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senlin bursts through the heavy front doors of the house, palms braced against his knees as he takes a moment to catch his breath. he’d hurried all the way down from the top floor when he’d heard rina screaming from the open window, sounding almost as distressed as someone who’d just lost their limb or something - but when he glances up at her, she looks… mostly whole…? “holy mother of god on a stick, what happened?”

a wary gaze looks her up and down. senlin finds himself worried all of a sudden, thinking over the fact that she’s new. new, as in she doesn’t know all the ins and outs of the winery yet, still a little green around the edges. “please…” senlin starts. “tell me you didn’t lose a hand in a machine. or a foot. i can see both of your hands right now, but i can’t see both feet, and—“ where was he going with this, again? “just — what’s wrong?”

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“ is that…  is that mold?! ”

this is a nightmare.  surely it has to be.

rina has never seriously helped out at the winery before.  ( or at least she doesn’t think sweeping the cellar counts. )  hell, she was only here now because one of her coworkers offered to take over her camp duties today.  maybe she should have stayed there anyway.  as it turns out, children are less scary and unpredictable than grapes.  they also don’t grow mold and don’t threaten the safety of her parents’ business.  so, you know…  it’s a dilemma.

faced with the tragedy of the rotten grapevine, she jumps up from her previous crouching position and whips her head around to search for her brother.  he’s a smart guy — well, most of the time.  she’s sure he’ll know what to do.  “ senlin! senlin! seeenliiin! ”  her legs quickly carry her out of the vineyard and closer to the house.  “ i think i fucked up! like really fucked up! i fear i doomed the family business and we may all die soon! ”  no reply. where has he gone?  “ SEEEEENLIIIIIIIIN! HELP MEEEE! ”  her yelling almost turns into a genuine sob, but she composes herself the last second by taking a deep breath.  she can’t fall apart now.  not when her family needs her to purge the evil that has plagued their yard. 

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it only takes a split second’s lapse of attention to make him slip, the branches of the large maple rustling as a senlin-sized thing tumbles down through the foliage. he lands with an ungraceful thump into a patch of springy grass. a few leaves drift down in pursuit, and there may or may not be a concerning amount of silence that follows - before...

“owww...”

senlin rubs at the back of his head, slowly sitting up. he’d landed on his arm, and it’s starting to tingle in a strange way. still, he’s pretty sure he’s fine - this isn’t the first time he’s fallen out of this specific tree, although it might be the first time he’s fallen out of one so close to somebody. “i’m good,” he yells up to them with a slightly wonky thumbs-up, stretching the offending limb out with a wince. “woo, that was close! sorry about that!”

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introducing   ✿   HU SENLIN!   ✿   sun & moon winery’s helpful hand who swears he does not get drunk from taste-testing although other sources will state otherwise + a constant cause of noise complaints mainly centered around his penchant for fake-howling at night just to make all the town’s dogs start up + serial starer at his self-cam during online classes + nonsensical simile enthusiast

hello stardew! this is red (21+, they/them) and i’m super excited to be here! i’m bringing senlin to pelican town, who is a bit of a handful and also rina’s stepbrother at the winery (yes their family is mr. worldwide). i’ll put a really short little overview of his sitch under this and a few plots i’d really like, so feel free to drop a like on this post if you’re interested in anything, or just plotting in general!

senlin’s basically spent almost his whole life here! he’s sort of never had a normal childhood for several reasons, one being that his mother and father got divorced really early, which uprooted them into a different country. after the divorce, his father packs everything up, risks it all on purchasing + starting up a winery business, and moves them to pelican town all the way from taiwan.

after a long struggle between insisting he did NOT stay up all night playing games and his father finally realizing that this isn’t normal, he’s diagnosed with narcolepsy at age 15, which pretty much means he has trouble staying awake during the day and will sometimes pass out against his will

anyway so the diagnosis made things a lot easier for him because it finally gave him a proper support system

outside of that, he’s very interested in taking over the winery business when he gets older, so he’s enrolled in a few business classes that he takes primarily online

he’s a hobbyist musician, who plays the ukulele and kalimba. relaxing means taking your little instruments to the grape field and playing music for the farm dogs while feeding them treats for staying...

but when he’s not doing that, he’s being a menace to society: including but not limited to putting googly eyes on all the town signs, sling-shotting rocks into defected bottles of wine by the edge of the forest, being really bad at skipping stones, pushing his own limits a concerning amount which lands him at the clinic too much...

with that out of the way, here are some plots i’d really love to write!

zoom call crushie: someone he develops a puppy love crush on because they’re in the same online class (could be a gen ed?) and tries to flirt via zoom chat - but when he sees them irl around town he doesn’t know how to act

pre-est friendships: others who’ve been in this town for a long time; they’re already accustomed to each other, and he often shows up randomly to say hi and make you try a wine grape from a recent harvest

the worst tour guide ever: someone who’s new to town who he shows around with wayyy too much enthusiasm, maybe ends up taking an impromptu nap midway and it gets kinda awkward

lost pets: your dog’s been missing for a bit too long now and you find senlin with it and think he’s a dog kidnapper or something

drinking buddies at the saloon: maybe senlin’s had some insane idea for how a certain cocktail mix might taste really good and he’s pestering your muse to try it

the clinic: a nurse or employee there who has to see him way too often unfortunately because he does not understand the concept of being careful / or maybe a fellow patient who also has to visit a lot, and they bond in the waiting room

please plot with me thank you <3

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“I made myself soft as the sky. / I loved so open / I knew every edge / and chose to fall from each of them”

— Kolbe Riney, from “voyager,” Up the Staircase Quarterly (no. 57)

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