(But also I feel like Ye Zun would have been fine exactly as he was if all the kidnapping and lying and abuse had simply not happened to him.)
Yes, true. I was thinking in the Rebel camp but before his powers woke. Like, maybe having something to look after would have helped him stay grounded somehow. But then again, given the Rebel Chief had mind control powers probably not, and the kitten might well have come to a bad end. /o\
but it also sounds like they're not doing friendships or fun things much in the first place - he's the only kid at that point, everyone else is just doing serious god business?
That was the impression I got, too. And no one at all is parenting him beyond "Here, have a kitten!" No wonder he's running amok! (I wonder if he's been well-parented in any of his incarnations. Maybe it's just not his fate.)
I think that's death.
Oh, right. Thanks! (Given how much of this chapter relies on later info, I feel a bit grumbly about volume 2 ending with the reader bewildered and scratching their head, or possibly jumping to entirely the wrong conclusions. ;-p)
Ooooh, which one in this chapter?
Mostly this bit: Kunlun sat and watched, hugging his tiny furball. He had never supposed that so much magma lay below the land, erupting forth with a roar from the deepest places underground.
I think it's more the freedom part - freedom from rules, freedom of choice, tying into their first meeting?
Ot1h, that makes total sense, but otoh, I really don't see SW as free? (Which again, I think that's why ZYL is so upset, right?) SW seems constrained by and burdened by so many rules, responsibilities, and political manoeuvring, as well as constantly feeling like he's fighting his own nature... :-(
Wow, it is a really weirdly placed sentence, now that I look at it again! I'm assuming just in ~in the world~, but why the sentence is specifically there, I have no idea.
Hm, maybe it's ~in people~?
Ooooh, interesting! I didn't see it as duality of emotions, just that humans are more emotional than other beings? Like, other beings don't even have some of these emotions or don't feel them this strongly, it's purely a human thing?
I guess that makes sense. I was thinking of the emotions as too inherited, like genetics. But also, I feel like yao have a lot of feelings and are really quite a lot like humans in that regard? *continues to resist the whole "humans are super special" propaganda* ;-p
He didn't care about the kowtowing, so it's only about Daqing drinking the blood, but the 'repaying' part confuses me as well!
He didn't care about the kowtowing to start with, but it says that DQ drinking the blood was what set him on another path/changed him, so I wondered if part of that was his becoming less frozen-hearted and maybe recognising Chiyou's tribute and suffering. But really, I have no idea. *shrug emoticon*
Is it the equivalent of 'DQ touched the Hallows and they did something weird to him'? He's blessed by a god now?
Ooh! Maybe!! (Though in the novel he still has to cultivate like all the other yao.)
Does it? Only their rank is related to their beauty, and it specifically says "The more blood-tainted they were, the greater their beauty." Like, the lowest (and ugliest) youchu are basically just non-sentient animals, and the beautiful kings are the 'evil' ones
Oh, you're right, doh! Thanks!! (I don't like that system, either, though. I want to divorce appearance and sentience completely. ;-p)
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Yes, true. I was thinking in the Rebel camp but before his powers woke. Like, maybe having something to look after would have helped him stay grounded somehow. But then again, given the Rebel Chief had mind control powers probably not, and the kitten might well have come to a bad end. /o\
but it also sounds like they're not doing friendships or fun things much in the first place - he's the only kid at that point, everyone else is just doing serious god business?
That was the impression I got, too. And no one at all is parenting him beyond "Here, have a kitten!" No wonder he's running amok! (I wonder if he's been well-parented in any of his incarnations. Maybe it's just not his fate.)
I think that's death.
Oh, right. Thanks! (Given how much of this chapter relies on later info, I feel a bit grumbly about volume 2 ending with the reader bewildered and scratching their head, or possibly jumping to entirely the wrong conclusions. ;-p)
Ooooh, which one in this chapter?
Mostly this bit: Kunlun sat and watched, hugging his tiny furball. He had never supposed that so much magma lay below the land, erupting forth with a roar from the deepest places underground.
I think it's more the freedom part - freedom from rules, freedom of choice, tying into their first meeting?
Ot1h, that makes total sense, but otoh, I really don't see SW as free? (Which again, I think that's why ZYL is so upset, right?) SW seems constrained by and burdened by so many rules, responsibilities, and political manoeuvring, as well as constantly feeling like he's fighting his own nature... :-(
Wow, it is a really weirdly placed sentence, now that I look at it again! I'm assuming just in ~in the world~, but why the sentence is specifically there, I have no idea.
Hm, maybe it's ~in people~?
Ooooh, interesting! I didn't see it as duality of emotions, just that humans are more emotional than other beings? Like, other beings don't even have some of these emotions or don't feel them this strongly, it's purely a human thing?
I guess that makes sense. I was thinking of the emotions as too inherited, like genetics. But also, I feel like yao have a lot of feelings and are really quite a lot like humans in that regard? *continues to resist the whole "humans are super special" propaganda* ;-p
He didn't care about the kowtowing, so it's only about Daqing drinking the blood, but the 'repaying' part confuses me as well!
He didn't care about the kowtowing to start with, but it says that DQ drinking the blood was what set him on another path/changed him, so I wondered if part of that was his becoming less frozen-hearted and maybe recognising Chiyou's tribute and suffering. But really, I have no idea. *shrug emoticon*
Is it the equivalent of 'DQ touched the Hallows and they did something weird to him'? He's blessed by a god now?
Ooh! Maybe!! (Though in the novel he still has to cultivate like all the other yao.)
Does it? Only their rank is related to their beauty, and it specifically says "The more blood-tainted they were, the greater their beauty." Like, the lowest (and ugliest) youchu are basically just non-sentient animals, and the beautiful kings are the 'evil' ones
Oh, you're right, doh! Thanks!! (I don't like that system, either, though. I want to divorce appearance and sentience completely. ;-p)
/mostly not a spoiler, but also a spoiler
Hee! *hearts you* (More tomorrow. <3)