TGCF characters as fountain pens

Welcome to my niche hobby crossover! No knowledge of fountain pens required. Originally a thread on Mastodon.

Transparent with ghostly white swirls like Ruoye

This pen costs like $4000 and it has butterflies AND flowers

Namiki (like the one chosen for Hua Cheng) is the luxury branch of Pilot by the way. This is one often recommended as people’s first gold nib pen

This is many people’s first fountain pen in general, it’s a cheap kids' pen. The nib has a smiley face too :)

A practical pen with an extremely classic design, that a certain type of fountain pen nerds insist on calling a “workhorse”

This is huge (5-10x bigger than your typical bottle), but she can probably go through it in a month

This is a similar design to the Pilot Custom 74 chosen for San Lang, only with sharp edges everywhere and a more complicated internal mechanism

This is one of those pens you hear stories about like “I didn’t know what a fountain pen was when I got it for my birthday, now it’s been run over by a truck and dropped down a mountain but it still works great”

A very macho pen. It has a cap almost as long as the body with an unusual magnetic closure which reminded me of Rong Guang’s two halves flying around

Huge like his sword, tiger like his tiger. This is the first eyedropper pen on the list (irrelevant)

This pen has almost exactly the same proportions as the Sailor PGS I picked for Xie Lian but looks worse and is made with cheaper materials. People tend to ignore it because it’s overpriced.

The name also translates to ‘balmy breeze’

Another expensive pen, maybe $1200

This ink is notorious for making people’s lives hell because it never dries and the dye particles get everywhere. I have heard of people opening the bottle once and sneezing blue for days

Another pen with a swirly texture

Skeleton *nods*

Yes, this is a fountain pen that glows in the dark, and it has gold leaf scattered in it

At last, we reached a retractable fountain pen! You can click the button on the back like with a normal clicky ballpoint pen

This pen can have so much ink sloshing around in the clear barrel that it evaporates and appears as condensation on the inner wall. That’s the closest I could get to rain…

An expensive and enormous pen made with real lava from a volcano. Notorious for poor quality control despite the high price.

(My original choice was the Sailor Cylint Shirogane, another expensive and enormous pen)

Closing thoughts: My knowledge is very biased towards the European and Japanese fountain pens because they are the mainstream ones on English language internet. For completeness' sake: Sailor, Pilot and Platinum are Japanese brands; Lamy is German; Opus 88, Laban and TWSBI are Taiwanese; Monteverde is American; Hongdian is Chinese; Benu is Armenian; and Visconti is Italian.

Also because they’re mostly cash money celebrity gods I chose a lot of expensive and flashy pens. There are all sorts of other fountain pens out there! And there are many more fun inks, which is my favourite part.