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hulijingemperor2 · 11 months ago

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Wen qing: *checking up on Zixuan* your core and qi are good. Just take these pills daily. After your meal.

Zixuan: thank you. And what about that concoction.

Wen qing: take it on morning.

It's an energy booster.

Zixuan: is it bitter?

Wen qing: *laughing* peacock spirit Huangdi is afraid of bitter medicine?

Zixuan: ehem, no! I'm not.

I just asked.

Yanli: he's 100% afraid of bitter things.

Zixuan: A-li, don't tell her that!

Wen qing: lol, your secret is out.

Yanli: did you get to meet Wen ning and A-Yuan.

Wen qing: yes! I'm glad to meet them!

Yanli: how sweet.

Wen qing: And Yao huangdi is such a gentleman, deciding to escort me there.

Zixuan: he always fulfill the demands of his guests perfectly. With no question.

That's my amazing Foxy!!

Wen qing: aww.

Zixuan: where is he anyways?

Wen qing: Yao Huangdi stayed back to do some urgent paperwork, but he'll be here shortly.

He just arranged transport for me.

Zixuan: very hospitable.

Yanli: that's really delightful!

Yao: *entering with Meng Shi and Qin Su*

Zixuan: aw here he is. Yaoyao. We were just talking about you.

Yao: ohh. Am I that interesting? *laughing*

Zixuan: always.

Qin su: Xuan gege!

Zixuan: heyy, Qin Su. You're back! Well obviously you are. Yaoyao is flawless.

Qin Su: yea I'm back gege.

Zixuan: aww.

Qin Su: now what happen to you?

Zixuan: I was pregnant with twins.

Qin Su: *laughing* what?! Congrats though.

Zixuan: thank you. A-Su.

Qin Su: you're so cute.

Meng Shi: Xuan'er. How are you?

Zixuan: I'm fine, Jimu. And Wen qing gave me medicine.

Meng Shi: lovely!

And Wen qing is really talented and intelligent.

Yao: yea she is very talented.

Qin Su: I certainly agree.

Wen qing: taihou, Yao Huangdi and Qin Huanghou. Don't flatter me.

It makes me nervous.

Meng Shi: awww.

Wen qing: he doesn't like bitter medicine.

Zixuan: you're nervous about being complimented but you're still letting out my secret. That's unfair!

Meng shi: aw because he's a baby. Yao'er and Xuan'er are the same. They don't like bitter things.

Yao: A-niang.

Zixuan: Jimu.

Meng Shi: you shouldn't be fooled by the word 'Huangdi'. They're still cute and stubborn.

Later on in Jing Manor 📍.

Yao: Ms Wen, they have installed a rose bush in the garden.

Wen qing: oh great, Yao Huangdi!

Yao: the empire alliance papers are in order. I have stamped them but now you have to stamp them as well. *showing his deep dimples as be spoke*

Yao: our empires will be very close, and maybe we can fund each other.

What are your views on wealth and Healthcare?

Wen qing: *turning red* yea.

Yao: excuse me?

Meng Shi: the dimples again?

Wen qing: they're just cute. Ehem. Sorry, Huangdi. What did you ask? I'm so sorry.

Yao: it's ok. I asked what are your views on wealth and Healthcare?

Do you think it should be divided equally or not?

Wen qing: everyone should have access to money as well as Healthcare.

Yao: right. Successfully we practice that here. But I was curious to know the structure is in other places. And people's point of view.

Wen qing: i see.

Well my place has the same ideologies yours!

Yao: marvelous.

~~~~~~~

After A-Yao and Wen Qing brought their empires together, he decided to take a stroll with Qin Su.

Qin Su: *glancing at his dimples*

Yao: are you happy?

Qin Su: yes. With you.

Yao: ah. Tell me something then *smile*

Qin su: I was feeling a bit sad, while in Laoling. Like something was missing.

Now I feel as if I found it again.

Qin Su: I want to be with you, Huangdi. And Songsong.

Yao: we share the same wish.

Yao: *makes a umbrella appear, then sheltered her* It's drizzling.

Qin Su: awww.

Team dimple: *staring from a corner*

Xue yang: they're just smoking hot together.

Su she: hmm. They do have a chemistry.

And they both know what they want.

Mo xuanyu: where do these other women keep coming from. Don't they know Yao gege is mine!

Mo xuanyu: I'm going to talk to Yao gege!

Mo xuanyu: Yao gege!

Yao: oh hey A-Yu.

Mo xuanyu: do you love me?!

Yao: *pats head* yes I do, A-yu.

Mo xuanyu: *blushing while enjoying his touch* love you too Yao gege.

Qin su: A-Yu, you're so cute! But what's this.

Yao: yes he is. He's my adorable A-Yu.

Mo xuanyu: *hugs* Yao gege.

Wait, Su Jiejie, you said I'm cute?! But I said that you're the other woman.

Qin su: *laughing* yes xuanyu, you're very cute. And I'm not stealing your Yao gege from you.

Mo xuanyu: ok. *hugs A-Yao tighter*

Yao: come it us.

Mo xuanyu: I would love that!!!!

Xue yang: xuanyu got some game.

Su she: I know right.

Xue yang: I'm gonna try. Hehehehe..

Su she: yangyang, I think we should give Huangdi some time. He hangs with us 24/7.

Xue yang: want to spy on them with me.

Su she: of course I do.

Xue yang: Shanshan. Do you think Qin Su is a hot kisser like Jiggy.

Su she: I believe so!

Xue yang: what will happen if two hot people kiss.

Su she: then. They kiss.

Xue yang: but in a dramatic way.

Yao: yangyang, I'll know if you're spying on us.

Xue yang: I know Jiggybun. *blows kiss*

Qin Su.

Qin Su: xue yang.

Xue yang: you don't have a problem with me spying on you.

Qin Su: it's ok for your simping self, but I don't think my personal maid, Bicao, might like that.

And she will undergo swordfighting practice, due to tradition.

Xue yang: hehe, empress privileges. Got it.

You see, when I love someone, I fight to get to them. And you're lucky I don't fight with women. Otherwise Bicao might fail in protecting you.*winks*.

Qin Su: *sigh* team d and xue yang never change.

He's always so crazy.

Yao: around the clock.

Xue yang: Jiggybun, Susu. I got to go find a nice place in the bushes with Shanshan.

Su she: Huangdi, thanks again for saving me from Lan zhan and his bossy behavior.

Yao: *kisses him on his forehead* any time, A-She.

Su she: *flushed red* Huangdi.

Qin Su: ( Yao huangdi gives a lot of angel kisses, that leaves his chaos gang speechless. I really do miss his kisses)

Yao: A-Su, shall we move on?

A-Su: *blush* sure.

Furthermore~~

*looking at peonies.*

Yao: aren't they lovely?

Qin Su: very! Jing Manor has the best peonies!.

Yao: yes, our gardeners are always well skilled.

Qin su: ah.

Mo xuanyu: Yao gege. I love your addition to the garden!

It's really pretty.

Yao: thanks A-yu.

Mo xuanyu: brightens up the place as well.

Yao: I agree.

Yao: *picks four roses*

*then he puts two in Qin Su's hair and then mo xuanyu's*

Mo xuanyu: ahhhh, Yao gege!!! *blushing* I'm gonna faint!

I will never take this off.

Yao: here's some more, darling.

Mo xuanyu: oh my oh my. I'm being pampered my my Yao gege. I love you, Yao gege!

Yao: *caresses his face*

Qin Su: *blushing*

Yao: forgive me.

Qin Su: for what?

Yao: for putting it in your hair. I find it suits you.

Qin Su: A-Yao, you're y husband.

You can do whatever with me, any time.

Yao: *smile*

Meanwhile this went on, a tiny fox spied on them and ran off. Then on the other side, Meng Shi was in her room drawing a few designs.

Sisi: what are these, Huanghou?

Meng Shi: jewelry designs.

Sisi: for????

Meng Shi: no one in particular.

Sisi: are you sure, dimples?

Meng Shi: of course I am.

Don't worry.

Sisi: Dimples, is it for your daughter-in-law?

Meng Shi: obviously A-Si. My daughter-in-law, the clan leader of Laoling Qin deserves the best jewelry.

Yao'er and A-Su are perfect together.

Sisi: they're cuties.

Meng shi: exactly.

Sisi: what do you like about her?

Meng Shi: her intellect and grace.

It matches with A-Yao's.

And she knows about the ups and downs of life.

You know. Like dealing with guangshan.

And supporting Madam Qin, who was harassed by him.

People like Madam Jin and Jin guangshan never experienced fighting for your image and respect.

Not even Xichen and the Nies know about struggle.

They have all earned it by birth but haven't fought for it really.

And they wouldn't even understand the struggle of women in this Jianghu.

Sisi: you're right.

But fortunately, Qin Su restored her mom's honour like A-Yao did with you.

Meng Shi: poor poor Madam Qin.

She was a hulijing, and Qin Cangye was the Jin subordinate.

Then this nasty guangshan interfered with her.

I See myself in Qin Su and her mom.

Sisi: Madam Qin is a hulijing?

Meng Shi: yes. But not anyone famous. But her mom was a cultivator and her dad was a hulijing.

Sisi: Huanghou jiejie, you know. Qin su is so demure, yet so strong.

Meng Shi: I agree. events and environment do shape an individual.

Sisi: mhm.

Meng Shi: and that's why I ship them.

My Yao'er deserves the most successful and down to earth. Someone who earned their success. Someone who's beautiful and elegant.

In their position, people look up to them for idealism and inspiration.

They're the best reigning pair to have!

Anyways, A-Si, I have a little spy who'll report to me.

Sisi: team D?

Meng Shi: no!

A little fox!

Sisi: little Dianxia?

Meng shi: mhm.

Rusong: *running in, while in his fox form* Nainai!!!!

Sisi: there's your Dianxia! he's so tiny.

Meng shi: yes! A pocket sized baby.

This was how A-Yao used to look around his age. When he turned into a fox.

Rusong: *turns back into a human* Nainai, A-Die put a peony in A-niang's hair.

Meng shi: awwwwwwww.

A-Si! Songsong, that's delightful!

Rusong: agreed! But Nainai, why team d keeps drinking vinegar?

Meng Shi: maybe because they like the taste. Heehee.

Rusong: lol.

Meng shi: did anyone see you?

Rusong: nop, I stayed out of sight. Told you I would make an amazing spy.

Meng Shi: good. *gives him some taels*

Rusong: thank you!!

Meng Shi: *kisses him on his forehead* Songsong is amazing.

~~~

Mo xuanyu: guys I'm gonna give you your privacy. I sense something cute is gonna happen.

Yao: if you wish, A-Yu. *hugs* take care.

Mo xuanyu: of course, Yao gege.

Yao: I'll catch up with team d later.

Qin Su: I wonder what's that cute thing.

Yao: I don't know.

Qin Su: *blushing* are they planning our wedding?

Yao: maybe.

Qin su: *hugs* Yao Huangdi.

Yao: *hugs*

Sakura blossoms then fell gracefully on them.

~~~

Team dimple: *hanging out in the fierce corpse training ground.*

Mo xuanyu: Shanshan. C...can a person make a flower.....into a bookmark? *blushing*

Su she: yes you can.

Mo xuanyu: *blushing*

Xue yang: didn't your rival do that because of Wuxian!

Su she: yea! A couple of losers. But team d can do it because it's for our flawless A-Yao.

Mo xuanyu: Yao gege gave me peonies!! He gave the other woman peonies too. But he gave me roses and that's all that matters.

But I think I should stop calling HER the other woman. Cuz she said I'm cute.

Xue yang: that's the team dimple rule. If they recognize that Jiggy is indeed hot and we're cute little simps, then we have no enmity with them.

Su she: once they don't challenge A-Yao and team dimple.

Mo xuanyu: this Lan lips always challenge team dimple. Taking A-Yao from us and having a right over him.

Xichen: *entering* team dimple.

Su she: speak of the lan disaster.

Mo xuanyu: ugh.

Xue yang: LAN LIPSSSS!! WE WERE NOW SPEAKING ABOUT YOU AND HOW YOU LIKE TO STEAL JIGGYBUN!!! YOU SELFISH LAN!

Xichen: *rolls eyes*

Mo xuanyu: did he just roll his eyes at us??

Su she: that's a criminal offense.

Xichen: guys. I just want to find out about that alliance.

Su she: I can't spill without my Huangdi's permission.

Xue yang: Jiggy and Qin Su are married dude.

Mo xuanyu: yea, they're a couple.

Xichen: Yes I know that part!! Well that's good for A-Yao and Qin Su reuniting.

A Huangdi must have his harem.

Qin Su and I are good friends.

Xue yang: Qin Su says you're evil.

Xichen: haha. That's not true.

And how come you guys aren't crying your eyes out.

Mo xuanyu: cuz Yao gege gave me a peony. Hehehehehehe.

Xue yang: cuz they're hot as hell. And it's true. They're getting married.

Su she: and I like to mess with you. Live in turmoil like the rest of the lans.

Xichen: omg.

Xue yang: yea. We're unhinged.

#the huli jing emperor #foxyao #meng yao #dimpledlianfang #hulijing emperor 2 #jin guangyao #jin zixuan #part 2 #su she #the untamed

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littleeyesofpallas · 4 years ago

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Okay buckle up this was a roller coaster...

I was gonna go back to edit in just 1 extra sentence to my Vollstandig post mentioning how [完] means “Complete” but is also the Japanese equivalent to "The End" or "end" or "finis" as a closing card on a film may have been a little word play to parallel with Bankai's translation as "Final Release." I thought maybe the two terms were written as synonyms with two different words for “final” and two different words for something like “form”

But naturally I wanted to double check the translation on Bankai to make sure the word play was similar, first...

And it was not.

So, for one... Ban[卍] doesn’t translate as “Final” at all, because it kind of isn't really a word??? I mean, it is a word; it’s a kanji, and it has a few pronunciations, but they don't really "mean" anything translatable? 卍 is what's called a “manji” and it refers to the Buddhist symbol, and is the Buddhist symbol to which it refers(obviously), but the phonetic name manji[卍字] has its own writing, as you can see, which means "manji+character" as in a written-character. So, the word references the character, which references the shape, but none of them have an attributable meaning.

In fact, in Viz's English translation, the first time this comes up in Tessai's use of bakudou to restrain Ichigo during his hollowification, they didn't translate it at all. They wrote things out as; "Binding Spell 99 Number 2!! Ban-kin!!!(Constriction Ban)" and "...Final incantation!! Ban-kin Tai-ho!!!(Constriction Seal)" and the whole incantation has issues, but I’ll tackle the whole of that some other time...

For now, the thing to note is that the -kin[禁] in bankin[卍禁] means "prohibition" and the Taihou[太封] in bankin taihou[卍禁太封] means "Grand Seal" (referring to the giant stamp-like pillar summoned to press down on Ichigo, literally like an ink or wax seal.) So it would seem like they've translated kin[禁] as "Constriction" and just called ban[卍] "ban" the first time, and ignored it the second. But in the context of the line it sounds like "(a) ban" which coincidentally would have worked as a translation of kin[禁] "a prohibition"="a ban." (In the context of the final phrase, it may have even been untranslatable, as it could just refer to the fact that the seal has a 卍 carved into the side of it.)

But there is just one hint as to how this might be read, and that is the fact that the actual word for 卍, manji[卍字] has an alternate writing: manji[万字]. And the same man[万] in manji[万字] and read as ban[万] just like [卍], so in both this case and the case of Bankai (stay with me, we'll get there...) it seems like a safe bet they're synonymous.

Man[万] is the word for "10,000" but it can also mean "many," "myriad," "various," "everything..." you see the linguistic dominos train we're playing with here, right? Each alternate meaning still brushing up against one another; Even as the meaning or usage drifts around, it all orbits the same idea. So it's not surprising that it's also a prefix meaning "All." And its use in [万字] refers to [卍] as the "all things symbol."

This is because the manji has great significance in Buddhism as a symbol of unity (literally where (all) things come together; an intersection/a cross), the whole of creation, infinity, and the revolving sun (hence its association with Ichigo and his Black Sun motif, which itself actually circles back around to drawing from some obtuse esoteric trivia relating to the swastika) It's even the default icon for Buddhist temples on maps in Japan --I bring that bit up for reasons I'll come back to later-- although I’ve heard that’s been in debate to change in the wake of increased foreign tourist attitudes about the symbol.

Anyway... Point being, bankin[卍禁] means "All Prohibition" or "Everything Prohibition" or "Prohibition (of) Everything," etc... (Alternatively "All Ban"/"Everything Ban")

So, anyway... I went back to plug this into Bankai, and hey wait a minute... Kai[解] doesn't generally translate to "release..."

So I went back and quickly realized that we really didn't get the word "shikai" for quite a while, even as we were being show new zanpakutou and shikai forms left and right. In fact, we wouldn't get the term at all until Yoruichi used it to explain what bankai was for the first time.

But before we get to that, there's some important context, because we do get a number of words that are related to it...

Kaihou[解放] is the word for "release" that we hear repeatedly in reference to a zanpakutou changing form. As far back as Renji’s first appearance, he actually uses the word kaijyou[解除] which also means “release” but more like “release (from duty)” as he uses it to seal Zabimaru back into a standard katana, not summon it from... Yoruichi also specifically uses the term [常時解放型]: “Continuous Release Type,” when talking about Zaraki and Ichigo’s zanpakutou, which kind of solidifies that kaihou[解放] is the specific term to use for zanpakutou.

But we also get to meet Ichigo's hollow self for the first time during the Zaraki fight and he berates Ichgio for how he handles Zangetsu. He uses the word rikai[理解] specifically, meaning "Understanding," "Comprehension" or "Appreciation," and you'll notice the kai[解] in both those words is the same as in shikai[始解] and bankai[卍解].

So, the perfectly reasonable assumption when translating this seems to have been that [解] was basically an abbreviated form of kaihou[解放]: “Release.” And yeah, that's the most sensible literal reading. But there's a bigger word play at work here, because technically if it's being used as an affix kai[解] can mean "untie," "explanation," "solution," or "understand"/"comprehend." Again with the orbital words and one idea, all of these are akin to an "answer (to a problem);" the untying of a knot, the solution to a problem, the explanation of an idea, the understanding of a concept are all "the answer" to something.

In the context of what shikai and bankai actually are, this references how shikai is only to "beginning (of) understanding," and bankai is "understanding everything"/"total comprehension." It's the first and final steps in understanding a zanpakutou's sword spirit. And since the sword spirit is a reflection of the wielder, an understanding of the self...

So back us up to the ve~ry beginning... Vollstandig's kanji [完聖体] means "Complete Eucharist," written as "Complete+Holy+Form" or "Perfect+God+Body" where [聖体]:"Holy+Body" is the word for the christian Eucharist, or the act of Holy Communion...

Which means the Shinigami and Quincy final forms are [完聖体]:"Perfect [consumption of the body&blood of christ]" and [卍解]"Understanding of Everything" --but as I mentioned much earlier the 卍 symbol is synonymous with Buddhism. So, the two factions' final forms are alternate forms of the same idea: Buddhist enlightenment through “understanding,” and christian becoming one with god via “holy communion.”

So in a really funny round about way my gut instinct in thinking there was some kind of wordplay parallel here was absolutely right, but in no way like how I expected it to be...

#bleach #bankai #vollständig #zanpakutou #sternritter #bleach meta

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