#character: chen yu

[movielosophy]

Joy of Life 2 | What a killjoy.

[heymeowmao]

一念关山 | A Journey to Love E35 ° goodbye

[genshinmp3]

Novatio Novena from The Stellar Moments Vol. 4 Yu-Peng Chen, Xin Zhao, HOYO-MiX

[save-the-data]

HEROES | S01E38

Chinese Drama - 2022, 38 episodes  

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[qursidae]

The 3 most powerful witches in modern times Feat. The 3 ways to become a witch !

See the read more for lore :p

[Carrd 🃏]

I've been thinking about power levels of this world for a while now, which made me question who the most powerful would be.

Aya has always been planned to be the most powerful, as she is the oldest alive witch and a witch's power level is deeply tied to her experience & knowledge.

Then I decided the 2nd most powerful one should be Aya's oldest apprentice that is still alive; Selma. Aya approached Selma mids the Gallic Wars due to rumors of a child druid who never aged. Part of the reason Selma is as powerful as she is, is her age, but it's also due to her being quite obsessed with power. This includes a desire to make a powerful wiccan bloodline. (Hence the 21 daughters)

3rd, is an old pupil of Aya's ex-lover (Now dead) who too grew deeply resentful of humanity. Now Yu is much the same way, but rather than die (As almost all witches do sooner than later) she choose to exile herself from humanity, other supernatural beings and fellow witches.

She may hate humans, but she isn't fond of other magical beings either, including witches. The reason she is as powerful as she is, other than age, is due to her time in exile being the perfect opportunity to strengthen and practice her skills and connection to the goddess.

Her backstory is based on the real tale of Chen Jiao.

As for; The 3 ways to become a witch

First of all; only women can be witches in this. Just so there is no confusion.

Originally I thought all witches should be chosen, but then I wanted there to be families of witches for the sake of the characters, so I added the inherited way. Then I remembered the old tale of trading your firstborn to witches/demons and thought it would work great with the lore.

The reason it was once the norm to be chosen is that there simply weren't enough witches to be able to pass it down. But as that increased, fewer witches were chosen. The only witch to be chosen in the last 100 years is Hella from the main cast of Midday Coven.

[frankencanon]

jiang cheng: ok, so the sect leaders and wei wuxian and everyone important are all coming to lotus pier... i have to look tough and scary and intimidating... oh, i know just the thing!!

coincidence? i think not

[seineko]

ok, let's talk about jiang cheng.

i hate the two extremes that the fandom has when portraying jiang cheng's character.

he's either the best brother the world has to offer or the worst scum of the beings that ever stepped his foot on the planet.

not many actually acknowledge the canon jiang cheng.

(note that i'm neither speaking against him nor for him so take every sentence without any emotion behind it. also, this is written by a person who doesn't like jiang cheng as a character but doesn't hate him - at least most of the time - either, so do with that what you will.)

he lead the siege against the burial mounds in the grief of losing his sister, the person who he loved the most in the world. but it was stupid that he, of all people killed wei wuxian with the reason being wei wuxian killed his sister, when jiang yanli so clearly sacrificed herself so that wei wuxian could live.

he was entirely jealous of wei wuxian since he was a child and has taken decisions in his adulthood with jealousy and envy many times. but it is also important to note that ever since he was a kid he did not have the acknowledgement of his father and all he had in the form of his mother was a person who constantly compared him to someone he wanted to (and to an extent, succeeded) love as a brother, berating him for not being as good and taking put her jealousy and trauma on her child, making him a shell of negative emotions. the latter doesn't, by any means, excuse the former (i cannot stress this enough), but the former cannot be said without acknowledging the latter.

jiang cheng's feelings towards wei wuxian are very complicated for both us as an audience and himself too. he cared for him and wanted him by his side. the fact that he at least cared for wei wuxian is shown when he distracts the wen guards onto himself so that wei wuxian is not caught by them. like it or not, jiang cheng did sacrifice his core for wei wuxian as wei wuxian did for him. and he wanted wei wuxian to be always by his side, it's clear when he speaks about the broken promises between them. but, at a lot of times i felt that he treated wei wuxian as a subordinate more than a brother even though he wanted to treat him as a brother, but he never really realized that he didn't actually treat him the way he did. (correct me if i'm wrong here but this is how i interpreted it.)

jiang cheng is a hypocrite (like a lot of people in this series). he always speaks about wei wuxian's debt to the jiang sect, but he completely brushes aside his own debt to wen ning and wen qing and doesn't even attempt to help them when they're in a dire situation. in fact, he led the siege that killed their family in the burial mounds. lotus pier was fallen and he could not afford to anger the entire cultivation world, but if he holds someone else as to how they should regard a debt, he himself should regard it the same.

fandom has created the divide where either jiang cheng becomes this ray of sunshine for wei wuxian and helps him by turning his back against the entire cultivation world, which is disregarding what his very character is written for, giving into the societal pressure and someone who runs on negative emotions due to his upbringing. or, he is the evil person who doesn't acknowledge the sacrifice made by wei wuxian and demanding that it doesn't matter if he gave his core to jiang cheng because he owes the jiang sect. an action of wei wuxian that jiang cheng evidently has very strong feelings for and sends him into an emotional mess (granted, it doesn't take much for him to go into an emotional mess). and i hate both versions just as equally.

talking specifically about jiang cheng and wei wuxian's relationship, i personally believe that there is no reconciliation. there is an silent agreement that they do not hate each other and an acknowledgement of what has happened between them (silent, because it is never actually spoken about in detail after the mess of emotions that is guanyin temple), but they cannot put what has happened behind them and treat each other like they did during their teenage years, as much as people would love to see that. they can be nothing more than two people who shared a past and cannot be anything less than that either.

wang zhoucheng softened jiang cheng's character for me along with the writing for cql i admit, but it has also made me see things that i otherwise wouldn't have after looking at the sheer bitterness that the adult jiang cheng was in other adaptations.

either ways, i can't bring myself to completely like his character. i dislike his character for a lot of things he did. a lot of actions he has taken without having to bear the consequences of them while every other person of 'lower standing', in their eyes, has to bear the consequences of not only their own but also others has left a sense of bitterness in me that i don't think can ever leave.

there are many other things that i haven't spoken about, but it just pissed me off a bit to always see either 'good brother jiang cheng' or 'scum of earth jiang cheng' and the rarity of the actual jiang cheng.

on a side note, i hate yu ziyuan. she had a powerful core and a husband who would've listened to her but all she did in life was let bitterness consume her to such an extent that she fucked up the life of both her own son and an orphan, even forcing her daughter to take up the role of a mother at a young age. she could've been so much more but she decided to waste her entire life having jealousy and envy over a woman who never actually directly did anything to her, going as far as to abusing the said woman's son (emotionally, if not physically before the lotus pier fell).

i don't have any strong feelings about jiang fengmain's character but he could've done a lot to help jiang cheng by just acknowledging him. he wasn't a good parent and it can never be excused by how shitty his relationship was with his wife.

the only jiang who deserves everything is jiang yanli. precious, precious shijie.

[accio-victuuri]

wang yibo as chen yu 🥹🥹🥹

[dkniade]

Hmm, I found a playlist of Childe themes. I haven’t heard the tracks “Foul Legacy” and “A Letter from Afar” before but the motifs (or, leitmotifs?) are immediately recognizable

If I have to guess, these two are probably from his Story Quest, which would then link the themes to Teucer. See, what’s interesting is that (I’m basing my interpretation off of this assumption, so I could be totally off the mark hahaha)

“Foul Legacy”

“Starts the same slow, tense and ominous way as “From Snezhnaya With Boldness” (Story Teaser PV theme)”

“Suddenly electric guitar comes in… with the typical demo PV motif??? (Many pre-2.0 Mondstadt/Liyue four star characters’ demo PV themes have their version of the “demo motif”) He’s probably doing a “cool epic protagonist” attack in Foul Legacy here”

“…Strange. This sounds very heroic and energetic in a bright way, almost like a character Demo PV theme, yet it’s not HIS Demo theme (stylistically, musically)”

“…Ah, this must be how he wants TEUCER to see him. This is like, the music you’d use if you want to make a video about Tartaglia for Teucer, haha”

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“A Letter from Afar”

really similar to “Letters from Ajax” from his Demo PV, and starts with the exact same distant piano motif

But it’s a lot more hopeful and it’s all piano and swelling strings

Meaning, the “tricky” flamenco (?) guitar never comes in at 0:19 and the agressive electric guitar never comes in at 0:23, neither the religious chanting

Main motif here might symbolize: Snezhnaya, Ajax, Hydro, perhaps even some semblance of innocence

(I think I vaguely know what’s going on in his Story Quest but I’ve never seen it personally so let me know if this is anywhere close or completely unrelated to his quest haha)

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This is really good. Each motif introduced in the tightly packed “Letters from Ajax” is expanded in his other (non-boss) themes

“Letters from Ajax” is his Demo PV theme, likely a first impression when he first released in 1.1

“Letters from Ajax” as a character theme is really hard to read at a first glance because there’s so much going on: gentleness/friendliness, undercurrent of (his love for) conflict, (anime-like) heroics & gentleness again simultaneously, schemes, religious devotion/background & violence, gentleness/friendliness again

(All this you can get from listening to the soundtrack alone without the context from demo video)

Also I think the progression of his Demo theme is similar to how his Character Story is revealed

This is going to be interesting (wrote a longer thing analyzing/interpreting them)

[subskz]

ms. rin u literakly guessed it 💀 chan says he’s addicted to genshin now on bubble im criyng

-⛓ anon

I SAW! he is so…i was joking abt channie disappearing for a few weeks then coming back completely addicted to genshin but i didn’t expect him to be AR44???? 😭 n he’s calling wriothesley “rizzley” too…he’s in too deep i fear

[movielosophy]

Joy of Life 2 | the granted marriage pairs

[heymeowmao]

少年白马醉春风 | Dashing Youth E27 ° tanghulu? 🍂🍡🍂

[genshinmp3]

Winding Through Avidya from The Stellar Moments Vol. 3 Yu-Peng Chen, Xin Zhao, HOYO-MiX

[gebo4482]

Thymesia by Guan Yu chen / Pukun Wang

[theworldisabrokenbonebutitishome]

Do you ever feel personally attacked by the characters Bai Yu chooses to portray or are you normal?

[mutantfactor]

Ashes Of Love Run Yu “The Night Immortal” “Only those who have experienced liveliness understand loneliness. I'm fated to be alone. I eat alone, practice alone, read alone and sleep alone. Without knowing liveliness, how would I know loneliness?”