Oh My God. Kudos To Gene Roddenberry And Hope That This Will Inspire Someone.

Oh my god. Kudos to Gene Roddenberry and hope that this will inspire someone.

A hero in more ways than one

Y'all ever just?

*Me scrolling through AO3*

*Sees a fic that looks interesting*

*Bookmarks it for later*

*Never ends up reading the fic, it just stays sitting there in the bookmarks section, untouched*

Hamlet, probably

Horatio: *exists*

Hamlet, holding him: I’ve only had Horatio for a day and a half, but if anything happens to him, I will kill everyone in this room and then myself.

Holy shit you're right

I think Mu Qing taught Feng Xin magic. And generally helped him learn how to do god things.

At the very least, he taught him how to do transformation magic.

At the beginning of the book, Fu Yao suggests that Xie Lian ask someone to teach him transformation magic (probably mq, lmao).

So what we know from this exchange is that:

1) transformation magic can be taught, it's not some innate thing

2) Xie Lian doesn't know how to do transformation magic.

3) Which means Feng Xin couldn't have learned from him when he was a junior official.

But Feng Xin knows transformation magic.

"Is Mu Qing likely to have taught him?" I hear you ask, person I've trapped in my basement. There's a line in the Extras where Mu Qing is frustrated with Xie Lian sucking so hard at sewing.

"I can even teach pigs." Not "I could" but "I can". So he's taught someone previously. Presumably he'd teach stuff to his own officials but I think an official he'd refer to as a pig wouldn't stay in his ranks very long.

So isn't it likely that Feng Xin is one of the stupid pigs he's taught? (As for who else makes "pigs" plural, I don't know, maybe the pluralization is just for flavor??)

But I don't see how else Feng Xin could learn anything like transformation magic that isn't battle related. He wasn't a junior official when he ascended so there was no god to show him stuff. And I just can't picture him reading a book and studying and learning. I can't picture anyone else putting up with him long enough to show him. Mu Qing is the only being tenacious enough to keep on his ass and make him learn something.

Aquarius – no

Y'all I have a FengQing Christmas oneshot and a FengQing flower shop/tattoo parlour AU in the works so expect the oneshot to be released before the end of the year. Yay. I am working one it right now. I just deleted 3 paragraphs off that thing, three long paragraphs. All that work, for nothing. Oh well, at least it lives on in my failure pile.