One of my personal fave interpretations of the twins is how they both cope with trauma via Control, a pretty typical response to a situation where they felt helpless and the lack of control. But whereas Shen Wei exercises that control on *himself*, Ye Zun tries to turn it into control of the *outside*, manipulating others to his goals, trying to take over the world/burning it down.
Yes! This!
My Chinese is practically non-existant, but I'm relatively sure it's more of an army-brothers/comrades word used
The word is 兄弟, which is both literal figurative brothers.
I wonder when the rebel chief learned Shen Wei = Heipaoshi!
Yes, very good question! Hm, it's entirely possible that he recognised Shen Wei even with him wearing the mask, since Ye Zun wears a mask too.
Because he ended up with the "weak", sick twin and then his brother turns out to be super powerful, something the rebel chief would love to have in his control. How mad must he be to have picked the useless twin?
Yeah, I always figured that was part of it! My headcanon is that he could recognise either the potential in the twins, or the already realised power in Shen Wei, and he thought he could mould Ye Zun's soon-to-manifest for his purposes, but then that never happened ...
And with Shen Wei learning to hide better and better, I'm not sure they'd notice soon enough where his head is at?
Yeah, that's a good point. They're not close; they don't seem to be friendly with him as they are with each other. They're allies, but it feels more like a business relationship, a shared goal. And with him keeping himself under tight control, at least on the outside, They might not recognise anything was going on with him at all.
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Yes! This!
My Chinese is practically non-existant, but I'm relatively sure it's more of an army-brothers/comrades word used
The word is 兄弟, which is both literal figurative brothers.
I wonder when the rebel chief learned Shen Wei = Heipaoshi!
Yes, very good question! Hm, it's entirely possible that he recognised Shen Wei even with him wearing the mask, since Ye Zun wears a mask too.
Because he ended up with the "weak", sick twin and then his brother turns out to be super powerful, something the rebel chief would love to have in his control. How mad must he be to have picked the useless twin?
Yeah, I always figured that was part of it! My headcanon is that he could recognise either the potential in the twins, or the already realised power in Shen Wei, and he thought he could mould Ye Zun's soon-to-manifest for his purposes, but then that never happened ...
And with Shen Wei learning to hide better and better, I'm not sure they'd notice soon enough where his head is at?
Yeah, that's a good point. They're not close; they don't seem to be friendly with him as they are with each other. They're allies, but it feels more like a business relationship, a shared goal. And with him keeping himself under tight control, at least on the outside, They might not recognise anything was going on with him at all.