the way dfqc’s soul and spirit ends up contained in a single, small piece of an item shaped like the moon but covered with twisting vines that can fit in the curve of xlh’s palm is just. like. that’s so utterly symbolic.
dongfang qingcang, larger than life, most powerful in all of the three realms, is contained in this beautiful, hopeless-hopeful, tragic thing. the moon, representing his tribe, his people, his loyalty, but the vines, representing his heart, his person, his love. it’s curled around his very soul, unwilling to let go for 500 years, and he is grown and tended to and cared for and so so loved until…
Tour of the Alchemy of Souls set as the Blue Flower lyric video…. It’s amazing how it feels like I know it. “Oh, that’s the restaurant!” “That’s the bridge Mudeok was standing on when Jang Uk went back to Songrim!”
Korean caption is basically “remembering Mudeok in every corner of Daeho through Jang Uk’s eyes” 😭