Images of Bai Yu from Fairyland Lovers to the music of Joseph Blanchard

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Images of Bai Yu from Fairyland Lovers
"When I Dream" by Joseph Blanchard

https://youtu.be/0YduALk1mQ0
or
streaming off my site and downloadable
http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/guardian/video/Bai-Yu-Fairyland-Lovers-Images-Joseph-Blanchard.htm

This is a series I can only watch on fast forward. I don't remember when I've disliked a female lead so much. But it was worth it to see Bai Yu looking like he did in Guardians. Only better dressed.

Focus on Ji Xiaobai, Zhou Weiwei and the other Zhou Weiwei

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Ji Xiaobai, Zhou Weiwei and the other Zhou Weiwei are the characters in the Mirror Girl case in episodes 5 and 6. (If I understand correctly, they're not in the novel.)

( Their story, feat. lots of screencaps )

( The characters )

( The outcome of the case )

( Themes and observations )

( Fanworks )

Questions

1. Ji Xiaobai says Weiwei never went out alone, especially when it was sunny, because she hated sunlight. Was that actually the case (because Dixingren have grown used to living in the dark), or was she trying to hide her lack of a shadow?


2. Mirror Weiwei and Ji Xiaobai seem to have had a close, sweet relationship. Do you think she wanted to tell him she was Dixingren, or she preferred to pretend everything was ‘normal’? If she’d told him earlier, might things would have turned out differently?


3. Why is there a huge mirror in their flat? Is it an escape route, for if things get too much to handle? Is Mirror Weiwei offering Original Weiwei what she herself would have wanted (a better view of the world)? Did it just come with the flat?


4. Although the girl from the mirror has been living and loving as Zhou Weiwei, and we never see her use any other name, Original Weiwei is original. In the way of fairy tales, Changcheng’s magpie wish backfires and calls forth the ‘real’ Weiwei, instead of the Weiwei that Ji Xiaobai loved. Should we take this as part of Haixing’s cosmology (wishes and prophesies come true), or is it simply a TV/fiction trope? If phrased more carefully, could the SID have used magpie wishes for other things?


5. Mirror Weiwei’s energy looks reddish/golden, rather than dark.
   
   Do you think this is significant?


6. What do you think of Original Weiwei? Is she simply the villain of the piece, or is it more complicated than that? How must it feel to see someone living your life so much more successfully than you did?


7. Directly after this, we see Zhao Yunlan asking Da Qing, “Damn cat, what do you think about Shen Wei?” and starting to investigate him in earnest. What lesson do you think Zhao Yunlan took from the case? (Love is more important than species? Secrets are bad for a relationship? Dixingren can easily pass as human? Other?)


8. How does Mirror Weiwei and Ji Xiaobai’s relationship compare to the other human/Dixingren relationships we see in the show?

So - come and talk about Ji Xiaobai, the Mirror Girl and Original Weiwei! Share links to meta, picspams, and related fanworks, new or old! Self-recs whole-heartedly encouraged. Basically, this is the place for anything you want to say or link to about them.