Black Water Arc :' ) - Tumblr Posts

Is it just me who loves the black water arc? There's so much to unpack but people rarely post about it.

Like you realize that He Xuan would've been an amazing god but found the next best thing, or that Shi Wudu doesn't actually think about stealing He Xuan's fate that seriously because he is the god of commerce, of trading, even the not entirely legal kind, so he doesn't think of He Xuan's fate as anything important because it's just another exchange to him.

Also that Shi Qingxuan doesn't actually want to blame anyone for the situation because they love their brother and knows he would only do something like that because he loves them and He Xuan was his best friend for literal centuries and Shi Qingxuan knew he genuinely cared for them.

And the way Xie Lian reacts. He just immediately wants to help not just because he is that type of person, but because he knows what it feels like to be betrayed by people that you loved, trusted and did everything for.

Anyways sorry for the rant but I just love everything about it.

torture the bisexual brunette man some more

was in the middle of rereading tgcf for the nth time and swd has died (for the nth time)

SOMETIMES HX SUCKS.

so im going to cope with this loss with ~humour~

dont be alarmed by the next few posts i make ig?? :sob:

(my meme btw but feel free to use ig??)

pov: blackwater arc

CANON: HX: tell me why i should not kill you right here SWD: none, just do it SQX: b-because hes my gege, ming-xiong!! HX:IM NOT MING-XIONG *swd dies*

NPAB VERSION: HX: tell me why i should not kill you right here SWD: no reasons, just do it SQX: b-because youre a good man, he x-xuan! (or he sheng idc) HX: ... SWD: ... *swd lives*

how do you feel about shi wudu?

another ask !! tysm bae hehe

anyways, i love him a whole lot! in both canon, fanon and NPAB-verse hes portrayed as a great big bro (sorry swd-haters i just <3 this man so much)! some ppl say hes a hom0phobe or too protective and vengeful but i personally disagree !!

im kinda upset hx killed him in the end bc surely there could be another way?? and this other tumblr post (i forgot the link but if u can recognise it from what i say next lmk!!) explained how the blackwater arc has a HUGE plot hole. like in NPAB-verse hx has sypmathy! everyone BUT jw HAS sympathy in tgcf (im pretty sure thats canon?) so JUST WHY did hx HAVE to kill swd! i get that his family died etc etc but surely theres another way? and we alr know his family went into the reincarnation cycle??? (i think im not sure tho)

(im srry dont murder me for this im js a swd-stan with controversial opinions!!!)

but um yh swd is def one of my fav characters !! <3

ty for asking bae!

(ps: heres a reddit post i js wanted to link that demonstrates my <3 for him: https://www.reddit.com/r/tianguancifu/comments/1ds6cg8/the_way_shi_wudu_is_looking_at_shi_qingxuan_in/ )

yess jelly jelly he fishy

ty for the link !! will def read teehee <3

Omg saw your prev ask about swd and honestly same he's such a bamf. He's literally the strongest elemental god, and his dialogues are so amazing too!!

I love it when ffs portray him accurately (and I tried to achieve that in my own too). The thing about his death is actually funny because according to Mxtx, even Mxtx didn't know why it happening until it happened! Says so in the notes at the end of the book. Like, SWD took the wheel there, and honestly I love him for it.

I have an opinion on why hx had to kill swd tho.

SPOILER WARNING HERE

Hx was already irked with the whole brotherly show of love while he was trying to get his revenge. Like SWD was choosing SQX again and again, right in front of his salad. HX, being the person who was originally sacrificed to SQX, have SWD two options 1- sacrifice SQX for once in your life, or 2- die by the hands of the person who choose over everything else, and swd was like "nope, you don't get your revenge. Im going to die and I'm taking my didi with me" and hx lost it there. Hx is also Xuan, and he was jello that SWD kept picking the other Xuan over him. He just couldn't have SWD choose SQX not only in life but also in death. So he separated the two siblings. Rip swd. He died because the blood was thicker than dead water.

aa hello hello bae hehe

i def agree w you !! and now that you explain, i can see where both u and hx are coming from lmao ! rip hx's salad LMAOO

and tbh if u think abt it hx was probably jelly of sqx in some ff-ed up way XD

yess swd took the wheel indeed !! bro ate and left no crumbs and swd-stans <3 him for that

indeed rip swd, the best elemental god ever

ty !! <33

so blackwater arc wins !!

question timeee !!

I am having a no good very bad time while reading volume 4 of TGCF. o(TヘTo) Just got through the Black Water arc and I am sitting here ready to sob while scrolling through AO3 for fix-it fics to read later.

I would dearly love to just set the book down now and read them all right now, but I promised myself I wouldn't until I finish the whole series. ╥﹏╥

You guys were NOT kidding when you said it got sad. I wanted to cry so bad but I ended up laughing like a mad man and scared my parents

I regret asking this question now that I have, The Knowledge

What is a beefleaf

If you really simplify it, the Blackwater arc was just a really tragic triple date. Three couples walked in and one walked out(fully intact)

There isn’t a day where beefleaf doesn’t haunt me

(im dramatic and saw sad fanart)

There isn’t a day where beefleaf doesn’t haunt me

(im dramatic and saw sad fanart)

Bro Imma be for real, it didn’t click that Huaisang was the like THE guy, it took me like a few minutes

But forgive me for saying, he’s like totally innocent in my book

Ooh new beefleaf art HURTS