OK BUT LIKE THEIR EYES
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the contrast of their eyes. First panel is more on He Tian’s and the second is more on She Li’s.
How She Li’s look crazy and almost animal-like. Unpredictable and wild. Like he’s a hyena looking at a dead carcus. While He Tian’s look more like stone. They’re fixed and deadly. More so unreadable than anything else. Like smoke.
I absolutely love the work that Old puts into these updates. Just the artistic progress and effort that each panel has is amazing to me. Let alone the plot and how both (plot and art) work so well together to help emphasize the other. It’s so amazing to me.
Ok artist rant over
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Mo gets really bratty/snippy with He Tian (more than usual) if he doesn’t get enough attention
(This may or may not turn into a fic.... May or may not be nsfw....)
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Ok but she Li is a dick and really doesn’t have any redeeming qualities that we’ve been shown so far. No I don’t have any medical knowledge so I’ve got no idea how his condition affects him mentally or emotionally but he doesn’t have the right to PIERCE SOMEONES EARS WITH A PUSH PIN LIKE WHAT?!?! YOU CANNOT MAKE ANY EXCUSE FOR THAT BEHAVIOR NO MATTER WHAT. LIKE NO. I UNDERSTAND THAT HE HAD A TRAUMATIC CHILDHOOD BUT LITERALLY SO DID THE OTHER BOYS IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER AND NONE OF THEM BEHAVE THE WAY HE DOES.
Once again I could be completely wrong on what his condition does but in my mind he just can’t feel pain in his hands and feet and it could eventually progress so he can’t move but he does have treatment. I also think that he’s sort of got sociopathic tendencies. Like he doesn’t feel emotions such as empathy and that mixed with not feeling pain makes kind of a robot? In the sense that most of his “human” likeness? is gone? (Can’t find the right word).
The most human things are pain and emotions. Take that away and what do you have? Someone who doesn’t know how to function is that the rest of the world. And I’m not in any way saying people with sosiopathic tendencies are bad but how severe She Lis must be is insane. The worst part is he doesn’t see anything wrong with his actions. It’s just the twisted part of him trying to feel emotions through Mo.
Even though She Lis reality is horrible and super sad, it doesn’t excuse him from hurting people and manipulating them. I would feel a little bit more sad for him if he EVER. JUST ONCE SHOWED A HINT OF REMORSE FOR HIS ACTIONS but he hasn’t. And a part of me thinks he won’t.
Also I’m completely against that “oh but what if She Li and Mo were friends when they were younger” idea. Remember when Mo had that flash back of people in his class saying he stole something (pencils I think?) because his dad was in jail and no one listened to him? If She Li was his friend back then don’t you think he would have stood up for Mo? Like how ZZX would stand up for little Jian Yi?
I’m not sure. I think that people naturally want to forgive characters because that’s what happened with He Tian and Mo and they turned out to be awesome. But She Li is another type of bad. He Tian and Mo both have someone in their life that they care about deeply. He Tian is “bad” because he was raised to be that way. Mo is “bad” because he had to grow up that way. She Li is bad because he chooses to be that way. But once again I don’t know. Certain conditions affect people certain ways but if a person doesn’t ever show a willingness to try to change than trusting them/giving them a second chance is a bad idea. Especially if they’ve always pulled the wool over your eyes and manipulated you
Lol this is way longer than I thought it would be.
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More jewelry! I made it out of a cat ears headband, a bracelet piece, wire, a rock and of course hot glue and paint 🖤👁🖤
Bike rides and late nights
As He Tian steps onto the campus he suddenly feels very, very small. It’s nothing like his high school back home, it looks more like a college.
“You could probably fit 30 of my schools in this one..” He mutters to himself as he tries to find his own class room. The paper with the map of the campus and all the classroom numbers that they had given him would probably help him a lot if he was able to speak or read any Chines other than “please and thank you”, “yes and no”, and “where’s the bathroom?” He now found himself wishing he would have taken that only line class about Chines that He Cheng had bathered him so much about.
He Tian would consider himself some type of smooth talker in Englsih, but trying it in Chines threw him completely off his game. He just hoped he didn’t meet any pretty girls here. But father wanted him to “be cultured”, and what father wants he usually gets with no questions asked. Somewhere in the pit of his stomach, He Tian was happy to be away from that family. All the fight and secrecy was getting to be too much and wasn’t worth. The only one he’d really miss was his brother but he could call him whenever he wanted.
BaM! “嘿!”
He hadn’t been paying attention and had run smack into some other student. Suddenly all of He Tians papers were on the floor and so were the other kid’s. “Great He Tian. Great job.” He thought to himself.
“I’m sorry! I didn’t- I should’ve been watching-“
“什么? Oh you don’t speak Chinese do you?” The boy says in almost perfect English (which dazes He Tian for a bit).
“No..”
The blond boy laughs a little and helps him gather his disarray of papers and binders. He’s wearing the schools uniform, a blue collar shirt with khakis and some old sneakers. Apparently shoes aren’t a part of the uniform because his are in awful condition... the edges are all worn out and for a second He Tian swore he could see a pink sock poking out of the toe of the shoe. In fact, the closer He Tian looks the boy seems to get dirtier. His khakis look to have stains on them that he can only hope is ketchup and mayo, his hair is greasy and unkept, and his shirt is untucked in certain parts and crumpled into his pants in others.
“I’m Jian Yi. And you?” Jian Yi says with a smile as he now turns his attention to his own fallen papers.
“He Tian.”
“So what class are you going to?”
“Honestly? I have no idea.”
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So I did it! Probably gonna continue this. I really like it. Hopefully it’s not too bad XD I’ll get better though.
Imagine He Tian waking up in the morning to random music and singing coming from in his kitchen and going to investigate. Him seeing Mo GuanShan making breakfast while dancing and singing to a song (like stupid dancing and singing. Being a total goof singing along to some obscure pop/alternative song). And he tian standing in the door way with his head leaning against it just watching his little Mo have the time of his life being able to actually move around and stuff in this big kitchen. And mo not noticing him at all so when the softer part of the song comes He Tian sings it with Mo and it’s like this cute/awkward moment. Also He Tian has a really nice voice and Mo doesn’t know what to do about it
I’ve had this head cannon for a really long time and I wanna try to draw it (???) or something but for right now this is what I’m thinking of and I feel like the fandom needs this fluff XD
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