Poll: Flavours of Ye Zun (drama)

[china_shop]

Poll #33174 Ye Zun

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 16

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Which flavour of Ye Zun is most frightening?

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Childhood, white robe and black hair
0 (0.0%)

With the Rebels, pre-powers: white robe, black mask, black hair
0 (0.0%)

Leading the Rebels, with powers: white robe, gold mask, white hair
3 (20.0%)

Glowy pillar
2 (13.3%)

Monologuing hologram in the park
3 (20.0%)

Seething black form with glowy eyes
2 (13.3%)

Disguised as Shen Wei (casual)
3 (20.0%)

Disguised as Shen Wei (Envoy)
3 (20.0%)

White suit, cane, mask and pony-tail
3 (20.0%)

Long white robe in the palace with energy whip
1 (6.7%)

Long white robe in the palace with bleeding forehead
4 (26.7%)

other
1 (6.7%)

Which is your favourite Ye Zun flavour?

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Childhood, white robe and black hair
0 (0.0%)

With the Rebels, pre-powers: white robe, black mask, black hair
2 (13.3%)

Leading the Rebels, with powers: white robe, gold mask, white hair
2 (13.3%)

Glowy pillar
0 (0.0%)

Monologuing hologram in the park
1 (6.7%)

Seething black form with glowy eyes
0 (0.0%)

Disguised as Shen Wei (casual)
5 (33.3%)

Disguised as Shen Wei (Envoy)
0 (0.0%)

White suit, cane, mask and pony-tail
11 (73.3%)

Long white robe in the palace with energy whip
1 (6.7%)

Long white robe in the palace with bleeding forehead
1 (6.7%)

other
0 (0.0%)

Why does modern-day Ye Zun have a shift/train rather than a billowy cloak like the Envoy’s?

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His cloak is in the wash
0 (0.0%)

It kept catching on things
1 (6.2%)

Fashions have changed in the last 10k years, and he keeps up with the trends unlike *some* people
10 (62.5%)

He doesn't like how it feels over his hair, especially with the hood up
3 (18.8%)

Ye Zun's charisma *is* his billowy cloak
6 (37.5%)

He used it as a draught-stopper in the pillar and it got crumpled
4 (25.0%)

other
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[china_shop]

I mean, a big part of it all is the pillar itself - while he's trapped in there he can only stew in his own feelings; he can't move on and build a life for himself, which might help him grow beyond it.

Yes, plus the mostly solitary confinement. /o\ (The Hallows are not so much with the rehabilitation approach to imprisonment. /o)

I wonder about Sang Zan. He was also trapped in a pillar, and there were the ghosts of his tribe as well, everyone who'd turned against him and Ge Lan. Maybe they couldn't reach him, so he didn't constantly get it all reinforced?

Or maybe after a while he started to listen, and somehow learned to see both sides of the story?

[trobadora]

Or maybe after a while he started to listen, and somehow learned to see both sides of the story?

Yeah, maybe! He didn't have a single enemy to focus all his hatred on; maybe that made it easier to learn to hear what everyone was saying.

[china_shop]

Plus Sang Zan had actually wronged people. If he could step outside his feelings for Gelan, even just for a moment, he might be able to feel the horror of what he did. (He didn't have however many years of mind control and brainwashing under his belt, either.)

[trobadora]

All great points, yes!