On Shang Qinghua and Impersonality (haitang-blossoms' Scum Villain Self-Saving System meta)
The fact that Shang Qinghua (Airplane-bro) IS so callous despite being commonly viewed as pathetic and "comic relief" by both other characters in the story and readers makes his character WAY more interesting!
Because as much as he'll grovel for his life when the situation calls for it, he's really at his core a ruthlessly efficient behind-the-scenes actor who's learnt to project an aura of helplessness in order to survive both from being Peak Lord of An Ding Peak (logistics) and from having to navigate working as a spy for the demons.
While he appears to fill the role of your average comical side-character, one can see how much of an emotional distance he keeps between himself and the other characters no matter how "friendly" he acts on the surface. He never really lets himself get personally invested in anyone for a significant amount of the story. And it's this inner coldness and how it contrasts so sharply with his carefully-crafted outward persona that I find really intriguing.
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as promised, here are all of my svsss character/ship playlists!
shen yuan / shen qingqiu
shen jiu / shen qingqiu
yue qi / yue qingyue
liu qingge / the war god of bai zhan peak
luo binghe / the demon emporor
shang qinghua / airplane shooting towards the sky
bingliushen
liushen
cumplane
qijiu
and here's the link to my mdzs and tgcf playlist posts!
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"I just gotta Airplane-bro this one" I whisper to myself as I sit down with an open doc for my fanfic, knowing damn well, that he writes more words daily, than I have in a last month
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a certified sqh moment
[ID: Digital art of Shang Qinghua from Scum Villain. He has his eyes closed in a forlorn expression, seeming to sigh as he says, "I should be @ the club". From off screen, Shen Qingqiu says, "You're 80 fucking 6 bro". /end ID]
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SVSSS RUSSIAN EDITION V1 HAS MOSHANG IN THE BACK MOSHANG NATION WE’VE BEEN FED
LOOK AT SQH HE LOOKS SO CUTE AND MBJ WITH HIS TITS OUT WE’VE TRULY BEEN BLESSED 🫶😭
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Shang Qinghua: Hey Cucumber Bro would you slap your best friend in the face for a million gold?
Shen Qingqiu: I would punch you in the face for free.
Shang Qinghua, on the verge of tears: I’m your best friend?!
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I know i said this recently but Airplane's detachment from others and tendency to see people as characters isn't because he's the author and a transmigrator
He's just like that
He doesn't view the readers of PIDW as real. They are caricatures and internet forum stereotypes and a nameless hungry beast he has to feed but they aren't real
Even Peerless Cucumber, both before and after transmigrating, isn't a real person to him. He's a black powder anti fan. He puts just as much of a character role on Shen Yuan as he does on Shen Jiu
It's how he talks about people in general. And it's clearly a protective measure. He makes a living appealing to the masses and farming internet hate. He's detached so it doesn't get to him. So he can read the criticism and laugh
He goes to hate threads about his work and is able to smirk and make jokes because they aren't real to him because they can't be. If he acknowledges the reality it's going to break him
Plus the whole child of divorce who is abandoned by both parents as they build new families without him thing
He's detached because attachment scares him
The only thing he lets himself be attached to is Mobei Jun because he's the only thing he lets himself be truly selfish over and make for himself
And I think it's really important that the system would have let him kill Mobei Jun
That means, unlike everything else that happens to him in SVSSS, everything to do with his relationship with his king is his choice
He could literally kill Mobei Jun at any moment and he doesn't because he's his choice he decision to engage and connect with someone else
He doesn't even have to stay to save Mobei from his Uncle! He can literally just go back his OG life
What makes Mobei different is that it's a relationship he has to actively choose for himself and cultivate on his own. He chooses to attach himself to Mobei and only Mobei
And if that isn't something that is accidentally reflected in both Bingge and Bingmei
Bingge who has no attachment and no fulfillment despite having power. Who is lonely and detached and has no one he truly cares about. That's a reflection of Airplane and a reflection of a Shang Qinghua who chose to kill Mobei in that clearing
Bingmei is a reflection (of sorts) of our Shang Qinghua who took a chance and made an attachment and at the end of the day is willing to do anything to keep it
I just think Shang Qinghua/Airplane is a fascinating guy
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