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One thing that kinda frustrates me about Shen Jiu fics is that they so often try to sanitize him. Make him nicer/more misunderstood than he actually is.

Like, he was definitely very misunderstood in source material, but he also was straight up a terrible person too, y'know? Both things can be true at once.

The biggest thing is his treatment of Luo Binghe, playing on the idea that it wasn't *as* bad as the characters thought it was. Now, this is just plain wrong cause we know from the extras that SJ gave Binghe the fake cultivation manual with the intent that it would literally explode him. He really wanted to murder that kid, yall. Loony toonz ass villain. Keep this man away from children

And he was definitely a total asshole to all his coworkers, even during disciple days. The other Peak Lords are under no expectation to like him nor tolerate his behavior, especially since they (except Yue Qingyuan) don't know about his backstory (very intentional on SJs part)! SJ very deliberately ostracized himself. His nasty reputation didn't just spring up out of nowhere. He has agency even in other people's opinions of him.

This is particularly notable in his interactions with Liu Qingge. It wasn't "LQG bullies poor SJ and spreads nasty rumors about him." It was a rivalry, a give and take between the both of them. They were both assholes to each other, but clearly, despite the animosity, there was some deeper feeling (SJ being so affected after LQG's murder accusations and then later death). Again, agency is key here.

He's also completely unrepentant until the very end! He will never apologize ever, so no sudden "oh god, what have I done?" heel-turns for him, buddy. If it was that easy, then he wouldn't have gotten human sticked in the first place.

SJ is tragic and sympathetic. SJ is also an awful person and a complete asshole. He's allowed to be both, and both of these sides of him are what makes him an interesting and engaging character.

Edit: holy shit stop interacting with this post everytime I open my notifications I think I’m getting reactions to my more recent shit and instead it’s just this bs. Anyways thanks for 1k notes

sqq and yqy sure are acting strange today...........

(79 encounter a body swap... curse? flower? who knows)

As the venerated CEO of CQ and Co., there are very few who don't trust YQY. Some might think he's biased or soft, but no one ever even THINKS to doubt his unwavering integrity.

Which is why no one second guesses his testimony when he frames a completely different person for the murder of QJL. He's all misty-eyed and somber, giving a detailed testimony of the events he witnessed while on the stand.

And SJ (the accused) is frozen. Terrified, really, as he looks up at him. Because YQY walked in on him. He literally caught SJ red-handed, but there is not a trace of anxiety or even guilt on his face as he condemns some other poor soul instead.

The years pass. They don't talk about it. SJ doesn't ask. They get married.

YQY never lies again.

Yue Qingyuan didn't value his soul like one who possesses their soul does, because his soul belonged to Shen Jiu. In the same way, Shen Jiu swore his life to Yue Qingyuan, and so unlike a man who possesses his life, Shen Jiu did not enjoy it. In the end, neither of them got to keep their life, or soul.

Something about both of them entering Wan Jian's swordhalls for the other, Yue Qingyuan to claim a sword, to put a claim to strength, strength enough to rescue Shen Jiu. Shen Jiu, entering Wan Jian to grasp a physical symbol of what he has carried. The physical bond of his loyalty he cannot abandon, the devotion he cannot sever from himself.

(Something about a sword from Wan Jian tying one to Cang Qiong, so even if Shen Jiu could not belong with Yue Qingyuan, if he belonged to Cang Qiong, and Cang Qiong belonged to Yue Qingyuan...)

Them both bearing the physical symbols of their devotion, loyalty, and desire, affixing those symbols to their waists daily, for years, and in that same day, walking past one another, and feeling only heartache.

Miscommunication is Qijiu’s favorite pastime, you see, because to Shen Jiu, Xuan Su has a bitter meaning: A symbol of how Yue Qingyuan had truly moved past him. How he ascended, abandoning Shen Jiu to a mortal fate, an untouchable immortal cultivator.

Xiu Ya, to Yue Qingyuan. Yue Qi.

A reminder. A symbol of his greatest peace, a monument to his greatest failure. For Shen Jiu could master a sword when Yue Qingyuan could not. Yet, how could Yue Qi not feel comforted by his dearest person’s glorious triumph? To each of them, the other’s sword as a reminder of their greatest pain.

Poetically, PIDW!Shen Qingqiu consuming the shards of Xuan Su. The shards of Xuan Su, Yue Qingyuan’s soul, his broken ascendancy. Shen Jiu consuming that, subsuming it to himself, tying Yue Qingyuan to him, in a way that SVSSS!Shen Jiu did not get a chance to.

It is either the shards of Xuan Su, or a broken red string.

Someone said that Yue Qingyuan is never on time.

To which I thought, and perhaps, this could be true, Shen Jiu is always too early.

Qijiu seems eternally meant to pass each other, never meant to meet.

Shen Jiu, leaving the inferno of Qiu Manor, too early. Yue Qingyuan, finding cold ashes, too late.

Shen Jiu, dying before his time, or at least, his soul departing, too early. Yue Qingyuan, speaking painful truth instead of remonstrating his own folly, too late.

We don’t know what Yue Qingyuan and SVSSS!Shen Jiu’s last words were to each other.

Ashes and tears to go around!

Ten thousand arrows and a broken sword.

The difference between Shen Jiu and Shen Yuan is not that Shen Yuan would never do the things Shen Jiu does

It's that, fundamentally, Shen Jiu will do anything to protect himself except be honest with himself or others and Shen Yuan will do anything to protect others except be honest with himself or others

In other words to compare bingqiu to qijiu

Shen Jiu will commit great violence because he is sure he's right and Yue Qingyuan will permit it out of guilt despite his personal wishes

Shen Yuan will permit Luo Binghe to commit great violence because he is sure Luo Binghe is right to do so. Luo Binghe will refrain from committing violence out of guilt despite his personal wishes

Luo Binghe outsources his moral compass to Shen Yuan but Shen Yuan is outsourcing his rage and violent urges to Luo Binghe

Shen Yuan is not as far from Shen Jiu as people think

More SotE memes upon thee

I think Shen Yuan being Shen Jiu's emotional support chronically ill child is a really fun dynamic

Draw qijiu getting married? Or just kissing?? Maybe?? Please happy new yaoi/yuri!! Men kissing

This is the best i got before the system shouted ooc at me ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

my 7th (and last?) prompt for svsss g4g – pirate sj kidnapping yqy for ransom (submitted by @/lavenderandrue on twitter)

yqy: *lost puppy look*

sj: i might keep him

Luo Binghe X Female Reader Headcanons!

He leaves you for Shen Qingqiu