[X] Face the world as it is. While idle dreams can inspire, only toil and sweat can create beauty.
[X] One person's desires cannot, alone make a home nor a family.
[X] One person's desires cannot, alone make a home nor a family.
why is smol imouto so heavy?
Zhengui: I can drop like meteor! Being heavy is awesome! I am the heaviest!
Hanyi: Nuh uh! I am! Watch this!
The Mountain lost an inch of height that day, its rivals around it laughs at it echoingly.
It's implied directly in the updateI don't think anyone is particularly sure, but the myths that seem to have inspired Zeqing and Hanyi has the child weigh like a boulder when people attempt to carry them.
A more, in world, explanation could be that the weight of Hanyi is the desire that Zeqing has not to part with her. As such, when people try to take Hanyi away, the weight increases dramatically so that they are dissuaded from taking her.
Hanyi gave a shallow nod, and finally did as she asked. Soon, Hanyi was perched on her back, legs tucked under her arms and arms around Ling Qi's neck. Taking a deep breath, Ling Qi stood, and the moment she did, she nearly staggered. Hanyi's weight, which had been like a feather a moment ago seemed to redouble again and again, until it felt as if Ling Qi had a boulder tied to her back.
"It's gonna get worse," Sixiang warned. "The weight… it's connected to this place."
LQ is pretty good at that already. To the extent of outright obsession.
The former has us largely rejecting the utility of dreams and fantasies and relegating them largely to the field of inspiration. While the rest of the idea is..something I can swallow, I think adopting such a mindset would be a mistake, and not just because we're going Moon build which will have dreams and fleeting experiences as part and parcel of our continued cultivation.
I'm not really sure doubling down on hard work is that wise, and the family one doesn't really inspire me the way this one does.
>implying Six won't be our Moon HusbandoAlready we carry around Sixiang with us at all times, best turtle and Hanyi will be close by most of the time as well. Then add Meizhen and Renxiang we have five high priority social links fighting for screen time. Then there's mom, ice mom, our nebulous but hopefully far off love interest, any friends, Su ling, Gu Xiulan and so. Many. More.
[X] Face the world as it is. While idle dreams can inspire, only toil and sweat can create beauty.I just want everyone to know that if we don't choose the option that I like, Ling Qi will immediately be killed by Zequing.
Her main goal is "never EVER be that old Ling Qi that everybody can push as they wish". Which she's slavishly devoted to. And Cultivation is a big step on said path.Option 1 is about "you need to put in actual work to make your dreams come true instead of merely saying you want "More Justice" or "a home/family" which Ling Qi is bad at (so far she only puts hard work into cultivating and training instead of concrete steps towards her goals)
I disagree. The saddest thing was leaving Ling Qi's mother abode. Specifically this.Ling Qi's house of Friends and Families on Precious back is just the saddest thing.
This is just so sad to me. The guttering hope as despair and resignation come to replace. Pleas for help ignored because no one cared.he felt the mounting panic of a woman who woke to find her daughter gone, and the increasing desperation as her search turned up nothing, as pleas for aid in that search fell on indifferent ears. The collapse that followed as hours turned into days and hope guttered out and died.
In the first dream, we are faced with the grievous harm that we dealt our mother and later ourselves by leaving her. (This matches Hanyi's position in potentially leaving Zeqing, thereby hurting them both.) How can we justify doing such harm?Ling Qi sobbed, curling up on the ground as the storm of emotions assailed her. Could anything be worth that? She was going to hurt her Mama so much, and she was going to hurt so much. Memories of cold, empty bellies and broken bones assailed her. Memories of fear and brushes with death crushed her. Why was she doing this? Why was she leaving? Mama wasn't perfect, but she loved Ling Qi, even if she got mad, she would get hurt if it kept Ling Qi safe.
"No," Ling Qi muttered into the dirty street, pushing herself back up to her knees. The world flickered dizzyingly, and she felt her limbs stretch and grow. Was she a child or an Immortal? In that moment she couldn't say. "I can't go back."
Why not? Her own voice seemed to echo back.
Ling Qi struggled for a moment to answer, clenching her hands in the dirt/snow. "Because I don't want that," she hissed. "And Mom didn't want that. Even if it hurt, even if I hated it, didn't it come to a good end?"
In the second dream, we are presented with a idealistic vision of ourselves and all of our friends/family together, with no remaining ties but to each other. (This could be said to match Zeqing and Hanyi's situation right now, or more intriguingly Zeqing, Hanyi AND Ling Qi's situation if Zeqing were to absorb us.) Why reject such a world?"Qi? What is the meaning of this, you just returned," Meizhen replied, laying hands on her shoulders. The shorter girl looked up at her with confusion and alarm on her stoic features. "Is something wrong? Please tell me."
The things at the edges of her vision began to warp. "This isn't right," she replied, pushing Meizhen's hands away. "This… this whole thing."
Her friend looked hurt, as if Ling Qi had struck her, and in that moment, Ling Qi's resolve wavered. "Why? We are together. Everyone is together, and there is no reason for us to ever part. What could be wrong with that?"
"Life doesn't work like that," Ling Qi hissed, the pain in her head redoubling.