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I think this would be funny but don't feel inspired to actually write it, at least not right now.
If you're not familiar with Scum Villain's Self Saving System, here's a fun post skygiants made about it recently. In short: nerdy loser Shen Yuan finds himself stuck as the doomed villain of the terrible porny fantasy webnovel he was reading. Making things harder is a System that deducts points if he acts out of character or loses Cool Points etc. By trying to make the protagonist Luo Binghe to like him enough that he doesn't get murdered, Shen Yuan ends up making Luo Binghe fall in love with him.
When I first read the fic, I was a bit squicked by the initial setup: the villain Shen Yuan is stuck in is the then 14 year old Luo Binghe's father figure-ish mentor/teacher. And then I thought: well, we don't know how old Shen Yuan is! He's canonically much younger than the 50ish villain, and skimmed all the original novel's sex scenes to get to the worldbuilding. Maybe he is also around 14, desperately trying to fake being a middle aged sword master.
Canon eventually made it clear that no, Shen Yuan's more like 20. He doesn't think of Luo Binghe as a love interest until a good decade or so later, so it's not as squicky as it could have been, but I was still sad to lose my headcanon.
Recently I was pondering what an AU where Shen Yuan was the same age as Luo Binghe would look like. Imagining Shen Yuan's "cool immortal on the outside, flailing nerd on the inside" with a young teen is pretty funny, but then I got kind of squicked by all the sex and violence poor teen!Shen Yuan would be dealing with as a consequence of the kind of story he's stuck in.
And then I thought: what if the system has a child-safe setting.
( Read more... )
If you're not familiar with Scum Villain's Self Saving System, here's a fun post skygiants made about it recently. In short: nerdy loser Shen Yuan finds himself stuck as the doomed villain of the terrible porny fantasy webnovel he was reading. Making things harder is a System that deducts points if he acts out of character or loses Cool Points etc. By trying to make the protagonist Luo Binghe to like him enough that he doesn't get murdered, Shen Yuan ends up making Luo Binghe fall in love with him.
When I first read the fic, I was a bit squicked by the initial setup: the villain Shen Yuan is stuck in is the then 14 year old Luo Binghe's father figure-ish mentor/teacher. And then I thought: well, we don't know how old Shen Yuan is! He's canonically much younger than the 50ish villain, and skimmed all the original novel's sex scenes to get to the worldbuilding. Maybe he is also around 14, desperately trying to fake being a middle aged sword master.
Canon eventually made it clear that no, Shen Yuan's more like 20. He doesn't think of Luo Binghe as a love interest until a good decade or so later, so it's not as squicky as it could have been, but I was still sad to lose my headcanon.
Recently I was pondering what an AU where Shen Yuan was the same age as Luo Binghe would look like. Imagining Shen Yuan's "cool immortal on the outside, flailing nerd on the inside" with a young teen is pretty funny, but then I got kind of squicked by all the sex and violence poor teen!Shen Yuan would be dealing with as a consequence of the kind of story he's stuck in.
And then I thought: what if the system has a child-safe setting.
( Read more... )
