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On Yi & the Wuju School - Part 2

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Last time I discussed a general overview of Wuju as a schooled art, now this time we’re going to get into specifics when it comes to Yi. That’s all. I don’t think I need to do an overblown intro to this one. Below is mostly headcanon with some canon sprinkled in. Sorry if it reads a lot like a synopsis >.<

I suppose this is more for people who knew what Yi was like pre Wukong lore if anything

Enter Yi Hui -- Protégé

We know, at least in canon, that Yi did not become what I would equate to Yi Wushi. He was never noted as being a Master of Wuju in a time pre war. He was described as such: “Even before Yi mastered Wuju, he was considered one of the most skilled practitioners of the mystical martial art.”

We know however that this man indeed had disciples, and as such must have held the teaching roll of Yi Dashi. This is in line with everything I’ve written before, so I won’t repeat myself too much. Needless to say that, in a time before the war, Yi was completely able to take students (he wasn’t in his young adult years like previous headcanon) and it would have been almost expected of him to do so at some point.

There were, however, some headcanon complications to this that do indeed have some basis in canon, I feel. They are, at the very least, inspired by canon.

Though not mentioned directly in Yi’s current lore incarnation, for the longest time it has been implied that Yi was one of the only able fighters within Yi’s village.”Left undefended, the village became the unfortunate test subject of the latest invention by an up-and-coming chemist, now known as Singed.“ or so the old lore goes. At the very least he took all able fighters with him, which is supported by the fact that Yi and his disciples fought side by side during the war. But how can this be so? Yi had to have had a Master that was just as skilled, if not more skilled, than he was. Jhin’s lore goes on to state that multiple Wuju Masters existed pre war. Why aren’t they mentioned at all in the destruction of the art, or by Yi’s side during the effort?

In my mind, I take this as some sort of implied and severe drama that was happening in Wuju during Yi’s life (stay tuned as I write more about Yi’s parents wink wink nudge nudge). Something that would leave Yi and his students the only able fighters. For the purposes of this post I won’t go into the specific headcanon history, but let it be known that with Yi’s somewhat unplanned birth the school was shut. The previous Wushi, Yi’s grandfather, departed from the place with his students (he was controlling enough to never let Yi’s father be a Dashi), and left the temple under the watch of Yi’s father. Yi’s father would later cripple himself in a spinal accident in the year before Yi left for war. This leaves one Master uninterested, with students he groomed to feel the same, and another physically incapable of fighting,

Yi then went on to grow up without any responsibility to challenge him. For the first thirty years of his life the school remained shut, and he remained as its singular prized pupil. He bathed in the attention and freedom, and few challenged him in any over indulgence, bravado, or lust that he’d bring into the place, with cheeky voice lines to indicate subtly at a charisma that still lingers to this day. His father is somewhat spineless as a rule (sad pun totally intended), but still tried to exert his will over the man.

So when a boy and his father petitioned for the school to be opened for them, and when Yi’s father said no, Yi couldn’t help but try to overrule the man by giving the boy a shot. What he found in this boy was untapped talent, but instead of seeking to hone this talent he saw it as another opportunity to lash out. He knew there was nothing more wild and outlandish that he could do than yell out to everyone, ‘Open the school!’ and so he did. While the then Yi Wushi tried to oppose him, he became content in observing his own student fail at the expense of a six year old. Yi was already beyond talented in Wuju by then. It was easy for Yi’s father to wait in his schooling. This would end up inadvertently costing Yi some of the most vital knowledge in Wuju once it was destroyed.

Back on track however. There was only one problem. Yi didn’t fail. In the beginning he had no real interest in teaching the boy beyond their shared like for dance. For a while he didn’t let up in a sinful life, until he saw the boy actively begin improving thanks to his sparse tutorship. Slowly investing pride began to build in his bond with the child, moreso when he accepted another three students into the school. Suddenly he had this sense he was so great that he could lead other people, children of all people, to greatness.

Suddenly his head was wrapped up in plans not to where next he would revel, or who next he might try and court, but instead in the intricacies of teaching young minds how to hold a sword. He finally started to grow up. In the end the decision of Yi’s father to let the school become active once more had done what he’d always wished he could have done. It humbled his son, and put his boundless energy to use in more productive things. Naturally this change was gradual over time, but it didn’t stop Yi from accruing eleven hand picked students, some so young that they considered him more a father than their true parents.

Yi was the type back then, even now to a lesser extent, to become over invested in things such as this, so as he grew into his thirties his life became consumed by the position of ‘Yi Dashi.’ He all but adopted the growing teenagers under his watch, and was a naturally impassioned tutor. While it all still served to stroke his ever inflating ego, he had come to know the children better than anyone else in his life. Sorely lacking permanent relationships while locked away in a vast temple, he was more than happy to parent his students.

Perhaps it all mellowed him out too much, however, because by the time the war came he was adult enough to see that Ionia needed him and his young adult protégés. I’ll leave this here however. Next time we will discuss his continued teachings during the war, and the ultimate destruction of his disciples...