#I won't assume anything drastic just in case it takes my portrayal in a weird direction

[yi-dashi]

//Oh, before I forget. This Wuju Wednesday is brought to you by: Not necessarily headcanons, but things I am thinking about.

  I used to entertain the notion, though never adopted it fully, that the very first Wuju Master might have had a Vastayan parent. This was back when Wuju was a hereditary lordship, and as such magic ability and long living sort of passed down through him to leaders of the School. You still had to practice Wuju in order to unlock its agelessness, but the Yi family was well situated to be Masters because of their ancestors. Vastayan or not, there was still something special about whoever founded the School.

  With the new story though, I kind of want to revisit whether the people of Wuju village have Vastayan blood in them, given the visions Yi saw. It was being exposed to the battle against the titans that unlocked his powers, or so it seems. So maybe it’s Vastayan blood, or Wuju enlightenment is some weaker form of whatever the original mortals did to become Vastayashai'rei? I don’t want to commit to anything like that, but either way Wuju Practitioners have a very strong connection to the spirit world through their practice.

  The Vastayan connection is also interesting, given that Yi’s first student is Vastayan. Wukong knew about the Wuju Masters, and sought them out specifically. I wonder what he heard, or what he knows?