I find Ji Xiaobai and the two Weiweis to be very sad; nobody was being particularly vengeful or evil, it just all went badly and everyone got an unhappy ending...

Yes, it's very much a tragedy, isn't it? :-(

This is backed up for me by the Envoy's failure to sympathize with her, given Shen Wei's dedication to absolute opacity as a way of life; he can't even bring himself to consider the idea of open communication between all parties, where Dixing is concerned.

Yeah. *sigh* Though, as trobadora pointed out above, he did come in at the point where she's threatening to blow everyone up, so he could maybe be forgiven for not seeing the relationship as particularly functional, based on that snapshot.

the idea of your mirror evil twin is probably an extremely sensitive one for Shen Wei, and he might be reacting more negatively to Mirror Weiwei than necessarily on those grounds.

Ha! Excellent point! Perhaps for him the whole situation is more about (or as much about) the relationship between Mirror Weiwei and Original Weiwei, even. Hmm... The shot at the end of Original Weiwei, all alone, looking into the mirror made me wonder if she was going to miss her counterpart.

I like the idea that the magpie wish had something to do with the eventual outcome, but I'm inclined to think its functions were basically a) temporarily cheering Ji Xiaobai up, and b) giving Chu Shuzhi a slightly new outlook on Guo Changcheng...

You think it's more coincidence that the timing coincided with Original Flavour Weiwei coming back? That's fair. It could very easily just be Changcheng being Changcheng. *g*

What I really want now is a canon-divergence AU where Original Weiwei gradually gets used to living in Dixing during her year there and starts to identify with Dixingren...

Oh, is the mirror dimension Dixing, do you think? That hadn't occurred to me -- it seems so different when they go into it (and Chu Shuzhi's power doesn't work there), but maybe it is connected! That would be really interesting.

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