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[justpostsyeet]

[januaryisnotanartist]

I’m having a head-canon, that Chuchu is basically the Wu Xie of the Documentary-Film-Making World. She goes to a perfectly normal (and safe-ish) village, and something incredibly dangerous happens. It really shouldn’t, but it does, usually because she was poking into something she shouldn’t have. 

[Part 2]

[luna-lina]

Wu Xie sharing some of his wisdom with Hei Yan Jing

[januaryisnotanartist]

Hei Yanjing being way too invested in The Disguise

[januaryisnotanartist]

I’m rewatching Reunion Sound of Providence and I’m having Feelings... some of which are righteous anger. Please excuse the rant.

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I just feel like there was potential for a really cool parallel story arc between Princess Mute and Chuchu Ya Nv.

Instead what we got was two women literally without voices of their own who had men make half-assed attempts to “give them 'back' their voices” that still ended with the women in question being effectively cast off.

(So technically there was a parallel story arc... it just wasn’t what I would call super cool.)

Wu Xie broke into 11th Warehouse just try try and figure out what Princess Mute was supposedly trying to tell him, only for her to disappear after the theft goes wrong and her story line is dropped entirely.

Chuchu is given a chance to gain a voice so she can make herself heard?, and in the end the choice to go through with the surgery was hers, but over all it was the result of Hei Yanjing making the choice for her about whether or not she belonged anywhere near his world. 

He denied her any chance to even look at his world with fully opened eyes and make and informed choice on whether or not pursuing a relationship would have been worth it, and then she still ended up being shot over him and his world anyway.

(Chuchu's allegedly not dead, but we'll see if the fandom (or the showrunners/execs) kill her like they apparently killed Piao Piao. Piao Piao should have lived godsdamnit! Don’t just be killing women off for free orphans!)

I just think, and I get that it probably would have had at least a portion of the fandom frothing at the mouth, but I just think that some of the 11th warehouse arc could have been interspersed with a bit more of Chuchu's speech pathology (in which Xie YuChen uses his traditional Opera training to help Chuchu figure out how to modulate/use her new voice) and her also realising she's seen some of the Thunder God symbology before on a previous job and taking a closer look.

Then, through Chuchu's investigation we learn the full and true story of Princess Mute, and a clue that helps the boys get to Thunder City, and Chuchu has the chance to see Xiazi's world and decide for herself whether she wants to risk it, while finally helping put Princess Mute to rest at last.

Metaphorically, because Ghosts Don't Exist in the Lost Tomb TV franchise, it's all Magnets and mutant wild life. And a shit ton of hallucinogenics including bronze bells and eye bugs. 

And if Ghosts were real Liu Sang would absolutely be able to hear them. Ghost A-Ning would just be constantly berating an unwitting Wu Xie over his continued Bad Life Choices.

Just: Chuchu getting into the more anthropological side of archeology/Dangerous Antiquing and using her newly acquired Voice to Speak for those who can No Long Speak for Themselves…

[januaryisnotanartist]

I’m having a head-canon, that Chuchu is basically the Wu Xie of the Documentary-Film-Making World. She goes to a perfectly normal (and safe-ish) village, and something incredibly dangerous happens. It really shouldn’t, but it does, usually because she was poking into something she shouldn’t have.