#to live 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 but the way he yu especially acted and spoke about the mental patients was very good very handsome very charismatic | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

holygroundgone · 3 months

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I think it's interesting how he yu seems completely bereft of empathy for the people around him, even and especially xie xue who he supposedly has a crush on however we see such an intense outpour from him for the people at the mental health institute to the point that he risks his life and even exposes his ability he needed to hide to save these people deemed too difficult to save.

It makes me wonder if there's more to his statement of having been 'born this way'- perhaps he was born with this psychological ebola (insane phrase, insane fictional mental illness with special abilities) similar to a form of neurodivergency but it makes me wonder what was done to him, what happened to him that the only people he can feel empathy for are other victims of mental health care?

At this point it could certainly be that he just faced the extreme humiliation of mental health treatment already described in the book so far (tied up, made to look like a madman), but..

#bab liveblog #truescholar.txt #i was a little leery when we entered the mental hospital and the way xie xue perceived it as well as the common trope of the mental patient #hooting and hollering and acting belligerent and frightening and disgusting #a little tasteless but then i felt drawn in by the extreme abuse depicted in jiang lanping 🥹 i wish she got better than what she got and go #to live 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 but the way he yu especially acted and spoke about the mental patients was very good very handsome very charismatic #the first time in the book we see him acting and speaking compassionately #perhaps in a way he's similar to mo ran who will empathize with someone so hard if he can relate his own experiences to them #but i feel that with he yu in his mind there's a painful divide between madmen and the other general members of the populace #in which he is very firmly in the madman category and he is so painfully aware of this divide that has dehumanized him that it makes him mo #apathetic towards those he sees as not similar to himself #it's definitely been the most interesting character beat so far

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