The More I Think About Shen Yuan The More I Object To The "he's The Nice Shen Qingqiu"

The more I think about Shen Yuan the more I object to the "he's the nice Shen Qingqiu"

Yes he's nice to the Peak Lords

Yes he's nice to Luo Binghe

Because he likes them

He comes into the role of Shen Qingqiu already thinking of Yue Qingyuan as his big brother and excited to meet Liu Qingge and Luo Binghe (to different extents)

He basically slices Ming Fang with a knife and only stays nice to him after he unlocks OOC because he realise Ming Fang is actually fine when he's not near Luo Binghe and he realises he has the power to influence to him to stop being such a dick

He's nice to Ning Yingying because she's a wife he didn't mind but he's also really dismissive and rude towards her in his head (and all the wives tbh) but he knows how to be polite outwardly

But outside of his little circle that he has already determined he likes? He can be and is mean

Like yeah he thought Shang Qinghua was the original goods when he was tossing demon head spiders at his supposed unconscious form but still he was TOSSING DEMON HEAD SPIDERS AT SOMEONE BECAUSE HE DISLIKED HIM

Like he keeps to convention and he's not rude without reason to new people but he if he doesn't like someone he's an asshole. Most of it is internal because it has to be but when he's Plant Shen he's taunting and snide and acts so fucking weird

Even with Airplane! They are sort of friends but he's a rude little bitch to him! (Which Airplane enjoys)

Shen Yuan is fairly polite as Shen Qingqiu because he is playing an immortal master but mostly because he's usually surrounded by people he actually likes

And he's not as aggressive with strangers as Shen Jiu because he's not working off of Shen Jiu's PTSD

But their baseline is both thorny assholes who nursed on haterade

Shen Yuan just sneakier. HE BEAT UP THE BAI ZHAN DISCIPLES WHO BEAT UP HIS BINGHE BY TRICKING LIU QINGGE TO DO IT FOR HIM

Shen Jiu will tell you he hates you and wants you dead

Shen Yuan will be polite to your face but will dox you online and spread rumours about you that somehow can't be traced back to him