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[liuli]

honks my clown nose i said i would finish this before seasonality started so i am GOING TO FINISH IT if this isnt the last one i’ll kermit

we’re on WEEK SIX now jesus. ok. so week six started with the mods (it was definitely flurry) thinking they’re very funny and getting gy and mineo high so we got to play with that first. i think that molly was the first person gu yun thought of when he figured out what the fuck was going on A) because he knew he had you know. Experience With Being All Kinds of High, B) because he trusts him implicitly by week 6 and C) because he just like wanted to see him really bad? and as soon as he got there and figured out something was wrong it was frustrating to not be able to do stuff about it as well as he wanted to! but i think that emotionsharing actually was a huge boon in week six for a lot of reasons and this was one of those threads. he was able to pick up on molly’s sadness re: remembering what happened to beau and didn’t have any real sort of inhibitions in helping him feel better about it so they cuddled. generally being bad with emotions and stuff means that sometimes he is a lot better with actions, so molly’s want for company was something that stuck with him, i think? generally outside of our threaded pcs he likely just spent a lot of time with him in handwaved cr so he wasn’t alone with his own thoughts. it’s one of those places where they differ a lot, i think - gy has sooo much control over every aspect of his life, and that includes general Bad Feelings, so he’s able to provide a really steady form of support no matter what the fuck is going on. his love language is definitely his quality time, so the fact that molly needed that to help him made them a pretty good match.

which “If it helps, I don't really know you as the Marquis of Order at all. And I still like you plenty.” meant a lot to him, and was something he thought about outside of this situation/remembered from it. coming back to that whole “ you know me, and you still like me and not my job” thing that had been going on through their whole arc. having loosened inhibitions and stuff made it easier to say that he wanted molly to come back with him, too. that stuck with him long after this thread, too. in his thread with harrow where they talked around it, he mentioned that it just seemed like a daydream, and that he’d never really had time for daydreams, but i think over week six he was starting to come to terms with the idea that if they got out of there, that he really, really wanted that.

as a side note i think it’s hilarious that we got slapped with plot before they ever actually talked about going out and traveling together/world hopping beyond this thread. i thought it might have come up in our last thread but then i fell asleep at like 9pm that day and then it was endgame LMAO so i just assume they really awkwardly and stupidly talked about it because harrow would’ve knocked their heads together if they didn’t. terrible.

anyway moving on! childe’s death was super not a big deal (lol) but the plot reveal sure as fuck was. when lup gave gy a Very Concerning Conversation things got super real and then it all just super spiraled from there. over the end of week 6 and the beginning of week 7/endgame I think in general gy was trying to keep a watchful eye out for molly over this time, esp when he was like “please stop giving him bad news for five fucking minutes”. seeing him learn about jester was a lot and he was just. really fucking worried and also trying to solve plot and worried about lup and there was just a LOT happening. i brought up him being steady in meta text and in this tl;cr a lot but i think he was definitely trying to continue to be that for molly as the game continued to just beat him up with a greatsword. it was why he slipped out with him when beau didn’t go out with the dead, bc he knew like even if he was just getting away from everybody that he probably didn’t want to be alone? which was why i came running for a thread. LOL.

there are a couple big meta things i wanna talk about with endgame but i’m gonna start with the post deda coming back thread bc it was really important. gu yun’s got this like intrinsic sense of duty, and one of the cool things about getting to come to horrible garbage murder station was the chance to get to be free. like, yeah, he had stuff to do (solving murders! also endgame plot!) but it was a lot different than being mister big important military commander, and he got to not only indulge and experience things and spend time with people, but also got to discover this like whole new universe and world of things wildly different than his that shook up his worldview like crazy, and molly was a HUGE part of that. over the course of the game he kept running into people who were wishing to be brought back to life, basically, and that’s just not the kind of thing he’d ever think of happening at home in Great Liang because it was impossible. but here it wasn’t!

and in terms of his wish, like. gu yun’s wish wasn’t ever any different than his like daily wish - he’s always wanted great liang to be at peace. he’d fight for it even if it wasn’t going to be granted magically, and i think watching molly just suffer and suffer over and over he fell right into that sense of duty and immediately decided he’d give up his wish to revive beau and the rest of the people who came before them instead. its good selfless protag shit, very sisi brand, but also like -- it really culminated his whole character arc and so much of it was tied directly to molly. bc he did so much for him in terms of getting to experience all these great joyful moments of freedom that he didn’t want molly who just got his life back to not have those things, or to feel sorrow or misery or like he got to come back to life at the cost of his friends. molly’s the kind of person who deserves to be really fucking happy and if he could do anything to make that happen, gy was gonna do it. it all comes back to that we’re all going to get out of here promise, and so he was willing to give up his own wish to make that happen. (also because his wish was going to get granted! maybe it wasn’t gonna be by him, but there would always be people fighting for peace and people like mollymauk who are so important to everyone don’t really get second chances at life that aren’t. you know. Lucien.) he can’t just hard work people back to life. so. yeah. gross. it tied up really nicely with the “well i really would like to travel all over worlds with you” conversation they sort of had at the beginning of the week, too - because like, of course he’d love that, but that duty bound nature of his meant that he’d be willing to give up his own kinda newly achieved freedom in exchange to make sure molly could be happy.

so there was that. and then the other thing was confession...3! the ACTUAL confession which came before the above conversation but didnt flow nicely into my narrative so im putting it here. and! truthfully i did a bunch of research before we started this thread - the minute the idea of a “day off” popped up after the jester reveal i was like oh gu yun is going to plan a big gay date. so i started poking around looking at festivals and found the qixi festival and immediately was like fuck YES lets go. this was probably the biggest of the big gay romantic gestures (rip to royce for having to hear the furby alarm one last time) but he was rly determined to make sure molly totally forgot about everything else for a bit! that and he wanted him to get to see great liang. i think that stuck with him from their conversation on monday of week 6 too, and it was also him taking the moment to show molly something EXTREMELY important to him on his own terms. his home! quietly will smith poses please love his home ok he loves it so so much!!! so i’d definitely planned for that but otherwise didn’t have any other plans going into the thread itself. i knew i wanted to use the cowherd weaver story bc of the moonweaver comparison hehe but otherwise!! i was just like we will see where this goes!!! (oh also the joke in there about him not being a cow is that one of the celebrations of qixi is that they put flower garlands on bulls horns to celebrate the ox that became the cloak for the farmer to fly with. didn’t get a chance to explain that one IC too distracted by gay shit)

so when you brought up the courtesy name in the thread i like SCREAM YELLED and went flying off at 100mph to go try and come up with one. alli i did so much research. i did SO much. LMAO. i wanted to try and find something really perfect, so i like stuck my face in a mandarin dictionary and - actually, it’s funny because I came up with hanxing first? BC i liked the poetry comparison very much and i wanted to find something super meaningful and then i was like hm maybe i can make it “full of moonlight” instead bc of the moonweaver! so i searched “full moon” in my little mandarin dictionary thing and that was when i came across Míyuè. i like could not BELIEVE how perfect it was when i looked into the actual lore of it - the “second month of life” like hello? HELLO? the lore behind it was perfect and i was really hoping you were gonna pick that one too. LOL. and i tried to build that into the actual tag itself, the idea that the second one was a little more off the cuff - not a perfect and poetic name but kind of a joke on him being a toddler.

oh man did it make him happy when molly liked it - and honestly, like, when he brought it up again, too? because i think he had forgotten about it up until that point. so molly wanting to take on a name like that was a little piece of great liang culture and that just warms his patriotic heart to death. i also didn’t notice that they matched so that was a really cute surprise too… our sun and moon theme clenches fist tenderly

i had to get him to say something sort of half romantic in response on accident bc otherwise it never would’ve happened so i’m glad we were able to work that out, too. it was - like, this confession thread was just perfect. holds it tenderly in my arms. every part of it i think was super representative of our cr up to that point and very them and it was just perfect. third time was the charm for them both to actually say the correct words instead of stupid metaphors too. ugh. UGH!!!! god. fellas is it gay to have a matching sun and moon theme for your name and want to hold hands with someone all the time and want to do anything to make sure that person is happy and gets to live a good life? just wondering

jesus fuck okay. moving on. after the dead came back gy got even more aggressively defensive of molly because he was tired of people just sort of dumping garbage in his general direction, whether it was on purpose or on accident. he was ready to take fukuda’s fucking head off during their team meeting at LEAST twice and one of those times was directly related to molly because he wouldn’t stop talking about it being hopeless to bring back beau. he’d been dedicated to that mission since day one and wouldn’t take some hole man trying to rain on his parade that was going to be successful AND making molly who was already having to deal with more shit more upset. :T congrats on your temporary (?) attack dog ig

when he got the healing power he definitely wanted to go up to the satellite with the others when they said they were going. it made me really happy that molly + harrow + gy (+ steven, we stan steven) got to go up to the satellite together because it was such a nice culmination of our little group cr. i talked abt that a lot in my tl;cr for siz but i’ll just say here that he really trusted the two of them a lot and also - he wasn’t sure what exactly they were going to see up there, and he wanted to be there to continue to be that support, just in case. plus i think he thought if he needed to he could use his healing on beau and/or jester if either one of htem was super badly injured somehow just in case, so it was extra good.

and i think he was extra glad he was there when they saw jester in the bubble tube thingy. being able to write the tag of like grabbing his hand and pulling him over to scan their little bracelet things so they didnt fucking die was one of my favorite Little Poignant Moments ™ and i just thought it worked out really nicely that they got to continue supporting each other all the way to the end. and that they got to get beau’s friend juice together! again he was getting them all (beau + jester + everyone else) included out of here at this point and refusing anything but success, so.

and thankfully we were successful!! the millions of angry lesbians wer esoothed and brought back to safety, beau included. i really liked our little endgame thread, even though it was short - the “I want more than an hour is the thing.” “What, two hours, three?” conversation was so silly and lighthearted and warm that it just was really nice. I like to think they probably spent that last night together because it makes my heart really warm to imagine. GY knew he was going to get his wish probably (?) at that point bc they didnt have to worry about saving beau and the others since they were fine, so it brought him right back to that point about traveling again and seeing each other. i like to think maybe they would’ve successfully had that conversation, if not then, then maybe when they did the tarot reading on the endgame log. “tell me if i have any travels in my future” kind of stuff. and now they’re going world hopping and visiting each other and meeting each other’s friends and its really just fantastic and gross and im proud of them thank you, beau, for enabling this shit to happen

anyway to wrap this up i want to try and just describe sort of the general ship stuff here which is this - for gu yun, molly was everything interesting and exciting and wonderful about life that he never got to experience. growing up the way he did, he never had a chance for indulgent behavior, for doing things just for the sake of doing them. he never had the chance to experience a freaking tiefling let alone the idea of magic and magical worlds where that thing is normal. he never had a chance to really have a friend that was like him - in sense of humor but also in their heart of hearts they’re both really good people who want to, as molly would put it, leave things better than they found it. gu yun never really had the chance to experience affection, either - actually, he never had the chance to just be loved by someone, period, and molly came around and changed that. i think molly is just in every way shape and form an adventure - they always had fun together no matter what was happening and I don’t think that would change even past endgame. still gotta level that tiefling up in a baby bjorn, though.

and then on a last note - i knew from the beginning this cr was going to be really nice but i don’t think i could have even begun to predict how wonderful it ended up. it was such a fun time to get to develop out this ship with you, alli! you are such a joy to write with and i loved every second of it... i can’t believe we hit 1000 comments in our pc log still its wild. WILD. i really, really enjoyed it, and if you ever want to psl these idiots more than we already have i am always down to clown. c:

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also i may have more doodles floating around but im really embarrassed so i cant share them or ill die but u can have this one and now im leaving goodbye.