okay, so. I still didn't watch Mystic Nine 2 season yet, but just from what I've gathered
do I understand correctly that zhang rishan takes one (1) season of mandated vacation and ba ye goes fucking missing?
#i dont really know how it is explained that rishan is not there this season#but its kinda funny to think that like higher ups in army have to force a mandated vacation to fo ye's fuguans once a year#because they refuse to do it themselves#(full disclosure: I don't know if they even had vacations like that at that time. but its still funny)#dmbj#mystic nine#mystic nine 2#fuba#zhang rishan#qi tiezui
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i truly, truly love extending the idea of the zhang teamX Baye. like does the fuguans have a secret leaderboard in the barracks? what do they keep score of? how many times have you carried baye? that would be unfair to xiaojin probably. how many trips? what is a fair measurement that could be gloated over the other brothers in arms!
foye isnt on the leaderboard because like hes Georg. but zhang rishan probably is. and hes probably still leading the board by miles because aha! (movie canon) he'd always been by foye's side so technically hes also a Georg.
the mental image of the young fuguans and other soldiers climbing ranks just standing around the board like it's an inspiration and everyone's internal dialogue is a very chunnibyo "ill beat your score one day, rishan-ge!" is very amusing to me.
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Jiang Cheng apologist? You mean an apologist for a guy who has done nothing wrong in his entire life?
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stupid idea for a MDZS fanmade visual novel:
you play as jin zixuan. after a long series of various events and misunderstandings, you come to understand that your acquaintance jiang yanli, who you once wrote off as average, is in fact a perfect soul who you desperately want to marry. the only problem now is that she 1. is still convinced that you hate her, 2. probably hates your loser ass too, and 3. is surrounded by men and women who are far more qualified to date her than you are. #1 and #2 can hopefully be resolved eventually with enough time, effort, and apologies.....but #3 seems to render that impossible, since if you're not careful any one of these "more qualified" bachelor/ettes might snap her up first!!!!!
you immediately identifies wei wuxian as your biggest threat, because from your (jin zixuan's) pov, wei wuxian is jiang yanli's male childhood friend who she super dotes on. after seeing how close they are, you are initially almost ready to give up - except then you find out that lan wangji is gay and in love with wei wuxian, and thus realize that you can eliminate wei wuxian as a threat if wangxian get together.
you then realize that this also applies to everyone else you see as a romantic threat. so, because you are a problem solver, you come up with a solution: before any of jiang yanli's friends can make a move on her, you will find a way to pair them all off with each other. that way, they will all be too busy dating each other and your path to yanli's heart will be (relatively) clear.
so instead of being a dating sim, the objective of the visual novel is to help all the various side couples involving yanli's friends get together, so none of them can threaten xuanli.
ideally, the game will let you freely choose which couples to push together, so there will be a wide variety of routes and endings.
("jiang yanli's friends" in this game is just the set that includes all the mdzs characters more commonly shipped with each other. jiang cheng is there, but he's yanli's brother so he's not a threat. so zixuan's strategy for him is just to keep him available on the side, so he can be paired up with whoever's left over after all the other matches have been made but is still a high enough threat.)
jin zixuan's threat assessments (accuracy not guaranteed):
extremely high:
- wei wuxian
high:
- nie mingjue (bc of his muscles)
- lan xichen (bc he's popular)
- wen qing (bc even straight girls would go lesbian for her)
medium:
- wen ning (he seems too timid for dating)
- nie huaisang (he seems more interested in hookups than dating)
- jin guangyao (my own half-brother wouldnt betray me....right?)
low:
- mianmian (she's my friend so she wouldn't betray me. also she seems interested in someone else (mr. mianmian))
- lan wangji (gay, uninterested in women)
- su minshan (too much of a hater)
- jiang cheng (brother)
conditions for victory:
- wei wuxian must be paired with someone.
- everyone from the high-risk group is paired off.
- a maximum of 1 person from the medium-risk group is left unpaired; everyone else from the medium-risk group is paired off.
- yanli approval score (explained below) is above a certain threshold.
you do not need to pair up anyone from the low-risk group in order to win; the low-risk group is there purely to help you. pairing off people in the high- and medium-risk group is necessary not because they are actually a threat to xuanli, but rather because jin zixuan will only feel secure enough to confess once almost all of his perceived romantic rivals have been removed.
some game notes:
- throuples are allowed.
- while wangxian is the most straightforward way to eliminate wei wuxian as a threat, the game also allows for other wei wuxian pairings. in other words, you as the player can betray lan wangji by pairing wei wuxian up with someone else instead - in which case the game is still winnable (ie. jin zixuan can still get together with jiang yanli, which is the victory condition), but you also unlock a special CG of lan wangji crying.
- the achievement of the victory condition is decided not just by whether or not you successfully pair everyone else up, but also by a hidden metric called the yanli approval score. this is calculated by your interactions with wei wuxian, jiang cheng, and jiang yanli herself as the game continues: if you are kind to them, then the score goes up, and if you are rude to them, then the score goes down. if your yanli approval score is low enough upon the game's end, then yanli will still refuse to date zixuan even if you've successfully paired everyone else off.
- notably, attempting to pair jiang cheng up with someone and then failing nets you a severe yanli approval score demerit, while successfully pairing up jiang cheng with someone nets you a high yanli approval score increase. interestingly, pairing chengxian together nets you the highest increase in yanli approval score.
- if you get nielan together and then do not pair up jin guangyao with anyone, then the game gives you the option of putting in the hard work to help him network. it is highly recommended that you take this option, as if you do not, jin guangyao will expose to jiang yanli everything you as jin zixuan have done in the least flattering terms possible, which will make yanli unwilling to date zixuan and will net you a game over.
- if you get xiyao together and then do not pair up nie mingjue with anyone, then the game gives you the option of putting in the hard work to find him a hobby. it is highly recommended that you take this option, as if you do not, nie huaisang will push jin zixuan into the traffic and you will get a game over.
- if you intend on pairing up jiang cheng with anyone other than wei wuxian himself, then wei wuxian will run interference against you; a successful strategy therefore must include anti-wei-wuxian measures. this remains true even if you previously helped wangxian get together, because wei wuxian is an ungrateful bastard.
- if you intend on pairing up jiang cheng with lan xichen, then both wei wuxian and lan wangji will run interference. because of this, the xicheng route is probably the hardest route involving jiang cheng in the entire game; to compensate for this, the xicheng route also has the second-most CGs (after wangxian).
- if you get jin guangyao together with someone, then he will offer his assistance to you for the rest of the game. this translates into additional stats, intel, and information on who likes who the most, which will make the rest of your run easier.
- if you get nie mingjue together with someone, then nie huaisang will offer his assistance to you for the rest of the game as well. nie huaisang offers the same assistance as jin guangyao above, but he also includes his own commentary and opinions.
- you (as jin zixuan) cannot date anyone else. sorry zixuan x other shippers, this is a xuanli game.
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WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! (youtube)
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just saw (and subsequently lost it when the feed refreshed) a xhs post positing that Baye Handling is a reward to be unlocked by Foye's soldiers as motivation for them to climb the skill ladder and it's such a cute thought. it is a good and fun reward! also imagine getting promoted and it's a little like a wedding but instead of "you may kiss the bride" it's "you may handle the baye" and then they carry and spin him a little.
isnt that so fun
baye: does anyone ever think about my feelings
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I didn't actually watch any episode of mystic nine 2 yet (still in the middle of mystic nine 1, coincidentally), so every time I see any gif or a meme or just a single screenshot, it is always so wild that internally I'm like - what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck
like now I am 100% convinced that wu laogou has a choking kink, courtesy of foye and xinyue (is there a fic about three of them already? surely there must be, right?)
also we now apparently have two new fuguans on a baye duty? Because one evidently is not enough I guess???
.... although, judging by a new foba rescue scene, even two are not enough, huh
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I didn't actually watch any episode of mystic nine 2 yet (still in the middle of mystic nine 1, coincidentally), so every time I see any gif or a meme or just a single screenshot, it is always so wild that internally I'm like - what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck
like now I am 100% convinced that wu laogou has a choking kink, courtesy of foye and xinyue (is there a fic about three of them already? surely there must be, right?)
