Poll: Hallows and Antagonists (dramaverse)

[china_shop]

Define "best" however you like -- best for the story, best designed, the one you most want to get your hands on, whatever. :-)

Poll #32705 Hallows and antagonists

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21

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Best Hallow?

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Longevity Dial
9 (45.0%)

Mountain-River Awl
4 (20.0%)

Merit Brush
4 (20.0%)

Guardian Lamp
3 (15.0%)

Who would you most like to yeet into the sun? (pick up to three)

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Zhu Jiu
7 (33.3%)

The Regent
11 (52.4%)

The Regent's Deacon
9 (42.9%)

Ding Dun
5 (23.8%)

Minister Gao
1 (4.8%)

Zhao Xinci
1 (4.8%)

Zhang Shi
1 (4.8%)

the Rebel Chief in Ye Olde Haixing Era
12 (57.1%)

other
1 (4.8%)

Comments

[china_shop]

I actually think the manager of the fight club is one of the most despicable characters in the show, but he doesn't have enough effect on the plot to make me want to waste a yeet on him.

[shadaras]

I love that as of my vote it's perfectly evenly distributed between the hallows!

I originally wanted to vote for the Guardian Lamp but then I realised that my big feels about it are from the novel, and you specified dramaverse here. xD

[china_shop]

Haha, I just saw that and was delighted by it too! :DDD

Volume 3 of the novel is such a blur in my mind that I can't even remember what happened with the Guardian Lamp. /o\ I take it it's very different?

[facethestrange]

I like the lack of possibility to cheat in the Hallows poll, one choice only. :D Story-wise, the Longevity Dial obviously, but this one is gonna win anyway, so I voted for the Mountain-River Awl because it basically makes you immortal and I wouldn't mind that, even if sometimes you need to hide in a sex doll. xD (Actually that would probably be fun too, like, who ever gets to do something like that otherwise. xD)

And in the other poll I just voted for the Rebel Chief (I'm quite impressed with myself not even wanting to cheat the system xD) - you fix nearly every single problem this way, as long as you yeet him early enough. /EFFICIENCY There should be there probably are fix-it fics where you just yeet him into the sun and voila, no other problems left to solve. :D

[facethestrange]

Oh, I'd give him a yeet, I have two left. xD

[facethestrange]

In the dramaverse I'd literally pick anything but the Guardian Lamp, even if it was multiple choice, simply because it broke my heart into little pieces and I get sad from just looking at it. Who needs logical arguments. xD I was even wary of it in the novel for this reason too, but of course it's all completely different. :)

[facethestrange]

It's kinda as unrelated to the drama version as the Merit Brush was? Okay, a little less unrelated, but not much. :)

[china_shop]

LOL! Awesome, thank you! :D

[china_shop]

My memory is so terrible, the read-along is a voyage of discovery as if I never read it through the first time. :D

[china_shop]

so I voted for the Mountain-River Awl because it basically makes you immortal and I wouldn't mind that, even if sometimes you need to hide in a sex doll. xD

*dies*

EFFICIENCY indeed! :D :D :D (I'm sure those fix-it fics exist!) (You fix nearly every problem, but you also eradicate the entire drama, possible the whole ancient war, and quite likely SW/ZYL, too! Oh no!) (I've just talked myself into wanting to change my vote, lol.)

[trobadora]

Damn, it's hard to choose between the Hallows. I disqualified the Merit Brush immediately, but the Longevity Dial has the energy exchange! The Awl has energy ghosts, which are such an amazing get-out-of-death-free mechanism! And I just love the ending, which the Guardian Lantern is essential to ... *frets* I think I'll pick the Lantern, just because of the ending, but I reserve the right to change my mind!

Much easier choice with the yeeting! (I think Professor Ouyang is also deserving of a yeet, but I had none left. *g*)

[trobadora]

Haha, "waste a yeet on him" just made me laugh out loud for real. :D

[trobadora]

you fix nearly every single problem this way, as long as you yeet him early enough. /EFFICIENCY

Ha, that's so true!

And I like your Hallows reasoning! I also picked a Hallow I thought was going to get fewer votes.

[facethestrange]

I knooooow, I keep thinking 'but how do you keep Weilan intact in this situation??' (I don't need the rest of the drama. xD Like, I don't need it the way it is, I'll take any story, just keep at least some of the characters around. :D) But really you just need them to meet once, in any circumstances whatsoever, and you're good. :D So, idk, any kind of deus ex machina reasons that send ZYL to the past anyway, he meets Shen Wei who's not traumatized, PROFIT?? :D I have no idea where it could go from there plot-wise, but I'm down for the ride!

(Also you can just yeet the Rebel Chief into the sun later, after he already broke everything, just because he deserves it. xD)

[trobadora]

You fix nearly every problem, but you also eradicate the entire drama, possible the whole ancient war, and quite likely SW/ZYL, too! Oh no!

Oh no! You make a persuasive argument!

Though he still deserves a punitive yeeting, even if we have to let him exist for the sake of Weilan the timeline.

[trobadora]

*high fives on your last paragraph*

(Personally I really don't want to lose the drama, and the time loop especially, but I would totally be here for reading that AU!)

[facethestrange]

"I disqualified the Merit Brush immediately, but the Longevity Dial has the energy exchange! The Awl has energy ghosts, which are such an amazing get-out-of-death-free mechanism!"

Yepppp! ♡ Exact same reasoning for me, including disqualifying the Merit Brush right away, haha. :D

"(I think Professor Ouyang is also deserving of a yeet, but I had none left. *g*)"

Oh, HE SO IS. But I'm now I'm being stingy with my yeets, lmao, and really curious to see what other people add as "other" - so many good options!

[autodach]

I picked the lantern, because it has the most emotional impact and lighting up all of Dixing is an impressive feat.

The Regent's Deacon needs to go the most. Slimy little bastard. I also voted for Ding Dun because of his weirdly complicated fortune teller scheme.

[facethestrange]

Theoretically it could still be a time loop, especially if you already have time travel, but omg I FEEL YOU. Like, I want to fix everything for everyone, but letting go of the canon Weilan story is HARSH. But they'd still find each other and be happy and so much less traumatized. But I would miss so many things. DAMN. xD

[trobadora]

So far the Deacon and the Rebel Chief have been yeeted the hardest, and I 100% agree they deserve it the most. *g*

And I'm delighted you picked the Lantern, too! Emotional impact indeed, and the drama's ending is kind of unthinkable to me without both Zhao Yunlan's sacrifice and Dixing getting light.

[trobadora]

*clutches canon to chest* I can't, I just can't ... *g*

[facethestrange]

I had to double check who the Deacon was when I first saw this post (the translations of the functions are kinda whatever they want to be at any given moment :D), and I was like 'oh yes, THIS ASSHOLE'. ITA!

[shadaras]

It is quite different in how it plays out, yes! It's all caught up in the gods and ghosts aspect of the novel, which obviously the drama wasn't allowed to have. :)

[facethestrange]

In an effort to have my cake and eat it too, I came up with: Weilan post-canon fix a different timeline for baby Shen Wei and Ye Zun by yeeting the Rebel Chief into the sun. Their alternate versions still find each other later because they always do. They live a totally different story, but it doesn't matter because the original Weilan already had theirs.

I have no more details and no intention to write it (this would be a behemoth of a story!), but at least I'm satisfied. xD

[trepkos]

I was gonna say The Regent, but I ended up having a little bit of sympathy for him, despite how annoying and cringe-worthy he was!