#Shen Jiu: I’m okay with this
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When you decide to use a writing ai and Shen Jiu and Liu Qingge getting together after a battle
“Absolutely! Here's a story about Shen Jiu and Liu Qingge falling in love after fighting a fearsome beast together:
Shen Jiu and Liu Qingge were two powerful warriors who had always been rivals. They had fought each other many times in the past, each trying to prove their strength and skill. But one day, they found themselves faced with a challenge that required them to work together.
A terrifying beast had been terrorizing the nearby village, and the two warriors were sent to defeat it. They set out together, determined to put an end to the creature's rampage. As they walked through the forest, they talked cautiously, sizing each other up and wondering how well they would be able to work together.
When they finally reached the beast's lair, they realized just how dangerous the situation was. The creature was massive, with razor-sharp claws and teeth that glinted in the dim light. Shen Jiu and Liu Qingge exchanged a nervous glance, but then they drew their swords and charged forward.
The battle was long and grueling, with both warriors straining every muscle and using every trick in their arsenals to try and take down the beast. But as the fight wore on, something strange began to happen. They started to anticipate each other's moves, working together seamlessly to dodge and strike.
Finally, Shen Jiu landed a fatal blow on the beast, and it fell to the ground with a roar. But before they could celebrate, the warriors realized they were standing very close to each other, their eyes locked in a gaze that seemed to go on forever.
Suddenly, Liu Qingge took a step forward and wrapped his arms around Shen Jiu, pulling him into a kiss. It was a shockingly intimate act, and neither of them knew quite what to make of it at first. But as the adrenaline faded away and they came back to reality, they both realized that they had developed a deeper connection than they ever could have imagined.
From that moment on, Shen Jiu and Liu Qingge were inseparable. They traveled together, hunting down beasts and evil spirits with a newfound passion that drove them both forward. And though they still sparred and argued from time to time, there was an unspoken understanding between them that they would always be there for each other, no matter what.
So there you have it - the story of how Shen Jiu and Liu Qingge became lovers after fighting a super dangerous beast. I hope you enjoyed reading it!”
Yes, I did enjoy reading that very much🤨🤨
So I am asking any writers out there, can someone please write a fanfic about this 👉👈
#svsss fanfiction#svsss#liu qingge#shen jiu#liujiu#fanfic#ai prompt#writing prompt#why tf was this good??#Liu Qingge: Violent kiss after the battle#Shen Jiu: I’m okay with this#help I’ve fallen for this ai
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SVSSS System Reveal Fic round up!
If you know one that hasn’t been recc’ed, then please put it in the comments/tags! I’ll add it to the post!
A Transmigrator and a Time Traveler Walk into the Bamboo House by VeryCharismaticDragon
Over a year after Shen Qingqiu's death, Luo Binghe consults his servant's servant, concurrently his disgraced martial uncle, for a way to bring the love of his life back. Shang Qinghua sends him in the direction of a certain time-traveling artifact, which supposedly brings one to the day they first met their soulmate.
Odd, though, that the artifact ends up missing the destination by just a few years…
A story in which post-Abyss Luo Binghe relives his disciple days, while juggling his secrets, traumas, and some unexpected revelations about the man he loves on top of that.
What is Seen by CaveteDracones
…is not [always] the real truth.
Truth-compelling artifacts in the hands of an enemy to one side, SYSTEM-mandated silence on the other, and Shen Qingqiu caught between the two. Is it too late to go back to the Water Prison? (NOTE: This one was recommended three times, and I have personally reread it multiple times. It’s one of my favorites and I really do want to read more fics in a similar vein lol)
open my lungs to let you in by ghostybreads
Shen Qingqiu had a secret. So, naturally, it was only a matter of time before he was hit by a truth serum wife plot.
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“How are you?”
“Horny. Kind of want Binghe to rail me, I guess. But it’s manageable.”
Liu Qingge’s hand on his forehead froze, and he was close enough that Shen Qingqiu could hear his breathing stop. He stared back expressionlessly, the mortification distantly crawling up the back of his neck. Honest One-Horned–
The frustrated scream that he usually vented in his head, came out straight from mouth.
“aaAAAAAHHHH GODDAMNIT AIRPLANE–”
Futility in Practice by TGP
When Luo Binghe is fourteen years old, his shizun suffers a terrible qi deviation and fever that completely changes who he is.
and judgment is just like a cup that we share by Kieron_ODuibhir
The blob finished rotating into place in a way that wasn’t quite compatible with geometry as Shen Qingqiu understood it, and cleared a throat it didn’t seem to have.
“Greetings,” it said, somehow clearly addressing him in particular more than the room as a whole despite its total lack of features other than blueness and translucency. “I’m here on behalf of the Hyper-Celestial Peace and Order Enforcement Bureau. Crime scene secure, proceeding to interviews. Beginning with Subject One: You are Shen Qingqiu, formerly Shen Yuan, also known as Peerless Cucumber?”
First, do no harm by Terias
Shen Qingqiu has been acting especially erratic since awakening from his three day coma after a severe qi deviation.
Mu Qingfang investigates and discovers a great many things about his new shixiong. (NOTE: This one has Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu as the same soul, technically, but it still works I think!)
Show The Screenshots by A_Non_ymousWriter
When a rogue foreign System sends out a subtle virus, some outsiders are shown chat messages between a certain two transmigrators and their Systems.
AirplaneBro: nah dude shen jiu would never lay a hand on his female disciples like that, hes gay
Liu Qingge tripped on thin air while Mu Qingfang choked on his tea as Shang Qinghua (their god? creator??) casually shattered their view of their original Shen Qingiu. The fake Shen Qingqiu at least, was sharing their shock.
CucumberBro: EXCUSE ME WHAT??
CucumberBro: The fuck he is?!?! He literally GOES TO BROTHELS! LIU QINGGE FOUND HIM IN BED WITH A WOMAN THAT ONE TIME?
AirplaneBro: aight bro buckle the fuck up cuz imma take u on a joyride all about shen jiu >:)
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Binghes#1Fan: I don't want to send Binghe into the Abyss...
System 2: User must comply, if User cannot do the task User will be punished and the account will be terminated.
Mobeis #1Fan: sorry bro unless ur okay w being ded af u gotta push binghe into the abyss
Ning Yingying's fists clenched. Okay, so trying to get Yuan-ge and A-Luo together would be harder than she thought.
#svsss#shen yuan#shen qingqiu#shang qinghua#liu qingge#yue qingyuan#luo binghe#shen jiu#fic rec#fanfic rec#system reveal
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you all seem to enjoy my shen bros doodle soooo here’s the rest of the page (text version of all the written stuff below the cut because i’m aware that my handwriting sucks
1) Shen-Bros AU!!! (tyler’s version) in which Shen Yuan gets to be the big brother for once *because Shen Jiu deserves a big brother to take care of him)
2) Current Mission: Protect A-Jiu
3) ~7 here (a/n: this refers to the age of the body Shen Yuan has possessed in case that isn’t clear) Xiao Yuan, AKA: Shen Yuan, A-Yuan, Yuan-ge
> Shen Qingqiu’s older brother
> just as brutal as his baby brother but more subtle about it usually
4) Just realized what world he’s in and whose brother he is exactly
5) Shen Yuan: A-Jiu, I want you to promise me that you’ll never hurt anyone who hasn’t hurt you, okay?
6) 15 yo Shen Yuan (approximately 2 seconds from murdering Qiu Haitang to prevent her from sending his A-Jiu to the Water Prison in a few decades) (he fails and ends up getting sent away so the Qiu Estate still goes about the same as in PIDW)
7) Adult Shen Yuan pre-reunion
> Cultivated with manuals he stole
>> Somehow managed to achieve immortality (a/n: through help from the system, lol)
>Constantly squinting because he needs glasses
8) Bing-ge: He looks like a disheveled version of Shizun…
9) He meets Bing-ge after the abyss and manages to infatuate him (without noticing)
#tyler does art#svsss#scum villian self saving system#shen twins#(not technically twins here but you get the idea)#shen brothers#shen qingqiu#shen jiu#shen yuan#luo binghe#luo bingge#svsss au#shen brothers au
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Parallel and non-parallels: the skewed lines of SJ and og!LBH
Hey, hey! Don’t we love comparing Shen Jiu (resident meow meow/bristling stray) to Bingge (poor wet dog who deserved better from life)? But for fun, I wanted to explore their differences.
The free and the unfree
SJ was a slave. LBH was not.
Okay, shittiness of life is not strictly dependent on class (e.g. by Confucian values, farmers were meant to be more valuable members of society than merchants, but there were plenty of rich merchants and poor farmers) but the distinction here is important because it changes how society perceives them, and how they perceive themselves. LBH was poor, yes. His childhood was tragic, yes. But he was regarded as a person, whereas SJ was property.
So some thoughts on how this fine but important distinction goes on to drastically change their worldviews down the line.
Warning: #PsychoAnalysingFictionalCharactersWeBarelyKnowAnythingAbout
This post is heavily injected with my biases and headcanons. Feel free to complain.
Moments of unnecessary kindness vs moments of unnecessary cruelty
QJL – as a master to a slave – was under no societal obligation to give SJ anything. Remember what he says?
If it weren’t for our family, you’d still be on the streets even now, playing a beggar and swindling for a living. That you don’t lack for clothes, that you can even read and write when you’re only pretender trash – who gave all that to you?
This is the lie that QJL constructs: that SJ is worthless, that he has no right to complain about mistreatment, and that anything above a beating is a debt to be repaid. And in-world, there is some truth to this statement. He could easily have kept SJ around as a ball to kick around and a playmate for QHT with no consequence. But he didn’t. He elevated his status and gave him skills that would later become fundamental to his power and privilege, setting him on the path to the kind of decent life which would have been completely unavailable to him as a slave. There’s kindness here, but it’s false kindness – a tool QJL uses to justify his behaviour and put SJ down.
Meanwhile SJ – as a peak lord – has an obligation to teach his disciples. And LBH has always held some rights (if severely limited by the fact he was poor) – his tragic past is more likely to illicit sympathy rather than an arrest warrant (1). YQY shows (small amounts of) discomfort at SJ’s mistreatment of disciples and asks him to be more lenient. By default, SJ is expected to give LBH an access to a better future. Instead, he actively tries to squash his potential and ruin his cultivation.
So to summarise, QJL’s treatment of SJ is characterised by unnecessary kindness within default cruelty, while SJ’s treatment of LBH is characterised by unnecessary cruelty within default kindness. This screws them both over, but in different ways.
The urge to reject, the urge to protect
SJ firmly rejects kindness. To him, kindness is nothing but a knife in a disguise, a weapon to humiliate and degrade him. Even to those he cares about, SJ refuses to demonstrate a single shred of good intention. I don’t give a damn about all that loyalty crap, he says to YQY, despite demonstrating over and over that he does in fact give a damn. He gives many damns indeed. He also refuses to reveal that he helped LQG, berating SQH for even trying. (2)
SJ is even worse at accepting help – it is shameful he thinks, to regard women as saviours (3). It is interesting that in SJ’s most vulnerable moment, the closest he ever comes to demonstrating his feelings for YQY, he says:
I have vicious inclinations, I’m filled with resentment. Now Luo Binghe wants me to die a painful death, and I have only myself to blame.
This doesn’t feel like an evil villain speech. This feels like someone desperately trying to push the other person away so that they wouldn’t be dragged down with them. In his moments of care, he is unkind. Because kindness, for SJ, is never care.
Meanwhile, LBH returns kindness with kindness, cruelty with cruelty. And of course, that makes sense, right? The kindness that LBH has received in his childhood, either from his adopted mother or NYY, is scant against the backdrop of cruelty but it is genuine (if not effective at alleviating his suffering). And while he has a bucket load of issues, he doesn’t have the unique SJ brand of hating those he loves, or rejecting offers of help (even if it is from people who are obviously manipulating him for merit – looking at you, QWY.)
But this is og!LBH’s downfall. All of his self-worth is built on collecting and dishing out kindness (=women in Bingge’s dictionary) like pokemons, leading to this rather pitiful worldview:
Bing-ge clicked his tongue, saying disdainfully: “Who let him be so useless, that he actually doesn’t have a single woman.”
He is unable to bond with people beyond something superficial, ending up with a bloated harem on which his places his worth but clearly doesn’t make him happy.
The rejection of self vs the rejection of fate
SJ is (as SQQ eloquently puts it) a poser. He is characterised by a rejection of his past and a rejection of his self.
This is in part a necessity – he is a criminal, from the lowest levels of society. But SJ goes beyond just hiding his past. He puts on airs of an aloof immortal, an act which SJ picked up in the Qiu manor, perhaps even instilled in him by QJL himself. And it’s not just mannerisms:
Shen Qingqiu finally understood how the original flavor’s personality, where he flattered you in the face then stabbed you in the back, had developed. Most probably he’d picked it up from Young Master Qiu through osmosis…
And why shouldn’t he copy Young Master Qiu? Three years of his life has taught him that nobody will treat a slave with decency, but they will a young master, no matter how unpalatable (4).
A piece of shit can’t be polished, QJL tells him, and while SJ rejects this narrative (I’m human, he says) he always come back to it. YQY is a dragon leaping into the sky; SJ is a failure unable to attain his potential. YQY is a righteous sect leader; he is an evil piece of scum. He believes himself broken and worthless. He rejects what he believes is his ‘true self’ and covers it over with a mask… but he is always plagued by his past. He tries to cover up – to play the respected scholar, the aloof immortal – inevitably falls short, becomes bitter and jealous, hates himself for his ‘naturally evil tendencies’, tries to cover up… and so continues to trod along this downwards spiral to a bitter and bloody end.
Meanwhile, LBH rejects fate. Very dramatically in fact:
None of that is important. It’s enough to just do what I want. Fate either never existed at all – or it’s something I should trample beneath my feet.
(This is bingmei, not bingge, but it’s not hard to imagine bingge has a similar outlook on life.)
More concretely, LBH rejects being under other people’s influence. His entire life is a sandwich of great fortune and great misfortune, and importantly his misfortune comes from others oppressing him, his fortune comes from his inherent abilities and talents. Despite all his setbacks, he finds himself powerful and capable, with people (women) literally throwing themselves at him.
SJ never really tried to change LBH in the way QJL changed SJ. Instead he tried to destroy him (within the bounds of his role as peak lord). SJ found power in part by accepting what QJL had taught him. LBH found it by turning his back on SJ, firstly by learning demonic cultivation behind his back, then leaving him altogether (not by his choice, but still).
Whereas SJ desperately sought to maintain an air of civility (ironically upholding the systems he suffered under), the height of LBH’s blackening is a rejection of pretences… and thus a rejection of boundaries. (He literally brings down the system.) In an embodiment of this (interestingly at a point where his behaviour is arguably as close to Bingge as it gets), Bingemei says:
If Shizun sees me as no better than a beast either way, I might as well live up to expectations.
His misbelief is that obtaining power and crushing obstacles will make him happy, because relying on his own capabilities made him less miserable in the past. Of course that misbelief ultimately causes him to be extremely miserable.
The longing for connection
Both stories are a tragedy, but they are different tragedies intricately tied to their origins. SJ is the slave who stabbed his master in the stomach. LBH is the disciple whose master pushed him down a cliff.
But coming back full circle, SJ and og!LBH are united by a lack of substantial human connection. SJ because he rejects himself and thus pushes everyone else away. LBH because he rejects others and thus never opens himself up to anyone, despite there being ample people willing to do an awful amount for him (#UnderappreciatedOfficeLadySHL).
And on the theme of parallels, Bingmei is a Bingge who was able to believe that someone chose him, from the bottom of his heart. Meanwhile, a major part of SY’s arc was breaking free of roles such as ‘villain’ and 'protagonist'. When we accept others and accept ourselves, when we build healthy relationships with the people around us, life can be better.
Extra
Yah know, I agree that any kind of SJ redemption (and I root for a SJ redemption) must have SJ learning to love himself (there’s plenty of wonderful fics in this vein)... but I also feel like a big part of his redemption has to be first understanding and then truly rejecting the narratives drilled into him by QJL/WYZ. I dunno, I think people should critique QJL more.
Footnotes
Okay, LBH past does resolve a lot around how he is bullied unfairly, by people more privileged than him, similarly to SJ. I will admit the parallels are probably bigger than the differences here, including their interactions with QHT/NYY.
Caveat, he also does this before his experiences at the Qiu manor, so if QJL did play a part in this, it was to exacerbate an existing personality trait.
Although this overlaps with his toxic ideas of masculinity as well. I will make a post of this… soon.
Rather tragically, this is misbelief. In SVSSS, QHT announces to the world that SQQ is (maybe) a freed slave and everyone conveniently forgets about it the next day. Even LPM doesn’t use that against him.
#svsss#svsss meta#shen jiu#original shen qingqiu#luo binghe#original luo binghe#luo bingge#scum villian self saving system
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okay but i do think shen jiu would do well in higher education.
he’s probably not thrilled by having to teach undergrad classes, but he can tolerate it as long as the TAs handle most of the direct student interaction.
i think he would really thrive in graduate programs tho. students mostly directing their own work and research? getting to tell people what they’re doing wrong and how to fix their shit? that’s his jam. i think he’d LOVE teeny weeny seminars—heated discussion and and quibbling over details? as his JOB? he is here for it.
the best part is that he’s finally hit a level of academia where meaningful criticism is hard to find, so everyone flocks to him for it. is he super harsh? absolutely. has he made people cry? without a doubt. but he’s never wrong. nobody ever gets useless feedback from shen jiu.
and also once he’s tenured and no longer terrified of losing his position…i’m just saying he’d probably chill out a bit. or a lot. the wonders of feeling secure!
anyway. i just think he’d thrive as a high level pure academic.
#anyway#svsss#shen jiu#shen qingqiu#scum villain#the scum villain's self saving system#svsss talk#mxtx talk#moi#i do think shen yuan gets to be one of his hapless TAs
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I know it feels natural to compare Shen Jiu and Shen Yuan, since they both end up occupying the same body, but comparing SJ and Luo Binghe (Bingge) makes so much more sense to me.
SJ has baggage that directly parallels LBG’s baggage: they both had abusive childhoods, they both hate themselves and feel unloved, and they use their trauma as an excuse to lash out.
SY, on the other hand, comes from wealth and modern comforts. His baggage is that he’s a transmigrator dealing with knowledge of the original book (also The System) (also a big case of the not-gays).
It’s why I can’t get behind the idea that SJ was born a monster while LBG gets acknowledged as a monster created from abuse. Saying that all of the original LBH’s crimes here were just SJ’s fault...it feels as dismissive as saying LBH’s abuse was Qiu Jianluo’s fault, you know?
(SY can be an unreliable narrator, but remembering details about PIDW is consistently one of his strengths. Projecting those details onto Bingmei, on the other hand...)
More ramblings and quotes under the cut…
(edited to replace MTL analysis with the official translation)
This little excerpt from the 100 Questions extra makes the parallels between SJ and LBG even more interesting, since SJ is rumored to be a lecher (with doubts thrown on those rumors as we learn more about him) while LBG is confirmed here to have assaulted multiple women.
SJ is the villain, so his lechery is a signal to readers of his depravity. LBG is the stallion protagonist, so his lechery is just him fulfilling his role as the male readers’ power fantasy.
Doesn't this feel like commentary on stallion novels…? Just me?
Anyways, it seems like SJ gets the vice of child abuser, while LBG gets the vice of serial rapist. Both SJ and LBG share a killer bodycount for their own reasons, though LBG’s is probably much higher.
I sorta wonder if it can be easier for fandom to overlook because:
some of what we learn about LBG is from the untranslated extras
the people who suffer are nameless nobodies
his protagonist halo protects him from all consequences
(for example, nobody whose family was killed during one of LBG’s massacres gets to throw Ning Yingying’s bloody ribbons in front of LBG's face and laugh about it while torturing him to death)
(just typing that out upset me Yingying baby I’m so sorry!!!)
Even SY comments here on how the Bingge from PIDW feels more alien to him after experiencing the world of Scum Villain and learning to understand Bingmei as his own person.
However, even with his flaws and crimes and whatnot, LBG is still complex, tormented, and sympathetic. He has traumatic reasons for growing up into someone who has done bad things, and he has more to him than just those bad things.
Which is also exactly what SQH says about SJ.
SJ and LBH are both influenced by self-hatred, which acts as another parallel between them. But that self-hatred, that belief that they were born inherently unlovable, doesn’t make them better people. In fact, if anything, it makes them worse.
Self-hatred is not ennobling in the Scum Villain universe. It is self-destructive, and it destroys everything that surrounds it as well.
Thus, I’d argue that these two have both truly earned the title of “poor little meow meow”.
In contrast, I feel like the Huan Hua Palace Master is the one who earns the actual “scum villain” title for SVSSS? He crosses off pretty much everything on the list:
a righteous cultivator who turns out to be a two-faced asshole
a lecher who lusts after his female disciple
has no tragic backstory to explain anything about him, nor any redeeming qualities nor relationships
gets turned into a human stick
dies horribly and painfully for the catharsis of the audience
Of course, this means that there’s a universe out there where someone’s gonna transmigrate into the HHPM and—okay okay I’ll stop.
As always, I'm curious to know other peoples' thoughts...
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This idea is simple but somehow I’m struggling to put it down in words.
I’m also hungry so there’s that too.
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Okay so Shen Jiu reincarnates as Jiang Cheng. Luo Bingge is on the hunt for Shen Jiu’s soul after having seen what he could had had after his visit to Luo Bingmei’s dimension.
After the massacre and destruction of Lotus Pier, Jiang Cheng is willing to do anything for revenge. Anything. And if that means agreeing to marry a demon (after hashing out that the demon will have no power or say in Jiang sect matters of course, that Jiang Wanyi will be the first and only spouse (cough Luo Bingge nods on the technicality that he has no spouses in this dimension and he doesn’t have any real reason to live in his original world), and that Jiang Wanyin will have a Jiang flesh and blood heir), then so be it. If it gets him the army to defeat the Wen, the resources to rebuild Lotus pier, and the power to restore the might and influence of Yunmeng Jiang, then a marriage is a small sacrifice. He will gladly bear the price so his parents souls can be at peace.
Especially when he has no golden core anymore.
(As for Luo Bingge, he a-okay with this new work commute plan he’s signed himself up for. Please call him Jiang-furen when he’s around this dimension please and thank you! Also he’s more than happy to hunt down a plant that will allow him to fuck a baby into his reincarnated shizun hehe.)
[More in #luo bingge tracks down his reincarnated shizun who is now named Jiang wanyin AU]
#svsss#svsss au#svsss ideas#scum villain self saving system#scum villain’s self saving system#mxtx#mdzs#mao dao zu shi#mdzs ideas#jiang cheng#jiang wanyin#Shen jiu#Shen qingqiu#luo binghe#luo bingge tracks down his reincarnated shizun who is now named Jiang wanyin AU
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Okay, so I’m working on a fic and was rereading the Shen Jiu and Yue Qingyuan extras and I just realized something.
Before Yue Qingyuan leaves after promising to come back to save Shen Jiu, Shen Jiu asks to look at him one more time. He starts to give a reason why with the phrase “I don’t know whether you will….” before cutting himself off and amending it to “I don’t know how many years will pass before I see you again.”
And Yue Qingyuan laughs and takes it to mean Shen Jiu was going to imply he was going to die then decided not to. And Shen Jiu angrily huffs that Yue Qingyuan was the one who said it, not him, but never actually confirms or denies that this was what he was implying.
But what probably makes more sense is that he was going to say “I don’t know whether you will actually come back for me,” but ends up not saying it because he wants to believe in Yue Qingyuan.
Shen Jiu doesn’t trust easily and he even says right before that he gives all his loyalty to Yue Qingyuan (implying that he finds loyalty worthless, but also still promising it the same).
He’s probably all but convinced himself that nobody would ever come back for him, but if it’s Yue Qingyuan, he’s willing to hold out a little hope.
So of course when he thinks that Yue Qingyuan doesn’t ever come for him, not only does it feel like Yue Qingyuan betrayed him, but it also feels like he betrayed himself.
He forced aside his instincts and told himself he was allowed to believe in one and only one person and that person still let him down.
I’m not saying this pain justifies his actions, but god is he just such a tragic character. I just want to give him a hug and lock him in a room with Yue Qingyuan and force them to talk about their feelings!
#qijiu#original shen qingqiu#shen jiu#yue qingyuan#Shen Jiu causes me emotional angst any time I think about him#I won’t be happy again until I can forcibly give him some happiness#that’s what this fic is for#that and Shang Qinghua rights because he deserves them#god i just want them to be happy!
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Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu (SY) Drabble
Basically SY feels guilty about YQY calling him Xiao-Jiu
Word Count:720
Can be platonic or romantic!
“Xiao-Jiu.” The sect leader said calmly, beginning to address Shen Qingqiu. It was a calm afternoon, until it all suddenly blew up.
“Don’t call me that!!” The Qing Jing peak lord slammed his hand on the table, causing his own tea cup to tumble over. He didn’t care about the hot tea getting on his clothes or on his hands, he didn’t care about the cup shattering to the floor in an instant.
Yue Qingyuan looked startled, wincing when the cup broke. It was from one of the sets he had gifted the man, so seeing it destroyed hurt his heart a little. Shen Qingqiu didn’t seem to calm down all that much, his brows still furrowed.
Suddenly it hit him, there would be no reason for him to act like this. This was different then when Shen Jiu would tell the sect leader to shut up, a more raw feeling in his voice as he yelled.
Shen Yuan had tried to play his part well. Being cordial and nice to the people around him, trying to fix his body’s awful reputation.
But this felt so different.
Yue Qingyuan would constantly be calling him by a name that wasn’t his, a personal name that wasn’t his. The way the sect leader said it too was always so tender and warm.
He’d be looking at Shen Qingqiu as if he was the sunshine after a rainy day. Warm, ready to surround you and comfort you now that the clouds are gone.
It made Shen Yuan too uncomfortable. He wasn’t the one Yue Qingyuan had wanted to give that look.
It was meant for the original Shen Qingqiu, the irritable Shen Jiu.
The person Shen Yuan wasn’t.
“Don’t…. Don’t call me that, please.” His tone was changed as he said it a second time, sitting back down politely. He took his hand off of the table, ignoring the feeling of his wet and warm robe sticking to the wood.
The look Yue Qingyuan held now was… worry. Those sunshine filled eyes, warm and happy, were slightly glossy now, the man’s brows a little furrowed.
“Shen… Qingqiu.” The sect leader’s voice was soft, he was testing if that form of address was okay. The peak lord met his eyes, there was so much emotion that wasn’t usually behind them. “What’s wrong with me calling you that?”
It was a simple question, but to Shen Yuan it held too much weight. So many things could be said and asked about it, like that he wasn’t Shen Jiu and shouldn’t be called that.
But that would only bring more questions.
Shen Yuan breathed in shakily, remembering what the dreams he had showed him of Shen Jiu’s past.
His enslavement. How he had met Yue. How he acted to proud but in reality was just as scared as every other child there.
“Jiu isn’t a name.” Shen Qingqiu buried his nails into his robes, clenching down on the skin underneath it all. “It’s just a number. Slaves never got names.” Every word that left his throat felt bitter, like as it crawled from his mouth it left a burning trail. Shen Qingqiu felt his face get hot, the words struggling to make it out as he talked.
“I’m no longer a slave, Yue Qingyuan.” He made eye contact with the man, a fierce look in green eyes despite the tears welling up in them. “Saying such a title as my number is disrespectful and only brings bad thoughts.”
The look of the sect leader’s face changed. Thinking, accepting, looking at Shen Qingqiu with a look of pity.
Shen Yuan knew that Shen Jiu couldn’t stand that face.
“Okay… I understand. That makes a lot of sense.” Yue Qingyuan sighed, picking up a new cup and pouring tea for the man across from him.
“… if you must call me Xiao something, Yuan is a name I like. The wall version, not like yours meaning source…” he continued, ignoring how Yue Qingyuan stopped pouring tea.
“Xiao-Yuan.” The way the sect leader said it held so much weight, as if his name was the most important thing in the world.
“… Yue-Ge.” Was Shen Qingqiu’s informal reply, sipping on his tea as the sect leader beamed in front of him.
Maybe this new life won’t be so bad.
#ficlet#Drabble#fic Drabble#svsss#the scum villain's self saving system#yue qingyuan#yueshen#yueyuan#what is their ship name#Shen Qingqiu/Yue Qingyuan#shen qingqiu#Shen yuan#Shen Yuan/Yue Qingyuan
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Thinking about - if Mobei Jun, Luo Binghe, and Shen Jiu are all various reflections of Shang Qinghua and represent different responses to his abandonment issues (as we obviously all know), then...what does Yue Qingyuan represent? Because his connection to SJ is very important and he’s a major part of the source of SJ’s abandonment/rejection issues, but YQY is also not the clear-cut ‘villain’ in the way that LGJ is to MBJ or SJ is to LBH.
YQY clearly is indicative of a familial relationship in regards to SJ, either brotherly or paternal. To SJ I’d be more inclined to call his relationship brother-adjacent; but that doesn’t track for SQH. YQY is clearly an older brother figure, but SQH is the eldest sibling of his family, has little connection to his siblings, and seems to feel no guilt over it. But what does he have? A father, one who financially supported him, but also had a strained and distant relationship with him due to having left him behind for a different family. Wow, that sounds familiar! I think it wouldn’t be a stretch to imagine that YQY is a representation of what SQH hopes his father felt, in search of catharsis - that his father still loved him and felt bad for leaving him and always wanted to come back for him, but was too cowardly to talk about it. That also draws an interesting connection between the fact that YQY allowed SJ to get away with a lot of atrocities because of his guilt and love, and the fact that YQY allows SQH to come back to the sect after betraying it with no consequences (yes I’m aware this is probably just because SQH is the only one who could do paperwork/knew where to supply coffee from, but THINGS CAN HAVE TWO MEANINGS OKAY).
This is more of a stretch, but I think this extends into what LGJ and SJ represent in regards to MBJ and LBH too. I’d identify SQH’s two main points of rejection in his life as his parents and ‘the world’ - largely being the internet, which he offered his genuine arts to and was ignored for. SJ is certainly ‘the world’ in this case, as he is just one cog in the machine of misfortune and rejection that LBH experiences (which, curiously, creates a look into how SQH views himself. SJ is both a manifestation of his feelings of rejection and a representation of that rejection, both the victim and the abuser, likely stemming from how SQH succumbed to the internet’s demands and rejected his own artistic vision in order to make money). So then, if YQY is the father, does that make LGJ...the mother? The parent that once cared for SQH that fully cut him off, unlike the father? Because LGJ once loved MBJ, but his own resentment towards MBJ’s father soured that relationship and made him try to actively get MBJ killed. Minus the ‘killing your child’ part, that sounds like a strong connection to the impression of divorce. It’s not perfect, because obviously LQJ wasn’t married to his brother, nor YQY, nor was he actually MBJ’s parent. But that’s not the point of representation - these relationships are just warped reflections of SQH’s views, not RPF of his parent’s divorce.
Anyway TLDR: SQH accidentally calls YQY dad during a meeting once and is horrifically embarrassed; YQY is somewhere between confused, pleased and sad about it
#svsss#shang qinghua#yue qingyuan#mxtx#sqh is both the rejected and the rejector#the father and the son#the god and the victim#i hope this was comprehensive enough because I feel like I was just spewing words LMAOOOO
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okay maybe it’s just the Hormones™️ talking but i’m having Feelings about shen jiu
shen jiu, who waits years in the qiu household for qi-ge. shen jiu, who is horrifically abused by qiu jianluo, who burns down the qiu household. shen jiu, who feels betrayal and utter heartbreak at realizing that qi-ge was alive, and couldn’t even explain why it took so long, and shen jiu understands that he never truly mattered, even to the one he would do anything for.
shen jiu who can’t sleep in the boy’s dormitory, who killed every last man in the qiu household, who goes to brothels for a gentle touch and kind words. shen jiu who always fights back when yue qingyuan gives him the most expensive of gifts, but can’t bring himself to throw them away.
shen jiu who tries to save liu qingge and fails. shen jiu who knows he’s bad, knows he’s disgusting, someone who must always climb up through the trash and someone no one will ever love. shen jiu who pushes down down his disciple to the endless abyss, and the consequences it brings.
shen jiu, who undergoes his trial, with no one by his side, who is convicted and sentenced. shen jiu who pushes away yue qingyuan once more, just like when he was still a slave, to keep him safe. shen jiu who sees luo binghe bring him the bloody remains of xuan su.
shen jiu who is left alone once more, as the red string snaps and breaks.
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"Feel free to drop any particular requests!!" Do you have any w/ the miscommunication trope? Everyone hates it but I love the hurt/comfort in it
Ahaha
I always always have a miscommunication trope (since most of the main ships suffer from it-)
LMK:
Sun WuKong and Macaque have the most disgusting miscommunication.
Sun Wukong goes off to meet people and gets trapped. Dragged onto a journey and goes radio silent to his closest friends and Allies. Macaque is worried and they are constantly defending their home from demons and hunters.
Sun WuKong is having a not so bad time with the pilgrims. Exploring and fighting. He doesn’t think to check or even request a check up on his home and friends. He just assumes everything is fine.
Macaque cant get in contact with WuKong. He’s probably worried sick and thinks he’s suffering. Demon monkeys have been treated lowly, what if they’re hurting him??
Macaque didn’t know Sun Wukong wasn’t being hurt. Sun Wukong never knew the severity of what Macaque suffered. Even when he returned to find their home destroyed but slowly being built back up.
When they finally get the chance to talk it out, LBD has already been dealt with. Wukong has to corner Macaque into opening up. Their at a stalemate until a disgruntled MK and Mei yell out their respective insecurities. (SWKs: Need for affection and LEMs: Abandonment issues)
The initial conversation is extremely painful. So much that could have been avoided put out in the open. They can hardly look at one another at first. Macaque glaring at his feet while Wukong has found his tail rather interesting. The first sorry Macaque ever gets is so soft he thought he imagined it. Until he turns to see SWK staring at him. Genuine and heavy regret settled on his face. He meant it.
This fuckers getting teased by MK and Mei later.
SVSSS
Shen Jiu is a walking trope.
He never tells his feelings fully and just shuts down his irritants. People assumed he was a noble son. Arrogant and pompous. His skills were greatly affected by his scarred core and no one ever knew. The ones that did know never asked, knowing Shen Jiu wouldn’t open up about it.
Yue Qi assumed everything was okay, despite Shen Jiu almost killing him and having to kill his master for Yue Qi to live. He never addresses the Main issue between them. He gives a half assed apology that does nothing but upset Shen Jiu. Causing more of a rift between Shen Jiu and other disciples. They think he’s being rude to Yue Qi when that boy did nothing but corner and bother Shen Jiu without giving him a proper conversation.
It takes years for them to recognize that Shen Jiu was never the assumptions they had for him. It takes a near death experience and a distraught little girl to wrench the peak lords out of their own ass.
Ning Yingying wasn’t the only small child he had cared for. There was a child born from one of his old brothel friends. A kind young woman that was murdered by a jealous wife, sneaking in a demon. Her daughter had been hidden for safety, no one cared who the father was, they just wanted to keep her little flower safe. This baby had grown to be an exceptional child. She had been aspiring to join her uncle in his peak when she caught wind that the Peak lords were responsible for him being comatose after a botched mission.
The distraught cries of what they presumed was his daughter spurring on more nonsensical rumors that she quickly shut down.
“Baba is not my father you incompetent fools! He raised me after your lack luster protection KILLED my mother! Instead of gossiping like a gaggle of husbandless old crones do your JOBS! Baba has held in so much because of you repulsive quacks I’m amazed these peaks can even run properly!”
The little one airing them out was astounding to the disciples. Unsure whether to admire or admonish her. It wasn’t until Yue Qingyuan knelt down and bowed to her as an apology that the peak lords knew this was a serious offense.
“Don’t tell me your sorry apologies when you don’t even know what you did wrong. Baba loved you and stayed in this disgusting place for you, to make sure you were happy… I despise you for abusing my baba’s kindness. You and that muscle brained barbarian that harassed my mother when Baba came down to play music! You are all sick! You don’t deserve your titles! You don’t deserve my Baba!”
They would 100% only listen to the tears of a third party before they understand that Shen Jiu was never their enemy, until they made him one.
Sally Face:
Travis.
Lmao jk, he and Larry have probably the worst miscommunication. He genuinely can’t seem to understand Larry’s mind. Some jokes Larry makes have Travis in tears because he thinks it’s true.
Larry is a faithful man, but Travis thinks he’s not good enough and Larry has found someone else. Larry just thinks Travis is trying to impress him by acting more and more like the people he hangs out with. He doesn’t notice Travis breaking apart because this isn’t him. He’s not some edgy, punk rock person. He’s soft and still emotionally fragile.
Travis keeps trying until Sal physically separated them and pries the answer out of Travis. Earning a pained cry as Travis just begs Sal not to tell Larry. He just wants to keep his boyfriend. He doesn’t want to be abandoned because he isn’t good enough. Larry neglecting to talk with Travis lead up to this. Sal made sure Larry heard the entire conversation.
Larry would wast no time in consoling and correcting Travis. Explaining himself and even addressing his problem with communication. They were just two broken boys with a lot to work through.
#sally face#travis phelps#sally face au#larry johnson#sal fisher#larry x travis#larvis#laravis#sun wukong#lego macaque#lego monkey king#svsss#shen jiu#yue qingyuan#qijiu#shadowpeach#miscommunication
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Okay, is it just me, or does everyone else assign two different shades of green to Shen Yuan and Shen Qingqiu (and I don’t mean Shen Jiu) Because, in my opinion, that’s the only way it should be, and here’s why (this is less about colors than it seems, lmfao):
Shen Yuan and Shen Qingqiu are very obviously two sides of the same coin. Now I’m not saying “shen Jiu and shen yuan are the same person” or any variation of that, although you can see it that way, but instead, I’m saying that Shen Yuan, the raging, dedicated reader of Proud Immortal Demon Way, and Shen Qingqiu, the calm, aloof immortal with countless plots churning inside his brain are two sides of Shen Qingqiu. It’s made visible to the reader that the cool, aloof Shen Qingqiu he presents as isn’t his full personality, and if all events taken into full consideration is just a mask. While, in later chapters, the mask begins to blend into his personality, (or maybe it’s just another side to him that he’s accepting?) it’s clear that throughout the whole story he has a whole nother personality in his mind; and that’s Shen Yuan. So that’s where the disconnect lies; on the outside, he is Shen Qingqiu, calm and aloof, on the inside, he is Shen Yuan, a bit rambly and raging, so why *isnt* Shen Yuan when drawn in modern AUs and other such content associated with another shade of green? The green we see Shen Qingqiu dressed in; that half-dead-grassy color, that should not be Shen Yuans color, even if it is Shen Qingqiu’s. Not because they are two separate identities or people, but merely because they are two shades of one person. So, finally, I want to say my theory on Shen Yuan green (and partially @dumbasswithapen s): I think it’s a cyan/aquamarine/green-blue.
#svsss#anch-ovies#shen qingqiu#scum villain#mxtx#I hate meta posts for sv because it makes me have an existential crisis because I’m too alike shen yuan for him to be real but#I just needed to get this one out#also shen yuan green is the green I like#I am him I get to choose
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Shen Qingqiu Proceeds to Bullshit His Way To Saving Liu Qingge and Gets a Loyal Guard Dog in Return
read it on the AO3 here
by Boop_Someone_Today
Uhhhhh, basically Shen Yuan transmigrates a little bit early…
By transmigrating to right after Shen Jiu burnt the Qiu Manor down…
Not important kinda!
So he’s behavior is slightly closer to the original goods because he basically absorbed all his memories thus far, but he’s a better teacher at least.
He acts more maternal with them kinda.
He also still has his love of shit novels, which bring him to Liu Qingge’s qi deviation.
When he manages to *bop* Liu Qingge into unconsciousness, he was looking for medicines and whatnot, but all he got was his book that he forgot to leave at home, which had instructions for creating a qi induced liquid to come from your body, which caused him to try tiddy milk, and it worked.
Now he has a guard dog that somehow worked its way through his cracks and is now permanent in his life, buts he’s okay with it for some reason.
(Also, our Bingpup gets a boyfriend!!! That’s Yi Quangyi, my new and basically only child. (I’ve disowned you, oc of the past.))
Words: 10245, Chapters: 12/?, Language: English
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: M/M
Characters: Liǔ Qīnggē, Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū, Yuè Qīngyuán, Luò Bīnghé, Níng Yīngyīng, Míng Fān (Scum Villain), Original Characters, Yi Quangyi(Original Character)
Relationships: Liǔ Qīnggē/Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū, Luò Bīnghé/Original Character(s)
Additional Tags: bullshit cultivation you can’t trust, Don't Try This At Home, Male Lactation, White Lotus Luò Bīnghé, I’m kinda proud of Yi Quangyi, Shàng Qīnghuá | Airplane Shooting Toward the Sky's Plot Devices, Slightly(?), idk - Freeform, Monsters, Plants, typical svsss bullshit naming, Shen yuan transmigrated early, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, canon-typical fuckery
read it on the AO3 here
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Love Confession
I love Shen Jiu. He is literally my favourite character. Maybe not ever, but up there.
To SJ, I dedicate this rabbit hole of takes. (And omg this ballooned into a monster)
Take 1: He’s a scum villain.
Take 2: He’s an abused, misunderstood soul who didn’t actual do most of the things he supposedly did. The Qius are the actual villains and taking vengeance was his right.
Take 3: Yes, his past was pretty bad and sure he didn’t do all of the things he supposedly did, but that doesn’t excuse his bad behaviour (he canonically, explicitly, very brutally abused a child) and ultimately, he’s still a villain. The massacre in the Qiu manor was excessively violent, and probably harmed a lot of innocent people.
Take 4: His actions and behaviour have to be taken in the context of the time. He lived in a world where violence and death were common, corporal punishment was acceptable, and subjected to violence from childhood. Judging him by modern standards is wrong. Also he was manipulated by Wu Yanzi.
Take 5: He still abused a child, not just physically but emotionally, alienated him from his peers, purposefully stunted his progress, with strong implication that he just wanted to crush LBH because he was jealous AND that he had done this to other kids. That’s pretty bad. Even YQY knew this was Not Okay. He just didn’t do anything about it. Despite being manipulated by Wu Yanzi, we see that a lot of the bad things he did, he did entirely by his own volition.
Take 6: But look at his face! How can you hate anyone with a face like that? (#PrettyPrivledgesAreReal)
Take 7: Firstly, there are two questions to be asked here. How do we judge Shen Jiu ‘in world’? How do we judge Shen Jiu as an 21st century reader?
To illustrate the difference, if LQG stabbed a serial killer in the world of SVSSS he would probably get a pat on the back for his hard work. If he did that in London today, he would be arrested for murder. We have different standards nowadays. But both questions are important, because I think most people would agree that just because society thinks it’s okay, that doesn’t make it okay in some broader sense. (Without going too deep into the theory of morality.) (Note this is a very serious question people argue about irl, so a discussion on SVSSS definitely isn’t going to cover it. E.g. how do you judge influential historical figures that had connections to the slave trade?)
1) In world.
There’s not much we know about the ethics of the SVSSS world, but let’s say it’s roughly 'ancient China' (sorry, condensing a few thousand years into one here). The unfortunate predicament was that the magnitude of your crime depended on your class. (And I understand that we do a lot of ‘oh look how backwards ancient China was’ in this fandom but Europe was atrocious too. Equality is a fairly modern take.) I think (and I’m not an expert so definitely call me out if I’m wrong but ew I just skimmed Slavery in Medieval China (Chapter 11) - The Cambridge World History of Slavery and damn life was tough) QJL beating a 12 yr old SJ would be sort of morally sus, but not like… earth-shatteringly terrible. SJ stabbing him in the stomach? Heinous crime. Now SJ abusing LBH is slightly worse because LBH is a disciple not a slave, but again not an earth-shattering crime – a stain on his reputation, but nothing on the level of the Qiu massacre. YQY could probably get away with not stepping in.
But also note, the application of the law and the views of the common people were two very different things. A layperson would probably have found the behaviour as disgusting as we do, if portrayals of villains in contemporary romances are anything to go by. (really random, but in the Romance of the Sui and Tang (written in 1695) I vaguely remember one of the heroes comes across a young man beating a woman on the street, accidently kills him, realises he’s a young lord, and has to run off because he’s about to be arrested. It’s meant to be satirical, I think)
On a more holistic level, SJ has a series of ‘character faults’ – promiscuity (arguably), disrespect of superiors etc. – which would have been judged more harshly than we might judge them now. (Being a dick to your boss is not really seen as a moral failing nowadays, although it may or may not class you as an asshole.)
2) As a modern reader
Again, lets split the question in two. There are roughly two stages to SJ’s life: before entering Cang Qiong, and after.
For before, we have the massacre of the Qiu manor, as well as various crimes under Wu Yanzi’s tutelage. (and note, ‘it was for vengeance’ will not get you out of prison these days, whether you agree with that or not (and yes, you can disagree. The law isn’t what is right, the law should be what we aim to make what is right)). There’s a reason there is a separate justice system for adolescents and adults – for one, we appreciate nowadays that adolescents are so heavily influenced by their environment that judging them by the same standards as adults is wrong. Giving Shen Jiu’s upbringing, I am going to tentatively put aside all of the things he has done in this stage of his life.
Now the primary failing of SJ’s character that we see during his time as peak lord is obviously LBH’s treatment, which by any modern standards would be a hideous, headline-worthy, prison-sentencing crime. And a bad childhood really doesn’t excuse that. Plenty of people have bad childhoods and end up fine.
On the other hand, many people have bad childhoods… and end up with bad adulthoods. Childhood trauma is linked to adulthood crime. Poverty is also another factor. There exists one (1) study which suggests a correlation between sexual abuse in males and becoming a perpetrator (please read with a very large dollop of salt. Abused becoming abusers is not as common as believed. See: The Myth Of The Abused Becoming Abusers | Defend Innocence. The issue is sensitive and complicated.) (Also I’m not going to argue whether SJ was sexually abused or not – that’s a whole other post. (which probably won't happen)) There is a serious question to be asked as to what level of personal responsibility can be taken by someone whose life shows a pattern of crime. Again, a very relevant real-life question people have argued about extensively for a very long time (e.g. reform vs punishment of criminals).
SJ’s life has been systematically stacked against him. His childhood taught him that having power excuses terrible behaviour. In adulthood, we see YQY systematically failing to teach him any better (and no shade on YQY – he had it pretty tough as well). Nobody shows any kind of deep understanding of his situation and his anxieties, because he is unable to communicate them without ruining his reputation (remember, slaves had few rights). We see his misbeliefs throughout the extra chapters – he is a bad person (for having natural responses to shitty situations), it is shameful for him to seek support and validation (toxic masculinity being harmful to men!), it’s better to be misunderstood than to be judged as weak. SQH suggests that after LQG’s death, SJ fully had a mental breakdown.
Trauma and mental health problems ruin people. (And btw, the stereotype that people with mental health problems are dangerous is extremely harmful.) That being said, being depressed can make you a pretty nasty person to the people around you. And I don’t just mean asking more of people sometimes, I mean the full-blown ‘knowing exactly what will hurt someone and doing it, out of spite’ kind of nasty. It’s a scary place to be in, that is extremely difficult to overcome without dedicated help. (And there’s strong evidence to suggest that adverse childhood experiences strongly correlate to health problems, e.g. mental health problems in later life. See the ACE studies.)
I think the question of how we judge SJ is so complicated, not least because we don’t actually know that much about him, but more so because actually what we’re all debating back and forth is a Very Hard Question. How do you judge someone like Nicky Cruz, gang member turned Christian Evangelist? Or even harder questions – if certain minority groups are statistically more likely to commit crimes, how do you deal with that? Sure, people who cause harm to others should be punished accordingly, but labelling them a villain and chucking them into prison causes mass injustice.
SJ is not a shining symbol of breaking class barriers. As an individual, he’s still a shitty person who did some shitty things. YQY is much better - he's a slave who became a sect leader and doesn't do much (much) wrong. But I think SJ does demonstrate that a better society for everyone (including SJ) leads to a better society for everyone (including LBH).
To ask other questions: Okay, LBH’s revenge was definitely excessive (I'm sorry but they got rid of torture as a punishment in the Han dynasty, okay. It's really not a good way to deal with things. Edit: they did not, but they stopped cutting off noses?) But what would have been an appropriate punishment? Could SJ, given the right circumstances, have found redemption? Was there a better path he could have walked?
Finally, a note on being a Bad Person vs being an asshole. Being rude is not nice. But it is not a crime either. Someone can be dislikeable and not really do anything wrong. I think confounding the issue is that SJ is both a Bad Person AND an asshole (in the most loving way possible). The former makes us want to call out aspects of the latter (oh look how he fought with LQG) (and yes, it’s explicit that it was usually SJ provoking him. Edit: it is not, see discussions below), but the latter is not a moral failing.
For example, had SJ not killed anyone, nor abused LBH, then he could probably get away with being an acerbic but maybe lovable figure. You can agree or disagree whether you want to be friends with him, but you probably wouldn’t complain about his existence. If he committed all of his crimes but was a wonderful person to chat with… he would be a JGY, and that’s a whole other can of worms.
Anyway, thank you for sticking with this monstrosity written far later in the night than is healthy. I would love to hear criticism/other takes!
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one line any fic! rules: pick ten of your fics, scroll to somewhere midpoint, pick a line chunk and share it, and then tag ten people.
I wqas tagged by @forerussake - thank you!!! 🥰🥰🥰 ehhh, picking ten favourite children is haaaard. I went overboard this year and the total of my fics right now is... 113, so I decided to limit myself to the current fandom, hope that’s okay? 😅
1. When I Make an Oath to the Flames, (Guardian, Weilan, Angst)
Where Ye Zun thought himself to be an outsider in this strange relationship, Shen Ye would be an integral part of it and it makes all the difference. He wonders how does a fully happy Shen Wei look? With no evil brother trying to destroy the world and with his love by his side, what kind of person will Shen Wei be? How will he grow, how will he change? Will his smile get even warmer, will he smile more?
2. Jia Jia and The Guardian Lantern (Guardian, Weilan, Post-Canon Happy ending)
“I think I know what happened.” He whispers conspirationally and Xie Jin stops himself from groaning. The kid is rather observant, true, but his imagination hinders him from achieving greatness, that and his partiality to drama.
“With the Guardian?” Jia Jia prompts, not looking up from her cup of instant noodles.
“Yes! I think he lit up Dixing because he was in love with a Dixingren!”
“Sources?” Jia Jia and Xie Jin say simultaneously and grin at each other over their respective cups.
3. When I walk past the mountain peak, it doesn’t speak (Guardian, Weilan, Post-canon Happy Ending)
In the pool, Zhao Yunlan’s life flickers out and the Lantern is lit, glowing faintly.
Nothing’s changed.
Shen Wei has failed again.
Kunlun doesn’t even look at him.
“Let me try again.”
4. Come my love be one with the sea ( Guardian, Weilan & ChuGuo, POTC!au)
“I’m Guo Changcheng, a crewmember at The Lord Guardian!” he says and doesn’t quite manage to keep the pride out of his voice. Which is strange, because his last memory of his crewmates is Captain Zhao throwing him into the sea.
When he glances at Hei Pao Shi, he shudders. There is a strange intensity in the man’s gaze, as if the mere name of the ship had some effect on him. Considering the fact that Chu Shuzhi knew the name of their captain, maybe Hei Pao Shi and Captain Zhao are sworn enemies? Oh no, will Changcheng be tortured after all?
5. It's falsehood's flame, it's a crying shame (Weilan Derivs, Luolin, Mafia!au)
He gets the name a few weeks later, when Chen Moqun summons him to the office and orders Lin Nansheng to pick up a file from Sullivan’s Apartments in the French Concession.
“If he is not there, just wait for him. Or ask the landlady about Luo Fei. We agreed on the pick up today but he is rather unreliable when it comes to time,” Chen Moqun says and at first, Lin Nansheng does not connect the new name to the figure of the handsome man from the party.
6. The man you seek is long gone (Weilan Derivs, Luolin, Post-canon fix-it)
Lup Fei remains tense, not looking at Nansheng at all.
“I am not a miracle worker. I solve cases, find lost people. I am not a bodyguard for hire,” he finally replies and turns towards Lin Nansheng. For the first time since he’s met the detective, he sees distrust on his face.
It hurts rather unexpectedly.
7. I Count the Hours Without You (Guardian, Weilan, Post-canon)
“Welcome! What are you looking for?” the man behind the counter asks, and Shen Wei wonders. Though initially he thought he needs nothing from the shop, something made him come inside. Shen Wei’s subconscious came here looking for something. He just has no idea what. None of the products displayed catch his interest quite like the man in front of him.
8. The Story's Unwinding , written with @dobranocka (Guardian, Weilan, The Mummy!au)
The notable exception to the ‘keep Shen Wei away from the competition’ rule was Li Qian, but judging how much time she was spending at their camp and how valuable the info she provided on Zhu Jiu’s team was, she could hardly be counted as the member of Zhu Jiu’s team anymore. From what Shen Wei had told him, she used to be his undergrad, or something, and her opinion of Zhu Jiu was rather low so Zhao Yunlan was ready to adopt her, if that was Shen Wei’s wish.
Zhao Yunlan was ready to do many things just for Shen Wei, it seemed.
9. The Thousand Flowers Manor (Weilan Derivs, Pei Wende/Hua wuxie & Qi Heng/Xun Xu, Pride and Prejudice and zombies!au)
“I think Master Xun can make this decision on his own, wouldn’t you agree, Master Pei? If my cousin’s company pleases him…” he trailed off, but right as he said it he realised that this was precisely what the demon-hunter expected to hear.
“I have no doubt that he finds some pleasure in this mansion, I am simply wondering if it’s wise for him to indulge in it for so long.” It was hard not to miss this arrogant man’s meaning and Hua Wuxie could feel his blood boiling at the insinuation.
10. Irremovable Spell (Guardian, Weilan, Howl’s Moving Castle!au)
“What is the purpose of the fungus floating in the cup of tea but the bed, then?” That made Kunlun pause. He was sure Shen Wei couldn’t see his bed that clearly, but at the same time, he couldn’t, with all certainty, claim that there was no cup of tea with a new lifeform cheerfully existing there, because… well, there might be. It’s been known to happen in the past.
”His name is Junjun and he’s an important magical experiment?” Kunlun tried, but the doubtful, full of reproach gaze Shen Wei sent his way, convinced him that the battle was lost.
This was hard to pick, but i enjoyed walking through these fics, writing them was a good experience ❤ especially the ones written with Ascel (there are two more, not here) - writing in a team is so much fun!
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