he tian: if my crush disagrees with me, i will immediately change my views. i have no principles.
mo guan shan: well, maybe you should have principles.
he tian: you're absolutely right. maybe i should.
*new year's eve*
he tian: *reaching for one dish*
mo guan shan: it's for later!
he tian: *reaching for another dish*
mo guan shan: it's for later!
he tian: *reaching for guan shan*
mo guan shan: it's for later! *blushes*
if it was tian instead of jian yi, guan shan would really mean it.
Jian, reading a romance novel: Do you believe in true love?
Mo: I believe you’re a true pain in my ass.
Tian: [kisses Mo's forehead]
Mo: You missed.
Tian: ...?
Mo:[Brings Tian down and kisses him on the lips]
Tian *pass away*
although he tian wrote that he is ready to be a leash for guan shan, it is tian who is more like a dog. he follows mo everywhere and is ready to protect his redhead, even if he has to sacrifice something of his own/himself.
tian is attached to shan like a dog to its master.
*texting*
zhan zheng xi: you're cute.
jian yi: aww tysm
zhan zheng xi: i don't have autism.
At the first night
redhead's over 30, and he still sweats blood — mom is already 54, now it's difficult for her to work as much as before. they live in a cheap shitty apartment on the outskirts of the city. guan shan knows perfectly well how dangerous these streets can be, but he can't do anything about it. he just needs money. they need.
one night mo notices an unconcious man lying next to a garbage dump. it's dark and windy, so redhead decides to help, before anything happens to this poor guy.
the thing is, something has already happened.
_
mo guan shan doesn't understand what's going on. he is hot, and cold, and exhausted, and hungry... and that vile noise in the back of his mind. guan shan thinks he is going to die. guan shan hopes his mother will get out of this filthy hole and live a happy long life.
_
eventually, he's still almost fine. his mom seems ok with black shiny tendrils appearing right out of his skin all the fucking time, she's ok with a bloody alien parasite living inside of her son and dating (?) him. sometimes it seems to redhead that she likes this chickendick better than him. charming bastard.
tian doesn't like to work or deal with other people without chopping off their heads, but for the sake of a separate apartment with good sound isolation and for his other, he is ready to do anything.
the end?.. a little crumpled, but i tried really hard, because english is not my first language🖤
He Tian's Arc
Ok, so this will be a very rambly post, but bare with me.
As we know Ht is a very complex character, being mainly affected by his childhood and the people/situations that hurt him. First and foremost, his family.
Starting with the loss of his mother HT starts having that crippling fear of his of losing people, slowly becoming fiercely loyal to those he loves. Then we get to his father, although we dont have much info on him as of yet, we do know Ht was very aware of how dangerous his father was, to the point of even asking his brother if (if he did something wrong) his father would kill him. With this HT very obviously grew up with a mentality of fighting to survive, and learning to live in the "darkness" of his family.
Then, what I believe has shaped him the most, his Brother.
He cheng has lived with their father and family business for a lot longer, and has learned what HT would come to learn a lot earlier, and (maybe accidentally) taught it to his little brother. HC shows HT that he's "on his own", if he wants something he HAS to fight for it, he can not be weak because that will make him useless (in the sense of not being able to do what he wants to do, like saving people)
Ht then understands that his family is different, they have a "darkness" that he not only hates, but is terrified of.
He hates his father, and he hates what his brother is/has become. He does not want to be part of his family's business, the violence, the killing and the cruelty of their "jobs" repels him. I think he hates it so much because he's scared to have that "darkness" inside himself as well, scared that its inevitably in his blood already. Even literally stating to MGS that he is scared of the dark. So he pushes and does his best to stay away (hating his brother, living alone, not talking to his father) he only ever "uses" his family when it's to take something from them instead of give (like money).
And then, here comes Mo guan shan.
And he's the exact opposite of everything his family (and by extension he himself) is. Mo guan shan does not lie, or scheme, and above all he does not see or fear that darkness inside Ht. We've seen that he and JY were friends before all this, and that at the very least they were close, but Jy did not completely understand Ht, he was a friend but as we've seen with the countless panels of HT standing alone in a landscape, he still felt alone. He felt like that darkness kept him apart from other people, and so when MGS came along he just couldn't help but fall for him.
So Ht becomes extremely protective over little Mo. And thanks to the idea of being the Strongest, the one who protects and is not protected ("weakling") Ht develops a very self sacrificing mentality. It simply does not matter to him if he gets hurt or in danger, because he is strong and he has that darkness in him, all that matters is that those he love are unharmed, safe and happy.
The problem is, Mo guan shan has a "stalker". She li considers him his, and prefers to break MGS than have someone else "take" him. Which means HT ends up putting himself in situations a lot worse than normally (well, at least outside his family business) not only to take the hits in MGS's place, but also to attack those who hurt him.
Still, the people he loves keep getting hurt, not only Mo but also Jian Yi. The other person who Ht is also willing to sacrifice himself to save. It starts to make HT desperate, and it slowly pushes him further down that "dark" path he feared so much.
And that pushes him towards his family, his brother and the violent measures they take. His brother tries to warn him (not that greatly I might add) and at the very least veers him away from the true rock bottom (killing someone).
And he does say he doesn't care about what people think of him, and I do think that's mostly true at this point, but he does care about what MGS thinks. Because Mo doesn't fear him, and he doesn't want that to change.
We've seen several times HT asking for Mo's opinions and thought on him. I think that fear of scaring off MGS specially shows when after holding SL's neck in the stairs Ht asks this.
Still decides to resort to that side of him, to eliminate SL, even if he has to sacrifice his own existence without that darkness and family. He'd do anything for those he loves.
Which makes for a whole new problem. That sacrifice is a little too much, even for him, he's terrified of it, (maybe horrified is a better word for it). He loves his friends too much, and hates those who hurt them just as much. It makes it too easy for him to cross the line, to the point someone has to be there just to stop him, to hold him back. And look at that,
He flinches.
He flinches from what he did, and the person talking.
In the next panel we see his face at it, engulfed in darkness. And I think that one of the things he also fears is knowing MGS saw him, I think here he is scared to see Mo's reaction. So he looks back
And Mo guan shan isn't scared Of him, but For him. MGS still stands By him and Hugs him, and HT doesn't even care about his hand, or anything else he just wants to hug Mo back.
Because yes, He tian has slowly descended on a cruel and violent path that he feared, (and still fears) but Mo guan shan still wants to stay by his side. Even with He tian literally red handed with blood, Mo wants to share his troubles with HT (symbolized by him wearing the jacket Ht gave him when telling him not to shoulder everything on his own) and take on part of Ht's troubles as well.
He wants to accompany and stay by his side. Mo guan shan still doesn't fear He tian. And I think that's all Ht wants.
TLDR:: Tianshan has slowly driven HT to a darker and more violent path, but their relationship shows just how deep their connection is, and how much they've come to rely and develop alongside one another.