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Omg another HC. So I love the whole transmigrators going back home and looking different from what their loves knew them as schtick. But you know what? I can honestly imagine SQH looking the exact same as his character.
Like. His name is actually SQH irl and nothings changed about him except for his hair length and maybe piercings/tattoos/glasses. Like Airplane fking wrote this character as a self-insert and a sort of love note for MBJ. (He always shipped the pair even if he never wrote it.)
Imagine SY is wigging out about being back and goes into the forums to message SQH to figure out wtf they’re going to do. They exchange information and SQH said he’ll come over. SY opens the door and….
SY: are you fking serious?
SQH: …bro
SY: *wearing a flabbergasted expression* wtf you fking hack, why do you look the exact same?! Fking Mary Sue! No wonder you were born into the character. No creativity!
Then their hub’s find them and they go back home.
After the Immortal Alliance
Shang Qinghua: Okay. I get it. You've had a really hard time lately, you're stressed out, seven people died-
Shen Qingqiu: Twelve, actually.
Shang Qinghua: Not the point. Look, they're dead now and really whose fault is that?
Shen Qingqiu: Yours!
Shang Qinghua: That's right: no one's.
Spy, Writer, God
My favorite trope for SVSSS fics is when SQH lacks self-confidence/worth and, let’s be honest, has depression. It feels like it adds so much more depth to this character.
When writers have it so that we know he created this world but has such little regard for himself. Where he’s written to see himself as a disloyal coward—sure, he spied on the sect and yeah, he’d run from a fight—but he forgets that he almost died for Mobei-Jun. That he helped Shen Yuan with his plant body. That he gave LBH that terrible yet effective advice. I like reading that SQH is reliable when to really counts. (And he’s also a total badass but that’s a different post.)
I love fics that pick up on that. Like, seriously, give me that angst.
The few fics I’ve read that really focus on this are:
Wednesdays are for Kareoke
by: Talthecap
Modern AU. Rated M.
Summary: Shang Qinghua raised a hand to reach out to his friend, a question on his lips. Then he stopped short.
That was an I.V. line.
An I.V. line hooked up to his hand. What in the? Shang Qinghua felt the cotton in his head expand even more as he took in the fact that he was lying propped up in what was clearly a hospital bed, in a hospital room, with hospital equipment hooked up to him. How much did he have to drink last night?
OR
Shang Qinghua wakes up after a suicide attempt he doesn't remember.
Husbands (Imaginary)
by: diamondbruise
Modern AU. Rated T.
Summary: Shang Qinghua tries to divorce Mobei Jun. It goes as well as you'd expect.
so you’ve had a bad day
by: tagteamme
Canon. Rated E.
Summary: Shang Qinghua is not stupid.
It does not take a genius to know what it means when you ask a servant where your lord has left to and they readily supply the name of an exclusive brothel in between the two realms. Especially when it's after your utterly disastrous first time together.
So he goes away for a bit to clear his head. And promptly gets kidnapped
As always: I’m open to recs!
modern au where college dropout sqh DMs a D&D game on twitch that's popular bc he's known to be a terribly chaotic DM
he has his homebrew world that is actually very, very detailed, but since he comes up with his best ideas in the moment, he tends to forget or retcon a lot of stuff. it frustrates players and viewers alike.
but he's also incrediblly good at bringing characters to life, integrating backgrounds, playing npcs that viewers fall in love with, and the world he built is so vast - people often ask for him to write an adventure/setting/world instead of DMing, but twitch is his source of income, so he can't do that
then his party has a falling out; some players disrespect the boundaries of others, sqh's suggestion to use consent sheets, taboos and cards to signify if someone is not feeling up to something is smashed down by half the party who think it's "woke bullshit ruining D&D". At the end of that session, all players decide to quit and sqh is sitting there like "Well, there goes my campaign, guess that's it. maybe I'll rewatch all our videos and painstakingly write that book for money"
enter shen yuan, rules lawyer and note-taker extraordinaire and loyal watcher and hater of the campaign. he's upset that now he'll never get to know the ending of the story, so many npcs still had their motives and backgrounds unexplored! the waste!
so he contacts sqh, offering to be a player for him under specific conditions such as sqh has to get better at consistency, no more retconning, and the other players have to be respectful towards each other, safety tools must be used from day one, etc. sqh decides to take it.
so they start looking for more players - locally, this time, bc the last campaign was played online due to distances. this time, they wanna play at a table. sqh doesn't have many irl friends, but he does have Liu Mingyan, who is always stuck being the DM but would really like to actually be a player for once. lmy brings her girlfriend shl along.
When he finds out that his crush has this hobby and is looking for other players, Luo Binghe becomes a D&D expert overnight.
then sqh's former college roommate mbj, who has been heart broken since sqh dropped out and moved off campus before he managed to seduce him, finds out and jumps at the chance to see him again irl at least once a week
their session zero is not livestreamed; they just sit down at the big table sy bought specifically for this. and things go so well? their group vibe is chaotic but good, they agree on the most important things, and the sitting at the table brings a new level of immersion that sqh has been craving for so long.
in the end, they all settle on their characters. they do not pick up where the last campaign left off - rather, they start from a different aspect of it that doesn't require a story reset.
The game goes so well. It's fun, it's immesive, it's exciting. with sy's note-taking skills, the plot goes much more smoothly. sqh gets excited about DMing again - he actually gets into crafting physical things like notes, a quest board, things like that.
sy, who always claimed that romance had no place in D&D, it's meant for just adventure, eventually very shyly begins a little romance in-game with one of sqh's npcs. lbh and mbj despair a little over it. eventually, sqh outs that npc as a traitor who has been sabotaging the party all along, and sy and his character are both heartbroken.
mbj makes a point of trying to romance pretty much every single npc from then on. his half-orc paladin always just rips off flowers somewhere and offers them to the respective npc. viewers constantly despair over him bc mbj just isn't good at roleplaying and they feel like he hasn't understood what a paladin is supposed to be like, his character lacks the emotional complexity, blabla, he should have played a half orc - but then in a q&a mbj says that he wanted to play a character who is completely devoted to the creator god, who has been sleeping for milennia.
sqh does not get the hint.
that q&a session does remind mbj of his character's motives though, he stops trying to romance every single npc and instead seeks contact and guidance from his god.
feeling cheeky, sqh puts an npc at the paladin's side - a scaredy-cat bard who is actually the creator god's human form after the god had his powers sealed milennia ago for creating something that coud kill the others gods. Since then, he has been wandering the earth in a weak human form while the gods claimed he has been sleeping.
the scene in which that is revealed leads to the first and only on-screen kiss where mbj, overcome with his own and his character's feelings (for once), grabs sqh by the face and kisses him. the chat is freaking out. sqh is in a daze while sy and lmy rip into mbj for violating their consent rules until sqh finally goes it's fine, it was just an in-character spur of the moment thing, he doesn't mind!! please don't do it again but it's okay!! let's just continue the story!!!
mbj, once again despairing bc he finally kissed his crush but his crush thought it was just an in character thing
they have another long talk about consent and boundaries in the group. afterwards mbj wants to talk to sqh alone to explain, sqh just goes on this rant that it's fine, mbj was too in character, he understands that it doesn't mean anything about them and that he regrets it and it was a mistake and mbj, fed up with sqh's lack of understanding, just goes "yes, it was in character, but only because i made that character because i want to kiss you"
and then they make out on the gaming table, the end
Is he asexual?
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Is he aroace?
🧡   💛    🤍    🩵   💙
Is she aroace?
🧡   💛    🤍    🩵   💙
this man WILL appear in your BEDROOM at 3 AM. (GONE WRONG)
Scum disciple’s Self saving system (SVSSS AU) Episode 6: the beginning of his change….?
An Ding, International
Back when I did the Airplane Extras analysis I commented on how Shang Qinghua was away from CQMS for months when the Shens switched because he was on a business trip.
I talked about how An Ding must - despite us all saying it would collapse in minutes without him - be such a well oiled machine that Shang Qinghua can just leave it to go on a sales trip for months at a time, and do that regularly.
I also talked about how fucking weird it is that the PEAK LORD is the one going on these trips and posited that it must be visiting the emperor himself because who the heck else is important enough for the peak lord to go in person?
And then it hit me: what if these sales trips are Airplane taking advantage of his modern and creator knowledge to absolutely curb stomp the silk road?
Of course he would have to go in person! He's the one who knows where Rome should be! He's the only one who knows how the world is actually shaped! He has to go on the first contact missions! Ancient maps of the world had some pretty silly ideas about how the world was shaped!
He's also the one who has some general grasp of what other ancient cultures were like! He's used to short hair from the modern world and wouldn't think Rome was full of disgraced villains! Etc.
Anyway, I just really like the idea that Shang Qinghua's "melon seed sales trip" was really him sailing and driving across a huge amount of the world, doing stuff that would terrify and amaze everyone back home but which doesn't register to Airplane as brave because it's just another fucking storm and big fucking whale, dudes, secure the sails and the goods and let's get this annoyance over with.
my favorite angry man !! part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4
Shen Yuan transmigrates but instead of Shen Jiu just magically disappearing, hes kinda like a virus, cus the system doesn't know how to get rid of him
he ends up just following sy around and judging his life choices (and eventually sqh since he can also see him/system)
tism is tisming
i just want more angry man shen jiu content man i need that man to have a somewhat happy ending please and Thank u
My contribution to MXTX Monsterfucker Week (#mxtxmfweek24) part of a collaboration with @crimsonrainseekingflower, who wrote an amazing GYX/ZZL fic!
"Shidi, you should have dressed more warmly. Even your face has turned red!" liushen for
@lomlaling's prompt for @SVSSSAction
see the really fun thing about luo binghe for me is we're taking the established critique of a certain style of protagonist, the guy who goes killing and fucking his way through the world, accumulating victories and treasures and bitches and wreaking deserved vengeance,
the critique of this kind of fuck-emperor (i'm told many centuries established in chinese literature) that he is very clearly miserable.
that you don't live like that unless there's a gaping hole inside you that no amount of sex or power can do anything to fill, and yet you can't find any other way to even patch it over.
and then it's like. okay so why is he like this. does he have another option. the narrative doomed him to this; he is the audience's little toy. he is the audience's collective scream. he is the cycle of abuse made flesh. he is thirteen years old forever. at what point was he still salvageable. could he have ever saved himself.
and the answer to that last one is simultaneously no, he could not, people aren't made to be alone, how can you learn to be good and happy when the world gives you nothing but pain and betrayal; everyone needs a little kindness, sometimes all anyone needs is just a little kindness. but also:
he was always the only person who could.
a prompt from the SVSSS Gotcha for Gaza, a gift for SpiritOfFox based on their fic "Your Messiah Calling". SQQ is a paladin of the God of Light and Mercy, and LBH is the Demon Lord the God of Evil
I love it when a Danmei make fun of a certain cliché or genre but has serious message under it. I love intriguing comedy if that make sense. Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System) make fun of Stallion novel. You Yao (Are You Ok) make fun of transmigration genre. Tian Ya Ke (Faraway Wanderers) make fun of Wuxia. Mozun Ye Xiang Zhidao (Devil Venerable Also Wants To Know) make fun of Cultivation world.
Tianlang-jun: Master Shen, can I offer you something? Water? Tea? My nephew's hand in marriage?
Shen Qingqiu: what?
Tianlang-jun: Perhaps wine? Some snacks? My sons hand in marriage?
Shen Qingqiu: I-
Tianlang-jun: Tanghulu? Congee? My hand in marriage?