HELLO! ALSO BEWARNED 2.5 SPOILERS IN HERE
birby. WE ARE GOING TO THE YAOQING. I AM TAKING CONTROL OF THE EXPRESS.

WE ARE VISITING JIAOQIU NO MATTER WHAT. WE ARE VISITING FEIXIAO NO MATTER WHAT. WE ARE VISITING MOZE NO MATTER WHAT.
but on a more honest level, with feixiao saying she'll take the fight to the antimatter legion i think it sets us up nicely for another arc with phantylia and also we have a reason to want to go, the tb was the one who found jiaoqiu alongside moze and the tb is probably gonna wanna see how he's recovering. i also think it would be a good way for us to learn about the alliance's wars, politics, and also just about foxians and baiheng because she was from the yaoqing and the yaoqing is majority foxians... NFIWHFIEW but yeah tldr i think we're gonna get the yaoqing to check on jiaoqiu and illustrate the wider political setting of the alliance!!
i would LOVE to see all of the ships, but i think we'll need to wait for some more yuque chars to be released (come on fu xuan tell me bit about the yuque girl...) before we can go there. yaoguang come home the kids miss you

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! especially going on the hc that baiheng's travelogue is basically a classic in yaoqing society (and who does feixiao know who would be a) a walking encyclopaedia of classical literature because he's very well read and b) more than willing to sit and discuss the content with feixiao? JIAOQIU.) i wonder if in the early days of their friendship they'd talk a lot about baiheng's various exploits and jiaoqiu would express his disdain for baiheng's risk taking, with feixiao wondering how far she could copy that style. i also wonder if they'd go to baiheng street to watch the plays/operas together, and if those are something the pair would talk about while feixiao was confined to the alchemy commission while healing... baiheng's quiet influence on the alliance MAKES ME SO SICK

MANY!! ok so firstly i have my insomniac jiaoqiu + sleeps like a log feixiao. a damn lux arrow could strike next to them (again!) and she'd sleep straight thru it. a light breeze tickles his foot and he is awake and alert and CAN. NOT. GET BACK TO SLEEP. and he cant wake feixiao up without startling her and so just tends to curl up next to her until she either wakes up, or he manages to drift off.

BIG SPOON JIAOQIU. feixiao gets nightmares and jiaoqiu is just her own personal radiator and she loves having his tail over her bc it's all very soothing. and feixiao gets cold easily so jiaoqiu is always there to warm her up. plus he complains that she squishes it between them if she ever cuddles him

feixiao also loves cuddling jiaoqiu's tail because its very big and very fluffy. he's half convinced she loves his tail more than him and teases her about it a lot. she also loves fiddling w the fur in his ears and blowing on his ears bc they're so sensitive and she finds it cute when they flick. she knows all of the most sensitive spots of his ears better than the back of her hand

hc that jiaoqiu can purr, and so feixiao has MILLIONS of stupid nicknames for him and jokes about it.

sometimes in the mornings when jiaoqiu is still awake (hc normally from insomnia, since he tends to sleep in late when he's not working) feixiao will bring him on her morning runs (and then also slow down so he can keep up. he's strong, but he's not feixiao levels of strong. or insane enough to do her workouts.) and feixiao will also come and visit him randomly in the alchemy commission and make sure he's not overworking himself and so he can get his arbiter-general sanctioned cuddle time.

as for the whole yaotrio, i feel feixiao and moze didn't wanna leave jiaoqiu out since the food he eats is painfully spicy so they tried to at least be able to tolerate a few bites. and it subconsciously made him eat less spicy food because he didnt like seeing them have to hype each other up and get ready to handle the spice just to share food with him

jiaoqiu has a good sense of smell (possibly to compensate for his lack of taste) so i feel like feixiao likes to use lots of different nice-smelling shampoos so he has something new and fun to look forward to. think of it sort of as like when people give enrichment to their cats thru different kinds of play? jiaoqiu is just a sopping wet kitten in the rain who needs love and enrichment

feixiao is a chronic blanket stealer. jiaoqiu has to wear a whole pyjama set bc feixiao keeps stealing the blankets. he wakes up FREEZING otherwise, even w his natural body heat which is higher bc he wields fire. it takes feixiao several weeks to catch onto the fact that she even does it

jiaoqiu LOVES winter. feixiao doesn't, because it's cold and the nights are longer, but she's come around to like them ever since getting into a relationship with him. he likes snuggling up in bed at 4pm and reading (and feixiao wants to join in, but they're normally alchemy journals. feixiao herself likes a lot of xianzhou immersias and books but also tends to like hearing jiaoqiu explain foxian mythology since she didnt grow up hearing it. he likes it when she puts films on in the background bc it's better background noise than his own thoughts) jiaoqiu also finds out during these winters that feixiao ADORES hot chocolate and so moze sources some foxian-safe hot chocolate.

adding onto this, jiaoqiu shares coffee/hot chocolate with feixiao, and feixiao fills him in on the taste since he can't taste them, but still wants to share them with her

jiaoqiu. NEVER. SWEARS. and feixiao is utterly shocked whenever he does. feixiao? sailors have better mouths than her. she says some HEINOUS shit and jiaoqiu looks horrified until he peers around the door and learns that feixiao is, in fact, ok, but just can't find the shirt jiaoqiu bought for her.

feixiao loves pda! for all she cares, she wants to tell the marshal she loves jiaoqiu! jiaoqiu would rather die than even hold hands in public.

i hc jiaoqiu to have numbed hands/fingertips, and also its cannon he has lost most of his sense of taste, so i feel like he relies a lot of the intensity of actions to gauge them, as opposed to heat or how things feel to touch (so feixiao loves squeezing his hands or really just any of him). he also likes it when feixiao hugs him really tightly bc it makes him feel safe

OH ABSOLUTELY. like i actually feel like it can contribute (ESPECIALLY jiaoqiu dying) to the overall theme of the xianzhou that got kickstarted with tingyun's death, that the people who die are never the soldiers, but the innocent people who just want to help others; and the heavy collateral damage that warfare brings (we also see this with dan shu joining the disciples of sanct med after yufei died in the 3rd abun war).

from a story standpoint, i definitely see that it makes sense to kill jiaoqiu off since he's also in the middle of his own personal character arc (learning about his 'true purpose as a healer' and healing from the trauma of the 3rd abun war) and it could also show the unrelenting cruelty of the xianzhou to so clearly tell us THIS MAN IS SUFFERING! and then kill him anyway. (BUT GOD I HOPE THEY DONT DO THAT BC I LOVE HIM AND I WILL BE SAD IF HE SUFFERS) but im more iffy on them killing feixiao since it doesnt contribute to a wider theme. i also just wanna see feixiao put herself back together after losing him, knowing how close feixiao and jiaoqiu are, regardless of whether they're being looked at in a shipping lens or not... i wanna poke post 2.5 feixiao w a stick and see how she reacts

but in terms of me liking feiqiu?? THE FACT THAT BOTH OF THEM COULD DIE IN 2.5??? ohhh im gonna scream if one of them dies. i just wanna see them both injured so i can write a shitton of hurt comfort. bonus points if moze feels really really guilty so we get some moze story focus on how perhaps seeing his two closest friends suffer also makes him suffer in a way he didn't even know was possible... like the lux arrow in the 3rd abun war, it being the "right" thing to do, to label feixiao as a traitor to the alliance for falling to moon rage, for leaving jiaoqiu to get seriously injured by the borisin bc saving him is too risky... i wanna know how moze feels about it. also knowing the skysplitter was only decommissioned after the 3rd abun war... a LUOFU. WARSHIP. cough, COUGH. CAIYI LORE???? 3RD ABUN WAR LORE??? HOW IS YUKONG GONNA REACT TO SEEING A LUOFU WARSHIP THAT SERVED IN THE 3RD ABUN WAR? IM SO EXCITEDDDDD

OMG HELLO ANON!!! also there are never any stupid questions!
i have MANY thoughts about this and i honestly think it's the central conflict of baiheng's character!! so ofc, the nameless want to travel and explore and baiheng got that trailblazing spirit from her parents, but baiheng specifically being a foxian of the yaoqing means that she will feel a very strong duty to dedicate herself to the hunt, living alongside verdant knights who were victims of borisin slavery, so baiheng is surrounded by evidence that she can contribute her flying prowess to do good in the universe, to be a pilot and save people from the borisin and the abundance in general, but then she's faced with a choice; the life of a nameless will never let her contribute to the hunt, but the abundance is committing so many atrocities, how can she let that slide? so i think her allegiance to the hunt and her desire for the trailblaze is what gnaws away at her (remember the hcq were all labelled as outcasts!), and finally once the hcq is formed, she finds people who are also torn in similar directions and are finding comfort in finding others just like her (dan feng being a high elder AND a soldier, yingxing being a prodigal short life craftsman on the long life xianzhou, jy breaking away from his parents' wishes to be a soldier, etc), so i think with the hcq she is able to travel as much as she likes without feeling any obligation or shackled by duty, but also comes back knowing she will always have a place by the side of the hcq, who will never berate her for the two directions her heart soars in.

tldr; i think she follows the hunt more closely, but she clearly also loves trailblazing!! i think she believes in them both equally, but most likely drew actual power from the path of the hunt! however i think that inner conflict powers her conflict as a character, and so i'm totally open to seeing other interpretations of it!!