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i’m about to go make it official on his old blog, but shen has now been moved here, too `~` with a shiny new URL, to boot
so! i’ve moved the majority of my blogs over to the hub, but i haven’t yet created shen’s New Blog. the biggest reason for that being that i want to change my URL! but i can’t think of anything off the top of my head yet thinking emoji
i’ve been flechxtte for some time now, and. idk, i just kinda want to change it
however! i have moved baby!shen’s blog-- i decided to go ahead and keep separate blogs for adult and child shen. so if you’re at all interested in interacting with his child verse, feel free to follow that blog `~`
so, i think this is the one (1) blog i haven’t brought this up on yet, but i’m in the beginning stages of Moving all of my blogs to a hub. the idea of all my RP blogs being in one location has been very tempting for a while now, and i’m finally just going to bite the bullet and Do It lmao
the ones that are side blogs are simple to just transfer over, but for main blogs like shen here, they’ll have to be remade (as far as i’m aware, anyway). so i’m not sure when i’ll get around to that, bc i’ve got. a Number of those hhh
anyway, i just wanted everyone to know this is what’s going on. i hope this results in me being more active across all my muses `v`
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grave digger // matt maeson
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redleeder
#ah#chinhands#listen carried was one of my favorite movies as a kid and that whole 'blood-splattered white dress' aesthetic has just#firmly lodged itself in my heart as a favorite#lies down#fjfj;kad 'CARRIED' GDI i meant carrie#i'm not going all the way back to retype that ffffff#; isms#sometimes i think i'd really like to write Something about That Moment when shen came back home to his parents ecstatic but#idk#i d k man
i found myself thinking about shen today for some reason (’for some reason’ it’s bc i was listening to that in too deep song again lmao)
anyway
What would you say is your favorite part about Shen?
tbh, it’s kinda hard for me to say thinking emoji shen is an interesting character in that a lot of his tropes and character traits are ones that i would find either irritating or just overdone if it weren’t for the specific mixture he seems to have been written with, and how they interact off each other, aha
for instance, i like that he can have his funny moments where he’s caught off-guard and vulnerable, and yet still remains a credible, intimidating threat to the end (i used to joke early on in my time in the fandom that shen was a good villain bc he could literally trip over his own feet and fall off a platform, soon after being body-slammed by the goofy protagonist, and still pose a believable threat like it hadn’t even happened fjkd;a in fact, quite a few people have mentioned they didn’t even notice and/or think about the fact he fell lmao)
he’s a very cruel, ambitious character who is inevitably shown to have a ‘morality pet’, and yet that person still doesn’t succeed (in the span of the movie, anyway) in discouraging him from his path, even when it seems for a brief second like he wants to let her. he understands that what he’s doing is Wrong and evil, and yet exhibits no remorse for his actions when prodded, clinging instead to his old resentment and justifications even he knows are BS lmao
i like that he’s lying wholeheartedly to himself to make himself feel better about it all, and it’s still not quite enough bc what he really needs is to Stop fjfk;da
that said! he does also fall into a couple of my favorite tropes of all time, which include the villainous breakdown, falling over the despair event horizon, and in general miserable villains who honestly bring all of their misery upon themselves, whether they realize or admit to it or not, and who are Too Far Gone to find any kind of peace outside of death orz
‘ everything’s my fault when you just look at the facts and information! ’
‘and i hope when you think of me years down the line, you can’t find one good thing to say’ as a line is filled with Exactly the right amount of vindictive, resentful energy so as to 100% be something shen would definitely say............
only to get silently offended when they agree with him
📺 your full honest opinion on Wolf.
Ask Shen’s Shadow | Accepting
“I’m not quite renowned for my honesty.” In the beginning, he sounds normal, haughty and irritable and wholly like himself. But it doesn’t last long. There’s something peculiar in his face, and his next words are inherently off.
“Am I?” A rippling tremor goes through Shen’s smile, like a muscle twitch under the skin, and he’s forced to lower his head, fixing his wide-eyed gaze on the sharp metal encasing his scarred feet. “Oh, but you know otherwise. I’ve never tempered my words with you, have I? You’ve been privy to every passing, trivial criticism I’ve ever had of you, right from the beginning, and I’ll not start holding back now. Are you a masochist, by chance? To keep coming back like this for a tongue lashing, well. One can’t be faulted for wondering... Or do you perhaps fancy yourself a martyr for staying by my side, enduring my abuse and cruelty? Well, let us stamp out that comforting notion right now.”
“You’re a wretch, Zang. A murderer. Your hands are drenched in blood, innocent blood, and it’ll never rinse out, no matter how long you wear the skin of the philanthropist and play the part.”
Shen laughs then, pealing, unrestrained, even going so far as to toss his head back as he does in a rather familiar fashion. But a loud sob cracks unexpectedly into the middle of that laughter, and he appears to freeze, staring up at the ceiling with what amounts to a blank smile.
“And I killed you,” he eventually continues in an almost helpless, broken tone of voice. “Were I anyone else, anything but a murderer and a usurper myself, I’d be hailed as a great protector, a hero with only the most noble of intentions. And they’d all be wrong even then because to kill you, I first had to betray you.”
Another rapid mood shift occurs when Shen’s gaze travels unsteadily from the ceiling to the one who’d asked his opinion on this particularly unpleasant topic in the first place— brows lowering dangerously, an accusatory glint in his narrowed eyes. When he speaks, it’s with a near snarl.
“Why couldn’t you have just done what I told you to..?! Why did you have to say no?! Wh-Why did you have to make me ruin it..? I-I... I ruined it. I ruined everything, but you made me ruin it.” Hissed venomously through his barely open beak, like every word is somehow both invigorating and a chore.
There’s a long moment then, a silence broken only by his staggered breaths, each one laced with his ever-present, worsening wheeze. Gradually, though, the anger in his stance dissipates, leaving him in trickling amounts like a poorly-maintained faucet, so that in the end he resembles something of a forlorn puppet that’s been abandoned on a shelf.
“I-I don’t want to apologize yet.” A familiar plea, word for word, and just as soft and resentful as the first time he’d spoken it aloud.
so honestly in a more general sense i’m always going to love dynamics that involve one character not fully living in reality when it comes to their loved one’s behavior and/or deeds, or struggling to, as i said, reconcile their love or affection for someone who in all honesty doesn’t deserve it
i was thinking about the song burning house last night and realized. shit. i’m kind of a sucker for the dynamic of villain + good to neutral character that loves them unconditionally and is inordinately loyal to them
bonus points if they have a long history and the villain used to be much sweeter or otherwise more pleasant
bonus bonus points building on top of that for when the loyal one is conflicted and struggling to reconcile their memories of the villain with the current reality
and extra super bonus points for the loyal one eventually sidling up to the despair even horizon when the villain crosses a Line and they’re forced to confront what they’ve been ignoring. whether this results in them betraying the villain and Getting Away or just falling right over the event horizon and giving in doesn’t matter to me bc i love them both
tho if the loyal one both betrays their loved one and falls over the despair event horizon then that’s the Ultimate Gold Standard and i will eat it up like candy rip
like obviously an example of this is the soothsayer and shen, but there’s also a lighter example in natori and the cat king. rosebud and shen have this dynamic going on, too, even tho they lack the long history thinking emoji i’ve even played at an AU version of this kinda relationship between po and mr. ping lmao also my interpretation of otogi had shades of this when it came to his interactions with his father, but not exactly >>
* EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE .
bold whatever applies to your muse. italicize the things that only somewhat apply / are verse dependent. REPOST , DON’T REBLOG.
been cheated on | been bullied | had your heart broken | broken someone’s heart | told a horrible lie | been betrayed | been framed / set-up | stolen something of value | overdosed on drugs | been drunk | cheated | bullied | been publicly humiliated | punched someone in the face | been beaten up | broken a bone | been admitted to a hospital | put someone in the hospital | had a near - death experience | been drugged | done drugs | smoked | been arrested | been homeless | been forced to commit a crime | died and came back to life | kissed someone you weren’t attracted to | bled severely | killed someone | been forced to kill someone | had an attempt on your life | made an attempt on your own life | lost someone | loved someone | watched a loved one die | failed to save / help a loved one | felt helpless | watched your world die / disappear | had your life’s work stolen / destroyed
gone without food for over three days | gone without sleep for over three days | been tortured / questioned | been shot | been stabbed | been poisoned | been held prisoner | been trapped | been buried alive | been held hostage | held someone hostage | been stuck in a different world / universe / time | been abused by someone who should have loved / appreciated / valued you | had a panic attack | had night terrors | been in a car accident | lost your job | lost a fight | had sex with a stranger | been divorced | been abandoned | passed out from pain | cried yourself to sleep | spent a whole day in bed | hurt yourself | taken your anger out on yourself | taken your anger out on someone you love | been used | been manipulated | felt used | manipulated someone else | had your memories / mind wiped / stolen or tampered with | been taken over by a hostile force | been terrified | played a cruel game on someone | been forced to smile | felt too many things at once | laughed when you felt like crying | been in denial | been denied | faced your demons
flechxtte reblogged
whispers kinda feeling my multimuse muses now that the conversation turned to one of them lmao so that’s where i’ll be lurking for now thinking emoji maybe try to get more activity going
#quietly puts this here#i know it seems like i haven't been doing anything here probably but i swear i have been writing at my drafts#but since i moved them to a google document with all my other muses' drafts i don't have to actually be on this dash#while i'm working on them ahaa#anywhere this is where i am for now