So a few years ago I had this idea where SY introduces DnD to QJP as "strategy training" and SQH ends up coming over every week or so to be the DM. (Ofc all of the scenarios are written by SQH) (under SY's supervision bc you can't trust that man) and SY helps with monster-related stuff and convincing YQY to let SQH spend more time outside of An Ding Peak (or smth idk)
Anyway 3 years later here's a short comic inspired by this idea
(MF plays the wizard, NYY the barbarian, and LBH the paladin)
cqs peak lord relationships/interactions through sword parallels. this lodged itself into my head after making the yqy & wqw post, so expanding on that
yue qingyuan and wei qingwei having a sword–swordmaker dynamic. yqy is the gentlest, most proper sword that wei qingwei has ever interacted with. but wei qingwei remembers the fight against tianlang-jun, and– well, at his core, yue qingyuan is blazing – just restrained very, very well. wei qingwei would put him up on his wall, or smooth over each of the cracks along blade, or lay him beside yue qi's non-existent grave. yue qingyuan as one of wei qingwei and mu qingfang's greatest creations
qijiu as each other's swords.
yqy shaping himself to be the perfect thing for shen jiu to use – a perfect sect leader that wouldn't ever get overthrown, that would always be able to provide safety for shen jiu; to bring him countless gifts. he spends late nights doing qiong ding paperwork and shapes his exhaustion into something benefitting shen jiu – because other than that, he has no use (and he pretends to be perfect because xiao jiu would deserve an unblemished blade, and also because he's unworthy of showing his scars and repaired meridians to xiao jiu)
at the same time, shen jiu constructing the persona of qing jing peak lord shen qingqiu. he's whip-smart, and ruthless, and scheming – and all that helps himself survive, of course, but it also keeps cang qiong afloat too. shen jiu would never become a noble blade, but– at least yue qingyuan sees him becoming a poisoned dagger and still doesn't throw him away again. at least shen qingqiu, with all his schemes, gets to have yue qingyuan close to him. he hates the fact, and hates the hierarchy; hates being that dagger in the sect leader's too soft, too useless hands. hates it and lives for it all at the same time, because yue qingyuan keeps choosing that poisoned dagger when he has so many other swords at his disposal. (except – yue qingyuan tries to combat the charges at the trial and fails. a poisoned dagger is still a poisoned dagger, and now luo binghe gets to dismantle it bit by bit until there are cracks running along the entirety of its curved blade)
liu qingge being that proper, noble sword. he's handed himself over to yue qingyuan, since the might of bai zhan has always been wielded by qiong ding. he knows of yue qingyuan's prowess; he is honored to have such a good wielder. liu qingge always being so suspicious of shen qingqiu, because even if yue qingyuan regards the man as cang qiong's most precious blade, he still is a poisoned dagger beneath all that gilt. dangerous. unpredictable. bound to cut yue qingyuan and poison his blood and lead him to ruin. liu qingge would never do that – not a single drop of poison has ever touched the metal of his blade. (the metal is, however, still too fragile; it shatters in the tense darkness of the caves, and liu qingge is no more)
mu qingfang as a small medicinal knife, maybe a scalpel, and as the knife-wielder, too. he remakes yue qingyuan's body, and touches the unnatural white scars, and looks at the wrongful masterpiece that his shizun and him have managed to create. yue qi should've been dead. but– healers' scalpels are made for necessity, and mu qingfang recognizes that necessity of resurrecting qiong ding peak's yue qingyuan even if it makes his insides churn. a scalpel is no match for a greatsword – but there's a fluid sort of symbiotism between them. mqf remaking yqy's flesh, over and over as the sect leader comes to him, apologetic, for never-ending medicinal teas. mqf handing himself over to yqy too, as cang qiong retrieves its wounded and sends them to qian cao to be healed. such a small knife; yet it upholds the well-being of an entire sect
A funny concept I have never seen in Shen Jiu centric or disciple era fics but someone really should have written before.
Yue Qi, dragging blood covered seething feral teen Shen Jiu to the Peak Lords: "this is Xiao Jiu, he is my friend and he saved my life and killed a demonic cultivator. Can we keep him? Pretty please"
Qing Jing Peak Lord, deciding adopting a malnourished teenager he literally watched on magical cultivator television kill several disciples and then his own master, like that's not going to stab him in the back: "dibs, lmao, this'll be hilarious."
Writes the name Xiao Jiu (not Shen Jiu, it's important for the hilarity) in the book where the disciples names are recorded ...but not the characters for Little Nine. Because of homonyms. Instead the book reads his name as 晓咎 (Xiǎo Jiù).
This character for Xiao means the dawn/daybreak or to understand. The character for Jiu means to fault/blame, or Misfortune/Disaster. Poetically his new legal name can be translated to "Dawn of Disaster" or "To Understand Misfortune". Very in character. But why is this funny? Its funny my friends because of this.
Disciple, waving cheerfully: "Yo, Xiao Jiu! Are you heading to the library?"
(Intent, respectful: "Greetings, Ominous Harbinger of Doom! Shall we study?")
Shen Jiu, stops dead in his tracks, fan snaps shut and his eyes narrow into slits: "Kill yourself."
(What he heard, insulting: "Yo, Little Trainwreck! Off to read some books?")
And, because of this ...For the rest of his life he is referred to as Xiao-shixiong or Xiao-fengzhu. He has to keep a straight face as he's basically called a hot mess to his face all the time and because he's never certain if his sect mates are calling him little senior brother/or our little peak lord or not.
And it's all Yue Qi's fault. Forever. It does not matter if the qijiu misunderstanding gets cleared up because Shen Jiu is going to kill him for telling everyone his name is Xiao Jiu.
Bonus: whenever Yue Qi calls him "Xiao Jiu" he can't say don't call me that and not make different misunderstandings because that's his name as far as everyone is convinced. Now everyone thinks Yue Qi is being incredibly overly familiar with the pissiest disciple on the peak, leading to Yue Qi getting saddled with a reputation as a pushy cut-sleeve who likes the fierce cold type.
theartofmadeline
vaporwave
yousharknotpass
pixelskylines
tangentwithtanner
prguitarman
discoholicmusic
