(and way more TYK designs below!)
Here it is! My personal designs of the (mostly) full TYK cast!
What I mainly learned from this: TYK has a lot more characters than expected, haha.
My idea was mainly to get a clearer image, for myself, of all the people appearing or being mentioned in the book (and btw, a big chunk of the characters above died before the story even started and don't even get a line, but, you know...). One of my guidelines was, everyone has to look interesting, has to look like the main character of their own story. TYK is pretty much a story about side characters... so if noone is a main character, everyone is, no? (...does that even work? lol)
Some of these designs were inspired by SHL, because it being the first one I saw, it of course left an impression in my mind. The rest is essentially taken from the few descriptions we get in the book, and my own imagination (plus some help from pinterest for the clothing).
Rong Changqing is 100% inspired from @tbgkaru-woh depiction of him.
One noteworthy thing: the giant dog is too big. I thought it was supposed to be the size of a big horse, but it's actually the size of a pony... woops.
Now, additionally:
The protags families! Wen Ruyu and Gu Miaomiao had to look heroic because that's pretty much what their characters are about. The traditional Wuxia story heroes that marked the legend.
Conversely, the Zhou family has to be as plain and normal as possible, haha. ZZS says, in QY, that he's often called "Zhou San" (=Zhou three), which means he's the third child in his family. Since I like the idea of him being the youngest, I only gave him an older brother (who will inherit the position of head of the family and thus justify ZZS being able to leave for a shady remote sect) and an older sister.
And as another bonus:
Hehehe. So these are... let's say, the men in ZZS' life, before WKX.
- Jiuxiao, of course, because I'm convinced ZZS had feelings for him
- Huang Xu, an OC developed with Bichen (son of a HLZ supporter, whose family ZZS infiltrated for a while --as Su Yan-- to try and sway them towards HLY's cause ((Su Yan's "Yan" is the same "Yan" as in Zhen Yan, just as a little nod to SHL)))
- Zhu Ai, a magistrate OC, developed with Moose and Bichen, who's deeply infatuated with ZZS --only knowing him as that one guy who handles imperial guard watch tours and trains guards--
-and one guard I just like to imagine having a crush on him too.
I started working on some guy from WKX's childhood too, but I feel like WKX's past is such a huge can of worms, I'll save all of that for later, haha.
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CHOMP!
Welcome to WenZhou Chomp Week 2023, where we gather to celebrate Priest’s characters Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu and the act of chomping. Be it biting, gnawing, nipping, nomming, or any other act of taking the flesh of another into one’s oral cavity, we have prompts to whet all types of appetite.
Prompt reveal: August 16th
Chomp Week: September 4th to 10th
How to participate:
Between the prompt reveal and Chomp Week, use the prompts to stimulate your creativity and create mouthwatering fan works. (Feel free to use the prompts as you wish: just one, all of them, or mix and match.) Fanarts, fanfics, edits, pictures, cakes, doodles, drabbles - anything that would get you inspired is welcome!
Additionally/alternatively, enjoy and promote others’ fan works during Chomp Week. Don’t forget to show your appreciation to the creators of the feast by liking, commenting, etc.
Although this event focuses on Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu, please feel free to create fan works around other pairings and characters from Qi Ye, Tian Ya Ke, and Shan He Ling (Word of Honor)!
This event will be hosted on Twitter and Tumblr. (Edit: We are now also on Mastodon!)
This event is NSFW-friendly.
You can find the event Carrd here!
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PSA: There is an English translation of Tian Ya Ke on Wattpad that purports to be an original translation but is in fact stolen from pre-existing fan translations.
For fans of and people interested in 天涯客/Tian Ya Ke/Faraway Wanderers by Priest, please note that the “translation” hosted on Wattpad by shuxingx is stolen work and not, in fact, their own work. It also features stolen fan arts.
Original translations:
Ch. 1-30 — Sparkling Water
Ch. 31-67 — wenbuxing
Ch. 68-Extras — Chichi
What I find more damning is that they “edited” the first few chapters of wenbuxing’s translation (read: made everything sound awkward and added a bunch of typos) to make it “resemble” Sparkling Water’s and had the gall to append this note. Later chapters are wenbuxing wholesale.
(“Chinese ain’t an easy language… Stealing is so much easier!”)
Available fan translations of TYK:
Lianzi (ongoing, recommended)
Kexingzishu (all 5 extras, recommended)
Chichi (77 chapters + 4 extras, missing Extra 5)
Sparkling Water (Ch. 1-30, dropped)
Xuxunette (Ch. 1-67, hiatus)
Wenbuxing’s translation is no longer available.
As of writing, TYK is locked and not available for purchase on JJWXC.
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I bet he's definitely a beggar. What's the stake? If I win, you have to play cards with me for three days. What if you lose? Then I'll play cards with you for three days.
Zhou Ye as Gu Xiang in Episode 01 of 天涯客 Word of Honor
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