#due to his trauma responses but my brain cannot be trusted rn

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(Adding my 2 cents about Shen Jiu, hope that's ok!)

Part of what makes him such a great character is that he's bad, he's so terrible in so many ways, but he's self-aware of it enough to feel terrible about it and yet so deeply stuck in his ways that he feels he can never change.

Part of the tragedy of his character is there are allegations thrown against him that are true AND false and he simply REFUSES to clarify or defend himself against any of them because he doesn't see the point.

He's a character who treats everything in his life like it's transient, or a threat, or will one day betray him. And because of this, when his livelihood is threatened, homie straight up does nothing to defend himself, even when it's pretty strongly suggested that some allegations are exaggerated or straight up false.

And because of the unreliable narration of both SVSSS's MC, and the possible unreliable narration of Proud Immortal Demon Way, AND the fact Shen Jiu himself refused to elaborate, a lot of his life is STILL a mystery.

He's stubborn and prideful and deeply tragic, and ultimately ends up right back, by his own actions, where he started as a child: powerless, imprisoned, and abused.

BUT he still, he STILL, cared for his childhood friend. He's the type to make someone hate him to preserve that person's life, so they don't want to risk themself for him. I want to put him in a jar and shake him. He's pathetic and lamentable and horrible (I love him).

[Photo ID - a meme of a man with his hands up near his shoulders. The text above him reads, "You can always talk about characters in my ask box." The text between his hands reads, "it's always morally correct." /End ID]

My brain is super foggy rn, but yes, that's a lot of what I like about Shen Jiu. There's a lot of aspects I relate to him about, and he's just really interesting to me