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Angsty Headcanon for WWX’s love of spice

Wei Ying shivering in thin rags and tattered shoes, the cold air highlighting each breath as a puff of smoke and barely retained warmth leaving his body. He’s hungry and hasn’t eaten properly since that one nice old lady took pity on him a few days ago, now that it’s become colder there are less tourists and less people on the streets as a whole - less opportunities for food. It typically doesn’t get very cold in Winters which is how most street rats have survived so long but this Winter is an unprecedented level of cold this year. He can hardly muster the strength to beg for food but if he doesn’t he’ll die of starvation before the hypothermia gets him. Then, he sees this baozi stand closing up the day, there’s too little foot traffic to make decent profit and there’s little point standing in the cold for hours. As the vendor is packing up, Wei Ying stumbles over and tries his luck at garnering some food for the day. To his surprise, the vendor takes pity on his frail body and gaunt face, offering a baozi that is slathered in chilli oil, to an excessive degree. It’s explained how that baozi wouldn’t sell because nobody who’s spending money would pay for one drenched in chilli oil and that the vendor would only throw it out anyways. Wei Ying happily takes the bun, red oil dripping onto his aching fingers and cradles it close, refusing to let other kids or- heaven forbid- dogs take it from him. He hides in a dark corner away from the more populated streets where everyone will be and starts devouring it. In weather like this one, the chilli oil burns at his mouth and throat and it continues all the way into his stomach. It hurts but it’s a different pain from the hunger pangs and the burning in his mouth makes him feel warm and tingly. The frigid air around him doesn’t matter when his body has been set aflame and everything pulsates with a tingly heat. Wei Ying takes note of how the scraps of cloth covering him feel enough with this new sensation and licks his fingers clean of the chilli oil when the baozi has been finished.

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Peter starting a mukbang channel because he was convinced to and ‘what harm could it do?’ cause he eats a ton to keep up with his enhanced metabolic rate only for him to blow up because wdym this kid can eat 10,000 calories worth of food in one sitting???

Peter went from 600 subscribers to around 100,000 overnight and when he wakes up he’s flooded with notifications and messages from everyone. Peter freaking out about it and frantically messaging MJ and Ned what to do and MJ just responds back with a ‘lol’ and zero sympathy. Ned freaks out alongside Peter though.

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I know we got the birthday side story for CEJ’s birthday but we didn’t get a birthday story for LSY which really hurts because during CEJ’s story they barely spent time together and they deserve to have a day of relaxation after so many years of anguish.

CEJ realising he’s missed out on eight of LSY’s birthdays and resolutely deciding to make up for it. He wakes up, closes the hangover soup restaurant for the day and starts cooking foods. LSY can’t taste anything so CEJ makes them interesting through texture and looks. He also includes a bowl of seaweed soup for tradition because CEJ is an old soul.

LSY wakes up and the only reason he even remembers it’s his birthday is because BWW greets him first thing in the morning, bright and peppy. CEJ finds him soon after and he gets dragged over to the closed restaurant and sees a feast. He’s appreciative despite his inability to taste but eats anyway because his hyung cooked all this for him specifically and that makes all the difference. (This would be a fantastic time for that one fic I read where CEJ got a skill to transfer a sense over to someone else so he uses it on LSY to help him taste food again to come into play).

This is only the first part of the day but I’ve run out of creative juice for today and I’m tired. They do some handholding and kiss at the end of the day while doing activities in between that LSY chooses except I have zero clue what he’d choose to do to have fun. The Pado Guild Blind Post would go crazy though and they would all be both very concerned and enthusiastic for their guild leader and that hangover soup shop part timer.

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Thinking about You Huo growing up in boarding schools and whenever people return for the holidays or take a day off to go home, he just has to stay there. He’s without friends and his family all want nothing to do with him. Old Yu may or may not send over a letter whenever it’s his birthday but he never requests for a visit or wants You Huo to stay. His mother doesn’t even send any cards and I don’t see her sending gifts to him either, other than maybe money.

Not 100% sure whether canon mentioned You Huo going to boarding schools or regular schools but he’d still have the same type of childhood either way which makes it all the more devastating that there is no scenario she could ever learn to love him.