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Another one :)

This pokemon has a tendency towards cannibalism and likes to steal baby pokemon from other to raise eat

Poke Xie Lian

Poke Hua Cheng

If you can’t tell I am entirely obsessed with this guy

Okay, I have this head canon where QR is actually pretty normal around anyone who he doesn't consider annoying af, or around people he doesn't have to keep up his persona with (specifically Guzi). And the only reason he acts crazy is so the 'annoying af' people gtfo of his cave.

How is little Guzi doing? Are you keeping him well fed?

My cheep son is doing well! He is a brat though! He thinks he is too good to eat the food I cook! I have to keep buying him food that he will actually eat!! Such a brat!

okay I recently got to Mount Tong’lu in the tgcf books, and I got some shit I wanna say.

Do y’all remember the time I was in hysterics over Qi Rong’s ‘HAHHAHAHA DADDY’S LEAVING! DON’T FOLLOW ME, WHAT A NUISANCE!’ Bullshit? Do you remember when I said that the fatherless community has not forgiven Qi Rong?

Well, we’ve forgiven Qi Rong.

The whole ‘Uhhhhhh I’m totally just fattening him up to eat him! I don’t care- GUZI GET DOWN FROM THERE YOU’LL HURT YOURSELD D:’ Vibe has charmed me. I would like fic recs with these two’s evil found family thank you.

My babies⊂⁠(⁠･⁠ω⁠･⁠*⁠⊂⁠)

(when I remember what will happen to Qi Rong at the end, I want to cry)

TGCF Heaven Official's Blessing - first reread - more things I'm noticing, and how the clues hidden in plain sight work (spoilers)

It's so much fun to discover all the easter eggs. Vols. 1 and 2 are chock full of things you can't possibly remember to connect to events that happen 4 or 5 vols. later. For example, in vol. 2 (Seven Seas edition) at the end of the scene where Hua Cheng beats up Qi Rong in his cave, we learn that Qi Rong is Xie Lian's cousin. This is presented as a big reveal, and it leads us to rethink the whole scene, as we realize that Xie Lian knew all along that the perpetrator of the Gilded Banquet massacre was his own family member. This kind of reveal does two things: 1) It gives us a blueprint for how MXTX is going to unpack her story, to alert us to expect important information to be withheld and then dropped for greatest effect. 2) It distracts us from noticing what *else* might be hidden in plain sight while we're busy unpacking the supposed big reveal. Because there's probably at least one other reveal in there. So, in the cave scene, after we learn about Qi Rong, we get some backstory about him - but it's full of omissions, which we don't realize. We are told that Qi Rong was a big headache for Xie Lian even back in Xianle days. Xie Lian had to fix his messes constantly. For example: "There was even an incident where Xie Lian saved a child, not even 10 years of age, from Qi Rong's clutches. The poor boy had been beaten to a bloody pulp, miserable to the bone." (p. 260) It's only quite a lot later that we get a flashback where we see this event and learn that the child is Hua Cheng, but I did not remember that we are told about it this early. And here it's mentioned as if it's just one more small bit of bad behavior, with no consequences. In reality, it's a pivotal event in the formation of Hua Cheng. Most of that we can put together during the first read. But it's only on this reread that I now see that Qi Rong's vicious attack on a defenseless child is the central crime of his character - the most terrible, indefensible thing, done on a whim. But wait, there's more! Because a bit earlier in the cave scene, when we first see Guzi and his father, here's how he's described: "The one child in the group was probably not even ten years of age." (p. 218) In case we didn't get the parallel to HC, MXTX tells us as clearly as possible. Except we miss it because we don't realize it's important. Guzi is the same age that Hua Cheng was when Xie Lian rescued him from Qi Rong. [Edit: technically, HC is a little older, around 10, but looks much younger because his growth was stunted by maltreatment. The parallel remains intact, though.] So what's even more important is this: later, when Qi Rong adopts Guzi and very gradually becomes a real father to him, he is redeeming his original attack on the child Hua Cheng. And at the very end, If Qi Rong has a hope of regaining corporeal form, it's because he protected Guzi at his own expense, saving the child's life. Or else, even better: when he selflessly protected Guzi, perhaps for the first time in all his centuries as a ghost he stopped being resentful. Perhaps he has dissipated, and is at peace.

Pinterest, once again your suggestions are truly amazing!

bro threw his own statue at him

An older version of Guzi, manly takes place after the 8th book.

He's accompanied by SoulFires/Spirits Qi Rong (Green) & Qiu Le (Blue) [oc]

[correct me if i'm wrong but from what i've researched Qiu means autumn, and Le means joy. So together I believe they mean Autumn Joy. Again correct me if i'm wrong, i've never made an oc with a name from a different language/culture.]

It's been 3 years since I drew anything. So there's a best ghost father of Tgcf - Qi Rong!

Wake up guys! New Qi Rong head canon just dropped!

So it's not ever stated to my knowledge how QR died originally right? Also I don't think it's ever stated why he chooses to eat people.

My little brain rot for this little goblin boy is that in his mortal life after the fall of Xianle, he had no resources or help to survive afterwards, so he resorted to cannibalism to stay alive once his food ran out, until that ran out too, leaving him to starve to death. Now in death, he continues to eat people because that was his last act as a human. I'm assuming he had no way of asking for help, as all he had known before was telling people what he wanted, so he likely was driven out of any neighbouring towns for being a Xianle royal, and potentially had to flee any attempted murder (maybe that also explains why he's good at evading Hua Cheng).

This little head canon could also explain his increased madness, though I think he plays that one up as a defence mechanism personally.

This might also explain a bit of his attachment to Guzi, maybe the reason he hides his 'food' from him is because he doesn't ever want GZ to ever resort to what he had to. He also seemingly keeps GZ well fed despite his own preferences, because he would never want GZ to go hungry like he did. Not to say he doesn't struggle to take care of him, and/or outright neglect him sometimes; despite my belief that QR plays up his 'madness' he still very clearly has untreated mental health issues, and tends to put GZ in the middle of that.

Anyway, I'm gonna stop now before the green boy brain rot takes complete control of this blog! But I just wanted to voice some of my thoughts about my boy, I think he's obviously done awful things, but I would've liked to see more context behind his character other than just being a spoiled brat as a kid turned mentally ill, cannibalistic, ghost king wannabe. Despite everything, you can't deny he is absolutely iconic! He might even be one of my favourite MXTX characters!

My new years celebratory art with Qi Ring and Guzi going on a dumb little adventure together <3