Them: so your favorite book series are Mo Dao Zu Shi and the Locked Tomb? That's an interesting combination. What do they have in common?
Me: similar metaphorical portrayals of depression and trauma in the main character represented by the loss of a vital organ. A gaping emptiness where there had only ever been fullness and life. It should have killed them, and on some level it did. But they’re still here anyway, walking around, outwardly appearing in the shape of their previous self, but inside not feeling the same. All their friends expect them to be their old self, happy and unbothered, and they try but it just doesn’t work. They try to be funny, because they were funny before, and it just comes out mean. The books themselves are so brutally adept at portraying this that even some readers look at how the main character is acting and think they must be possessed. Because it’s wrong. Their appearance and words match the character we knew, but the sincerity, the heart, the soul is gone. And it is gone. It was carved out of them, bloody and raw. That part of themselves just isn’t there anymore, and it’s not clear if there’s a way to get it back
Them: w—what?
Me: gay necromancy
anyways RIP Wei Wuxian you would’ve loved being a cavalier
