Cursed to be together, forever, again and again (2/2)
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Cursed to be together, forever, again and again (2/2)
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Cursed to be together, forever, again and again ( part 1/2 )
Did a short comic abt these two, hope yall enjoy!
This is truly a Megatron and Optimus post ( I drew this shit in FlipaClip btw )
two completely different vibes goin on
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“Liu Qingge! At least wash up first, you uncultured brute!”
my svsss comic about sqq and his little personality split (what if)
De-aging this, de-aging that; no one ever acknowledges that, in a scenario where Shen Qingqiu was de-aged surrounded by all his fellow peak lords, he would find himself surrounded by not only men but the type of rich masters who saw a slave like him as nothing but a plaything to humiliate and spit on at best and a punching bag to torture at worst, just like that wretched Qiu Jianluo; consequently he would—to her horror—run to the only woman in the room, Qi Qingqi.
Okay but now imagine the whiplash at him hiding behind her like he's trying to make her a shield between him and the men. Imagine one of the other peak lords steps forward and for the first time they see the aloof and haughty cold-hearted scholar Shen QingQiu flinch at something and he grabs onto her skirts to try and hide behind her better
QQQ definitely has had disciples with similar behaviors. Who never leave the Peak without a solid Group. Helped mortals with similar behaviors when they dared approach her Fairies, never other cultivators, For A Reason. (Definitely something a women-only Peak includes in their training/studies. Their sect accepts disciples on Merit Despite Background! Even if many are still Biased. There's definitely been plenty of little ladies who ran there just like Qi-ge did. Whether they are all good at clocking it...)
She is shocked to see it in a miniaturized SQQ, but perhaps its a habit, an instinct, a reflex, to shift at least a little bit to better shield and hide whoever Reacts Like That. It was so quick and sudden!
Seeing/feeling the reaction to THAT. Little SJ calming slightly when he is better hidden from everyone else, or flinching when one of the Men try to peer around her, or start Shouting. Clinging less tightly when she steps back, herding him away from everyone else and closer to a wall perhaps, maybe leaning against her a little but breathing a little more calmly. Trembling even as he hides it desperately, she can still Feel it that close.
Yeah. All her hackles are up, Very Sus, but. She's not Stupid! Something is Very Very Off and she damn well wants to know What Is This Shit! What the fuck!
If nothing else, she's not gonna get answers by letting all these Stubborn Men crowd this petrified small being hiding behind her. Shoo! Back off!
Just asking his name would clue them in that at the very least he does not remember becoming Peak Lord, or even Head Disciple. Asking if he knows their names and not even getting their old personal ones puts it even further back.
But what would he even say to such questions when he only knows being a frightened young slave child? Only sees Fancy Masters around, asking him Questions, at least someone being Cranky/Mad/Hostile? The closest thing to servants present are Also Fancy! (Disciples) That doesn't help him figure out what's going on!
If QQQ asks, tho, he'd probably use very respectful lady-you-don't-know-but-is-Fancy sort of titles and such. Whether or not he feels safe, she's the safest person in the room, to him, so he's got the sense to automatically be nicer/polite. He's spitting mad at everyone else's existence right now, but being too vocal about that carelessly can get him Killed and he'd Know That.
If their Head Disciples are present or nearby, perhaps LMY has stepped closer already. For good or ill, that scrawny shrunken Peak Lord is clinging to her Shizun. Best be close to help in whichever direction this goes, hm? Having TWO jiejies essentially bracketing him? SJ is a bit wide eyed by now. Overwhelmed. This is Very Scary and A Lot!
Ofc, having LMY that close is gonna set off LQG even more. Man is NOT helping. Too cranky, too loud, too openly angy. But if anyone can tell him to Be Quieter and have it Work, its probably his baby sister. (Agreeing with his concerns or not, Gege is Not Helping!) Which. Earns some more wide eyed awe from baby SJ. Fancy Jiejies are maybe also Cranky BUT can and did make the Men back off and quiet down?! He'll put up with them being cranky and mean at him if they keep being so effective at keeping the Men away! He's scared and traumatized and a Survivor! Better sharp tongued cranky Jiejies than Men! Especially Fancy Masters!
Female servants, slaves, and even family members of Masters couldn't always do anything to help him, wouldn't risk it or even be Nice, but they generally didn't hurt him. So QQQ being harsh and cranky at first isn't entirely a shock or a dealbreaker, even if its less than thrilling. As long as she doesn't try to shove him back at the Men, even if she rips her skirts out of his hands and doesn't want him touching her... as long as she lets him stand with her between little SJ and the Masters he'll take it.
(And he definitely, DEFINITELY thinks YQY is Qi-ge's sperm donor or relative, not Qi-ge. So fancy and big and Healthy! Can't possibly be Qi-ge. Maybe if they could convince him he too is Older and Healthier and just got shrunk by an artifact he'd consider it. He'd agree that if Qi-ge is the Sect Boss of COURSE Xiao Jiu is his second, his strategist, the one most expected and positioned to argue with him and tell him when he's being an idiot. Its the only conceivable way Qi-ge being in charge of Anything would ever work! Qi-ge can be the Approachable Face but his Xiao Jiu is right at his back to make sure no Stupid happens! No backstabbing (of them)!)
About the last bit, I don’t think they would have a chance to even try and explain this to Shen Jiu—at least when it initially happens.
Keep his perspective in mind: last thing he remembers he’s a slave child and now he woke up surrounded by rich lords. He must’ve been sold! And he doesn’t remember anything in between so they probably drugged him for easier transportation; he’s seen often enough how people completely black out from various substances in the back alleys behind brothels and bars.
Not to mention, given his paranoia (which i believe was already present in his childhood at least to some extent given how vigilant and snappy he was from the very beginning), he probably tends to catastrophise.
Jiu was his slave number, Qingqiu must be what these people renamed him as a marker of their property.
Everyone is screaming, laughing, staring, babbling, pointing, all around him. Even for someone as smart as Shen Jiu, that kind of situation is entirely overwhelming and overstimulating. Especially for a child. He’s basically been teleported into an overstimulation torment nexus. The chaos doesn’t allow him to properly assess the situation. All he can see is that all these rich lords are ogling him like an object, like a toy.
For this part I feel like I’m not familiar enough with his character but i imagine he’d either bolt (and immediately regret it) since all his brain can compute in the moment is that he’s not safe or he’d shut down trying to process the onslaught of information.
Fight (of fight flight freeze or faun) may be his default response but those are levels of human stress response and this is a lot more than what he usually has to deal with. Again, overstimulation torment nexus.
Either way, whatever the men have to say is going in one ear and out the other, simply because it’s too much to process immediately.
Now back to Qi Qingqi; she could explain the situation to him but his (re)actions have peaked her interest and drawn her attention.
That little gremlin may be Shen fucking Qingqiu overall but right now he’s a perfect little window to her hated Shixiong‘s overly concealed past who also happens to spark mild concern of an all too familiar type. He’s clearly not comfortable with all the other Peak Lords so, as a dutiful sect sibling and the only viable option, she simply must step up and take him to stay on her peak for the time being as unbearably awful it may be! Mingyan play along. Besides, Shen Qingqiu is banned not Shen Jiu (I think? I don’t remember when he was banned but most probably past becoming peak lord so this should be correct).
Time for interrogation with quickly growing mixed feelings.
One scenario I’d find particularly interesting requires Shen Jiu to not have a clean cut off if his memories, it’s a bit messier. He’s lacking some memories he should have based on the age his body regressed to and he has some that should be in the future from his perspective.
Now, sexual violence happens extraordinarily often between romantic partners. Qi Qingqi has too often encountered girls who stayed in abusive situations far too long hoping their partner would change only for them to one day up and leave never to be seen again.
Shen Jiu, in his confusion, would keep mentioning „Qi-Ge“ and how they used to cuddle everyday. How it was very nice because of how much older and bigger „Qi-Ge“ was. Very unfortunate word choice à la ✨ miscommunication ✨.
Qi Qingqi doesn’t charge that his memory is all jumbled up. She’s asking leading questions trying to get at a specific topic, doesn’t know anything about his past to cross reference, and Shen Jiu is a very good lier quickly covering up any discrepancies in order to not get into trouble.
Qi Qingqi builds up a very specific image of that „Qi-Ge“ in her mind during her questioning.
And then Shen Jiu drops one „Xiao-Jiu“.
Theres only one person who calls him Xiao-Jiu. One who Shen Qingqiu hates with a passion.
De-aging this, de-aging that; no one ever acknowledges that, in a scenario where Shen Qingqiu was de-aged surrounded by all his fellow peak lords, he would find himself surrounded by not only men but the type of rich masters who saw a slave like him as nothing but a plaything to humiliate and spit on at best and a punching bag to torture at worst, just like that wretched Qiu Jianluo; consequently he would—to her horror—run to the only woman in the room, Qi Qingqi.
Okay but now imagine the whiplash at him hiding behind her like he's trying to make her a shield between him and the men. Imagine one of the other peak lords steps forward and for the first time they see the aloof and haughty cold-hearted scholar Shen QingQiu flinch at something and he grabs onto her skirts to try and hide behind her better
QQQ definitely has had disciples with similar behaviors. Who never leave the Peak without a solid Group. Helped mortals with similar behaviors when they dared approach her Fairies, never other cultivators, For A Reason. (Definitely something a women-only Peak includes in their training/studies. Their sect accepts disciples on Merit Despite Background! Even if many are still Biased. There's definitely been plenty of little ladies who ran there just like Qi-ge did. Whether they are all good at clocking it...)
She is shocked to see it in a miniaturized SQQ, but perhaps its a habit, an instinct, a reflex, to shift at least a little bit to better shield and hide whoever Reacts Like That. It was so quick and sudden!
Seeing/feeling the reaction to THAT. Little SJ calming slightly when he is better hidden from everyone else, or flinching when one of the Men try to peer around her, or start Shouting. Clinging less tightly when she steps back, herding him away from everyone else and closer to a wall perhaps, maybe leaning against her a little but breathing a little more calmly. Trembling even as he hides it desperately, she can still Feel it that close.
Yeah. All her hackles are up, Very Sus, but. She's not Stupid! Something is Very Very Off and she damn well wants to know What Is This Shit! What the fuck!
If nothing else, she's not gonna get answers by letting all these Stubborn Men crowd this petrified small being hiding behind her. Shoo! Back off!
Just asking his name would clue them in that at the very least he does not remember becoming Peak Lord, or even Head Disciple. Asking if he knows their names and not even getting their old personal ones puts it even further back.
But what would he even say to such questions when he only knows being a frightened young slave child? Only sees Fancy Masters around, asking him Questions, at least someone being Cranky/Mad/Hostile? The closest thing to servants present are Also Fancy! (Disciples) That doesn't help him figure out what's going on!
If QQQ asks, tho, he'd probably use very respectful lady-you-don't-know-but-is-Fancy sort of titles and such. Whether or not he feels safe, she's the safest person in the room, to him, so he's got the sense to automatically be nicer/polite. He's spitting mad at everyone else's existence right now, but being too vocal about that carelessly can get him Killed and he'd Know That.
If their Head Disciples are present or nearby, perhaps LMY has stepped closer already. For good or ill, that scrawny shrunken Peak Lord is clinging to her Shizun. Best be close to help in whichever direction this goes, hm? Having TWO jiejies essentially bracketing him? SJ is a bit wide eyed by now. Overwhelmed. This is Very Scary and A Lot!
Ofc, having LMY that close is gonna set off LQG even more. Man is NOT helping. Too cranky, too loud, too openly angy. But if anyone can tell him to Be Quieter and have it Work, its probably his baby sister. (Agreeing with his concerns or not, Gege is Not Helping!) Which. Earns some more wide eyed awe from baby SJ. Fancy Jiejies are maybe also Cranky BUT can and did make the Men back off and quiet down?! He'll put up with them being cranky and mean at him if they keep being so effective at keeping the Men away! He's scared and traumatized and a Survivor! Better sharp tongued cranky Jiejies than Men! Especially Fancy Masters!
Female servants, slaves, and even family members of Masters couldn't always do anything to help him, wouldn't risk it or even be Nice, but they generally didn't hurt him. So QQQ being harsh and cranky at first isn't entirely a shock or a dealbreaker, even if its less than thrilling. As long as she doesn't try to shove him back at the Men, even if she rips her skirts out of his hands and doesn't want him touching her... as long as she lets him stand with her between little SJ and the Masters he'll take it.
(And he definitely, DEFINITELY thinks YQY is Qi-ge's sperm donor or relative, not Qi-ge. So fancy and big and Healthy! Can't possibly be Qi-ge. Maybe if they could convince him he too is Older and Healthier and just got shrunk by an artifact he'd consider it. He'd agree that if Qi-ge is the Sect Boss of COURSE Xiao Jiu is his second, his strategist, the one most expected and positioned to argue with him and tell him when he's being an idiot. Its the only conceivable way Qi-ge being in charge of Anything would ever work! Qi-ge can be the Approachable Face but his Xiao Jiu is right at his back to make sure no Stupid happens! No backstabbing (of them)!)
About the last bit, I don’t think they would have a chance to even try and explain this to Shen Jiu—at least when it initially happens.
Keep his perspective in mind: last thing he remembers he’s a slave child and now he woke up surrounded by rich lords. He must’ve been sold! And he doesn’t remember anything in between so they probably drugged him for easier transportation; he’s seen often enough how people completely black out from various substances in the back alleys behind brothels and bars.
Not to mention, given his paranoia (which i believe was already present in his childhood at least to some extent given how vigilant and snappy he was from the very beginning), he probably tends to catastrophise.
Jiu was his slave number, Qingqiu must be what these people renamed him as a marker of their property.
Everyone is screaming, laughing, staring, babbling, pointing, all around him. Even for someone as smart as Shen Jiu, that kind of situation is entirely overwhelming and overstimulating. Especially for a child. He’s basically been teleported into an overstimulation torment nexus. The chaos doesn’t allow him to properly assess the situation. All he can see is that all these rich lords are ogling him like an object, like a toy.
For this part I feel like I’m not familiar enough with his character but i imagine he’d either bolt (and immediately regret it) since all his brain can compute in the moment is that he’s not safe or he’d shut down trying to process the onslaught of information.
Fight (of fight flight freeze or faun) may be his default response but those are levels of human stress response and this is a lot more than what he usually has to deal with. Again, overstimulation torment nexus.
Either way, whatever the men have to say is going in one ear and out the other, simply because it’s too much to process immediately.
Now back to Qi Qingqi; she could explain the situation to him but his (re)actions have peaked her interest and drawn her attention.
That little gremlin may be Shen fucking Qingqiu overall but right now he’s a perfect little window to her hated Shixiong‘s overly concealed past who also happens to spark mild concern of an all too familiar type. He’s clearly not comfortable with all the other Peak Lords so, as a dutiful sect sibling and the only viable option, she simply must step up and take him to stay on her peak for the time being as unbearably awful it may be! Mingyan play along. Besides, Shen Qingqiu is banned not Shen Jiu (I think? I don’t remember when he was banned but most probably past becoming peak lord so this should be correct).
Time for interrogation with quickly growing mixed feelings.
One scenario I’d find particularly interesting requires Shen Jiu to not have a clean cut off if his memories, it’s a bit messier. He’s lacking some memories he should have based on the age his body regressed to and he has some that should be in the future from his perspective.
Now, sexual violence happens extraordinarily often between romantic partners. Qi Qingqi has too often encountered girls who stayed in abusive situations far too long hoping their partner would change only for them to one day up and leave never to be seen again.
Shen Jiu, in his confusion, would keep mentioning „Qi-Ge“ and how they used to cuddle everyday. How it was very nice because of how much older and bigger „Qi-Ge“ was. Very unfortunate word choice à la ✨ miscommunication ✨.
Qi Qingqi doesn’t charge that his memory is all jumbled up. She’s asking leading questions trying to get at a specific topic, doesn’t know anything about his past to cross reference, and Shen Jiu is a very good lier quickly covering up any discrepancies in order to not get into trouble.
Qi Qingqi builds up a very specific image of that „Qi-Ge“ in her mind during her questioning.
And then Shen Jiu drops one „Xiao-Jiu“.
Theres only one person who calls him Xiao-Jiu. One who Shen Qingqiu hates with a passion.
Uh oh, sect leader's gonna get murdered if the other peak lords don't stop her because the little bean is saying things in a way that can leave a very wrong impression. Well, oops, so sad, hopefully QingQi-jie will be able to make up for taking away Qi-ge from the bean
Qi Qingqi lying in bed at night, unable to meditate or sleep, thinking about all the behaviors and interactions she’s watched between the two over the years:
Aversion to touch,„Xiao-Jiu“ despite being told not to call him that 473 times and counting (she had a score board), expensive gifts, apologetic fake smiles, „I’m sorry“s, literal harassment with how often the sect leader stands on the other‘s doorstep, the brothels (hypersexuality as a coping mechanism in response to SA????), the list is looong.
„It all makes sense now“ (she’s wrong on every single train of thought)
She's going to be so protective by the time he turns back and he's going to have no idea how it happened but at least someone is on his side now even if his paranoia says that he absolutely can't trust it at all
I’d like to rope Mu Qingfan in onto this whole mess too. I think he’d be the first to catch on to what’s happening. He’s seen this behavior in his own patients and he’s definitely seen how Qi Qingqi gets with this type of patient.
I feel like he’d get quite sad for a good bit, having his decade long suspicions confirmed
Or
Since they barely interacted during all their time as sect siblings, he’d beat himself up over completely missing the signs—in part bc he’s used to mostly seeing this in girls.
Either way the cinnamon roll gets soggy.
Meanwhile Liu Qingge in the background feeling like the entire mountain is playing soccer with his brain. What the hell is going on??
To make it even worse and doubly confusing for everyone else, once Qi QingQi shares her suspicions with Mu QingFang the two do everything they can to make sure Yue QingYuan is never alone with Shen QingQiu.
At some point one of the other peak lords notices how those two do nothing to stop Shen QingQiu from being alone with anyone else. It's only the sect leader they interfere with. And it's clear that this is protective towards Shen QingQiu, not Yue QingYuan, so just ehat the hell did those two find out?
Generally I believe Mu Qingfan is rational enough to not jump to conclusions like this and try to get both sides of the story first except—cycling back to the idea of Shen Jiu recognizing Yue Qingyuan as Qi-Ge‘s sperm donor who abandoned or sold him—he’d see Shen Jiu‘s reaction to the sect leader and see it as confirmation. So little and already recognizing him as a threat! He was so young when it happened!!
Yue Qingyuan clearly having waited for Qi Qingqi to head to Qian Cao to immediately insert himself in the conversation including the healer really doesn’t help his case.
Also, the next character to be involved is Shang Qinghua. That one’s really having an aneurysm over the derailed plot.
These tags by @bafflednpc we’re left on the rb ending in „What the hell is going on??“ but I believe they fit perfectly with the other two additions in between.
Imagine Qi Qingqi, Liu Qingge, and Mu Qingfan forming a Bean-Jiu protection squad. Yue Qingyuan is trying to find his xiao-jiu, they gotta work together and be faster than the sect leader!
Qi Qingqi uses her gossip network to find leads, Liu Qingge uses his tracking skills for more active search efforts and Mu Qingfan tags along to fix them up once they inevitably run into trouble while furiously writing down treatment plans for Bean-Jiu in the background.
De-aging this, de-aging that; no one ever acknowledges that, in a scenario where Shen Qingqiu was de-aged surrounded by all his fellow peak lords, he would find himself surrounded by not only men but the type of rich masters who saw a slave like him as nothing but a plaything to humiliate and spit on at best and a punching bag to torture at worst, just like that wretched Qiu Jianluo; consequently he would—to her horror—run to the only woman in the room, Qi Qingqi.
((when I started this, I debated whether I should write from Qi Qingqi's POV or Baby Jiu's. I ended up going to Qi Qingqi's, because it felt more natural to me.))
His little hands gripped her skirts and for a second, Qi Qingqi felt as if she were back in her mother's apartments, her baby brothers fingers digging into her sleeves and pulling at her to get her to give him her snacks. She pushed aside the nostalgia, mentally acknowledging that she'd been a grown woman. He had the same crocodile tears shimmering in his eyes as her little brother, so she knew that distress was fake... Except that his little hands were shaking, where they held her skirts. That wasn't so easily faked.
"Auntie?" The plaintive little voice was nothing like suspicious hiss of her martial brother. The red on his cheeks and across the bridge of his nose spoke to a fever, and those limned red eyes were bright with it.
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