Paige's Ponderings

Everything is going well and Bingge's on track to hold hands with SY sometimes in the next five years- when suddenly Mobei Jun arrives like "I knew you weren't actually dead! You can't get away that easily, I am not handling this mess for you!"

So Bingge has to go back and pick an heir and divorce all his wives- mostly because Shen Yuan insisted he do that when he worked out what was going on.

Shen Yuan comes too, to see PIDW. Surely the partially collapsed harem won't be an issue. Surely. Why would it? He's a man and he and Binghe are just friends. He's just living in Bingge's rooms because he's only visiting. They're sharing the same bed because it's comfy! Bingge is just being a good host when he blows off his divorce/heir choosing plans to go show SY something neat.

I kinda want to moshang this too. Like XF and SY are friends IRL and XF stops by while MBJ is there and gets bridenapped.

XF is having a winter wonderland Beauty and the Beast hostage situation and SY is just stopping by for tea between day trips with LBH.

XF: you don't seem concerned for my wellbeing.

SY: I would be if you weren't into it you little freak.

XF: Bold words from a bonafide sugar baby. Is Daddy Binghe treating you right?

“Dean. Dean wake up. You can’t dance either Dean. You’re not fu-”

“If you don’t stop bullying me I’m about to be hilarious”

it would be so awesome

Not a violent dog

dean coughs and gets out, “uhm, don’t-think-he’s-your-type.”

donna goes: “oh? you know my type—?“

dean gestures at his chest, “y’know, oiled up, cowboy hat, mustache… i might’ve seen your posters at the cabin.”

donna whuffs.

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later, donna asks so nicely if mr. castiel could come up and help her on a case but to come in undercover garb

so anyway, cas shows up in a real cowboy hat and fake mustache and dean answers the door and promptly bluescreens

good plan sqq. if it fails just blow yourself up again

He has trouble expressing himself but tries to make thoughtful gestures and give little gifts to people he cares about to show affection.

Early on when Iroh and he are living in a cave and he's going through one of his Robbing People With Swords phases he steals a fancy tea set for Iroh in a misguided attempt at showing affection.

In another misguided attempt at affection he gives the Earth Kingdom boy his knife.

After struggling the entire night to bond with Jin because he's socially inept he does his cute little gesture of lighting the lanterns and risking outing himself as a firebender because he wants to make her happy. And then gives her a coupon for a free cup of tea when she clearly wants to kiss him, because he's clueless.

We see this style of showing affection come out with Mai as well except she sneers at it and shuts him down and hurts his feelings about it. He is the kind of sappy bastard whose first instinct on seeing something pretty is "I'm going to give this to my girlfriend :)" but it seems like this is supposed to be showing us that he and Mai aren't a good fit. He tries being sweet and vulnerable and makes little gestures, like seeing a beautiful perfectly intact conch shell and trying to give it to her, and she verbally rolls her eyes at him and hurts his feelings about it.

Later on when he's with the gaang and starting to feel safe being his true self, he's showing them affection in his typical way by making and serving everyone tea (and on a more subtextual level I think this is a way to demonstrate humility to them, since he comes from royalty he's trying to show that he sees them as equals).

He does other kind gestures to show his new affection for them in the forms of leading a prison break with Sokka and taking Katara on a trauma closure (but murder not NOT on the table if she wants) mission and waiting outside her tent all night like a wet dog on her doorstep.