Inspired by: @despairots (https://www.tumblr.com/despairots/751283611904491520/hidden-dialogue-pt1-kill-me-if-im-wrong-am?source=share
https://www.tumblr.com/despairots/751237975409573888/js-a-small-little-drabble-between-survivorgn?source=share)
I tried to make Y/N look something like a mad scientist.
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its an episode about the many ways morty fears rick.
its about being afraid of rick and being afraid of his sadness and his callousness and his power. its about morty knowing the power rick has over him and being afraid of that. and knowing that ricks decisions are fickle and often Bad and that morty is going to be beholden to them. when rick jumps morty is forced to follow after and pay the same price for no crime. and the fear that for his loyalty and obedience there is no reward . Morty Is Afraid Of Being A Dog.
if rick is in a simulation where hes given everything he wants and hes too selfish and cowardly to leave when it threatens his life, morty will have to die with him.
if rick is in a simulation where he has the option of pretending nothing is wrong and everything is fine and hes too selfish and cowardly to admit its a lie even when it threatens his life, morty will have to die with him.
if rick is forced to admit he cares for morty or die he would die before saying it. and morty knows it. and Im Going Crazy
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Gonna speak out as a "fantasy worldbuilding plate tectonics and cell biology" type author and say all of that is fun and cool for you personally as the creator of your universe and its well and good (spectacular even) if you find/have readers who are interested in that level of worldbuilding
But from a publishing and professional perspective that is a WILDLY unreasonable standard to hold fantasy/sci-fi authors to and even more ridiculous in other genres. Not every author is concerned with soil ecology for the plant crops that make textile dyes. I think its almost a literary equivalent of CinemaSins or whatever to point out scientific inaccuracies in worldbuilding because if the author didn't care to or didn't have the resources to develop that part of their world then the book is probably about something else. The nice thing about this recent trend in overly specific worldbuilding is that if you want that type of fiction then people are writing it for you. (Hell, Im writing it) But i think its almost become a way for readers to bully and feel superior when they pick apart the astronomy/biology/geology of a book series or video game rather than engaging with the story the author is actually trying to tell
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alright, so there's one outfit of li xiangyi's that i have questions about and which stands out to me, and it's his robes in the flashback with zhan yunfei.
(bear with my screenshots, sorry. things in this scene move very fast and it was more difficult to get decent captures)
in the vast majority of his flashbacks, li xiangyi is in his red or white robes, which we generally associate with his status as leader of sigumen. they're the robes he's immortalized in in his portrait as baichuanyuan, the ones he wears at donghai, in his memories with qiao wanmian, etc. those outfits have a common silhouette, with the long, draping sleeves that fall open from the shoulders (apologies, i don't know the technical term). i don't have to post them here; we all know what they look like.
these robes are an exception to that. they're less elaborate, in different colours/accents plus in a different style, and it makes me wonder if his time with zhan yunfei took place before. before sigumen, before becoming 天下第一, when he was more of a wandering xia still building up a reputation for himself. not li xiangyi the legend but just a disciple, come down from his master's mountain to do his best for the jianghu. it would make sense, i think; no one else is in that clearing aside from zhan yunfei, himself, and the man they were trying to capture. there's no power of a sect involved here, and li lianhua doesn't mention working with one (just that "zhan yunfei teamed up with others") as he retells the story to fang duobing. this outfit certainly gives him more of a boyish feeling, less so a sense of being a leader or a representative hero of the jianghu. which brings me to my other point.
you know whose image li xiangyi is very closely evoking in this memory?
that styling in the zhan yunfei flashback specifically is the closest that li xiangyi and fang duobing have ever visually mirrored one another (beyond fang duobing generally wearing his hair like li xiangyi, which other people have brought up before). i chose these outfits of fang duobing's from the yucheng and yipin tomb arcs for comparison, as li xiangyi's outfit has the most direct resemblance to them down to smaller details like the belt ties, but fang duobing wears robes cut like this (with varying embellishments) a lot. this show is very deliberate about characters' distinct silhouettes, something i've mentioned before. i very sincerely doubt this similarity wasn't intentional.
why dress li xiangyi like this in this memory specifically? i don't know. perhaps it's because li xiangyi and zhan yunfei, too, are linked by an upheld promise over ten years the way fang duobing is to li xiangyi. perhaps it's to situate li xiangyi's age, remembering that he, too, was once at the same point of his life as fang xiaobao is now, earnest and still working his way to the top in the jianghu, however short and/or since forgotten that time was. perhaps it's simply that li lianhua, given that this flashback is told from his point of view, truly has come to see fang duobing in his younger self gone by. regardless of the reason, i think it's a fascinating parallel, and i once again wish we had more context for the past and period of time spent with li xiangyi and zhan yunfei together.
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