Sorry for the long quote, but so much of this feels like metaphor to me. Can we link the four levels to the Great Seal level / Netherworld / mortal world / heavens, with the garages being below the Great Seal? I think the "debris still scattered everywhere, but wonderful natural light" vibe sounds like their current relationship. <3 <3 <3 And "Even in the middle of winter, with the water drained, one could look down at it and see the marks the flowing water had carved into the stone" sounds like such a time/reincarnation metaphor.
OOOOh, that is such a lovely thought, I love it! ♥ ♥ ♥
So generous, but ZYL should know that SW needs two rooms: a study and a shrine. Where is he supposed to hang his stalker gallery?
LOL!
Uhhh... *backs away, making no sudden movements* (Honestly, I don't find this kind of thing romantic, but I guess it depends how literally he means it. If it's, like, a desire to merge and this is how he conceptualises it, that's one thing; if the situation is genuinely that, if ZYL flirts too much, Shen Wei is in danger of losing control and literally crushing ZYL to pieces, then nope.
I think it's more metaphoric than literal - he wants ZYL, in every possible way, and this is how it comes out for him, how he visualises it. Because of the kind of being he is, imagining it in those terms is instinctive and visceral, but he'd sooner yeet himself out of his body again than act it out in a literal way; that's not what he wants, at all.
I love DQ so much. He wants a (human-style, I presume) bathroom AND a luxury cat tower. LOL!
Yes! I love that duality!
Eh, I'm not a fan of the "plants and animals aren't as good as humans" take. That sounds like prejudice speaking.
Yeah, 100% agreed, I really dislike it.
I wouldn't want it in the drama, because it would feel more a betrayal of confidence, but here it works really well!
Yeah, I agree that it'd be different/worse in the drama! But thinking about it, it's still a betrayal of confidence in the novel, after all.
Someone's already wiped all the useful Kunlun info -- presumably Shen Wei? (Is this analogous to Shen Wei destroying the recording of The Ancient Mysteries in the drama?)
Oh, good thought! No idea if it was him, but it would make sense.
At the beginning of Chaos, all gods battled endlessly. -- is this analogous to the ancient war in the drama, I wonder?
I could see that!
Aww, Shen Wei signs his letter "Wei" -- they kept that in the drama.
Yeah! And in both versions it resonates because of how SW got that "Wei"! :D
Is Chu Shuzhi really not human to begin with? I thought he was a human who became a necromancer? *should check the appendix, but is too lazy* ;-p
Was human to begin with, but isn't any more, because he's dead, is my understanding.
This CSZ & ZYL fight could never have happened in the drama; the fact that the Envoy placed CSZ at the SID means CSZ isn't free to throw his weight around. The fight after ZH's dream is the closest they could get, I think. <333
Yeah, agreed - CSZ's situation is entirely different; his relationship with the Envoy changes everything.
(It's turtles all the way down! :D)
LOLOLOL!
And then we find out ZYL has already guessed that Ghost Face looks like Shen Wei -- which makes me wonder when he works that out in the drama. At the confrontation in the park?
He does call YZ out on trying to look like the Envoy, but it's unclear if he just means the mask or his actual face, too. Either way, I don't think he thinks it means much - he probably assumes YZ is deliberately assuming that look, rather than actually being related to SW. Whereas in the novel he's figuring out there's an actual connection, but then, his/their encounter with Ghost Face in the Hanga caves already gives him much more context, what with Ghost Face's taunting.
Honestly, my eyes gloss over within a few sentences, and I figure, eh, I don't really need to know. /o\
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OOOOh, that is such a lovely thought, I love it! ♥ ♥ ♥
So generous, but ZYL should know that SW needs two rooms: a study and a shrine. Where is he supposed to hang his stalker gallery?
LOL!
Uhhh... *backs away, making no sudden movements* (Honestly, I don't find this kind of thing romantic, but I guess it depends how literally he means it. If it's, like, a desire to merge and this is how he conceptualises it, that's one thing; if the situation is genuinely that, if ZYL flirts too much, Shen Wei is in danger of losing control and literally crushing ZYL to pieces, then nope.
I think it's more metaphoric than literal - he wants ZYL, in every possible way, and this is how it comes out for him, how he visualises it. Because of the kind of being he is, imagining it in those terms is instinctive and visceral, but he'd sooner yeet himself out of his body again than act it out in a literal way; that's not what he wants, at all.
I love DQ so much. He wants a (human-style, I presume) bathroom AND a luxury cat tower. LOL!
Yes! I love that duality!
Eh, I'm not a fan of the "plants and animals aren't as good as humans" take. That sounds like prejudice speaking.
Yeah, 100% agreed, I really dislike it.
I wouldn't want it in the drama, because it would feel more a betrayal of confidence, but here it works really well!
Yeah, I agree that it'd be different/worse in the drama! But thinking about it, it's still a betrayal of confidence in the novel, after all.
Someone's already wiped all the useful Kunlun info -- presumably Shen Wei? (Is this analogous to Shen Wei destroying the recording of The Ancient Mysteries in the drama?)
Oh, good thought! No idea if it was him, but it would make sense.
At the beginning of Chaos, all gods battled endlessly. -- is this analogous to the ancient war in the drama, I wonder?
I could see that!
Aww, Shen Wei signs his letter "Wei" -- they kept that in the drama.
Yeah! And in both versions it resonates because of how SW got that "Wei"! :D
Is Chu Shuzhi really not human to begin with? I thought he was a human who became a necromancer? *should check the appendix, but is too lazy* ;-p
Was human to begin with, but isn't any more, because he's dead, is my understanding.
This CSZ & ZYL fight could never have happened in the drama; the fact that the Envoy placed CSZ at the SID means CSZ isn't free to throw his weight around. The fight after ZH's dream is the closest they could get, I think. <333
Yeah, agreed - CSZ's situation is entirely different; his relationship with the Envoy changes everything.
(It's turtles all the way down! :D)
LOLOLOL!
And then we find out ZYL has already guessed that Ghost Face looks like Shen Wei -- which makes me wonder when he works that out in the drama. At the confrontation in the park?
He does call YZ out on trying to look like the Envoy, but it's unclear if he just means the mask or his actual face, too. Either way, I don't think he thinks it means much - he probably assumes YZ is deliberately assuming that look, rather than actually being related to SW. Whereas in the novel he's figuring out there's an actual connection, but then, his/their encounter with Ghost Face in the Hanga caves already gives him much more context, what with Ghost Face's taunting.
Honestly, my eyes gloss over within a few sentences, and I figure, eh, I don't really need to know. /o\
*high fives*