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denkithunder · 1 year

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anonymous

last tweet | Tweet 18: I'm Bored, Why Not | next tweet

SUMMARY: an anonymous twitter account starts revealing random secrets about the volleyball club members, and it’s starting to make them lose trust in each other.

note: from now on pls ignore time stamps (i don't know anymore honestly)

taglist: @netzukochannn @serowotonin @cosmo-infatuation @thechaosoflonging @kuroaka @theultimatefrenchfangirll @kiritokunuwu @soanis

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kodaiki · 2 years

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GOOD MORNING TEXTS FROM THE CAPTAINS

feat: daichi, kuroo, bokuto, oikawa, ushijima, terushima & kita

a/n: found these in my camera roll! enjoy <333 don’t mind my old watermark!

ʚĭɞ interaction and reblogs always appreciated! ʚĭɞ

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timeless-tende · 2 years

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Imagine Suga and Kiyoko talking about their addiction

(These are non-canon by the way. It’s just conversations I have with my friend).(I guess part two to Suga’s craving)(➡️ 🍕 ⬅️)

#haikyuu!!#haikyuu #haikyū!!#x reader #hq #incorrect hq quotes #sugawara koushi #kiyoko shimizu #karasuno #fake texts #fake story #fake chat #addiction #coffee addict #pizza addict #coffee #pizza

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emmyrosee · 10 months

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I legit just came across this reel on insta and thought of your dad!atsumu AU. Like imagine Atsumu posting this and being like “yes I am a man of the women” … just to have his old teamates clown him in the chat with the “you basically copy pasted what Kita san scolded you with”. The chaotic lighthearted arguments that ensue are poetic cinema. 😩🤌🏽 and imagine uncle! Osamu adding to the mix by showing up the next day ready to “party with his niece” first thing in the morning and catch dad!Atsumu slacking in 4k:absolutely knocked out on reader’s chest, drool and all. Morning routine who?

(That being said I do think this reel needs to become the norm and I’m HC all the HQ people can and will be good partners + parents)

BROOOO NEVER LET TSUMU LIVE IN PEACE😮‍💨🩷

Like he makes this super sweet, heartfelt video about how much he appreciates you carrying his baby and holding the fort while he’s gone, and the least he can do all the other mornings, is let you sleep while he gets Hisako ready for the day.

It's filled with laughter and toys and coffee and princess crowns falling into little fruit cubes, and just absolutely everything going smoothly for the camera.

And his fans go buckwild. They love dad!Tsumu posts as much as we do, and they’re in the comments worshipping him and his teachings and just being the absolute best dad ever.

…but that doesn’t last. Because not two hours later does the clownery start. Because he doesn’t deserve peace.

onigirimiya11 bruh ur such a liar. if you’re going to copy like you did in school, at least change the words smh

suna.ejp.rintaro LMAOOO NOT HIM SAYING HE LIKES HIS WIFE WHADDA SIMP-

aranojiro_ you forgot the part where Kita swats you with newspaper. at least be consistent if youre going to steal his gospel

miyasan7137 @/onigirimiya11 @/suna.ejp.rintaro @/aranojiro_ YALL FAKE AS HELL, LEAVE ME ALONE ITS GOOD ADVICE

kshinsuke1 atsumu, im thrilled you are listening to me. tell hisako i said good morning- use those exact words, of course, as youve done here

miyasan7137 @/kshinsuke1 kitasan please im sorry

ksakusaiyoomi no one likes you, Miya

It seems like nothing could be better, let alone feed the hungry dad!atsumu fans, until a few hours later, when Osamu posts a quick "@/miyasan7137 lol this you?" to his story:

atsumu, absolutely knocked out against the couch with his head in hisako's lap while barely in frame in the kitchen, you're cooking, giving the camera a wide smile to match the one hisako shares from behind her pacifier.

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nerdpoe · 11 months

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TWINcognito mode Part 4 (Tim and Danny Pretend to be Twins AU) (is it still pretending if they genuinely consider each other as twins?)

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5, Part 6, AO3

Danny had a bandage on his hand.

Tim stared at it, then his twin, then the hospital room around them, and finally at Jason.

“Jason what the fuck,” he breathed quietly, gesturing helplessly at the hospital patient on the bed.

“No, you’re what the fuck,” Jason hissed, shoving a finger in Tim’s chest, “You did this on purpose, didn’t you? Well fuck you Replacement, I know where you keep your precious BatMobile and I’m not afraid to torch it.”

How the hell did Jason know where the secret BatMobile was?

Wait, not important.

“Danny, you good?” Tim asked, pushing Jason’s hand away and moving towards his probably slightly high twin, “Did he cut off any fingers?” Did Tim have to cut off any of Jason’s in return?

Because he’d do it. He’d do it in a fucking heartbeat.

Jason could stand to lose a few fingers.

Danny’s too-wide eyes gazed into his, and then the little shit started giggling nonstop.

“Oh yeah, they gave him morphine. Did it even though I told them that giving a meta morphine is a bad idea, but I think they thought he was you, so. They learned the hard way.”

There was energy dancing in arcs around Danny’s fingertips, and Tim was fairly certain he knew that the fake incident of blasting a hole in the wall had just become a real one.

“Tim?” Danny asked, reaching out and burning the lapel he’d managed to grab with the energy running unchecked through his hands.

Tim was so suing the hospital for this.

“Yes, Danny?” He sighed, delicately removing the sparking appendage from his clothes.

“Tim, I think I broke a wall.”

“That’s fine, they deserved it for not listening to your medical proxy.”

Tim heard Jason distantly give a flat “What”.

It was fine, a few seconds of typing and it’d look like Jason had always been a listed emergency contact and medical proxy. He could figure out how to explain that to Bruce later.

He’d also need one of Jason’s aliases.

“Everything is moving, and the ceiling is melting.”

Tim frowned. Usually when he saw shit like that it meant-

-Danny abruptly leaned forward and emptied his stomach on Tim’s shoes.

Tim squeezed his eyes shut and tried to block out the sound of Jason’s hysterical laughter.

He could also hear a few shutter clicks, god damn it, one of the vultures had trailed in after him.

"Jason, two mill to play bodyguard and handle the vulture behind me."

The laughter stopped abruptly, and Jason went after the paparazzi with far too much enthusiasm.

Tim listened to the distant sound of a bone breaking and agonized screams as he reached forward and rubbed Danny's back.

Danny whined, leaning into his stomach.

"Don't worry; I've got everything handled," Tim was already texting his team of lawyers in one group chat and the Wayne Industries PR team in another.

He'd take care of it; taking care of family was what he did best.

~~~~~~

The phone rang exactly twice before it was picked up.

“Bruce Wayne speaking,” Bruce Wayne answered, not really paying attention to his work phone as he focused on the blueprints to Black Masks newest HQ in front of him.

“Mr. Wayne, we understand that you have a good working relationship with us at the Daily Planet, for all that we’re from your sister city,” a nervous voice sounded on the other side, and Bruce was suddenly paying attention, “And we were wondering if you would be willing to have an interview concerning Tim Drake-Wayne’s hidden twin? The public has many questions, and you know that we’ll treat the story with the respect it des-”

“Danny doesn’t like reporters,” Bruce lied through his teeth; he had no idea what Danny did or did not like, and he would address the lack of press coverage later once he found out what was going on, “How did this get out?”

“Ah, well there may have been a slight incident at the local hospital, and it’s a little hard to hide a wall with a hole blown in it from a high meta.”

What.

“What hospital?”

The line went quiet.

“I…I’m feeling a bit like I’ve just ratted them out, sir.”

“I’m their father, it’s fine; what hospital?”

“Gotham General, sir. Mr. Daniel’s bodyguard broke a paparazzi’s legs as well, so…there’s also questions about using excessive force.”

Bruce allowed himself a moment to close his eyes and lament his quiet evening.

That was Jason. That was 100% Jason. This was absolutely something that had happened between the twins and Jason that they hadn’t wanted Bruce to know.

“I’ll get back to you on that interview,” Bruce said, hanging up without waiting for so much as a goodbye.

Without a word, he walked out of the BatCave and headed towards the garage, trying to occupy his mind to steer it away from imagining catastrophic injuries.

How unfortunate that his brain was insistent on catastrophizing something, and if it wasn’t allowed to imagine injuries, it was going to find something else.

Danny had been largely unknown to the press.

Gotham press Bruce could understand; they would understand the unspoken rule laid out by Janet and Jack to Not Talk About The Twin. But Metropolis news? They wouldn’t care at all.

There would have been reports on it. The Daily Planet would have called to ask for a story on property damage, not about the ‘hidden twin’.

There were other inconsistencies.

There were no pictures of Danny in the Manor, aside from the new one on the mantel that Alfred had managed to get the boy to sit still for. However, he was in the background of all of the photos he’d found of the Drake family online.

If it wasn’t for Barbara stating that she knew him, and for Tim’s easy familial interactions with him, Bruce would swear that Danny really hadn’t existed prior to-

…

Danny hadn’t existed.

He didn’t want to consider the possibility that Barbara lied, but if he did…

Tim enjoyed pranks. Danny was confirmed to have been captured by Ra’s. Danny had escaped. Tim had found Danny. More than likely, they had moved forward from there, and Tim was prone to becoming obsessively protective of family, and Danny was…

Ra’s had reached into a different dimension and grabbed that universe’s version of Tim. Except he hadn’t, because in that universe Tim had been born with an identical twin, and it would have been an easy mistake for someone not expecting that.

Tim and Barbara were trying their hardest to make sure that Danny had a place in this universe. They were trying their hardest to keep him.

Tim was absolutely not researching how to send Danny back; if he had been, he would have started refusing cases for the sake of research.

Bruce hauled himself into his car, started it, and took a moment to rest his forehead on the steering wheel.

He understood it, really. He did.

Danny fit into their family like a missing puzzle piece; he belonged with them.

But Danny was from a different dimension. He had to go home, no matter how much they wanted him to stay. His version of Bruce was probably tearing the laws of reality apart to get him back.

Bruce would do the same for any of his children, especially if it had been a kidnapping and not an accident.

Bruce sighed and slammed the car into reverse.

He didn’t have enough evidence, he would have to ask for further information.

And how he loathed admitting he did not know something.

In the meantime, he called the one person he would never have thought he’d have to ask for help.

He called John Constantine and told him, as Batman, that the Wayne family had a situation.

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John hated the rich.

Unless they were paying him, of course.

Which Bruce bloody Wayne would, if he wanted his help.

It had taken a bit of wandering, fending off hospital security, and walking past a smoking hole in a wall-fucking Gotham-before he’d managed to convince someone to just guide him to the room in question.

And because John was a snoop, and he knew he was, he stopped outside the door to listen in.

“-I know you’re from a different dimension, Danny, we just want to help you go back.”

“I don’t understand what I did wrong, why do you want to kill me?”

“Bruce what the fuck-”

“Old Man you’ve got it wrong-”

“John Constantine is on the way to pinpoint what Dimension you’re from. Danny, this hurts, I don’t want to do this, but you have to go back home.”

“But if you do that I’ll die!”

“Yeah Bruce he’ll-wait you’ll what? What?! Back the fuck up Old Man!”

“B, calm down. Your conclusion is inaccurate and you need to step back.”

“Danny, stop overreacting; your version of Bruce is probably very worried.”

Well this sounded like a lovely family conversation to walk into.

He opened the door without any fanfare and…yup. Rich people.

There was a revenant standing in front of an eldritch being waving an unused IV pole at Bruce Wayne while the CEO of Wayne Industries was trying to pull the old CEO away from the people in front of him.

Bruce Wayne was not moving.

“Right, so…I’m here to take a look at the…” John trailed off, finally getting a good look at the eldritch thing behind the revenant.

That was no kid.

That was an Ancient.

That was not just an Ancient.

That was the High King of the Infinite Realms, trapped in a mortal body and shackled to life.

This was not a God of Death, this was The God of Death; but tiny and human. Tiny, human, and for some unknown reason had chosen the Wayne family to live his life with.

John wasn’t going to pretend to know what went on in the mind of an Ancient Spirit turned God, but he did know how to take in what was in front of him.

The soul was seamlessly integrated into the body, only barely leaking out. There was a tether, presumably to the Infinite Realms, for the overflow of power that the mortal body could not handle. This looked like any other reincarnation, but with something more powerful than a normal soul.

Which meant that this was deliberate, and usually the reincarnated only held bare bone memories of their past life. If John actually did send the kid back to his home dimension, it was literally going to kill him. The only way for the tiny Royal in front of him to go back was through dying.

For all intents and purposes, this was just a kid. A kid acting as the eyes for a literal God.

And Bruce Wayne was about to royally fuck up said God’s judgment of their world.

“Wayne,” John whispered, eyes not leaving the Royal in front of him, “Wayne, we need to talk.”

“Ah, Mr. Constantine, you’re here. If you could-”

“Wayne,” John snapped, voice hoarse, “Get your bloody arse out of the bloody room right bloody now and listen to me!” by the end of his demand, John was not ashamed to admit that his voice had started hitting some very high notes.

Bruce Wayne’s eyes widened, and the fool finally acquiesced.

“Why is that guy always so gross?” He heard behind him as he closed the door.

He elected to ignore it in favor of setting the pompous rich arse in front of him straight.

“He isn’t lying; you send him back to his home dimension, he dies.”

Wayne looked stricken. Good. Now he had his attention.

“He’s a reincarnated soul from the Infinite Realms, and for whatever reason he decided that your family was the one he wanted to have. Why is he this old and a twin to someone who did not have a twin before? No idea. Not my business. But Wayne,” John walked forward, resting his hand on the man's chest before gripping his suit and yanking him down to eye level, “That kid is acting as the Eyes of a God. If you bugger this up, you bugger us up.”

John let the man go and walked away, throwing his business card over his shoulder.

“The JLD will keep in touch.”

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Tim had miscalculated.

Danny was still too high to be of any use.

Jason’s eyes were a luminescent green, so his cognitive faculties were essentially gone as well. Honestly it wasn’t a huge loss on his part, he doubted Jason would have had valuable input anyways.

His only saving grace was the occultist that had actually done something useful; he’d bought Tim time.

A quick text to Barbara that Bruce had catastrophized into the worst case scenario, again, and Tim got to work.

He stripped out of his suit jacket and pointed at Danny, catching Jason’s eyes.

“We’re switching places; help him undress and escort him out. Pay raise to-”

“You don’t have to pay me fucking money to make sure one of my brothers isn’t killed, Replacement,” Jason snarled, dropping the IV stand and turning to make quick work of Danny’s hoodie.

Danny tried to help, really, he did, but he couldn’t seem to find the coordination for it.

Regardless, in the three minutes it took for Constantine to lay into Bruce, he and Danny had managed to not only swap clothes, but to place an identical bandage on Tim’s hand.

Jason had only just managed to get Danny’s hair in the same style as Tim had when he’d walked in before they heard the door start to open again.

Jason took a half step back and placed himself squarely in front of the twins.

Tim was not surprised.

Jason's second worst nightmare, after all, was Bruce becoming a version of Willis he could not protect his siblings from.

From the look on Bruce’s face, he knew it, too.

Tim curled his hand around the batarang he’d hidden up his sleeve, fully prepared to do what he could to buy even more time for whoever Barbara had called as reinforcement to arrive.

But Tim didn’t get a chance to do that, because between one second and the next he was outside and being handed off to Kon by an only slightly winded Bart.

“Guys,” he started, feeling the migraine starting to build.

“It’s okay Danny we’ll break you out of Gotham and then Tim can come with you and then you can live with us forever because Speedsters are the best and-”

“Oracle said you’d been dosed with morphine, so I’m gonna have to carry you like Tim for a bit man. Sorry.”

“Guys-” Tim tried, but was manhandled into Kon’s arms.

“Don’t you worry about a thing Dantheman we’re gonna make sure you’re safe and then you can share your house with Kon because no one messes with Kon and you’ll be safe forever and-”

“You have the wrong twin, buffoons,” a young voice cut through, drawing their attention to the youngest Wayne.

Damian looked thoroughly unimpressed.

The look deepened when they heard the fire alarms start going off in the hospital that were more than likely, statistically speaking, courtesy of Jason.

“Come, Timothy; we must clean up the mess your poor planning has made,” the little demon brat ordered imperiously, turning on his heel and marching into the chaotic hospital.

Tim managed to wriggle out of Kon’s hold and patted his chest.

“Thanks, man,” he sighed, mentally preparing himself for the bullshit he was about to walk into.

Kon gave his shoulder a squeeze.

“I’ve decided that I’m gonna hang out in Gotham for a bit; just call my name if you need me, bro.”

Oh, Tim would.

He paused as he watched a very familiar motorcycle tear down the street.

In fact, Tim was tempted to call for Kon right that very moment.

“Timothy!”

…But he would have to face the consequences of his actions first.

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#dcxdp #dpxdc #TWINcognito mode #tim and danny pretend to be twins au #phanfic

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sheepishvagabond-shinigamijack · 1 year

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(i’m supposed to be asleep rn but brainrot has me by the throat and you asked for more requests!!) how about light reacting to L being seriously injured? maybe something goes wrong during the episode where they fake matsuda’s death (just to get them out of the task force hq-it’s hard to imagine a life threatening accident happening there). car crash is the easy answer, but it could be anything-take this and run with if you want!

Chatted with Snap about this one for a while! They had the super cool idea to have something more 'magical' happen to Light when he regained his memories so I sort of envisioned this super concentrated rush of energy hitting Light and the helicopter, causing things to go haywire. I think this'll be a three part scene. This segment took me over three hours so far, but I'm super invested so I'll continue it another day!

My KO-FI

#Light Yagami #L Lawliet #Helicopter Crash #Death Note #Watari #Accidents #Sads #L cries #Light is fucked up

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heymeowmao · 1 year

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2023.03.08 - https://weibo.com/l/wblive/p/show/1022:2321324877116570206653

Happy holiday!!! (International Women’s Day)

BGM: Chong Zi OST - Heavenly Light (天光)

LYN: Today we’re on a new computer and I had to re-install everything, so if we face some technical difficulties please understand. This is a new computer... and... yeah. If it freezes or some other issues come up later please be magnanimous.

C: The video is so clear. LYN: Right? It’s a new computer. You know that no matter what I do I have to have the best equipment for it. I can’t just be satisfied with I have- I still need to upgrade my equipment and improve your viewing experience. I’m thinking about these things every day. if I’m going to do something then I want it to be exquisite. I was using my laptop to stream, but it’s been freezing for the past few streams. I doesn’t really matter if the video freezes, but sometimes even the beauty filters dropped. If I streamed and the video froze and the filter dropped, how much do you think that would hurt my market value? I don’t mind for everything else, but I couldn’t stand the filter dropping. So I decided there was a need to update my equipment. C: Ning-ge, this filter looks like it’s overcompensating. LYN: It’s not on! How can you say that about me. I don’t have a beauty filter on... just a little blur. So that I look decent. C: It’s kind of fuzzy. LYN: No way. C: It’s super hq. LYN: Right?? Someone even said, “Ning-ge, it looks like you’re going to crawl out of my computer.” The 3D effect is very perfect. C: The background is blurry though. LYN: That’s what we’re going for- the focus! I can’t with you- if I even try to upgrade a little bit, you all can’t stand it. You can’t take it if it’s too high quality??

C: It’s like I’m wearing VR glasses. LYN: No, it’s not THAT exaggerated. As long as you’re watching with a pleasant temperament and you’re comfortable, nothing else matters.

C: What should I say? LYN: There’s nothing that says you HAVE to make comments in my stream, but if you want to say something you can. As long as it’s not cursing or nonsense, it’s fine. Whatever you want besides is all good. LYN: Today’s a holiday, so I thought I would come stream. Since many of you are female, right? :) I could meet with you and... maybe this also counts as a holiday bonus. But it’s possible I could have disrupted your plans. If you’re going out or you’re busy, you can go about your business. I have time in any case, so I’m just going to stream and chat a little, nothing else.

C: Ning-ge, you’re dressed like a security guard. LYN: I look like a security guard?? /sigh/ Friend, I just want to point one thing out- (this is) Prada. You just don’t understand fashion, there’s no way we could have any discussion about it. I can’t talk about this too deeply with you- you don’t understand fashion. LYN: The other possibility here is that it could be a nice brand, but when it’s ON ME I make it look like security guard clothes. I just look like a security guard, is that it? Well, even if I WERE one, I’d want to be the head/leader. We have to strive for the best, no matter what job you’re doing. X’D

C: It’s so HQ you look like you’re photoshopped in. LYN: This is why you can’t have nice things. The video quality was just alright before and you found it comfortable. Today we’re a little higher in quality and you’re not used to it. It’s more focused to the background is blurred, and you can’t take it. /sigh/ C: You look like a cutout. LYN: Uhm.... LYN: I have a green screen. Right now I’m by the sea. Just to show that I am at home and earnestly streaming for you, I set-up a green screen. The bg is fake. I’m at a roadside bbq stand right now. I’m eating bbq by the sea. LYN: /pretends to talk to someone offscreen/ Hey, give me a skewer. You can grill it first, I’ll eat it later. I’ll eat it after I finish streaming. C: I can hear the sound of the waves. LYN: XD - /tries to play a track called “Waves (海浪)" but can’t figure out how to work his new computer/

C: Desktop computer? LYN: I was using this laptop before /points at it in the bg/, but it’s been unstable. I think after turning it on and connecting it and everything else the CPU “exploded”. So I decided to use the desktop since it would be more stable. It looks a little different from when I stream on my laptop but you’ll be fine when you get used to it. C: What does “CPU” mean? LYN: “CPU” is... the energy you use to process. Your brain has it too. Sometimes when you’re listening to someone talk and you can’t figure out what they are saying- at times like those your brain CPU is burning. It’s how you process- people and computers both have it. C: CEO. LYN: “CEO” is in a company. The president is usually called the CEO.

C: Ning-ge, I’m going to be in my third year of junior high soon. I feel so much pressure. LYN: Why do you feel pressure? Junior high... is ok, right? Then you take the high school entrance exam, so... do well. If you get into a good high school, you can get into a good college, but it’s really nothing to be too nervous about.

LYN: It’s International Women’s Day, so let me sing a song for all the women who are here. Is that ok? Are there very men- my brothers- in the stream now? Don’t mind it, alright? I’ll sing a song for all the women to celebrate the holiday. What should I sing...? How about... “山下的女人是老虎” (Women Are Tigers)? Is that good? Or... “三十岁的女人” (Thirty Year Old Women)? ~She’s a thirty year old women, who hasn’t married yet.~ No, that’s too much. What should I sing?? - /brainstorming/ LYN: 大女人 (Big Woman)? That will work.

LYN: /out of breath/ I’m dizzy. // I’d like to wish everyone a happy holiday. C: It feels like you just ran 1km. LYN: I’m sweating. This is tiring.

C: Ning-ge, your face today is so three dimensional. LYN: What are you saying? When you normally see my face are you just seeing a (flat) pancake? My face is a pancake? The kind you can roll a spring onion in and eat?? I have always been very three dimensional, okay? It has nothing to do with the beauty filters. I am naturally three dimensional. C: It’s mostly because of the background. LYN: The background is blurry so you feel like I stand out? /sigh/ Fine.

LYN: I keep seeing the song “烏梅子醬” (Dark Plum Sauce). You were telling me about it in my last stream, too. I’d never heard of it. But recently I’ve been scrolling through the micro-video platforms and I always hear this song. // There’s no accompaniment. Then, I can’t sing it for you sorry. I was planning on it. C: My mom wants to hear “愛情的故事“ (Love Story). LYN: Then play it for her. You don’t have a mobile phone or computer at home you can play it for her on?

C: Lao-da, the director said he had shot a very amazing scene- what is it? LYN: I don’t know either. I didn’t see it. An “amazing scene”? Every scene in this drama is amazing, I’m not sure which scene in particular you are referring to? There are so many things I have never done before. Every scene in this drama is like a challenge to me because I’d never shot something like this before. There are some things- like dying- you have previous experience for. Once you’ve died so many times, you learn how to act and can eventually just adjust accordingly for each situation. But the thing is you have to have some basis for it. With this drama I’m facing a lot of things I had never shot before. While shooting for this drama I am really starting to feel the impression that acting is an endless skill. - C: Ning-ge, your face is red. LYN: It’s because of the song I sang earlier. It has nothing to do with the drama situation. I just got a little too into it earlier, with “Big Woman”. What are you talking about- how could my face be red? The beauty filter is on so high, there’s no way you can tell that my face is red. That’s nonsense. - C: Is the bath water cold or not? LYN: It’s alright. Normally it’s- OH?? What bath water are you talking about? My house has a hot water heater- the water isn’t cold. - C: Ning-ge, your face really is so red. LYN: It’s not red! It’s because the filter is set to the normal color. Sometimes with my previous streams people would say that I was so white I looked dead. It was too bright, so I thought “Ok, forget it then” and brought some color back. Maybe if my face looks a bit redder I’ll look more lively and young. And if I look young, along with the blur filter, there could be the possibility that some school-setting scripts come to look for me. XD On the off chance that someone wants me to act as a junior high school-er or something.

LYN: I’m joking. But there really was a script before that asked me to play a college student, which I could not live up to either. “This role is that of a college student. We start of on a college campus. We follow him starting after he graduates from college and what comes after, but it starts off in the college setting.” I told them, “I’m not very suitable... I can’t even convince myself that I’m a college student.” C: It’s acting, though. LYN: I wouldn’t even be able to act that out. I just couldn’t get past this hurdle, in my mind. They were very nice about it though, and came back with, “Then, how about we make you a PhD student? It’s a few tiers after that of a college student- so then the role and the age of your face match up.” I replied, “There’s no need, thanks.” I just couldn’t get past it, myself. So it’d be a joke if I played as a junior high school student. C: You can play as someone who was held back. LYN: How low would this character’s IQ have to be in order to repeat enough years to match up with a face this old?? They repeated the sixth grade for 18 years??? They just never graduated elementary, and stayed there for 18 years. The school principal has even changed three times in that time! Even the homeroom teacher’s kid would be attending school. That’s not going to happen, I’m too old.

C: Ning-ge, you look 25 at most. LYN: You don’t need to be so polite. It’s your holiday today, don’t tell me nice things. Today I’ll tell YOU nice things. You don’t need to say anything nice to me.

C: What about time-traveling back to your school days? LYN: Time-traveling is okay... I know what you’re talking about- something like Goodbye Mr. Loser, right? He traversed back into his school days. I mean... if the actors around me are also around my age then that would be fine. But if I went back and all the students were played by actual 16-17 year olds and here I am at 30+, I wouldn’t be able to take it. LYN: The most romantic thing I can think of doing is buying a computer with you. When we’re old we can’t go anywhere. Then we’ll stay at home and play on the computer. (Altered lyrics to 最浪漫的事 (The Most Romantic Thing))

LYN: BYOL has let me know it’s time to start voice acting. But this drama was shot with original audio, so for the voice acting we’re only going in to supplement small parts. Parts where there was noise interference or a line of dialogue wasn’t said well or clearly- those parts will be voiced over. So in the next few weeks... if I wrap up early I’ll probably go to do the voice acting for BYOL. I was thinking of going today but I have to get into hair and makeup at 6a tomorrow morning... so I’d have to wake up at about 5:15a. I thought about it and decided not to go into the studio today and come back to stream instead. I won’t stream for too long though, because I have to wake up very early tomorrow. I have some scenes I still have to do homework for as well. I won’t stream too long. C: I hope one of your dramas airs soon. LYN: I’m not in a big rush. I feel more at ease when I have projects in stock. If they all air at the same time and I have nothing in stock I’ll feel uneasy. I’m not in a rush. To be honest- and this can come across as arrogant, but it’s just my state of mind- since I stream then even if my dramas don’t air, my fans still won’t forget me. My antis won’t forget me either. They will let me uninterruptedly appear in front of the public’s eyes, so that you can’t forget me. They all say artists need exposure, right? This is also a type of exposure.

LYN: I think the closest dramas to air would be ALZ and TXJ. I think it’s possible that these two dramas I participated in will air first. I don’t know about BYOL... and then it’s YNGS. I told you about how I wrapped a little early today- and I went to the editing room for YNGS. After I saw what was going on, I- let me think of how to say this... Ning Yuanzhou is a character I really like a lot. The love I have for this character is hard to put into words. This role is too abundant. Including all the other actors, the director, and crew- it’s a drama I really, really like. I think the role of Ning Yuanzhou is the best opportunity I met with at the perfect time. I was easily engrossed in the story and I really like the character a lot.

LYN: It seems like many of you mention sometimes, “Ning-ge, why do you never mention YNGS in your streams? Is it because you don’t like the drama?” No. I love YNGS so much, I’m crazy for it. I don’t want to mention or talk about it because in the process of filming for it I was looked down on by a lot of people. The so-called passersby or the people who said that they know me or don’t- didn’t think I deserved or was worthy of the role, and I can understand. I’m not worthy. You were right. But during the process I was ridiculed so much. Sometimes I couldn’t understand. But my mind runs a mile a minute and later I ended up thinking it through- it’s actually a good thing. LYN: No one is anticipating the role of Ning Yuanzhou or YNGS at all and that’s the best situation, to me. I really hope that all the people who thought I wasn’t good enough for the drama maintain that way of thinking. Because their expectation of me in that role is already extremely low. “LYN is ugly. LYN isn’t worthy.” LYN this and that- everything negative. Their expectation for me is already so low that it can’t get any lower. Very rarely are there roles that people have such low expectations for. The interest in this drama is high, but the interest in me is low- and I think that’s a good thing. Even if I have the slightest sliver of a highlight in this drama, it will light your eyes. If I give them the slightest bit of surprise, they will suddenly think that I actually have something worth watching for. Do you understand this logic? LYN: So that’s why I don’t want to mention or bring up YNGS- because I want them to maintain their low expectations. It’ll be at least a year until it’s able to air so I want them to keep their expectations for me low. When the drama airs I’m sure they’ll watch it- even the antis. At that time I hope I can give a small surprise. Ning Yuanzhou. 500+ scenes, almost 600. It’s the most abundant role I’ve acted in since I first became an actor. Everything I could have wanted, the crew gave to its utmost ability. This includes styling and wardrobe, and props. I am satisfied with everything. That drama... you can wait to see it. The reason why I’m saying this now is because I want to tell my fans- my own people- I have never disliked the drama YNGS. l I have never been disappointed in this drama. Just the opposite- I am full of affection for it. I really love the character of Ning Yuanzhou- you’ll know when you finally watch it.

LYN: I went to the editing room and saw about the first six or seven episodes? It’s a rough cut, though. Nothing is fixed. They’re just putting the general sequence of events together and will go through more thorough editing later. I was watching bits of the first few episodes. After I watched those clips I went home and laid on my bed- I couldn’t sleep. I was so tired, but I couldn’t fall asleep. I won’t say anything more. - C: You’re trending at #32 today. LYN: In the hot topics or the entertainment section? I don’t believe I have the qualifications to be trending. I’m not worthy. - C: Were you stunned by your own handsomeness (so you couldn’t sleep)? LYN: I wasn’t stunned by myself. I have a mirror! I know what I look like in the mornings- it’s not enough for me to be stunned by my own good looks. I’ll just tell you a small detail. When I was watching the clips, one of the producers were there, too. I’ll only share my own reaction, and you can analyze what it means on your own. I watched the first episode and I asked, “Could we not add the beauty filter so aggressively?” Because nowadays if a drama is too forward with it’s editing people are going to roast it, saying, “Look at this drama! They added so much filter the actor’s skin looks too good! So clean. So handsome. It’s too fake. It’s not realistic.” And they ended up telling me they didn’t do anything to the video. They only arranged the clips, and hadn’t touched up the coloring or done anything with the video. What I was seeing was just the result of what was filmed on site. I said, “Oh~ Is that so~? :D” C: So you WERE stunned by your own handsomeness. LYN: Honestly, I did give myself a bit of a surprise. LYN: How despicable. You caught me bluffing. XD In any case, I want to tell everyone that I really enjoy YNGS and the role of Ning Yuanzhou. Of course, even if you’re not my fan I hope you can also anticipate this drama, alright?

LYN: Eh? Where did- did the location change? For the laugh track... /working out the buttons/

C: Ning-ge, you don’t like Wei Shao (his character in Zhe Yao)? LYN: Tsk. What nonsense are you saying?! How could I not like the role? Don’t you dare spread this false rumor, because my director like to surf the internet. XD Director Deng Ke likes to surf the net, what if this gets around and he sees?? What the heck- what do you mean I don’t like Wei Shao. What nonsense. Later if they end up deleting my scenes I would have come here for nothing! LYN: ZY is really good! I like it a lot!! I had some choices, but chose ZY in the end precisely BECAUSE it was good. I remember when I saw the script- I was still shooting for the other drama- I was in hair and makeup. You have to find the time to look at scripts, still. So I was getting my makeup done and reading the script and after three episodes I was hooked. I started reading it like a novel. I think the ZY script was excellent. How can I not like it?? I’m shooting for it right now. It’s great. LYN: Wei Shao is a character I like a lot. It’s a role that is hard to grasp. To me as a rookie actor, this role is full of challenge. Very many challenges. A lot of the situations are testing my limits. It is certainly adding to my experience as an actor. C: Tell us about it. LYN: How about I tell you about one small detail? For example earlier, when I told you about playing out a death- how when you play it out often enough... you start to understand the basics of what goes into it and can play with each method of death. Like, if I know I will die by gunshot- usually they play out like this: /demonstrates getting shot/ and they open a wound here, and then you’re on the floor and dead. There’s a certain logic that you know you have to follow. But for this drama there are some situations where I find myself having to go online and find reference material for. I have to go learn. For example, I would search: “Most “XYZ” scene in a Korean drama that “XYZ”.” I need to search, to see how other people do it. There were a lot of things for this drama that I had to search for material for. I have to learn. Even though I have an acting coach, they still can’t teach me how to do THAT. C: Did you learn how? LYN: I- I’ll learn slowly. - /clears his throat/ LYN: There’s growth with every drama. LYN: Let me drink some water. Cheers.

C: Ning-ge, don’t be corrupted by bad examples. LYN: /laughs/ Where is this coming from? Friend- are you naive, or do you think that /I/ am naive?? How could I be corrupted? I’m THIRTY+ YEARS OLD. I’m not some 17-18 year old momma’s boy who just debuted and are just entering into society. I’m not- I’m already 30+ years old. How could I learn anything and be corrupted by it? XD LYN: I just said I couldn’t even pass for a college student and now you’re telling me not to be corrupted... C: Right! Ning-ge, you’re a 300+ month old child.

C: Lao-da, do you still remember The Truth? LYN: ? I didn’t know I had the ability to erase that memory from my mind. I said that everyone’s brains had CPU- did you think that was true and I could accidentally delete what I stored there?? Of course I remember. On top of that, the actors I see every day were the guests on it. How could I forget it? But, what are you trying to get at?

C: What about Luo Mingxi (ALZ)? LYN: Are you pretending to be reporters, and you want to interview me now? You’re testing if I have what it takes as an actor, to have something to say in response to your interview questions? LYN: I really like the role of Luo Mingxi. It’s amazing. // Actually the role was alright. I had fewer scenes, is all. Also it’s been almost two years- I shot if about a year and a half ago, right? After Luo Mingxi I filmed a bunch of dramas already... I really like the role, and had about 300 or so scenes. I saw a bit when I was voice-acting, and although I was only seeing my own parts, I think... I just hope that the viewers don’t curse me out for being ugly. They’re not there to see me, though. They just want to see the male and female leads. I’m just there for the fun of it. LYN: There’s an interesting facet to Luo Mingxi, though. When I went in to do the voice acting for the role... even though while shooting the drama we don’t shoot scenes in sequential order, for voice acting usually we start from episode one. When I was done one of those days, there were still five or six episodes left and they were in a rush to have me complete my part. I don’t know what happened- but it just so happened that I had a sore throat in the days following. I still had five episode’s worth of lines to read. But my voice was hoarse, so how could I do the voice acting?? Not like this- /speaks in a pinched voice/ it wasn’t hoarse like this. If I could control my breathing I could still give it the lightness it needed. My voice was hoarse for five or six days, but I still went to try if I could do the voice acting. They were in a rush, so I would try. If I couldn’t do it, then we would put it off. I did two episodes’ worth and found out... it was the exact feel we were going for! LYN: I’m not trying to praise myself in saying that. I just thought that my sound plus the character really suited each other and I was wondering why. It was because in the later episodes Luo Mingxi was quite ill. He was sick and would cough at any time! /says a line/ It was really fitting!! It seemed like things happened at the right time and place. After I finished the voice acting I was so hyped up about it. It was too well suited! In the later episodes he’s quite ill and coughs a lot- his lungs are in bad shape- and it was just really quite coincidental! It’s the fortune found in misfortune. My voice was hoarse but it ended up being a good thing! LYN: When I voice act, it comes out bright and with strength. I don’t like to make myself sound too breathy, because people online are always complaining that actors sound weak. So in the earlier episodes for Luo Mingxi, I pretty much treated it as if I were voice acting for Zhang Fei (ancient Chinese warrior). Like a general in the Three Kingdoms. /demonstrates/ Because I was afraid of people saying that my lines were weak so I aim for Zhang Fei every time I am voice acting. XD /demonstrates again & laughs at himself/ /again/ They’re all like this, so it sounds cool. But in the end my voice was hoarse. Zhang Fei is also always half-yelling, right? But by the end it was okay for Luo Mingxi to sound hoarse because he’d already been shouting for 36 episodes. That just goes to show he was man enough.

C: Ning-ge, I thought you said LMX was a sick & crazy? We were looking forward to it! LYN: Let me clarify- he’s not sick & crazy, he’s sick & weak. He still has a wild heart but his body is weak. Sick & Crazy is different- like Bai Choufei. LMX is not a bad guy, and hasn’t done any bad things. I know that people are more sympathetic to the “sick & crazy” kind of character, so the kind I interpreted was sick, mentally. C: How is the mental sickness expressed? LYN: When he says things he’s kind of rude and impetuous. No matter what he says, it’s like this. A mental illness, but not an illness that borders focuses jealousy/obsession. Just.. mentally ill. [t/n: I confused myself, srry. >.>]

C: Ning-ge, you’re dissing LMX? LYN: There’s no way. I really like the role. LYN: Let me put it like this- a lot of people ask me if I like a role or not. I wouldn’t accept the role if I didn’t like it. I like every role I’ve accepted. If I don’t like the role I could have rejected the script and held a concert instead. I could hold my concert, or go on a variety show. There are many ways I could survive without a drama role. It’s because I like the role, the script, and the production team that I choose to take on the project. I only accept the project when I really like the role to begin with.

C: Talk about Jiang Junhao (BYOL). LYN: Jiang Junhao... there’s not much to say. It’s not because I don’t understand the character, but because I’ve asked director before, “How should I play this role?” Before I entered the crew I saw the script and knew the general summary of events, but you still need to discuss with the director what their expectations of the character are. The director just told me, “Be how you are when you’re streaming.” I said, “That’s not good, right? That would be too simple.” When I’m streaming I’m plain as day. I was thinking, “Shouldn’t I create some trouble for myself? Are there any psychotic tendencies I need to add to the character?” The director replied, “No. Just be how you are when you stream. Chatty and humorous. Your profession is as a blogger. But the caveat is you had to have learned how to be a cook.” I was thinking... other than me I don’t think there’s anyone in this industry that could replace me for this role. I don’t know about anything else, but there’s no one else in this industry who could replace me for the role of Jiang Junhao. I fit the character so well. He’s a blogger/streamer, he’s a cook- on these two alone It’s right up my alley. I’ve been doing these two things for 30+ years. (?) I went to culinary school for two years to learn how to be a cook. I was a cook for three. I’ve been streaming for 10+ years. I fit the bill. LYN: When you watch Jiang Junhao it’s possible you could see me as when I’m streaming. Because it is. But now people are probably wondering, “Isn’t acting as Jiang Junhao basically acting as yourself? Then you don’t understand the character at all.” Actually, that’s not the case. Even the me that you see when I’m streaming, is not the real me. /giggles evilly/ LYN: BYOL was something I filmed happily. Tao-jie was so good to me, she’d lead me around everywhere. XD When I’m shooting a drama usually I will take it quite seriously- not because I’m being professional- I just put a lot of importance on each and every scene. I’m not very good at affectionate/emotional scenes- I’m not good at acting all flirty. But that drama needed me to be able to handle it well, so Tao-jie helped me a lot in that aspect. When we first started shooting she thought I was too nervous couldn’t relax. She can tell, since she is my senior after all. I WAS nervous when working with her. But she- for example in the next scene we would have to have a confrontation. She’d tell her group, “Look carefully. Watch how I’ll lead him.” She’ll lead me and make it fun, so that the scene is completed successfully and with feeling. It was really fun to do my scenes with her. She’s very enthusiastic, very nice. /amused at the fact she was telling her group to watch how she handles him/

C: ZY is made up completely of emotional (affectionate/sentimental) scenes. LYN: Em... yeah. I said I wasn’t good at it, not that I couldn’t do it. I mean... the only reason I was able to make a little name for myself is exactly because of my emotional scenes, isn’t it? I just have trouble letting go- I’m a pretty shy person. Weren’t some of you afraid that I would learn bad things?? It was just a little.. out of my expectations. So when I first started doing emotional scenes I will be shy. C: Are you shy in ZY? LYN: How could I not be?? Just because you see me being chatty in my streams and assume that I am open to everything. I’m actually just a shy boy. When I’m facing her (SZE) every day I will feel shy, too. Well, it’s not a matter of being SHY per se- just that if you’re going to be doing affectionate scenes with someone everyday and you don’t even feel an ounce of shyness/shame then... there’s something not quite right there. If I wasn’t shy at all then the other actor will be thinking there’s something wrong with me! “You’re so cool with this. It’s not affecting you at all?” That’s not right. You still have to respect the actress. Work is work.

C: What about Zhuo Bufan (TXJ)? LYN: Zhuo Bufan... I really like. XD Zhuo Bufan... it’s like this. Since there are many people who probably aren’t my fans watching this stream- /changes the subject/ Let me see if I’m still trending. There should be people who are just passing through and have entered my stream to check it out. Zhuo Bufan is the name of a role I acted in Tian Xing Jian (aka Heroes (but a different one than SYXSSYX)). I play as a swordsman, but the setting is... the early Republic of China. At that time there are already the typical “normal” hairstyles and the more historical Qing dynasty style. I play a Miao swordsman- from around Sichuan. The character’s setting is that all he wanted in life was to be the best swordsman and to establish his sect. It’s called the Rong Tian Sword Sect. But these were turbulent times- at the beginning of the Republic of China- and firearms were already introduced to the country. He’s still striving to be the best swordsman in the world and right when that happens- there are guns. Someone who has no fighting skills at all can just grab a gun and take out a whole bunch of martial artists. It’s a frustrating time, for him. But the character is set in his ways- he’s only wanted this one thing all his life. The story is good and the filming is realistic. The one thing is Sichuan gets pretty hot... and there was no such thing as ‘sunscreen’ in the early Republic. People back then didn’t care about your visuals. There was no one back then going online to call other people ugly. Zhuo Bufan didn’t have to worry about walking the red carpet and getting caught on camera without makeup. He’s never had that pressure, so he doesn’t have sunscreen and as a result he’s quite tanned. LYN: For the drama they could only apply foundation no.13 on me. I bet many of you have never heard of it. My fans have, but everyone else here might not. Foundation in shade no.13 is... quite hard to find in China. No one here really uses it. It’s typically sold in places where there are larger populations of people with a darker complexion. It’s difficult to find in China because no one needs the shade. Anyone who is applying foundation is not going to make themselves darker- don’t you use it to brighten your natural skin color? So they put No.13 on me, and that’s fine, but the problem is that I am quite pale to begin with. Most of you are girls, so you know that makeup will smudge. After they applied it all over, as we filmed the makeup would smudge/melt. Some parts had the foundation and some parts didn’t, after a while. Normally it goes away the fastest for me around here- /points to around his mouth/ and my eyes. Do you know the gingerbread man? Let’s look it up together. This is a gingerbread man.

LYN: This counts as cute, even! Let me see if there’s a better picture that describes how I looked... Definitely not this one, though. This is... a frog man.

LYN: Oh, this one. This is really similar. Eyebrows like Crayon Shin-chan and face like a gingerbread man.

LYN: After a week of shooting for this drama I had already given up on my looks for it. I used to tell the makeup artist, “[drops a whole beauty routine to make his eyes look bigger (including shadow, eyeliner, as well as curling the eyelashes) and face look smaller (shading on the jawline)].” That’s the speech I usually use when facing a makeup artist. After a week in the TXJ crew I gave up on all that. I didn’t say anything- I shut up. I just go in to the makeup room and told them they could start. When they were done I would look at myself in the mirror- “Yeah, that’s dark enough.”- and then leave for the set. LYN: After a week I gave up. For this drama, I didn’t need to be too picky about visuals. All I needed was to do what it took to fulfill the expectations of the role. With makeup the reason why you put on a light base and make the eyes dark is for the contrast. But when my whole face is dark, what color of eye makeup should I use?? If I’d still applied eyeshadow I’d be a panda. You wouldn’t be able to see it at all. So I pretty much didn’t have any (aesthetic) makeup on, and after that much foundation my face was pretty much flat anyway. So I gave up.

LYN: But, I never considered TXJ as a drama you should be watching for visuals. I know what style it is, and I accepted it. But how funny is it... that when I was shooting for YNGS I was being called ugly? They released so many bad picture of me online, where my expression is pretty much like this: /makes all sorts of unflattering facial expressions/ There were so many of them like this and when I saw them I thought to myself, “OMG- aren’t these pictures pretty much what ZBF looked like?? This pictures look a lot like ZBF!” Even if I thought that the role was a bit dark (in skin color), I never thought it was a problem. Up until the point I was shooting for YNGS and all the ugly pictures came out- then I realized it /was/ a problem. Why? Because the moment when TXJ finally airs it will prove that those so-called “ugly” photos are not ugly at all. Those photos just show that’s what I look like normally! I look exactly the same in the drama! When TXJ airs it will prove that no one was trying to take ugly pictures of me on purpose and with ill-intent, nor were they photoshopped to look so bad. It’s just what I look like! That’s the biggest pressure ZBF has given me. It’s just going to prove that the so-called “blackmail” against me is just the honest reality! LYN: I really like ZBF the character and the drama itself. When I was voice-acting for it and saw myself in the clips I realized it’s something I really wanted and needed to film. It’s not a drama you see a lot of. It’s quite unique. It’s the stepping stone into my future in that style of drama. I really like ZBF and the drama, but... I don’t really want it to air too soon. I need a different drama- one in which I look halfway decent in- to push it back a little. BYOL or ALZ could air first- just to shift TXJ far back enough that people won’t associate the ugly photos of me directly to this drama. So people can see me looking good in other dramas first, and they will think, “LYN doesn’t look like in the photos. He actually looks pretty decent.” Then when TXJ airs after them, it won’t make a difference because my image in those previous dramas has already created a good base for me. When they see the foundation no.13 they will think I needed to be dark, for the role. I was on the chubbier side on purpose. “He’s doing it for the role.” Now it has a different interpretation! So that’s I hope a different drama can air first.

- /segues into song with no further comment/ -- Be Earnest While You’re Young (意气趁年少) - /cuts off halfway/ LYN: I thought I was playing the song, but it ended up being the accompaniment so I just decided to sing a few lines.

LYN: ! Oh, no. I suddenly thought of something. I just changed my computer, so all the videos I had downloaded before are gone. I forgot to copy them over. My neighbors are fighting but I have no way of saving them, now. What should I do? Let me play you an MV, then. I can only play an MV- for a song- but none of those funny fan-made clips. C: Make the female celebrity stand-in. LYN: Don’t even mention her to me. I “fainted” today and she didn’t even try to save me. She made me lose face in front of the public. The thankless wretch... and I still have to give her a sausage everyday... LYN: Hold on, let me just play the MV. /adjusting/ Ok. Watch the MV. I’ll use the restroom.

-- Break #1

C: Ge, you have to sing a few more OSTs for ZY. LYN: One is enough. For my own dramas I sing at least one, most of the time. // I think I’m singing two for YNGS, though. :)

C: This music is too loud. LYN: It’s too much? Then I’ll ply a song by LYN for you. (LYn - My Destiny)

C: Talk about Hei Yanjing. LYN: Hei Yanjing was a really early drama. The thing I regret about that role is that we had someone come do voice acting for it, it’s not my original voice. But of course, I am very thankful to that laoshi (Liu Sicen/刘思岑). Because at that time I really didn’t know how to act, and I still don’t. It was only my second drama role, so pretty early for me. I wasn’t mature enough in many ways. So I’m very thankful to that voice actor, because he really helped to complete that character. I think that the voice actor played a huge part in Hei Yanjing gaining so much love. Thank you. C: I always thought that was your voice. LYN: That’s why- he really understood the character, to be able to voice act for it. /reciting lines/ Of course, he’s always going to be more professional than I am. - /reciting more lines- “Do you know why they call me “Black Blindman”, and not just “Blindman”? It’s because I have an ability other people don’t know about.” “What is it?” “I can take away your eyes. :)” C: You remember the lines! LYN: There aren’t that many! I had considerably less screen-time in that drama (compared to others). But I had fun shooting for that drama, too. Because I didn’t have to keep touching up my makeup. Like I was saying earlier, “This is how I’d like for the eye makeup to be...” etc. etc. I was wearing the shades most of the time, so I’d get into the makeup room and they’d put some foundation on me and I’d be done! :D Once the shades are on there’s no one who doesn’t love me and I’m out the door. LYN: The makeup for that was pretty dark, too. I remember there was one scene I took off my jacket and started swatting the bugs away- my arms were so white they looked like tube lights.

C: Wei Chengfeng. LYN: That was my first drama role and I acted very average, quite bad. It was my very first drama debut and it was with HZT. And you still say I have resources? “LYN- you were partnered with HZT on your debut drama. What can you say to prove you don’t have resources? There MUST be someone backing you.” My old fans all know how I got that part. The new fans might not, but you can go look it up online. I had fun shooting that drama, and I got to know a lot of good friends, even though I may not communicate with them very often. It was a great drama. But I really didn’t know how to act for that one; I couldn’t even speak Standard Mandarin properly. LYN: In order for an actor to show their potential and what they can do, depends a lot on the director. There’s another thing in this industry- it’s called “30% acting, 70% editing”. I don’t know if you’ve heard that before? It means that 30% of the drama depends on the acting, and 70% depends on the editing. I think the editing really helped me a lot, so that’s why you think the character is decent. It’s not something that cannot be said, because it’s the same for singers. There are many singers who might not quite sing on tune, but there’s always editing and they can fix the sound. It’s a normal working process. Just like planting strawberries. At the very start you didn’t have strawberries that are as big as they are now- they started off very small. After years of selective development, that’s why you can see the big strawberries you do. Each industry is the same and technology/development just helps us to improve.

C: Ning-ge, did you get a signed autograph from SZE yet? LYN: Oh, right. A couple of streams ago I told you that after a month of working with Zu’er I would introduce myself to her as also having participated in this drama, and ask her for her autograph... I was chatting with the director the other day and calculated that today would be the 36th day since filming started. Let me think... 36 days is more than a month.. so tomorrow, friends, I promise. I have a full day of filming with Zu’er tomorrow. When I get on set I’ll tell her what’s up. I will unresolved tell her, “Hello. My name is Liu Yuning. We are participating in the same drama. Here my name is Wei Shao. But, in my eyes you are a celebrity. Could you write me an autograph? I’ve already had my assistants prepare the photo. Could you just write, “To: Liu Yuning. Let’s hit it big time! (大红大紫)” and then add your signature? Is that okay? Then, I won’t leave this drama with any regrets.” LYN: Friends, I’ll do what I say. I’ll ask her tomorrow on set. If I am successful, I will post on weibo to brag about it. “See, I have a celebrity’s autograph. But you don’t.” XD Also, it’s personalized~ But of course, I don’t know if her studio allows their artists to give autographs out to nobodies. I don’t know. We’ll find out tomorrow and as for the result you can check my weibo. Or maybe the next time we meet I could tell you if I was chased away by her staff or was escorted out by drama security. There’s no saying which way it will go. Either way, I’ll ask her tomorrow and see how she reacts.

C: Why don’t you want Daimi’s autograph? LYN: The actress Daimi has a poor (human) personality. She watched her manager faint and didn’t even try to save him. If she makes the big leagues one day, that video will become material to use against her. An ungrateful artist. C: She has a poor character (人品 -> 狗品). LYN: Her breed (品种) is pretty decent, though. [t/n: Chinese puns] - /starts singing because he said Daimi was “cold-hearted” and it reminded him of a song/ C: You even kicked her bowl. LYN: She doesn’t drink from it. She’s spoiled. /thinks about it and laughs/ Yes. I kicked her bowl. She didn’t even try to save her manager, so I’m going to smash her food bowl (literally). She doesn’t get to eat. If she doesn’t even care about her manager, then I’m going to smash it to pieces.

LYN: Anyway, I’ll try to ask for SZE’s autograph tomorrow, and you can see if my efforts will pay off. First, I’ll ask for her autograph. Next, I’ll sell it. I’ll put it on the market and cruelly make a killing off of her. C: Raffle it. LYN: Why should I? There’s no way. C: If you put it like that, she’s not going to sign it for you. LYN: That’s possible.

C: Bai Choufei. LYN: BCF.. actually, I’ve talked about him quite a lot. I think... towards this character... how should I put it? I can’t say I put a lot into it, because I really didn’t. I just think that as for this character, I was particularly engrossed in it. A lot of the things I did weren’t rational. This is a drama and role that I will never forget. I’ll never forget it. It almost... honestly it almost made me give up on acting. [t/n: the water scene?] C: It wasn’t that bad was it? LYN: I don’t know- there’s nothing much to say about it. I can’t get too far into detail about it anyway. I really loved the role and I don’t think I will meet another like him. It really was an excellent role, and I don’t think I’ll find another like it. Of course, I have been introduced to good scripts and good roles. At the time, I thought I wouldn’t find anything else like him. But then, YNGS came. It was different kind of good. Later I got the role of Wei Shao and I thought, “Oh? This is also okay.” It’s also another different kind of good.

LYN: After this experience I came to know that there is no ending point in life. As long as you keep moving forward, it doesn’t matter in what direction, it’s all forward. As long as you keep going- left or right- it’s still forward. Everything you face on this path could be even better than the thing that came before it or can replace what you had originally thought was the highlight of your life. LYN: After I finish filming for every drama I will have different thoughts about it. After Hot-Blooded Youth I didn’t think I would continue to be an actor. Not because I wasn’t passionate about it or because I didn’t like it, but because I didn’t think I would get another chance. It didn’t air very well, honestly. Then after Ultimate Note, I still didn’t think I could be an actor. I just thought I could be a person who acts. I could be in dramas. It was after The Long Ballad that I told myself, “I want to be an actor.” After that drama I really wanted to focus on being an actor, and I thought of it as my profession. After Heroes I set myself a goal, which was to be an outstanding actor. I haven’t reached that goal yet, but I want to be an outstanding actor, good actor, a (f*cking) awesome actor. [t/n: he almost said “牛逼” but caught himself on the “牛” X’D]. That’s what BCF has brought to me- a direction to continue in.

LYN: I didn’t used to understand when people would say that actors became invested/engrossed in the role. That’s just because I didn’t know the difference between being invested and not. I didn’t graduate from a class and I never officially learned acting. When I was doing The Long Ballad (CGX) I didn’t have any technique- I relied on my feelings alone. How could I know any techniques, back then? Acting is separated into two kinds: technique and feelings. There’s no way of saying is which is right and which is wrong, because they’re both good. There are some very good actors who rely on technique alone, and others still who rely on feeling alone. So there IS no right or wrong. But at the time I didn’t know any technique so I can only rely on my feelings. LYN: Later when I was acting as BCF I had already learn how to do a bit of both. Thinking back on it now, it’s a role that I invested myself in pretty deeply. I was almost mad with it. When I was acting I didn’t think that I was still LYN. Sometimes you lose your sense of rationality. I didn’t used to understand but after that drama I did- there are times when you think that you are not yourself. It’s a strange and rare feeling. LYN: I have a lot of feelings for the role of BCF. I’m not talking about what I sacrificed for the role or how much effort I put into it- that’s not what I mean. I just mean that I gave him a lot of my feelings. At the time I thought it was a really excellent role. I don’t dare say that I acted well, but I was so into the character I couldn’t be more absorbed. Then later when it aired, I was cursed at. When it aired people all said the drama wasn’t good, and it was ridiculed, and this and that. I started talking about acting precisely because of this drama, and the role, and certain events surrounding it. I’m not able to control myself when talking about this drama because I think really highly of that role. I didn’t want or expect for the character to be popular, and it’s not as if I would be unable to accept it if people didn’t like it. In my eyes I had put a lot of heart into the character so in light of all the negative reviews about it, I couldn’t accept it- or rather, it was difficult for me to bear. LYN: That’s why sometimes when people bring up the character of BCF and say that they don’t like or understand him, I will lost control over myself. Thinking back on it, it’s just hard for me to hear. It has nothing to do with the fact that the drama wasn’t popular. That is... when you put a lot of effort into something- much more than you had ever given something before- and then find out that people have negative views of it or can just easily brush it away... it’s difficult to bear.

LYN: I still remember that right when the drama was ending- it was almost to the finale- it ended up on the hot search. The topic- you all know it- was “Say Lunatic, Who Is a Lunatic” and they used the clip where I was fighting with Su Mengzhen. It ended up trending at #2. I’m not hot and I don’t have any popularity so being part of a trending topic is difficult for me. Of course, it’s not as if I’ve never been trending before- it’s all superficial. Something like, “Singer Fails to Kick a Bowl” or “Internet Famous Singer Liu Yuning Fails to Kick a Bowl”. But for something with actual substance is difficult to get trending. LYN: I saw the comments- because my group will send it to me, to let me know. They told me this topic was trending and wanted me to check it out, because it was about me. I used my staff’s phone to look at the comments, to see what they were saying. About 70% of the comments were praising me! They were saying, “LYN can act like this? I don’t believe this is him. He’s not bad!” In that moment... I cried. Not sobbing and wailing, but I just had an indescribable feeling in my heart. One of the Long Ballad producer jiejie-s also sent it to me, telling me, “Look. You’re trending!” and I thought it was a perfect end for my experience with the character. Because this drama really made me too sullen. I myself felt that way. It had nothing to do with what the public, internet, or comments thought of me. That’s why I like to thank Orange Entertainment (橘子娱乐), because they were the ones who made the topic. It was a perfect ending for the role. That’s why I don’t like to talk about BCF too in depth- I could leave it on that high note. LYN: Everything added together had me feeling sullen, I don’t know why. But even now, there are some fans of Su Mengzhen who come to curse me out. Which goes to prove that even though I said I was engrossed in the role, there are people who are much more into it than I ever was. There are still people now who can’t let it go. But the funny thing is that Chen Chuhe and I have a very good relationship! We had a meal and I even took my clothes and bracelet off to give them to him. Based on that, how good do you think our relationship is?? We’re such good friends we can wear the same clothes! And yet there are still fans of SMZ out here cursing me. They’re not hating on BCF, either. They hate LYN.

C: Have you seen the source material for Zhe Yao? LYN: What are you trying to get at? If there was an actor who is in a drama based off of an original piece of work, and the actor says they did not look into the source material, would you think this actor does not respect his work? You wouldn’t, right? Probably not? It’s unlikely, right? Even if I did see the source material, I wouldn’t tell you. You- I’ll just say I never saw it. LYN: I’m not trying to compliment myself, I just want to share- but I will easily find methods to help me solve problems. This drama for example, or any of the others roles I have played that have source material, whether that’s a manhwa or novel adaptation. Other actors probably also use these methods that you may or may not know about, but it’s always good to learn. When I play a new character, I might not have a lot of time to get to know the source material. So instead I will go online and look up analyses/judgement made about the character by fans of the book. I want to understand how they see him. Secondly, I want to know what attracts them to the character, or what part made them like him. If I know what attracted these readers to the character in the first place, I will remember that facet of the character. If there’s a single thing that all readers can agree attracted them to the character, then it’s my job to make sure that this thing is well-executed in the drama. LYN: For example, even though he’s a skilled martial artist, he never once raised his hand to his Lady. Then I have to remember I can never raise my hand to her in the drama. Even if I lightly push her, then that’s still a problem. It’s just the logic of it- I want to know the readers’ understanding of the character and why they like him. Like how even though Wei Shao is callous and rough out in public, but actually he’s afraid of his wife. He might be tall and mighty at 1.9m, but in front of this small girl he’s scared and helpless. If this is something that attracted the readers, then I have to remember it and make sure the drama doesn’t lose it. LYN: I don’t have a lot of time to look at the source material, but I will find time to understand what the people who have seen it like about it. I’ve done this for each of my character so far. I find myself on some old platforms, reading forums on the character. SYXSSYX was released quite a while ago, so I found myself on old forums reading about the readers’ opinion of him. “I wanted to be proud and stand alone in the world, but why did I have to bear the humiliation of hiding in the mud?” That is the opinion many have of him. LYN: Sometimes when I haven’t seen the whole script- or even if I have- and formed my own understanding of the role, I will still go out to find out the general public’s opinion of the character as well. Because I will never understand the role as a true artist would, or even as someone who has read the source material over and over would. I can never be as accurate, as advanced, or as in-depth. So I will use these methods to help me make the character more complete.

C: Does Wei Shao love Xiao Qiao? LYN: This is obviously a test. If I said “He does” or “He doesn’t”, neither would be the correct answer. But as to whether he really does love her or not, let’s all find out when the drama airs. You have to buy a VIP membership and support the drama. Alright? Thank you. LYN: It looks like a simple question, but it can very easily be a trap. “Does Wei Shao love Xiao Qi”? First off- they’re the male and female leads. If the ml DOESN’T love the fl, how could it be considered a young adult novel? So you can only say he does. But that’s not right either. It’s not that simple, because their families are enemies. Let’s not forget that. If you say they love each other, that’s also strange. So how can I answer this question...? I will, but it won’t be right now. I’ll answer it when a reporter is interviewing me. As for whether he loves her or not, I hope everyone can find the answer in the drama.

C: Ning-ge, do you end up having kids in this drama? LYN: I cannot reveal that information. If you can’t wait, then you can go read the novel first. The drama does have some changes, after all. If you film it exactly as it is in the novel, then that’s overstepping our bounds. So whether they have kids or not... is not something I can reveal. Even if I say that everything we shot is supported by the novel, I still can’t tell you the details. But what I can tell you is, “In ancient times there was a spiritual beast. Its name was FeiFei, and looked like a fox and had a big white tail.” So.. why don’t we call Wei Shao’s child “FeiFei”? I’ve heard that anyone who took care of the beast would live carefree. I want WS’s kid to be named FeiFei so that his wife and child can both life without worries. LYN: That’s from the original novel. C: Wasn’t it “Meng-zi”? LYN: That was my name. If I had a daughter I would name her “Meng-zi”... or maybe “Zhang Fei”.

LYN: What time is it, let me check. It’s already 11p. It’s... about time, then. We’ll see. I’ll stream a little longer. I still have to remove my makeup and go over tomorrow’s scenes. I need to be in to hair and makeup at 6a tomorrow... so I have to get up at 5a. Wash my face, shave my beard, apply a face mask, drive to set... It’ll be around a little past 6 by then. I’ll get up at 5a tomorrow.

C: Ning-ge, why would your daughter’s surname be “Zhang”? LYN: What, her nickname can’t be Zhang Fei?? Her surname would be “Liu” but her nickname would be “Zhang Fei”. Is that not okay?? C: Call her Liu Zhang Fei. LYN: I said it’s her nickname, those don’t come with surnames attached. Then, why don’t I just call her “Liu Guan Zhang”? That’s all three from the Oath of the Peach Garden (Liu Bei - Guan Yu - Zhang Fei) and would make my daughter sound fierce, wouldn’t it? “Liu Zhang Fei”- then what, Guan Yu isn’t worthy of being included?? I might as well just call her “Liu Guan Zhang”, in that case. C: /suggesting names/ Lu Zhishen / Liu Wusong. LYN: I hope when you have kids, you name them that. All the suggestions you are giving me, I hope you take into consideration for your own children as well.

C: Have you set your next drama yet? LYN: I haven’t. I don’t have any work to do. I don’t have that much work, and how could I? Do you think the industry owes me? I don’t have anything lined up. I’ll just focus on the drama at hand first and everything will be fine. We’ll think about the next drama when it comes time to do that. C: You still haven’t accepted one yet? LYN: Are you getting angry on my behalf? That’s nice- you must be a career-fan and are just worried that I don’t have a job. It’s only been a month since I entered this crew and hearing that I don’t have my next project lined up makes you anxious for me, is that it? LYN: Thank you for worrying about my career, but I hope you can have the same expectations for yourself. You want me to become someone with a professional mindset and I am working hard to do that; at the same time I hope you can have the same mindset in your life. We will improve together, alright? I hope you all do well. At this time I’ll wish all the female friends watching a “Happy Holiday!”

C: You’re preparing to end the stream? LYN: No way. Let’s set a time- 11:30p. I’ll stop streaming at 11:30p and save half an hour for washing up, reviewing the script, and then sleep.

LYN: The reason I decided to stream today was because it’s March 8th and a lot of women are celebrating the holiday. I had two choices today- 1) voice act for BYOL, and 2) stream. I chose to come stream.

C: Sing a few more songs. LYN: This is my song-fan, isn’t it? I have to get up early tomorrow, so I won’t sing. In case I’m in a bad condition tomorrow. I might sing one or two in the spur of the moment, but don’t keep making me sing. I still have work tomorrow. :(

C: Ning-ge, you’re trending. LYN: ... I don’t believe it.

C: What do you mean by “streaming regularly”? LYN: I mean what I say- regularly. I’m already doing much better than I was for the previous drama, right? As long as I can I definitely will stream, because I like to stream. But there are times when we wrap for the day- like the other day, when I went to sing the OST for Wonderland of Love because I had done a cameo in it. I went to finish the voice acting for those scenes as well. When I wrap for the day I still have other work to do. Please don’t forget that I am a singer. I have a whole bunch of OSTs that I still haven’t recorded yet. Thankfully some of them they are not in a rush for so I can bide my time. I can wait for a day when I wrap early and am in a good condition to sing. I don’t want to record an OST when I know that my condition isn’t good enough. If I want to do something, then I have to be responsible for it. LYN: Even though I wrap early... I’ve found that some people/things aren’t ideal. Like how on some apps I can find my filming schedule- when I start and when I end- as clear as day. What are you doing? Monitoring me?? It’s not a problem, I just don’t find it an ideal situation. I don’t mind but I also don’t quite feel comfortable with you knowing what I’m doing at every minute. It feels like I’m being monitored. I’m uncomfortable especially because it’s a kind of monitoring that I can’t even report to the police. So try not to do that. LYN: Another thing is that when I wrap early- for example at 6:30p- a lot of people will start to fantasize. “Ning-ge wrapped at 6:30p today. Then.. doesn’t that mean there’s a possibility he will stream tonight~~? :D Alright. Then I will prepare the duck neck, duck tongue, duck intestines, and duck feet and wait for him to come stream.” Then after they prepare all that, I don’t end up streaming. “It’s alright. He’s probably busy. I will eat all the snacks.” Then the next say I wrap at 7p and the whole thing starts again. “Will Ning-ge stream TODAY? The news is that he wrapped at 7p. That’s okay, because he’s streamed at 10p before. Let me prepare all the snacks~!” And I don’t stream again. Once or twice is okay. But after the fifth or sixth time they will start thinking, “LYN, what’s wrong with you?? I anticipate your streams every day, but you never come. Where the heck did you go?? You wrap so early every day. Didn’t you say you like to spoil your fans??? Didn’t you say you would stream more regularly? Didn’t you say you could never leave your fans and are so thankful to them? Then, why aren’t you streaming??? Didn’t you know that because you aren’t streaming, I’ve gotten fat?!” They look in the mirror and see they’ve gotten fatter and blame me for it all. It’s all a possibility, friends. That’s why this is so complicated. LYN: I just want to explain- I don’t really have my own life anymore right now. I don’t have a life. After acting work, I have other work to do. There’s voice acting- because I figure if I’m going to act I want to do the voice acting for myself as well, to make the character more my own. So I could only take 2-3 hours out of the day for voice acting. It’s not as if I could take a whole week to finish off the voice acting for the whole drama. I have to do it in segments, two hours here and there for two-five episodes at a time. I also have OSTs. Other than acting, I have other work and if I’m particularly tired that day and I’m not suited for voice acting or singing the OST, I will come back to stream instead.

LYN: Sometimes there’s a group meal, and I’ll go to eat. It’s a business meal, and we’ll use it to communicate among actors and director(s). It’s also a nice way to relax, because we’ve been working all day. It’s nice to take a night to have a meal, chat, and relax. It’s a necessary process for us to continue filming amicably. So sometimes when we wrap early we’ll all go out to eat. We’ll get to know each other so filming can go smoothly. It’s a normal process and it’s not as if I am OBLIGATED to go, but I WANT to go. I want to get to know the other actors. For example, if I am supposed to be good friends with someone, but in real life we can’t stand the look of each other- it’ll be a hard time acting. But if the two actors are friendly in real life, then when they’re filming for the drama they don’t even need to act too hard- they’ll already have that familiarity with each other. Let’s say I’m supposed to be friends with this guy for 30-40 years, or these group of guys have been through thick and thin with me before, and I meet them and the first thing I say is, “Hello.” It lacks familiarity and it’s hard to act, even though you can force it. But if it’s natural to the actors, it will also be comfortable to watch for the viewers. That’s why when you’re shooting a drama with someone you want to get to know them.

C: What about acting as enemies? LYN: Enemies? Then I can only hate that actor when I see them, I guess. When I’m filming the drama I tend to get absorbed in the character. If for example, I have an enemy that day, I’ll be in a bad mood even looking at them. When we’re all on set and I see them I’ll- /glares, huff of dismissal/, /superficial greeting/. I won’t like seeing them. And then after we’re done shooting for the day- /says goodbye to them happily/. I’ll be more relaxed. LYN: For a period of time I always had this actor who was acting against me- he always brought me trouble in the drama. It’s not Wei Shuyu. He kept creating obstacles for me and acted really pretentious about it. But in real life, he was very nice. For that period of time though (when he was my enemy), I was always in a bad mood when I saw him. When I actually had scenes with him I was even more unhappy about it. When we stopped filming, I still ignored him. His character was so annoying, so evil. And then one day I was thinking that it was untoward of me to act that way to him. So after we wrapped for the day I sent him a message and said, “Hello. This is Ning-ge. I might be cold towards you during the day, but I don’t have anything against you personally. I’m just absorbed in the role. You’re also an actor, so you can understand. I don’t have anything against you personally. I think you’re a great actor and are very serious about acting and I appreciate that.” I sent him a message like that, because I didn’t want him to misunderstand me. I rely on my good reputation, right? I didn’t want him to go around saying, “I worked with LYN on my previous drama and he kept giving me dirty looks whenever he saw me. As if I owed him something. I felt like he was okay with everyone else, but just not me. LYN sucks.” LYN: I just needed to explain that I didn’t have anything against him, personally. It’s just that his character was all over my wife. Tell me, who wouldn’t find him annoying?? XD The drama has its female lead... and they got together so in my eyes, the guy’s all over my wife. Who would be able to take that? Friends, why don’t you try thinking of it. Many of you are women, so if there was a woman all over your husband all the time, would you be able to take it?? No matter how good your personality is, I’m sure you’d be going crazy too. - [t/n: at first I thought this might be about Zi Chuan.. but since he mentioned his wife is the FL, maybe it’s about YNGS and he had beef with Chang Huasen?? (There is a confrontation there, from the clips, and I want to see it.) That’s hilarious to me.] C: Is it Wei Shuyu? LYN: It’s not. In that drama, Wei Shuyu and Leyan were childhood friends. Leyan liked Wei Shuyu. Rather, I was the one who stole her away. I was the annoying one.

C: Mr. Streamer, when are you going to sleep? LYN: /laughs/ Are you too into your role? You called me, “Mr. Streamer”. Why didn’t you call me “Cook”? I have a name. We’re close, so you can call me.. If you’re older than me call me “Xiao Ning” and if you’re younger “Ning-ge” is fine. You can even call me “Liu Yuning”. Don’t call me “Mr. Streamer”- that makes me feel like I’m at work or something.

C: Ning-ge, you’re trending at #29 now. LYN: Oh? I don’t believe it. I need to go take a look. // Let me look at the comments. C: Ning-ge is the best. I love him. C: Liu Yuning is always full of ceremony. As expected, he came to stream today. He never disappoints his fans. LYN: That one seems more like a moral kidnapping. If I didn’t stream today you’d be disappointed, is that it? Don’t be like that. C: I’m happy tonight because of you. I feel like your dialogue and posture have changed a lot. LYN: ... I suddenly realize that I’m not sitting up straight. I should... sit up. ~My dialogue is also improving.~ LYN: After being complimented by my fans I have to live up to their expectations. So in the next fifteen minutes of my stream I will communicate to you as if I am delivering my lines. How does that sound? I’ll let you experience how I recite my lines- in the guzhuang style, of course. - C: Did you see me say that BCF was very good? LYN: What does BCF being good or not have to do with you? It’s a character that /I/ acted as. It has nothing to do with you. All you need to do is watch. C: You don’t need to be like this. LYN: Do I need you to come tell me what to do?? Do you really think you can control me? C: Why are you speaking so fiercely? LYN: I set my character as a fierce one. Now I’ll set it as someone more gentle. My apologies. -- C: I have work tomorrow, so I should go rest now. LYN: If you want to rest, I have nothing to say to that. But, I hope you can subscribe to my weibo before you leave. When I stream next, we can meet again! Thank you! --- C: This style of speaking is peculiar/eccentric/mystifying. LYN: Peculiar isn’t like this. ~~Peculiar is like THIS.~~ - C: Is this what you call an “innocent man”? LYN: /sigh/ Not as innocent as you. You must be the most innocent woman in the world. I am not innocent. - C: How greasy. LYN: Let me tell you- the most important thing to being “greasy” is that you need- no, never mind. - C: Can you go back to normal? LYN: You want me to go back to normal? Did I say something wrong earlier? LYN: /bursts out laughing/ Oops. That was a bad take. Let me go again. LYN: You want me to go back to normal? Did I say something earlier... that offended you? If I did, I- I apologize.

C: Pinched tone. LYN: Pinched..? I can’t. I heard something fun recently. Let me try to find it and then I’ll try it for you. Hold on a sec. // I found it, I found it. Let me look for the lines. - /recites with the help of the sound modulator/ LYN: Does it count? C: Nope. LYN: I- C: Not at all. // Is this a Dongbei ver? LYN: /LOL/ If you wanted me to try the kind that girls do, like /example/, then I can’t do it. LYN: ? Oh, you like that? /does it again/ That’s just speaking with a nasal tone.

LYN: Another thing is! I discovered this problem during my last drama. People are going online to sell the chance at getting pictures with me. I heard that someone was selling the opportunity to get a one-on-one picture with me. During BYOL people were selling this chance for 8,888RMB. What an auspicious number, too. Apparently there’s someone you can contact for this drama as well. Maybe it’s because I was being ridiculed for being ugly, but the price has gone down. Now they’re selling for 7,777RMB. Just a little cheaper. My market value has dropped. LYN: But what I want to say is, first of all, I don’t think I’m worth that much money. I don’t even think I’m worth that much! If someone were taking a cut of that money, then I would rather cut out the middleman and take the revenue all for myself. Alright? You’re likely to be scammed by the middleman. Let’s say they contacted me and asked if I could take the photo and I declined- then your money would likely not be refunded. You’re likely to be tricked. I’ve heard that people HAVE been tricked by this. Even if it wasn’t the full amount, and you just paid a deposit- you’d have to give 88RMB, at the least. They’re not able to follow-through will the request, so your deposit is just gone isn’t it? LYN: Through this experience I want to tell you- no matter what drama crew I am in, I will not take private photos with anyone. I don’t care who comes to ask for one. That way, there’s no one who can act as the middleman and scam you out of your money. Okay? Please don’t be tricked by this. What I can do is make sure that I reject anyone- anyone who is capable of setting up this kind of scam. I will reply to them, “I can’t take any photos because I am working, and wearing the drama’s makeup and clothes. I have to keep them a secret.” I’ll use this as an excuse to reject any photos. This way, none of my friends will be tricked. If you see anything online that says you can spend X amount of money for a photo with me, don’t believe it.

C: Then, Ning-ge, since we’re on the topic. How much does it cost if we cut out the middleman? LYN: It’s free for a photo with me. Who do I think I am? But the thing is, I won’t take any photos. I don’t have time.

C: Sell some personalized autographs. LYN: Normally I don’t give those to anyone. Many friends have asked for an autograph and I gave it to them. If you’re familiar to me and ask for an autograph but I don’t give you one I feel like that’s being pretentious. I’ll give autographs to my close friends. But they’re rarely ever personalized. Not to say that I never write any, though. But all the personalized ones you see online are fake. When I write a personalized autograph it will be to someone trustworthy. Like SZE. If she wants a personalized autograph then I will definitely give her one. But for everyone else, when we’re lacking a layer of credibility, I won’t give. C: Last time I bought a personalized autograph I was tricked. LYN: That’s why. Don’t be tricked by those claiming to sell autographs and 1:1 photos. They’re unreliable. I’m always on set- where would I even find the time to take photos with people??

LYN: Also, my record- I only created 8,000 copies. Later I saw that people were selling it online, and many of you bought it. That’s your freedom to do so, so I can’t say anything. But I don’t think it’s a particularly right thing to do. So... try not to. It’s not because I’m afraid of not getting the revenue- I can’t make much off records anyway. Honestly, when have you ever seen me to something for the profit? Even with my brand collaborations- only buy the product if you have a real use for it. Normally, I wouldn’t sell my record just to make a profit. That’s WHY I only had 8k copies made. Later, I don’t know where they got the EP from. I’m guessing it was the factory who helped me produce them in the first place. They probably started making and selling it on their own. Really immoral.

C: What’s a personalized autograph? LYN: A personalized autograph? I don’t even know. I’ll find some time to get to know about it. - [t/n: Literally, the signed photos where people write “To: [NAME] + Message. Signed, XO”]

C: Isn’t that copyright infringement? Why didn’t you sue? LYN: What’s the use. It’s not like they made very many, because honestly the market’s not there. XD They didn’t make much anyway, so it’s not worth suing and paying for a lawyer. LYN: There was a group of fans, wasn’t there? Because they were unable to buy a copy of my record, they stopped being my fan. I’m afraid that if I tried to say anything the fans would shoot back with, “Ning-ge, you didn’t give us a chance to get an official copy. So we’re going to buy a pirated version. Even so, you’re still going to scold us? Then what’s the point of liking you??” “Isn’t the point of chasing stars for the happiness? Stop trying to control us.” I thought about it and decided it wasn’t worth it. Every interaction has a scale, and I didn’t think this was something worth judging you for. C: They really stopped being your fan? LYN: They did. Because they couldn’t attain a copy of my product. This is truly “a fine line between love and hate”. They were unhappy because they couldn’t get a copy of my record, and said that I couldn’t be trusted. Because originally I had said I made the record for my fans. They couldn’t get a copy and were unhappy so they stopped being my fan. I can accept it, because it was their decision. I just.. hope they’re happy.

C: I didn’t get a copy but I still “si” you. LYN: ?? They wrote the character “si (撕)” for “tear apart”. You must mean you still “fen” (粉 like) me, right? You mean you didn’t get a copy of my album but you still like me, right? It’s strange if you say you didn’t get a copy of my album, but you still tear me apart??

C: The new fans have missed out on so much. LYN: New fans, really... honestly you haven’t missed much. I also like to scroll through videos, right? The other day I saw a video of my from a few years ago- from the variety shows and stages I had attended right when I first debuted. I understand now that the reason I never made it big at that time was because I was too ugly. I was really too fat in 2018. My face was just so ROUND. I didn’t look very smart. A profile shot of me made it seem like my face was just a baozi. At that time though, neither I nor my studio thought that I was fat. But looking back on it now, I was just a baozi. C: Then that just means you have 5+ year visual-fans. LYN: I wasn’t truly fat back then, and I’m a lot thinner now than I was at the time. I have a lot of new fans and honestly the past year to a year and a half is when I’ve been at my best. That includes mentally, as well. It’s also been the highlight of my professional career so far. The new fans are actually quite lucky. You didn’t have to go through all those lonely and weary years with me. You didn’t have to stay up at night crying with me, and didn’t have to withstand the pressure with me. When I first debuted I was just a street busker who suddenly turned into a celebrity. I was under so much pressure. People may tell me that I finally made it in life, so what was there to be pressured about? But it’s not the case. There was a formless pressure from everywhere that made me emo in the middle of the night. The word “emo” didn’t even exist back then! There probably was, but it wasn’t as widespread as it is now. I couldn’t even sleep at night and there was no one to confide in. So I'd start a stream in the middle of the night- no video- and just talk to my fans. That’s what I did when I first debuted. I was so emo I almost went crazy.

C: As just a passerby, I often come in to watch your streams. LYN: That’s nice- there’s no passerby or not, here. It’s fine as long as you know me. I always come to stream because I hope- even if you don’t like me, including those of you who are watching my stream right now; I know many of you aren’t my fans- that you have can come to listen to me talk and watch me for entertainment. I am sitting here with a microphone just chattering along, but I know that in this stream there are so many people are better than me, whether in terms of profession, education, or intelligence. I am thankful for the fact that you can sit here and listen to me talk. You don’t look down on me, and I’m grateful. I know that there are many people who are better than me in many ways, but you’re watching me all the same. LYN: You may come to know the name “Liu Yuning” and then later come across it again. You may think “Oh, LYN. I watched his stream. This is LYN’s song/drama, let me check it out.” You are all my customers and there’s still the possibility you come back for more. That’s why I have to stream, because so many people are watching. You may not all be my fans, but you’re still watching. I’m sure that when my dramas air, you’ll take a look. You might even open a VIP account for me. I have Youku, Tencent, and iQIYI dramas coming up. You can... create a membership for each one. XD

LYN: Alright, it’s about time, friends. I need to clean up and get my things together for work tomorrow. I need to sleep so that I can be in a good condition tomorrow. Why? So that the first thing I can do when I get to the set is muster the courage to ask SZE for a personalized autograph. I need to nail that interaction, so I can’t be nervous about it or make any mistakes that would affect the success rate of the request. I need to rest early, and take a bath so I can be ready to ask her for this autograph. That’s my most important mission for tomorrow. The scenes don’t even matter. I don’t care what I’m shooting- asking for her autograph is the most important thing. LYN: Then, I hope you all had a relaxing, happy, and wonderful night. It was great to have you and... I hope you had a nice night. I’ll see you again in the next stream. Goodnight, everyone.

Update: Mission Success

#Liu Yuning #lyn livestream #(2:53:47)#my only takeaway:#um.. does zy have spicy scenes #what did lyn have to learn from the internet that his acting coach cldnt/wldnt teach him #XDDD

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An Unlikely Bond - Pt. 1 of 3

Well gosh darn I guess the hyperfixation has hit and hit hard again. Was organizing some files and saw the one on Geist and Zhang developing their psionic bond and my fingers ran away with it.

A lot has changed with the initial idea as I'm re-writing the earlier chapters of Wandering Souls and shifting the timeline. But takes place when Zhang is still forced to stay on base until his psionics are fixed.

Also some fun backstory diving for Zhang and me putting my own spin on the name origin for Geist. I am not using anything from that mobile game for Geist.

Parts: 1(You are here)||2||3 - Links will be updated as the chapters are posted. Currently in the queue.

May be posted on Ao3 and FF.net later.

Content warnings for the usual language. Accidental mental invasion. Part three is where they're violence via memories which includes murder(and faked suicide(it's more murder.)

Approx. 3.5k.

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The Barracks. Like every other section of the main XCOM HQ, it bustled with activity. Even more so because of the recent expansions, commissioned by Commander Reeves, to house more recruits to the cause and an overdue expansion for the Gym and Rec Room section of the Barracks that the soldiers (and other staff) needed to blow off some steam. The expansions were welcomed by all.

Even with several squads sent out to deal with the ever-evolving alien menace terrorizing the Earth, each floor in the Barracks had a fair amount of activity going on. On the lowest floor, the bar was full as always, with some “reasonably” drinking away and chatting with friends. Others were playing a game of pool. And some were fighting over who could watch what on the largest TV. Typical soldier behavior.

The floor above, the Gym, had a fair amount of activity. New equipment, designed specifically for the enhanced abilities of their Gene-modded soldiers, had arrived and was being tested by some soldiers. Zhang was one of them.

12:03. The Hazard Course was occupied with Gene-modded soldiers fresh out of the labs, already putting their new abilities to the test, so the Gym was the next best place to stretch his legs. His still mild pariah status because of the psionic incident some time ago, which mostly eclipsed him being a former Triad, meant most still gave him a wide berth. Which he didn’t mind, as it meant he wouldn’t have people working out next to him.

13:18. Currently, he was breaking in one of the new reinforced treadmills that could handle that “Muscle Fiber Density” leg mod.

It had been about an hour’s jog and everything was working perfectly. The steady tread of boot heels hitting the belt and running deck. The muscles in his legs contracted and relaxed at a steady rhythm. There was a nice bounce back from the suspension, which kept his stride nice and smooth. It was so much better than the old treadmills that would stutter if he came down too hard, which would break his stride. He was happy he could be less conscious about that and exert nearly as much force as he wanted to his heart’s content. But he didn’t want to push too far. He didn’t want to be the first one to break the new equipment.

“This is the best shape that I’ve ever been in my life.” Zhang chuckled under his breath as he adjusted his headphones. Sometimes he felt like that was an overstatement, but it was true. He had considered himself “fairly” healthy, minus his smoking habit, before his recruitment to XCOM. Now, he had lost weight and put on a lot of muscle. And then those Gene Mods and other tweaks the science division was experimenting with. Sometimes he had trouble recognizing himself when he looked in the mirror.

A glance down to check the time. 13:32. About 30 more minutes and he would call it. He had some psionic training he needed to get to later and couldn’t tire himself out.

Psionic training. He rolled his eyes. What did Geist and the others have in store for him today? Knowing Geist and Sam, something headache-inducing, especially if it was learning how to teleport again and some other odd psionic concept. Teleporting. He felt his psionics, those synaptic connections, bristle with annoyance. That task and another were impossible for him. Just thinking about teleporting made him want to skip out on training again, but knew he couldn’t.

“Wonder how much more I have to endure before I’m back on full active duty and don’t need one of these collars when on the field.”

He still had a fair deal of work to stabilize his psionics, so he didn’t have to wear a modified dampening collar on the field. A faint growl slipped from his lips as his hand went up to his neck and tugged on the collar that was there. He hated the thing, but it was required for all psions to wear one at the base. At least the newer models caused fewer headaches.

“How much longer?”

The chains of command were suffocating, but he was doing his best to be patient and play nice.

For now, all he could do was wait and jog. A new tune began to play through his ears. Something with a faster, more electric beat. His footfalls quickly matched the rhythm. Negative thoughts melted away.

The latest tune entranced Zhang. He hadn’t noticed faint voices slowly intruding into his mind. Or perhaps he subconsciously noticed as a grumble or two slipped out as he adjusted that collar on his neck a few times. As quickly as the whispers came, they disappeared.

As he was entering the final cooldown phase of his joke, he felt an all too familiar jolt run up his spine as his eyes flashed purple. Then a more familiar touch before it became blurred by other sensations. The voices were back and much clearer than before.

“Ah, Vixen! You’ve made it.” Geist’s voice was strong in his mind. Though the name Vixen was distant to him.

“Cheery as always, huh Geist?” A female voice spoke next. Geist just chuckled in response. “How has training been for this branch?”

“Ah, training. Where to begin?”

Oh, hell no. Zhang cursed in his mind. Either the collar had a fault or Geist was purposefully using his bypass trick to tap into his mind. He figured the latter was happening due to the mention of training. He had been avoiding some sessions. Not in the mood for a guilt trip. His fingers quickly checked every part of the dampening collar. It was cool to the touch. No signs of overheating. One good sign. Must have been the bypassing. Figures.

Steadying his pacing and breathing, he concentrated on the psionic wavelengths to block it all out. Within seconds, the voices faded from his mind. He smiled. No guilt trips now. He would do some psionic training later, but would not be bothered right now. Just as he felt like he could relax his powers, the voices came back in full force.

“We have more soldiers cooking down below. I’m sure the Commander filled you in on that before your arrival.” Geist spoke of several potential psions in the making. It was always a delight to add more to their ranks.

“I read up on a few of them during my flight over.” Vixen said. “The science division has been making strides.”

“But back to training.” Geist almost seemed to hiss the word. “Truthfully, I’m a little disappointed with how things have been developing for researching how the — — — and function. That aspect is still escaping me. But I believe your fresh mind should be able to help.”

Zhang concentrated again to block out their voices, but his attempts failed once more. The discussion continued, though parts of it cut in and out. But the words “disappointed” and “training” frequently came through clearly.

Several disgruntled mumbles slipped from Zhang’s lips as he slammed his hands against the handrails to the treadmill. His grip tightened until his knuckles went white.

“For fuck’s sake…” He was glad no one was next to him to witness his sudden change in demeanor. Straightening himself back up, he brought his jog to an end. “Fine. You win this time, Geist.”

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With more than a pep in his step, Zhang made his way deeper into the base towards the Psionic Training Grounds. However, he was mostly mindful of his steps, as he felt like kicking a few holes into the concrete because of his disturbed mood. Cracks would be barely noticed. Anything worse and he would get written up.

In about 7 minutes, he reached the main room. It was sparsely populated, a few psions were meditating or sparing here and there. Off to the side, he spotted Geist and who he figured was this Vixen he was speaking to. Both looked to be in a rather pleasant mood. Geist hadn’t noticed him yet.

Zhang took a moment to still himself. He didn’t need to go off on Geist. Feeling somewhat calmer, he headed over to them.

As he got closer, Geist noticed him. His eyes always seemed to brighten when the old man came around.

“Ah, hello Zhang!” Geist gave a friendly wave. “Early for once. No teleportation training for today.”

Zhang stifled a snort even more so when he felt the voices in his head diminish. Once he was next to them, he gave Vixen a nod before looking at Geist. “You rang?” Though he tried his best to hide it, irritation riddled his words.

He was about to reply until he caught the annoyance in Zhang’s voice and then noticed the faint rage in his eyes. “Is something the matter?”

Is something the matter…? “Are you fu—” Zhang bit his tongue before shaking his head. “Is something the matter?” Shifting his pitch up an octave, he sarcastically repeated the words before shifting back to his normal voice. “Are you serious?”

Geist’s expression shifted to a more puzzled, if not, concerned look. Though he was still slowly becoming more aquatinted with Zhang, this attitude was out of character for him. “I’m sorry, but you’ve lost me, Zhang?”

Zhang’s brow twitched. “Don’t play coy with me!” He finally snapped. His eyes flashed before he jabbed a thumb at his own head. “You did your damn bypass trick to get into my head!”

The sudden outburst disrupted the tranquility of the room. All eyes were on Zhang.

Geist raised his hands and took a step back. This felt greatly out of character for Zhang to just snap like this. He wanted to probe his mind, do a quick check to make sure none of their hard work to fix his psionics was unraveling, but the man was accusing him of already probing his mind. “Zhang, I’m not sure what you’re talking about, but I have not made a connection with you.”

“Really? Really?” Zhang sneered. “You’ve been sure to repeat the words “training” and “disappoint” frequently in my mind since I missed the last few sessions.”

“What?” Geist looked more confused. That made little sense. He was more mildly annoyed with Zhang occasionally skipping the training sessions, but knew the man needed his space. But the words more or so matched what he had been discussing with Vixen. He glanced at her. She looked more annoyed at the matter. “I haven’t contacted you. I knew you would be coming around here within the hour… hopefully.” He muttered the last word under his breath. “In all seriousness, I haven’t done my psionic bypass to contact you.” Cautiously, he took a step forward as his eyes began to glow purple. He began to reach out. “You have me concerned. I could check to see if—”

The denial only seemed to infuriate Zhang, and then feeling the man’s touch in his mind only made him angrier. “You think for a sin—”

“Stop.” Vixen stepped in between the two, with one hand imbued with psionic energy placed against Zhang’s chest. “Let’s get this settled. Since you’re about to bite his head off, let me check for any connections. If there’s a connection from him to you, then Geisty has been lying. If there isn’t, your collar needs to be checked. Fair?”

Zhang glanced at her hand on his chest before looking at Geist and back at her. He let out a huff as he took a step back. “Fair.”

Vixen looked at Geist. “Cut your connection and get your collar.”

He nodded, quickly severing his powers. With a faint ping, he teleported his collar into his hands but didn’t put it on just yet.

Vixen then gestured for Zhang to it down, which he begrudgingly complied, before moving behind him. She raised both hands to either side of his head before letting her psioncis envelop his head. “Okay, let’s see what I can find.”

The room was a near dead silent as Vixen went to work. Most wanted to see how it would all play out as Geist did have his trickster tendencies, but a few wanted to pretend nothing was going on just in case there was a blowup.

Zhang did his best to keep his calm as Vixen searched his mind. It was always strange having an unfamiliar psion go through one’s mind, but he took notice of Vixen’s soft touch. Though she had to work around some of those locks he and Geist had created and the still unstable part of his psionics, she was doing so with care as she looked for those threads of a connection.

“Hm…” Vixen’s eyes narrowed. She found something. Or at least felt it. “Geist, collar on.”

With no hesitation, he put it on, and it snapped into place.

Minutes passed.

“Collar off.” She said. He took it off.

Some more time passed.

“Hm. There’s something, but it doesn’t fully feel like Geist.” She stopped her psionics and moved her hands away.

“Doesn’t fully feel like Geist.” Zhang questioned, doing his best not to scoff. He shook his head a few times to shake off the faint buzz coursing between his ears.

“It feels like a mixture of threads here. Feels like it’s coming from the growing,” she gestured with one hand, “background psionic radiation permeating the base.” She explained. “Not feeling a direct one from Geist per se. Just a mix. Perhaps your… odd psionics… amplified something.”

“That partially clears things up.” Geist mumbled as he tapped his chin. One thing cleared, but Zhang still didn’t look happy, which had him concerned. “Anything feel out of place, Vixen?”

She shrugged. “His psionics feel odd, but I bet you know them better than me to determine if something is truly wrong.”

“True.” He looked at Zhang only to sigh, seeing the man was glaring at him. He took a step towards him. “Zhang, I can check to see if—”

“Don’t.” Zhang cut him off. He got up.

“Zhang. This could be your psionics ac—”

“No.” Another terse answer left his lips. He turned to Vixen and gave her a half-hearted “thank you” before he made his leave.

Vixen raised a brow at him as she watched him leave, before turning her attention back to Geist. “Is he always like this?”

“No. He can be difficult at times, but this is… different. It concerns me.” He spoke truthfully. He wanted to follow, chase after him, but knew that would only lead to a fight.

With a faint ping, he teleported a tablet into his hands. “I’ll make note of this. Give the Psionic Division a heads up just in case.”

“And Commander Reeves?” Vixen asked.

“Eventually… her.”

“‘Eventually’?” She questioned.

“Eventually. What she doesn’t know won’t hurt. But I will tell her if something happens.” He said. He just wanted to keep Zhang off the Commander’s radar. Things had gotten better between the two, but he didn’t want to risk it with this.

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Zhang proceeded to skip the 14:30 Psionic training session he was going to attend. Despite Vixen’s findings, he didn’t believe her nor Geist. It felt all too convent that their conversation stopped intruding on his mind when he entered the room. He knew what he heard and felt.

He needed to cool down and what better way was there to cool down than by allowing himself to get dragged into some silly card game with Akemi, Kim, and Jarvis as the three happened to come back from some fieldwork. He refused to elaborate on what had him irritated, only stating “Geist being Geist”, and they mostly respected that. The trio helped him push the day’s events to the back of his mind with the card game and updating him on the latest alien threats. More of the same ol’ variants and some new ones were being fielded. The aliens, well, Elders, were probing for weaknesses and how they would react.

The hours flew by until it was either time to get some food, shower, or get dragged off by one of the science teams. Zhang was ready to hit the shower until Akemi pulled his teeth to join her in the Psionic Training Grounds. Though her psionics were still developing, she had been assigned to join in on psionic training sessions. Dr. Vahlen’s and Dr. Marin’s teams wanted to experiment with various ways to unlock a soldier’s psionic potential without having to rely on the weeks-long process of psionic energy saturation inside of the sarcophagi.

He was loath to go there as he wanted to avoid Geist and the man practically lived in there or in the Psionic Labs. Yet, with some playful banter, begging, and mild guilt tripping — as he was the reason she was psion now—, she convinced him to tag along. He had noticed she was less nervous when he was around when she trained with one of the elite psions.

“You’re going to hold that over my head for forever, huh?” Zhang questioned.

“I may.” She smirked and playfully nudged him with her elbow. “At least you didn’t fry my brain.”

He let out a sigh, shaking his head. “Don’t.”

Much to Zhang’s relief, Geist wasn’t there when they arrived. As Akemi went to her instructor, Zhang found himself talking to a fellow psion, John Tanner. Someone who was a witness to what happened earlier in the day. Tanner probed a little to find out exactly what the issue was, but Zhang kept most of the details terse. But he trusted Tanner enough to probe his mind, and the man felt nothing was amiss. Just a mixture of threads faintly connected to the psionic background radiation in the base. That still didn’t sit well with Zhang. It was something to stew on for later.

With little convincing, Tanner roped him into some psionic meditation and defense strengthening so he would have some psionic training marked down for the day and off the Commander’s radar.

Moving to a side room and finding a place to sit, he gladly took his dampening collar off. It took some time for him to enter a “calm” state of mind as the irrational side of him felt Geist would show up at any moment, but once he did, he felt a great deal of the day’s irritation melt away. A quick check of his own mind with his powers unrestricted; he barely felt any active traces of Geist. The usual connections were a near-dead silence. Anything else resonated with the psionic background to the base.

Hm. That was still strange, but maybe his psionics were acting up again and the overly friendly psion didn’t connect to him.

For the next hour, Tanner carefully pushed and pulled at Zhang’s psionic defenses. It was a delicate and dangerous game of finding the cracks that needed to be reinforced and avoiding the traps that could lead to a nasty psionic backlash.

“Aaah… Okay. Okay, think we’re good… we’re good for the eve’ing.” Tanner said as he recalled his psionics. Body wavering from side to side, he raised a hand to his face and rubbed it.

“Mhm.” Zhang let out a sharp exhale as he came out of his meditation. As his pionics receded into himself, he picked up his dampening collar. He finally noticed Tanner’s wobbliness and the faint purple sparks buzzing around his head. “Are you alright?”

“I’m… good. Just a little mind spin trap of yours I triggered as were were finishing…” He said before hunching over and vigorously rubbing the back of his neck. “That’s… nasty. You’ve improved.”

“Ah.” Zhang chuckled. “I’ve been adjusting them as those Elders make their calls to me from time to time. Something to push them out.”

A few moments later, the psionic disruption around Tanner disappeared. He straightened himself back up and let out a sigh of relief. “I can see that annoying them. They deserve worse. Need to take notes and get the others more prepped.” There was always work to be done. “Those are some green checks for you. A few more sessions and,” he paused, knowing mentioning Geist would be a sore subject, “you know who is doing his own tests and you should be back on the field before you know it.”

Zhang’s mood didn’t immediately sour. He simply nodded along. Talking to a Geist about the incident earlier and apologizing would have to happen, but he still wanted some distance. “The sooner the better.” He was ready to get back into the field.

With his training session wrapped up, he returned to the main room to see how Akemi was doing. Her session was just about coming to an end. Once she was done there, the two left and went their separate ways for the night.

#writings #Xcom #Xcom 2 #Xcom wotc #Fic: Wandering Souls #Shaojie Zhang #XCOM Zhang #xcom geist

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exhaustedwerewolf · 3 months

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ugh my manager is soooo passive aggressive and after she left us alone in an active emergency she has not changed her behaviour at all but is now… constantly messaging group chats the rest of hq are looped into to ‘check on us’ to make it look like she’s doing something and also trying to be ‘friends’ with us while jumping on non-mistakes. (just got told an email I sent wasn’t polite. I promise you I have never had that complaint in a professional or educational setting all my life. overly polite, yes.)

I remember as a teenager saying that I had no ill will towards people who were pretentious, because the way you present yourself is legitimate even if thought has gone into crafting a persona. I’d like to revise that and say earnestness is a vital part of that equation. if you are fake I am not a fucking fan.

#wwolf.txt

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kodaiki · 2 years

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highlights!

⇢ yams begged yachi to let him cat-sit while she's away ⇢ y/n n bo are super close but she's still not 100% comfy asking for favors :3 ⇢ yams is the only uni student, while the others get their income from yt! ⇢ let's pretend the timestamps aren't from two months ago oops

꒰ 𝐏𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐒 ꒱

↳ being roommates with bokuto is fun enough as it is, but sharing it on youtube definitely makes life with him a hell of a lot more interesting. when a prank war ensues between the two of you, you attract more of the media’s attention, gaining you more fans and onlookers in the process. who knew a mere prank war could cause such a commotion?

TWO┊PART THREE┊NEXT

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ʚĭɞ rbs and interaction always appreciated! ʚĭɞ

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millenialfanfictionaddiction · 2 years

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Msby chat dropping today??? Probably 😏

Yeah it's happening

Actual footage of me waiting 🤚🏻👇🏻

#hq msby #msby black jackal #msby group chat #msby four #msby scenarios #msby #my first fake text #it drops at 10am cst

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timeless-tende · 2 years

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Incorrect Quotes/FAKE Text Masterlist

Incorrect Quotes

IkémenVampire

Vincent & Theo

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FAKE Text

Haikyuu

Suga craving pizza (ft Kiyoko)

Suga and Kiyoko addiction

#haikyuu!!#ikemen #ikemen games #x reader #haikyuu #haikyū!!#ikemen series #hq #ikémen vampire #fake chat #fake texts #ikemen incorrect quotes #incorrect ikemen quotes #ikevam vincent #ikevam theo #sugawara koushi #kiyoko shimizu

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shippingdragons · 1 year

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NEW TOBY STEPHENS PODCAST INTERVIEW!

It’s Toby Stephens day here at HMO HQ! Full episode now available on Acast, iTunes and Spotify 🧡

While chatting about his fave speech from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Toby also delves into the miracle of theatrical ambiguity, tell tales of awful stage fight mistake and bonds with Lucy over the perils of fake bloods.

From: Pod Hear Me Out

Click below to listen to the full interview with Toby Stephens and Lucy Eaton. It’s awesome! And please subscribe and leave a review!

#toby stephens #black sails #lost in space #james bond #theatre #stage actor #theatre podcast #podcast #lucy eaton #staged #Shakespeare #Macbeth #Spotify

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uwurakax · 2 years

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ー　Ｈ２Ｏ　「ＨＡＩＫＹＵＵ」　♡

-> saw a post about mermay and recently got my friend to watch h2o just add water (my favourite ofc) and obviously my inner aussie needed this drabble. i might expand or elaborate, i’m just a bit sad atm so this made me feel better xx

(( not proofread, 1am, aint nobody got time for that ))

h2o + hq masterlist here

okay so imagine this:

you’re not too sure how it’s happened, an off chance exploration to cure your boredom while you were on holidays with your family. you didn’t know how it happened, but the hidden and untouched cave you somehow managed to stumble across felt worthwhile.

you’d always felt close and at home in the ocean, but for the first time you felt terrified. one minute the water was so blue, so calm and crystal clear, and the next it turned rougher, warmer. the bubbles surrounding you abnormally. unnatural.

and once the bubbling around you stopped, you came to notice a scaly tail where your legs should have been. it didn’t take long to realise that when you were wet, or had gotten wet, your legs were traded for a orange, fishy tail.

you tried so hard to forget that holiday, putting that memory and water behind you. actively avoiding it like the plague, you wondered how big an impact this would actually have on your life. surely you could manage?

so what’s a few extra minutes added to your shower routine? so what if you had to take extra precautions around something as basic as taking a drink? so what if you had to faint and fake illness when it rained? and so what if you had to give up on the sport you loved most, lest you pop a tail and be the next main attraction at sea world?

you weren’t going to lie, it utterly sucked and you had no idea what to do with yourself. that was until you were offered a spot as manager for your schools volleyball team.

you weren’t too sure how you felt about it honestly, not really knowing the details or even rules about it. somehow though, you found yourself back the next afternoon, chatting with the coach and officially becoming part of the volleyball team.

was it the cute players? did one catch your eye? whatever it was, you soon became a part of the little squad, and the hole in your heart that was left from the incident started to heal. slowly but surely. you had managed, somehow, balancing your life and secret to a point where you almost forgot about the freak that you were. months had passed, and the normality that was taken for granted started to come back to you. but like all good things, it couldn’t last forever.

you knew he didn’t mean it, accidentally bumping you as you carried the drinks causing them to spill all over you. you dropped everything, quickly noticing that the towels had soaked and you had to leave now!

you’d reassure him later, hearing the tone of his voice as he called out to you, trying to profusely apologise. under normal circumstances, you’d have laughed, waved away his worries and told him it was okay, that it was “no big deal, and you could wash your shirt anyway”.

but this wasn’t normal circumstances, and you weren’t normal. not anymore.

you wished you could’ve had time, to find some decent place to run to, but alas life seemed to love giving you the short end of the stick, and now here you are; in the boys’ locker room showers, on the floor with the shiny wet tail behind you. it was hard to push, hard to move, and anxiety increased within you.

what the hell were you going to do now?

looking around, you tried to find something. some towel or cloth that could help you dry quickly enough to go back to normal. you thought better of it though. you were already on the grungy floor of the boys locker room, were you really that desperate for a towel that most likely sat used?

you so badly wanted to say no, that it was gross to all hell and you’d sit there and wait to air dry off. that didn’t last long though, and soon enough you heard the voices of the team behind the door, calling out to you and wanting to know if you were okay.

you yelled out that you were just fine and for them to go and leave. there was hushed whispers, and soon enough the footsteps retreated. breathing out a sigh of relief, you plopped your head down onto the ground in your arms, mentally exhausted at the close call. you felt bad, you really did, and you’d apologise to them soon enough.

you didn’t last long in your stupor though, anxiousness growing once again as you heard him softly call out to you as you turned and watched in horror as the door handle was pushed down.

#haikyuu x reader #hq x reader #haikyuu!! x reader #hq!! x reader #hq imagines #haikyuu hcs #haikyuu imagines #hq hcs #hq!! imagines #haikyuu!! imagines #honestly h2o was the damn bop and i will die on that hill dont test me #literally any haikyuu boy u want #they all sexc

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kiyotakamine · 1 year

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Among Us[c] is a 2018 online multiplayer social deduction game developed and published by American game studio Innersloth. The game was inspired by the party game Mafia and the science fiction horror film The Thing.[10] The game allows for cross-platform play, first released on iOS and Android devices in June 2018 and on Windows later that year in November. The game was then ported to the Nintendo Switch in December 2020 and on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in December 2021. While the game was initially released in 2018 to little mainstream attention, it received a massive influx of popularity in 2020 due to many well-known Twitch streamers and YouTubers playing it, and due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A virtual reality adaptation, Among Us VR, was released on November 10th, 2022.

Among Us takes place in space-themed settings where players are colorful armless cartoon astronauts. Each player takes on one of two roles: most are Crewmates, but a small number play Impostors.[d] Crewmates work to complete assigned tasks in the game while identifying and voting out suspected Impostors (which appear identical to Crewmates) by means of social deduction, while Impostors have the objective of killing the Crewmates.

Among Us experienced a significant surge in playership in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic due to popularization by YouTube and Twitch content creators, and received favorable reviews from critics on account of its fun and entertaining gameplay. The game and its stylized characters have also been the subject of various internet memes.

Gameplay

In this gameplay screenshot of the original map, The Skeld, the white Impostor has killed the blue Crewmate. White's vision of the pink player has been partially obscured by the wall. Any player, including the killer, can report the dead body and trigger a meeting.

Among Us is a multiplayer game for four to fifteen players.[12] Up to three players are randomly[13] and secretly chosen to be the Impostor(s) each round. As of 2021, four playable maps are available, a spaceship called "The Skeld", an office building called "MIRA HQ", a planet base called "Polus",[14] or "The Airship", a setting from Innersloth's Henry Stickmin series.[15][16]The Crewmates can win the game one of two ways; either by completing all assigned tasks or by ejecting all Impostors. Impostors can likewise win in two ways; either by killing or ejecting all Crewmates,[e] or by sabotaging a critical system on the map (provided the Crewmates do not resolve it in time).[f][14][17][18][19] At the start of the game, Crewmates are assigned "tasks" to complete around the map in the form of minigames, minipuzzles, and simple toggles, mostly consisting of maintenance work on vital systems such as fixing wires and downloading data.[20] Impostors cannot complete tasks, but may pretend to perform "fake" tasks to feign appearance as legitimate Crewmates, Impostors, however, can perform sabotages, ranging from minor (such as disabling lights, making Crewmates blind) to critical (such as disabling oxygen generators), requiring immediate counteraction by Crewmates to prevent their deaths. Impostors may also enter and traverse ventilation ducts (commonly known as "venting"), and kill nearby Crewmates. To help Crewmates identify Impostors, there are various surveillance systems on each map, such as security cameras on The Skeld,[21] a doorlog system with sensors in MIRA HQ,[22] and a vitals indicator in Polus that shows the living status of all players.[14] In addition, certain "visual tasks" provide animated cues, such as scanning oneself in the Skeld's medbay. As Impostors cannot perform tasks, Crewmates can use visual tasks to confirm their identity to nearby Crewmates.[23]

Any living player may call a group meeting by reporting a dead body, or by pressing an Emergency Meeting button.[g][19][24][25] During meetings, players discuss — via the in-game text chat or an external voice chat application such as Discord[26][27][28] — who they believe to be Impostors based on available witness testimonies, with Impostors lying to hide their identity or falsely accusing other players. Impostors can be identified beyond reasonable doubt if they are seen venting or killing a Crewmate, but ultimately players must weigh the veracity or value of each other's statements. Players then vote for who they believe is an Impostor, if a plurality vote is obtained, the player who received the most votes is "ejected" from the game.[20][19] Players who are killed or ejected become ghosts, which can still perform tasks (Crewmates) or sabotages (Impostors) but are otherwise unable to be seen by or interact with living players. Effectively spectators, ghosts may see and pass through walls, follow players or other ghosts and chat with other ghosts.

A November 2021 update added additional specialized roles to the game: Crewmates can also be Engineers, Scientists, or Guardian Angels. Engineers can traverse vents like Impostors, albeit to a limited capacity. Scientists can check vitals at any time to see if any player has been killed recently. Ghosts of Crewmates can become Guardian Angels, which can temporarily protect living players from being killed. Impostors likewise can be Shapeshifters, allowing them to temporarily morph into other players and assume their color and appearance.

An alternative Hide and Seek gamemode was added in December 2022. There are no meetings or ejections, and a single Impostor (whose identity is known to the Crewmates) attempts to kill all Crewmates within a fixed countdown timer. Crewmates must hide or flee from the Impostor and can complete tasks to roll down the timer, as well as enter vents for a brief time to hide from Impostors. Crewmates are also given a display showing their proximity to an Impostor as well as the number of remaining Crewmates.[29]

Prior to each game, various options can be adjusted to customize aspects of gameplay, such as player movement speed, the allowed number of emergency meetings, number of tasks and visual tasks,[30] or whether or not an Impostor is revealed after being voted off, allowing participants to manually balance the game's settings to their desires.[31] Players may modify their own appearances with cosmetics, including skins, hats, visors and pets,[32][33] some of which are purchasable as microtransactions.

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