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
silently into the night redeim
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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!
Family Dinner (A-Yuan) [COMPLETED]
A-Yuan
MDZS Character
Yes
Questioning
Single
Velexa
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Jul 22, 2020 19:58:33 GMT -8
Post by A-Yuan on Jul 22, 2020 19:58:33 GMT -8
"But when anger comes up, you're supposed to surrender it to God. Then you don't have those thoughts. So you see, you don't have to have the thoughts at all if you're being faithful," A-Yuan tried to explain.
"And I'm not being hurt. No one is hurting me, you don't have to worry about that," he said, covering Jingyi's hand with his own. "I mean, they let me bring in stray animals from the street. They're not evil. I think maybe I've given you the wrong impression of the sisters and the church."
He sat up, "what do you want to know? I'll tell you anything," he was convinced he could clear the air.
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Lan Jingyi
MDZS Character
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Jul 22, 2020 20:17:29 GMT -8
Post by Lan Jingyi on Jul 22, 2020 20:17:29 GMT -8
Jingyi debated with himself whether he wanted to pursue this conversation or say that he was too tired to keep having it. It felt weird to leave it here though. He grumbled very quietly, "That's not how brains or thoughts work."
He shifted and said, "I'm not Christian, at all. I respect that people who are Christian believe that there's a god that does this sort of thing. Someone can do good in the world, make the world a better place, through their actions and their choices. Someone can have nice thoughts all the time, but not do anything with those thoughts, and that's not doing good or being good to me. Someone can have nasty thoughts sometimes, but control them, and make the choices to do good things that help others and make the world a better place, and to me that's a better person than someone who only has nice thoughts but doesn't do anything with them."
Jingyi sighed and said, "They've made you think that you're a bad person when you consistently do good and kind things, and you help people and animals, and that's not OK. They've made you feel like if you have attraction or a sexuality, then you're bad, and that's just something that happens, naturally, and is a part of human life. Not everyone's interested in sex or romance, and that's natural and fine too, but you're obviously hurting about it and confused and twisted up inside, and it makes me worry to see that for you. I feel like if that god is supposed to be good and kind and caring or something, doing actions that make someone hurt when they try to understand themselves, isn't right with that somehow. And maybe that means that I don't understand it, but I'm not sure that I want to understand a viewpoint that makes it so that someone being loving and kind is somehow a bad person."
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A-Yuan
MDZS Character
Yes
Questioning
Single
Velexa
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Jul 22, 2020 20:36:33 GMT -8
Post by A-Yuan on Jul 22, 2020 20:36:33 GMT -8
"The Bible agrees, James 2:26 'faith without works is dead'. It means that you can't just have good thoughts, you need to do good things, otherwise it's pointless, just like you said." A-Yuan tried to point out their common ground.
"And they don't make me think I'm bad. They just want to steer me on a path of righteousness. And yes, God is kind and loving and caring, but that same God is the one who flooded the Earth and is jealous for us. I know He loves me and for His love I am willing to sacrifice." He smiled in the dark. He could practically see the sisters faces smiling at him and he defended his faith.
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Lan Jingyi
MDZS Character
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Jul 22, 2020 20:48:00 GMT -8
Post by Lan Jingyi on Jul 22, 2020 20:48:00 GMT -8
Jingyi turned himself towards the wall, pulling the cover over his shoulder and feeling like that only half got through to A-Yuan. He didn't know what to say. He could hear A-Yuan just repeating something, and how some of what he said didn't seem to agree with some of the rest of what he said. He knew that the sisters were demonstrably cruel to A-Yuan in certain ways.
He didn't want to hurt his friend. He was also getting close to being on the brink of falling asleep. He said softly, "I don't want to argue with you about how our religious beliefs differ. I'm glad that there's something in there for you about good actions being the important part, and I don't get the jealous thing at all, but I'm also about to fall asleep. I'm open to talking about this again, when I'm more awake sometime. But just, can you promise me that you'll think about why your sisters disapprove of me or Uncle and what you think of that? You don't even need to tell me your conclusions. Just, think about it."
He stiffed a yawn, trying not to show too much from his posture even as he was sort of hiding himself by turning to not face A-Yuan anymore. He saw how A-Yuan was hurting and beating himself up over things, and that a lot of the words he used to beat himself up were ones that came from the sisters. He didn't know how to make A-Yuan see that they didn't always treat him well, in fact from what Jingyi could see, often didn't treat him well, without hurting A-Yuan more. The only thing that he could really think about was two whole years away, when they were both eighteen, and trying to get A-Yuan to move out and live with him somewhere. That seemed like a very long way away.
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A-Yuan
MDZS Character
Yes
Questioning
Single
Velexa
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Jul 22, 2020 20:55:29 GMT -8
Post by A-Yuan on Jul 22, 2020 20:55:29 GMT -8
A-Yuan could tell Jingyi had essentially tuned him out, he tried to brush it off as him being tired. He turned, facing away from Jingyi, "good night," was all he said as he crossed his arms across his chest.
He was frustrated that his friend seemed more willing to pass judgement rather than listen with an open mind. That was all A-Yuan had done today, listen with an open mind. He'd meditated and practically undergone hypnosis because Jingyi thought it would help, and yet he didn't seem willing to return the favor.
He closed his eyes to do his nightly prayers and ask for patience regarding his friend.
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