"That's true, but the difference for me is that this time it's Shen Wei doing it. I'd like to think he's even-handed. But I guess if someone's convinced him that youchu are all evil by nature, and he's given them a space where they're allowed to live peacefully... and oh no, now I'm like this is a terrible parallel with Zhao Xinci's SID and Dixingren. /o\"
This is all so bleak, lol damn, grabbing this scene from the novel without recontextualizing it (and therefore involving Shen Wei in something that in the drama he really shouldn't be involved in) just somehow managed to leave no space to make this suck any less. :P
"Hmm. Zhu Jiu and Shen Wei both talk to youchu as if they understand them (though that could be rhetorical, and/or the way people IRL talk to animals). I wonder if youchu have their own language(s), whether they do understand Mandarin/Dixinghua to some degree, and whether they're capable of speaking recognisably human/Dixing languages if people would just stop to listen... (difficult to do, when you're being attacked)."
Oh, these are all really cool questions! I didn't even think of that, but yeah, if they are sentient, there has to be a language barrier of some kind, which is not helping.
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This is all so bleak, lol damn, grabbing this scene from the novel without recontextualizing it (and therefore involving Shen Wei in something that in the drama he really shouldn't be involved in) just somehow managed to leave no space to make this suck any less. :P
"Hmm. Zhu Jiu and Shen Wei both talk to youchu as if they understand them (though that could be rhetorical, and/or the way people IRL talk to animals). I wonder if youchu have their own language(s), whether they do understand Mandarin/Dixinghua to some degree, and whether they're capable of speaking recognisably human/Dixing languages if people would just stop to listen... (difficult to do, when you're being attacked)."
Oh, these are all really cool questions! I didn't even think of that, but yeah, if they are sentient, there has to be a language barrier of some kind, which is not helping.