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no-transmigration au where cumplane meet and fall in love thru roleplaying their ocs on forums. i say "their" ocs but mobei-jun is also airplane's oc, he just lent him out bc shen yuan was a new rper and he was like "oh sure you can play my guy's loyal lieutenant"
peerless cucumber every night before bed: I'M not gay. mobei-jun is gay. for binghe. who is played by airplane. but i don't have feelings for airplane lol. me thinking about our ocs kissing for hours is just creative inspiration (their ocs have not kissed)
airplane is also rp'ing with a bunch of other people who aren't around as consistently (hence all the wives) and swaps over with them to the nsfw channels pretty regularly bc he's practicing writing smut but shen yuan ONLY rps with airplane
✈️: haha it's funny how you're always online when i am. a lot of verisimilitude dude it's like binghe can always come home to mobei-jun no matter what
🥒, who has alerts set up for whenever airplane posts: haha. Yeah
shen yuan has fully decided that airplane meant for mobei-jun to be gay even though airplane has never indicated this to him. he's just like creating this whole gay longing melodrama that's mostly playing out in his head while airplane blithely fucks around
he mostly ends up telling airplane directly about mobei-jun’s inner life rather than putting it in his posts bc he's not very good at roleplaying. so all his posts are like "mobei-jun nodded." "mobei-jun regarded his king." "mobei-jun sighed and turned away"
but then in dms he's like [fifteen paragraphs of character analysis about what that sigh meant] and airplane finds this wildly endearing. shen yuan doesn't directly talk about mobei-jun’s Feelings tho bc like, that's weird?? they're in the posts (they are not)
shen yuan keeps trying to convince himself to prompt them to move to nsfw boards but then chickening out bc he's straight and doesn't want to write gay sex that's so weird. but he gets so mad every time airplane takes someone's girl oc who barely even SPOKE to him over there.
one time he has mobei-jun wrap a hand around binghe's wrist when he's holding xin mo and has to do a lap around his apartment to cool off
airplane tags shen yuan into a thread with someone else and shen yuan responds to a nice introductory greeting with like... "mobei-jun glared and looked to his king"
"mobei-jun pulled his king aside and advised him against entertaining the affections of this interloper. she could be a spy" & the other person is like UM? HELLO?
a lot of people in the forums are building their own lore for cucumber bc he's not as subtle as he thinks
cumplane being online inevitably means people WILL be speculating on whatever the hell is going on there. theres like a private chatroom about it
there's def a side plot where someone's like FINE, MAYBE I AM A SPY and tries to seduce mobei-jun as a way to get close to binghe. shen yuan replies a couple times out of politeness but does NOT understand what she's getting at
she dms him to be like "so do you want to move this to nsfw" and he's like. what!!! and screencaps it to send to airplane like ?!?!?!?
✈️: omg dude nice. mobei-jun finally gets some
🥒: wh. what?? no I'm not gonna do this
✈️: omg you're such a prude
🥒: I'm not--that's not why!!
✈️: then why
🥒: because mobei-jun--you, you KNOW why!
shen yuan has been imbuing mobei-jun with all the gay vibes, airplane, how are you missing this!!! also mobei-jun being gay was airplane's INTENTION!!! he knows this because *mumble mumble* HE did not decide it. it's just an innate mobei-jun TRUTH, shen yuan wouldn't dare make airplane's character ooc
it never occurs to airplane that cucumber-bro is feeling bleed really because he rps way less than airplane does (due to not rping with anyone else) and like yeah, he's intense about it, but he seems like a pretty intense guy
lot of analysis, too, doesn't seem as into it in the moment?
so like on the surface he just seems like a really earnest rper who like. has not figured out how to do it well yet. and every time airplane's tried to give him pointers or nudge him (see: the mobei-jun and spy convo) he gets brushed off so he figures he's having fun this way
it IS kind of charming to see his terse posts and then know the flood of dms is coming
he gets all the secret mobei-jun lore! he will never tell shen yuan how little of it lines up with what he planned for the oc.
airplane treats the forums as like "lol this is just smut practice, I'm phoning it in, lol hack writer" but like!!!! people enjoy it bro!!! in some ways they enjoy it MORE because he doesn't take himself super seriously, he's funny as well as sexy and tweaks the tropes in interesting ways
it's a fun way to blow off steam too bc you don't HAVE to do a lot of character development beforehand, you can just make up a sexy lady you want to think about getting railed, and then character tends to emerge during the tropey bits and suddenly you have A Character
shang qinghua being unofficial dad to an ding disciples -> airplane being first rp partner to noobs on the forum. he saw incredibly awkward lurker shen yuan and offered him a wholeass character sheet. Airplane Do You Know You Are Nice Actually
shen yuan somehow found some Binghe Stuff he wrote, thought it was an original novel, discovered rp and was like........ idk what this is but i wanna hang out with bingy
🥒: hi I don't know what this is but I would like to participate
one of the mods: hey just make up a character and jump in!
🥒: Make Up A Whole Person??? what is my motivation!!
sy sent into PAROXYSMS OF DREAD. he's like I CAN'T MAKE UP A WHOLE PERSON I DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THE WORLD THEY LIVE IN YET
he has seen what happens here and he would like to see more of the demon politics! 90% of the boards being cracky tropes leading to nsfw and sy is demanding Depth immediately lmao he spent all this time compiling his binghe notes!! and now you want it to go to WASTE?
✈️: what do you like about what you've read so far?
🥒: um. binghe's cool? and i like all the demons and monsters
✈️: well you could always make a wife lol
✈️: or if you don't mind premade i've got a guy you can mess around with
🥒:
🥒: second option please
shang qinghua, rushing in to scoop up this awkward rando with the cringe display name: it's ok here you can be this extremely cool guy who's exactly my type in every way
✈️ to mingyan mod: oh no he's cute
⚔️: lol he seems like a weirdo
✈️: I'm giving him mobei jun
⚔️: WHAT
✈️: well nobody else wants him bc it's so much internal life & i can't really rp him & binghe by MYSELF
✈️: who knows maybe this guy will turn out to be some rp prodigy
⚔️: a year later when all of sy's public posts still consist of bare bones action: so how's that going for ya
✈️: shut up he's my friend :(
SHE WOULDN'T BE LAUGHING IF SHE COULD SEE ALL THE DETAILED AND EARNEST DMS HE IS GETTING FROM THIS GUY OKAY
✈️: he's actually a huge help
✈️: he remembers like. everything. & he's helped me develop a ton of demon lore
✈️: like every two days i feel like i'm dm'ing hualing about updates to the like. political landscape lol
✈️: no one ELSE cares about my political landscape
⚔️: wow ok go off
⚔️: sorry i insulted your boyfriend
✈️: oh Boy don't let him hear you. guy's like hair-trigger about how straight he is
⚔️: wait, really?
✈️: yeah it's really funny. and a little bit sad tbh
✈️: i'm surprised he's not having mbj fuck binghe's wives about it lol
⚔️: do you think it's a closeted thing? he sure seems to have some Feelings about binghe
✈️: nah
✈️: i mean, maybe? but i doubt it
✈️: i think the binghe thing is just a power fantasy type deal. when i publish this as a book i think we're gonna see a lot more cucumber-bros
he's wrong about this tho. shen yuan is one of a kind
cucumber-bro is def airplane’s favorite on the forum. not fav rp partner bc he’s not good at it. just general favorite
he says this offhand to someone in an ooc thread and cucumber-bro finds it and screenshots it just to have :)
shen yuan doesn't even realize there are nsfw boards until airplane gets him set up with mobei-jun (they're member-locked). suddenly there is SO MUCH MORE BINGHE LORE
He’s Very Serious about Binghe Lore (and the forum lore in general). he was sending corrections to people unsolicited to start with
the mods kept stepping in to be like "hey stop correcting people we play pretty fast & loose around here" and shen yuan posted an impassioned defense of having Consistent Lore for the purposes of worldbuilding and genuine character connection
✈️, secretly touched: bro if you wanna do the work to make that happen you're absolutely welcome to but I just will not
🥒: on it.
✈️: ... Wait, really?
"if you want people to follow this, you're going to have to make it accessible" they said, not realizing who they were challenging
⚔️: hey did you guys just get an email titled "binghe lore part 1"
😈: SURE DID
🎀: I've started reading it and guys
🎀: has he ever been on the nsfw boards?
🎀: like does he know we have them?
😈: binghe's "proud core that would rather break than bend" lmaoo
⚔️: whoop just got part 2
shen yuan did not email this to airplane. he just assumes airplane knows. of course airplane knows! it's airplane's world and character, surely he is keeping track even more closely than shen yuan!
once he has access to the nsfw board though. suddenly there’s a WHOLE lot more binghe to read about
shen yuan reading about binghe on the public boards: wow he's so cool and suave and strong and tormented no wonder all of these women are into him
shen yuan reading about binghe on the nsfw boards: oh no
he spends [unspecified quantity of time] absorbing this. new information. about binghe's....physique. he still coins "heavenly pillar" in this 'verse (in the dms) and airplane goes to the mod chatroom like YALL
✈️: CUCUMBER-BRO NICKNAMED BINGHE'S DICK
🎀: .... this is NOT the message i expected to wake up to today
🎀: are we sure he's straight
✈️: for my sanity let's go with yes
✈️, months before things go wild, as a joke: he's either just a straight weirdo or wildly in love with me so
he deletes the fact that he ever said this from his brain. the mod chat does not
people think they know each other in real life bc like. why does airplane keep roleplaying with this standoffish weirdo. having no idea about his constant string of dms. they think they’re dating and that's why mbj keeps popping up to glare at all binghes conquests
"is mobei-jun actually into luo binghe sleeping around", a question bouncing around shen yuan's head ever since he saw it on the forums
he can't stop thinking about this. he's like well *I* think it's a little hot to think of mobei-jun denied and wanting while binghe sleeps with women but that's bc I'm into women. mobei-jun might just be sad. I think mobei-jun should never receive the kind of love he is desperate for but that has nothing to do with me 😇
anyway everyone's like WHY does airplane keep having binghe fuck women when his boyfriend clearly hates it. is this some kind of kink for them
someone says this openly and cucumber bro screenshots it and wordlessly sends it to airplane bc he has interpreted the "his boyfriend" to mean mobei-jun is binghe's boyfriend, and he also wants to know
airplane's like omg haha I can't believe someone thinks you're my boyfriend and shen yuan just bluescreens
✈️: are you like. upset about this?
✈️: did it make you uncomfortable?
✈️: cucumber-bro why did you send me this
🥒: I thought it meant. mobei-jun was binghe's boyfriend
✈️: oh lol no I think they meant you
✈️: wow that's a lot tho huh
✈️: wow. i could totally get behind binghe/mobei. mobing? bingmo? hot
shen yuan, bluescreening again:
✈️: I'm sure you won't but if you ever wanted to explore that lmk and we could move one of our ongoings to nsfw
✈️: would actually love the chance for some m/m action lol
🥒: n. no, we can't just. mobei-jun would want it to matter
✈️: 👁 what if we made it knives
✈️: they do the nasty and binghe thinks nothing of it but mobei is upset
✈️: hell we don't even need to rp the actual nsfw we could just do the angsty fallout
🥒: I don't think he'd say anything though I think he'd just live with it. his loyalty comes first
✈️: well then this would be good practice for you! put some of his inner life out there for someone other than me to see
shen yuan, in his room: I don't care about anyone but y- [backspaces furiously]
eventually they agree to do it but shen yuan is like. in Agonies over whether to say he'll do the nsfw part. how can he accurately understand what mobei-jun is feeling if he doesn't know exactly what happened!!! but if they do isn't that Gay
not to mention he has No Idea how to write sex so it would be mostly airplane bringing his vast experience to the table and shen yuan helplessly responding as best he could......... (he spaces out a little)
he eventually decides it's only gay of the CHARACTERS not the roleplayers and any gay feelings are just because he's being in character
🥒: ok let's do the nsfw part but there's gotta be plot reasons bc mbj has been holding back for years abt this. so I think Xin Mo goes crazy & binghe needs it & mbj is the only one-
✈️: wow you've really thought about this bro
🥒: tbh I kind of thought we were on the same page
airplane getting a little flustered about this bc like, cucumber-bro is INVESTED
he was a little relieved cucumber-bro is such a prude and wanted to skip the nsfw because like, he phones in all the het sex but it's inherently more vulnerable writing gay shit and cucumber-bro has always actually appreciated his writing style and sent him lines he liked and stuff
and this is cucumber-bro's first time on the nsfw boards and he's already so invested, shang qinghua doesn't want to do a bad job and let him down!!
he starts it off so slow and charged with binghe like shivering and reaching for mobei-jun with his clothes all torn and everyone else on the forum is like ok damn what the hell??? when he takes wives over here he just pushes them down immediately
(people scrambling to find one of those anti-plagiarism sites they can run his posts through, there's NO WAY this is the same dude--)
also like this is a new thread there's no lead-in so some people are like. is this an Overture by airplane... an apology... or if they're NOT together is this flirting 👀 will cucumber respond
shen yuan does respond but it takes him a WHILE. he's drafting everything out beforehand and stressing hard and resisting the urge to send it all to airplane before he posts it just to check but airplane's the one he's trying to impress
finally he goes whole hog and leans into all the stuff he's been not quite saying for MONTHS and it comes out this mediocre but wildly sincere purple prose tangle of mobei-jun thinking about how beautiful binghe is
airplane is like. dang. hes putting his back into it
airplane is also like can’t believe this purple ass prose is kind of doing it for me
[to himself] oh my god bro we need to get you an editor but mobei-jun thinking about binghe's hands this much IS hot
shen yuan would be so gay about this. like airplane is in the thread taking actions and all of shen yuan's replies are internal reactions that mbj has at binghe's touch until at a certain point he gets so overwhelmed with the way airplane is describing binghe Holding Back
and he's like ok. ok. and says that mobei-jun pulls his king in and kisses him hard enough that luo binghe will know he is here for anything he wants, anything he needs, for the soothing of this terrible pain or for simple pleasure
he hits post and then has to Log Off the rest of the day
shang qinghua: damn. just when it started getting REALLY steamy
airplane writing binghe being surprised at mobei-jun's ardor but it not being unwelcome, and thinking to himself that after all, mobei-jun is the picture of loyalty
shen yuan getting happy little zings about this for days
airplane also decides to switch it up like they hadn't really talked about how it would go but he's like mm. and has binghe go to his knees to "reward" mobei-jun's loyalty
🥒: ??? I thought binghe would push him down
✈️: oh he will. but sometimes it makes it easier when the person bottoming gets off first
🥒: .
✈️: plus it's like a fun power dynamic shift right?
🥒, who had been assuming the nsfw part of this would maybe be five posts total:
shen yuan is no thoughts head empty about how airplane knows these things
🥒: I don't. really know how to write the. receiving. of this
✈️: I mean a mouth's a mouth right if you've gotten bjs frm girls u can describe that basically
🥒: .
✈️: not to like. assume. or u can just continue w ur emotional shit it works better for the angst later anyway
shen yuan had carefully not thought about airplane drawing on his own experiences when writing binghe but it's IMPOSSIBLE not to while he describes in searing detail binghe giving his first blowjob
everyone on the forums is like i cannot BELIEVE luo binghe’s player does so much het smut rp when he is obviously obsessed with dick
they're like what gives and airplane's like well het smut sells, doesn't matter what I like
shen yuan, reading this response: airplane. likes this. Airplane Likes This
the rest of the day is just. a total daze
shen yuan, for some reason: how can I show airplane that even though I have never gotten a blowjob I am not opposed to them as a person. this is to prove I'm straight and has nothing to do with how I recently learned airplane loves giving blowjobs
⚔️, watching this: you still sure he isn't so deep in the closet he hit narnia?
✈️: hoo boy
✈️: let's just uh. not get into this huh
⚔️: 👀
✈️: i mean good news is he doesn't flip out when gay shit is implied anymore. obviously.
✈️: also APPARENTLY he's been playing mbj gay the whole time????
⚔️: wow really?
✈️: yeah lmfao idk
⚔️: no wonder he didn't go for 😈's spy plot a while back
⚔️: she & i figured he just didn't want to rp smut
⚔️: but like look at him now
✈️: i DEF didn't think he'd be interested he even offered to skip over this bit and cut straight to the angst
⚔️: ANGST!
⚔️: AIRPLANE!!
✈️: :D
✈️: u thought they were going to cuddle after??
✈️: binghe has like. a million wives
✈️: it's gonna take more than one night of passion to change his ways
✈️: also cucumber-bro insisted it be bc of xin mo and not just bc they're horny for each other so
✈️: perfect excuse
⚔️: you little heartbreaker i can't believe you're doing this to him
✈️: to who
⚔️: mbj?
⚔️: did you think i meant cucumber???
✈️: no
✈️: i was just like. making sure
✈️: it was his idea so.
✈️: it's just he's really invested? and idk
✈️: it's making me like. nervous
⚔️: you??? nervous?? to write smut???
✈️: yeah lol i know
✈️: well. it's not rly the smut that's making me nervous. or i guess it is kind of. bc i don't put a lot of my m/m shit out there as you know
⚔️: you can half-ass it just as much as your het stuff. keep it light
✈️: hm
airplane firing off little tips and suggestions in the dms as shen yuan struggles his way through his replies. like "think about where he might put his hands" "he could pull his hair binghe has a lot of hair"
shen yuan alone in his apartment: oh my god.
✈️, helpfully: i know hes overwhelmed but hes probably thought about this before, right? what has he thought about doing. what if he can't resist the urge to touch binghe's mouth
🥒, dying:
🥒: i don't think he's thought about. this way round. i think he always thought it would be. like. him. you know, like you said, the power dynamics
✈️: put it in the post bro!!
shen yuan, feeling distinctly bullied, opening the post: mobei-jun died instantly from lust
shen yuan: [backspacing]
shen yuan grudgingly: mobei jun thought he might die from lust
if he only THINKS IT he has to KEEP GOING SOMEHOW!!! this is hell. why did he agree to do this. now he is plagued with terrible knowledge like "airplane likes giving blowjobs" and "he, shen yuan, cannot write porn for shit"
he remembers airplane telling him to focus on the emotion and that they're doing this as setup to angst so he does manage to get mobei-jun putting his hands in junshang's hair but he also thinks about what he would be feeling that would make everything worse later
Mobei-jun for the first time considered that Junshang might be doing this from enjoyment, not necessity. That his feelings, hidden for so long, may not be anathema to his king, but welcomed—even, in some small measure, returned. What else was this gesture but an equalizer?
✈️: oh damn dude that's so tasty. poor mobei
✈️: kinda want binghe to return his feelings now
🥒, panicking: no
✈️: no??
🥒: no they have to return to the status quo after this. the knives are the whole point right
✈️: oh i don't think he'd tell him. just secretly yearn
✈️: who doesn't love mutual pining
🥒: I
🥒: okay bro whatever you want to do
✈️: i mean if you really want i can just make binghe oblivious and cruel it just seems so callous now
🥒: .
🥒: whatever it's fine
✈️: 🤔 no reason to decide now
✈️: i mean it's already My Brand for really good dick to change people
✈️: maybe mobei's meat popsicle awakens something in him
🥒: i hate you so much.
shen yuan: airplane would classify this bad porn i'm writing back to him as "really good dick" 😵
shen yuan is like, mobing CAN'T get together. i'm not examining why except the idea makes me vaguely nauseous and nervous and stressed out and i need to go back to only feeling things secretly— i mean mobei-jun only feeling things secretly
way back when, before this forum blew up, airplane and the other mods did an intro thread with actual pictures of them & shen yuan ran across it. so he knows what airplane looks like (but airplane doesn't know what he looks like)
he had a crystal-clear mental picture of Hottest Man In The Universe Luo Binghe but is now discovering that when he tries to picture mobei-jun pov, the face has gotten rounder for some reason
airplane, internally: damn cucumber-bro is really dedicated to angst! who'd've thunk it
meanwhile shen yuan: if people on the forums think I'm airplane's boyfriend does that mean they think he gives me blowjobs like this. do they think I pull his hair? i wonder if his hair is longer. since that picture. is he sending me secret signals that his hair is longer
accidentally writing about binghe's small soft hands and then aggressively editing before posting like "what is wrong with me"
but he doesn't like describing them as big and strong so instead he says "clever and capable"
before once again logging off for some good old repression time
after this incident, shang qinghua is getting Curious about what his favorite rp partner is actually like! he gets little hints about irl sometimes (he lives alone, but he’s got multiple siblings, which implies Money) but he has no idea, for example, what he looks like
so when cucumber-bro gets snippy with someone on the ooc thread about cosplay, shang qinghua leaps on the opportunity like a starving tiger
✈️, casual as hell: have you ever cosplayed, bro?
🥒, very carefully not looking at his half-constructed mbj cosplay in the corner: a little
✈️: can i see 👀
🥒: um
🥒: sure
🥒: let me just scrounge up some pics
shen yuan out loud: why the hell did you say YES, SHEN YUAN!!
he ends up sending airplane a pic of himself as like, some megane anime character looking stern. shang qinghua nearly chokes to death on his drink.
he has to lie down. he was already lying down but now he has to lie down HARDER
"the whole time I was sexting him a brojob...he was looking like THAT......"
✈️: bro no offense but what the fuck are you doing on this forum all the time
🥒: what?
🥒: what the hell is that supposed to mean have i like failed to meet a cuteness requirement or some shit
✈️:
✈️: oh okay you just have no idea what you look like. that's fine
🥒, pretending not to be genuinely hurt: just because you're a mod doesn't mean you can haze me for not being as cute as you
✈️:
✈️: okay let's back up SEVERAL steps
✈️: dude you look like a model and the average guys here myself included look like potatoes
🥒:
🥒: FIRST OF ALL
🥒: obviously i look like a model in that pic i'm dressed as [character], who is hot
✈️: you know clothes don't magically give you cheekbones right
🥒: SECOND OF ALL, who on earth told you you look like a potato. you do not look like a potato
✈️: how do you know lol
🥒: ? i saw in the thread
✈️: what thread
✈️: oh shit from like two years ago? jesus i looked even MORE like a potato then
✈️: i can't believe you found that shit that's so embarrassing
🥒: what the hell. it is not
✈️: can i at least send you a pic where i look vaguely cute
shen yuan is frantically internet searching how to be normal when your friend wants to send you a cute picture
when shang qinghua sends the pic, shen yuan dissociates. he cannot look at sqh's cheeks directly
all of shang qinghua’s cute pics are the tiniest bit slutty because of who he is as a person and the downward angle on this one is NOT helping with shen yuan's constant state of airplane blowjob knowledge
his lips are a little bit parted. shen yuan wants to DIE
his brain is like "ask him if he's thinking about sucking dick in this pic" and shen yuan throws his phone across the room
✈️: moderately less potato-like haha
✈️: bro?
✈️: ....
fifty minutes later cucumber just says "haha" and shang qinghua is like aw fuck I shouldn't have sent the one with the knee socks
🥒: sorry bro i was in the shower
✈️, who can now Picture That: oh no worries
🥒: it was rude to leave you hanging
✈️: dude yr fine
shang qinghua, typing and erasing "in more ways than one":
🥒: you were right
✈️: ?
🥒: it's a cute pic. i like your socks.
✈️: ah. haha. thanks
shen yuan def has a dream that night that binghe tops him wearing only these socks and he's like "huh that was weird. must be anxiety"
shen yuan googling:
"anxiety dream thigh high socks"
"fictional character changing how he looks after you meet the author"
"how soon is too soon to ask your bro for more selfies"
he tries to Prompt More by sending airplane another pic a couple days later like "found one i like more" that's him in like, more historical costume. bafflingly airplane does not return the favor
if shen yuan ever works up the nerve to post his mobei-jun cosplay though. 1) he gets offended that airplane does not instantly respond even though shen yuan specifically didn't dm him about it 2) the entire forum has to have a Hot Cucumber Crisis against their will
ALL of the replies are like @ airplane okay we get it now and shen yuan is like ???????
one of the other forum founders dms airplane like "how the fuck did you land THAT" and shang qinghua is like "I'll let you know once I find out"
this is the first thing he sees bc he's been Offline More Lately (working on PIDW) & he's like what are you talking about. and mingyan mod is like "cucumber posted his cosplay, you didn't see??" and shang qinghua thinks it's just the ones he's seen so he's like oh yeah. ridiculous huh
⚔️: you guys must've spent so long hashing out this character design the details are INSANE
✈️: wait. what
✈️ at the thread: oh my fucking god
they did NOT hash out the details. it's all stuff cucumber-bro had taken note of in their rp posts - stuff "binghe" noticed about mobei-jun, mostly - or from shang qinghua’s original character description. he's wearing BLUE LIPSTICK
it's also like. open down cucumber-bro’s chest which on mobei-jun is Tits Out Pec Town but on cucumber is like. pale twink peekabo. like he's carelessly left it open
shang qinghua:
shang qinghua, weakly: no titty twink committee has rights actually
there’s also a three-second video clip of cucumber-bro in costume saying "junshang"..... shang qinghua is like COOL COOL FINE AND GOOD
shen yuan meanwhile peeling off his own skin that airplane has not said a WORD to him about this. he hates it, clearly. he thinks shen yuan crossed a line. he got all the details wrong. it's inappropriate. he's ruined everything—
✈️: BRO!!!!!
✈️: IT'S PERFECT
✈️: WHAT THE FUCK IT'S NOT EVEN MY BIRTHDAY
🥒: you like it?
✈️: how could I not like it!!!!!!
🥒: :)
✈️: there he is that's mobei-jun!!!! i can't believe this dude is pining for binghe and it took THIS LONG for binghe to do anything about it. dumb as hell
🥒: haha
🥒: out of curiosity. when is your birthday
✈️: why?
🥒: so i can get you something? obviously?
✈️: bro 🥺 that's sweet but you don't have to
✈️: I never really give a shit about my bday
✈️: I mean. i don't have a ton of friends and even less money so i just chill
🥒: don't you get shit from your family at least?
✈️: LOL
✈️: long story short. no i do not
🥒: well then i'm definitely getting you something. when is it
✈️: not telling!!!
🥒: bro. c'mon
✈️: no!! you cannot work your wiles on me!! these lips are LOCKED UP TIGHT
🥒: hmm. we'll see about that
shang qinghua in his bedroom: 😳
shen yuan: I see. then you have chosen to receive a new item from me every day of the year for the rest of your life
shen yuan doesn't have airplane's address or even his name so he starts sending him like. email gift certificates w the message like "have i got it right yet"
the most annoying method possible, and therefore the most shen yuan method possible!
after a week of these like. pretty substantial amounts of money he is being given airplane's like BRO STOP!!! you're spending way too much money on this stupid prank & shen yuan is like you KNOW how to stop me and airplane is like UGH FINE!!!!
airplane tells him his birthday and then five minutes later he gets another gift certificate and he's like DUDE and shen yuan is like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it was already processing :)
he does receive very lovely custom mobei-jun art for his birthday but he also continues to receive e-cards that say things like "it's the 17th of may!"
shang qinghua: you rp giving a guy ONE blow job and he sends you his trust fund. if I'd known, i would've made binghe gay years ago
they're all really useful gift certificates too, all to stuff that shang qinghua has absently mentioned liking. shen yuan is boyfriending this dude so hard
..... one of them is for a place that sells cool/sexy long socks. shang qinghua is like. is cucumber-bro indirectly buying me lingerie right now.
he gets some classy black thigh-highs & gets as far as taking pics in them, then goes and lies face down on his bed bc this man is STRAIGHT!!!! probably!! surprisingly engaged and emotional descriptions of receiving a bj from a man notwithstanding!!
...he gets up to take more pics.
he does one on his back with his legs up and ankles crossed and ofc THAT'S the one he accidentally sends
they're still talking through the ROLEPLAY FORUMS so it's not like he can say he meant it for someone else it's just. sitting there. right after cucumber-bro's last message which is him appreciating some line in their current angst thread
✈️: well
✈️: that is not the picture I meant to send.
✈️: but I did want to show you that I put that gift certificate to good use so uh
✈️: thanks, bro!
🥒: hfjfn
🥒: your
🥒: *you're welcome
it takes some time for shen yuan's brain cells to begin firing in such a direction but: who was the picture for if it wasn't intended for him!
WHY WAS AIRPLANE TAKING THAT PICTURE IN THOSE SOCKS IF NOT TO SEND TO HIS GOOD BRO AND RP PARTNER SHEN YUAN, HE WONDERS
🥒: if you weren't going to send it to me why did you like
🥒: take it
✈️: in an attempt to be sexy?
🥒: for who
✈️: um. myself? future potential partners?
🥒: but
🥒: it's so uh
🥒: don't you like. top
✈️: what.
🥒: you're always. binghe. he always. I figured.
✈️: oh my god
🥒: sorry!! sorry that's like. wildly inappropriate to say. I'm. I'll shut up now you don't have to answer this at all
✈️: bro. lmao
✈️: it's fine I'm just laughing bc like what part of my tiny round body makes you think men want me to top them
🥒:
🥒: why wouldn't they
✈️: look I'm not saying short fat guys can't top. and I've been known to switch
✈️: but let's just say it's not the first thing on most dudes' minds when they see me
✈️: I mean I think the first thing on most dudes' minds when they see me is "do I wanna settle for that" but
all other plans CANCELED, shen yuan will be aggressively validating airplane for the rest of ever
🥒: why do you do that
✈️: do what
🥒: you're always so fucking mean to yourself for no reason
✈️: lol you've seen the reason, I just sent it to you. are you really telling me if you were into men & you saw me at the club you'd go for me
🥒: yes!!
✈️: …
🥒: if. what you said.
🥒: i think if i was into men and i was the club going sort of guy if i saw you there i'd, i'd, i mean how could anyone take their eyes off of you?
✈️:
shang qinghua, sliding directly onto his floor like, this is a bad idea. this is a Bad Idea.
✈️: and if you were interested in men
✈️: and the type to go to clubs
✈️: what would you want to do with me
🥒, stupid: well i. i already know. that you like giving head
airplane's just like "you can just tell me what would happen like you do when you're mbj, it's not like this is actually you,” and shen yuan is IN
shen yuan is like 😤 I have rp'd a gay ice demon king for years, I can imagine the hypothetical scenario of being attracted to airplane. for the sake of his self-esteem 😤
shen yuan, very stupid: airplane is also roleplaying! a version of himself who's interested in me! :)
it is important for airplane's mental health that I convince him to top me. I am going to be so in character
shen yuan going back to repeatedly reread the thread where airplane went down on h—that is, when binghe allowed mobei-jun to use his mouth. because it only makes sense to return the favor. and he needs inspo
it's the only "sexual" experience he has to draw on!
shang qinghua sending actual (tho not full-body) nudes as "cosplay" of their "characters"
airplane lets it slip that he (the fictional version of himself that he is "playing," obviously) hoped that gay!club!shen yuan would also be the kind of dude to wear lipstick casually, bc he liked it in the mobei-jun cosplay
and then shen yuan literally can't stop thinking about leaving lipstick marks on airplane's stomach and thighs
shen yuan reapplies the same blue lipstick (stupid hands keep shaking) and sends a selfie. his mouth is a little open because, according to airplane, this is how you make men want to top you. "like this?" says gay!club!sy's character
shang qinghua would call him "baby"
just to distinguish from when they're being The Real Them when he calls him bro!! obviously.
they still do not fucking know each others' real names. this helps tho bc if shang qinghua called him 'shen yuan' at ANY point in this process he would lose it in a bad way
"obviously this is a character because real shen yuan isn't gay haha. unrelatedly I have elaborate headcanons on what baby wants"
it's NOT sexting if you're just talking about your headcanons about your gaysona
if shen yuan managed any nicknames/pet names it would be “gege.” bc he knows (it came up somehow months ago) that airplane is older than him. but i also think airplane called him gege once during the Presents Prank so this would rankle him bc now the LORE IS INCONSISTENT
shang qinghua Does lose his entire shit the first time it happens though
once or twice shen yuan calls him "junshang"
he mentions the Lore and airplane is like. so you're incorporating stuff from our conversations into this scenario even though in this scenario you're just anonymously picking me up at a club? and shen yuan is like SHUT UP
🥒: YOU STARTED IT. WITH THE LIPSTICK THING
✈️: no, I was speaking as the player hoping that your character also owned something you owned bc I would like it. in this scenario. my CHARACTER doesn't know about your mobei-jun cosplay
🥒, only more turned on by this nitpicking:
🥒: would your character like it if i got more lipstick. like, different colors
✈️:
✈️: maybe ;)
shang qinghua is really awakening to some stuff also bc this really IS different from how these encounters go and cucumber-bro is SO openly trying to get him to top and that's usually a thing he does with like. established partners rather than as First Contact as it were
so he's like, exploring his mean side lmao and shen yuan is SO into it
cucumber bro: [pulling his usual bullied wife behavior]
shang qinghua, flashing back to their many years of conversation in a new light: oh you LIKE this
this for sure lines up with cucumber-bro accidentally calling him "junshang" in the fuckin club. shang qinghua is having so many revelations about what it looks like for cucumber-bro to flirt when he wants to be pushed down
their dynamic has always kind of been shang qinghua telling him what to do? so it naturally comes out here as shang qinghua roleplaying the Older Queer putting baby gay cucumber-bro through the paces which.... is literally what's happening, but it's a New Role for shang qinghua
and shang qinghua has never really done this before! he doesn’t have any irl gay friends. sure he’s talked to some other internet friends about coming out and stuff but he’s never gotten to play this role for anyone before
this is for sure the thing that makes it come crashing down. like obviously this Goes Wrong at some point but it's bc of this rather than the more obvious Gay Freakout on shen yuan's part bc i think he is SO comfily ensconced in We Are Only Roleplaying
these are simple text imaginations, no one is actually doing anything so it's obviously all fake!
after the sexy part of this club night, cucumber-bro starts roleplaying the sweet/cuddly/cute next morning and shang qinghua suddenly realizes the Responsibility of what he's done, and how he is ABSOLUTELY not up to the task of helping this baby through his Feelings
which is like. accurate to how he'd react if they actually hooked up in meatspace also LOL so. truth in roleplay
talking him through the concept of bottoming is much easier than feelings
cucumber-bro blithely says something like "well my gaysona wouldn't have tried anything if he hadn't met you" and shang qinghua is like. oh no
shen yuan just straight up starts roleplaying as Imaginary Airplane's Boyfriend bc the whole point is to raise his self esteem and who WOULDN'T want to stay with him forever after they had such a good time and airplane is like ABORT ABORT ABORT
✈️: aha. good place to end this i think!
🥒, in the middle of describing what he would cook for him bc why wouldn't fake gay him have culinary skills: wh. what
✈️, gently (for him): normally people go to gay clubs for a hookup, don't you want verisimilitude?
🥒:
🥒:
🥒, suddenly remembering that airplane is drawing on irl experience for this rp: you mean there are people who slept with you and then didn't keep you?
✈️, after closing his eyes to Deal With That for a minute: yeah like. all of them lol?
✈️: given that I am not in a relationship currently
🥒: that doesn't make any fucking sense
✈️: thanks, bro, that's sweet
✈️: anyway that was fun. i should probably go eat smth
✈️: ttyl
shen yuan, in his home, abruptly queasy: this just means I have to try harder. to be better than those other guys. who are wrong.
HE FEELS SO SICK AND SAD ABOUT IT... the next day like
🥒: hey can we continue that rp sometime
✈️: why lol. it was really just the one hypothetical
🥒: but it was cool i feel like there's more to explore in the world
✈️: "the world"
✈️: this world. except you are gay
🥒: yeah
🥒: and also you're into me lol that's also a difference
✈️: bro
🥒: what
✈️: nothing, just
✈️: has it occurred to you there are ways to explore a world in which you're gay other than roleplaying with me about it
🥒:
🥒: no? what? why would I want that
✈️: tbqh i'm not sure why you would want THIS either
🥒: i
🥒: you should feel beautiful and wanted
✈️: oh yeah of course the whole thing was for my benefit lol
🥒: that's not what i'm saying
🥒: airplane
✈️: can you just drop it
✈️: i'm really doing my best not to be a dick here
🥒: i don't understand
🥒: you said it was fun
✈️: yeah, it was
✈️: and then all of a sudden it wasn't
🥒: why? when?
✈️: cucumber-bro
🥒: sorry i just
🥒: i don't know why you're mad at me
✈️: i'm not mad at you
✈️: i'm mad at me
🥒: THAT'S WORSE
✈️: haha
✈️: "it's not you it's me"
🥒: airplane
✈️: it's fine. i promise. you didn't upset me or use me or cross a line or anything your sweet little brain will come up with to make this your fault
✈️: i just should never have started it in the first place
✈️: so. it's stopped
🥒: but WHY
🥒: why's it any different from being mbj and binghe
✈️: because you don't know why it's any different!!! god
✈️: how many more times can i say drop it
🥒: you saw how many gift cards i sent you right
✈️: yeah you're real fucking stubborn about shit you shouldn't be
✈️: that reminds me tho
✈️: no more gift cards. no more random presents
🥒: what? why not?? what do those have to do with anything
🥒: how are you going to tell me i didn't do anything wrong & then punish me like this
✈️: how is telling you to stop giving me presents a punishment
🥒: i don't understand how any of this is related
🥒: i don't get why anything has to change
🥒: i just want to make you happy
✈️: yeah, well, I don't actually need a straight dude roleplaying as my boyfriend! so
🥒: what do you. mean. that's what we were doing. for fun. playing characters—
✈️: i wasn't, actually. playing a character. not one who's meaningfully different from me anyway.
✈️: that shit i said i wanted from you, i wanted bc /I/ wanted it
🥒: .
✈️: and it's not your fault that that's not true of you
✈️: or not true enough, or true except, or whatever
✈️: but unless you can tell me it is, fully, i'm not interesting in playing at it anymore
✈️: oh and next time you want a boy to feel beautiful and wanted
✈️: think about why YOU want to be the one doing the wanting
✈️: instead of setting him up with someone else, you know, like a good straight bro would
✈️: fuck
✈️: i really didn't mean to say half of this shit
✈️: you just. never know when to stop pushing
✈️: and i guess neither do i
✈️: i'm sorry.
[airplane shooting toward the sky is offline]