*Xi Ping fanart volunteered by @stellarish / used with permission
[“Anti-propaganda” is not allowed. Please only give reasons to vote FOR a character, and please be courteous in the notes.]
Han Yuan from Liu Yao
“Unlike us that had a vagrant life, domesticated kids are shy; I have to look after him in future.”
- Han Yuan about Cheng Qian
Submission: Cringefail loser(most affectionate) dragon boi. Gone edgy but his family loves him anyway.
The “idiot” from the description - “A cultivation story about how a declining sect is restored by a narcissist, troublemaker, meanie, idiot, and wimpy kid.”
“our fav -1 braincell kiddo”
Xi Ping from Tai Sui
Submission:
He is literally everything to me. Pure chaos condensed into a single person. Everyone loves him, everyone hates him. He does his best, he doesn't try at all, he beats up monsters with a qin, he brought about the destruction of the entire cultivation world…
Han Muchun from Liu Yao
"Only I, your master, would not detest you, my dirty girl. If it were your first senior brother here, he would have stewed you."
- Han Muchun to Shuikeng, Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect, Chapter 29
[No propaganda submitted]
Took some disciples for his declining sect and unexpectedly became a father
(Sharing a picture with Tong Ru because zooming in any further makes it almost indistinguishable. Also, pain.)
In my last bid to get Han Muchun into the @/top-teacher-tourney I decided to draw the sillies... Please vote for best teacher-dad who founded this family so well they stayed found family-ing through everything!
Han Muchun: Yan Zhengming, Li Yun, Cheng Qian, Han Yuan, Han Tan
Iroh: Gaang
Propaganda under the cut!
Han Muchun:
1. “While he was alive? -ish he got five Yan Zhengming our pretty peacock, Li yun the resident forg boy, Cheng Qian childhood ambition to be a serial killer, Han Yuan representing the never ending cycle of how the poor become criminals and a demon bird Shui Keng.
He is a shizun fucker by which I mean he does try to posthumously marry his teacher by attending to his teacher who is chained up for However long their consciousness last.
He is a Great father instilled so many family values in five children by just being an eccentric weasel spirit.”
2. “Han Muchun is a teacher of cultivation with weird, scrungly dad energy. His disciples use the more informal address “shifu” for him which literally translates to “martial father”. He agrees to teach Yan Zhengming after saving his life and YZM imprinting on him like a duckling. It’s unknown how he met Li Yun but he collected him second. He collects Cheng Qian because the boy’s indifferent biofamily wanted to sell him to Han Muchun, and Han Muchun decided to take him in. They meet a starving orphan on the way home, and Han Muchun gives him a name (Han Yuan) and takes him in and teaches him too. Those four find an egg of a half bird creature half human girl, take it home, and Han Muchun takes her in too. She’s given the name Han Tan, and there’s literally scenes of him changing her diaper. He is their dad.”
3. “Best teacher-dad! The five kids are actually his disciples, but to most of them he's more of a parent than any of their birth parents. Cheng Qian's parents literally sold him, Han Yuan was a homeless beggar, Li Yun's parents aren't even mentioned, and Han Tan hatched from an egg the older four brought home (she's half bird yao/supernatural creature). The only one who has family that cares about him is Yan Zhengming and even he actually came under Han Muchun's tutelage because he ran away from home. And Han Muchun accepted this bunch of chaotic kids from different backgrounds, and won their trust, and made them into the found family that wasn’t broken even by a 100 years of separation and everything else that happened in canon (that'd be very spoiler-y to explain)”
It actually distresses me how few people are as crazy over Liu Yao as I am.
People who get into niche interests, how do you do it? Liu Yao isn't even niche and I'm losing my mind over how there's not a lot of people to share in the joy that is the story with me.
Because it's a great story. It's an amazing story. It's a sad story and a funny, hilarious, laugh out loud story; a tragic story, and at the end of it I could barely breathe through my tears and the strength of the nostalgia that ending aroused in me. I felt so bad that it was ending, and I refuse to believe I'm the only one who feels that way.