welcome to Silently Into The Night
Hello and welcome! We are a modern-day reincarnation AU of the novel/donghua/drama Mó Dào Zǔ Shī, also known as Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Chén Qíng Lìng, or The Untamed. The characters have been reincarnated into modern day, where some have regained their memories of their cultivation days, while others have not yet. Original characters are accepted, but please have a good story for them if they were a cultivator in their past life. The RP takes place in Palo Alto, California, and is set in the current year.
Modern Reincarnation AU
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updates
JULY 07, 2020
And we're officially open! Feel free to leave questions or chat with us in the cbox. :)
JULY 06, 2020
Soft opening of the site!
Educational Date (Nie Mingjue) [COMPLETED]
Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 20, 2020 21:41:11 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 20, 2020 21:41:11 GMT -8
Mingjue shrugged and said, "I feel cleaner at least. Though the sorts of things I put in my emergency change of clothes are in good enough shape to be worn in public but worn out enough that I don't preferentially wear them in my clothing rotation anymore. It makes them useful."
He looked at Meng Yao's outfit a second time, having just assumed that it was a dress and not thought much beyond that. He said, "The sweater looks soft. I hadn't realized about the shorts, but that sounds like it would be a nice enough outfit."
Mingjue didn't wear shorts, or usually even short sleeves, so an outfit that completely didn't cover one's legs seemed a little bit uncomfortable to him, but Meng Yao seemed happy in his outfit.
He tried the lemonade and found it pleasantly sour and tart without adding further sugar. Considering he sometimes just drank hot water mixed with a bit of lemon juice, he was pretty sure that his tastes ran towards less sweetened lemonade than he usually found, but it was good fresh. He said softly, "It's good," before taking another sip.
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 21, 2020 7:04:56 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 21, 2020 7:04:56 GMT -8
Meng Yao offered a sweater covered arm, "it is soft, feel it," he said with a childish grin.
He took a sip of his lemonade and smacked his lips, "it is good!" He leaned back on the couch, arm still offered and shut his eyes.
He was sorting the things they'd done today into his mental boxes and matching actions to things he'd read or seen. "Have you ever watched the TV show Numb3rs?" he asked, eyes still closed.
"It's about a math professor, his brother is an FBI agent and he helps him figure out crimes with math. I feel like that's my brain sometimes." He said, opening his eyes. "Not the math part thank goodness, but all the things racing through my head and the connections I make."
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 21, 2020 7:52:34 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 21, 2020 7:52:34 GMT -8
Mingjue reached out and lightly touched the sweater, nodding and saying, "Very soft."
He was a little surprised by Meng Yao's sudden topical jump. He shook his head though and said, "I don't watch that much television. It doesn't tend to hold my attention and Huaisang gets annoyed if I wander off to do something halfway through an episode, so I let him watch his shows in peace."
He thought for a second, wondering if that made him sound boring. He added, "I do like to read though, and sometimes watch movies that are focused on something that I like, a lot of martial arts films, some documentaries if I'm interested in the topic."
He admitted, almost sheepishly, "I'm pretty sure that the last TV show I actually watched through was Avatar. The original one."
He made a mental note of Meng Yao's explanation about himself though. It wasn't that surprising, the other man seemed to make a lot of sudden but sound logical leaps. He said, "That does sound like it could be overwhelming at times."
He didn't bother to stand up for math not being that bad. That just sounded like Meng Yao wanted to complain.
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 21, 2020 8:58:08 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 21, 2020 8:58:08 GMT -8
Meng Yao nodded, "you would like martial arts films. If you like Avatar though, it makes me think you can tolerate short episodes. Have you tried anime? There's plenty of fighting related anime and they're equally as short in length."
He shifted his position so one of his legs was folded beneath him and he could face Mingjue. "I've lived with this brain my whole life, I don't think I've ever been overwhelmed. I think of it as compartmentalization. Things get put in their place, and I can recall them when I need to. For example, with my photographic memory, I don't think I actually read a page." He leaned over and picked up a book from the coffee table.
"It's like I take a picture of this page," he opened a page and mimed taking a photograph, "then I store it. If I need to know something, I go in and find that book and that page and mentally read it then. I think it's some weird broken style of memory," he laughed at himself.
Meng Yao found himself starting at Mingjue's fingers holding his lemonade glass. "Have you ever gotten a manicure?" He reached for Mingjue's other hand and held it up, looking at the nails. "I could give you one," he glanced at a clock on the wall, "I have the time."
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 21, 2020 9:34:10 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 21, 2020 9:34:10 GMT -8
Mingjue shrugged and said, "I've tried to watch a few, Huaisang watches plenty, and none of them have really held my attention. Maybe I've not been watching the wrong ones, but I'm not a hugely visual person most of the time. Neither in memory nor appreciation of things. I tend to remember and think through things kinesthetically first, then auditorally. Visuals are somewhere down near the bottom of all that. Huaisang gets on my case about looking away when we're watching things sometimes because he thinks I'm not paying attention. It means that I mostly just watch things in Mandarin or English though."
Mingjue looked at his own hands when Meng Yao asked him about a manicure. He said uncertainly, "I don't know that I'd be able to take good care of one with the amount of stuff that I do with my hands, and no, I've never had one. I don't even know what one entails."
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 21, 2020 11:06:43 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 21, 2020 11:06:43 GMT -8
Meng Yao thought about it, "yeah, kinesthetic is pretty low on my list. School must have been a pain for you, it's most definitely designed in favor of those like me."
He turned Mingjue's hand over, "I wouldn't put anything on you that you'd have to take care of. A clear coat would strengthen your nails," he said, scooting closer and leaning over his hand, examining his cuticles, "do you get hang nails, I've got some cuticle oil that will help."
He started massaging Mingjue's hand as he observed the nails, not even noticing he was doing it. "I can give you one, if you want." He looked up at the other man and realized how close he'd gotten.
"Sorry," he said as he scooted back out of Mingjue's personal space and dropped his hand, "I get hyper focused sometimes and forget things... like space."
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 21, 2020 14:17:22 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 21, 2020 14:17:22 GMT -8
Mingjue shook his head at the question and said, "I don't think that I've ever gotten a hang nail in my life. I just keep them cut short. For the most part they don't break either, though I've managed to do some damage to them working with my hands over the years."
He figured that Meng Yao didn't want him to actually describe some of the things that he'd managed to do to his fingers and in the process fingernails.
Mingjue contemplated his own hands, slightly relieved when Meng Yao backed away. He'd been a little bit too close. He said, hesitating because it seemed like it would involve a lot more of that being slightly too close and too much touching, "I'm not sure. What makes you want to give me one?"
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 21, 2020 17:09:23 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 21, 2020 17:09:23 GMT -8
Meng Yao muttered a "hmmm" to Mingjue's response. "No hangnails, that's a surprise, it looks like you've nearly got one now."
He winced at the mention of damage, "I'm guessing I don't want to know what you've done to your poor fingers, do I?"
He took another sip of lemonade, cataloging the fact that Mingjue had been relieved when he let him go and moved away. "You suspect ulterior motives?" he asked, quirking an eyebrow. "I mean, I would too. I have that kind of face," he said with a sly grin.
He laughed at himself, "the only reason I even thought about it is because I see how dirty your nails are." He pointed to the nails on Mingjue's hand holding the lemonade glass, "I figured 'can I give you a manicure?' sounded slightly less serial killer-y than 'can I clean your nails?' Besides, you've been taking care of me lately, let me return the favor."
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 21, 2020 17:19:40 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 21, 2020 17:19:40 GMT -8
Mingjue glanced at his nails again and said, "Yeah, they're getting long enough that I was going to trim them tonight, which should handle that."
He wavered, it was a new experience, and he wasn't sure that he would be happy with it, but his hands were a mess. He'd been in just enough of a hurry to not scrub fully enough to get all the car grime out of his nails.
He shrugged and said, "Honestly, the cleaning up the nails part of it sounds fine, though I'm perfectly capable of cleaning my own nails, and like trimming them or something doesn't bother me as an idea, but it's the anything beyond that that I'm less sure of. Most of the time when I've walked by the shops that do manicures they have a lot of scents, and it's not precisely my favorite thing."
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 21, 2020 17:36:11 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 21, 2020 17:36:11 GMT -8
Meng Yao sat up straighter, feeling like he had a bite on his line. "I've got a few different cuticle oils, you can tell me which one you can tolerate."
He reached for Mingjue's hand again, pausing as if asking for permission, "I'll talk you through what I'm going to do and you can tell me if that's okay, okay?"
He took Mingjue's hand anyways, forgoing the consent. "I'll put your hands in warm water, then clean under the nails. I'll clip them, shape them and buff them. Then I'll put cuticle oil on and push back your cuticles and remove any strays. I'll put lotion on your hands and a little ways up your arms," he touched Mingjue's forearm to show where, "which comes with a lovely massage, then, unless you want a clear coat, we're done."
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 21, 2020 19:48:18 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 21, 2020 19:48:18 GMT -8
Mingjue considered it quietly for a bit, deciding how he felt about Meng Yao's hands on his like this. Meng Yao was friendly, and while he could be a little bit pushy, seemed to understand the nature of Mingjue's preferences without him having to go into too much detail. This was definitely hovering on the edge of his comfort zone, but at the same time, he felt drawn to Meng Yao to a degree, and he did want the other man to like him. There was a part of him that felt like some of Meng Yao's friend impulses would probably work better on Xichen than on him. He wondered if they were too dissimilar to actually make good friends, but he and Xichen were also pretty dissimilar, and it was nice to find someone who didn't seem intimidated or bored by him.
Finally he decided. He nodded and said, "That much sounds acceptable. I don't think that I want a clear coat. It would feel too much like putting car paint on my fingernails on purpose. But like, let me smell things before they go on my skin."
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 21, 2020 20:04:36 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 21, 2020 20:04:36 GMT -8
Meng Yao beamed, thrilled Mingjue had accepted. He held up three fingers like a boy scout, "just say the word and I'll stop right away."
He set his glass down on a coaster and bounded up the stairs two at a time. He went into his bathroom and grabbed his manicure kit as well as a few options for cuticle oil. He paused for a second to glance in the mirror, a habit, and saw the oil Mingjue had mentioned earlier in his hair. "You, later," he menaced at the oil.
He raced down the stairs and placed the supplies on the coffee table, setting out the three options for oil. "Smell those and let me know which one you want to use." He went into his kitchen and filled a bowl with warm water and grabbed some towels.
"We're gonna have to sit on the floor if you don't mind, but we can use the coffee table. Also, all my supplies are run through the dishwasher after I use them, so they are sterile." He said as he brought back the bowl and towels.
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 21, 2020 20:13:40 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 21, 2020 20:13:40 GMT -8
Mingjue finished his lemonade as Meng Yao ran upstairs, still feeling a little bit uncertain about all this, but talking himself into trying it. He nodded quietly when Meng Yao explained the about sitting on the floor, and moved quietly, arranging himself so that he could sit comfortably on the floor. He contemplated the bottles of oil, a little bit uncertain about each of them and asked, "Before I sniff them, what scents are they? Like do they have specific things they're supposed to smell like?"
He felt a little bit silly about being so nervous about something as small as a bottle of scented oil, but this was new territory for Mingjue, and he liked his routines. Routines were kind to him.
He glanced up at Meng Yao, trying to figure out what the other man thought of how he was interacting with all this.
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 21, 2020 20:27:30 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 21, 2020 20:27:30 GMT -8
Meng Yao situated himself across from Mingjue, pointing to the bottles as he described them, "that one is blossom scented, so loosely flower scented, that one is lavender, so purple scented and that one is citrus. The citrus and blossom have very mild smells, in fact, you might not smell the citrus one at all. It's practically unscented."
He leaned his head on his hands while waiting for him to smell them. "You're nervous, aren't you? What can I do to put you more at ease?"
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 21, 2020 20:46:13 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 21, 2020 20:46:13 GMT -8
Mingjue listened to the descriptions and scooted the lavender one away from himself. He said, "I already know not this one then."
He carefully opened the citrus one, giving it a tentative sniff. He wasn't entirely sure what Meng Yao meant about it barely having a scent. It definitely had a pleasant, and admittedly rather mellow, citrus scent, but it wasn't bad or overwhelming, and Mingjue liked citrus well enough. It was certainly a possibility. Just to be sure, he carefully sniffed the blossom one as well, immediately making a face and putting it next to the lavender. He handed the one that was citrus scented to Meng Yao and said, "This should be OK. It definitely has a scent, but it's pleasant enough."
Mingjue shrugged and said, "I am interested in seeing how this goes, but I'm probably just going to be nervous. It's something new and different, and involves a fair amount of close contact."
He rolled his sleeves up to the elbow so that they wouldn't be in Meng Yao's way though and said with a questioning tone, "I think that I'm ready?"
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