ok I'm on episode 15-16 of WoH and here are my thoughts so far:
Gu Xiang is like if Jiang Cheng's daughter was also Wei Wuxian's protege. She's the worst of Jin Ling and Wei Wuxian put together and I love her.
She and Cao Weining are like Xuanli if Jiang Yanli had turned out the way Yu Ziyuan wanted her to.
Cao Weining!!! He's so endearing!!!!
I'm coming around on Wen Kexing. I totally didn't trust him before but it seems like he actually cares a lot about Zhou Zishu now. I believe they can work things out between them.
Chengling is my baby son and I hope nothing bad ever happens to him. I'm taking him and putting him in a cozy blanket nest and feeding him soup and hot cocoa.
I feel really bad for Gao Xiaolian. Poor girl. I want her to have a happy ending but it's not looking good for her at the moment.
Han Ying is totally gonna die I'm calling it now. He's too good and narratively convenient to live much longer.
Tragicomic Ghost and Liu Qianqiao are such a power duo. Yes queens kill those lame-ass men! I kinda don't like that they both seem to have tragic love stories with random middle-aged men who possibly abandoned them though.
I NEED to see more of Scorpion King. I keep seeing him in the opening (and closing?) credits and I'm fascinated by him but he's only had like 2 seconds of screentime so far and I'm so curious.
Just met Ye Baiyi and I'm not sure what to think about him. I feel like something really big has to happen for Zhou Zishu to change his mind about the life-saving surgery.
Shen Shen is really annoying. I hope bad things happen to him.
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Ships, Word of Honor:
-JBY/ZZS
-Gu Xiang/Gao Xiaolian
with or without poly elements with the canon love interests
(Went to send this and all possible ships instantly fled my brain)
two ships i already ship!
Jing Beiyuan/Zhou Zishu
1. What made you ship it?
seriously, i just can't with these two. of all the things zhou zishu was willing to do and put up with and lose--all the way up to the end--in service of jin-wang, out of loyalty to his word, beiyuan was the exception. to the point of helping him escape, covering his trail, keeping his silence. he cared enough to do that for him, to never falter or go back on it, even if it meant essentially never seeing him again or knowing anything about him again. he never sought information about beiyuan, never risked exposing him for a fraction of a second.
and the amount of trust involved, on beiyuan's end, that this would remain true. the amount of care he, in turn, had to feel, that nothing could budge him from the safety of where he'd fled--except for zishu. zishu could budge him, could get him to come down and risk so much just to be at his side, just for the chance to help save his life.
years have passed, with no word spoken between them. much has changed, much has happened, much has been lost. but beiyuan came, even without zishu reaching out himself. he understood immediately what it meant that zishu hadn't reached out himself.
and though zishu wouldn't've asked it of him, he also didn't write back to prevent beiyuan coming once he knew he was, because he knew how useless that would be. and he even believed that beiyuan (and by extension da wu) wouldn't risk it unless it was worth it. trusting him to that extent.
the things that they would risk for each other, the place they hold in each other's hearts in a way that time can't touch. how well they know one another, and understand one another, in ways that also cannot be touched or changed by the passage of years.
and when they see each other again, without hesitation it's zishu and beiyuan. it's familiarity, and teary eyes, and so few words needed. just a simple greeting in an unsimple circumstance for the sheer joy of being able to use it again and the mutual acknowledging that this is somehow par for the course of their relationship.
2. What are your favourite things about the ship?
the things they'll risk and give up for one another--deeper than recklessness, things that shake the very foundation of themselves. the devotion. the loyalty. the trust, built so strong in such intense circumstances, between people who did not see themselves as good, that neither could imagine it breaking or fading. the mutualness of it all. the lack of jealousy (don't get me wrong i like a good jealousy now and then). the total understanding of each other's natures that they carry so deeply it holds true in spite of time and change, and proves itself so. the acceptance they have for each other's life paths and choices and their acceptance of the things they do for each other, things they'd try to reject if it was anyone else.
it doesn't particularly matter to me what assortment of platonic and nonplatonic it comes in, either, and in what combination with their respective husbands; it's very versatile to me because it's just them, one way or another.
3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?
i have no idea what the prevailing opinions are on this ship, so i can't say. but i haven't seen anyone really mention them being zhiji. which i basically just take as a given.
Gu Xiang/Gao Xiaolian
1. What made you ship it?
it's very easy to get me to ship anything. i mean, i saw two girls on screen and pointed and went "look, a ship" and then thought about it a bit like, "yeah a good ship actually."
the above pictured scene certainly helped, though. i see one character in bed and another character leaning over them and brushing their hair back and i immediately 👀 but then i see said second character get really, really close, close enough to share the same breath, and the first character is looking at them mere centimetres away as they lean closer and closer in meanwhile they've got a weapon hidden in their hand because this was all a ploy to get rid of them actually but when push comes to shove they find they can't bring their hand around to do it-- 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
2. What are your favourite things about the ship?
there's a not-dissimilar appeal to this that there is to caoxiang--someone who is very bright, and trusting, and optimistic, and caring, and Upstanding, and good, and prone to seeing the good in others meets... well. a-xiang. who is intense, and spirited, and speaks so freely and carelessly, a wild girl, distrustful herself, but also good in spite of everything and quite in need of someone who can see that.
i particularly like it with xiaolian because unlike fellow lifetime orphan and spoiled babie cao weining, xiaolian carries a lot of responsibility and weight in her sect and that would simultaneously bring out some of the capacity for that in a-xiang as well as give her someone who is simply very good at caretaking for a novel experience of being taken care of.
gao xiaolian in particular looks after her father and does her best to help ease his troubles and be a good thing in his life, balancing her privileged position in high rank and favoured closeness to be able to talk back at him sometimes, with her loyalty and willingness to carry out or convey his orders no matter what. i think a-xiang has a lot of that wrt her zhuren in similar ways, and whether or not they ever commiserated about it they could at least understand each other quite well, and the relationship that has shaped a large part of their respective lives.
i also think xiaolian deserves to set something on fire and a-xiang would a thousand percent get her there.
3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?
i am deeply unaware of any opinions anyone has on this ship at all. it might be unpopular that they even are a ship. i don't even think i've read any fic about them, i just sit and ship them in my head like a goon.
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