Day 3) Coffee

Day 3) Coffee

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I don’t like coffee

Inktobertale 2024 Day 2: Where it all began

carpal tunnel speedrun sometimes you just gotta lock in for the blorbo...

Day 6) Hyper-speed

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To understand how everyone feels about shen yuan you have to think of him as a beloved neighbourhood cat. Everyone loves him. If you can get him to sit next to you for a few minutes, you have the right to tell everyone around while they glare at you in jealousy. If he scratches someone, everyone will agree they must have done something wrong to deserve that, because our cat is so sweet and lovely. If you say you don't like him, everyone hates you because what sick fuck doesn't like cute cats?

So you can imagine when someone (binghe) takes the cat that should belong to everyone and decides its going to be HIS own now. The entire neighbourhood would be up in arms. Shen Yuan is EVERYONES cat and they demand he's let back out so they can occasionally get ten seconds to pet it.

But then something terrible happens: the cat decides it likes binghe and wants to stay inside his house. Even when everyone holds the door wide open and tries to lure him out with treats, he ignores it and jumps onto binghes lap. Everyone is devastated. Their cat CHOSE to be with the guy who stole him away from them.

There's nothing they can do other than randomly barge into the cats new home every now and then, pathetically hoping for a bit of his attention while annoying the cats new owner.

That's shen yuan.

People really sleep on how good Shen Yuan is at acting.

At this point in the series, Shen Yuan has been coerced into returning with Binghe and practically locked up. In his mind he thinks telling his captor "I don't want to see you" is the cruelest thing he's ever said in either life, because he dotes on Luo Binghe that much.

Multiple times in the series, he describes Luo Binghe's distress making him feel physical pain. This is a man who carried an unconscious Binghe around the Holy Mausoleum while two other heavenly demons chased him and he didn't have access to cultivation at the time!!! Actual nightmare. There is nothing Shen Yuan won't do for the sake of Binghe's happiness and safety.

And for that whole arc?? Binghe thought his shizun hated him!!

Because Shen Yuan is a poser! He says so multiple times! He acts like an aloof and untouchable peak lord, and he's really good at it. He's good enough to make people think that's who he really is, even if his inner thoughts are the exact opposite.

The way he tries so hard to pretend he's an unfeeling and selfish scum villain is almost as tragic as the fact that he's talented enough to make people think it's true.

Day 4) Frame