#jing yuan: cloud knights. [ the cloud knights entrusted their lives to me. i shall not fail them. ]

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Tag drop: Jing Yuan (incomplete, but the rest will be added behind the scenes) (... and a little return of Yelan's aesthetic, for I've missed her desperately)

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this line in wuthering waves angered the cn community

So, I’m sure some of you might already know that Kuro Games had to remove one line from the main story after receiving backlash from the Chinese community. It’s a line by Yang Yang in Act 2.

Now, it might not seem like anything in English, cause it’s true that soldiers need to focus on battling, and the people behind the battlefield (aka strategists or generals) will need to think of plans and strategies to win the battle. However, the sentence in CN sounds something like this: 

“Soldiers in the frontlines should only put their focus on battling, obeying orders and slaying enemies diligently. The people at the back though, they have a lot more to reconsider and plan.”

This gives off the feeling that frontline soldiers have it easy. All they need to do is just follow orders given, it’s not like they’re the ones losing sleep by planning strategies or anything. Which made many people go ??? Dafuq. What kind of writing is this? What do you mean or what are you implying with this? 

Yes, they’re soldiers but they are fighting tooth and nail for your country, your people too. They risk their lives following the strategies and orders given by those at the back. With one simple mistake in your planning, they will be walking straight into the lion’s den and perish. They have children, wives, families and friends waiting for them to return too. This is war?? Lives lost??? Hello? Where’s your empathy, how can you think of them like tools while those strategising are more superior? 

And then someone mentioned Jing Yuan from Honkai: Star Rail. In Myriad Celestia Trailer: History of the Xianzhou video, he said this:

“若无全军上下万众一心，谋吾遗计又有何用，仰赖各位云骑交托性命，我必不负所托” / “An army must be one of heart and mind, or skillful sleight of hands is little use. The Cloud Knights entrusted their lives to me, I shall not fail them.”

Basically, what Yang Yang said is the opposite of what Jing Yuan said. In Jing Yuan’s case, he’s saying that if the soldiers at the front are not united to fight to the death, then what’s the point of coming up with battle plans and strategies? They trust me enough to listen to whatever orders I give, so their lives are literally in my hands, thus I will not disappoint or fail them.  

So many people think that the line in Wuthering Waves doesn’t really respect the soldiers, and it may come off as condescending? Idk, I’m pretty neutral in this, cause it’s a pretty small matter, just that Kuro Games might have to review some of the things they write because yikes…that line just doesn’t sound too good 😭

Anyways, hope you liked this sharing <3