#shennong arknights

[harlequin-wheels]

shu cooking request (a late birthday present for @cerastes !!)

[bocchis]

Shu and shennong

[furniture-piece]

burden of dreams

[kyrawaff]

This shit still baffles me btw. Is the fandom just not interested in ships that haven't been here for years or something?

[starcrashedsatellite]

This has been a most insightful operator background story

[ejbcya]

[sleepyminty]

What i gather from here a people sows event

[hexdrake]

playing Here a People Sows as a lesbian like

[mvmvmvmvs]

Just want to mention some interesting touch on Shu's operator record based on my understanding.

Disclaimer: I'm not Chinese, and English is not my first language, but I have studied both languages to some extent. Please feel free to correct me.

The last line, "The flowers bloom so beautifully after that parting, I wonder if you still know the way home," is coming from a poem Peach Blossom (桃花) by Yan Suicheng (严遂成).

The original Chinese reads, "怪他去后花如许，记得来时路也无." Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any translation for the full poem, but its basically about the feelings of loss with the fleeting nature of life.

"Strangely, after your parting, the flowers bloom so beautifully, I wonder, if you still know the way home."

My wacky attempt to translate the sentence in another way:

"Why, after you left, do the flowers still bloom? Yet the road I once knew, I can no longer recall."

At first, I was suprised with how Yostar chose to translate this as they combined both the meaning. Not that I'm complaining, that's a nice touch coming from the localization team. However, I think it’s worth to mention both meaning in this poetic phrase.

"怪他去后花如许" – The word "怪" in Chinese has two meanings: one is "strange" and the other is "to blame":

"How strange that, after you left, the flowers bloom so beautifully!"

"How frustrating that, after you left, the flowers bloom so beautifully!"

In this line, there is both surprise and frustration – ���Could it be that the flowers are not meant for me?” The flowers, in their fleeting beauty, may well serve as a metaphor for fate. The peach blossoms bloom in all their magnificence, as though fate itself is smiling, but tragically, upon someone else. They reach their fullest beauty only after that person has left. Perhaps these blossoms symbolize more than the cherished peach blossoms of Shennong, but Shennong herself—the very flower of Shu.

The line "记得来时路也无" (roughly translated: "Yet the road I once knew, I can no longer recall.") can also be understood in two ways, as either a question or a statement:

"Do you still remember the way home?"

As a statement, it carries two layers of meaning: Even if one remembers the path they walked, that road is now gone; or, if one could recall the path they took, it might never have existed (in terms of fate).

"怪他去后花如许， 记得来时路也无。”

“The flowers bloom so beautifully after that parting, I wonder if you still know the way home.”

After the peach blossoms fall, countless other flowers bloom in their place, competing to show off their beauty. Do these blooming flowers still remember the scene before they bloomed?

"See? They still remember you. An ascetic like you is still on their minds, even after a thousand years... What can I say?"

Honorable mention because im not sane

[simayeeet]

look hear me out

[kyrawaff]

Shu the entire event: "I miss my wife, Zuo Le. I miss her a lot."

Most Arknights events have yuri, even if sometimes you have to read in between the lines to find it. Here a People Sows is extra special because the quintessential plot detail that makes everything make sense is itself yuri

[kairunatic]

What few Anothereidos characters remind me of:

Beelzebub = Bertro, Nodens

Billford = Horkeu, Volkh (I mean all three share the same artist)

Lucifer = Ifrit

Morgan = FGO Blackbeard

Volund = Shennong, Babe, Arknights Matterhorn

You forgot

Harimau is like the younger ver of Ulaanbaatar

But yeah some of these are accurate

[loupmoune]

Year Of The Ox 2021

Here’s Henry Housamo and his friends

Shennong by vLW4zegrsGtSI6e

Matterhorn by HyperCheese2019

Urumi Ushizaki by toropop

Asterios by july_fumitsuki

[kyrawaff]

So much love for Shu, but where is the love for Shennong?! Yknow, the women Shu dedicated her life to for centuries??

[starcrashedsatellite]

Tried to draw Shu in the style of Crymachina's ingame portraits

[sleepyminty]

I love old woman yuri