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I'm thinking about how Xiahouji's rabbit theme is referential to the moon goddess Chang'e, who's from the myth where an archer named Houyi shot down 9 suns and was given an elixir of immortality as a reward. The more popular versions have them as lovers, and Chang'e safeguards it for him, but she's pursued by a man she isn't interested in and so ultimately takes the elixir to obtain immortality before being banished to the moon with only the lunar rabbit and a lazy monk for company. A monk who spends all his time trying to cut down a tree that always heals from his axe strikes, and thus probably isn't the most engaging companion, but that's a different story.

But in older versions the man she's trying to escape is Houyi himself. She damns herself to an eternity of near solitude just to get away from him. And God that's just so, so, so telling of Xiahouji's story, both how it's romanticizes and the ugly truth, being kidnapped when she was about 12 and forced to marry a man significantly older than her in a strange place where she had no allies or family to vouch for her. It feels like they couldn't agree on how to portray her so they met in the middle?

And then you have Xingcai, the fictionalized mix of Zhang Fei's two known daughters (well, I've heard some people claim that and others say she's just based on the younger daughter). Her name can be interpreted as meaning brilliant star, and in Warriors games this is often portrayed as her being part of Shu's promising new generation, but next to Xiahouji's rabbit/moon theme and how Xiahouji was retroactively designed for Xingcai's theming to be a 'callback' to her (they have similar weapons, red eye make-up, the celestial theming), you could interpret it as Xiahouji naming Xingcai that as a sort of symbol of companionship to herself, as the stars to her moon. This woman, knowing she can probably never go home or see her old family and friends again, names her daughter as symbol of her not seeing herself as so totally alone anymore. She, married to a man known for his tendencies towards violence and alcoholism with precious little agency over her own life, finds a bit of hope in her daughter.

Did someone at Koei intend some of this? Maybe? Who knows. If so I admire it but if not, death of the author and all that.

#i get weirdly emotional about chang'e #xiahouji #xingcai #shu #analyses #dynasty warriors #video games

A kiss from Xingcai to brighten emperor's day!! (Now that she and I are back, I couldn't help it hehe ^_^ )

It has admittedly been a long while since Xingcai has disappeared. Truth be told they had both disappeared as far as the public were concerned. Losing loved ones as their home was surrendered to another force tends to lead one to hide from public scrutiny. But while Liu Shan was still the now-former emperor of Shu, Xingcai was but his former empress and personal bodyguard. She could leave in the night, with only the clothes on her back and the weapons in her hands and the horse racing beneath her, and no one would ever notice.

Melancholy is so easy to settle in without her support by his side. But he has read her letter over and over, waiting for the moment she returns to his side. And when she does, it's when he least expects it, a kiss on his cheek while he's walking along the garden path.

"M-my dear Xingcai, I...you've returned, and..." he touches his cheek softly, unable to hide the smile growing on his face. Softer, reaching his hand to touch her but hesitating centimetres from her warm hand, "you've...you've returned to me."

#liu shan #xingcai #Xing Cai #lordliushan #thekingofsadness #shieldstar #The RP of this RP blog is BACK! For how long? I have no idea!#Would you believe since the last time I actually did an RP (yes I'm counting the Daolun thing last year)#I've almost finished my cyberpunk novel and got an abstract out for an international conference?#Crazy stuff. Real crazy stuff #I'm absolutely gonna reference the hell out of the DW9 ending for Liu Shan which is still so bittersweet to this day

xingcai lesbiab ?? less bien ??? girls ?????

#dynasty warriors #screenshots #xingcai #Q

We take a break from our usual broadcasting schedule to bring you some wholly unnecessary dabbing, because it turns out you can make people do that if you hit them with certain combos and I went on a spree of collecting these and I would apologise but honestly I’m kind of proud of my own dedication to a cause even if that’s just stupidity and the pursuit of outdated pop-culture references.