#zhou ying

[tchai-castor]

These were some studies I made from Chinese shows, the focus was mainly on the clothing, although I have completely forgotten how I did it. It's mainly Wei Yinglou (although I know she isn't all that recognizable) from Story of Yanxi Palace. The other one is Zhou Ying from Nothing gold can stay (she didn't turn out that well facially either in my drawing).

[cinammonelles]

hello hiii please read tai sui we have a guy with a cat

[morethanwonderful]

Genuinely Zhou Ying from Tai Sui is one of the most insanity-inducing characters ever written, like

He's a prince. He's chronically ill. He eats almost nothing that isn't bland and medicinal. He hates his dad so much he wants to start a revolution to destroy him. He's born vaguely psychic and eventually becomes the closest thing his world has to omniscient. He starts his revolution by having two local politicians chopped into mincemeat, blended together, and poured out in the street. His favorite person in the world is his annoying little cousin that hides out at his house with him when he gets in trouble with his parents. He's probably a sociopath. He's murderous enough that all his servants and subordinates are scared of him. He has the same clothes made for himself every year. He founds and runs his universe's version of the CIA. He had his bones magically removed as a baby. He's a commentary on the way that psychotic and neurodivergent children are often villainized and mistreated by their caretakers. He has his bones un-removed over 20 years later. He's faking his chronic illness to cover up other, weirder chronic illness related to the bone removal and psychic thing. He loves his grandma. He purposely engineered his mother's miscarriage as a young child. He can turn himself into mist and break off chunks of his body while in mist form. He grew up with his consciousness halfway bound to a hell bubble full of demons. He has a personal assassin/assistant/general-purpose henchman that can turn into paper and ride around in his sleeve. He sometimes calls the henchman a cutesy nickname. He was partially raised by the living embodiment of emotional manipulation. He sometimes calls his annoying little cousin an even cutesier nickname. He tries to destroy the whole world in a fit of grief when he thinks his cousin's dead. He basically kills himself in order to plonk his soul into a magic mirror and see beyond the bounds of reality. He treats his own life and body as expendable assets because he was bred and raised to be a human sacrifice. He didn't speak for years as a child because the way he spoke scared his mother. His experience of the world is so alien and incomprehensible to others that a man with the power to play souls as music cannot understand his tune. He's a case study of the fact that sometimes you simply cannot save someone who doesn't want saving. He's thin and sickly from his illness but canonically beautiful. He has his father's eyes. He spoils his pet cat.

[taisuiartgallery]

An official Tai Sui print release was just announced!

It will include multiple color illustrations, and there's also some chibi character stickers :D

Here's a link to the weibo announcement post for more info, as well as the Xi Ping and Zhou Ying print artist and the Bell of Tribulation print artist.

[stellarish]

The Tai Sui ending is like. What if Orpheus and Eurydice were brothers instead of lovers. What if Eurydice wanted to go to the underworld, and knowing Orpheus would do anything to chase after her, she sought him out before she died and told him that he musn't? What if Orpheus fought every instinct in his body and didn't go after Eurydice because he trusted her? Because she'd promised they'd see each other again if he'd only loosen the gates to the underworld while she was gone?

What if Orpheus never once looked back because he trusted Eurydice so perfectly, until hundreds of years later the underworld opened its gates to him entirely, and he entered to find no Eurydice after all. What if Orpheus saved every single person in the world except his brother and himself, and Eurydice was the only soul he never got to see again?

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas dresses tournament: Orange dresses Round 1- Group B: Zhou Ying, Nothing gold can stay (gifset) vs Christine Daae, The phantom of the opera

[pippuns]

happy birthday to my most beloved ratboy xi shiyong!!!!

[bubbledcoffee]

my favourite chaos creator Zhou Ying

[bloodysparklez]

so i started reading a new novel,

[grassbreads]

Tell me how I, the gal with terminal "can't stop thinking about Tai Sui" disease, read hundreds of thousands of words of Mo Du over the course of months, starting right after I finished Tai Sui, yet it took me until right now in this instant to put together the Fei Du->Zhou Ying parallel

Like. Here's the favored son of a man who is incredibly powerful and morally bankrupt. He hates his dad and would be quite happy to commit patricide, should he get the opportunity, but he doesn't directly do so because it wouldn't suit his schemes. He has spent his entire life since his teenage years painstakingly putting together the chess pieces necessary to both destroy his dad and unravel the truth of a grand unknowable conspiracy that has haunted his entire life. He's a genius and the way his mind works is utterly incomprehensible to everyone else in the world, even those who know and love him best. The right kind of placid smile from him can be the most terrifying thing anybody has ever seen. He is willing to use himself up and toss himself out completely if it is the means to the final end of his schemes.

It's just that with Fei Du, the whole point of him is that he's not nearly so terrible as he thinks he is. He's not a psychopath. He's not cruel, regardless of how much empathy he may or may not naturally have. He's just spectacularly traumatized by his childhood. And the presence of Luo Wenzhou in his life both saves him from spiraling down into his original epic self-destructive plot and allows him to access his buried human emotions.

Then, 5 years later, Priest came back to revisit some of the same ideas and turn absolutely all of them up to eleven. She wrote a man who doesn't just think differently from others, but who perceives the world so wildly differently from anyone else that his experience of existence is utterly incomprehensible to his peers. She wrote a patricidal prince who doesn't just want to destroy his father and his company, then tear out the truth of a criminal conspiracy, but rather wants to destroy his father and his entire country, then tear out the truth of the sky itself. She wrote a man who genuinely doesn't give a single damn about anyone other than himself and his tiny tiny selection of loved ones. Who would destroy the entire world in a fit of vengeance and who uses his own willingness to kill innocents as leverage against others. She wrote a man who plans to achieve his goals by way of epic self destruction and does exactly that, leaving the main character's loss of him as the central beating tragedy in the otherwise best possible ending.

She also wrote a story in which, when Zhou Ying's closest and most loved person realizes the dark and scheming truth of him, rather than saying "I can fix him; I don't think he's really so bad," he says "yeah, this is my cousin and he's a terrible menace who tries to destroy the world sometimes. I love him more than anything."

You can absolutely see how Priest's interest in similar ideas informed both characters. It's just that Fei Chengyu didn't succeed in raising his perfect little sociopath successor, but Emperor Taiming and the demons of the impassible sea absolutely succeeded in Jokerizing Prince Zhuang. They just couldn't possibly anticipate the kind of monster that the demon of the east sea would become.

[evilvillainapologist]

Zhou Ying: "I refuse to believe that Shiyong is really gone. I will do everything to get him back. I will unleash the worst demon the world has ever seen back unto the earth and destroy heaven and earth if I must. He is the only person I ever cared about; I will not tolerate his demise." 

Xi Ping: "San-ge, I'm back." 

Zhou Ying: "Holy shit, has this guy always been this annoying? How do I get rid of him again?" 

[yunxinli5129]

sketches

[cinammonelles]

(guy who is normal about traveler abroad voice) hey man how's it going

[morethanwonderful]

It's hitting me now as I reread why Zhou Ying freezes up here.

He's not just surprised that Xi Ping is hinting he knows Xuanyin wants him to establish a foundation. He's taken aback because Xi Ping automatically wants to help him evade the sect's scrutiny and railroading, but by this point, he's already planning to accept Xuanyin's demands and enter the way of clarity. That's why Xi Ping making arrangements for him like this throws him off, and it's why he "casually" tells him not to do so.

Local man prepares to let the government turn him into an emotionless shell, is shaken by the reminder that he has loved ones who will be incredibly hurt by that decision.

[stellarish]

Long time no Tai Sui doodles!

I've been slowly working out how I want to draw Zhou Ying's face. I think I like him best when he looks just like Shiyong, but alarmingly skinny and with eyes that Know Something.

[weilaverdui]

Found out that I did not post this one. And lost it on my own devices. Zhou Ying watching the world burn.