Shen Yuan | November Catch-All

[xiaoxiuya]

Who: Shen Yuan, CR group, People who actually want to talk to the weird metal faces . Maybe more to be added later, who knows!
What: Thread starters for people who want to get bogus relationship advice from Google translate; Shen Yuan Starts a Group Chat, TBD
When: Throughout November
Where: Deernet and beyond

Content Warnings: TBD

Comments

[fanfavors]

[Ah, A-sang... he can feel the adopted-as-baby-brother energies from here, and he is Pleased.]

She is, she is! My meimei is a finch, and as sweet as she looks. Shen-ge will meet her next time.

I'm looking for doves next, please let me know if you see any.

[poorlittlesange]

[ah! what a wonderful coincidence!]

Huaisang, do you also call your omen meimei?

[fanfavors]

Of course, it only makes sense. Does san-ge as well? We'll have to tell them apart somehow -- I will call her cǎoméimei, if san-ge's omen is around.

[t/n cǎoméi means strawberry, no one is allowed to get on his ass about this pun!!]

[poorlittlesange]

[Jin Guangyao dutifully does not comment on the pun, but includes a photograph of little xiao meimei (helpfully labeled)]

Xiao meimei is shy around company.

[fanfavors]

[Damn, those still sound fairly close... Oh well, he's dedicated to the pun now.]

Even me? I'll carefully instruct cǎoméimei to keep it down.

[poorlittlesange]

I will encourage her to make an exception for A-Sang, of course. Perhaps when you next visit, she can be coaxed out of hiding.

[fanfavors]

I'll bring her a treat!

[.............]

What does a fox eat besides raw meat?

[poorlittlesange]

USER ID: WHENINLANLING (JIN GUANGYAO)

She is a fox, Huaisang. She only eats raw meat.

[and the crumbs from cinnamon buns, but he is not going to encourage that.]

[baiyueguang]

Your birds are lovely as always.

I believe I spotted some doves roosting in Willful Machine. We shall look next time we go for supplies, yes?

[fanfavors]

Ah, did you? Yes, yes, I'll look forward to it!

Now, about the woodcut I promised to gift to er-ge...

[no points for guessing where this is going.]

It's harder than it looks! Please wait a little longer for this one to make something worth looking at.

[baiyueguang]

There is no need for Huaisang to worry about rushing. Though this er-ge is looking forward to what Huaisang makes with his own hands, he also knows the difficulties of learning a new skillset.

[And that is why he's not allowed to do laundry by hand ever again.]

[fanfavors]

[Well, now he has to make at least one good woodcut so Xichen can praise him for something other than Trying His Best... sigh, having brothers is hard work.]

Er-ge is being modest! Someone so skilled saying such a thing so easily!

I tried to carve a bird and it looked like an arrowhead. It's a pain!

[baiyueguang]

Huaisang look!

I have found some instruction on the omni for doing such carvings. Perhaps it may help?

This device really is like having a portable library and more.

[Of course Xichen is learning rapidly how to do research on the omni. He's a big old nerd]

[fanfavors]

[Oh, a video... Huaisang will watch this Later. Maybe.]

At least it doesn't move its books around. I don't know how er-ge stands that library in town at all.

Thank you for the instructions, we'll see, we'll see...

[baiyueguang]

The library really is not so bad, once you get used to it. I have found a number of fascinating reads simply by wandering the paths it opens to me.

[martyrofduty]

New skills take practice. Carve ten more and ten more after that.

[fanfavors]

Ten and ten more? I don't have that many woodblocks!

[martyrofduty]

We can bring you a tree trunk.

[xiaoxiuya]

Everyone else has such cute omens, I feel like the odd man out! Mine is just a sword. [Okay Xiu Ya, okay, there's nothing 'just' about being a sword, geez.]

[fanfavors]

Shen-ge's omen is a sword? Is that safe?

[is that why you're QI DEVIATING you dorkus!!]

[xiaoxiuya]

It's perfectly safe, she was my bonded spirit sword before we transmigrated to Trench.

[Sorry A-Sang, SY has no idea why you'd find that alarming :B]

You might actually see her posting in this group chat, she's...hm. 'Willful' isn't quite the right word, but she's definitely got her own opinions about things and doesn't hesitate to voice them.

[Sometimes he almost misses the days when she was just a loud ball of emotions in his head...okay no, he really doesn't miss that. But still, sometimes all the yapping is a bit much!]

[fanfavors]

[First shelves and now his pals' swords, incredible list of things Huaisang has to go pause and take a deep breath over in this group chat. The internet is bad for his health, he's already learning.

Once he's made yet another mental note to keep an eye on these ridiculous men qi deviating themselves like it's totally acceptable, he resolves to be... normal... about Shen Yuan's fucking sword spirit.]

Then this one will greet her properly.

[He really doesn't want to do that!!]

un: refinedelegance

[xiaoxiuya]

This venerable one greets Nie Huaisang-zongzhu as well. Apologies for not doing so before; this blade lacks the capacity for verbal speech.

[She could go on about how Shen Yuan often refuses to pass on messages for her, but it would be rude to reveal their personal differences to outsiders. Somebody in this partnership must retain a sense of decorum.]

This venerable one is known by the name Xiu Ya, and was crafted in the spirit caves of Wan Jian Peak, under the auspices of Cang Qiong Mountain Sect. Might this one know whether Nie-zongzhu possesses a blade of his own?

[fanfavors]

[Oh god, she's already here and talking to him, this is the worst day ever. Huaisang spends a good several minutes staring at the message and wondering if he can suss out some kind of ill intention from it - if there is perhaps some clue about how safe this Xiu Ya is for Shen Yuan to be bonded to, in the long term. If Baxia had been so polite when drowning Nie Mingjue in resentful energy--]

Qinghe Nie favors the saber. This one's lack of saber skill is an insult to the Nie ancestors, but it can't be helped.

[And he's already wrapped his own saber in an extra set of bedsheets and buried it in the back of a closet, so he doesn't have to look at it. You know, normal things.]

[xiaoxiuya]

This venerable one was present in incorporeal form when Nie-zongzhu spoke to this one's partner Shen Yuan of his difficulties in following his hereditary sect's traditions. It is a very great pity that Nie-zongzhu was not permitted to find his own path, and so bring honor to his ancestors through the fullest expression of his own natural aptitudes.

Should Nie-zongzhu ever with to experiment with other combat styles, this venerable one and Shen Yuan will be pleased and honored to assist him.

[Shen Yuan IRL like 'hey, don't volunteer me for stuff. Yes even if it's stuff I'd have had no problem doing. At least ask me first >:(']