olivia (SVU), Blair/Dan (Gossip Girl), Sif/Loki (MCU), Jack/Juliet (Lost), Michaela/Laurel (How to Get Away With Murder)

ESTJ x INFP: Hermione/Luna (Harry Potter series), Colette/Alfredo (Ratatouille), Beast/Belle (Beauty and the Beast, live action version), Sokka/Zuko (ATLA)

ESTJ x INTP: Anathema/Newt (Good Omens), Elle/Spencer (Criminal Minds), Camille/Arastoo (Bones)

#estj #myers briggs #mbti #entp #isfp #enfj #istp

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maotranslates · 5 years ago

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Chapter 7 - A Lively Scene

Novel: Qi Ye 七爷 (Lord Seventh) by Priest

Notes: Hi everyone! I’m really glad some people are interested in reading this, since originally I wasn’t sure if anyone else would care about this when I picked it up. Some parts of this chapter were honestly very difficult for me to translate, so if you find mistakes, please let me know! (Unfortunately, I don’t have an editor, I do my best to translate and edit by myself in my free time.)

Wu Xi’s hands in his sleeves tightened into fists, his fingernails digging into his palms. The lofty and remote man held his chin with one hand and smiled, making him feel an indescribable sense of discomfort. He thought, that person looking at your own appearance is like a noble looking at kittens and puppies for fun.

The high ceiling of the main hall seemed like a small sky, the lifelike dragon on the big pillar spiraling through the sky and straight into the Imperial Court. Everyone’s eyes fell on him. Wu Xi thought that he had always been calm, and that he had learned a lot from the Grand Sorcerer and knew what was right and what was wrong, but he had never been unable to control himself the way he was now.

In South Xinjiang, the Grand Sorcerers were their gods, and the people deeply respected the Grand Sorcerers just as they respected the great god Jia Xi. The sorcerer youths were the Grand Sorcerers of the future, and it was said that they were little messengers from the heavens. Leaving home, he grew up next to the Grand Sorcerer and learned all kinds of things. In the eyes of his people, he was not any less worthy of respect because he was a child.

It was like a rush of blood suddenly went through his heart, violently wanting to break through his body and pounce on all the people who disrespected him.

Wu Xi turned his head and saw the expressions of A Xinlai and the others--his brave people and warriors stood there, disgraced. Their faces showed anger that they could not express with indignation, these men who did not even retreat when confronting wild beasts and poisonous snakes, at that moment, had to raise their heads to look at those lofty, arrogant people.

It was like a bunch of small bugs getting trampled on.

Wu Xi took a deep breath and slowly spoke in the unfamiliar official language: "The things that the Emperor talked about are probably from the sorcery of the Central Plains. We have no such things in South Xinjiang."

"Oh? Then what do you cultivate?"

Wu Xi gave him a fixed glance, and not just He Lianpei who he stared at, but also Jing Qi who was standing beside him, couldn’t help but feel that the child’s eyes were very strange, with an unusual demonic energy. It made people feel uncomfortable in their hearts, not at all lovable like the other children.

Wu Xi stood up: "Would the Emperor allow me to demonstrate?"

He Lianpei busily nodded and said: "Good, do you need any supplementary items?"

Wu Xi didn't talk, his exposed eyes curving slightly for a moment, as if he was smiling, but Jing Qi couldn't help but frown. When Wu Xi turned around, he just so happened to meet Jing Qi’s frowning gaze. He only then noticed that standing next to the emperor of the Central Plains, body slightly turned to the side, there was a not very conspicuous child. But Wu Xi just slightly glanced at him, turned and walked two steps, and stopped in front of the Official of the Ministry of Rites, Jian Sizong.

Wu Xi looked up with a curved eyes that were large and black, pressing his hands to his chest as if giving a polite greeting. Jian Sizong did not know what he meant, and only frowned while trying to size him up.

Suddenly, Jian Sizong felt that something was wrong, as there seemed to be something blinding his eyes, making his vision unclear. He hurriedly took two steps backwards, a buzzing noise filling his ears, making him look around blankly, unable to recognize the people around him. Jian Sizong knew in his heart that he had fallen into the sorcery of the small child, and he became both scared and furious, angrily pointing at Wu Xi: "You….."

But when he looked again, standing before him was no longer a child with a covered face and black robes, it was clearly a youthful woman in pink clothes. He saw the woman smiling at him, cheeks turning a light shade of pink, her eyebrows lowered, tactfully flirtatious. The tips of her eyes looked like they had grown hooks at the ends, and she looked very much like the famous courtesan of the ancient willow lane, Xiao He Yue.

Jian Sizong’s face immediately turned red.

He saw that the beauty took two steps forward, and reached out to undress, and Jian Sizong wondered, in a public place with so many people, how could there be such a wanton woman who would dare to go so far without shame? He was about to stop her, but suddenly realized that there was not a single other person in sight. In the empty hall, the crowd of officials and ministers had disappeared. Only he and the woman were left.

Looking again, where even is the main hall, this is clearly the "Smoke Tower" covered with red silk.

The woman who deeply resembled Xiao He Yue came deceptively close, her outer garment mostly undone, her soft breasts half-exposed, a bright cinnabar mole showing in her chest area. Her eyes were hazy, seeming shy and resentful, circulating with different feelings, but looking again, they disappeared, only leaving a pair of watery almond eyes.

Seeing this scene, Jian Sizong felt heat start flowing through his lower abdomen, his three souls and seven mortal forms were already mostly scattered, and he could not help but reach out and embrace the beauty.

He felt that the person in his arms was struggling to push and refuse, adding even more soul-melting charm. He couldn’t wait to be with her and fall in the warmth of the red silk to go to Wushan with the clouds and rain.

At this time, he heard a chuckle in his ear, and the chuckling person seemed to be a child. The sound was a little bit sharp, but very cold, and when entering the ears, it felt like it pierced the heart and caused it to tremble.

Jian Sizong was actually scared into a cold sweat, his continuous rubbing against the women was suddenly stopped, and his eyes widened.

He only felt a pain in his chest, then was forcefully pushed away.

Jian Sizong looked up, and standing there was not the Xiao He Yue of the Smoke Tower, but was clearly a meaty body, with a face full of wrinkles and a sunken mouth, the Minister of Revenue, Zhao Mingji, Master Zhao!

Everyone in the room was dumbstruck.

Originally, when seeing Wu Xi inexplicably going to find Jian Sizong who had just caused him trouble, the reasons seemed very unclear. At that time, the two stood two feet apart, staring at each other in hostility for a moment, before they saw that Jian Sizong suddenly moved back two steps, reaching out to point with one finger, but before actually lifting it, he had already put it back down.

Then his eyes squinted unblinkingly at the empty hall in front of him, no one knowing what he saw. Everyone watching seemed to observe that his face obscenely started to flush red, and then this most rule-abiding and old-fashioned person started laughing like “Hee hee,” saliva flowing out of the corner of his mouth, a vulgar expression in his eyes, the absolute opposite of his normally uptight and honorable self.

Everyone's eyes pinned straight on him, and He Lianpei leaned forward out of his chair, very much wanting to get closer and see this scene more clearly.

Then, Jian Sizong suddenly made an even scarier move. He actually opened his arms and pounced on the person next to him like a fierce tiger, embracing Zhao Mingji!

In all honesty... th-th-that master Zhao Mingji, even if his face couldn’t frighten the heaven and earth, it could at least frighten some demonic beings and scare a couple children, but Minister Jian was embracing him as if he was the most beautiful woman in the world. The expression on his face was extremely lewd, but just embracing might have been okay if he didn’t also start groaning and moving his hands up and down, his mouth stammering "Xiao He Yue", "Darling,” ceaselessly.

He Lianpei was stupefied, and after a while, he blankly said: "This… where did all this come from? Ah, Official Jian Ai, even if for Master Zhao, for Master Zhao, you always had this kind of admiration, you should not ignore the fact that he has a wife and children!"

Jing Qi was worried he might fall down headfirst.

His Majesty the Emperor’s outburst astonished everyone, again confusing all of the officials whose wits had just began to return to normal. Jing Qi quietly took two steps back, and his eyes fell on the sorcerer youth.

Just a few moments ago he already felt that this brat had demonic energy, and it turned out that he really did know some sorcery. This small poisonous creature was already so full of revengeful spirit at a young age, he would really become a force to be dealt with in the future.

As he moved back, he just happened to see He Lianyi look up and over in the direction of Wu Xi. Jing Qi saw that the calm face of the teenager flashed with killing intent.

At this time, if there was still no one who would come out and speak, things would escalate into a big problem, and Jian Sizong was the backbone of the oldest prince’s faction. Having just finally recovered his spirit, He Lianzhao stood up and shouted furiously: "Father Emperor, under the eyes of the public, a court official of the imperial household was ridiculed, what should be done?!"

This furious shouting finally blasted everyone awake, Zhao Mingji’s face was choked purple, but with his body that had the strength of a dried and salted fish, he could not push away the suddenly forceful Jian Sizong. He hurriedly struggled and refused and yelled, but the other side did not respond, and his clothes were even partially torn apart.

"Audacious!"

"This is dishonoring respectable people, really humiliating!"

"Still no one is coming to drag this evildoer out of here!"

The sound of one after another seemed to explode into a boil, and He Lianpei coughed and gave Wu Xi a difficult look. Of course, he couldn’t really have Wu Xi dragged out. The sorcerer youth was eccentric, but he was still a child. He was a benevolent and righteous ruler, how could he be narrow-minded and lower himself to become like a young child?

Besides …... besides, this show of sorcery was truly a problem that was a product of his own curiosity, in any case He Lianpei could not hit himself in the face, so he forcefully slapped the table and shouted: "What are you being so noisy for?!"

This was the emperor after all, so the passion and excitement of the crowd of officials immediately stagnated, and they kneeled uniformly. Wu Xi smiled and also kneeled, but he kept his waist and back quite straight.

Only He Lianzhao, even though currently kneeling, dared to call loudly: "Father Emperor! Father Emperor, Minister Jian is a longstanding official of Daqing, a person of virtue and prestige, this... this is to forcing him hit his head on the pillar of the Main Hall and die, Father Emperor!"

He Lianpei coughed lightly and said to Wu Xi: "This ... South Xinjiang sorcerer youth, this indeed is unacceptable behavior, would you hurry and remove the spell on Master Jian? I have seen that the sorcery from South Xinjiang is just like this."

But Wu Xi replied: "Emperor, this is just a small trick, I simply cast a kind of love spell, which is called ‘An Inch of Fairy Footsteps’ where we are from. Whoever it is cast on will see the person who they are thinking about in their heart. Where we are from, thinking about someone means you want to be with someone, isn’t that right? Why would he want to hit his head and die?”

"This..." He Lianpei touched his nose and could only say vaguely, "The Central Plains is a civilized place, which is naturally different from the place where you are from. After you settle here, you will naturally be assigned a gentleman to teach you to read and reason. Then you will understand, some things... Some things can't be done in public."

Jing Qi turned his face to the side and almost broke down because of the emperor’s sentence – “Can’t be done in public.”

Actually, He Lianpei could also be considered to have a good temperament, with a little bit of compassion and good feeling. If he wasn’t sitting on this imperial chair, he might actually be an interesting person.

Wuxi finally nodded: "So it turns out that it can’t be done in front of people, I understand now."

This one sentence pierced the heart of an innumerable amount of people present, feeling like this evil creature from South Xinjiang was truly dreadful, having poisonous thoughts from such a young age, always ridiculing people when speaking, he was clearly full of evil ideas and undisciplined.

They only saw Wu Xi reaching out his hands, patting a few times with a strange rhythm, sneering. Jian Sizong seemed to have been hit with martial arts, abruptly becoming motionless, Zhao Mingji took the opportunity, breathing roughly, he pushed him away as if fighting for his life.

Jing Qi actually became interested this time. Others didn’t know, but Jian Sizong was a core person in the eldest prince’s association, and in the previous lifetimes had helped He Lianyi sweep clean all his brothers, and he had seen and heard all of these atrocious deeds with his own eyes and ears. Naturally, he knew what kind of person this supposedly righteous Jian Sizong was, but it was a pity that in his last life, the world was a place where people would fight in the dark, and there was no superior master who fought regardless of the situation like this South Xinjiang sorcerer youth, creating this lively and cacophonous scene.

He appeared to be ignorantly standing next to the emperor and pretending not to exist, but in his heart he was rejoicing in the other’s misfortune, and was imagining how this Minister Jian would react after waking up.

Zhao Mingji furiously pointed at Jian Sizong, his entire body shaking and his face swollen, and even the thousands of wrinkles on his face seemed to be flattened, but no words came out of his mouth for a long time.

Speaking of which, the party struggle between the major factions of the country seemed to have already reached a finale, but after all is said and done, not everyone can find people who share their vile habits.

There are inevitably some people who aren’t cared for by their grandmas or loved by their uncles or even acknowledged by dogs, relying on no one, not fond of anyone, mouth always spurting blood, biting whoever they catch. Unfortunately, that Master Zhao is such a person. It is pitiful that Zhao Daren always bites people, opening his bloody mouth like a sacrificial bowl, and biting determinedly and ferociously, but as he now tried to rack his brains to figure out how to righteously curse this person who should be cursed, looking for the perfect way to condemn this blackened person, he was so angry that he couldn’t speak any human words.

He could only tremble uncontrollably.

Jing Qi thought, with this kind of temperament, this person will probably escalate this stupid situation and then start knocking himself on a pillar.

Sure enough, he saw Master Zhao bellow furiously: "This shameless villain! This righteous-looking group full of robbers and prostitutes managed to laze their way into the Imperial Hall, insulting an imperial official! I, Zhao Mingji, may be untalented, but I’ve definitely read a few books, and I know what is proper and honest! It is beneath me to be associated with this cunning, immoral plot!"

After this frenzied outburst, he indeed ran headfirst towards the stone pillar of the hall. Fortunately, Master Zhao was no longer young, and did not have the old but vigorous spirit of Minister Jian, so he ran slowly and was chaotically pulled back by the people standing.

Zhao Mingji kneeled on the floor, with intermittent bouts of snot and crying, howling things like “This saint has been disrespected,” “From now on I will no longer have face”......

It turned out that when this man started to cause a disturbance, it was not much better than a woman, and He Lianpei’s brains were almost exploded by this scene, his face emaciated.

Jing Qi then thought, after such a long disturbance, Jian Sizong probably should have come to his senses, this time it was Minister Jian’s turn to hit the pillar.

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You mentioned in a previous headcanon the possibility of Ruby losing her eyes due to magic. Well, there's this fic called Until We Have Faces where Salem throws Ruby into the Grimm Pool and it turns her eyes blue, making her unable to utilize the Silver Eyes. What if Salem throws Ruby into the pool and it makes her like Salem: irises red and sclaera black and her now a being who craves destruction just like Salem despite it going against everything she stands for.

Hey Miki-chan. Ahaha! Until We Have Faces. Yes I know about the fic and I know it’s written by Lou @xstonehill . I actually still need to read her fic but I do remember when she first shared the very first teaser for it that had Ruby and Oscar in the Grimm Pool. Awesome stuff.

Theinteresting thing is that I’ve toyed with this kind of theory before only inreverse with Oscar. Once upon a time, Ishared a RWBY Musing post detailing the possibility of Salem baptising Oscar inthe Grimm Pool, turning him into her King of Darkness. The thought behind thatwas that Salem had captured Ruby and used her to lure out Oscar, who was herreal target. Then before her own eyes, Salem forced Ruby to watch as she dunkedOscar into the pool of darkness and what emerged from its black depths was a monster in human skin—a being of pure darkness who was not onlyhellbent on the destruction of mankind and the world but was also a man with a burning desire to destroy RubyRose specifically as the negative magic of the waters turned Oscar’s love for Ruby intohate.

Thatwas the idea I played with, at first. However now you’ve made me consider a newheadcanon Miki.

One particular Pinehead theory I’ve discussed numerous times before is Oscarbecoming RWBY’s equivalent of the Golden Cap. You’ve probably seen me make mentionof this. In the Wizard of Ozstory, the golden cap was the cursed artifact used to control the flyingmonkeys. I wanted Oscar to gain the same kind of power so that he may relinquish control of Salem’s Winged Beringel army turning them to his side.

Fromthat concept, this idea evolved in my Oscar’s Luxx theory in which Oscarbecomes powerful enough in his magic to sort of purify the Creatures of Grimm,turning them from monsters of darkness and destruction to beasts of light andpreservation.

I’veeven toyed with the thought of Oscar’s semblance being magic; that way it cantie into how Oscar would become the Golden Cap since the only way I can see him performing such an amazing feat is through magic especially since Salem used her magic to firstly create the Winged Beringels.

Not just any magic either.Light magic. So now I’m wondering something here. What if…as a way to sort oftie all of these ideas together—Oscar’s power is light.

Now here me out with this one. Imagineif… Oscar is the living embodiment of the God of Light’s Fountain of Life andCreation. Like picture Oscar having some sort ofPrincess Yue from Avatar: The Last Airbender experience where as a child, he was blessedby the waters of what was left of the Fountain and thus its magic became a part of him.

OR, as a better example, imagine if…Oscar is like Rapunzel from Tangled in a way. Y’know how in Tangled,Rapunzel’s mother became dreadfully ill and as a means of saving her, herhusband—the King of Corona sort out the magical Sun-Drop flower as means of saving his wife and their unborn child.

After theQueen consumed the flower, its magic was unknowingly passed onto Rapunzel during childbirthturning her into the personification of the Sun-Drop Flower.

Imagineif…Oscar’s story was like that. He had a mother who became very ill while pregnant with him. His worried fatherheard stories of a secret place in Northern Mistral that was believed to be a sacred domain inancient times.

There were stories throughout Mistral that spoke of a magicalfountain that’s been known to heal anything. It was even said to bring someone back fromthe brink of death or something to that extent.

Imagine if…Oscar’s father, in his desperation, went in search of said fountain. He eventually foundthe remnants of it but all he could salvage was a small vile of the Fountain’s waters.

Taking that home, Oscar’s father fedto water to his wife. To Father Pine’s surprise, the legends of the Fountain’s magic were proven true. The next day, the farmer awoke to his wife being alive and well again. In time, their child was born—a beautiful baby boy; healthy and perfect in every way.

They named him Oscar—a fitting name for their golden boy

But unbeknownst to the new parents, the magic of the fountain wasalso passed onto their baby. Thusmaking Oscar the living embodiment of the Fountain of Life and Creation.

Yeah, yeah, I knowthis is one hell of a stretch with this headcanon. However admittedly, it would be cool if it was revealed that there was a connection betweenOscar and the God of Light’s fountain. I doubt this will be canon but…ey, Iguess it can work as a crack theory of some kind.

I think it really would be interesting if Oscar turned out to be light incarnate. Thathe is the magic of the God of Light in human form. I mean, technically healready is via Ozma.

Butit would be even more interesting if there was something else connecting Oscarto the God of Light that kind of helped pave the way as to why Ozpin ended upwith him in the first place. I’ve always liked coming up with ways in whichOscar is proven to be more special than he seems.

It’swhy I’ve never bought into the idea that ‘Oscar is just another life for Ozmato live’. It’s why I never bought into the idea of him being lost to the Merge.The more I think about it, the more I feel as if the series has been subtly settingup Oscar to be ‘different’ than all past Wizards. He will be the one to change it all. If Ozma was the beginning then Oscar will be the end to the vicious cycle of reincarnation that has claimed the lives of so many men throughout history. He will be the last life.

Iguess where I’m mainly going with this is that I’m just itching for Oscar to be Lightitself. If Salem symbolizes Darkness and Destruction then I want Oscar to embody Creation and the Light thatwill finally; not necessarily destroy Salem but perhaps save her?

Even now, this squiggle meister still feels like if Salem were tossed back into the Fountain of Light and Creation again, she’d be fully cured of her darkness easy peezy. I still stand by this theory I made during V6. But y’know, that’s just me.

Iknow fully well that Ruby, as our key protagonist, is the character expected to represent that Light since she has the God of Light’seyes as the onlyliving Silver Eyed Warrior.

However this still doesn’t changethe fact that Oscar shares that light with Ruby. If she has the God’s eyes thenOscar has hispower.

Heck,the Silver Eyed Warriors wouldn’t even exist in Modern Remnant if Henkle—theFifth Wizard of Light—didn’t possibly birth the first pair of Silver Eyed Warriors.

Magicwas the Gods’ power that they gifted to humanity as their proclaimed greatestcreation. I dunno, I guess I just want Oscar’s power to be Light and magic so that his whole thing would be that he can nullify thedarkness with his light; y’know what I mean?

Withhis light, Oscar can transform Salem’s Grimm into his fateful pets for him tocommand. With his light, he can possibly strengthen thepower of Ruby’s silver eyes acting as a fuel to her spark (likesome of us have been speculating).

Andshould Ruby somehow fall to darkness, I can see Oscar’s light being what bringsher back. I actually quite dig the theory of Salem turning Ruby into her pawn.Perhaps this can even play into my theory where both our Rosebuds are capturedand while Oscar is locked away in a tower, Ruby is held elsewhere and torturedby Salem as a means of breaking her.

IfRuby possesses an indomitable spirit then perhaps, Oscar has an unyielding love.

Hisdevotion to preserving life and protecting humanity alongside his love forthose that are most important to him is what fuels his light. And should Salem turnRuby—then I can only envision the light of Oscar’s love for Ruby being whatbrings his beloved rose back to him.

Mostof us believe Ruby will be the one to always save Oscar. Perhaps thiscan be a way he can save her in a meaningful way. What do you think of this @parrot-with-a-mohawk?

Nowall this talk about Ruby falling to Salem is making me recall Disney’s Hercules.Remember that scene when Meg died and Herc confronted Hades to get her soul backand the two made a deal?

If Herc could get to Meg’s soul before he died, shewould be saved. So Herc dives in and his act of self-sacrifice; that willingnessto go to such great lengths to save someone he loved was what finally turned Hercback into a god.

Imaginea scene like that where Ruby is drowning in the Pool of Darkness. Let’s say…Salem turned Ruby and Oscar is forced to fight her. He wins and a defeated Rubyfalls right back into the pool of darkness. This time, Oscar dives in afterher, determined to save her life this time.

Evenat the expense of his own life. Even at the cost of corrupting himself or worsedestroying himself. Even as the dark matter of the Grimm Pool crush and struck at his vulnerable mortal body, Oscar was determined to save Ruby.

Let’s say, at some pointduring their friendship, Ruby and Oscar make solemn vows to each other thatshould either of them fall, the other would do everything in their power to getthem back or something to that liking.

No matter what, the Rosebuds would always be there to look out for one another.

Ruby has always supported Oscar through and through when he needed it most so naturally, he would do the same for her without question. Even if it killed him.Even if the darkness swallowed him whole or tore him apart, he would save her.Because he loved her.

Andjust as Herc turned into a God and saved Meg, Oscar…I guess becomes god-like as the God of Light’s light that’s within him fueled by his unyielding love for Ruby and desire to preserve her life engulfs him.

And to Salem’s surprise, the GrimmPool turns to water as a glowing Oscar, empowered with the radiant golden lightof the God of Light, steps out of the pool, carrying Ruby in his arms—unconscious but saved.

Perhaps there could even be a moment where god-tier Oscar kisses the sleeping Ruby and restores her back to original form and she awakens to his glowing face, beaming back at her.

That’swhat I’m seeing here.

Now that I’ve mentioned Oscar becoming god-tier, it’s making me think back to a discarded Pinehead headcanon that I never shared where something happens to the God of Light and Oscar, sharing the God’s light within him, ends up becoming the new God of Light in his place. Similar to how Yue became the Moon in Avatar, replacing the former Moon spirit that was killed by Xiao.

Like imagine if Salem succeeded in killing the God of Light and Oscar becomes a God of Remnant with his animal motif being the phoenix which represents rebirth.

That would be so dope if canon.

But again, this is just me spouting ideas as always. What do you folks think?

~LittleMissSquiggles (2019)

#rwby #oscar pine #ruby rose #ruby and oscar #rwby rosegarden #rwby theories #miki-13 #squiggles answers #pinehead headcanons #squiggles pinehead headcanons

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