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From:

youcanyouup

[ Shen Qingqiu stares at the name attached to this post for a long, fraught moment before he moves on to reading the actual post. When he does read the post, he has to get up and go for a little walk to work through some of his internal screaming.

Then he comes back to the armchair he was sitting in and takes out his tablet. He spends a further like ten minutes attempting to respond before he gives up and PMs Shang Qinghua. ]

What the fuck are you doing, you moron?? Did you get dropped on your head? Do you WANT people to know you're a transmigrator? Some of us are trying to keep a low profile here, you know? Some of us don't want every other asshole stuck in this library to have the luxury of reading your whole stupid novel and drawing a bunch of stupid conclusions about who we're supposed to be, did you consider that? Fuck, of course it turns out you'd come here, obviously it was too much to ask to just be allowed to retire in peace, at this rate Luo fucking Binghe is going to walk in here too and I'll have to spend the rest of my life locked in one of the restrooms. Maybe I'll do that anyway! It'd be less trouble than dealing with your clueless bullshit!

From:

nocannobb

[ it probably should've occurred to shang qinghua that he might not be the only person from his canon here, but he thought for about 2 minutes before making that post. at first he takes a little psychic damage from that hail of abuse (TToTT) but actually seeing shen qingqiu's ranty text is comfortingly familiar, if a little bit of a jolt. but like considering who else could be here...best case scenario right?? ]

cucumber-bro is that any way to greet an old friend 😭 it's not like i knew you were here here! besides isnt everyone here technically a transmigrator? it's not like it's unusual, right? don't get me wrong, it's not like i want people to think i'm the same scummy shang qinghua i wrote in the original! i would really prefer to be known as a transmigrator, all things considered, you know?

From:

nocannobb

wait did YOU check it out??

From:

youcanyouup

Yes obviously I checked it out, what do you think! Otherwise anyone could have read it!

Look. Maybe it'd be OK if no one FROM the book was going to show up here but you know who's here already? The original goods! Kid version original goods! He's eleven! You think I want him to find out I took his body? Hell, you want him to find out what kind of future you wrote for him?? Never mind what kind of backstory you gave him and then NEVER POSTED, you hack.

From:

nocannobb

LOL

From:

nocannobb

wait youre not serious like he's not actually really here. like that was a joke right

From:

youcanyouup

NO I AM NOT JOKING, WHY WOULD I BE JOKING ABOUT THIS

From:

nocannobb

[ alright ok shang qinghua does have to spend a minute or two hyperventilating into a soft pillow to let that sink in ]

how was i supposed to know fictional characters could transmigrate out of their own works????? i thought it was just us FUCK

ok ok hold up. let's take a second here. if the original goods is just a kid and hasn't started cultivating yet...then he wouldn't know it was him in the book unless someone told him! right? because i never posted that backstory (which i lost with my original outline so you can stop being mad at me about that any day its not my fault!!) there's no way he would figure it out. also, can he even read?

From:

youcanyouup

You idiot, Qiu Haitang uses his original name when he's put on trial, TRY to remember ANY of the words you LITERALLY WROTE.

Shouldn't you know if he can read or not when he's your OC?? He can't, by the way, but I'm teaching him, and that doesn't matter anyway because he doesn't need to read it himself for someone else to read it and put it together and tell him!

From:

nocannobb

OK, look, there are so many of them you can't expect me to remember all of them without any notes!! or, for that matter, a copy of the book to look at! and you know the system likes to make stuff up sometimes! cut me some slack, bro. at any rate i'm not 100% sure of his canon point & what he was up to when he was that age! like i told you, that stuff didn't make it into the final draft because i forgot and i only just remembered a few things recently! but i'm PRETTY sure that was before he was sold to the qiu family, right?

also, if this is such a big concern, why are you teaching him to read?? wouldn't we both be safer if he stayed a dumb illiterate child

From:

youcanyouup

We're in a library, he'd learn eventually, one way or another! And if he can't read he can't order food here so somebody had to do it, I don't want him to just starve.

Anyway yes, I think he's from before any of that, or if he isn't he hasn't said anything about it. He mentioned a brother, does that mean anything to you?

From:

nocannobb

don't you though? i mean.......... wouldn't it be easier for both of us if he was, ahem, not here anymore

[ avoiding the question??? haha never ]

From:

youcanyouup

What the fuck, dude

From:

nocannobb

i'm just thinking of our survival here bro you're the one who said it was a problem!!!

[ ok ok but if child ~~murder~~ neglect is off the table...... sigh ]

yeah ok we should probably talk about his brother

From:

youcanyouup

Oh, should we.

From:

nocannobb

yeah, actually, this is what i wanted to talk to you about when i saw you in the demon realm but then i didn't have a chance! so! now that we're here and we have some leisure time, this master can finally tell you 🙏🏼

[ he didn't "have a chance" the time they met after that because shang qinghua was too busy throwing him under the bus but whatever! ]

ok, so, remember when i said i originally had more plans for shen jiu's backstory, to make him into a more interesting, 3d villain?

From:

youcanyouup

Hmm. Yes.

From:

nocannobb

right! so, as you know, the quickest route to interesting character development is a tragic backstory, right? that part with qiu haitang showing up, she was the foreshadowing hook. we're supposed to think at first that this is just confirmation of shen qingqiu's scumminess through and through, but what she said isnt actually the whole truth! so we have this xiao jiu, this pitiful little orphan slave with almost nothing in the world. now if you're trying to build a hero, this is where you give him something -- like bing-ge with the fake guanyin pendant, right? but if you're trying to craft a villain, here's where you take something away from him.

[ shen qingqiu didn't ask for an amateur webinar on writing 101 but here we are ]

From:

youcanyouup

OK, so what, you killed off his brother for angst points and that's why he sucks so much? Come on, dude, get to the point.

Edited Date: 2021-01-02 12:11 am (UTC)

From:

nocannobb

no no no!! it's way more interesting than that. just having someone die on you, even a blood brother, isn't enough to make you a villain. shen jiu & his qi-ge suffered, but they suffered together! they promised they would find a way out of their miserable lives! so one day, qi-ge tells his little bro that he's going to try and join a cultivation sect so he can become powerful enough to rescue xiao jiu. really heartwarming, right? only, after that day, qi-ge never came back, so shen jiu had to get himself out of his predicament in his own way. those details, i'm still kind of fuzzy on, i rewrote that part of the outline several times so i can't really remember what i ultimately landed on, before losing it all...............

From:

youcanyouup

Huh, OK, so he betrayed him? That IS more interesting... or at least it would be if you'd actually written it. Is that it? Did you have any plans to resolve this or were you just going to leave it hanging like every other dangling plot thread?

From:

nocannobb

oh shen jiu thinks he was betrayed for SURE. but i did actually have plans to resolve it, at a moment of critical emotion...or i would have if i'd remembered this part. because shen jiu wasn't actually betrayed, because the name of his brother was....

🥁🥁🥁

~*~ yue qi ~*~

From:

youcanyouup

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Are you fucking kidding me! You expect me to applaud this plot twist when you just admitted yourself that you forgot to put it in??

From:

nocannobb

bro can't we move past that? aren't you just repeating yourself dozens of times by now? its not my fault i lost the outline and i'm only one man, lets just accept the circumstances and imagine what it could have been! you wouldn't have seen that coming! it would have been totally gut wrenching!! admit it!!!!

From:

youcanyouup

Maybe if you also remembered how to write affecting prose 🙄

So, okay. Let me get this straight. Yue Qi, Yue Qingyuan, was supposed to come back for him and then he didn't? How is that not betraying him? So what if he feels bad and wants to be bros again afterwards, isn't it a bit late for him to change his mind about it?