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psychopomp-namine · 6 months ago

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the way everyone has a dislike in their profile that actually says something integral about their character. lu guang doesn't like plans getting messed up, cheng xiaoshi dislikes loneliness, xia fei with owing favors, vein with lying...

and then you have liu xiao, who dislikes... cilantro. and fish mint.

(shakes fist) (putting him in a glass jar and shaking vigorously) learn to be vulnerable!! tell me something about yourself!! I guess him liking movies lines up with the theater metaphors, and there's him liking chess, but that. doesn't count methinks

#mine musings #liveblogging link click #link click #okay the metaphor thing works out a little bit in that. it's on brand #70% of what we know about liu xiao are implicitly gained from other characters #e.g. how xf and ltc relate to him. how the liu family talk about him. how he thematically juxtaposes other characters like lg and cxs #the 30% are the things we know explicitly from him e.g. he's a rich kid with a sports car. he can hear heartbeats #he wants to merge the parallel lines or whatever #the rest are inferences like. oh okay no parallel lines? he doesn't like uncertainties i guess #the way he talks about friendship with xf and ltc? he values a transactional view of relationships #(maybe because transactions imply a certain level of certainty?)#he's the current favored child of the liu family but he wasn't before #he's a “manipulator” but really that's mostly from marketing stuff and implications from canon #like. we know a lot about him but at the same time we don't #the way we just know his uncertainty -> certainty thing contrasts with lg's certainty -> uncertainty thing #we know his heartbeat hearing implies he knows everyone's level of sincerity and both xf and cxs exist as foils to that #the hunter thing with ltc. why does he believe that?#lots of “bringing the darkness” lines in three of his songs for some reason #so like. i can't say that the show hasn't told us anything. they have but in circular ways #we don't know much about him from him directly but we do. know stuff. kinda. do you get me #all i want from YE6 is veinxiao friendship being shown so i can have new dimensions on how lx views friendship #and maybe like. a hint at what his motivations are. like why is he Like That #<- again funnier if he's just Like That from the womb. even if the liu family isn't fucked up he's still Like That #but that's not this show's style so probably not #lx notes #like the INSISTENCE of writing lx as a point of comparison or through other people's perspectives and very rarely from his own #is fascinating to me

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