Poll: Flavours of Ye Zun (drama)

[china_shop]

Poll #33174 Ye Zun

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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 (21.4%)

Glowy pillar
2 (14.3%)

Monologuing hologram in the park
3 (21.4%)

Seething black form with glowy eyes
2 (14.3%)

Disguised as Shen Wei (casual)
3 (21.4%)

Disguised as Shen Wei (Envoy)
2 (14.3%)

White suit, cane, mask and pony-tail
3 (21.4%)

Long white robe in the palace with energy whip
1 (7.1%)

Long white robe in the palace with bleeding forehead
4 (28.6%)

other
1 (7.1%)

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 (14.3%)

Leading the Rebels, with powers: white robe, gold mask, white hair
2 (14.3%)

Glowy pillar
0 (0.0%)

Monologuing hologram in the park
1 (7.1%)

Seething black form with glowy eyes
0 (0.0%)

Disguised as Shen Wei (casual)
5 (35.7%)

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

White suit, cane, mask and pony-tail
10 (71.4%)

Long white robe in the palace with energy whip
1 (7.1%)

Long white robe in the palace with bleeding forehead
1 (7.1%)

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 (6.7%)

Fashions have changed in the last 10k years, and he keeps up with the trends unlike *some* people
10 (66.7%)

He doesn't like how it feels over his hair, especially with the hood up
3 (20.0%)

Ye Zun's charisma *is* his billowy cloak
5 (33.3%)

He used it as a draught-stopper in the pillar and it got crumpled
4 (26.7%)

other
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[china_shop]

Oh, this makes me really interested in his choice of dark hair for the ponytail scene. Because he can't think it's more scary, can he (given the association between white hair and evil)? Is it more him, or does he just enjoy the dramatic contrast with his clothes?

[trobadora]

Yeah, that's a very good question! He's in the same style and outfit when he eats Lin Jing, so I assume he's actually physically there at that point and it's not just an illusion.

I don't have a good theory what's up with his entire Dixing look, the minimalist white robe and the open grey hair, but the two of them do seem to go together ...

[china_shop]

He's in the same style and outfit when he eats Lin Jing, so I assume he's actually physically there at that point and it's not just an illusion.

Oh, good point!

I don't have a good theory what's up with his entire Dixing look, the minimalist white robe and the open grey hair, but the two of them do seem to go together ...

At first I thought you meant the look and Dixing go together, not the hair and the robe, and my brain started trying to tie that look vs Ye Zun's Haixing appearance to the way Shen Wei collapses down to his Haixing clothes in ep 13 (when he's outside the sonic lab, after over-extending himself). But if there is a parallel/shared logic, I can't untangle it.

[trobadora]

Huh. Zhu Jiu says the Envoy can't maintain his full form for long on the surface, and earlier Shen Wei explained that he couldn't use his full powers because of a) the Guardian Treaty, and b) gravity (or something to that effect). The Treaty is toast at that point, but the other restriction still applies, and presumably to Ye Zun, too ... but why that should mean a different look, I haven't the foggiest. *g*

[china_shop]

Especially since Chu Shuzhi and Sha Ya, among others, don't change between realms! The Regent is another data point, but everything he does it calculated, so I don't know how helpful that is either.

[trobadora]

Possibly Chu Shuzhi and Sha Ya (pre-Merit Brush enhancements) and everyone else don't have the power levels where that restriction would become relevant? Shen Wei's (and Ye Zun's) are definitely off the scale.

(I agree the Regent isn't a reliable data point, though his change in appearance is tantalising.)

[china_shop]

All this is making me wonder how differently the final showdown would have come across if Ye Zun had been in his white suit and ponytail outfit the whole time, lol.