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Until whatever twt algorithm did to this account can be undone, I won't have access to the original thread to continue posting, since I'd been translating on the go one tweet at a time. After WR and WL left JRL and JXY behind, Wen Ning and Wei Wuxian caught up with them. https://twitter.com/noodsnim/status/1306446278709186560
Wen Ning recognized Wangri as Wen Qiongmian, with 冕. The name... matters but was never explained in the original thread. I'd imagined this totally OC character was a cousin of WN, WC, WX and all.. whose father was incredibly Ambitious and as a result, ostracized from
the main Wen branch... and the reason he'd been abandoned during the war was because.. they just figured it was a good chance to get rid of someone who might've been a threat to WX or WC. And this man, I imagined, was Wen Yuan's biological father. He'd nearly died from
his injuries and by the time he'd recovered well enough to leave the hidden temple and travel, the remaining Wens were dead or dying and he'd chosen monkhood in response. Wanglian had known shixiong was a Wen, but hadn't realized how closely intertwined their lives had been once,
until Wen Qionglin calls out his cousin's name. And..then I skipped a bunch of things, and Wei Wuxian tracks WL down to Shoulin and...is... unable to talk Jiang Wanyin out of undergoing the final ceremony of joining the the temple's community, which is to destroy one's core.
The og thread was tagged with non-graphic description of suicide attempt, angst with no happy ending, my complete inadequacy in everything Chinese, Taoist, and Buddhist.
