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Blue Lock's characters as yearbook's quotes

I came across a quote from yearbook again and I thought about the characters from Blue Lock AGAIN.

The results of my wasting time on the Internet:

The most fitting quote for most Blue Lock characters

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Was rereading that one moment from U-20 arc and I completely forgot how hilarious it was lmao Rin: I will kill you, I will kill Isagi, I will kill my entire family. I realized that I hate myself, I feel sick. I will finish you right here, devour you, tear you into pieces, destroy you and everything that connects us- Sae: Ew. Gross. Will you look at that. You're still sticking out your tongue and drool. What are you, five years old? Peak older sibling behavior

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probably scrapping this but Yaaay shidous back🥳🥳🥳

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Sorry I'm dying on this hill. Barou drinks his respect women juice with extra protein powder mixed in

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blue lock is a great manga because it has every type of guy

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reo's skincare

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Mxtx is the only author where I actually want her to write corresponding novels in the LIs POV. I wanna know Luo Binghe's absolute bonkers thought process. I wanna know about Lan Wangji's gay teen thoughts, and the thirteen years after Wei Wuxian's death, taking care of Lan Sizhui etc. I wanna know literally anything else about Hua Cheng's past. I would pay for all three in a heartbeat.

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Thinking about how hilariously lwj stands out in the list of mxtx love interests like if you look at them in order:

luo binghe: unhinged serial killer with immense powers who would destroy the universe if he woke up on the wrong side of the bed one day

lan wangji: just kind of a bitch sometimes

hua cheng: unhinged serial killer with immense powers who would destroy the universe if he woke up on the wrong side of the bed one day

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So.

According to @demiace-wen-ning​‘s iconic post, every MXTX novel has:

A red/black, morally ambiguous, all-powerful bastard man

A fan wielder who is much more than meets the eye

And a fucking Jiang Cheng

Now we, as a collective fandom, have decided with our communal braincell that in SVSSS, the “fucking Jiang Cheng”™ character is Liu Qingge. And on the surface, this seems Right and Good:

HOWEVER! I posit that these aspects are only the most superficial and external aspects of the vast and multi-layered Dagwood sandwich that is fundamental “fucking Jiang Cheng”™yness. “fucking Jiang Cheng”™ has LAYERS. And for all that I love Liu Qingge, I love him in the same way I love the Sonic franchise’s Knuckles the Echidna:

This is emphatically NOT how I love Jiang Cheng. Furthermore, this is demonstrably NOT the sort of character that a fandom becomes viciously divisive about. This is the sort of character you either like or dislike and move on with your life because he is not deep and complex enough to Die On This Hill for defending. (This is a Feng Xin or Nie Mingjue sort of character.)

So what makes for a “fucking Jiang Cheng”™ character? What are the quintessential “fucking Jiang Cheng”™ characteristics that result in a complex and divisive character? I propose:

ambiguous/unexplained actions

refusal to explain motives

canon selfless actions missed or negatively interpreted

socially over-conscious while still socially detested

harsh and contemptuous outward behavior

honestly, naturally is an asshole, but holds back just enough to get away with it

hard-working but overshadowed by upstart prodigy

childhood trauma that fundamentally affected behavioral patterns

aggressively focused on their cultivation and consequent social status

secretly heartbroken about a perceived betrayal regarding the protagonist

yay, war crimes!

These attributes all describe Jiang Cheng. All but the last one describe Mu Qing, with the second-to-last applying in a way where HE is perceived as the betrayer. None of these attributes describe Liu Qingge. But you know who they DO describe in SVSSS?

Shen Jiu.

The ORIGINAL Shen Qingqiu.

An undeniable asshole who nevertheless gets punished for every good deed he ever did, who clawed and scraped his way to the top of the cultivation world and ensured he stayed there no matter how many bridges he had to burn or enemies he had to make along the way, who acts like a bitter tsundere to the person who matters most to him because said person broke their promise and never explained why, whose childhood was a never-ending parade of trauma and abuse that molded him into a harsh and suspicious individual, who (though we don’t find out until the extras) shows no sexual interest in anyone, whose own path to cultivation was so difficult and traumatic that they could not stop themselves from jealously lashing out at the heaven-blessed prodigy standing right next to them.

Shen Jiu is the TRUE “fucking Jiang Cheng”™ of SVSSS, and I cordially invite any haters to bring it on because this is My Hill and I am ready to fight for it.

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liu qingge does NOT in fact fit in with mu qing and jiang cheng and they would both be annoyed by him and the person to complete their trio would actually be Shen Jiu in this essay I will—

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This DTIYS was originally meant for Instagram as thanks for 3k followers, but then I checked my tumblr and what a surprise! I got to 4k already? Wow! In that case...

Thank you all so much for 4000 followers!

Tumblr was my very first "social media" besides internet forums, and it still holds a very dear place in my heart. Mostly thanks to the amazing people I met there. ^^

Anyway, as this is a DTIYS, you can check out the rules under the cut if you wish to participate, I hope you'll have fun!

What is a DTIYS?

A Draw This In Your Style is a simple challenge during which an artist creates an illustration, and other people can redraw it in their own style! Go crazy, modify the poses, the interactions, as long as the core elements are there (the three mxtx protagonist with Xie Lian in chibi version), then it counts as submission!

How can you see our submission?

Simply tag me. ^^ As soon as I'll see your submission, I'll reblog it!

Is there a deadline?

Not really, but preferably before the end of 2023.

Will there be a reward/winner?

I don't want this to be a competition, and I don't have anything to offer. My only wish is for you all to have fun!

Thank you all so much for 4k followers! I hope you'll enjoy your stay on my blog. ^^/

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i just really, really love mxtx protagonists and their hobbies, y'know

shen qingqiu likes to learn about monster lore, collects fans and reads novels, no matter how shitty or long they are.

shang qinghua writes novels, does some gardening, and terrorizes people through the power of logistics. probably has more hobbies, but they're classified.

wei wuxian plays the dizi, paints, makes talismans, and fakes his identity to trick people into talking shit about the yiling laozu (aka wei wuxian himself).

xie lian loves to learn about swords and everything related to them, and is literally that one mom who can't throw away a thing, because "what if i need it later!!! this could be useful!!!!"

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I have added: yet more ships to the MXTX bookmark catalogue :)

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Getting propositioned by both Halsin and Mizora back to back like man I’m just trying to hang out w my vampire wife

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What I personally love about playing as a custom character is that I get to play my favorite trope of "villains get their entire plot foiled because they pissed off the wrong person".

Like, imagine having your carefully constructed plan and schemes absolutely steamrolled by...no, not a former ally, or an ex-lover, or some hero, just an angry rando you have never met. But this rando takes out your allies and pawns like it's personal. And when you finally meet them face-to-face, you realize that their only motivation is pure Grade A spite. You ruined their good time, now nobody gets to have a good time.

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I love these two fr fr

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Baldur's Gate 3 devnotes my beloved

NodeContext: With a sigh, maybe pinching the bridge of his nose because the player is so fucking dense. But Astarion is trying to get the player on board with stealing a whole lot of power, so he has to lead them down the path and can't just call them an idiot.

NodeContext: Trying to sound like he knows what he's talking about, though he doesn't actually have a plan beyond "stealing power good"