What the characters call themselves and each other

[mecurtin]

I just put a link in the Resources post about a great post from foxghost about What characters call each other (and themselves) in Guardian [the novel], including the fact that Daqing basically uses the royal We, while Zhao Yunlan plays around with pronouns and names based on his mood.

I yearn for some of you native speakers to do the same for the drama. What pronouns do the characters use for themselves? And what do they call each other? Apparently in the novel ZYL uses an array of cringe-worthy endearments for Shen Wei; does he do anything at all similar in the drama?

Comments

[qikiqtarjuaq]

The more I think about the single Xiao Wei, the more I am upset over the fact that Zhao Yunlan's blindness meant he never got to see Shen Wei's priceless "my brain has short-circuited" look at that nickname. No doubt if he'd seen that reaction, he'd have used that nickname a lot more!

[naye]

Also that they didn't add any Xiao Wei in the flashback, which was what I thought they were setting up for!

[kaminikaku]

definitely! I suppose once they compressed the flashback into the ambiguous time length they couldn't have the meet cute, the smile for me, the lollipop shoving and ....yeah there was definitely time for a xiao wei, they just forgot!

[mecurtin]

My theory is that when ZYL used it in the long-ago they were both naked, so it couldn't be shown in the flashback. Logic!

[kaminikaku]

I am on board with this logic. Definitely a reason!

[trobadora]

That's what everyone thought, I'm sure!

(I think at one point we speculated that there was another scene in the time travel sequence that was cut. IIRC we arrived at that idea because it's cut so weirdly that it makes it look as if it all takes place in one day, and a missing bit in between might change that. But really, it was so obviously set up for ZYL to call him Xiao-Wei in the past! And then ...)

[firestar]

Oh, no doubt. We wuz robbed, *robbed* I say. XD

[yantantether]

Omg you're so right!

[trobadora]

No doubt if he'd seen that reaction, he'd have used that nickname a lot more!

Heh. I'm sure he would! Though it does lose effectiveness with repetition, so I'm almost glad he didn't?

[lynndyre]

Oh man. Yes, now I really wish that. <3