#ask fish

A scenario like SQQ's trial. Things are dug up. Other things are implied or even fabricated. YQY is on trial. He's presented with some kind of truth serum. He refuses to take it until it's clarified that it won't compel him to speak, just prevent him from lying. He takes it.

They were lying. It absolutely does compel him to answer any questions asked of him. And the results are completely unhinged.

The Xuan Su thing doesn't even come up. It doesn't need to. In an attempt to paint him as scheming and ambitious, he's asked why he became sect leader.

"So I can give Xiao Jiu whatever he wants."

The assembled crowd: ?????

Is this Xiao Jiu a....mistreess? A son? What the hell. Questioning continues, and Yue Qingyuan's insanity is put on full display.

"What if 'Xiao Jiu' wanted to be the sect leader?"

"I would make him the sect leader."

"Surely the other peak lords of Cang Qiong would object. What would you do, then?"

"Whatever I had to."

Whatever they were originally asking about gets seriously derailed as they realize that this guy, arguably the most powerful cultivator in the world, is singularly obsessed with a person he calls 'Xiao Jiu.' Why did he seek power? Xiao Jiu. What is his ultimate goal? Xiao Jiu.

It's also starting to seem like maybe Xiao Jiu isn't exactly a willing participant.

"What does Xiao Jiu ask you for?"

"To leave him alone."

Okay. So his attentions are unwanted. Yikes.

Further questioning reveals that this mysterious person seems to hate Yue Qingyuan, but is regularly subject to his attentions anyway.

The one question he won't answer is 'who is Xiao Jiu.' He's bleeding from the mouth and eyes, but he just shakes his head or says, "He told me not to call him that."

In the audience, no one noticed Shen Qingqiu's total bluescreen, because honestly? All of the peak lords are feeling pretty lost for words right now.

I dunno, I just think it's specifically interesting to a) have a public reveal that this man is a lunatic, and b) have SQQ find out the depths of YQY's devotion without being able to get the answer he wants most.

This would drive SJ absolutely insane. On the one hand he’s happy that YQY isn’t spilling every little detail of their past for these vultures to pick through, on the other hands where the fuck is this coming from??? What sense do these answers make in the mouth of the man who abandoned him? If it was anyone else saying these things he’d be wildly uncomfortable, but this is just confusing (if he were to really sit with his feelings, he might realize that any immediate sense of revolution was swept away by a long-dormant sense of possessiveness). He intends to grab YQY and shake him as soon as YQY stops giving the OPM grounds to charge him with stalking or harassment or something, and YQY will just give him guilty eyes because he things SJ is mad about every he said on the stand 😔. Actually scratch that for qijiu’s benefit the potion should still be in effect, so the moment they’re behind doors SJ can furiously ask why, if YQY doesn’t despise him, he saw fit to abandon him back then and every day since their reunion. YQY can try to hold himself back from speaking to the point of coughing up blood again, which only enrages SJ further, and eventually YQY is forced to speak his explanation through his rough and bloodied throat. SJ is have every single emotion today and has a 50/50 chance of learning what YQY’s blood tastes like (for normal kissing reasons. Normaler than usual).

As foretold

Alternatively

4. Kyle and pining!reader for @soapsjockstrap

Here's a small excerpt! The beginning of the fic is inspired by an irl event of mine but I did not end up with Kyle 😔 Miscommunication and misunderstandings galore in this fic.

"Hey, you're really attractive," he says, a confident grin on his face. "Can I get your number?"

The lack of sleep and food really must be getting to you, you think, because surely you didn't just hear that correctly.

"What." You say, flatly.

"Do you have a boyfriend?" The guy asks, his wide smile not faltering. You swear it grows.

You blink a few times, a bit baffled.

-💜

oh my god im honored, yes please

Worlds Remembered :D

(Also can we swipe this ask bait idea from you? It sounds super fun :3)

Oh feel free to steal the idea! I'd love to see the summaries of your projects. :D it's a brilliant thing, it defeats my short attention span by being funny and bite-sized. Thank you for the fish ^^

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So Worlds Remembered is a sequel to Minds Remembered, and it stars a wider cast of characters, but it's also firmly rooted in worldbuilding.

It starts with a technologically very advanced, self-sustaining underground colony, that runs on a surveillance state. A bunch of people -- low-level workers, an ex-soldier who lost his license and was imprisoned for a while, a member of the secret police, an ex-member of the secret police, a mad scientist, his tired assistant, three cyborgs and more -- found out the propaganda that the surface is entirely unlivable was false, and go to the surface to explore.

I'm not entirely sure what they find on the surface. I am thinking of a society that is really advanced in a biological sense, so they will probably have living equipment, gene-modified and mutated population, engineered livestock and whatnot, but not much in the computing way of things. This is to contrast the computer-centric world of the underground refuge, who look more or less like today's humans (the only difference would stem from being underground for a long time, which means... probably more pale and less well equipped for bright places), who however have mastered prosthetics and augmentations. You can and will see people with circuitry on and around their body, exoskeletons that provide endurance, and even brain-computer interfaces.

So, everyone is baffled by the others' looks, and also probably the culture, too. (The Underground has a monolithic government with small rebel cells, the Surface has warring factions.)

I have so much to say about this specific headcanon that I'm splitting my meta breakdown into its own post, but long story short is that it's reached the marker of true fanon: consistently confused for canon.

I am a fan of this headcanon (my current fav execution of SJ as CSA victim is the fic Physical Instrument by Anonymous), but I'm the sort of spoil sport who needs to remind people its not canon. Also I think some people tend to gloss over SJ's canonical abuse as "not as bad" as the headcanoned sexual abuse which annoys the fuck out of me, but hey that's a rant for another day.