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[ an independent, private / mutuals only, and 18+ blog for an original character based off of my own person lore named LUI SHING or THE AVATAR OF GLUTTONY. selective and semi-literate as well as literate! the mun's name is autumn, uses she/her pronouns, and is 23. mature themes such as depictions of body horror, plague, cannibalism, murder, etc. will be featured on this account. so please keep that in mind before deciding to interact. ]

this account was made in 2025 and will explore themes such as greed as downfall, growing up: pain or pleasure, the will to survive, strong on the outside and all kinds of 'messed up' on the inside, obsession as distraction, poverty, being pulled between two equally hard choices, isolation, the road to hell is led by good intentions, moral decay and abandonment.

[ account is still under construction, but more information about lui will be added very soon! AWESOME graphics made by the very talented @anahilation :D ]

TEMPORARY BACKSTORY. (working on a carrd) | PROMPTS. |

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alright, but like... who's trying to allow me to spam their inbox with stuff from lui HMMM 👀

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SO, just so that you all are caught up to speed as to what lui's backstory is, i'm going to summarize it right here BC i am not even close to completing a carrd for them RN if i'm being honest JSJSJ LMAO:

AHHH, well, to start things off — lui was born out of wedlock to a chinese princess in the qing dynasty named ruyun and a commoner + this was a pretty big deal, BC this was essentially thought of being something that could tarnish her 'good reputation' among the people of china... and so poor ruyun, as women often unfortunately already had few choices back then in imperial china, was forced to give lui up for adoption. and the first people who took them in was actually a buddhist monastery, as they were known for sometimes being willing to take in orphans anddd having a separate 'home' from the monastery itself where these orphans could stay.

so, up until lui was about eight years old, she stayed in this buddhist temple and also adopted their religion + even came to view a monk named zhiyuan as a sort-of surrogate father figure to her, because he took a special interest in making sure she was taken care of around the temple as well as talked with her frequently. but because lui was never meant to be there permanently, despite them trying to fight against being adopted by an outside family in china, she was adopted by the shing family and basically swept away to living in one of the various parts of china that feature wetlands / swamps (the zoige wetland, in this case). and lui was unfortunately not adopted out of the kindness of the shing families hearts, but because they needed someone additional to take care of their farm... so free labor, which is as bad as it sounds 😬

so yeahhh. growing up in the shing family, which consisted of a mother, a father, and technically an 'older brother' was not all sunshine + rainbows. lui's older brother, yao, was pretty much given all of the privileges and attention / praise from their parents because he already seemed like he was going to be 'successful' from a young age. plus, with how lui identified as just female at the time, she was held to a different standard and this was unfortunately that she needed to 'earn her keep' because women (or more specifically, young girls in particular) were seen as less valuable by the shing family BC they wouldn't be carrying on the family name. in any case, lui always seemed to get the short end of the stick and frequently fantasized about going back to the buddhist temple in order to be able to escape her 'new family' (which really wasn't much of a family to her at all).

lui was made to sleep out in a barn with all the animals that they had in the hayloft they had, which further demonstrated just how little they actually cared about her besides what they could do for them. they had destroyed the buddhist text she had brought with her from the temple, telling her that the text was 'distracting her from her work' and that she needed to get used to her new life + all of her belongings fit in a suitcase (from the orphanage) for the longest time. lui was inadequately given food by them, as well as was only brought to the doctor when she quite literally was too sick to move a few times due to the cold weather conditions out in the barn + the doctor raised suspicion that she was being abused / neglected by her adoptive parents because of this.

lui felt like they had to make excuses for their adoptive parents, however, because if they were taken away from them- who's to say that they wouldn't end up having to live with people even worse in the future? so, they begrudgingly updated her barn, which had essentially become her living space with an external heater, blankets, and things to keep cool with during the summer. at the age of fifteen, though, things had become completely intolerable for lui when they learned that their adoptive parents intended on marrying her off to an eighteen year old which is. UHHH problematic for multiple reasons, but from there, lui fled from the shing household and never looked back.

there are, of course, other things that lui went through after leaving the shing household, but i shall go more in-depth about them later. for now, i just wanted to say that in the present, lui is an infectious disease doctor. and a lot of people in this new community she moved into years ago had fallen ill with this mysterious sickness that had been going around where they lived. thus, lui took to trying to study the disease to find a cure. from there, they essentially created a cure that they thought was invincible but untested. so they infected themselves with the disease... before injecting themselves with the cure.

BUT it failed, and they became something akin to the typhoid mary carrier, where she was asymptomatic but still had the disease. then, as a result, she spreaded the disease to people around her in her community as a result until everyone unfortunately had it. but they're symptomatic and lui doesn't realize their mistake until they fall CRITICALLY ill themselves. to make matters worse, instead of admitting that they made a mistake, they were perhaps more concerned with their own reputation though they felt paralyzed by what they've done (rightfully so) but maybe they spent their whole life savings on trying to develop this 'cure' for the people they had encountered with the sickness before they had infected their community; but they might have had an underlying taste for wanting to have power over others and that's partially why they developed the false cure in the first place.

but this want for power kicks in full-force as the community then turns their attention towards lui to 'save them' essentially BC they're the only doctor in the whole community and they like the feeling of people actually NEEDING them / people depending on them because it means they have... bingo, power over them. so they intentionally take as long as possible to try to develop another cure perhaps because they're being praised for their work like they've never been before + they feel like they're finally getting the recognition they deserve as people say that they know lui is doing the best they can to develop a cure, buttt like i said... this bubbles over into being overindulgence or gluttony because suddenly, their personal appetite for attention + being needed has become the highest good for them.

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Getting to Know You Sentences

(Sentences for muses to get to know each other better. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"What's your favourite book?"

"This is how you like to have fun?"

"Did you have a happy childhood?"

"How's your cooking?"

"How long have you been here?"

"What do you want more than anything?"

"Do you have a family?"

"Is there anything that doesn't bore you?"

"Is there anything you ever wanted to do but you didn't do because everybody would watch you and question you?"

"What social media are you on?"

"Do you think you're a good man?"

"Is your job always like this?"

"How old are you?"

"Do you live alone?"

"Why are you so afraid to succeed?"

"Which one is your favourite?"

"Have you ever wanted any children?"

"Why do you want to be boring?"

"Was you father big in your life?"

"What were you like as a child?"

"How come you don't care where you're going?"

"How do you like to spend your free time?"

"You have an interesting accent. Where are you from exactly?"

"Can you sing?"

"Do you always talk to yourself?"

"Is that your real name?"

"Do you want a tattoo?"

"May I ask when you lost your faith?"

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❝ and i'm starving — in the literal sense. idiots think hunger is the body. no, hunger — is the soul, the whole weight of it falls on the soul. ❞

[MARINA TSVETAEVA, FROM EARTHLY SIGNS: MOSCOW DIARIES]

a blog for an original character based on my own lore featuring LUI SHING, or the AVATAR OF GLUTTONY.

written by autumn! mature themes such as body horror, plague, cannibalism, and murder do apply to this account — so please keep that in mind before deciding to interact.

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lowkey feel like lui gives off a certain vibe that is between 'waiting for a girl like you' by foreigner and 'hungry like the wolf' by duran duran except she's the one singing the song because i'm afraid that she is a literal man-eater.. and a woman-eater... and everything in between JSJSJ

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so uhh... if it isn't convincing enough on it's own that lui is semi-immortal and thus has collected some spoils + would pamper the HECK out of their partner, i would just like to say that if lui likes you enough, there is also a chance that her locusts will like you a lot too. and if they like your muse a lot, one or two of them could possibly become a little friend on your muses shoulder or lap to hang out with your muse while lui is somewhere else :3

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so, this is like the first official discussion that i've posted on tumblr rather than just thought about in my head and thus, if it doesn't make much sense... i'm sorry LOL but just to let you all know, because lui is literally a living SWARM of locusts, they can disconnect any number of locusts from their body to do things for them. and no, the way that this works doesn't exactlyyy always obey normal psychics.

the best example i could give to that currently is lui voluntarily sending out almost all of the locusts from her back to do a task for them; but so long as they keep some locusts on their sides to hold their upper body up AND also have their lower body connected to something, they won't necessarily be discovered as a insect person. that is, unless you're facing in the direction of their back and can see that they're literally missing one JSJSJ

i also like to think that, although the locusts and her are technically one body / the same, they recognize that if they are shot or injured in some way by someone that their 'host' will be injured + so they do what any logical locusts would OFC... which is shape lui's body around where they think bullets will land. so, if you are currently imagining that jacket guy from 'no i'm not a human' with a hole in his gut then you are kind of correct as to what lui's locusts could do with their body to protect them. but also, they're obviously an entirely different person, so lmaooo

i have been working on drawing anatomy lately, actually, so maybe i'll be able to give you all a better visual of it... but just envision them creating holes across their body to protect them for now (body horror below). and them being able to do so also depends on their own reaction times + as a result, they might not be able to do it due to having not fast enough reflexes:

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pov: lui shows up to the function looking like this... what do you do (If there is one thing that she never wants to look as, it's boring LMAO)

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HIII hello, you all... guess who it is 👀 it is me, here to announce that i shall be here more later today as i am trying to be more active on my femme muses in particular, so HEYYY - like this post if you're awake and i'll send you some stuff :)

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ᝰ🚬 𝚉𝙰𝙲𝙷𝚁𝙿 .ᐟ RANDOM HIGH-STAKES, DISASTER-BASED ACTION PROMPTS CHANGE ANY PRONOUNS IF NECESSARY. SOME MATURE THEMES MAY BE PRESENT. SEND "REVERSE" TO SWITCH THE ROLES OF SENDER AND RECEIVER.

SENDER forces RECEIVER to keep moving despite exhaustion.

SENDER lifts RECEIVER over an obstacle they can't clear alone.

OUR MUSES get separated briefly and panic sets in.

OUR MUSES light a fire for warmth using scavenged materials.

OUR MUSES wade through floodwater, gripping each other for balance.

OUR MUSES emerge into daylight to see how much the world has changed.

SENDER blocks RECEIVER from seeing something horrifying.

OUR MUSES take turns standing watch through the night.

OUR MUSES navigate by landmarks that no longer exist.

SENDER covers RECEIVER'S mouth to keep them quiet.

SENDER confesses fear to RECEIVER in a rare quiet moment.

OUR MUSES shelter in a vehicle that may not hold.

SENDER gives up their share of medicine for RECEIVER.

SENDER promises RECEIVER they'll get through this together.

OUR MUSES climb to higher ground as water rises.

SENDER wakes RECEIVER just in time to avoid danger.

SENDER helps RECEIVER wash ash or grime from their face.

OUR MUSES mourn someone they couldn't save.

SENDER collapses and RECEIVER helps them back up.

OUR MUSES cling to each other as the ground shakes.

OUR MUSES listen to emergency broadcasts on a dying radio.

OUR MUSES sneak through an area crawling with danger.

OUR MUSES share the last dry blanket between them.

OUR MUSES shelter together as debris batters the structure around them.

OUR MUSES argue quietly over whether to leave shelter or stay.

SENDER gives RECEIVER the last flashlight battery.

SENDER shares a memory with RECEIVER to distract from fear.

SENDER gives RECEIVER their coat despite the cold.

OUR MUSES break into an abandoned building looking for supplies.

OUR MUSES follow a map they don't fully trust.

SENDER scouts ahead while RECEIVER waits, terrified and alone.

OUR MUSES hold onto each other in complete darkness.

OUR MUSES move through ruins that were once familiar.

OUR MUSES barricade a door as something pounds on the other side.

SENDER cleans blood from RECEIVER'S hands, steady and careful.

SENDER hands RECEIVER a weapon.

OUR MUSES share whispered plans over a flickering flashlight.

OUR MUSES hide in silence, listening for signs they've been found.

OUR MUSES ration food between them, unsure when help will come.

OUR MUSES wait out the storm in a cramped, unsafe space.

SENDER teaches RECEIVER how to start a fire without matches.

SENDER teaches RECEIVER how to use a weapon they've never used before.

SENDER drags RECEIVER out of a wrecked vehicle.

SENDER reassures RECEIVER during a panic attack.

SENDER carries RECEIVER when they can no longer walk.

OUR MUSES share a silent moment of relief after surviving something close.

OUR MUSES watch the skyline burn or collapse from a distance.

SENDER makes a hard call that puts them both at risk.

SENDER helps RECEIVER breathe through shock.

SENDER pulls glass from RECEIVER'S skin carefully.

SENDER pulls RECEIVER into cover just as something explodes nearby.

SENDER refuses to leave RECEIVER behind.

OUR MUSES wait for rescue that may never come.

SENDER struggles to pull RECEIVER back from a collapsing ledge.

OUR MUSES wait out danger inches apart, barely breathing.

SENDER tends to RECEIVER'S non-life-threatening wound.

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HIII hello, you all... guess who it is 👀 it is me, here to announce that i shall be here more later today as i am trying to be more active on my femme muses in particular, so HEYYY - like this post if you're awake and i'll send you some stuff :)

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the down days [2/2].

dialogue prompts from the down days by ilze hugo.

it was so worth it, wasn't it?

i'm not an extrovert like you. i need my space.

always the comedian, aren't you?

are you ready to be a martyr? do the right thing?

denial is practically my middle name.

i got into this to help people.

i promised myself i'd never look back.

i just work here.

i've done my research. i know the law.

find what you're looking for?

you're acting suspicious as fuck.

you think you're invincible, don't you?

you're not crazy. you're grieving.

is this 'fuck with me' friday?

have you started smoking again?

ray of sunshine alert.

your _____ seems like it's really bothering you today. you keep grimacing.

cross your heart and hope to die?

you're in a better mood. what happened?

i've just gained some perspective on a few things, is all.

i have to do everything to keep you safe, even if it seems crazy.

cold feet? if you keep walking, they'll warm up.

i'm turning into my mother.

let's pretend none of this happened and move on, okay?

i can't believe i trusted you.

hear me out. i can explain.

i'm nobody's darling, darling.

i really don't see how you can dig your way out of this one.

if i had to give myself a label, it would be 'hopesmith'.

you don't have to believe in something to be an expert in it.

hope isn't free. it always comes at a cost.

seriously. i can't take you anywhere.

there's no such thing as luck. or fate. or choosing your own reality in seven different colors and sizes with free shipping via amazon, or whatever.

you just can't help yourself, can you?

i'm sorry. i'm being an ass again, aren't i?

you look like you're having a rough week. can i buy you a coffee?

no strings, just caffeine. it's a sin to say no to a free cup of coffee.

spirits for the spirit, as my uncle used to say.

i like solving puzzles. the more difficult, the better.

some weeds can't be pruned, my gran used to say. their roots run too deep.

always the comedian, aren't you?

you keep tapping your nails against the table. i can't concentrate.

i'm guessing this isn't a social call.

i prefer to kick it old school, thank you very much.

you've been hiding from the hurt for too long. it's consuming you.

people lie all the time, for all sorts of reasons.

i do my best thinking on my feet.

i could do with a good caped crusader, right now.

i could do with a good saving. not a knight, though. no shining armor, thanks. and no horses, either.

i don't know anymore where 'now' begins and 'then' ends.

i know who you are. i've seen you.

i've never been good with uncomfortable silences.

this isn't a tv show, it's real life. things just happen.

sometimes you have to look after yourself, too.

aren't you even curious? after everything?

i'm nobody's fucking pinnochio. i'll dangle my own damn strings, thank you.

stop pretending you don't care about anything.

just trust me. and if you can't trust me, trust ______.

don't worry about that. it's all sorted. i phoned a friend.

you can be quite funny, if you try.

you can't fight fire with fire. take it from me.

you don't know what it's like to have no one.

you don't have to pretend anymore.

i've always liked the idea of reincarnation. a fresh start, a chance to try again.

to tell you the truth, i still don't know what to make of all this.

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i'm afraid that lui would pull a buffy summers in the same way that buffy went to spike when she was hurt because even though she believed that he was bad for him, she needed to feel like someone needed her at the time (this one monent in season six is what i'm thinking of explicitly, when RILEY comes back) and by that i mean... lui would get into a physical / mostly sexual relationship with someone who she thought was bad for her, but she wouldn't be able to let go of them if they demonstrated that they needed her in some way, and in this essay i will

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and if i told you all that i am going to be active on here during the weekend... what would you say (the words that are coming to mind for me personally are something along the lines of 'wahoo' or 'yayyy,' but i suppose i shall take other things /j)

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HIII, you all — i'm so sorry for my absence on here lately!! finals are finally all over for me, which are mainly the reason why i've been gone (as well as job-hunting), but i'm here to answer any graphic commission messages i might've missed as well as will be continuing progress on those today and/or this upcoming week! thank you so much for being patient, you all... ILY and i hope you're all doing well ❤️