I think for me this will result (for the first 1/3 or so, anyway) in either "Oh Shen Wei" (*sniff*) or "Shen Wei for crying out loud just tell him the truth already" the whole time but it's worth a try. Yes, there has been and probably will continue to be a lot of that for me, too, lol. A bunch of the weirder choices he makes in the first few episodes make a lot more sense in the context of him sizing Zhao Yunlan up re: Kunlun! But they also come with substantial "oh Shen Wei". :D
You could probably make arguments for a lot of small moments of Shen Wei's behavior over the first few episodes based in subtle shifts in his perception of Zhao Yunlan. Yeah, this! I think we're pretty much in agreement here. Shen Wei definitely recognizes Kunlun and initially freaks out because of that (I had said to cyberbrain, on rewatching ep 1, that I'm pretty sure he first recognizes him from his voice rather than his face, even) but then goes through a bunch of mental and emotional loops trying to connect this guy up to Kunlun in some logical way. As to what degree he's certain that Zhao Yunlan is/will be Kunlun at any point...I'm mostly guessing at that. I just think he's not 100% sold on it at a few points in the first few episodes.
Oh man, I sort of want to properly write up the parallels to SW/ZYL from these several cases, but I'm not sure when/if I'll get to that. Idea free to a good home. Li Qian's chat with Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan on the rooftop in episode 2 where she confesses to using the Longevity Dial is an absolute gut punch through that filter, for starters.
I would really enjoy that fic as well! I can see a lot of different possible takes on how the Envoy interacts with that community (to whatever extent he does) and how he thinks about them and how they think about him...he obviously has no desire to drag them back to Dixing, but that may mostly be obvious to us, not them.
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Yes, there has been and probably will continue to be a lot of that for me, too, lol. A bunch of the weirder choices he makes in the first few episodes make a lot more sense in the context of him sizing Zhao Yunlan up re: Kunlun! But they also come with substantial "oh Shen Wei". :D
Yeah, this! I think we're pretty much in agreement here. Shen Wei definitely recognizes Kunlun and initially freaks out because of that (I had said to cyberbrain, on rewatching ep 1, that I'm pretty sure he first recognizes him from his voice rather than his face, even) but then goes through a bunch of mental and emotional loops trying to connect this guy up to Kunlun in some logical way. As to what degree he's certain that Zhao Yunlan is/will be Kunlun at any point...I'm mostly guessing at that. I just think he's not 100% sold on it at a few points in the first few episodes.
Oh man, I sort of want to properly write up the parallels to SW/ZYL from these several cases, but I'm not sure when/if I'll get to that. Idea free to a good home. Li Qian's chat with Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan on the rooftop in episode 2 where she confesses to using the Longevity Dial is an absolute gut punch through that filter, for starters.
I would really enjoy that fic as well! I can see a lot of different possible takes on how the Envoy interacts with that community (to whatever extent he does) and how he thinks about them and how they think about him...he obviously has no desire to drag them back to Dixing, but that may mostly be obvious to us, not them.