#qiao ling x li tianxi

[amiluc6]

okay so

dokja/joonghyuk, sangah/sooyoung

ivan/till, mizi/sua

lu guang/cheng xiaoshi, qiao ling/li tianxi

vanitas/noé, domi/jeanne

im seeing a pattern here

[zychimixx]

Join the literature club!!! But in Link Click.

[pastorfutureletthembe]

I actually started this blog for one post only. The theory is that the story we are following is currently the 5th timeline.

I would need to watch the donghua again to find hints in the show itself but for now this post is exclusively about the content we keep getting served as fanservice. Now, people nowadays see this word as negative but in this particular case, we are evidently caught in an ARG (Alternative Reality Game), which is AWESOME.

For those who aren't familiar with the concept, it is basically a treasure hunt outside of the original media. For example, if you gather enough clues during your playthroughs of OXENFREE, you'll find the coordinates of an actual place where a real object, a gift FOR FANS was hidden. In the context of Link Click, I believe the rules and answers regarding the worldbuilding are hidden in plainsight for us to discover!

I will make different posts on the clues in lyrics, but for now we're gonna have a talk about VISUALS only. And boy, do we have THINGS to talk about

First things first, let's start with

>>>>> Promotional posters.

I'm opening this analysis with this particular one because it is the most relevant to current events. Black circles are V and white ones are IV. The huge clock is the background isn't supposed to be oriented this way for starters. One V is where XII should be, which could mean our journey starts here. The other V is between Cheng Xiaoshi and Li Tianxi, on the light side, while both VI are on the dark side. Every other VI on this artwork is a broken piece taken out of a quadrant except for the one on the right near Qiao Ling which is still part of the biggest piece.

It is interesting that we don't see any clockhands here, only the quadrant, and the only whole number is 5, ONLY on CXS's introduction.

Not so subtil, the mirror or "painting" is labeled 'V'. Lu Guang is also looking directly at US, viewers.

Probably five lines of five x but we only see 3, of which only the first one got 5x. Four diformed shapes can be seen at LG's left, under V/VI, which could be the four previous failed timelines. You might notice that LINK CLICK is written 5times. The clock says 00:05. Oh, familiar, isnt it?

As you can see, the V is a light in the darkess at Lu Guang's feet. it is a broken piece, though. The fact it is the enlighted one could mean two things. 1) It marks the spot, where we're currently at. 2) Hope. I would argue that until then Cheng Xiaoshi always died and now, at the end of season 2, Lu Guang is in the dark because he never went that far.

VI is there too, in complete darkness, blocked from view by a ring. There is something to say about VII being completely obliterated but I honeslty don't know how meaningful that could be.

>>> It is my understanding that if a character change the past, it breaks the timeline. Past changed, present and future cannot be the same ever again. It doesn't create a new timeline like in MARVEL, there is actually no going back from a changing node, it unravels this world. Either it already happened, allegedly because of Lu Guang, or will happen in the next season, we can suppose that Timeline VI is the actual doomed one. The fact Cheng Xiaoshi is trapped is relevant too. Destroying Present and Future would trapped him in the Past, hence Come back from the dive back in time.

>>>>> Dive Back in Time

There are many things to say about this one, but I'll keep it simple since it's already a long post. Let's start with something a bit out of topic: colors. Why? It actually indicates that LG isn't from the same timeline than CXS and QL. And I swear it would be useful at the end of this post.

Blue and Red are on the same plan, no matter if we're talking about RGB or CMYK, but Green and Magenta are not. It's like CXS and QL are anchoring LG in this reality, but Magenta is not supposed to be part of the mix. Primary colors in photography are Red, Blue and Green; not Magenta. Since we're talking about photography and this is not the original timeline, I think it is intended.

I'll leave the count of squares to you (spoiler: either 5 or 3 (I'll explain this one in another post) :D).

>>>>> Overthink

I recommend you read this glorious meta about this ending. I'll just "correct" mimicha on one point:

The way the hands are "cutting a piece" of the clock; just like in the promotional poster for Train Trail. It indicates 5. I'll also add this one:

If you look carefully, you'll see two words: TIME PARADOX. As said above, a paradox should NOT be possible with the rules LC gave us so far, but it could be related to the possible 6th doomed timeline. The "dark side" could try and make it happen. Just food for thoughts.

If you want more meta on OPs/ENDs, I recommend you also watch this glorious analysis. That's all I have to say for this one regarding the number 5.

>>>>> VORTEX

Not much to say, except for this "blink and you'll miss it" screenshot. If I missed anything, feel free to share with the class!

THE TIDES has, sadly, nothing to offer on this current topic!

>>>>> 3rd Anniversary: Surprising Click

Oh boy, do I have THINGS to say. Don't be surprised when I'll make another post about this Link Click monument haha. Note: 5 PVs were prepared for this anniversary. Coincidence? (I think not).

N O W A N D F O R E V E R

The only 5 clue I found is what looks like a clock with one hand going backwards, from X to IV, it appears while the chorus is playing. That might be a bit farfetched but I'd mention it for archives purpose anyway.

B R E A K

I won't be a smartass by pointing out BREAK is a five letters word but- okay that's infuriating of them if it is on purpose.

Most of it is obvious, the same logic applies, except for the cogs and hourglasses, we see four of each falling. Since LG's shadow/light goes from IV to V, it's safe to assume that those symbolize the four failed/achieved timelines. The ones left behind. I'll probably post something about cogs and hourglasses one day.

A last one, for the road:

S U R P R I S I N G C L I C K

You should take a look at this fan's brain! They did a wonderful work. I already had this part prepared so I'm still gonna share the obvious. Five mics ("time is like music"), and five letters (with photographs inside I'm guessing). Magenta and Green are very flashy in this one.

Oh, here are LG's five magenta squares from Dive Back in Time ;D

Four failed timelines/tasks, and... loading the first out of three chances. (Again, I can't address everything in one post, this one will have a long meta on his own, don't worry :D)

T R A I N T R I A L

Two occurances worth mentionning. Once again, V is the only timeline enlighted.

B U R N I N G P A L A C E

Many things are happening in this one but only one regarding our current meta. If you pay attention, you'll see it several times, while the chorus is playing:

x x x x x

Now, if you remember correctly, green is the exact chromatic opposite, the complementary color of magenta. They aren't on the same plan (primary vs secondary)/from the same timeline. Usually, they color Lu Guang but here, there is no magenta and no Lu Guang. With this in mind, could it be the paradox OVERTHINK warned us about? We can only assume Vein is from the same original timeline as LG. Red and Green are primary colors so yeah, we'll see.

That's all for today folks!

I had this brainworm eating at my life for weeks so I'm very happy that it is finally out there.

| Part 2 |

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Li Tianchen and Li Tianxi timeline

This is my attempt to piece together what I think the most likely chain of events is regarding the twins from the evidence we have as of season two episode nine.

X years prior to present day

Li Tianchen meets Liu Xiao at the fountain. Liu Xiao says that you have to really gun for what you want. He speaks of how the world is a "jungle" and only a few can evolve and become "hunters", else they must be prey. Li Tianchen internalises this.

Seven years prior to present day

Li Tianchen and Li Tianxi live with their parents. Their father (Li Fan) hears rumours of their mother (Liu Lan) cheating on him (rumours which their neighbour stoked - he's one of the rumour birds in ep 9) and uses it as an excuse to physically abuse her and threaten them all with a hammer when they try to help her. Li Tianchen and Li Tianxi flee to the other room. At this point, Li Tianchen and Li Tianxi are touching each other (but not Liu Lan) and Li Tianxi is clutching the photograph taken earlier that day. It appears as though Liu Lan (possessed) takes the hammer and approaches Li Fan but we don't get to see the full scene before CXS is thrown out of the dive and there is no knife involved at this stage. When we return, Liu Lan is dead by knife and Li Fan by hammer. Li Tianchen later claims to Qian Jin that he killed both of them. However, we haven't seen what actually happened and Tianxi's later retelling has a flashback of Liu Lan apologising to her which must happen sometime in the blanked out scene.

The twins meets Qian Jin at the site of the crime scene, who takes them both on board and modifies the police files relating to their case. The twins have their police files erased and vanish and Qian Jin quits the force.

Y months prior to the current day

We next see Tianchen and Qian Jin at a meeting with Liu Min. This appears to be several years later as Tianchen seems much older. Liu Min says Qian Jin has already helped "resolve matters with that woman" (I do think he literally means in a lawyerly way in retrospect rather than a murdery way, especially when QJ's first response to him asking to take care of the online attacks is to say "I'll send them letters".). As Liu Min has use of his legs at this point, this places this scene at prior to season one episode one and so months before season two.

Liu Min is asking QJ and Tianchen to target his "haters", that is, those who talk badly of him or spread rumours about him online, and his first target is Tianchen's former neighbour. It seems that the neighbour hasn't changed his rumour-spreading ways. Tianchen laughs.

Chronologically alongside and after season one episode one

Liu Min tries to threaten Emma after the games company news breaks and his embezzled money is at risk. It gets out of hand and he ends up with a crashed car and paralysed legs. Emma heads to the bridge, intending to commit suicide, but is stopped by Cheng Xiaoshi. Emma is then possessed via photo by one of the twins and leaps to her death, Cheng Xiaoshi as the only "witness". (The story currently wants us to place this as Li Tianchen doing the possessing and given red eyes speaks this does make most sense but I'm keeping my options open. Tianchen's powers at least include touch possession though and we saw him receive Chen Bin's photo not long before his potential possession.)

End of season one/start of season two

Possessed Liu Min abducts Xu Shanshan and is invited to CXS's "game" the next day. When they show at the photo shop they're trapped in the developing room where they mention that they were "only an agent" (because they were carrying out the killings on behalf of someone else?) and that they would never kill "innocents". Once CXS reveals this was all a trap to get a confession, red eyes then retreats from Liu Min. Liu Min is taken into police custody.

Later that day, when CXS jumps back to try and save Emma, Qiao Ling is possessed and stabs Lu Guang. When CXS returns, possessed QL claims that CXS "cheated" in their game and lets slip that CXS's powers "also" involve photos, with the "also" having heavy implications.

Liu Min is possessed again and made to commit suicide. It's unclear in which order Lu Guang's stabbing and Liu Min's "suicide" happen and whether they occur simultaneously or not.

Happening chronologically alongside season two episode two

Qian Jin retrieves a photo of Chen Bin and passes it on to Li Tianchen.

Chen Bin is (potentially) possessed, confiscates Liu Min's phone and passes it off to Xiao Ma (Qian Jin's lackey). He then falls from top of the hospital building. (Note: Tianxi's telling of her backstory shows a shot of Chen Bin apologising and crying. It could technically have taken place at any time, but it makes most sense it fits here)

One of the twins at the staircase asks Xiao Ma for Liu Min's phone. They don't speak and even though at a glance the fringe seems to resemble Li Tianchen's it seems to make more sense at this stage for this to be Li Tianxi. This occurs chronologically before the scene in the next paragraph as Xiao Ma is confronting CXS and QL when LG tries to leave his hospital room and is arrested immediately following the confrontation.

Lu Guang tries to leave the room and receives a photo from what appears to be Li Tianxi. This has a photo of Liu Lan and Li Tianxi on the front and the back says about not wanting to lose a good brother, with a childish doodle next to it. The Tianxi delivering the photo wears a blue jacket and a mask which appears to match with the twin on the staircase.

Season two episode four

A few days appear to have passed since episode two as Chen Bin's funeral has now taken place.

Qian Jin speaks to Xiao Ma and realises that one of the twins took Liu Min's phone. (He updates Liu Jing on this after the funeral though he may have known of it before). Given Tianchen and Qian Jin appear to still be in cahoots as of s2e9, this points to it being Li Tianxi who intercepted the phone.

"Li Tianxi" phones Qian Jin. QJ asks "have you found him?" (I'm using Funi subs here so can't confirm but about 90% sure it was translated like this because the Chinese subs used 'ta' (他) which does mean 'he' but sounds identical to 'ta' (她) which means 'she'. In other words, it could just as easily be "have you found her?" and the og subs used the male 'ta' for ambiguity) Qian Jin comments that this (plan) is "pretty risky" but so long as it's carried out before the police realise it should work. Most likely this is Li Tianchen disguised as Li Tianxi soon to walk straight into a police station. This Tianxi is wearing the pink hoodie as far as I can tell.

This all implies that Li Tianxi is "missing" already and when this is put together with the hospital scenes in episode two, she likely went awol back then or not long after. Li Tianxi fled wearing a school uniform rather than the hoodie of the hospital scenes and it is in this that she is later found.

Qian Jin and Li Tianchen discuss the specifics of Li Tianchen's escape from the police station beforehand. Qian Jin lays out all the instructions of the plan so Tianchen just has to follow them and retrieve CXS.

"Li Tianxi" shows up at the police station and asks for CXS.

Season two episodes six to eight

Tianchen-as-Tianxi uses CXS's sympathies to get him to touch him whereupon he possesses him. He then also possesses Wang Juan and together they leave the police station. Tianchen makes it to the docks but isn't able to take CXS. Instead, LG is taken himself.

Miscellaneous notes

Clothing-wise, in s2, we appear to have Li Tianxi wearing a blue hoodie and a mask at first during the hospital scenes and then later a school uniform when she decides to flee. This is copying Li Tianchen's outfit in the meeting with Liu Min (and his general colour scheme prior to that).

Li Tianchen wears a pink hoodie and when disguised as Li Tianxi he also adds a mask and wig.

In both cases I suspect the mask is used to obscure their identity. Tianxi retrieved the phone as Tianchen and Tianchen infiltrated the police station as Tianxi.

Whilst this layout of events places Liu Min's phone with Tianxi, at the time she is taken into police custody she no longer appears to have it. It may be hidden somewhere important to her or in the place she was found.

I can't place exactly when Li Tianchen meets Liu Xiao again, but am reasonably sure the chronology in the episode is accurate here and it's before LTC meets Liu Min for the first time. Liu Xiao said that LTC would have opportunities to "hunt" in the near future and there Liu Min was. Also, we know that Liu Xiao was studying abroad around the time of the present timeline so it has to have occurred before then (from the 'will we meet again' and 'it's almost time' I'm tempted to say this scene is just before LX leaves for abroad honestly).

Also, LX says the difference between a 'hunter' and a 'beast' is that a hunter hunts even when not hungry - this is where the scales get tipped from self-defence to actively killing - it's an important mental shift for LTC.

[miyamiwu]

I suddenly had a vision

Qiao Ling x Li Tianxi

I know, I know this is fucked up, but if LTX is like CXS who inherits feelings and memories of the person they possess, then I wonder what she saw while as Qiao Ling. Not to mention Qiao Ling is often used to refer to red-eyes (like in the s2 OP and the Xetroverthink pv or however you spell that)

Also, I wonder who'd win in a fight

[pastorfutureletthembe]

Hiii I hope i'm not bothering you, but I wanted to ask you something? Do you think it's possible that Lu Guang has his powers activated all the time?👀 I was looking at color wheels and how lights interact. Red light and Green light together make yellow light (Xiaoshi) meanwhile Green and Blue light make cyan light (Guang). If we would overlay the yellow with cyan (Red + Green + Green + Blue), we would have all components for a desaturated grey. Lu Guang has grey eyes. We would never know if he was using both powers at the same time - is this possible? What do you think? Also the only colors of light left out in this equation are Blue light + Red light, which gives magenta light, or purple, which I suspect will be the eye color of the next antagonist! - but then again I don't know 😂

Thank you for this very interesting question, anon! I apologize in advance, because you put me on the LIGHT topic, and there are loads of things to say.

Here you go, so everyone is up to speed:

First, I'm going to start with the eye color as a concept the Link Click' verse: it is fact that yellow/red/blue colored eyes when using powers are only seen by us, the audience. It is informatiive and clever. And when the show doesn't want us to know that, for example, Li Tianchen is controlling someone or that Liu Min isn't himself or Qiao Ling is about to stab Lu Guang with this apple knife, it just doesn't show us the unatural eye color until it needs to be revealed.

So it is absolutely possible that Lu Guang is using his power ALL THE TIME. I have one meta coming about Lu Guang's physical condition but I can already give you the outline:

Lu Guang is always tired. He always need to sit down and always has dark circles under his eyes. Add the white hair and his inability to do any physical exercice without hurting himself- Well, our boy isn't in good shape. That's one more hint that he's weak, perhaps weakining every passing day a little more because he's using his power 24/7.

Secondly, the colors itself. It's amusing that you mentioned magenta as the antagonist's eye color because I do think magenta when talking about light is Lu Guang's color. In the PVs, it is often associated with his character, just like Green.

But let's start from the beginning: the official artworks and merch state that Yellow is Cheng Xiaoshi, Cyan is Lu Guang and Pink is Qiao Ling. Indigo is Liu Xiao and Red is Vein. (Note: Li Tianchen and Li Tianxi's color is also pink, which is genius since there is a possibility that Qiao Ling got Li Tianxi's power or that it triggered her own). I think it is interesting that the first three colors are not primary when we're talking about LIGHT. Also, if we're refering to the color wheel, Lu Guang is Vein's complementary/opposite character and Cheng Xiaoshi is Liu Xiao's. Here, you have your antagonists.

As for eyes colors, I have two things to say. One, Qiao Ling had WHITE pupils when she got a glimpse of Lu Guang's memories through Li Tianxi's power. Two, we have no green character for now. Following the previous logic, the green character should be an antagonist. But we do have a trail: "Burning Palace". I mentioned it before in my analysis of the recent official artwork.

This PV introduces us to three new characters: Vein, Liu Xiao and Xia Fei. Because of the dark tune, the aggressive lyrics, and also Vein and Liu Xiao being here, we can only assume they are all antagonists.

If you look closely, you'll notice this pattern: X X X X

For one thing, Green isn't any of these character's color, might it be identity color from the merch or the eyes color revealed in this PV (note that Xia Fei's eyes are Yellow). But we see it in some details:

♠ ♦ ♣, with ♥ missing.

For starter, it does present Vein ♦, Liu Xiao ♣ and Xia Fei ♠ as part of a whole, not necessarily meaning they are on the same team, but we can assume it echoes our first conclusion: they are antagonists to our main characters.

Plus, every hint dropped regarding colors tell you all the same thing: there is one more character yet to be introduced.

Now, that's more interpretation on my part than solid fact if we talk about this particular topic but here you go:

♥ has been associated with Lu Guang before:

Note that this particular shade of magenta and green are complimentary. Could it be that Lu Guang is his own antagonist?

We know nothing of his past and his origin story, so it is an acceptable lead to follow. Green is present in "Burning Palace" but the absence of the character associated with it is too obvious not be a foreshadowing.

[Now, I'm going to go off topic for a moment, but I do think it is relevant:

Magenta and Green give WHITE. For now, we don't know what all these colors mean, we only got one clue:

I'll bring to your attention that the "Now and Forever" PV is advertized as Qiao Ling's song but the memories we sees are Lu Guang's, his and those from Cheng Xiaoshi's dives that he witnessed. Although the lyrics are obviously about grieving someone and could applied to either Lu Guang or Qiao Ling, they do sound like her feelings judging from the desire to move forwards. 1) She doesn't need nor want to change anything at all, 2) she represents the present, the current time in merch, 3) past and present are what they are but the future is what we make of it. This is the ultimate lesson that Lu Guang needs to learn. This is the moral of the story.

If we could go back to that time We wouldn't change anything at all Believing that this encounter Represents the promise of happiness For you, I gather more of my courage The future ours to pen The light in the depths of your eyes Lights up the whole world

She will find courage in these memories, in the name of Cheng Xiaoshi. I have a TAROT DECK meta coming so I won't go into the specifics but STRENGTH is Qiao Ling's major arcana, just so you know. This song is her song without a doubt.

Now, I don't know the exact words and their meaning in the chinese version of this song, but here, the english translation offers light twice, once as a noun and once as a verb. White light, after all, is only LIGHT. It could mean that "white" light is the ultimate and more powerful power in the Link Clcik's verse. It is at the center of the chromatic chart of light, after all.

I had a conversation about episode 1x01 recently and we argued that Cheng Xiaoshi didn't actually time traveled but merely relived a memory trapped in a picture. Basically, his power would be based on "quote" science "unquote" (and not magic or whatever supernatural thing). If we regard it in a scientific perspective, it has been said that light or water has memory, but there are actually no purely scientific proof to back up the therory, not with current technology anyway. Light itself does print impression of images though. For example, you look at something bright and still sees it when you close your eyes, and if it is magenta in real life, it will appear as green into the darkness of your eyelids. So the hypothesis is interesting to argue over.

In the context of the Link Click' verse, We can theorize that when Cheng Xiaoshi goes inside a picture through light, is part of it, and changes something, the impression left by the light trapped in this photograph could be changed and, by entention, the impression of the memory as well. Basically, Cheng Xiaoshi wouldn't change the past but change the memory of it. And it also could be the reason why we cannot touch an unchangeable node: if someone dies, they are physically absent in the present/future, and no twist in memory can change that.]

Some food for thought. Anyway-

One more puzzling visual is "Burning Palace": cyan and green fill Liu Xiao's silhouette while indigo is set to be his color identity. He's also surrounded with red here, but we cannot assume it means anything for now since the main color of the whole PV is red.

Liu Xiao is a mysterious charater for now but we know 3 things for sure about him:

Li Tanchen and he are a team/friends

He wants to "bring more parallel lines together" to erase uncertainties

He has a peculiar interest for Lu Guang

So, if green, magenta and cyan are all linked to Lu Guang in a way, he surely is a mandatory trail to follow for someone who wants to "merge" timelines. Liu Xiao being filled with both cyan and green could implied he is close to the truth or the ultimate power. Perhaps that's why he took Li Tianchen and Li Tianxi in. Maybe he was plotting to get what we assume is Qiao Ling's power.

I think I addressed everything regarding color and light.

Honestly, the grey color of Lu Guang's eyes don't seem as important to me as the fact he has vertical-slit pupils? Not enough people are willing to talk about this?? lmao (if that's a topic you're interested in...)

This is not a definitive answer but a few details that might help some of you to crack the case. I think about it every freaking day myself because it is obvious there is some kind of easter egg hidden there. Hopefully we might find an answer together!