Woh - Blog Posts
Okay but like Wen Kexing at least wanted redemption in doing good things to clear his name in the end; Xue Yang was evil and he knew it to the point that even when he found the life he could have had and a family he wanted, he couldn't help ruining it and never admitting that he did anything wrong. His "regret" manifested in doing even MORE insane stuff to try and maintain control and push the blame onto others.
I love both of these unhinged boys but at least my lovely Wen Kexing got his senses back with the power of true love and eyeliner-remover
Most Unhinged Round 3: Wen Kexing (Word of Honor) vs Xue Yang (The Untamed)
[Submitted Reasons Under Cut]
Wen Kexing: "that scene in episode 4 where he’s like frowning and upset that he got blood on his hands… babygirl YOU just stuck your hand through a man’s throat after single handedly massacring like 40 people in broad daylight. What did you think was going to happen…. And then next episode he’s like “oh poor little old me I can’t even kill a chicken. who is going to take care of me I’m just a humble little philanthropist who needs a big strong man to protect me.” babygirl you’ve led a bloody reign of terror for like 8 years now after skinning your predecessor alive and the people known as being the most cutthroat and evil in the whole martial arts world literally call you Lunatic Wen because you regularly gruesomely kill your subordinates to make examples of them…. He recognized a boy he met once as a child 20 years later by his shoulder blades and decided to marry him right then and there. He decided to not burn down the entire world because he wanted to become a housewife. If he was hinged once, he no longer is now."
Xue Yang: "Spoilers but this man had his pinky finger run over as a child and decided to murder literally everyone in retaliation. He thought ending many lives equated to his loss of the smallest and least useful appendage on one hand. He tricked a man into murdering the love of his life so that he could continue being with him (the man was blind and didn’t know who he was). When the man found out what he did he killed himself and xue yang tried to reanimate him. Sick. Twisted. Unhinged."
it's my blorbos and I get to decide the shows
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«ah yeah, it’s him. he is the one”
Wait guys so you know at the start of woh wkx is constantly flirting like 'nice sword' and more sword related euphemisms? And we see obviously zzs the men from the righteous sects etc mainly use swords? Our girl gu xiang uses a whip (often associated with female wuxia characters) and tragicomic ghost and beauty ghost don't seem to use weapons?
WKX USES NOT A SWORD BUT A FAN (which can be seen as 'feminine')
Come to think of it the traditional bad guys (ghosts and scorpion kings gang) don't use swords so much? I was going to say could wkx be a trans man but now I don't know where I'm going with this
Anyway this was probably incredibly obvious to everyone except me so
Shout out to chengling, man couldn't catch a break throughout the entire thing
I would have suicided long ago in his place so props to him
What a great, fantastic drama!
All the actors and their characters are exceptional! You wouldn't want to miss it if you're a fan of asian drama! Gonna miss this show.
On The Prince's awakening, and enlightenment through echoes
While the throne has probably existed for eons, and something was starting to coalesce at its peak, it is pretty openly stated that it is watcher's precense in the throne what acted as catalyst for the birth of the prince's selfhood
Ahh! To move! To breathe free!
Never again... STARVING, pressing, grinding, SQUEEZING
against... us? But now... I? A... SELF And... an OTHER.
Oh the joy! The incomparable JOY!
Ahhh hah... familiar.
There was... such discomfort... and hunger. Endless hunger! And then... a presence!
A light! A scent! A tunnel! To freedom! How beautiful, FREEDOM!
A scent. Familiar. So familiar.
The watcher is probably the first living thing to be to the throne proper in an eternity
But I think there's more to this
4 karma "murals", 4 karma upgrades
4 visits, 4 warp points
Watcher's visits brought enlightenment like visiting echoes would do for a slugcat
"The highest enlightenment, achieved by the hardest path. A feat even guardians must respect" This achievement requires the player to raise their maximum karma to the highest level without visiting Five Pebbles. To do this, the player must find 4 out of the 6 Echoes, each of which raise the player's maximum karma by a small amount. All 4 Echoes must be found before visiting Five Pebbles. The achievement is earned as soon as the last Echo raises the player's karma level to the maximum of 10.
And is not as simple as just visiting 4 times either: for this awakening to properly progress you must make it to the top, eat the karma flower, then make it to a previously sealed chamber to open a warp point there
almost as if you're opening new pathways in its brain (tree)
A light! A scent! A tunnel! To freedom! How beautiful, FREEDOM!
These paths you weave. Through them I have expanded my kingdom. I have tasted and I have become. It is my true purpose I believe. Perhaps the only purpose!
Enlightenment is gaining knowledge, understanding, insight
Perhaps Echoes don't just give you more karma merely by merit of being extraplanar beings with influence over karma itself, or by the insight behind their anecdotes
Perhaps Echoes give you a glimpse into what lies beyond, a window to the fractal layers of reality
Perhaps what is happening here is something similar, the watcher showing the throne other worlds through the paths
the karma flowers though, thats harder to understand
perhaps the one at the very top represents the little death that is sleep ("like sleep like death")
Echoes always send you back to sleep after all