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Asian dramas and my favorite types of characters

There are my favorite types of characters as a list. A villain with a fatal weakness

Drama: The Scholar Who Walks the Night /밤을 걷는 선비 Character: Gwi Screentime: Secondary Gwi is an ancient vampire and a master of puppets (and Joseon's king is the main of them). He is merciless, invincible and scheming all the drama long, until he accidentally kills a girl, who was his hostage and recalcitrant puppet from her childhood on and was the only one who could scold him and deny him. Nothing about it is said directly in the drama, but after her death he goes insane, kills all of his puppets and this way causes his own death. So, I suppose, she was his only weakness, and I like this type of a personal drama for a villain. Punch-Clock Villain / the Dragon

Drama: 100 Days My Prince /백일의 낭군님 Character: Moo-yeon Screentime: Secondary Moo-yeon works as an assassin for the killer of his father, who is constantly threatening him with the life of his sister. Moo-yeon is a man of a very ill fate: his family was accused of a treason and executed, his sister became a fugitive, he was forced to sell his conscience for his and sister's lives and, as a cherry on the top of this cake, fell in love with the daughter of his captor. And died trying to save her... His story is sooooo sad, but it makes me feel for this character fully. Also, he is the king of whump because the half of the drama he is injured and suffers from his wounds. The whole sad story of this guy is analyzed by me here, here and here.

Drama: The King Loves /왕은 사랑한다 Character: Moo-suk Screentime: Minor Koreans, obviously, like this type of characters, too, so there is another Dragon of the main villain, Moo-suk. In his free from dirty deeds time he h̶e̶l̶p̶s̶ ̶o̶l̶d̶ ̶l��a̶d̶i̶e̶s̶ ̶c̶r̶o̶s̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶o̶a̶d̶ literally saves cute children and restores self-confidence of young ladies. And then he falls in love, rethinks his life and dies from the hand of his master. Predictable and sad. Still a memorable guy, though. 50 shades of a Byronic Hero

Drama: The Wolf / 狼殿下 Character: Chu Youwen Screentime: Main A Mowgli boy was adopted by a wicked emperor, brought up like a cruel beast and was forced to do some dirty stuff for the emperor. He is mysterious, severe and you never know what's on his mind. As a true Byronic hero. He is some kind of Dragon, too, but it's a Chinese drama and he is a main hero in it, that's why he doesn't really do anything bad during the series. His soul is kind and his heart is pure, but he hides it from his love and deals with all of his problems on his own. It's the reason why all of this drama is a masochistic tango between him and his love. Whump lovers will be happy, too, because he is constantly in chains, pierced by arrows like a hedgehog or works as a slave in mines. As any other Dragon, he has a BE.

Drama: Lost You Forever /长相思 第一季 Character: Xiang Liu Screentime: Secondary A mysterious demon general, whose name makes everyone shake in fear. A former demon slave, who is true to his word enough to fight for his benefactor even if he knows crystal clearly that it's hopeless and he and his army will die in the end. A man who has huge problems with expression of his emotions in a socially approved way. Edward Cullen of Chinese dramaland. He is enigmatic, with thick vibes of a bad guy, yet very loyal to his benefactor as well as his love and very selfless. Because of this loyalty he will die and the love of his life will never-ever find out about anything he has done for her during the story.

Drama: My Journey to You /云之羽 Character: Gong Shangjue Screentime: Secondary A guy was through trauma in his childhood and it made him look intimidating and unfeeling. A tsundere is born! He coped with his trauma by taking extra responsibilities for everything and everyone and turned to be a walking killing machine instead of a man. But an enemy assassin comes to his life and teaches him how to be a human once more. It's a painful experience, but it`s necessary in order to grow up as a character and is beautifully fulfilled. It was a great joy to know that he survives at the end of the story, it's a rare thing for this type of characters, so even if there is season 2 someday, I will not watch it in order not to spoil my impression of the first one. I wrote about him detailed here, here, here and here.

Drama: Princess Agents / 特工皇妃楚乔传 Character: Yan Xun Screentime: Secondary It's the transformation story, too, like a previous one, but this time it's transformation from an ordinary man to a villain. Prince Yan Xun is a hostage colony prince in a metropolis empire, but he enjoys a noble life along with other nobility youth. The society around him is awful, each of these noble youths is a psycho who appreciate human hunt and so on, but cheerful and easy-going Yan Xun doesn't think their bloodthirstiness could turn against him. When relationship between the metropolis and the colony become tense, though, Yan Xun's friends of yesterday are happy to drink his blood. He loses his whole family and, insanely longing for revenge, slowly turns to one of those monsters himself.

Drama: A Journey to Love / 一念关山 Character: Li Tongguang Screentime: Minor This guy has got a very realistic personality and background: he is a bastard who was deprived of mother's love since he was a child. The first circumstance made him power-hungry, scheming and outwardly emotionless, the second one made him longing for mother's love on insanely level. So he is invincible outwardly, but turns into a teary mess when it's about his female tutor, who is a mother figure for him. The contrast between these two personalities is enormous and makes this character very alive and interesting. During the drama he will not cope with his Oedipus complex but circumstances will solve this problem for him.

A pure-hearted hero

Drama: Creation of the Gods Ⅰ / 封神三部曲 Character: Ji Fa Screentime: Main It's maybe strange to find this type of characters in the list of my favorite types, but morality and selflessness of a character is very important for me, too. This story is some kind of King Arthur's legend, but in a Chinese way. The emperor is bewitched by a demon and is bringing the kingdom to it's downfall, the Gods are here to find the savior with the help of a magic scroll that can be opened only by a true king. Ji Fa, a hero of this story, doesn't care about scrolls, but his heart is loyal to his kingdom and to his family (in this very order). He genuinely wants to help his friend-prince to be a king his kingdom deserves and, despite awful things that were done to him and his family, doesn`t harden his soul and betray his ideals. And, I suppose, although he isn't aware of this, he IS the future King Arthur of China. Interesting character decisions

Drama: The Legends/招摇 Characters: Jiang Wu Screentime: Minor This character is something like a rival of the male lead. He is a xinmo - an inner demon of some other character and represents the darkest features of a human's soul. He is a ruthless killer, a dark sorcerer without conscience, but what was very unique, being literary the worst part of a human personality, he values his assistants a lot and genuinely cares for them. A villain is usually a lone wolf. He doesn't trust anyone and doesn't value anyone, his loneliness is usually his weakness and a key to his downfall. So I was pleasantly surprised that sometimes a villain is capable of building healthy relationships with his subordinates.

Drama: Sh**ting Stars / 별똥별 Characters: Do Soo-hyuk Screentime: Minor

This guy truly surprised me. Firstly, he is supposed to be something like a third wheel in relationships of the main couple, but he just calmly got a refusal from the female lead, said "OK" and, absolutely relaxed, proceeded to live his life further. It's something unbelievable for me, because I used to see the insanity caused by an unrequited love to be the plot engine of a lot of dramas. Secondly, he is well-written as a character, straightforward, principled and has tsundere-ish or Byronic vibes - all the character features that I like =) Part 3 will be about other interesting types of relationship, mostly between men.

[brilcrist]

Jifa x HanYe charity art commission for Jadeduo on twitter

Enjoy the meal👁️👄👁️

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Riding by my side is my best friend, Yin Jiao.

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YU SHI (于适) as Ji Fa, second son of the Duke of the West

Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms 封神第一部：朝歌风云 (2023)

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YeJi for Nora's birthday 🥳🥳🥳

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Chen Muchi as Yin Jiao & Yu Shi as Ji Fa in Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (2023)

[xinyuehui]

⸺ Ji Fa, you murdered the prince right in the main hall. It's a great sin, must be punished.

Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (2023)

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ZZH Color Wheel Challenge

Yellow: Ji Fa and...

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[technicallyverycowboy]

#one jf absolutely tied that titty rope harness thing #two they have touched each other sensually in the nighttime

i love this headcanon!!! 2. definitely!!!

you get me!!

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@ people more knowledgeable than me: why do they put their hair in their mouth before dying

[fourseasonsfigs]

Incomparably Beautiful Hair - New Year's JZEU Series (11)

This ethereally beautiful fig is based on Zhang Zhehan's ethereally beautiful character Ji Fa, King Wu of Zhou, from the unreleased Zhao Ge.

I believe this is one of those multi-layered fig names that I am simply too illiterate in Chinese to understand. The character 发, fā, of Ji Fa's name also means hair (along with a number of other things). The box card for this figure machine translates to Peerless and Beautiful Hair, and since we just had a fig (#12 in this series) called Peerless Little Prince, I decided to just go with some extreme poetic license here. I have zero business doing so with a language I don't understand (yet!), but I'm doing my best!

Let's distract you from my poor linguistic choices with the incomparably beautiful inspiration pic of Zhehan:

I don't know why this photo has such heavy processing on his face - he doesn't need it! The natural lines of his face are actually more beautiful when unfiltered - you get more of the delicacy and charm of his looks. Plus, it's always incredible to see someone this beautiful un-processed.

What a costume. Incredible. This fig maker took this inspiration and did it some amazing justice. When I saw the proof that was released, my mouth literally dropped open, it was so beautiful! I've been waiting for this fig for a long time.

He arrived with his headdress dangling ornaments carefully sealed up, which I appreciated. Too easy for those delicate metal chains to slip through the box seams and go missing otherwise (yes, I've had a fig accessory go missing recently that was not sealed up, so this is the voice of bitter experience)!

And here they are. The metal is very light and delicate, so the links can kink up easily. I first tried threading the metal bars through, since it seemed to make sense that the little loops would hold them in place. but they fell right down and resulted in this:

This isn't quite the look that matches up with the picture, so I changed it around to kind of having the metal bars hanging down a little bit, and letting their weight (such as it is) hold the metal in place.

I've actually seen people take the metal chain and pull it up and wrap it around the horns of his headdress, which creates a nice extra-ornate look. It's not really the style of the costume though, as near as I can tell, so I wanted to try and keep it as similar as possible.

His costume is even prettier in real life - it has a bit of a pearlescent shine to it.

There's something inherently magical to me about Ji Fa's hanging headdresses. It's just such an incredible look.

You can see some of the shine here. This is also a good angle for the back of his headdress.

The back pose is really pretty with the detail of his belt and collar / shoulder area. I'm not sure if the fig maker had access to any more detailed costume photos than we did, so kudos to them if they just took some creative interpretation of their own.

You can see a bit on the chain how the delicate links kink up a bit. They will straighten out with some gentle handling, but this is actually pretty straight looking in real life. The high def camera (despite my poor camera focusing abilities) really shows up any flaws!

Speaking of poor camera focus, my apologies for the blur on this photo! I was editing it and just had to shake my head. I was going to point out more of the rendering around the shoulders, but lets just move on, shall we.

There you go, you can see it better from this angle anyway. His hair really is fantastic - just the right level of full and natural looking, like it is in the picture. Some of the guzhuang dramas have the hair really tight and slicked back looking, which I don't prefer. I wonder if he uses his natural hair incorporated into the wig for this filming, like he did for A-Xu.

Hmm, you can see that chain on the left side there isn't pulled through quite enough to have it hang down smoothly. Like I said before, these chains aren't very heavy, so even the little bar doesn't have a lot of weight to it.

I realized I was so busy fiddling with the chains that I forgot to take a picture of the underside of the fig! Since I put the figs on fig stands after I take photos and put them in my cabinet, you're getting an underside photo taken through the fig stand:

I also see where I had to kind of mush the fig stickers together at the bottom there where his heels are close together.

While I was at it, I decided to play around with his chain a bit more to see if I could get it to stay better. I did a little bit of a loop around - I think it looks pretty good! You can be the judge.

The beautiful box card is complemented by the gorgeous art on the box. I know I keep saying it every time I do a post of the figs in this set, but the boxes are just incredible.

This is the last one in this series for now...I have #13 sailing it's way over the Pacific to me, so it'll be some time. That's ok, there's plenty of figs to review!

Material: PVC (fig and headdress) and metal (chains)

Fig Count: 315

Scene Count: 23

Rating: Kingly indeed!

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[sundiced]

attempting to get back into art because i got obsessed with a bunch of tiny fanbases starved of fanart and now i have to be the change i want to see in the world. anyways this is Ji Fa he's from a movie called Creation of the Gods that you should all totally watch. It contains hot evil women, attractive men swordfighting each other and getting tied up, aforementioned attractive men giving up their lives for each other, an incredibly fucked up found family dynamic, and cannibalism, which is why I firmly believe it has the potential to do numbers on this site

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YU SHI (于适) as Ji Fa, second son of the Duke of the West

Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms 封神第一部：朝歌风云 (2023)

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Ji Fa - Monster Strike