#class: grandmaster

[rejectedfables]

genuine ethical dilemma posed by Xue Yang's existence:

if, in a society wherein sect leaders massacre their enemies over politics, the only person being put on trial for a massacre is the one without a sect, are his CRIMES actually illegal, or just his class?

[sillygoofyqueer]

I'm becoming sick over the mad scientist AU and it's negatively impacting how I view everything in life (I was in Psychology and I started thinking about how Wen Ruohan would so take a look at Milgram n fucken Bandura n Skinner n be like "how can I use this to fuck up everyone around me") so I'm fuelling the addiction. Wei Wuxian. Whipped, recovering from a fever, slowly starting to ponder the reliability of what the Wens have been telling him, as well as the implications of it. Turning to Wen Qing while she's rebandaging his wounds after he opened them during sword practice - she's not allowed to heal them, they're supposed to be a message - and asking her if she would tell him the truth if he asked her something someone else had lied to him about. She pauses, and he isn't able to see her expression as she tells him that no, she wouldn't, not if it meant the rest of her family being in danger of death. Of course, this is more than answer enough, and he doesn't ask her any more questions; he can't have his family getting hurt in his hunt for the truth, and he can more than definitely find out everything without having to get any of them involved.

He starts his hunt for knowledge with a carefully timed trip; the moment that his back is given a (sort of) all clear by Wen Qing, he's back to his regular self, bounding around the place and telling Wen Ruohan that he wants to go back to the cave of the Xuanwu of Slaughter to see if there's anything cool to be found in its remains. "After all, it was built off resentment!" He explains, carefully not mentioning the fact that there was anything in particular so that the man doesn't get suspicious. Wen Ruohan allows him to go, but Wen Zhuliu (who is basically assigned to him, much to Wen Chao's chagrin) has to go along, 'just in case'. That's fine - Wei Wuxian's used to getting things past him at all times, so it's easy to get a messenger bird to start following him from a distance on the travel there, and embarrassingly easy to get a message attached to it under the guise of climbing a tree just because. Wen Zhuliu doesn't question it when a bird flutters off, obviously just startled by the boy disturbing its home.

Then there comes the actual searching of the corpse - it absolutely reeks already, but he's more than used to the smell of rotting flesh and doesn't even blink twice before he's diving into the water to search for that sword he lost earlier (yes, Wen Qing did tell him not to get his wounds wet). Wen Zhuliu watches carefully from atop the shell of the corpse, but a well-timed talisman that sets off a crumbling near the entrance to sound like someone slipping or something sends him darting off to check it out just as Wei Wuxian locates the sword half buried beneath the corpse sludge pouring out of the shell. He shoves it into his qiankun sleeve and then grabs a couple other old weapons that could be used for some experiments to appease Wen Ruohan and beams at Wen Zhuliu as he returns with a "look what I found, Zhuliu-ge!! These are going to be so fun to work with!"

It's a few days before he gets a response; he's just glad that the messenger bird managed to make it to his chosen correspondent without getting shot down or lost, and it's made better by a response from the boy (he shouldn't feel so surprised, Nie Huaisang most certainly owes him after what he's been through after letting him escape). He just asked him to tell him about the different clans, and Nie Huaisang has gone above and beyond with a letter detailing the basics of each main clan, and then going into extra detail about what the Nies are like. It's different to how Lan Wangji talked about his home, much more excited and enthusiastically proud of Qinghe compared to the other boy's quiet pride of the Cloud Recesses, but they both just have so much love for places that Wei Wuxian had been raised believing were literal hellholes of their own special kind. Not fit for someone like him.

I should keep talking about how Wei Wuxian becomes more aware of the surrounding world and how he corroborates those answers with different books smuggled in by Xue Yang (who found all of Wei Wuxian's correspondence with Nie Huaisang and demanded to be included because heeeyyyy :[) He's obviously leaving a paper trail so that in case of something going wrong, nobody else can be blamed for Wei Wuxian finding out about the lies the Wen have been raising him on. I actually don't want to because I'm tired and this part is boring me - it's basically just hyjinks mixed with Wei Wuxian slowly starting to break apart because he's learning that he's been assisting the real monstrous sect all along. He's killed people, innocent individuals that had not volunteered to have different resentful energy pumped into them and their organs be systematically taken out. He's really not doing well because of it while trying to act So Normal around everyone else.

I think this all comes to a head when Wei Ying finds out about his parents. He's just received a new letter from Nie Huaisang, yapping on about how honestly, he thought that Wei Ying would "not be this chill at all!! You know, considering all of the horror stories and the experimenting and the blood and the fact that you work for the guys who killed your parents-" W h a t . What. What. He keeps rereading this sentence, over and over again, but it doesn't seem to stick. He feels colder every time the words slide through his brain. No, his parents were killed on a night hunt. The Wen had...but why would they? It's become clear that they don't care about things that aren't useful to them. This teenager, this boy who is already emotionally unstable right now, snaps. Qi deviation mixing with the resentful energy crawling through his body just grab him all at once.

Wen Zhuliu is standing outside Wei Wuxian's experimenting rooms as usual, ignoring the noises coming from inside as usual, until there's a particularly large crash inside. At this point, he can't ignore it anymore and opens the door to be greeted with Wei Wuxian obviously qi deviating and covered in blood which would be normal if not for the fact that he just got new robes and there is no corpse in this room. So it is his own blood. His breathing is heavy and uneven, his fingers are curled inwards with Suibian ever faithfully in his hand. Raw qi and resentful energy crackles around the room and Wen Zhuliu is ready to call for Wen Qing when their eyes meet and he realises that they are clear. Focused. They look upon him and they are filled with a visceral, feral hatred of what they see. The man of course tries to brace himself for an attack, gearing up to crush Wei Wuxian's core, but he is not ready for the power coursing through the teenager's veins in his distress.

When other guards (and Xue Yang) come running at all of the commotion, they are met with Wei Ying sat in a pool of blood, using nothing but his bare hands to rip at Wen Zhuliu's already mutilated body, chunks of flesh and muscle dropping around him and different shredded organs splattered around the gore stained room. The man's throat lies next to his head. When Wei Ying notices the other guards, the only thing stopping him from attacking them as well is the fact that Xue Yang is the one standing in the doorway, staring down at him with actual, real concern and horror - not for Wen Zhuliu, but for Wei Ying.

[sq1nk]

Finished my academic comeback so you guys get a Wei Wuxian revival

I used one of my cosplay Wei Wuxian cosplayers as a reference. mame_sky13 on twitter!

[sonik-kun]

"Jiang Cheng is classist"

Okay, and? That's hardly the biggest crime in a book where there are *checks notes*

Murderers, war criminals, rapists and corpse desecrators to name a few..

Not to mention, most of the main cast were elitists anyway and/or did nothing to help the lower classes (yes, even our main couple had some form of privileges over the lower classes and did little to help them in terms of social reform.)

Arguably, the only person who did help and consider the average joe was Jin Guangyao. Beyond his watchtower scheme he set up, the rest of the cultivation world couldn't give a fiddler's fuck about the poor.

Could be because it's a cultivator's primary duty to protect the cultivation world from imminent threat as opposed to wholesale, social reform? But eh, I could be wrong.

Either way, my point remains. Using Jiang Cheng's "classism" as an "ooh gotcha" is just silly to me when our hero's end game is with a rich dude, being fucked raw and spoiled rotten all day, every day. Hardly the actions of a working class hero, but meh. Valid of him tbh. Lmao.

[incorrectly-quoting-mxtx]

Jiang Yanli: I believe the best course of action is writing a formal apology letter.

Jiang Cheng: Fuck that shit. Do you even know how I got involved with that bitch?

Jiang Yanli: Language!

Jiang Cheng: Do you even know how i got involved with that ho?

Jiang Yanli: ...a little better.

[snowyshuanghua]

mdzs headcanon of the day #659 ! hey yall just came back from vacation ! sorry if i wasn’t super active 🙂‍↕️

jingyi once took his final while on a roller coaster and passed with the highest grade

[ghost-tm]

chrom + robin class series

[ # 2 - GRANDMASTER ]

[twistedappletree]

Lan Sizhui teaching his first guqin class and writing notes about the other juniors’ attentiveness and performance during lessons 📝

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Zizhen: Tries to discreetly read… inappropriate romance novels under his desk. When confronted, he stops and swears he’ll pay attention only to go right back to reading. May have to try a more aggressive approach and ask him to read his… ‘literature’ of choice in front of the class.

Jingyi: Usually falls asleep five minutes into the lesson and drools all over his guqin. After waking him up, he pulls a piece of chicken out of his sleeve and eats it in the middle of class. I don’t know where he’s getting so much chicken from and why he’s keeping it in his sleeves but an intervention might be needed.

Young Master Jin: Pays attention but only to the parts that explain how guqin can be used in combat. Has used the strings of his guqin like a bow to shoot various objects at Jingyi’s head. Threatens to break my legs if I give him a bad grade then begs me to tutor him when Sect Leader Jiang threatens to break his legs after finding out about his bad grade.

[superxstarzz]

I know I’m a Mage of blood, but I remember taking a quiz a while ago and getting Knight of Heart, so what would a Mage/Knight of Blood/Heart look like? Thank you :))

(Love ur work btw!!!)

ayyy look it's my bffsie and the mf who helped me name these!!! ykw u actually named this class so,, quite fitting!

[temporoom]

yessss!!! though about hg mdzs au: wei wuxian and jiang cheng being a mix of katniss and gale and peeta and jiang yanli of katniss and peeta and prim. because wei wuxian accidentally getting jin zixuan killed via friendly fire/jiang yanli getting on the battlefield and dying/being Very into gruesome deaths because they need to pay (way more than jiang "why waste time?" cheng) is very gale to me. katniss and peeta are also there - he's ready to die for his siblings (little does he know so are they :З), he can be very kind, he's one of the "stars" of sunshot campaign. then there's jiang cheng and leading the wens away, being tortured (heey peeta), whom wwx sacrificed his core for without even knowing about the first one, jiang cheng who somehow 'found people before wei wuxian showed up, the heir of almost entirely massacred sect, who doesn't have any experience or power to stop jgs from being all "chummy" with him ((realised he and haymitch actually. share a "all my friends/family are dead" sort of trope too. rip)). and then there's jiang yanli, who's the eldest daughter who had to take care of her younger siblings and is the soup enthusiast and is not a cultivator but still is in the camp, trying to help, who is in love with someone who completely misunderstands her ((lwj: #relatable)), jiang yanli who's soft spoken but will verbally murder you if you bully her brother(s), who was going to have an arranged marriage with someone she loved and then ended up marrying that someone when the engagement was no longer real.

yes yes yes!

I don't think we can do an exact 1:1 with hunger games and mdzs (because of course they're not the same stories) but I think they share a lot themes. Most notably, I totally agree with how you mention that there's some Gale in both Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng because they definitely went full Gale during the sunshot campaign in the sense that they adhered the idea that when met with violence you must answer with violence: the end justify the means. But where Jiang Cheng fully becomes Gale while Wei Wuxian strays to become some sort of Katniss is with the Wen remnants. Because just like Prim dying, Wen Ning dying is the cold shower Wei Wuxian needed to realize how gruesome perpetuating the horrors of war is. They needed to fight, but they didn't need to continue the violence. Meanwhile Jiang Cheng is still stuck in his hatred, and he understands that what's happening is wrong, but at the same time it feels right to him due to his own beliefs and experience.

Funnily enough though, Lan Wangji makes a perfect Peeta because despite his suffering, he sincerely doesn't want to perpetuate the violences of the war... But since he is a pacifist at heart, he also turns a blind eye to it, and that's what Wei Wuxian's death teaches him: that it's by ignoring the problem at hand that we nurture it. Just like Peeta calling for a ceasefire in Mockingjay (though we still don't know if he was truly thinking it or if he was pressured by the Capitol).

I really think that MDZS is thematically that close to the Hunger Games, though with a more morally grey protagonist.

But to go back on the AU! The 1:1 isn't so much about the characters than about the thematics, with Lan Wangji representing pacifism and Jiang Cheng War. And in that sense Jiang Yanli, Jin Zixuan and the rest of the Jian Clan and the Wen remnants serve that same thematic purpose. (As in, who are you ready to sacrifice for the sake of revenge and who are you ready to tolerate for the sake of pacifism). Funnily enough, if we consider they are in some sort of equivalent to the Sunshot campaign, that means that Wei Wuxian protecting Wen Qing and Wen Ning is akin to Katniss protecting her preparation team. But I digress.

[withthewindinherfootsteps]

Wang LingJiao used the chance to scramble out. She took out a cylinder of fire-light from her lapels and shook it a few times. A light shot out of the cylinder. Along with a sharp whistle, it rushed out of the wooden window and exploded in the sky outside. Then, she fumbled out a second one, a third one. Hair tangled, she mumbled, “Come… Come… Come here… Everyone, come here!” Through the pain, Wei WuXian pushed Jiang Cheng, “Stop her from sending any more signals!” Jiang Cheng let go of Wei WuXian and lunged in the direction of Wang LingJiao. Yet, at the same time, Wen ZhuLiu was closing in on Madam Yu. He looked as if he was about to knock her down. Jiang Cheng hurried, “Mom!” He immediately gave up on Wang LingJiao and threw himself over. Wen ZhuLiu didn’t even turn his head as he struck, “Not even close!” Jiang Cheng’s shoulder suffered the attack. Blood immediately burst from his mouth. Wang LingJiao had already let out all of the signal fire-lights. Sharp whistles and bright sparks filled the entire grey-blue sky. - Chapter 58, EXR

It's quite interesting how, in this moment, Jiang Cheng does exactly what he's always criticised Wei Wuxian of doing: endangering the Yunmeng Jiang sect by 'playing the hero'. That's not what either of them are doing, of course – it isn't a motivation for Jiang Cheng here, it's not a motivation for Wei Wuxian anytime else, and the motivations they have definitely make sense – but it's exactly the sort of behaviour Jiang Cheng would criticise Wei Wuxian for, with those exact words.

Yet, no character ever criticises him for this – Wei Wuxian doesn't, even when it was his (necessary) advice that was disregarded; Madam Yu doesn't, even when her sect suffered as a consequence. Even when it very likely played a role in Lotus Pier's downfall (at least in getting a lot of Wen sect cultivators to get there very fast), it's never brought up by any character ever again... whereas Wei Wuxian's action of saving Lan Wangji, Jin Zixuan and Mianmian in the Xuanwu cave constantly is, even when the Wen sect was pretty certainly going to attack Lotus Pier anyway*. That's not to say Jiang Cheng should be blamed for the fall of Lotus Pier, either – that's on the Wen sect, and regardless of both of their actions, the attack was probably going to be a success. And can we blame someone for making a panicked decision protect his mother? – but one's action is definitely more direct than the other, and it's not the one that's constantly blamed.

The aim, though, isn't to compare the actions so much as the attitudes of the people involved, and this is another little detail that shows the imbalance in Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng's dynamic. Again, Wei Wuxian doesn't say anything about this afterwards, and doesn't seem to blame him, even when it's his words that were disregarded, and when the Jiang sect and Lotus Pier were undoubtedly very important to him as well. Which is good! That's a good thing and definitely the healthier option for both of them! If the roles were flipped, and Wei Wuxian saved a(n admittedly non-Yu Ziyuan) person, disregarding Jiang Cheng's orders while leading to more danger falling on Lotus Pier? Jiang Cheng would never stop blaming him or bringing it up. Even after the many years that passed between then and Wei Wuxian's resurrection, he still blames Wei Wuxian for the fall of Lotus Pier due to his actions in the Xuanwu cave** – once again, a much less direct scenario.

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*Very strategic location (trade hub etc), they attacked the Cloud Recesses already, Jiang Cheng's internal narration literally admits this:

In his heart, Jiang Cheng knew clearly that back in the cave of the Xuanwu of Slaughter at Dusk-Creek Mountain, even if Wei WuXian hadn’t saved Lan WangJi, the Wen Sect would have found some reason to come over sooner or later. But he had always felt that, if the whole thing with Wei WuXian didn’t happen, maybe it wouldn’t have been so soon, maybe there would’ve been some way to turn things around - Chapter 59, EXR

Yet there was some time between the end of the Wen indoctrination and the Fall of Lotus Pier, and we never even saw attempts at security adjustments!

**As we see in the Ancestral Hall:

Jiang Cheng mocked, “Look how forgetful you are. What does unwelcome people mean? Then let me remind you. It was because you played the hero and saved Second Young Master Lan, who’s standing beside you right now, that the entire Lotus Pier and my parents went down with you." - Chapter 87, EXR

[sbcwolfie]

Working on my second water color piece for art

[raddestrose]

Honestly, the only thing keeping me going right now are the fandoms im in

[flowersdiceandlove]

The burial mounds, a place of mystery, the place of the dead, cannot be comprehended by humans. It is a place warped by time and resentful energy and the intentions of those who inhabit it and who knows what else. It is sentient and has a strong will of its own. It’s said that no one can leave the Burial Mounds, and that is true as much as it’s not. The burial mounds keeps what is theirs; protects what is theirs. No one can escape from the Burial Mounds bc more often than not, once you enter, the Burial Mounds see you as theirs. It does not take well to people hurting and taking what is theirs. (And, maybe this is why a certain demonic cultivator was able to survive and leave that place. Maybe he understood this will and resentment bc he too would do anything to protect those he loves. For him as well, once he considers someone family, they are family. And nothing will change that. No matter what happens, his family is his family, and those under his protection are fully under his protection. They can see a kindred spirit in each other, and so the Burial Mounds let him go, knowing that he will always carry part of the Burial Mounds with him. The souls in his sleeves and the resentful energy he welcomes into his body. The boon that the Burial Mounds grants him.)

It is for these reasons that WWX knows to bring the Wen remnants there. Not only does he know he can defend them if needed in that place teeming with resentment, he knows the Burial Mounds themselves will protect them. It protects its own, and the Burial Mounds knows these people that WWX brought are his, so they are its. It’s as simple as that. And, the Burial Mounds likes it. It likes having these people here, milling about and carving a life on it. It likes how they turns its soil from barren to fruitful. It likes how they are happy and content. It likes being their home and haven. It will do anything to protect them.

When the first siege comes, the Burial Mounds try to protect what is theirs. These people who have made a home on it. But, they are all grieving deeply, and it’s beautiful child, the first to even understand them and want to make peace with them instead of destroying them, is breaking apart. He is breaking apart with the weight of someone who could not protect that which is most precious to him. And he has been breaking with this weight for months now, every day chipping another piece of himself away, every day pulling further and further into himself, every day driving him just a little more insane. The Burial Mounds have no problem with madness. They will still embrace him fully and without question, but it pains them to see him like this. They are all breaking under the pressure of what the world outside its borders do. This is no longer their haven, but now their place of imminent doom. It is only a matter of time until the cultivators attack. The Burial Mounds fights back as it always does to protect those that are its. But, some of these living cultivators attacking are family of WWX and it cannot attack family. And, it knows that even should he wipe all these harmful intruders out, that will not stop more from coming, and more after that. The Burial Mounds would fight every wave they send, but that is not the issue. The issue is that its people are grieving and breaking. The issue is that it cannot do anything to fix that and every attack will break their spirits just that much more.

So instead, the Burial Mounds decide to change it. As the cultivators pour in, the Burial Mounds pulls its energy from defending and into charging its intention.  Some of its people get cut down, but that is fine, it will still work, they do not have to be alive. Just as WWX is about to destroy the Stygian Tiger Amulet (oh, and look at their brave boy, but don’t do that, my child, it will tear you apart) a large pulse of resentful energy ripples out over the battlefield, shaking the ground and seeping into all that is theirs. The air and ground starts to ripple, unstable and warping like swirls of marble, until none can stay standing in this odd happening, toppling over, nauseous from the swirling. Those that are theirs are sucked into the soil, deep into its power, and it embraces them into its depths.

Then—

They open their eyes.

WWX is seven, on the streets of Yiling, and turns his head to the Burial Mounds so close by, calling to him. Come home, my child, it whispers. Come to me; I will protect you.

Wen Ning is eight and Wen Qing 14. They also look in the direction of Yiling—of the Burial Mounds. They too hear the call. There are gasps rippling around their home, and people bursting through doors, embracing each other, crying in joy. Eyes flick around at everyone. They know. All those that were on the Burial Mounds, as well as Wen Qing and Wen Ning remember. They know what Wen Ruohan is planning. They also know what will happen to their real family.

They go to Yiling. Just a few at first. They lost many people in their branch before they were saved by WWX, and those people are more than hesitant to go to that cursed place. Those that remember can’t simply leave them to their fates again. So, some go, while some stay. They will convince the rest later. When they arrive at the base of the Burial Mounds, there is already a large collapse in the wall surrounding it looking to be made recently. The paths open up for them as they start their ascent. The path is just as they remember, the corpses and spirits howling, but leaving them be. They know they are already part of them. Granny Wen and Wen Qing are at the front of the group, leading the way. Wen Qing wishes her brother was there, but that was not something their parents would budge on. They barely let her go, and only because Granny was insisting as well and promised to look after her.

They reach the clearing where their homes were, and there they are. Their little shacks that barely stay standing. The patches of land they’d tilled and toiled over. And there, perched on a tree stump by the side of the road is a boy, even smaller than A-Ning, covered in dirt and grime that can’t all be from the Burial Mounds, spinning a black, bamboo dizi in his tiny hands. He watches them with shining eyes and a large smile they’d know anywhere breaks out on his face, then—

He laughs. The boy laughs loud and clear and bright as he topples off the stump in his joy. Many of them join in the laughter as well. Amazed and in disbelief. Wen Qing, granny, and a few others rush over to the little Wei Wuxian and pull him into a crushing embrace. The laughter soon turns to wracking sobs as they all cling to each other and let it all sink in. 

They are alive. They are together.

And, they will make sure it stays that way.

The Burial Mounds hum around them, welcoming them home.

[cienie-isengardu]

I feel like a lot of Kuai's clothes were just Bi-Han's hand-me-downs when Bi-Han got too big and they just threw it at Kuai since Kuai would be growing into it.

Not all of them were but I imagine a good portion of his clothes used to be Bi-Han's, especially before puberty.

I feel that will depend a lot on the timeline, socio-economic situation of Lin Kuei and how big the age gap is between brothers. 

For example, if in the new timeline Sub-Zero and Scorpion’s family is treated like a true Royals, then Kuai Liang as the second-in-line to the “throne”  is less likely to wear hand-down clothes, unless the cloth has traditional importance, like it happens with some items passed down from one generation to another. And that could be as much about Grandmaster and his wife’s wish to give only the best to their sons as much as a matter of prestige and upholding their social status. 

However, if despite the importance of the Grandmaster's role in leading the clan, Lin Kuei is in fact a large family unit first and foremost, with close personal bonds, I can see the clothes being handed down as a common practice - especially if the clan resources are limited. I mean, we hardly have any idea what Lin Kuei economy is based on in time of peace and there is something to say about Sub-Zero’s delight about spoils of war to which Scorpion did not disagree with the sole idea of spoils, only that they must first win the war.

Like, is Lin Kuei big enough to be a whole nation, with its industry, farming, cities and trade or do they live in isolated, self -sufficient society hidden from everyone else? Because to make clothes in the traditional way, you need specialized workers to hand -woven material in the first place, which takes time and a lot of hard work. The Lin Kuei brothers’ uniforms were most likely individually tailored which makes sense, as they are Grandmaster’s sons but also grown up and skilled men that worked hard to to be recognized as the warriors of the clan, but back in the time when they were children? It would be easier to store Bi-Han’s clothes until younger brothers grow up enough to wear them than to lose the limited material resources, as Kuai and presumably Tomas would outgrow the new clothes in a few months.

(Also, I’m speaking here from my family experiences, in which the clothes for babies and children were passed down between so many people over the course of years. So I’m here for Lin Kuei being the close-knit family that doesn’t mind hand down clothes between all the children as a way of supporting each other and providing the needed items. If Grandmaster’s family is a bigger unit, Bi-Han too could wear the hand down clothes before he grew up enough to get his own sets.)

Additionally, if Bi-Han and Kuai Liang (and Tomas) were close in age, the passing down of clothes feels natural and sensible. However if Bi-Han is older than 6-10 years or more, I don’t think his parents would store his baby/childhood clothes to collect dust and take up space in the closet, unless they planned to have another child at some point. 

As for the previous timelines, I think the situation is more complicated, because both Kuai Liang and Bi-Han were children forced into Lin Kuei. And a clan that kidnapped children to turn them into killers doesn’t sound like someone who would care what Bi-Han and Kuai Liang wished to wear or after whom they got their clothes.

The clan definitely provided its adepts with the necessary daily life items, but there is a question how much any of them actually owned anything? If adepts got the second-handed clothes and things were passed down between all children, both Kuai Liang and Bi-Han had a small chance to be given a choice what is given to them (unless the original timeline!father had a say in that regard). Could Bi-Han keep his old clothes, as in, have a place to store them for Kuai Liang when he was big enough to wear it? Could he even hand down his clothes in the first place, or would the clan treat it as mandatory equipment and "losing" anything were punished? I feel that in both original and alternative timelines none of the boys have a control over the clothes provided them by clan and if Lin Kuei practiced passing down clothes from one adept to another, as a cheaper and more pragmatic way in regard to fast growing up children, Kuai Liang may not necessary getting old Bi-Han’s clothes.

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[calnmerrin]

Progressing forward through the story this second play through and I’ve recorded way more clips, mostly of Cal and Merrin

This interaction between Armias and Cal is great. The way cal dodges and immediately force grabs the gun to show he’s not hostile and try and explain himself is nicely done.

This scene has always felt very dark to me seeing that brother Armias was just crushed by an Imperial Drill ship and cal can’t do anything to save him.

Along with that Cal couldn’t have held those boulders up no matter which way you’re looking at it, Merrin stepping in with her magic saved his life.

After such a sad scene here’s a random Mosey photo

(The engines on Asajj Ventress’ Trident)

(Trident drills clamber onto Tipoca City)