May 30, 2023
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My Favourite Male Characters Of Drama ( 4/ _ )
Favourite Male Characters pt.2
Because we haven’t seen Long Qing in a couple episodes and because I’ve had this in my drafts since I wanted to do a quick character analysis, I’ll do it now:
I’ve had a fluctuating opinion on Long Qing. Upon first appearance, I thought he was another showy, religious fiend, but then I found out he was this super young (& beautiful ‘flower’ lol) cultivator who’s also the Prince of Yan (or, one of them). In the first 10 episodes, I had a number of expectations for him: I thought he would a kind of cool character with some an interesting arc and characterization, because we see he presents himself as someone of moral high standing, but his actions reflect him as more of a morally gray person (killing the adults, but sparing the child when he goes into the wilderness). I got the impression that Xiling wasn’t that into him, however, their opinion of him changed?
I’m not sure if his character got more confusing, or was just developed more, because as the show went on, his ‘ugly’ qualities were more revealed. He’s obviously sort of a perfectionist who holds himself in high regard, with a mixture of pride and arrogance. He holds himself to an impossible standard (as seen in the scene above), but he’s also arrogant and considers himself to be above other people, which I actually think prevents him from achieving the vision of himself he wants to become.
The beginning of his character shift is when he comes to the Tang Empire, meets his brother again (what is up with them? it feels like they’re putting on fifty different shows, and I can’t tell if they actually like each other or not, because they haven’t met each other in 15 years? Please just resent each other openly if the show is going to go like that.) Perhaps this is because losing to Ning Que is his first failure, which kind of ruins his vision for the future. Long Qing is someone who believes he’s the best option for everything because he’s ‘the Child of Light’, but losing to Ning Que proves that maybe he’s not as ‘Chosen’ as he’d like to believe. It ruins the progress he’s made in Xiling with the officials who are against him, his position with his father, who specifically entrusted him to enter Tang Academy (and, through that, his position as maybe future King of Yan). But more than that, it creates cracks in his own mindset.
Long Qing has a hero complex, let’s be honest. As much as he plays at being the Child of Light, it’s also something he’s started to sort of honestly believe. However, this also reflects on how fragile his mindset is. The way I see it, he needs to be the best in order to be the best, and if he’s not the best, then the only option is to believe the rest of the world is wrong, instead of himself.
There’s also his entitlement, as seen above: his belief that there are certain things owed to him, certain things that are his destiny, which only leads to him wanting more. Not that Long Qing is greedy, to say - to me, he seems to be more desperate. This is a man who’s vision of the world is starting to slowly fall apart, and given the fact that in the preview for the show we see him looking like a creepy villain, it’s not hard to guess what path he might take if this continues.
Chenjia is the only good person in his life, really, but I wonder if he genuinely likes her, or if he likes her because it makes sense, you know? Like, if he wants to marry her because he’s the Child of Light and she’s the Princess of Full Moon State. Her feelings are legit, and I do think he likes her in some semblance of the emotion, but I’m not sure he likes her more than he likes the rest of the things he has.
In the last two panels, one can see what the Third Teacher/Sister meant by making his phrase ‘gentleman don’t dispute’. It was her way of warning him to accept what he gets, because a true gentleman wouldn’t try to fight fate or destiny. It also highlights Long Qing’s fallibilities, and how he’s already not the person he presents himself as. If he really was the Child of Light he claims to be, he wouldn’t dispute at all.
RIP to episodes 1-10 Long Qing, he’ll be missed.
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his wig is so off, it’s been bothering me so much :’)