Shi Qingxuan 🍂 师青玄 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
winepouring) wrote2022-08-24 07:01 am
winepouring) wrote2022-08-24 07:01 am
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Room 110
⭐️ text • visit • delivery ⭐️
Room 110
⭐️ text • visit • delivery ⭐️
Room 110
⭐️ text • visit • delivery ⭐️
Room 110
⭐️ text • visit • delivery ⭐️
~10/11
Rita's not an idiot!! She's totally put the clues together: the cat sticker, the magic comments, the obvious dig at her perfectly fine fashion choices from the shirt, the bestie (gross) part, the female laughter...
Shi Qingxuan is the obvious culprit here. So--
BAM BAM BAM--
He's getting an angry fist banging on his cabin door.]
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As usual, he's dressed as impeccably as possible given the Tommy Bahama wardrobe he's acquired! But his face is that of total irritation as he opens the door. ]
Hold on, stop that! I'm here!!
[ His expression doesn't change that much when he looks down and sees Rita standing there, but there's a light of recognition in his eyes like, Well, if anyone would knock on his door like they were trying to bust a hole in it, it would be Young Miss Mordio.. ]
Oh, it's you!
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And he has the nerve to look annoyed and also play innocent?! Ohh, how annoying! Rita immediately tosses the red-stained tropical-print shirt at his face.]
Of course it's me! Are you stupid? You thought your little spooky act would somehow make us besties?!
--Who the hell even calls it that, anyway?! That's gross!
[This is very important?? Maybe?]
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HUH?!
[ Shi Qingxuan might be one of the least athletic gods on this ship, but he still has enough reflexes to at least step back into his room with a projectile that smells like blood comes flying at his face!
How is he meant to respond here?! ]
Rita, what are you talking about? What spooky act?? Who's calling us "besties"??
Start from the beginning here. You can't just knock down someone's door and not explain anything.
[ Even he hasn't called someone "bestie"! Not even his one, single best friend! (He can imagine said friend would also say, Who calls it that? That's gross! though.)
That poor, bloody, tropical print shirt is just crumpled up there on the floor now... ]
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Oh, I should have to explain to the person who obviously left this? Get real! I'm not falling for it!
[Sure, he might be putting on a somewhat decent innocent act, but she's smarter than that!!]
You want a starting point? How about the black cat? Can you be more obvious?!
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[ He looks at her as if she's suddenly grown a second, equally angry head. Black cat? Shirt??
This is an attack on his good name! ]
When we first met, you were trying to win those hairpins, but you weren't able to because of me. I'll take responsibility for that one, but the black cats are because you liked them! As for this...
[ Shi Qingxuan leans over to pick it up in both hands, looking it over. It does look small enough to fit Rita, but the bloodstains... He glances back at her again to confirm she doesn't appear to have any fresh wounds visible on her body. ]
Who would give such a thing? [ He says it mostly to himself, giving the shirt one last look before he bundles it up again. ] Whether you remember our first meeting or not, you can't say I gave you something as distasteful as this. I didn't want to make you handle dirty things to begin with, so why would I suddenly decide to give you something so horrible? It doesn't make any sense to accuse me.
[ Seriously, what kind of logic is "you gave me hairpins so you obviously gave me this bloody shirt too"?! Compared to his usual carefree and easygoing self, he's actually pretty serious here. ]
Now, what actually happened?
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Huff...well, fine, if he's going to continue being all innocent like this...!]
Oh, you want to know? Someone left me a suspicious letter claiming we were best friends, and also left that at my door.
[Look, the blood is so obviously fake (or so she insists) that he's clearly just trying to creep her out after they were at that stupid spooky store!!]
Still want to say you had nothing to do with it?
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[ What on earth... Does he seem that frivolous? Does he seem that mean? Rita, he's really getting the impression that you hate him here!
But anyway—isn't this extremely creepy?! ]
What about that note? Let me see it. There might be a clue to the actual culprit in there.
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[She still isn't sure about him!! ...But he has come off as an airhead in their meetings so far, so she supposes it's seeming less likely...though annoyingly, that would mean she was...wrong?! Ugh!!
She clicks her tongue in annoyance, then motions for him to come with her.]
Fine...let's go.
[To her cabin!]
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Well, what Shi Qingxuan doesn't know doesn't hurt him! He tosses the bloodied shirt aside into his room and follows after her. They'll get to the bottom of this!! At least they're not on opposite sides of the ship, but it's still a fair distance. Which means Shi Qingxuan is still going to ramble while they walk. ]
So, what's this letter and shirt about? When did you find them?
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That's what I'd like to know. It only just happened.
[And, yes, she "deduced" almost immediately that he was the culprit!!]
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[ He doesn't know if he should laugh or cry here... ]
And right away, you saw a strange letter and a ruined shirt, and you thought of me... I say, if you think this poorly of me, I don't think we can stay friends!
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[And clearly she's a GREAT DETECTIVE, okay!!]
Besides, what do you mean, stay friends?
[Did he think they were already friends?? Gross. What a great note to leave on as Rita opens her cabin door, though.]
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...says nothing! Just cringes a little! He has a duty as a heavenly official/detective pikachu to help her get to the bottom of this!!
His brother would probably say something or other about just waltzing into a girl's personal quarters, but he's not here right now to say anything! Shi Qingxuan walks right in and starts looking around with a critical eye. ]
The culprit really did a number on your room before leaving! You said the shirt was left at your door, so where did you find the letter?
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...Wait, what? She steps in after him, standing near the door and giving him a suspicious look.]
What do you mean, did a number on my room? They never came inside. The letter was pushed under the door.
[As if to emphasize that point, she retrieves the letter from its place (on the floor) and brandishes it at him.]
this thread is so much less funny with how this plot ends 🥲🥲
[ But...there are scorch marks... And clothes and books and notes everywhere, like someone tore through it with a vengeance. ]
...Huh.
[ YEAH he'll leave it at that and just take the note. As he reads it, his brow furrows. ]
This letter... Rita, you should be more careful. Can't you see this is a threat? This person says you don't know them but plan on changing that. They're practically spelling out that they have dangerous intentions.
IT'S STILL FUNNY there's just an undercurrent of sad to it now too ;o;
In other words: she has no idea what Qingxuan's problem is with her room, but it's not an issue since he focuses on the letter, anyway!]
Hey...you think I can't tell that for myself? Why do you think I went looking for the creep responsible?
[Normal things one does!!]
sad funny... 🥲
[ Is it worth trying to be Rita's friend when she insults him like this? Signs point to "no."
But he still has a responsibility to help this rude little girl, so he's being the adult here! He sighs, folds the letter back up and...well, tosses it back on the floor where Rita found it. ]
And that's a good thing. You can't just confront someone who's threatening you like this by banging on their door. What would you do if the real villain actually showed up?
[ It's around here that Shi Qingxuan makes the grim realization that he sounds like his brother. ]
—Anyway, we need to go over this incident carefully. It's not good to accuse people blindly.
it's...fine... ;o;
[Or maybe Rita would rather insist that her deductions were surely not that wrong, even if she's accepted that he's not the prankster...!
And...wait, is he trying to lecture her? She crosses her arms and huffs.]
I'd blast her to smithereens, what else?
[Yes, "her". Did she forget to mention that before? Well, whatever. She makes an irritated sigh--she wasn't doing it blindly!!]
Hmph...that's all there was to it. The note and the shirt.
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[ Wait, if it's just these two things and she's suspecting him, what does she mean by "her"?? ]
And you can't determine someone's gender just by their writing style. Plenty of people have writing styles that don't suit their appearances. You'll be shooting wild guesses all over the place if you make assumptions like that.
[ ...so, he'll accept Rita thinking he writes super, ultra girly. It's not the worst assumption made about him. ]
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[Genuinely asking...
Though, more importantly, she has evidence for that beyond the writing!! So she bristles at him, even if it's something she'd neglected to mention before now.]
Do you think I'm stupid or something? Of course I didn't base it on the writing! I heard that creep's laughter--just not enough to recognize her.
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And her laughter sounded like mine??
[ He's even more confused now. He did laugh a lot when they were playing Never Have I Ever before, and somehow associating him with laughter makes more sense than the rest of her accusations. He folds his arms across his chest. ]
Well, there are women other than myself on this ship--there are even other men who can change their forms besides just me. If we take the note to heart, then the person who sent it would be a woman you haven't met before or spoken to much. So we can rule out any women who you're already well-acquainted with.
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[It's not like she pays attention to how everyone laughs...! Anyway, she blinks in surprise when he mentions that there are even others who can change their forms like Qingxuan, and she heaves an annoyed sigh. This just keeps getting more frustrating...and here she thought she'd had it easily figured out, and instead the list of possible suspects is growing in size...]
Hmph...that's assuming the letter's even telling the truth, which I would find hard to believe. So, ultimately...you're saying it's just about anyone.
[Sure, she can rule out the men she knows aren't shapeshifters, as well as someone like Fio and a few others, but...this really doesn't help much.]
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[ Not yet aware of the possessions, Shi Qingxuan doesn't add that both Castor and Venti can change their forms. The two of them don't seem the type. Castor because he can't imagine him creating such a letter, Venti because he isn't the sort pull such a mean-spirited prank. ]
That's why you need to be careful. It might just be a bad joke, but if someone really does have bad intentions, it's impossible to know what they might be capable of.
[ Rita's small. Even poor, thin Banyue could probably take Rita in a fist fight. Not that Banyue would do such a thing if she were here, ahem. ]
If that person comes by again, please tell me. I'll sort things out with her.
[ Because...bullying young women like Rita...is low...🥲 ]
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Ultimately, she sighs--and ironically, considering what's going through Qingxuan's head, Rita thinks he shouldn't be treating her like a little kid...]
Hey, whatever their intentions, I can sort things out myself, you know!
[She can call him to let him know after the fact, if he really needs to know... (or if she genuinely needs his help, though she can't imagine she'd need it, surely!!)]
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