oooohhhh good question!! hehehe gremlin cackles

i think jing yuan is a bit of a brat in bed, it lets him stop thinking and feel younger and less like a weary old man. he mostly does this with blade regardless of who tops lmao and blade falls for it every time bc it also helps him feel more human and less like an abomination. with dan heng i think jing yuan would wait a bit until they're more settled in the relationship before he starts letting this side of him show. ALSO a hc that my friends made that i rly like was that jing yuan is absolutely a pillow princess and falls asleep if he bottoms so dh and blade have to force him to top LMAOOO

blade and dh either have the most nasty disrespectful kinky sex or they are cuddling. there is no in between 😂 /hj lmaooo sometimes blade needs to vent his more destructive tendencies and sometimes he just needs someone else to take control and wants to suffer. dh is more likely to oblige than jy, so when blade's mara flares up he tends to seek out dh

also something something blade & jing yuan thighfucking. HAVE U SEEN THEM???? BRO. dh loves their thighs JGKLSJLKS

hi anon! tbh i never really thought about selfcest before getting into hsr and in my early days i didn't really care for it much? but then ichor of two dragons came out and dan feng's design got revealed and i read some rly good fics and so i was like, ok i can be convinced bc i think of dan feng and dan heng as separate entities (its more complicated than that but ykwim) and then later i read yingren fics by a friend and was like ok.... i can be convinced.

so i do actually enjoy yingren and fengheng!! yingren is really interesting bc as we know yingxing has been called arrogant multiple times, and it was that hubris that led to his involvement in the sedition with dan feng (and whatever the fuck they did bc hoyo REFUSES TO TELL US), so i wonder how ren feels about his former self? does he hate him? does he resent who he used to be? or does he pity him? this is a question that is also very personal to me bc i self-reflect on my own life a little too much sjgklsds

fengheng i see a lot of nasty smut for, which is completely understandable (bc instead of one dragon twink now we have TWO dragon twinks!) and i do enjoy that sometimes but i think there's also a lot of potential for like different relationship dynamics that could happen. bc dan heng was reborn and then forcefully injected with dan feng's memories, so he knows those do not belong to him.

-- OKAY HELP I WAS ANSWERING YOUR ASK THEN I REALIZED THE THING ABOVE ABOUT DH BEING INJECTED WITH DF MEMORIES AND THEN I MESSAGED MY JRH SERVER ABT THIS REALIZATION AND THEN WE GOT COMPLETELY SIDTRACKED TALKING AND THEN SOMEHOW ENDED UP AT DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY ASGJKLSDJL

WAIT THAT EXISTS???? holy shit what. i’m ngl though the only two yanqing ships that i enjoy are with yunli or jing yuan (and fixed yanjing. my one and only fixed ship)

BUT HONESTLY I FEEL LIKE BLADE WOULD SEE HIMSELF IN YANQING ?? the like drive to prove himself and the arrogance of being the best from his yingxing days. a lot of interesting potential there (for me not in a romantic way but maybe for you it is lol)

ALSO bc you brought up jingliu i have to mention now: i have a like modern au version of jingliu training blade via stabbing him on the back burner. aka my jingliu/blade toxic bdsm sex fic. blame alyssa for that one bc we were talking about the fact that blade moans when he gets hit in cn dub and like his character stories in the jrh server and then alyssa was like “all i’m saying is that a modern au version would be her pegging him.” and then a lightbulb went off in my head and now i have 500 words of this monstrosity. this is also not romantic. this is purely in a sexual way BECAUSE I THINK ITS FUN AND INTERESTING. the basic premise of this is like self flagellation for both of them. anyways that’ll get finished… eventually……

TY FOR THE ASK THOUGH. I LIKE THINKING ABOUT CHARACTER RELATIONSHIPS.

YEAHHHHH omg. yingxing who once swore revenge on the abundance who is now infected with the power of abundance, and yet luocha has taken his place?? by jing yuan's side???

also idk if spider lilies have a scent but like both ren and luocha just like. leave behind flowers everywhere they go and OOOOH the contrast between them bc ren absolutely hates it and luocha is like okay with it... one signifies death and the other life... YESSS

this is such a fun headcanon though, being able to smell luocha before you see him. idk exactly what kind of flower he holds in his idle animation but YEAHHH intriguing

also 1.4 jingliu companion quest ren was ABSOLUTELY JEALOUS LMFAO i don't have a recording of it saved but i need to find one on bilibili and watch it again BECAUSE LUOCHA SOUNDED SO FLIRTY AND WHEN REN INTERRUPTED IT WAS SO FUNNY SJKSDL

honestly i am also a minor luoren fan bc like. why does luocha have a voiceline when you add him to a team with blade, and why is it "shame. i can't give you the burial that you seek." LIKE??? DID HE LEARN ABOUT THIS FROM JINGLIU?? WHATS THE CONTEXT OF THIS??? so basically, i think jing yuan, luocha, and ren should all hatefuck each other. thank u for coming to my ted talk.

INTERESTING DYNAMIC TBH that four star light cone is so :eyes_emoji: because like jing yuan's been aware of luocha for a while, but unsure of what his real motives are... and luocha is a repeat visitor of the luofu, so it's very curious what jing yuan already knows.

and then that 1.3 cutscene!! very sexy hahaha jing yuan youre so sexy when you're mad ;)

also 1.4 jingliu companion quest luocha's voice sounds so flirty for no reason. listen zhao lu i know you voice a lot of otome games but please omg

also just like the inherent angst of like jing yuan who is one of lan's arrows, and luocha who holds the power of abundance coming together like that. i once saw a fanart that was like NSFW WARNING where jy is fucking luocha and luocha is desperately whispering under his breath and clutching his necklace and jing yuan is like, "praying to your god? interesting" and OOOOH THAT MADE THE BRAINWORMS LIGHT UP. ahem. anyways. children avert ye eyes

overall i think the kind of battle of wits could be really cool!! ty for asking, anon

YELLING SDHJGKSD omg anon you're brutal. but truly... dan heng and ren have loved each other, hated each other, and now are ??? about each other.... and like it's hard to wipe away the long history between them, the betrayals and lies, that even though they may have accepted each other's existence, it can't go back to the way it was before...

and jing yuan is like "can you get along? for me?" while giving them the saddest pleading eyes omg and they're like... ok, fine (dan heng agrees almost immediately. blade closes his eyes and desperately chokes out a "yes"). and like over the years, they come to care for each other again, perhaps affection... because jing yuan waited for them!! he was always there!!! in fact it's been so long that they really can't imagine a luofu without jing yuan now.

but their time has always been too short, and oh, jing yuan knows that so painfully. he's happy they came back to see him, but the flutter of mara in his head, the memories that he's worked so long to suppress, they come tumbling back to the surface when he sees dan heng play with his finches, and blade practicing in the courtyard. and he sees flashes of the people they used to be overlaid their present selves. and then it gets worse. he hears their voices when they aren't there. he can't differentiate between dream and memory and reality. he needs to be touched a lot to ground him in reality. and then...

he becomes fully marastruck, but not violently. rather, he calls for blade and dan heng, and they hold him, and slowly gingko leaves grow and grow until they are only clutching empty air and leaves, fluttering away in the wind and his ribbon slowly drifting to the ground.

blade takes starfall reverie with him and dan heng takes the ribbon and returns to the astral express, and both of them think they can keep going as they used to live, but now...

the archives room is too cold now. dan heng tosses and turns, feeling the phantom warmth of arms around him and feeling safe.

blade throws himself into slaying abominations but he's forgotten what it was like to fight solo, without jing yuan covering his back. he keeps feeling the prickle of lightning behind him and turns to find no one.

ok anyways this got too long ty anon you're brutal and you made me sad and then i made myself even sadder. this is a beautiful idea ty for sharing!!!

aaaaAAAAAAAA dan heng seeing blade's gentle side for the first time.... like genuinely blade is so kind still when he's not marastruck (have u seen that one chart that someone made of like "insanity of blade" vs "proximity to dh" LMAO i can't find it again but ITS OUT THERE SOMEWHERE)

but anyways omg do you think ren ever gets like frustrated when his hands won't do what he wants and the braid comes out uneven and lopsided and jing yuan just like takes his hands and presses gentle kisses all over them bc to him even though blade has become this, he's still the same gentle soul that was once yingxing and jing yuan cherishes what he can create, even though his hands have become scarred and disfigured...

and dan heng is like, "this is so familiar... but are these feelings my own? or are they remnants of dan feng's ghost living in me??" and he wrestles with that for a long time until he eventually figures out that, yes, he would like to get to know the jing yuan and ren of the present..... thank u anon ;-; this is so cute and tender and i love it so much

HELLO ANON omg first of all i have not heard of that fic before so tysm for the rec but second of all, yes yes YES!!!!

my idea was jing yuan who has an idolized unattainable sort of crush on dan feng who sees yingxing as his equal and is feeling things he’s never felt before, but yingxing is 1) married to the forge and 2) in love (?) with baiheng

and like not that yingxing is straight, but i think he would have been concerned with perpetuating his family line bc 1) revenge 2) he’s the only one left and 3) short life species

i haven’t really fleshed out the idea yet/where the story would go, but im so glad you see the vision !! and yes the pain of dan feng having all this power, all this prestige, and yet he can’t have the one thing he wants most: companionship mmmMMMMM that’s a good flavor of angst