most important skill fo ye looks for in a fuguan: can run fast while carrying ba ye

The Mystic Nine (2016) | EP 31 Mystic Nine (2026) | EP 3

some practice pieces, prompted by the dmbj server! For heihua, fuba, kan jian/luo que, and of course pingxie.

you can really tell which details I like to paint most 😂 but I do feel like I’m getting to know these paints and what they can do for things like skin tones and layers of shading much better

thanks, as always, to the assistants, who mostly let me paint in peace but wanted to get in on every photo

A Blessing and a Curse drawn for @lasenbyphoenix from the DMBJ Small-Medium Ships Exchange 2026

Oh hi! This is an interesting idea!

Are you thinking like the Stiles/Lydia kiss in Teen Wolf, where he is hyperventilating, and she kisses him to make him stop breathing? LIke, they are just doing it to ground him without it meaning something more to them (at least at first) and poor Ba Ye has some sort of awakening? I am a FuBa shipper through and through, so to me Zhang Rishan's kiss would mean more to Ba Ye than Fo Ye's, I really only do very platonic FoBa, they love each other but it's neither romantic nor sexual, so if Fo Ye kissed him to distract him it was like a friendship service and both knew it didn't mean more or that any of them wanted more than that closeness. But if Zhang Rishan would do it, like they are alone somewhere and Ba Ye freaks out and Zhang Rishan knows Fo Ye does it to help Ba Ye, but Fo Ye isn't there, so Zhang Rishan has to do it and of course he will do it, but it's different! For both of them! I do love demi-ZRS wo never thought about love or sex or something and Fo Ye kissing Ba Ye is like, yeah, they do that and what about it? But Zhang Rishan has to work through the slow realisation, that he would like to do that more often, without any danger and not just as a service to distract Ba Ye.

And Ba Ye being absolutely into it, but too worried to try and fake freaking out to be kissed because what if Zhang Rishan finds out that he is so into it, that it's more to him than the incomplicated kisses he shares with Fo Ye? What if he is disgusted by his secret desires?

Firstly obviously and most important i don't want her to be in a paedophilia relationship but I think there were more issues with it.

At 15 she can't be the legend that uo talks about. We need to see her in her prime at like 25 at least.

Tohru really respects her dad and it makes him a very unliveable charcheter. It makes torus judgement of charcter seem poor witch is like her fundamental trate. He's also ment to be very formal but he really isn't.

It makes all the adults in Kyoto's life who should have gotten her out of this abusive relationship seem much worse in particular tohrus grandad.

I really think her having tohru later in life makes her wisdom much more believable I don't think the things she says seem at her maturity level.

Her chosing not to go to highschool and later regretting it feels like a stronger story line than she tried to get in but couldn't.

Baye: Awwww, you’re so adorable! Give me a hug~

Zhang Rishan: Wh-What? nO, yOURE SUPPOSED TO BE SCARED OF ME! TREMBLE BEFORE MY WRATH-