#fic talk

DC won't make them team up again because they know they're too powerful together.

Anyway, doodle mainly to thank you for 200+ kudos on Bruce Wayne Must Die. ^^ I've finished doing some edits of it, so huzzah.

And it’s not even because of his looks. It’s because he’s treated exactly the way an omega would be in the real world: mocked and disliked for being too pretty, for not fitting the traditional dudebro mold, constantly held to double standards, and called “bitchy” or “whiny” or “desperate” for the same traits and behaviors that get alphas praised as confident, assertive, or ruthless.

George is basically the real-world equivalent of an omega: “very beautiful,” “a princess,” “with feminine lips,” endlessly scrutinized, never given quite enough respect no matter how well he performs, and subjected to criticism that often feels disproportionate to anything he’s actually done.

That’s why I can never see him as a privileged alpha. It feels completely out of character to me.

as it turns out, returning and gifting shen qingqiu fans, dropping corpses of monsters on shen qingqiu's front porch, and fighting to win back shen qingqiu's corpse for five years straight is not the usual definition of "making a move". at least, according to this 'system' thing in his head. mu qingfan and hong jing found nothing amiss, so maybe he actually is losing it.

the system prattles at him, talking about nonsense stuff like quests and points and avoids answering any meaningful questions. it don't leave no matter what he does, and the one time he tried to defy it he nearly had a qi deviation. it directs him to different people, facilitates minor events, with no discernable cause or final goal; this irks him. he throws himself into training to distract from the system and everyone seeming to move on. liu qingge is still somehow stuck on shen yuan, and the system seems pleased about that for some reason.

it asks him one day, are you happy? liu qingge thinks that's irrelevant, the people he cares about comes first. and of course he's happy, he gets to kill all the monsters he wants, each one more challenging than the last. and the system asks, so you are okay with not having a happy ending? completely ignoring everything else liu qingge said. and at the end of the day, liu qingge has accepted that he can't have everything he wants in life — that became apparent when shen qingqiu married luo binghe. he can live with that.

suddenly his ears are ringing with "CONGRATULATIONS CONGRATULATIONS CONGRATULATIONS! Good things must be said thrice! User 003 has successfully completed the tutorial and is now eligible for regression! Please stand by while we transfer User to the furthest possible Branch Event."

liu qingge is like, what?? and suddenly between one blink and the next, he's laying against hard stone and shen qingqiu is staring down at him. "System welcomes User to Lingxi Cave Branch Event!"

what. the. fuck.

he acts somewhat the same towards shen qingqiu as he initially did in canon, except much of his confusion and frustration is directed at the system. what is happening! he's stuck here forever?!?! and he doesn't get to learn anything until shen qingqiu leaves him be. he feels guilty watching shen qingqiu leave.

like when they were first spotted together or r was spotted with alexia’s family at a game ppl thought she was the controversially young gf and she had to do a public service announcement to tell people she was actually age appropriate 😭

lmaooo this is exactly what i imagined happened.

alexia would suddenly be spotted around Camp Nou with a young-er looking girl. she'd be very fashion-forward, wearing all the trendy, cool pieces. she was always seen yapping with the younger players in the barca, so for a while, fans speculated that she was with one of those players. not barca captain, alexia putellas

the speculation ended when she was first spotted wearing a putellas kit. people doubted it at first because she seemed so different to how they percieve alexia to be

"that girl is definitely her gf"

"linking alexia with any new girl that she's around is annoying. that girl could be her cousin for all we know"

"cousin? bro her hand is literally on alexia's ass in that pic..."

and when fans finally came to the realisation that this girl was most likely alexia's girlfriend, the chaos just grew. because what do you mean alexia was dating some so young looking-- gossip forums speculated that there must be a 10-years age gap between them, fans were joking about how they even communicate with each other, saying alexia probably gets a mirgrane trying to keep up with all the slang terms.

it got so big online that even the players were aware of it. they would tease alexia endlessly in the lockeroom. alexia would just roll her eyes and tune it out. her girlfriend-- on the other hand-- couldn't just stand by and ignore it.

so she decided to address the speculations on a random monday morning:

"they definitely have a 10-year age gap"

brat: that's crazy. it's more like 9 years

"alexia can do so much better"

brat: she can't.

"is that your mother?"