#meanwhile sy has an innate fondness for lbh and doesn't understand sj's hatred for him. this will become a conflict almost immediately

[heterophobiclanwangji]

my favorite bingqiu fic idea i’ll never get around to writing is a no transmigration au where shen yuan was born as shen jiu’s older twin brother who died at the qiu estate, but shen jiu somehow managed to capture his soul so some of shen jiu’s rocky cultivation is that he’s trying to further his own cultivation while also preserving/repairing shen yuan’s soul. shen yuan finally reforms when shen jiu and liu qingge are in the spirit caves before sha hualing’s invasion, so he would be 15/16 at the same time that binghe is 15. so he’s shen jiu’s older brother AND his twin AND much younger than he is AND insists on calling binghe his luo-shixiong to shen jiu’s increasing dismay

#scum villain #svss #bingqiu #shen jiu #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #luo binghe #for clarification the idea is that it's a canon divergence from pidw #so like in pidw timeline the confrontation between lqg and sj goes poorly lqg dies and sy's soul dissipates #whereas here it goes well lqg is alive and sy is resurrected #sy has no knowledge of what happened in the intervening years. this will become a conflict #sy is deep in his gremlin era and also obviously traumatized/not the spoiled young master the peak lords assumed of sj #that combined with saving lqg from his qi deviation bridges some of the gap between sj and the other lords #though im not sure what kind of impact it would have on the tension between sj and yqy #sj used an extreme method to capture and nurture sy's soul which would raise a lot of uncomfortable questions #so anyone who is not a peak lord is led to believe sy is his estranged younger brother or illegitimate son #meanwhile sy has an innate fondness for lbh and doesn't understand sj's hatred for him. this will become a conflict almost immediately #lbh is nervous about sy at first but sy is savvy and nice to him and lbh quickly latches onto his sticky shidi #the immortal alliance conference plays out basically the same way with the addition of sj rationalizes it as protecting his brother from lbh #sy does NOT witness this and has no idea about lbh being a demon or sj's part in his 'death' #and spends the next three years sincerely mourning lbh. this will become a conflict later #so overall sj is still a terrible person but there's room to explore that and let him grow #like forcing him to confront the fact that he's repeating the actions of people he hated and maybe understanding that lbh (and even sy) #would be justified to hate him and not forgive him for everything he's done #though i think sy eventually would and sj and lbh would have a painful reconciliation #for spice you can throw in sy accidentally freeing tlj as per scum villain canon #and maybe the sowers accusation still happens with the added element of sy/sj identity confusion #& the appearance of qht pushes the sy identity reveal #sy is more willing to tell qht the truth about her brother than sj was in pidw #possibly this reopening of old wounds sours the sy/lbh reunion