Shen Yuan had actually been trying pretty hard to seem like a cool and wise mentor to Magnus when he'd first gotten here, but that would just be extra embarrassing to admit now. "We are both just some guy," he says, starting in on his underpainting. "You're just some guy with a talking sword who can never stay dead and makes it summer all the time, and I'm just some guy who happens to be agelessly beautiful and have a crazy high improvised weapons skill."