#chara.sha-ming

[yuechicake]

let's talk about how both sha-ming and sq utilize their sexualities in very specific ways to present themselves as shallow (sha-ming as sleazy and sq as an airhead) and thus get people to underestimate them and maintain a careful distance with others. and how they both care so so much about other people but sha-ming is afraid of getting attached to others and getting hurt, and sq is afraid of never being loved for who she is without any ulterior motives on the other person's part.

[yuechicake]

on our journey with no end and no beginning.

(commissioned from auderu)

[yuechicake]

"do you think fish living in a tank even know they're trapped, or are they just happy to keep swimming in circles, because this is their whole world?"

(commissioned from dacquoisettes)

[yuechicake]

parallel lines.

(commissioned from hewoweens)

[yuechicake]

welcome to the space age--☆!

(commissioned from chimiee)

[yuechicake]

trust me.

(commissioned from argilla)

[yuechicake]

gathering a team i'm calling sha-ming variants bc i have been close to mistaking them for him before

[yuechicake]

my hc is that sha-ming can speak cantonese and, to a lesser extent, some mandarin, but he's better at listening than he is at speaking lol. i think he used to be able to read and write pretty well, but lost the skills as he got older so he's stuck at an elementary school level.

zhixing, meanwhile, can speak flawless mandarin but she's not good with slang and is very formal so she ends up sounds like someone ran her words through google translate most of the time. her reading and writing is better, but she's never received advanced schooling, so she's at a high school graduate proficiency level.

all this to say is that i think it'd be cute if they talked to each other in mandarin, or he attempted to teach her cantonese...