china_shop: Three-quarter profile of Shen Wei being unimpressed (Guardian - Shen Wei srsly?)
The Gauche in the Machine ([personal profile] china_shop) wrote in [community profile] sid_guardian2019-01-15 09:09 am

Episode 15 question: constraint on Shen Wei's powers

When Shen Wei is explaining his power to Zhao Yunlan in ep 15 (timestamp 14:36), he says he's "restrained by Zhenhun token and black power itself".

Anyone know what he means by the Zhenhun token?


Complete subtitles: I only have one ability as well: learn. I can transfer the ability I see into my own. In principle, my material is endless. Actually, I am restrained by Zhenhun token and black power itself, so I can show limited power here. You thought too highly of me, if viewing me as omnipotent.




我的异能
其实也只有一种
学习
我可以将我看到的异能
纳为己用
原则上
我的素材库是无边无尽的
但是受到了镇魂令
和黑能量汰身的制约
所以我在这里
能够展现的实力相当有限
要说我无所不能
太抬举[?]了

(OCR via Google Translate, so probably wildly unreliable, sorry.)

extrapenguin: Shen Wei from Guardian looking down demurely and smiling. (shenwei)

[personal profile] extrapenguin 2019-01-15 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
So IMO this kind of decision would go to someone considerably higher up, more on the policy side of things rather than the executive.
Very probably, but I'd argue that 1, the request went through the SID, and 2. the higher-ups asked the SID head on his opinion, since hey here's a department that deals with the weird thing, and so Zhao Xinci would be given the opportunity to tell his opinion, and since Dixingians are weird shit, they'd likely agree to his suggestions of defensive measures.
rheasilvia: (Guardian - OTP)

[personal profile] rheasilvia 2019-01-15 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure, as I said, the head of the SID would definitely be asked for their opinion on such a matter (if the higher-ups had any sense at all) - provided, of course, the SID already existed at that time. Which is not certain; it's possible this was the event that prompted the formation of the department in the first place.

Plus, even if the SID did already exist, we don't know if Zhao Xinci was head of the SID at that time, because we don't know how long ago Shen Wei returned to Haixing. I personally like to think it was considerably more than 20 years ago. (I also like to think the SID was not founded just 20 years ago; I love imagining it several hundred years ago, and how it changed in that time, and how different directors and different teams handled things differently.)