#you're so right gray renjing IS the ship ever

[bittersweetresilience]

jing yuan's theme is bookended by... uhhh... guzheng? pipa? i'm very bad at instrument identification. whatever it is, it's the main instrument i associate with him but it only really features itself during the beginning and ending

meanwhile blade's... xiao? is it a xiao? blade's woodwind is present and carries a melody through the majority of his song, even when it's being outshone by that really loud mara instrumentation

blade and jing yuan share the exact same key until blade's mara overtakes him, at which point he raises by two semitones and never recovers to baseline. the implications... the shrimplications... i'm sick about their relationship...

the renjing key is e minor because they make me emo and blade's mara key is f sharp minor because his sword is really fucking sharp

at the start of the song, blade is very slightly slower than jing yuan, but as soon as the action starts they're both at the exact same tempo and stay that way until jing yuan floats off at the end

jing yuan starts and ends on the octave, but he starts at the highest note and ends at the lowest. 堂堂正正的 boy. does things by the book boy. at the end of the day he's sad though.

blade starts in the middle of the octave and ends on the same low note as jing yuan. or he would have if not for the mara... fuck me

the sound of war drums is like the indication from the commander for the soldiers to go ahead. jing yuan is the general of the luofu and his theme prominently features drums

blade and jing yuan have the same incoming battle leitmotif and they both share the same little trills marking every measure for blade and every few measures for jing yuan

at least until their point of divergence, which is also when both of their other signature instruments come in, which is when jing yuan summons the spirit lord and identifies himself with the xianzhou and when blade succumbs to mara and identifies himself against it

the mix of electronic and traditional chinese instrumentation is shared with the rest of the xianzhou music. and it is extremely sick.

okay your ship is cool but can it do THIS