Fanwork: 527 words
Too many blue eyes? Or not enough?
Her eyes were the colour of the Pearl now, the blue of an open sky from edge to pupil. The only reason that Nameless could discern the structures of her eyes still was the crackling energies of his mentor's spell crawling up to stain his own, actinic and unearthly and old beyond comprehension.
Xaioling pouted, her scowl only increasing when with a murmured word Nameless used the supernal majesty of The Diagram Unconquered to flick his best friend's pointy Elven ears. Suizhen just looked puzzled, as she usually did when Nameless hadn't explained why he was smiling smugly yet.
Then something within her eyes twisted, and something that looked like but very much were not clouds shifted across those orbs of endless blue. To her credit, she did to try to hide her giggle at Xaioling's wobbling ear by raising her sleeve to her mouth, but there was a reason that she was looking to be indebted to Nameless for at least the next Age or two.
"This isn't acceptable! One person with special glowing eyes is fine,but two throws our whole aesthetic off. Unloved Child, since this is all your fault-"
Suizhen opens her mouth to interject and receives a glare that if Xaioling was at a high Cultivation stage would have boiled steel.
"As I was saying, all your fault, you need to come up with a solution before we return to anywhere more civilised than this overgrown ant-heap. We'll be laughed out of the Center as we are now."
Somehow, even channeling what might be near-ontological powers of insight and escalation, Nameless found a way to make his eyes twinkle.
"Well I did have some ideas…"
Another motion and an otherwise undistinguished tome burst out from the small mountain of similar ones that had accompanied Nameless since he left home. Landing in his hands, he flicked through several pages of transcendental mathematics that made Suixhen's eyes throb unusually as he looked at them over his shoulder.
Finally he found the place he was looking for, revealing a more conventional diagram, showing a female form in a pose that caused Suizhen to blush and Xaoiling to give Nameless a slap that moved his head a whole inch at the cost of rattling every bone in her arm.
"Pervert! I knew it! This was all a scheme of yours to take advantage of me and steal my fortune!"
Nameless, now wishing that he'd never even heard of the the Vitruvian Man, felt all his years of life war with the natural response of his 14 year old body to several pretty girls behaving in confusing ways.
"Well, aren't you going to deny it? Or have have I found the hidden technique that can silence the Dao of Trash?"
"IwasjustgoingtorebuildyourbodywithartifactstounlockthehiddensynergiesbetweenelvenandhumansoulsandturnyouintoanunstoppablekillerrobotitsnotlewdIpromise."
"Well, that's fine then. If you're just being a baka, I can forgive you. Just don't expect me to be so merciful if I find any more 'diagrams' of me or poor innocent Suizhen anywhere around here."
A bead of sweat trickled down Nameless's cheek. He was going to have to burn so many of his secret modification plans.
