#bingyi

[mutantfactor]

Fangs of Fortune 𓆩𓆪 BingYi & Ying Long

“You endured the pain of breaking your horns and tearing your bones to forge this sword. You gave this sword to me and fought alongside me to kill demons. I can't do it.”

[his-catness-tchalla]

Fangs of Fortune - ep.27

[danmeidiaries]

It’s been over a year since I watched it and they’re still ruining my life.

Had a total screen time of about fifteen minutes in the whole show but I’m obsessed.

[pai-in-the-sky]

Bingyi - Fangs of Fortune

Whew. This one was a beast. It took just under 24hrs to draw over the course of a week or so. It really fought me in a lot of places and I learned a lot about fabrics and textures. Reducing anything down to a limited palette is difficult but this one. Yeah. I usually work dark to light but I tried a few different techniques here. The hair ornaments I did at least 3x - twice dark to light and once light to dark shades. It was a puzzle but I had fun and I’m happy with how it turned out!

Thanks to Lilla and Mith for egging me on and watching the show! I swear I’m going to finish it soon. It’s so good. Ugh.

Enjoy!

[pointandshooter]

Omnibrilliance: Peach Blossom Spring, Bingyi (b. 1975) China, Shenzhen, Guangdong province and Beijing municipality, 2018–2022, Triptych (three hanging scrolls); ink on paper

photo: David Castenson

[xiaobaosnoona]

@asiandramanet creator bingo - colors

[thyandrawrites]

Ying Long using his bones and his remaining yao power to create a core for Zhuo Yichen means he always had the means to recultivate into a human form if he so wished, but chose not to. He was at peace with his self sacrifice and never meant to come back from it. If a fraction of what he had been lived on, it was because Bingyi was too "softhearted" to fully let him go. But I wonder. Did Bingyi preserve that shred of Ying Long's soul because he was hoping Ying Long would eventually change his mind and return? Was Ying Long staying firm in his choice the reason why Bingyi decided to give up on his immortality and transform into a human?

I like this idea because it makes Bingyi not just "too soft" as Ying Long fondly described him, but rather more a hopeless romantic.

An ancestral shrine is something that only humans with a finite lifespan would need after all. If a reunion in life was impossible, then they could at least be together in death. But if Bingyi had chosen to end his life as a yao, his core would've dispersed in the wind. As a human though, he would leave behind remains. He would have descendants. Some part of him would live on, in his bloodline, same as how a fragment of Ying Long still lingers millennia later. And Ying Long's consciousness would forever guard Bingyi's old bones long after they were gone, remembering him. But with that shrine there, Bingyi's descendants would also continue to honor Ying Long's legacy and preserve his memory.

They both give up immortality but not eternity, if you will

[kandadze]

(...) you seem raiment on raiment arrayed/ round a body composed of nothing but light; (Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, II, 6)