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Binghe’s internal dialogue is probably just “shizun 🥰 shizun 😍 shizun 🥺💕” or something to that effect

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Imagining a scenario where Shen Qingqiu clocks some of the lingering tension between the peak lords and Luo Binghe after they get married, and so looks up what all the rights & privileges of a peak lord's spouse are (because really only the ascetic peak has restrictions against marriage), and then just like. Heaps them onto Binghe.

Fine robes and ornaments in Qing Jing's style. A title. Appropriate authority over Shen Qingqiu's disciples and junior sect siblings. Technically Binghe is also entitled to use of his own residence, and there's a building on the peak that is at least nominally reserved for the peak lord's wife, but it hasn't been used in a long time and Binghe would cry if Shen Qingqiu even suggested living in separate buildings (and Shen Qingqiu would also not like it but shhh). So he doesn't get that, exactly, but Shen Qingqiu does have the building freshened up and aired out as a place where Binghe can house guests from the demon realms, or potentially his own personal disciples (should he desire to take any on one day).

Binghe accompanies Shen Qingqiu to peak lord meetings in his capacity as husband, rather than disciple, which means Binghe also gets to sit at the table instead of standing behind Shen Qingqiu's seat.

But really just, Shen Qingqiu making a point of doing everything extremely officially to really drive home that he married Binghe, and he expects Binghe to be treated with respect and not suspicion or derision or any of the other bad habits that his fellow peak lords have displayed. Not just with Binghe, but also towards the original goods in the past (SJ might have been a piece of work, but the fact also remains that most of what his sect siblings thought of him was inaccurate). SQQ scraping up every bit of political acumen he can find from all the books he read and PIDW itself and his own history as the son of a wealthy family, and being like, "if I don't want Binghe to be bullied, I must make it clear that he has my favor!"

Meanwhile everyone already knows Luo Binghe is Shen Qingqiu's favorite, like man they know it so much already, more than they'd like to, but it's not like they can SAY anything because actually putting the right hair ornament onto Luo Binghe's head and making the disciples address him as Shimu is in fact more appropriate than all the other ways Shen Qingqiu displayed his favoritism so far. It's just driving several of the other peak lords slowly insane because it's backwards! The order of things is all messed up! Shen Qingqiu can't truly expect them to start respecting this disgraceful mess of a relationship now, can he?!

Of course he can. Also Yue Qingyuan is backing him up. (Yue Qingyuan actually finds this kind of amusing, because it's very on-brand for both versions of Shen Qingqiu to get embroiled in a controversial mess only to retroactively go "oh yeah, respectability politics are a thing" and then just try and brazenly bluff his way through it.)

Meanwhile Binghe is very much enjoying himself. Could he stop anyone in the sect from actually mistreating him in a heartbeat? Of course. He could kill any of them, they all know it, and Binghe is not unaware of how to leverage that kind of fear into compliance, if not respect. But then he'd have to go stalking around being tyrannical all the time, and he does that enough as the demon emperor.

It's far more enriching to let people be rude to him and then hang his head and "nobly endure" the mistreatment, just to watch Shen Qingqiu's eyes narrow and his fan snap shut before he lets out some cutting remark and then lavishes another sign of his favor onto Luo Binghe. Binghe's wildest teenage fantasies were made of this stuff! He's living the dream!

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Canon typical Dazai simpage

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fanboy

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I went back and colored it properly. Also, I just discovered the joys of shading with the fill bucket and oh my God?? I'm unstoppable now, it's over for you bitches

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photocard rng

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photocard rng

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Fortunately, them

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Hualian 🍁

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LOOK AT THOSE FLOWERS. YALL DAMN KNOW THOSE AREN'T NORMAL FLOWERS IF ITS FROM HUA CHENG. AND THE GAZEEEE?!?! THEY'RE SO IN LOVE.

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i think the true testament to hua cheng's insane power is how he was able to stomach xie lian's cooking AND have nothing happen to him. gods and other ghosts kings have fallen to xie lian's cooking and then there's hua cheng who's having his second helping

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whatever beast skk has going on they gotta stop making it everyone's problem

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Thinking about Beast Dazai who stabbed himself in the leg to prove to Chuuya that he wouldn't leave him to die during the dragon's head conflict.

Thinking about how in the canon timeline Chuuya already trusted Dazai enough to use to Corruption without even asking if he'll stay by his side during the same conflict.

Wondering what events shaped them so differently that Dazai's "lets give up and die together" had to come with physical proof that he wouldn't run for Chuuya to trust him. And just how shocked Chuuya was that he did it.

Main timeline Dazai and Chuuya know each other so well they can execute whole plans with little to no words or planning. Reading each other, interpreting motives, trusting the other to simply understand and leaping.

Wondering if Beast Dazai struggled to keep all those secrets from Chuuya. If deep down, Chuuya knew there was something Dazai was always keeping from him, but he could never figure out what.

They could never truly trust each other the way main time line soukoku could.

Do you think that ate away at Dazai? So much of his world had to change to save a man he never got to know. Cursed by the memories of different version of himself to see all he could of had.

But then, him and Chuuya didn't have to change. In fact he was staying with the mafia, he could have more memories with Chuuya that other self ever could and they'd be his own memories, not ones imposed on him.

Except it didn't work out like that. Because Dazai couldn't be honest and Chuuya knew it.

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I feel like I have not read enough fanfic that gets into the fact that Binghe thinks his husband was once a slave.

Binghe being like, “Wow, me keeping him captive was probably awful!” (For more reasons than that, really, but this is the one he’s focusing on.)

Binghe trying his hardest to not do anything that would remind SQQ of that time.

Binghe being horrified to learn that SQQ didn’t really eat those three years he was gone, because Binghe was a street kid too. He knew the feeling of starvation, and he knew, even if you don’t have to eat anymore as a cultivator, the anxiety of missing too many meals causing your body. He always has food ready for SQQ to eat, even if Binghe is really really busy.

Binghe getting so caught up in his head about not causing SQQ distress about his past as a slave, that SQQ actually has to sit down and talk to him about it.

Maybe this comes in the form of a identity reveal. Maybe this just comes in the form of convincing Binghe that SQQ simply doesn’t remember back then. Either way, Binghe needs to stop getting so worked up over this.

Because there were other reasons that the water prison was awful!

There isn’t anything memories for Binghe to bring up, other than a few scattered memories of SJ that SQQ has.

SY has never felt what starvation felt like. He’s actually a little concerned with how much Binghe has been stretching himself thin.

There was nothing to cause distress here! Promise!

(I think it would be funny, if it’s played in a humorous way, if the story ends with Binghe calming down about the slave thing, only then to immediately hitting one of SY’s modern day triggers that LBH didn’t even know to look out for. What was the trigger? Who knows. Not me)

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:P

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trying out some stuff on a wip