#sun hai

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Jade Empire - 2024 Replay

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I will say that in writing You're Okay, one of the things I had the most fun with was fleshing out the backstory behind Chase talking to Omi's mother. You see that all the way back near the beginning. You know Chase has talked to Omi's mother and likely his father and knew them in some capacity but you don't know How.

Then you follow Chase as he goes through three weeks of coming to know this small family. And then the great big family all around Them. Learning how much weight is behind the words and Chase's promise. And how much ended up happening that made Chase keep that promise in the end, no matter how much he wanted to alter history in his own favor.

These are the people who made Chase Young keep a promise it seems like he would have never intended to actually hold to, and you get to see why he would do so.

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If they got to meet (and pretend Hai and Fei weren't dead), how would the parents of the dragons get along?

Hai and Fei, Daddy Baily and Mama Bailey, Toshiro Tohomiko and Mama Tohomiko. Like, if they all met at a parent-teacher conference with Fung or something.

I headcanon that Mama Tohomiko isn't alive in present day either, but we'll go with the assumption that she is, and hypothetically include Raimundo's parents too.

I feel like while Mama Bailey and Tohomiko would get along swimmingly, Daddy Bailey wouldn't think very highly of Toshiro even though Toshiro thinks he's a neat guy. Toshiro is a businessman, which is respectable, but he's also a city man and an inventor at that, and I don't know that Daddy would be altogether too impressed by a man who spends most of his time playing with toys and inventing games for children.

Given how Raimundo is, and how he implies he has a large family with pretty laid back parents, I don't know that Daddy Bailey would get along very well with them either. Seems like he wouldn't very much approve of a big rowdy family without a lot of discipline.

I think Toshiro and Mama Tohomiko would get along well with Raimundo's parents, though. Toshiro seems like the type that would treat anyone with respect no matter what their background, which would probably go over well with Raimundo's parents. Plus Toshiro loves kids, and given Raimundo seems to have a lot of siblings and cousins, he and Mrs Tohomiko would probably be thrilled to see such a big happy family.

Honestly I don't see Hai and Fei getting along badly with any of the other sets of parents either.

Hai and Fei aren't ranchers like the Baileys, but they do raise their own animals and grow some of their own food, so that would probably earn them some respect from a salt of the earth type like Daddy Bailey, and Mama Bailey likes the sound of their peaceful sort of life. Hai and Fei having such a big family themselves they'd probably get along with the Pedrosa parents, too, all the people they know would make them feel right at home. And Toshiro and Mama Tohomiko would get along swimmingly with the couple; the Tohomikos would be fascinated by their lifestyle being so traditional, and Hai and Fei would be amazed to see what kinds of technological advancements are in the modern world, especially with all the stuff Mr Tohomiko had a hand in developing.

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I think it's so touching that Fei's final moments were him being worried that he hadn't said "I love you" enough and that Hai might somehow not know that he loves her so much, and then when Chase offers to pass along the message, she already intuitively knows exactly what Fei's final message to her would be, because she definitely knows. It's such a perfect way to come full circle and give closure to that burst of anxiety Fei had, and it seriously tore out my heart reading it.

From the moment I wrote the scene in chapter 1, I knew that what I wanted to really do in the future after we met Omi’s dad was to make sure that he’d get a moment to tell Chase that he loved his wife. Otherwise, what message would Chase have to deliver?

Writing Hai and Fei is a very fun exercise, mainly because they’re kind of my ideal of the “friendship romance” growth. Their friendship and romance was in no real way an evolution or a shift from one to the other. Hai and Fei are as much one anothers’ best friends as they are lovers. They’ve shared everything with one another since they were children, and they know each other inside and out. They’re still very much their own people, and have their own private thoughts and annoyances. But there’d never be any doubt in their own minds how much the other loves them.

Fei himself is a goofball with a huge heart. But he’s also self-aware of that to some degree. He knows he’s goofy and a jokester and not someone who takes everything as seriously as he perhaps should. But there are still moments where he wonders if he’s making his real intentions and thoughts clear in-between all the lightheartedness he tries to provide. He’s got the same insecurities as any husband and father, about whether he can do enough for his family, if he can protect and provide for and love them as much as he wants to. He’s far from perfect, but Hai doesn’t care if he is. She just knows he tries his best so much and all the trying is one of the things that allowed the love to blossom alongside the friendship. Because no matter what Fei does, she knows he’s always trying for both her and Omi. And all that effort is just one of his particular languages of love.

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In another world, Hai and Fei are raising their two other little babies in the bigger house they've moved into for their bigger family, and Omi alternates between hanging at home or going on little trips to the surface with his best friend and mentor, Yung.

Ah yes, the ever elusive Best Timeline. They're living a happy life, they've got two other children and feel perfectly safe and secure knowing that Omi is in good hands with his teacher. And of course they always have a spare plate for whenever their good friend Yung comes around for dinner.

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Would Hai and Fei be proud of the boy Omi has grown into?

There's no life he could have lived that they'd not be proud of their little boy.

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4. When scared, does your OC fight, flee, freeze or fawn? - Hai and Fei!

Both of them are Flee. Neither have the instincts for combat, and the other two just wouldn't come to mind. So Flee is the first instinct.

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Hai - 🥞 PANCAKE - what is their comfort breakfast?

Congee with scallions.