#peteniran

[greenteadumplings]

Fellas is it gay to bind your soul with your buddy to protect him from being consumed by a six eared demon

[embersinthefirelight]

Searching for Qi Rong

Wu Ep. 5

[crispywizardtale]

[myhiddenheart]

niran: *beats self-love into pete one insult at a time*

[qland]

The Six-Eared Macaque & The Boy

[bl-inded]

Something I haven't seen people talk about a lot, but has been living rent-free in my head about the spirit realm episode, is that they said 8 hours in the spirit realm is around a month in real-world time.

So Pete at least spent nearly a month of the real world in the same state as Niran just to save him. But when he woke up, no one was there with him. I don't know if the show explained how or why he remained standing in the same place, if he needed to be alone for this to work or anything as such. But he was there till Niran's spirit was almost lost to the spirit realm.

The reason his life was at risk was that past those 8 hours, his soul was also lost, and he could not get back to his body. And yes, he knew what was at stake and still chose to do this. But the worst part of it all is that he had to reckon with losing Niran- the other half of his soul, quite literally, and that was a loss for him irrespective of whether Pete chose to stay or come back. But it was a loss for him beyond that! He was devastated at the thought of not being enough, and Niran's choice of the void over him just solidifies that.

But I also have an alternative theory for why it wasn't the Niran that knew Pete that could come back.

So we see three versions of Niran in the spirit realm, right, each reflecting a moment from his life that he could not move past that led him to the person we know now. The first version, despite being hurt is the one that is most hopeful. He is defiant and strong-willed, which we know he still is, but he did not take his grandpa's dismissal as an insult to his character, but rather as a challenge. He would be a Wu, even his grandpa didn't think he was capable of it, and he would do it in his way.

He has a stronger moral character than most of his peers, always, but there is a limit to how much a person can hold on when the people they consider their own don't think they're worthy or right. And that's what we see wear off as we see older versions of him.

So I think when the version of Niran that wants to stay in the void disappears, that was necessary. He needed to kill that version of him that believed that his rebellion was nothing more than a futile fight against the universe to somehow be worthy. That he was replaceable.

Because when he is with Pete and the rest of the crew, he is wanted and appreciated- not because of what he provides, but simply cause. And to be able to believe that, actually believe that, he needed to let go of the version that he believed was an outcast. He needed to bring back the version of his soul that wholeheartedly believed in the world, the him that had hope, which is why it was child Niran who accepted Pete's offer.

The Niran who went back has renewed hope and a renewed sense of belonging. And that is somehow healing for me to think about at least. I just hope Pete knows that.

[lostinlind3nmere]

still here

[whatislovewhentherearebooks]

Y'all!! I just finished reading the Wu novel, and it turns out that a particular line that people have been using in their complaints against the show to say it was 'queerbait' was just simply mistranslated! 🤦

I think we all know by this point that iQIYI's English subs in general need a *lot* of work, lol 😅, but as I was reading Wu's novel-- which isn't really even a novel as such, it's more just a bare-bones script / screenplay with dialogue that is literally word-for-word to the dialogue in the show-- that reveals a *completely* different nuance to this line that I've seen some people complaining about:

Ah yes, the infamous 'friend, sibling, or buddy' line. BUT the thing is, THAT IS NOT WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAYS according to the official English translation! What he *actually* says is:

"If someone I love is in danger, whether that person is my friend, my sibling or someone close to me . . ."!

*Not* 'buddy'-- but rather, 'Someone close to me'! COMPLETELY different nuance!!

I saw multiple complaints from people saying that the 'friend and buddy' thing was 'yet another minimization' by the show of their relationship/partnership (a premise that I very much do NOT agree with in the first place; I already went over my thoughts about that in a previous post, though, so I won't go over it again here), BUT IT WAS LITERALLY JUST A WRONG TRANSLATION THAT EVEN MADE THIS LINE GIVE THAT IMPRESSION ANYWAY! 🤦

If every single other bit of dialogue had not been EXACTLY the same between the official English translation in the screenplay 'novel' and the show's English subs, I *might* have conceded this particular line to the complainers as being a bit off. But no-- every word in the rest of the dialogue *WAS* the same, *and* we already know that iQIYI has a history of translation issues! Which means that all of the evidence clearly points to the actual OFFICIAL English translation being more accurate here. (Also, just as an aside, a 'friend' and a 'buddy' are not really functionally different words in English {at least for guys, lol} anyway, so right from the start even that little detail should have clued people in that the subs were likely translated wrong.)

ANYWAY, I don't know who might still even find this, but I just wanted to clear the record on at least one of the complaints I'd seen, because if one is going to complain, one should at least only complain *after* getting the *accurate* translations, lol... 😜