which was that he's terrified of presenting an offputting image to ZYL because he can't imagine his true self not being offputting to anyone, even ZYL. :(
I do feel like there are elements of that, yeah. :-( (I really hope that gets addressed! At least so far ZYL has been Very And Openly Enthusiastic about all of the aspects of Shen Wei except for the parts damnei genre conventions won't let him enjoy ;-p.)
It was quoted A LOT in the early days of the fandom, when novel fans were still the majority. And IIRC it even turned up in a behind-the-scenes thing, though I may be misremembering that.
Somehow I missed it entirely! (My actor-avoidance meant I didn't follow many people, so maybe that's why.)
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which was that he's terrified of presenting an offputting image to ZYL because he can't imagine his true self not being offputting to anyone, even ZYL. :(
I do feel like there are elements of that, yeah. :-( (I really hope that gets addressed! At least so far ZYL has been Very And Openly Enthusiastic about all of the aspects of Shen Wei
except for the parts damnei genre conventions won't let him enjoy ;-p.)It was quoted A LOT in the early days of the fandom, when novel fans were still the majority. And IIRC it even turned up in a behind-the-scenes thing, though I may be misremembering that.
Somehow I missed it entirely! (My actor-avoidance meant I didn't follow many people, so maybe that's why.)