As many of you know, russians are currently committing genocide in Ukraine and with full support of people like Trump, Orban, and Guterres, Putin and russian army have taken to terrorising people with more and more vicious means.
Only in the last month russian rocket hit an oncological centre in my city close to frontline (not the first onco-treatment facility they targeted), bombed Kryvyy Rih, destroyed another dam, damaging once more natural resourses, organised human safari in Kherson and done many more atrocities that no person can wholly describe or comprehend.
Twitter with megalomaniac Musk at its head currently shadowbans all big accounts spreading awareness or requests for donations, promoting russian propaganda (like "we hit only military targets" or "ukraine is full of nazi/zionists/cannibals/communists/your choice"). Adding to this, continued blocking of promised weapons and/or money transfers by Germany, Hungary, and USA left the army with barely anything to fight. As a result of this the amount of support to the people of Ukraine and survivability of my people decreased drastically. Without money to fund the fight for our lives, my city is being bombed every day, my primary school teacher was demolished along with her house, my aunt's workplace was torn apart by guided bombs and I go to sleep every night hearing rockets landing a couple of blocks from my place.
So please, please, please, if you are able to donate even a dollar, would you be so kind to do so to a fund of your choice. With the current conversion rate 5$ you pay for coffee could save a life of a Ukrainian civilian or soldier.
If you have desire to support Ukrainian Army, please donate to "Come Back Alive" foundation, that provides Ukrainian fighters with armour, medicine, means of radio-connection and weapons. The documents of foundation are open to check, if you doubt the integrity.
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(Also as a side note, if you want to support Ukraine send your money to funds mentioned above or research local donation initiatives, instead of giving your money to Red Cross or UN initiatives - they are both Russia-oriented and refuse to help with Ukrainian POWs or Ukrainian people stuck on occupied territories. And try not to use russian platforms like boosty or vk as they direct their cut straight to russian military funds)
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I love the idea that Eridian’s have no concept of a “soul” the way humans do, and don’t really have a similar cultural touch point. Mostly bc I love the idea that Rocky learns the term “soulmate” and is now doing everything to reverse engineer how that can be possible between him and Grace.
Anyways after a cultural and theological rabbit hole that was less informative then he would like, Rocky finally asks Grace about it and Grace is like “well, Rock, I don’t think they exsist, it’s just a way for anxious humans to cope with the unknowns of life.” To which Rocky internally is like, Alright to I gotta figure out how to TWO people who don’t have souls can be soul mates. Got it
They get to Erid and Rocky is like “we are Soulmates and if you seperate us it would literally kill Grace. Who is already dying as we speak. And also it would be soooo culturally insensitive to all of humanity and thus the alien who helped save our stars. :/“
Some time later when Grace is more recovered he’s talking to some of his health team like “:) it’s nice you guys let me spend all this time with Rocky in my biodome despite all of the various things you likely need him for” the whole team is like”??? Uh yeah. Of course, We don’t want you to die???” and Grace is like haha what :) -> *medteam relays what Rocky said* -> “HE SAID WHAT.”
Even humans start to act super weird when isolated even for a month or so and Rocky was alone in Blip-A for 50 years and then alone with an alien for a while. His behaviour should be unhinged.
Things Rocky does when he got back from Adrien that weirds out other Eridians:
He (subconsciously) picked a facet of his body as his "face" and turns it sometimes to orient towards people or objects he's paying a lot of attention to or concentrating on.
That thing I've seen Chinese people on social media discuss where they use their own characters to reproduce an English word phonetically, with the actual meaning being a fun sidepoint. Rocky reproducing his closest approximation of words without existing Eridian equivalents (relativity, caffeine, all the colours) that sound like gibberish or odd mashes of existing Eridian terms.
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Making "random" components of structures transparent for no apparent reason (Grace can't be here, Grace will never be in this part of Erid, but if he were, he'd be able to see)
The Eridian word for "See" is probably something to do with detecting light. Rocky would use this odd, scientific phrase the way a human uses "Oh, I see!" to mean "Oh, I understand." Like someone saying "I've used a Geiger counter to verify the radioactivity of this abstract concept" when they mean, "I get it."
You need to be Silent when watching someone sleep because you could wake them up. A completely incomprehensible idea to Eridians.
You discovered it, you get to name it! No, actually you're Not allowed to call the new molecule "Low Friction, high thermal stability two-parts-carbon-to-four-parts-fluorine" try naming it after your pebble!
1, 2, 3, eyes on me! (Eyes being another phonetically assimilated word)
Odd, overly clear accent. To make sure the software translated his words properly, Rocky was probably taking special care to perfectly reproduce words in the exact same inflection every time, no slurring or mumbling his way through.
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hear me out, this but angst. we'd all assume grace would end up voluntarily going because he knows he'd meet his soulmate right BUT what if grace still decided he was too scared to go and was forced like in canon. fast-forward he meets rocky, he doesn't initallly remember anything, why hesin space etc.
listen, two things could happen. maybe he realizes rocky is his soulmate before he gets the memories of being forced on the mission or he realizes they're soulmates after he remembers, either way now we get angsty sad crying ryland devastated and guilty explaining to rocky (after guiltily hiding it from him and withdrawaling himslef) that he doesn't deserve him as a mate because he couldn't be brave enough to meet his soulmate even when the world was ending. he was even more of a coward than he thought he was before.
“grace is rocky and adrian’s pet” grace is the alien celebrity savior casually teaching physics to seventh graders that the eridians gossip about being rocky’s controversially young partner. there’s even an opera about them
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In Shen Yuan's humble opinion, being amnesiac sucks.
Seriously!
Imagine yourself in his place for a moment: you wake burred alive in the middle of nowhere, not knowing who you are, or where you are, or how you got here. It sucks!
Of course he has some remaining knowledge—tidbits about local flora and fauna, how to wield a sword, his own name—but none of it is useful for unraveling the mystery of his origin.
However, Shen Yuan would be lying if he said that there are absolutely no positives about his situation. After all, he met Luo Binghe because of it.
Honestly, Shen Yuan has only one month of memories, but he can already tell that Luo Binghe is the best thing that ever happened to him.
Before meeting him, he had heard some rumors about the guy, so he pictured him as some kind of scary and dangerous demonic emperor. Could you imagine Shen Yuan's surprise when he met him in person?
Sure, he was rather intimidating when they first met. However, considering that Shen Yuan accidentally released some prisoners, he thought Luo Binghe's reaction was rather justified. But then he changed his whole demeanor! Luo Binghe took Shen Yuan to his palace in exchange for receiving spiritual qi from him, which he had in abundance for some reason. Shen Yuan doesn't mind of course. It's the least he can do for him.
Because you know what? After living in Luo Binghe's palace for almost a month now, Shen Yuan can say it with his whole chest.
Luo Binghe did nothing wrong!
It might sound crazy, but Shen Yuan genuinely believes that Luo Binghe is just really misunderstood. Sure, there are some strange things. Like his menacing aura. Or his creepy sword. Or the unrealistically beautiful man who he fights every day so he wouldn't take away the corpse of his Shizun.
But if you close your eyes to all those things, at his core Luo Binghe is the sweetest man Shen Yuan has ever met. He has treated Shen Yuan with nothing but kindness and compaction, giving him almost all his attention when he isn't busy tending or fighting for the corpse. He gave Shen Yuan new clothes, and he cooks for him every day. He even promised to help him find out his origins! What a guy!
But the most surprising thing Shen Yuan has learned about Luo Binghe is that the guy is a huge crybaby. Honestly, how did he even become an emperor with such a glass heart? Shen Yuan just needs to pat his head or to fuss a little bit, and he immediately bursts into tears! Still, this behavior doesn't annoy or repulse Shen Yuan. It actually makes him feel protective towards the man.
Maybe that's why Luo Binghe lets Shen Yuan get away with so many liberties? They spend every day talking for many hours, and Luo Binghe has never had any problems with Shen Yuan's informal, overly casual way of speaking. He always encourages him to speak his mind even when Shen Yuan has nothing good to say. Maybe Luo Binghe wants some simple human connection, without being afraid that his heart is going to be broken? Shen Yuan is happy to provide!
And he is doing something correct, because one month after living in Luo Binghe's palace, he takes Shen Yuan to see the corpse of his dead teacher.
No one is allowed to come close to the wing, where Luo Binghe keeps the body. Bringing Shen Yuan to the body itself is an immense show of trust, and he is not going to let him down.
When they finally reach the chambers, Luo Binghe abandons Shen Yuan's side to go to the body lying on a platform.
Shen Yuan's first reaction to the body is that it doesn't look dead at all. Now that Luo Binghe has taken its wrist to presumably feed it his qi, the man looks like he is just asleep. Shen Yuan would have never thought he was dead for 5 years.
“Binghe has taken great care of his master,“ Shen Yuan says quietly.
Luo Binghe doesn't tear away his eyes from the face of his dead Shizun, nor does he perk up from the praise like he usually does. Instead, he just sighs and looks even sadder. God, this scene is too pitiful for Shen Yuan's heart.
He decides to study the man's face.
He had a rather handsome face, good hair, and a lean figure. Shen Yuan looks at the shape of his brows, his nose, his lips and eyes, and something inside his mind starts to itch. Like a word at the tip of his tongue or the smell that triggers some vague memory from childhood.
“What was his name?“ Shen Yuan asks, curious.
Luo Binghe makes a face that can be deciphered as I forgot you lost your memories and don't remember anything about the world oops. Shen Yuan had a whole month to get acquainted with this face.
“His name is Shen Qingqiu, Xiu Ya sword. He is peak lord of Qing Jing Peak, the second ranking peak of the Cang Qiong Mountain sect,“ he explains patiently. Shen Yuan nods for him to continue. “He accepted me to Qing Jing,“ he says. Yes, Shen Yuan assumed that would be the case. “He dumped the hot tea on my head during the acceptance ceremony.“
“What?!“
And so Shen Yuan learns the whole story of Luo Binghe's relationship with his Shizun. How he was cruel to him. How he took a poison for Binghe's sake. How he became kind. How he threw him into the Endless Abyss. How he ran away from him. How he self-destructed for Binghe's sake.
After this long tale, Shen Yuan has nothing good to say about Luo Binghe's dead Shizun, so he chooses to remain silent. Luo Binghe sighs. “You can speak your mind, I won't be angry with you.“
Oh? Well, if Luo Binghe gives him permission.
“What is wrong with this guy?!“ Shen Yuan blows up. “Honestly, I don't understand his logic at all! What is this hot and cold behavior?! There is no consistency whatsoever! First he mistreats you for years, and then he decides to take poison for you and makes you his favorite?! Who does that?!“ Shen Yuan rant.
“I suspect that Shizun got possessed. That's why he changed behavior when I was a disciple.“ Luo Binghe adds, sounding pensive.
Shen Yuan speaks very slowly, “You believe your master was cruel to you because he was possessed by some kind of demon?“ Honestly, he knows Luo Binghe can be a little delusional sometimes, but this is too much even for him.
“No, it's the opposite. I think the one who mistreated me was the original, and then he somehow got replaced, not by a demon, but by some kind of spirit. People noticed the change and even checked him for possession, but all the tests were proven false.“
This makes Shen Yuan pause. He thinks about it for a moment. “You know what, this actually sounds plausible.“ He says slowly.
Luo Binghe stares at him. It's another of his stares, although Shen Yuan hasn't managed to decipher it yet. It's a very intense stare he gets when he says or does something. He isn't sure what this stare means, but he is sure it's nothing too bad.
“What makes you think it's plausible?“ he asks unblinking. “This idea sounds fantastical even for me.“
“I don't know,“ Shen Yuan shrugs. “It just sounds like something that could happen.“
Luo Binghe stares at him for a few more seconds. Then he hums and finally blinks.
“Well, I guess if we are assuming that your Shizun got replaced at some point, it does make his behavior more coherent.“ It's no wonder that the imposter chose to dote on Luo Binghe. Who wouldn't? Still… “Although, it still doesn't explain why he chose to throw you into abyss. Honestly, this makes no sense! He literally told you that there are good demons! Why did he do it?!“
“That's what I tried to ask!“ Luo Binghe cries out with a heartbroken expression. And now there are the tears. “I just wanted to talk to him! And he just ran from me! Why did he run?!“ he begs Shen Yuan for an answer.
Shen Yuan huffs unhappily, “Of course he would run! If it met the alive disciple I tried to kill, i would've also run! I would have jumped out of the window and then run to the edge of the world and then faked my death just for good measure,” Shen Yuan fumes. Honestly, what it wrong with this guy?
Luo Binghe gives him another undecipherable stare, this time even more intense.
“Say…“ he speaks very slowly, “Imagine yourself in Shen Qingqiu's place. Why do you think he has done all those things?“ he asks carefully.
Shen Yuan thinks about it very carefully. Now, despite Luo Binghe's obvious loyalty for his dead master, Shen Yuan can't really share his affection for the man. He has hurt Binghe in an unforgiving way, there is no way he could ever like him. And yet he finds it surprisingly easy to get into his head.
“I think,“ he says thoughtfully, “your Shizun panicked.“
Luo Binghe frowns, “Panicked?“
Shen Yuan nods, “When he threw you into the Endless Abyss. I think he did it because he panicked.“ He says confidently. After all, it's the most logical answer he could come up with. “Think about it. You told it yourself, he was very particular about his image and extremely proper when it came to his role as peak lord. I think he found out that his most trusted disciple is a demon, panicked, defaulted to the role of a big and scary peak lord, and in a heat of the moment called you names and threw you into an abyss.“
Luo Binghe looks at Shen Yuan with huge eyes. “Do- do you really believe he didn't mean the things he said?“ His voice is a mix of disbelief and faint hope.
Shen Yuan winces, “I- I can't tell you that. I don't know what he thought about at the edge of the Abyss. It's just what I think is most logical. Maybe he was thinking about something else entirely.“ Shen Yuan hurries to say. He doesn't want to give Luo Binghe false hope. Despite him not having any progress in reviving his master, Shen Yuan has no doubts he will do it eventually. Luo Binghe is just that type of a person. So he doesn't want to give him false hope only to have his heart shattered once again when his revived master is not what he imagined.
“But still,“ Shen Yuan continues, “no matter what he thought , I think it's undeniable that he regretted his action.“ How else can one explain the mourning period Shen Qingqiu went into that Luo Binghe mentioned.
“But if he regretted it why did he run?“ Luo Binghe asks, his voice sounding awfully small.
“Fear and shame, I would assume.“
“Fear? Why would he be afraid of me?! I just waned to talk to him! I never wanted to hurt him!“ He cries again, anguish clear in his eyes.
Shen Yuan sucks in a pained breath at the heartbreaking sight. “He might have believed that you came back for revenge,“ he proposes weakly.
“What revenge?!-“ Luo Binghe asks in the same hurt voice.
“Of course you didn't, that was wrong of him to assume that!“ Shen Yuan hurries to say before Luo Binghe breaks into another tirade how he didn't want to hurt his master. Honestly, he really likes Luo Binghe, but in this question he kinda sympathizes with Shen Qingqiu. He knows very well how intimidating Luo Binghe can be. He can very clearly imagine that Shen Qingqiu might have had an objective reason to be afraid of Luo Binghe. Besides, Shen Yuan believes that any other person in Binghe's place would have been happy to tear Shen Qingqiu limb from limb. The only reason why Luo Binghe didn't do it is because he is too nice for his own good.
“Maybe he wasn't afraid of you, but of the prospect of confronting you!“ Shen Yuan changes the subject. “You said he had a very thin face. What if he knew you wanted to talk to him, so he ran out of fear and shame so he wouldn't have to have a conversation with you?“ Shen Yuan says very excitedly. He mentally pats himself on the back for coming up with such a clever theory.
Luo Binghe doesn't look at Shen Yuan like he thinks he is very clever. In fact, he looks like he can't believe Shen Yuan has just said something so stupid. “Don't you think it's a little bit too much work just for the sake of avoiding one conversation?“ he asks, sounding slightly annoyed.
Shen Yuan rolls his eyes. “Listen, you asked me what I would have done in your Shizun’s place. In my opinion, if you look at his actions from this lens they are completely logical. I would have certainly done the same,“ he pouts, feeling vaguely insulted.
Luo Binghe stares at him silently. Then he sighs, his face softening. “I apologize. I promised I wouldn't be angry with you,“ he says, his tone genuinely apologetic.
Shen Yuan also sighs, “It's alright. I understand it must be a sensitive topic.“
“I just want to understand,“ Luo Binghe says on the verge of tears again. “Why did he throw me away only to sacrifice himself for me? I though he hated me. Why did he so it?“ He stares at the corpse like it will answer him.
Shen Yuan's throat grows tight. “Maybe he never hated you. Maybe underneath all this fear and shame there was a part of him that still cared for you. Maybe he just wanted for you to be happy.“
Luo Binghe turns his head to look at Shen Yuan. There are the tears flowing down his cheeks in small waterfalls. He makes a small wounded noise, and it's the only warning before he has a demon emperor clinging to him.
“Shizun!“ he bawls like a child into Shen Yuan's ear, calling for the man long dead. “Why did you do it?! How can you believe I can be happy without you by my side?! I just want you back! Shizun, please come back! I promise I will be good. I promise!“ He babbles, his speech slurring into something incomprehensible.
Shen Yuan feels like his heart is being torn apart. He so desperately wants for Luo Binghe to stop being so sad. He wants to say something, anything. But he knows his words won't do anything. So he just holds him closer, petting his back and cupping his head.
