I'm very glad I'm not the only one who feels this is a plausible take on canon! :-)
Though just as with Shen Wei, not having had sex doesn't mean he doesn't have a vivid kinky imagination.
Oh yes, absolutely. I don't think either of them are innocents in the sense of not knowing what people get up to, and why wouldn't they live out their hopes and/or fantasies in their own minds? (Aaaannnd now I have another fic idea. Sigh. Fortunately it's so sad that I probably won't even attempt to write it.)
I feel like he just never had the headspace for anything else.
That's pretty much the only circumstance I can imagine, too. Circumstances were against it - and at some point he began trying to turn himself into a weapon, so he wouldn't have attempted to carve out the emotional space for a romantic relationship in between the fighting. But sex as a bonding activity and pleasant physical release, sure.
Maybe not towards the end, when he was commander of all of Dixing's forces. But before, yeah.
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Though just as with Shen Wei, not having had sex doesn't mean he doesn't have a vivid kinky imagination.
Oh yes, absolutely. I don't think either of them are innocents in the sense of not knowing what people get up to, and why wouldn't they live out their hopes and/or fantasies in their own minds? (Aaaannnd now I have another fic idea. Sigh. Fortunately it's so sad that I probably won't even attempt to write it.)
I feel like he just never had the headspace for anything else.
That's pretty much the only circumstance I can imagine, too. Circumstances were against it - and at some point he began trying to turn himself into a weapon, so he wouldn't have attempted to carve out the emotional space for a romantic relationship in between the fighting. But sex as a bonding activity and pleasant physical release, sure.
Maybe not towards the end, when he was commander of all of Dixing's forces. But before, yeah.