#JYL gives something to WWX she does not quite share with JC. And WWX in turn gives something to LWJ he does not share with JC.

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[image ID: original poster’s tags - First draft of this comic's script has JC saying 'dude you wouldn't even share with me!' and I love his little sibling indignation. Middle child power is knowing that you don't have to share with your siblings. The little wet eyes and weak hand slaps do NOTHING. JC probably already ate all of his lotus seeds. That's on you dude! Part of me wants to get deeper with the metaphor of the lotus seeds here. It is a gesture of a certain kind of affection. JYL gives something to WWX she does not quite share with JC. And WWX in turn gives something to LWJ he does not share with JC. Really puts JC's line 'You're always eating...eating eating' into a very different light. There are other kinds of starving besides hunger. There are other ways to be a glutton than just food and drink. WWX's character pre-burial mounds is heavily focused on 'Indulgence'. Be it wine or flirting or hunting or eating- -or receiving admiration; He is always indulging in ways we never see JC do. I think the intentional contrast was with the Lan's 'Live simple and without indulgence' lifestyle. LWJ is the abstainer to wwx's gluttony. But it does expand to JC as well! Both are locked into the role model position to have friction against WWX's apparent freedom. I think LWJ and JC (at this point) see WWX as something they both want (in different capacities) and someone they want to be. Yet despite the history between them it is not JC who WWX reaches out to. It's LWJ. The boy already has an inferiority complex! Stop making it accidently worse!]

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