#like I'm picturing something kinda like how Tartaglia constantly refers to the traveler as Comrade you get me?

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So this is all courtesy of my partner-in-crime @hydrachea, thank youuuuuu ♡, but I finally know what Boothill calls Dan Heng in the original Chinese and I'm so happy. He calls him xiongdi!

Boothill really just saw Dan Heng and decided they were close enough to call him this in his party join line, he's so affectionate, it's adorable and I love him 💗

I've seen some people actually push back against henghill saying Boothill calls Dan Heng by a familial term, so it can only strictly be a bromance/platonic ship, which is so silly? Like if someone who actually knows Chinese and is a part of the culture wants to chime in and correct me, that's cool, but it really looks like it's not a term that has any one exact meaning.

It can be familial if you want, or it can be friendly if you want. It's flexible and up to interpretation!

Personally I actually love the gangster definition most haha. Because a big part of my draw to these two is the sort of brothers-in-arms feeling between them; Boothill is someone who fought in a war for independence against colonization, after all. I'm sure camaraderie is a big deal and something important for him. And he and Dan Heng are fellow Pathstriders of The Hunt and they share a lot of ideals!

So there's something fun about it, that just feels very much like Boothill, for him to refer to Dan Heng as though they were members of the same gang smzjskozjsls