china_shop: Three-quarter profile of Shen Wei being unimpressed (Guardian - Shen Wei srsly?)
The Gauche in the Machine ([personal profile] china_shop) wrote in [community profile] sid_guardian2025-06-05 03:20 pm
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Poll: Shen Wei's composure (drama)





Poll #33203 Shen Wei's composure
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15


When the drunk guy in the Dixing bar says, “[Zhao Yunlan] is dead! He has been killed by my huge fist," why doesn't Shen Wei react?

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Shen Wei has a lie detector power
6 (42.9%)

no one else is acting as if a murder's taken place
7 (50.0%)

Shen Wei would be able to sense if Zhao Yunlan were dead
8 (57.1%)

Shen Wei would be able to bring Zhao Yunlan back from the dead
2 (14.3%)

drunk guy is infamous in Dixing for boasting about killing people for real or imagined offences, every other day
5 (35.7%)

other (please specify in comments)
1 (7.1%)

The real purpose of Shen Wei's sleeve garters is

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they keep his shirt cuffs safely clear of the inkstone when he's writing
5 (35.7%)

they're purely a fashion statement
7 (50.0%)

when he’s in Envoy mode, he wears them as hair ties, and he just keeps them around his biceps the rest of the time so he won’t lose them
3 (21.4%)

they restrain his tentacles and/or other alien appendages
2 (14.3%)

other (please specify in comments)
2 (14.3%)



Thanks to [personal profile] trobadora for help with the poll options in question 1.
trobadora: (Shen Wei - duality)

[personal profile] trobadora 2025-06-07 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
If Shen Wei weren't literally held together by a thousand tiny artifices, he's afraid he would fly apart into a galaxy-sized being made of nothing but overpowering lust and rage.

That is such a perfect encapsulation of novel!Shen Wei's self-image!