#da ge mobei jun fic

[livingmeatloaf]

Writing Patterns Meme

Tagged by @iamwestiec (I agree, this should be called Opening Lines Meme or something lol)

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

Determination drove Liu Qingge away from his usual hunting grounds. (chapter 4 of A Worthy Suitor to the Crown - Scum Villain, monster hunt as part of ongoing courting, Mobei-Jun/Shang Qinghua/Liu Qingge)

They'd stayed at the restaurant, later and later, waiters pointedly clearing dishes and wiping tables around them before finally chasing them out with the vacuum. (stay the night - Scum Villain, modern AU date, Mobei-Jun/Shang Qinghua/Liu Qingge)

“Da-ge! Er-ge!” (A Future Bright As Gold, Warm As Flame - MDZS, happy Jin sibling au gen fic, minor Jiang Yanli/Jin Zixuan/Luo Qingyang, for westiec as part of the MDZS Gender Fuckery Mini Exchange, also completed for Finish What You Started 2023)

“Go back ten seconds please.” (Seasoned With Love - MDZS, modern au anniversary dinner, Jiang Yanli/Jin Zixuan/Luo Qingyang, for frostferox as part of the Jiang Yanli/Jin Zixuan/Luo Qingyang Flash Exchange)

The move is so unexpected, Liu Qingge has no time to brace himself. (hold me down (so I can fall) - Scum Villain, platonic bdsm threadfic, Liu Qingge/Shang Qinghua)

The seasons came and went. (Chapter 19 of The Swift Fall of A Sharp Blade - Scum Villain, Beast Peak Shen Yuan AU threadfic, Shen Yuan/multiple partners)

It was his birthday. (Jin Zixuan's Special Birthday Party (in which he recieves a lucky present) - MDZS, canon first time pwp, Jiang Yanli/Jin Zixuan, for merelydovely for the Women of MDZS Flash Exchange)

Rich patrons were not a new concept to Meng Shi. (The Pearl Who Was Swallowed By The Carp - MDZS, Meng Shi character study, Meng Shi/Jin Guangshan, for merelydovely for the Women of MDZS Flash Exchange)

Teeth. (Anniversary Trip - Dracula, post-canon introspection, Arthur Holmwood/Quincey Morris/John Seward, for Polyship Week 2023)

They looked down at Shang Qinghua's left arm. (New Growth From Broken Places - Scum Villain, broken arm recovery threadfic, Liu Qingge/Shang Qinghua)

What have we learned?

I like short openers, whether dialogue or prose.

For non-dialogue, the opening line establishes a time frame or setting more often than not.

Usually start in media res

I typically write in close third person POV

Only one out of ten is in present tense, two unknown thanks to dialogue, with the remaining 7 in past tense.

Interesting, very interesting! That two postings are later chapters and three are threadfic muddies the style a little, but they are all more similar than I might have thought. I shall have to try purposefully varying my openers, just to try something new!

I tag @seventhstar @zizzani @breadandblankets @monroeknoxwrites and @crimsonrainseekingflower, and anyone else who wants to play! Tag me if you do, I'm very curious 👀

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Bonus lines because I realize the ones I posted chapters of fall into the last 10 posted anyway lol

Liu Qingge barely heard the reports Yang Yixuan rattled off to him. (A Worthy Suitor to the Crown)

Shen Yuan was 10 when he remembered his life. (The Swift Fall of A Sharp Blade, the first chapter of prose after worldbuilding notes)

#Tag game #My fic #First lines #Writing pattern #Not surprised at the spread of fandoms here tbh #This was fascinating! Always good to analyze my own work #Thanks for the tag!

[tossawary]

wait can we hear more about da ge mbj au I'm very interested

MBJ getting abandoned as a child makes me enjoy imagining him being soft for babies, especially demon babies. Which made me want to see SQH put into a situation with a lost demon child and MBJ getting to see that. 

Which ended in 3,000 words of canon divergence fic.

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The situation was bad. 

 Airplane’s fellow An Ding disciples were dead. 

 There was a young demon lord unconscious in front of him, probably dying, and Airplane couldn’t bring himself to bring down the rock in his hand. 

 His hand was shaking. He couldn’t make it stop. 

 This System really didn’t give a fuck about the author’s wishes, huh? Airplane Shooting Towards The Sky had been shoved into one of the worst character roles in Proud Immortal Demon Way and left to take the long way around to the plot. Now he was being told that his favorite character was expendable? Irrelevant? Talk about insult to injury! Nothing was sacred here, was it? 

 Airplane put down the rock. 

 Then he picked up the rock again. 

 He looked at it. 

 Then he hurled the rock away and put his head in his hands instead. 

 He came to a decision - a shitty decision for a shitty situation - and got to work saving his future murderer’s life. At least he would know some of what to expect if he kept the storyline mostly the same! Besides, his life wasn’t good enough to be that concerned about it! Maybe the System would put him into a decent role next time! 

 Maybe it was empathy at seeing someone being fucked over by the System! 

 Airplane did his best to slow down Mobei-Jun’s bleeding and loaded the man into the cart. He also did his best to ignore all the dead bodies around them. Gross. 

 That should have been that! He should have then been on his way to continue making a really bad decision in a really bad situation. But as Airplane moved to leave the scene of a massacre behind him, he saw movement out of the corner of his eye. He startled, snapping around, prepared to defend himself physically or verbally! 

 Instead, he saw a baby. 

 Ah, well, not a baby baby! But a child somewhere between the ages of three and four years old! A chubby one too! The chubby child was crouched halfway behind a tree, looking at Airplane with wide eyes, little hands clawing anxiously into the grass. It was impossible to miss their little pointed ears and the blue mark in the middle of their forehead. How could anyone miss that kind of family resemblance? 

 The demon child froze upon being noticed. 

 Airplane looked between the demon child and the young demon lord in the card, but the similarities only got stronger the longer he looked! 

 Holy shit! 

 HOLY FUCKING SHIT! 

 But he didn’t remember Mobei-Jun having a child! He remembered Mobei-Jun having siblings, sure, but he was pretty sure that... he’d alluded to Mobei-Jun’s uncle doing away with most of them. Did that mean that this child was supposed to… die? 

 This situation had gotten even worse. 

 Leaving a child here to die was… pretty bad. Airplane had done some not very good things to make it in this world and in his sect without losing any sleep over it at all, but the idea of leaving this child to die made Airplane want to be sick! At least, as soon as he realized that if Mobei-Jun had been protecting this demon child and woke up to find this demon child missing, then Airplane would be really, truly, totally fucked no matter how tightly he hugged the man’s thighs! 

 It looked like the demon child had to come too. 

 How the fuck did a person go about catching a demon child?! 

 “Is… this your gege?” Airplane tried carefully. “Is this your gege here?” 

 The demon child didn’t respond. 

 Airplane gestured at Mobei-Jun repeatedly, unsure how to get the message across. “Is this your gege?” he said, louder. “Baba? ...No? Not Baba? Da-Ge? Are you his didi?” 

 That got a blink. 

 “Didi?” Airplane repeated, desperately. “Come here, Didi.” 

 Airplane Shooting Towards The Sky hadn’t handled children since his last life. He’d been one of the younger siblings in Shang Qinghua’s family, so he hadn’t been involved in any of the child-rearing before leaving. But Airplane’s experience wasn’t very good! Some forced babysitting of his father’s do-over children and his mother’s stepchildren’s children didn’t make him an expert! And this was a demon baby! 

 “Didi, your gege needs you,” Airplane wheedled. “Come here! Come on!” 

 Slowly, the demon child began to crawl over towards the cart. 

 “Your gege is hurt and needs help,” Airplane said, in most most soothing and also urgent voice. It was a weird balance! “Come on! Come along! Didi, your gege needs help. He’s hurt. Come here, please, that’s it! That’s right! Good job! You’re doing such a good job coming up here for your gege! We need to get your gege somewhere safe!” 

 The demon child made it to the cart, trying to stay on the far side of it and away from Airplane. Airplane tried not to make himself look too threatening. He also tried not to contemplate his apparent natural talent for kidnapping children, which probably wasn’t something to make a person feel proud. 

 “Didi, can I pick you up? Didi, can I lift you up next to your gege?” 

 Reluctantly, the demon child lifted his chubby arms and let Airplane slowly approach him. Airplane carefully put his hands under their armpits and then hefted them into the cart beside Mobei-Jun. The demon child nearly kicked him in the gut, struggling to get to the unconscious and injured ice demon! 

 “Ah, be careful of the injury-!” Airplane said, trying to move the child back. “OW!” 

 The demon child bit him. 

 Airplane yanked his poor hand back. “You little fucker! Ah, fine! Curl up in your gege’s blood and see if I care,” he muttered. “Let’s just get out of here already.” 

 The demon child curled up against Mobei-Jun’s side and Shang Qinghua got back into the driver’s seat of the cart. Trying to channel his spiritual energy for healing purposes while focusing on driving was hard. Even if he could have managed it properly, he still would have been stuck with an aching hand as it healed, which didn’t make him feel very charitable towards the demons in the back seat. 

 Ungrateful! The both of them! 

 When they finally got to a decent hiding place, unloading Mobei-Jun was nothing less than a pain in the ass. Airplane was forced to negotiate with a two-foot tyrant with needle-sharp teeth who didn’t want to move and didn’t want Airplane to touch his gege. Airplane was forced to wheedle like never before. 

 “Your gege is hurt, but I can help him,” Airplane insisted soothingly. “See that place? It’s safe in there! Don’t you want your gege to be somewhere nice and safe, where no one can see him and I can heal him? Look at that hiding spot! It’s a good hiding spot. We all need to go into the hiding spot now. We’re all going into the hiding spot. Come on, Didi, help me get your gege into the nice, safe hiding spot. Come on now. Be good.” 

 The demon child bared his teeth as Airplane helped him down from the cart, but thankfully didn’t bite again. The demon child then hugged Airplane’s shins very unhelpfully as Airplane hefted Mobei-Jun into his arms. 

 Airplane was forced to shuffle. 

 He never thought he’d be so grateful for all the carrying that An Ding Peak forced its disciples to do! Sometimes, carrying things around was all Airplane did all day long and now it was paying off! Airplane wasn’t as strong as some of his peers, sure, but he still managed to carry a giant ice demon into the “hiding spot” with a little ice demon attached to his leg. He counted himself grateful there was only one Mobei-Jun to deliver inside, because he couldn’t have handled more. 

 Once inside, the demon child curled up against Mobei-Jun’s side again. Airplane took the opportunity to look after the cart’s beast of burden and unload the supplies from the cart, searching desperately for the medical supplies their mission had been allotted. When he finally found the medicine, returning triumphantly, the demon child was ungratefully unenthusiastic about Airplane’s careful approach. 

 “Ah, Didi, don’t growl at me! See, look! Look! It’s medicine! Medicine for your gege to stop the bleeding and... make sure his organs go back on the inside. Eugh. Ah, anyway, I’m helping. It’s okay because I’m helping. See, look, I’m helping. It’s okay.” 

 Airplane managed to get pretty far before the demon child couldn’t take it anymore and tried to bite him again. Airplane shrieked, but managed to wrestle the demon child off him, and ended up grabbing some of the food supplies as a desperate distraction. 

 “Bite this! Bite this! Didi, look, it’s food! Food for Didi!” 

 The demon child growled, but putting the food directly in front of his face caught his attention. The demon child’s eyes narrowed in on the food in a super predatory way that was unseen in human babies. Airplane gladly made the sacrifice. He threw the food to the demon child, who scrambled to catch it, gave it a sniff, and then started to hesitantly nibble on it before taking bigger bites. 

 “See? Don’t bite your Shang-Gege and he’ll give you food instead,” Airplane muttered, quickly turning his attention to the bigger demon. “You stay there and chew that and let me help your gege. I’m helping. I’m helping. I’m helping. Shang-Gege is helping Didi’s gege. Everything is good. Everything is okay. There’s no need for biting.” 

 Airplane didn’t really know how much the demon child understood of what he was saying. The demon child looked more than old enough to understand basic speech. He at least understood “stay”, Airplane decided, by sitting off to the side and anxiously chewing through dried food supplies while Airplane worked rearranging Mobei-Jun’s guts and then bandaging up the blood mess. 

 Maybe it helped to see that Airplane had no intention of eating the unconscious and vulnerable Mobei-Jun or something. He was pretty sure that was a demon thing. 

 He couldn’t bring himself to think about what he was doing! 

 If he thought about his actions here, he was going to throw up or something! 

 So long as he kept his hands moving here, he didn’t have to think about anything. He was just an An Ding Peak disciples hard at work betraying the sect. Yeah. 

 Eventually, Mobei-Jun was in as good a shape as Airplane could get him. The demon child - Didi, Airplane decided to call him - was curled up into a ball beside where Mobei-Jun was lying. Didi looked like he was forcing himself to stay alert. 

 “It’s all okay now,” Airplane said. “See? I helped. Shang-Gege helped your gege. Your Gege needs to sleep to get better and now you can sleep beside him.” 

 Airplane washed himself as best he could and tried to wash Didi a little, but the demon child was resistant and snapped at him. Airplane, expecting this now, successfully dodged the snap and wiped at Didi’s face. Trying to be nice was too much work! Airplane’s clean-up job ended up being pretty shitty. There was no doing anything about Mobei-Jun’s blood staining Didi’s clothes around the knee and elbow. 

 “Ah, fine, curl up in blood again, you little brat,” Airplane sighed. 

 Didi curled up against Mobei-Jun’s side again and, apparently, immediately fell asleep. 

 Airplane secured their hiding place as best he could, took stock of their pitiful amount of resources, and tried not to panic about what the fuck he was was going to do now. He was exhausted. Saving two ungrateful demons was hard work. He had no idea what was going to happen next. He was pretty sure he had just made the worst mistake of his life, but it was a little late to change things now. 

 Airplane found a good patch of floor to watch over the demons and let himself collapse. He was too tired to think anymore. There were too many things to think about. 

 He hoped that Mobei-Jun didn’t die. Demons were hardy and demon lords were even hardier, but the real world that had been made out of his shitty web-novel was really unpredictable sometimes. For all Airplane knew, Mobei-Jun was going to develop an infection and a fever. Maybe Mobei-Jun would die anyway and Airplane was going to be stuck with a bitey demon brat who hated him. 

 Airplane yawned. Keeping his eyes open was becoming really hard. Fuck. 

 Watching Didi’s back go up and down with his unconscious breaths was pretty mesmerizing. It was really tempting to sneak over there and pinch one of those chubby, chubby cheeks. Or those cute demon ears. But the demon child looked almost as tired as Airplane felt and probably bit in his sleep. 

 Airplane really didn’t want to think about what would have happened if he’d just taken off with Mobei-Jun, not knowing the demon child had been hiding nearby. That might have been the worst possible situation. Didi was dirty and exhausted now, sure, but he looked like one of those babies who should have been spoiled and happy all the time, and not mercilessly abandoned to the human world.  

-

 Airplane woke up with a hand around his throat, squeezing. 

 There was a dark shadow above him and an even darker feeling in the air. The hand at his throat felt freezing cold. The air was burning with hateful demonic energy that felt like acid on his skin. Airplane struggled, but it was all immoveable. 

 “Where is he?” the shadow snarled. 

 Airplane choked. 

 His shadowy attacker belatedly seemed to realize that Airplane couldn’t talk when he was being choked to death! The squeezing let up enough for Airplane to breathe again. His lungs felt like they were burning hot and cold! His throat felt crushed and ruined. 

 “What did you do with him?” the attacker demanded. 

 “...W-wh…?” 

 “The child! Where is the child?!” 

 Airplane realized here that he was looking into the face of his future murderer. It was hard to make out in the darkness when he was being choked! 

 Mobei-Jun looked wild. His eyes looked like lightning. 

 “The ch-child… ch- chi- is-” 

 Mobei-Jun snarled again with impatience. 

 Even though it definitely wasn’t Airplane’s fault he couldn’t talk coherently! 

 “H-here,” Airplane choked out. 

 Mobei-Jun’s grip tightened, but then the man froze. His head snapped to the side. 

 Airplane followed the demon lord’s gaze. 

 Through the darkness, if Airplane squinted, he could see a small figure crouched by the supplies. Didi was frozen, watching them, chubby cheeks stuffed with stolen food. 

 Oh, there weren’t words for what Airplane wanted to say to the brat! Sneaking around like this in the middle of the night! Nearly getting Airplane strangled for no reason! 

 Mobei-Jun released Airplane immediately and flew across the room to the demon child, who threw up his arms immediately. Mobei-Jun took his younger brother into his arms and then collapsed heavily to the floor. By the sound of it, he crushed some of their precious food supplies as he fell! But the man was too busy wrapping his arms around the demon child to care about things like that, letting Didi sob into his chest, glaring at Airplane over the demon child’s head. 

 Airplane kept his distance! He knew better than to get anywhere near that! 

 The silence was very heavy. 

 He was certain that Mobei-Jun had reopened his wounds, if they had managed to close at all! As time trickled by them, he could see red seeping down the man’s side. 

 “...There are more bandages,” Airplane said finally, hoarsely. 

 Mobei-Jun’s scowl deepened, his lip curling. 

 “Ah… if- if you want them.” 

 What an asshole! 

 Airplane stayed put and didn’t make any sudden moves. 

 His throat felt like shit, so he tried to heal it with his spiritual energy. It was hard to focus with the demon lord glaring at him like that, on the other side of the room, but he didn’t really have anything better to do. There were only so many names he could silently call this ungrateful young demon who’d attacked the bro who’d saved his life! 

 At least Mobei-Jun hadn’t bitten him too. 

 Time trickled by and by. Eventually, Mobei-Jun’s eyelids began to droop close. The man’s injury appeared to be pulling him back under, whether he liked it or not. 

 After Mobei-Jun’s eyes had closed without opening for a long time, Airplane finally risked moving again. Mobei-Jun didn’t wake up, but Didi’s eyes fixed on Airplane, which made Airplane fear being bitten as he carefully came closer. 

 “Ahhh, see? Your gege is fine. I’m just… just going to put him back to bed, alright? You- don’t get up… just stay there and don’t bite me. We’re putting gege back to bed.” 

 Airplane dragged Mobei-Jun back to where the man had been before, with Didi staying put on his elder brother’s chest. Airplane was sure that this couldn’t be good for the demon lord’s wounds! But clearly Mobei-Jun didn’t give a shit about his own health! 

 “Didi, can you get off gege’s chest? Keep hugging him, just slide off, please? Gege is hurt, remember? Gege is hurt and we need to help him. See, he’s bleeding. Please let your Shang-Gege help again and don’t bite me. Everyone is fine. Everyone is happy. Everyone is getting along just fine and helping and healing. There’s no need to bite your Shang-Gege who is only helping, okay?” 

 Didi was more cooperative this time, sliding off Mobei-Jun chest to hug his less-injured side, while Airplane poked at the demon lord’s bleeding. The injuries looked… a lot better than Airplane would have expected them to. This healing rate was nothing short of astounding. Was this the power of an OP demon lord? How unfair! 

 Airplane did his best fixing the man up again. 

 He should have just let the man rot! 

 Mobei-Jun had just tried to kill him again! He would totally deserve it! 

 But there was a demon child carefully watching and Airplane didn’t want to end up with custody if his future murderer died here after all. What would he do with a demon child? Take them back to the sect?! His master would love that, he’s sure! 

 “Ah, looks like he’s getting lots better,” Airplane told Didi hoarsely, rubbing at his poor throat. “You’re doing a good job looking after him. Good job helping your gege. Keep helping his sleep, okay? Stay right there and don’t go sneaking off again, okay? Please don’t go sneaking off again, your Shang-Gege won’t be able to take it.” 

 Didi just blinked at him. 

 “Good job,” Airplane said. “Good job. Shang-Gege is… going to make sure that everything is okay outside. You stay here and protect your gege. Good job.” 

 That said, Airplane crept backwards, got up, and went outside. 

 Once outside, he promptly fell to his knees and curled in on himself. 

 “Holy fucking shit,” he said. 

#moshang #mobei jun #shang qinghua #mobei didi #tossawary svsss #tossawary updates #da ge mobei jun fic #ask tossawary #anonymous #Anonymous #fic ideas #Babe in the Woods

[borealiszero]

hello fellow victim of sv*ss. 😔🤝😔 if you're still craving The Book That Could've Been, may I recommend reading Pride is Not the Word You're Looking For on AO3? It's Shang Qinghua-centric and has Moshang but the focus is on found family, healing despite trauma, and the importance of every choice (no seriously, Every Choice Matters). Basically the premise is: what if SQH saves LBH's mom and...accidentally develops a family? It's very VERY good and it basically fixed the 2-year long itch I had about SV.

ANON IVE READ IT AND IT FUCKS SEVERELY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Its so good the writing is smooth characterisation is good plot is *chef kiss* it got soooooo many good points in it that makes me djgvsj)6/@;72#"???? Like I could go for hours how good thsi fic is it heals my brain my heart my soul some of my favourite things in it:

Shang qinghua just having anxiety-filled-hamster energy

Shang qinghua making choices that is good but he goes "this will save my life :)))" and just repress tf out of his feelings until later hes forced to process it like a Normal Human

LUO JIAHUI!!!! Shes so!!!!! SHE and i really like that she was portrayed as a young woman instead of old maid cause it ramps up the what the fuckery of being young mother that is CANONICALLY dead.

Baby Binghe!!!! Hes so cute like i melted when Baby Binghe was in the scene

These three forming bonds, and love each other and building their family together like God its my found family dream

Luo Fanlin like look at this girl, she goes peak hopping. She brawl train withLiu Qingge on daily basis. She calls An Ding peak lord "Da-Ge". She have no respects for authorities. Shes my dream girl. She also calls Mobei-Jun Da-Da-Ge like fkksskkdkdkkk

The romance between LJH and LQG i love it and when Lou Qing arrives i was like. You two made this. Holly shit youtwo made this.

Binghe being normal teenager with almost no trauma and having supports!!! Like HELL YEAH

The healing relationship between SQQ and YQY like yeah its not SQH place to say it but fuck. He could ve lost that chance forever

Shen Yuan's arrival???? Like bro ndjdbdnhshsn thats a good use of System, like thats a good use of props that exist in it. Making users background stick to someone else

Moshang. Enough said.

CONTINUITY!!!!! CONTINUITY EXIST!!!!! CHOICES WERE MADE AND OH BOY YOU WILL SEE THE CONSEQUENCES !!!!

The ocs are so good they weren't one time use! Have personalities!!! The HHP duo and the three disciples of An Ding are so good muah

The HHP basement arc, like BRO

The conclusion ?? Make sense???? TLJ and SXY receiving justice!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH

LBH stating that LJH is his mother, and no one can refute that statement ever *sobs*

Okay i have to stop before this gets too long but best fanfic ive ever read. 10/10 i feel like i owe my soul to the writer. Im gonna reread it again slowly sjsjjssjsjsjsj

#also i fear the writer cause they write like 9000-10000 a week like bro #[borealis.mail] #its everything that i want *sobs* #also the first time i tried to answer this tumblr crashed cause its toolong lmao #svsss

[tossawary]

Fun fact from Chapter 40 of PINTWILF (also spoilers for Chapter 40):

For those who have read my other fic, "Babe in the Woods", Mobei-Jun's "cousin" there is actually Didi. It's not going to come up in PINTWILF itself, but yeah.

Mobei Zhao doesn't know. Shang Qinghua doesn't know. Mobei-Jun faked his baby brother's death and gave him away to a distant cousin, because he knew his father wouldn't protect Didi from their uncle and because he knew he couldn't protect Didi either.

Mobei-Jun did not visit Didi, only occasionally checking that he was still alive, until he was officially given the White Sea Palace and had an excuse to let Didi talk to him. They're still not close. Mobei-Jun is still pretty distant. Mobei-Jun thinks he might make Didi his heir and he STILL might not tell him.

So! Easter egg! Didi is fine in this AU too! Mobei-Jun has a readymade heir to make Shang Qinghua go, "HEY, WHAT THE FUCK!" If Mobei-Jun ever decides to mention that his favorite cousin used to be his brother.

#tossawary svsss #tossawary commentary #pride is not the word #spoilers #babe in the woods #da ge mobei jun fic #mobei jun #mobei didi #shang qinghua #moshang

[tossawary]

So hey! Just read your post wanting to make chubby cheeks demon baby artwork and it just so happens that's what I've been working on! As well as Luo Fanli and Luo Jiahui! I also made a second Jiahui for funsies cause I like her so much. Thank you for sharing all these wonderful ocs with us!

Oh, they’re so cute! Thank you so much for sharing these! I love the colors and expressions emphasizing the Luo sisters’ respective personalities. And Didi looks so perfectly pouty and uncooperative. I love the ears! <3 <3 <3

#synthezizeher #ask tossawary #tossawary svsss #art #pride is not the word #luo jiahui #luo fanli #mobei didi #da ge mobei jun fic #babe in the woods

[tossawary]

What the hell is Didi going to SOUND LIKE. He's being raised by one word only mobei, and all the words Shang? Like, the little extra at the end with him laying on the floor makes me think that shang is gonna come on to here. and that Didi is gonna take after his "papa" with a side order of lots of dramatic body language. or is it going to be more of, no words when serious, and so many words when i like you, sorta thing?

I was kind of imagining that after Didi gets over the bratty child phase and goes through the rebellious teenage phase, he would just be... exceptionally even-keeled and generally good-natured, a self-proclaimed and self-aware and self-indulgent spoiled brat, here for a good time and to make his “parents” proud. He’s got the Mobei-Jun glare when he’s upset and dislikes someone, then babbles and talks with his hands like Shang Qinghua when he’s excited. 

I like the idea of Mobei-Jun and Shang Qinghua raising a kid who becomes a person neither of them really expected (his own person, independent of them), who has clearly has a good life, and has no doubts that he’s loved. Like, absolutely none. Totally unlike MBJ and SQH’s childhoods. So he can knowingly act silly and dramatic and overconfident and a little bit carefree (his best friend is Sha Hualing, so that helps) in the full knowledge that his “parents” will indulge him and look after him. A far cry from a scared, bitey child. 

(I was already trying to slip in the idea that Mobei-Jun is doing his best to raise Didi to be able to be happy. He’s just struggling with shitty family stuff.) 

I can’t remember who mentioned this, but yeah, Didi would absolutely tag along on Sha Hualing’s bullshit ideas and the Immortal Alliance Conference, etc.. Shang Qinghua would probably try to ground him from this plot-relevant bullshit (Didi: “It was Sha Hualing’s idea.” Shang Qinghua: “Then you KNOW it’s a shitty idea!”), but it doesn’t help that Mobei-Jun’s opinion here of teenage demon antics is probably: “Did you win? It’s fine if you won.” 

#fattyskeleton #ask tossawary #tossawary svsss #moshang #mobei jun #shang qinghua #mobei didi #babe in the woods #da ge mobei jun fic #sha hualing

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Da Ge Mobei Jun fic: Does Didi warm up to Shang Ge? Cause, Mobei Jun waking up to see Didi has climbed into Shang Ge's lap and is now demanding stories and songs with Shang Ge having no choice but to tell stories and sing him lullabies is just very funny.

Yeah, but not that quickly. Didi is already warming up to Shang Qinghua because, like, he has food. But he needs the proper “go ahead” from Mobei-Jun (like, “Yes, that is safe, you may engage with that thing,”) before he just starts crawling all over Shang Qinghua like, “This lap space is mine. This person is mine. If I bite him, I can make him do things.” 

Thinking about MBJ and SQH’s vastly different parenting approaches is very funny. One interpretation that I’m enjoying is Mobei-Jun and Shang Qinghua BOTH being like, “You’re going to spoil that child? Ugh, I can’t believe you’re making me have to be the tough one.” 

Because Shang Qinghua will, essentially, fork over any food the demon child asks for immediately, which is not good for demon boundaries and the child is going to learn to ask for food from the wrong people! So Mobei-Jun has to get the child to back off because SQH won’t enforce reasonable boundaries. Meanwhile, Mobei-Jun will communicate with the child, like, any way but verbally, and Shang Qinghua has to constantly say to the child, “Use your words!!! I know you know them!!! I know that you know them and are choosing to ignore them, you little brat!!!” 

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Re: da ge MBJ, i Must Know: what does he think about SQH? like, this random cultivator saves his life, takes care of him, and apparently knows enough about demon realm politics to make a boring bedtime story out of it? northern desert lore? and i would presume other demon realm stuff he tells mobei didi about? but also i can only assume MBJ is very frustrated with SQH being too weak to share energy with and SQH has 'hunt across the realms for cultivation boosting treasures' in his future

I’ve always imagined that Mobei-Jun’s initial reaction to Shang Qinghua in most universes is Extreme Confusion and Distrust. Obviously, Shang Qinghua won’t actually be loyal and is just trying to save his own skin, but Mobei-Jun doesn’t have many options and he can actually offer Shang Qinghua something (help making it to the position of Peak Lord) so it benefits SQH to be loyal right now, so he’ll ride this out until this thigh-hugger inevitably betrays him. 

And then Shang Qinghua just... doesn’t do that. And somewhere along the line, Mobei-Jun falls head over heels in love with this strange human. 

In the Da-Ge MBJ AU, Shang Qinghua is kind of speedrunning their relationship here by virtue of Mobei-Jun’s childhood trauma. MBJ is still confused and distrustful, but Shang Qinghua is being unreasonably caring towards Didi (at least from MBJ’s perspective), so MBJ is going to keep an eye on this and focus on healing so he stops passing out and can get them out of here. 

My impression of SQH is that he’s dropping wildly conflicting signs all of the time and he’s not great at hiding that he a) knows too much and b) doesn’t consider himself to be from “around here”. So Mobei-Jun is confused about why a human cultivator knows anything about demon politics, but human-demon politics are extremely strained right now and MBJ doesn’t hang out with cultivators, so this can be interpreted as a sign that SQH is just ambitious and intelligent. Mobei-Jun can only really assume that SQH’s knowledge and intelligence are the human’s effort to compensate for his physical weakness. 

And then Shang Qinghua sacrifices everything in one moment to save Mobei-Jun’s little brother, so Mobei-Jun feels indebted and responsible for Shang Qinghua’s well-being now. MBJ has been through a whirlwind here, but he can keep the human around a little while longer, though he presumes SQH won’t be able to cut it in the Demon Realm and will inevitably want to return to the Human Realm. MBJ is kind of banking on them parting ways once he’s healed up and able to repay Shang Qinghua in some fashion. 

But then... Shang Qinghua just... doesn’t leave. And Mobei-Jun clearly has no option but to fall head over heels in love with this strange human offering him loyalty and support and care. 

Shang Qinghua is definitely going to get bullied into improving his cultivation while Mobei-Jun trains up his younger brother. Shang Qinghua at least needs to be strong enough to wrangle an older demon child, which is no small feat, and also fend off any attackers until MBJ can come running. 

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Another fun part of giving Mobei-Jun a baby brother in this Da-Ge Mobei-Jun fic? Didi is only a little older than Sha Hualing (who in my current timeline is a newborn) and Luo Binghe (who hasn’t been born yet). Didi is the oldest of that trio of young demons. 

I am delighted by the idea of Mobei-Jun having to hang out with his baby brother’s friends. Excuse you, he is a BRAT himself, he does not want to have to be responsible for more than the ONE young demon he already has. 

Mobei #2: “This is my da-ge.” 

Sha Hualing: “I think you mean OUR da-ge.” 

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An incomplete sketch of Shang Qinghua and a grown-up Didi from my fic Babe in the Woods. (Yes, I will change character designs and styles every time I draw them.) Look, he’s still little enough for SQH to hold him up! Really, he is!

I’m afraid that this spoiled brat is probably destined to be a heartthrob in the Demon Realm, because he looks a lot like his brother, but he smiles. 

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Cartoon-y sketches of Didi from my Da-Ge Mobei-Jun fic. 

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Mobei Didi is obviously going to grow over Shang Qinghua's head but is he going to grow over Mobei Jun's head? It's just too funny imagining this very tall Mobei Didi hugging his tiny human parent (carefully of course, he's learnt since childhood).

Oh, man, Didi growing taller than even Mobei-Jun is so funny to think about. Maybe he’s significantly taller, maybe it’s only like an inch difference, but Didi is DELIGHTED about it. He is the SUPERIOR SIBLING. 

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Da Ge MBJ

Is going back even an options for SQH anymore?

Like MBJ sees him interact with Didi and decides. Yes, he’ll do.

SQH, thigh hugging: I’ll be your spy.

MBJ: Didi tolerates you. You will care for his needs when I’m unavailable.

System: ... I can work with this.

Mobei-Jun is pretty reckless with his own well-being, but I can see him being a little more cautious if he has a child in his care. So, I think that it would take Mobei-Jun a little while to decide that Shang Qinghua really is reliable and trustworthy and etc.. 

But yeah, I was thinking that as soon as the child hits the “But WHY?!” stage of early childhood, then Shang Qinghua is probably going to lose the argument of “why do you stay with the human sect” (and “why won’t you marry my brother”) with the demon child. Like, Shang Qinghua is OBVIOUSLY wasted as a spy when he could instead just come home and spend ALL his time with them! SQH is probably not making it to Peak Lord in this universe.  

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I’m pretty sure that the character of Shang Qinghua doesn’t even get mentioned until the Immortal Alliance Conference in SVSSS. If he appears earlier than that, he’s so forgettable that he might as well not be mentioned. 

So, like, in my Da-Ge Mobei-Jun AU (SPOILERS for that fic), if Shang Qinghua isn’t there when Shen Yuan transmigrates in, I’m not sure he’d notice? Shen Yuan sees some average-looking bro as the An Ding Peak Lord, thinks, “That must be Shang Qinghua,” and then through a series of miscommunications never connects the dots to realize that it’s not. 

“[Other Name] must be Shang Qinghua’s assistant who does all the work while Shang Qinghua secretly betrays the sect,” Shen Yuan thinks at one point, which is the second-closest he ever comes to figuring it out. 

The closest that Shen Yuan ever comes to figuring it out is in conversation with Liu Qingge, when he mentions “that layabout Shang Qinghua on An Ding”. Liu Qingge is like, “Who?” And Shen Yuan is like, (oh my god, this guy doesn’t even know the An Ding guy’s name) “You know? The Peak Lord of An Ding?” 

Liu Qingge: “...I thought his name was [Other Name].” 

Shen Yuan: *slightly judgmental Shen Qingqiu stare* “No.” 

Liu Qingge: “Hm.” 

This doesn’t come up again for a while, because it’s not like Liu Qingge talks to anyone on An Ding, but Liu Qingge eventually figures out that he was right and Shen Qingqiu was wrong. Then Liu Qingge just... elects not to mention it to be polite or something, because all the Peak Lords know that Shen Qingqiu has had some memory problems since his qi deviation. 

It’s only AFTER the Immortal Alliance Conference and demon invasion that Shen Yuan spares another thought (a curse) for that rat bastard Shang Qinghua for making this happen, only to come face-to-face with the An Ding Peak Lord who is... apparently not named Shang Qinghua? WTF. 

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First: Adult!didi is so cute I'm gonna die, and SECOND how is he going to react to sqh meeting sqq and suddenly having someone who is also 'not from around here'? I absolutely love how you write sqh being obviously 'not from around here' I think it is SO goos and has so much story potential.

Didi is in a really bizarre situation, because I’ve always imagined that both MBJ and SQH are kind of weird for their respective species. MBJ is only a little bit weird, mostly because of his issues and position and relationship with SQH, whereas SQH is just... he’s so strange. Didi is in a position to gauge MBJ against other demons, but SQH is kind of going to be Didi’s “normal” for what humans are like for a long time. 

Like, sure, there are “bad humans”, but there are also “bad demons”. So, when you get past the “people who are trying to kill me”, surely humans behave like Shang Qinghua, right? Nope! Didi is in for a shock! No one in the world talks this way except himself and Shang Qinghua. 

I keep imagining Didi and Sha Hualing dropping some modern slang in front of Shen Yuan, then SY going, “Transmigrators?! Transmigrators?!” 

SY seems to be much better at hiding his strangeness, but yeah, if he hangs around SQH, people like MBJ and Didi would pick up on it sooner or later. Another human popping up, obviously from the same place SQH is originally from, would be pretty fascinating to everyone who notices (although I’ve always kind of figured that MBJ has decided not to care). 

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Some slightly messed-up ideas for Mobei family drama in AUs: 

- Linguang-Jun appears to be a much younger brother, possibly closer in age to Mobei-Jun rather than Mobei-Jun Senior. What if LGJ got married as a teenager (16-18-ish?) and his older brother stole his also-a-teenager wife? Even if he wasn’t a teenager, it still seems to me that LGJ still got married fairly young, so it’s also possible he lost his childhood sweetheart. 

- Linguang-Jun has no issue with any of his other own siblings and their children, so long as they don’t get between him and his revenge and other goals. It is specifically MBJ and MBJ’s father he hates. Linguang-Jun could even be considered an indulgent and “fun” uncle to other Mobei cousins, and is generally very well-liked and well-regarded within the family. 

- A way to bring Didi from my Da-Ge Mobei-Jun fic into other AUs is to have Didi raised by someone else. Mobei-Jun gave his younger brother away to be raised by someone else, knowing that Linguang-Jun’s hatred is mostly reserved for Mobei-Jun Senior and anyone descended from him. Mobei-Jun won’t even allow himself to get close to this “distant cousin” and risk him. Didi doesn’t know. SQH doesn’t even find out until MBJ brings this “distant cousin” in as his heir and confesses that he gave his baby brother away. 

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