Oh yes, perfect

[branchandroot]

So, thanks to getting bunnied in re Shen Wei's relationship with his own body and senses, I've been turning over drama-canon. Because this would be a very different story if I set it inside the Changes fusion. And I was tripping over the line about searching for Kunlun for 10k years, because dirtnap. But! It just occurred to me that there is a felicitous (at least for my purposes) answer to this:

What if Shen Wei was marginally aware all that time?

Not awake, not conscious, but... aware enough to be mentally/spiritually reaching out, searching for Kunlun. What if the reason he wakes up so abruptly is that the object of his search has gotten old enough to finally trigger recognition, psychically speaking? Say late teens, his personality starting to settle and take on the shape of his adult capabilities?

*beams*

This also puts a nice double-edge on his eagerness to bugger off to the surface despite leaving a frankly shifty dude in charge of his people. On the one hand, I can imagine him being very reluctant to look at conquering his own damn people (again, still, more), and on the other I can also imagine him wanting /very, very badly/ to re-secure his emotional support ally before diving in to figuring out how to fix things (again, still, more).

And then... nothing. For, what, another ten years or so?

*beams some more and buffs her Evil Author badge*

And then, of course, canon. Oh yes, this could work.

Comments

[edenfalling]

Oooh!

[branchandroot]

Torturing characters--half the fun of writing. ^_^