#character: zhou you

[movielosophy]

till the end of the moon  | Episode 38: the world is in danger

[jayrockin]

Anonymous asked: Talita, did you ever get sick growing up? Or did growing up surrounded by different species spare you from that trouble?

Dr. Zhou was a human pediatrician who only had some xenomedicine experience with avians, but there were no other local xenophysicians in the Garriton cylinder when Talita was surrendered to human foster care.

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Yao is Agender and Queer, and uses they/them pronouns!

[eulogium-red]

i'd like to see more of the theme of "family" in overwatch. we see it a lot with ana & fareeha, ram & zen, brig/torb/rein/bastion, genji & hanzo. but those are the obvious ones between playable characters. the ones that are much more clearly written on the wall, even once-in-a-blue-moon players could pick up on. much else is hardly focused on despite how much family (or a lack thereof) has shaped many of the character's lives & identities for better or for worse

i don't like how martina & the unnamed reyes kid are only mentioned in passing, despite gabriel himself visiting often unannounced. clearly they were an important part of his life. clearly, family is an important part of his life — i'm very willing to wager that small passage about the death of his parents in declassified was written very intentionally. his complicated relationship with death, and how it was further affected by his own "death," & how he's now in some warped reversed position with his new family. but we don't get much more than a few voice lines about martina (is she even mentioned by name in-game orrr am i not remembering?)

i want to see how ashe manages the gang throughout the second omnic crisis. or perhaps we could see her mannerisms slightly change with bob. maybe instead of standing side-by-side with him as she is in the reunion cinematic, she puts herself more between him & potential unrealised threats. or maybe she subtly tries to nudge him under awnings whenever she spots ufos, weary they're housing subjugators — little things that are very intentional. maybe her demeanor tilts ever so slightly from confident but guarded, to guarded but confident.

i want to get a better picture of the role sam english played in fareeha's life just from playing the game, especially after ana's presumed death. i want to know more about their relationship other than the christmas dinner they had. i wonder how many players just assume fareeha's father died young, or assume the writers didn't care to write one at all? for a long time, i thought the former. i wonder what sam thinks of some of fareeha's closest friends — has he met cole & angela? what does he think of helix? we hardly even see fareeha's native heritage expressed other than the two skins off the top of my head

what about cassidy & echo? i know this is a more implied one, but cassidy was the first one to nurture her "childlike intelligence." even today, he guides her — he encouraged her to help winston&co at paris when he was still on the fence. one of the cutest things for me is her enthusiastically shouting "hello winston!" mid-battle, presumably not long after cassidy told her to say hi. she probably would've either way, but i also don't want to discredit the role cassidy has had on her development & i really do want to see more of them

or, speak of the devil, how winston views everyone at overwatch as family. how in watchpoint: gibraltar's 1st defense spawn, you can see the little beds he set up for lena and mei, how you can read an email as proof he got the blankets from a small kids blanket business. the way he keeps photos of the gang, years later. how vehemently protective he was of all their locations. i wish we could see it reciprocated a little more, i wish we could see individual sleeping areas for other heroes as the story progresses, or more items on his desk. & that's not even getting into hammond

& i don't think i can have a family post without mentioning dad 76 or how i desperately want to see benicio being the best supportive dad for lúcio more but honestly i'm getting pretty sleepy so either i'll add more later or someone can add more.

depending how you stretch the definition of family here, it can include other dynamics too. baptiste finding a new sense of belonging in the new overwatch, or mei braving the antarctic to not let her team's death go in vain & to help people who can still be helped — from jiayi and her team still on mars, to the people who now need her help on earth. i'd also argue hana's squad in korea. what are niran's siblings up to? are we gonna see more of efi & orisa? moreover, how are all these non-playable side character characters handling the invasion? i guess we got some texts between lena and emily

family is such a powerful motivator, but can also be really complicated, as seen with the amaris and shimadas + kiriko, i wish we got a similar amount of investment some other places too

a major theme of overwatch is moving towards the future, progressing in some way. & that looks different for everyone depending on their emotional readiness to do that, and what they view "progression" as. so it makes sense a lot of characters don't look back on those they lost along the way so much, at least not too openly (zarya comes to mind), but that's what can make their present relationships with others that much more worth preserving & seeing

probably an impossible ask of a game feeling the effects of layoffs that's primarily focused on pvp/bp/shop items but ykn

thank u for coming to my tedtalk

[xiaogesword]

~ Zeng Shunxi sings to you while it rains ~

Wear headphones 🎧

Song: Zeng Shunxi's cover of How Can I Not Think of Her featured in his new drama A Lonely Hero's Journey. Includes: English translation, pinyin, Mandarin Native title: 教我如何不想她 by 赵元任 (1926)

Translation and rain sounds by me.

[wolfsbanesparks]

What's a team up of heroes that you never see, but would be interested in seeing?

Such a good question!

Obviously this is based largely on the characters I know/want to see more of, but here it goes.

I would love to see a team up between Duke Thomas (the Signal) and Victor Stone (Cyborg). I think they could make a great team and that Victor would treat Duke as an equal. They would be so OP together but I think it would be awesome.

Another team up I would like to see is Billy Batson and Cassie Sandsmark. With their connections to Zeus, archeological parent(s) and superhero shenanigans, I think they would be fun together and could deal with mythological opponents.

And I just came up with this team up while answering another ask, but Xanthe Zhou (the Envoy) and Kit Freeman (Kid Eternity) would be a fun team up since their powers both come from dealing with spirits/the spirit realm. I can imagine a story where they meet when Kit was first killed/brought back.

I'd love to see any other unusual team ups people would like to see!

[romanceyourdemons]

the scorpion king in word of honor vs in tian ya ke is such a funny juxtaposition to me. on the one hand we have a weapon made of poison and meat who once was a terrified child clinging to his godfather’s hand, who still has that child’s soul inside his body even as his eyes collect evidence that soul will not see—evidence that his godfather was only ever holding the hilt of a weapon, and not his hand at all. and on the other hand we have some manner of capitalist whose erectile dysfunction is Known in the jianghu

[alo-officialgf]

it's looking a lot like an avengers poster...

[elijones94]

🌸🗡️ It’s been ages since I really drew the character of Mulan. Much like with my drawings of Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, and Young Simba, I refer to drawings of Mulan by Mark Henn. What I find fascinating about the movie “Mulan” is the that it was the first animated movie produced primarily at Disney’s animation studio in Florida. “Lilo & Stitch” and “Brother Bear” were also produced there as well. 🐲🗡️

[pippuns]

I missed Zhi Xiu so much guys. I'm so glad he's back :')

[movielosophy]

A Journey To Love | Only you

[asclepyus]

Hi! Dropping by to say thank you so much for sharing the Zheng Chenggong / FSR Archer post a while back, there were a lot of good thoughts on there! I'm also,,, massively biased for both of them but especially Zheng Chenggong (read a lot of history articles + a book or two on him,,), so it's cool to see someone who feels similarly on here haha

AAAA THIS IS SO SWEET THANK YOU !! SAME HAT !!

I had just started F/SR for the first time about halfway through June during a really really hard week and the way I latched onto these two like a baby alligator. They’re both so compelling and well written in the game I absolutely adoredddd their dynamic with my entire heart and that launched me into a lot of my own research and reading up on the two of them (if you have any book recs btw !! pls throw them my way I love books !!) and both of them are just so beautifully tragic in their own rights. Fate also has a track record of taking a lot of liberties with their characters and actual histories but F/SR I really felt did a pretty good job all things considered of respecting and allowing the real life history of these figures to influence their character arcs in the game - especially with these two in particular - and I’m so obsessed with it genuinely.

I also really love just psychoanalyzing fictional characters I like and turning it into meta it’s very fun.

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Zhou Zishu is Bisexual and uses he/him pronouns!

[baifengxis]

zhou yu tong’s characters in her dramas always be like:

“i’m an amazing independent woman, i won’t settle for anyone, i’ll fight for my rights and the only man worth my time and love is the one that’s gonna love me exactly the way i am and accept me whether i want to get married, have children, be a successful queen or neither of those and i’m gonna talk about how women deserve better treatment by society always and every day” 

[veilchenjaeger]

One thing I've been noticing on the Couple of Mirrors rewatch is how multiple people reference or ask the question of how Xu Youyi met Zhou Heng. It's one of the questions Xie Yifan asks in their interview, and it stays unanswered. I really like that, because you don't assume that the way they met was anything out of the ordinary, that there might have been anything less than harmonious and happy about their relationship before Zhou Heng started cheating on Xu Youyi. But at the same time, the question is asked and never answered. The natural assumption is that it was a happy moment, and then you find out that it really, really wasn't.