Untamed rewatch notes 1-5
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branchandrootLan Sizhui and Lan Jingyi do the "communicating plans with a look" thing while fighting the sword spirit at the Mo house. I am 100% writing porn for them.
Jin Ling is a very good archer, which is an interesting connection with his most troublesome uncle.
Wei Wuxian seems to use birth names whenever he wants to be friends with someone his own age (eg Wen Ning, Lan Zhan), only sticking with courtesy names when it's the only one he knows (Nie Huaisang). Which makes it a little heartbreaking that no one in his family calls him Wei Ying. Even Jiang Yanli calls him a-Xian, which is sweet and familiar, but not reciprocal and not the way she calls Jiang Cheng (a-Cheng).
Intimacy, among the Lans seems to be indicated by using given names alone, albeit courtesy names. No diminutives. Good grief, they're so formal. Interestingly, Wei Wuxian seems to try to abide by this, at first, a little, and calls Lan Wangji Ji-xiong.
Jiang, on the other hand, is much more familial and informal. Jiang Cheng introduces Wei Wuxian as his shige. I nearly died of the adorable.
Lan Xichen explicitly thinks Wei Wuxian will be good for Lan Wangji to be friends with, which really makes one wonder about how little he may agree with his uncle's method of raising them and how hard that took on Lan Wangji. And possibly also about his sense of humor, since he clearly thinks it's hilarious that Lan Wangji has an i-dont-know-its-a-crush on Wei Wuxian.
The whole lecture-at-Lan experience is a not-fun one for Jiang Cheng. /Every/ time Wei Wuxian goes larking off with someone else (Nie Huaisang, Lan Wangji, even Wen Ning), he looks like a left-behind puppy.
Jin Ling is a very good archer, which is an interesting connection with his most troublesome uncle.
Wei Wuxian seems to use birth names whenever he wants to be friends with someone his own age (eg Wen Ning, Lan Zhan), only sticking with courtesy names when it's the only one he knows (Nie Huaisang). Which makes it a little heartbreaking that no one in his family calls him Wei Ying. Even Jiang Yanli calls him a-Xian, which is sweet and familiar, but not reciprocal and not the way she calls Jiang Cheng (a-Cheng).
Intimacy, among the Lans seems to be indicated by using given names alone, albeit courtesy names. No diminutives. Good grief, they're so formal. Interestingly, Wei Wuxian seems to try to abide by this, at first, a little, and calls Lan Wangji Ji-xiong.
Jiang, on the other hand, is much more familial and informal. Jiang Cheng introduces Wei Wuxian as his shige. I nearly died of the adorable.
Lan Xichen explicitly thinks Wei Wuxian will be good for Lan Wangji to be friends with, which really makes one wonder about how little he may agree with his uncle's method of raising them and how hard that took on Lan Wangji. And possibly also about his sense of humor, since he clearly thinks it's hilarious that Lan Wangji has an i-dont-know-its-a-crush on Wei Wuxian.
The whole lecture-at-Lan experience is a not-fun one for Jiang Cheng. /Every/ time Wei Wuxian goes larking off with someone else (Nie Huaisang, Lan Wangji, even Wen Ning), he looks like a left-behind puppy.
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Date: 2020-03-03 11:53 am (UTC)Jin Ling is a very good archer, which is an interesting connection with his most troublesome uncle.
Jin Guangyao? Is he an archer? I confess I hadn't taken note of that...
But I do remember that Jin Ling's father was an excellent archer using exactly the multiple-arrow technique Jin Ling uses (my impression was that it was a clan thing).
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Date: 2020-03-03 08:38 pm (UTC)I've noticed that, too. Jiang Fengmian calls him Wei Ying in a flashback, but I believe that's the only time even he does it, and otherwise he's "a-Xian." I wonder how much of that is Yu-furen's influence. I mean, clearly she'd prefer they all address him by his full family and courtesy names, if they must call him by name at all, and that's mostly what Jiang Cheng does. But maybe JFM resorts to a diminutive of WWX's courtesy name in the hopes of somewhat appeasing his wife, and that's what Jiang Yanli adopts.
I find it interesting that, once they've declared him Public Enemy No. 1, his enemies start making free with his birth name, especially Jin Guangshan. It's clearly meant as some kind of insult, or show of contempt, but I'd love to know all the connotations.
Interestingly, Wei Wuxian seems to try to abide by this, at first, a little, and calls Lan Wangji Ji-xiong.
I hear Ji-xiong is a homophone for the word for "chicken breast," so WWX is doing it not in an effort to abide by Lan formality, but as part of his campaign to annoy a reaction out of Lan Wangji.
/Every/ time Wei Wuxian goes larking off with someone else (Nie Huaisang, Lan Wangji, even Wen Ning), he looks like a left-behind puppy.
Poor Jiang Cheng. Jiang Yanli confirms he doesn't have any friends, then his dad takes away his dogs (they couldn't be kept at a farm nearby so he could visit?), and he is essentially given Wei Wuxian instead. That he comes out of that with proprietary jealousy should surprise exactly no one.
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Date: 2020-03-03 10:05 pm (UTC)*snarfs her after-work Cosmopolitan out her nose* Bhahahahaha! Oh my god, of course.
Bu yes, and clearly WWX is /used/ to conciliating Jiang Cheng. ...in, you know, his own special way. But he's so cajoling with JC. *thoughtful* Which is how he starts out, with Lan Wangji, come to think of it. Man, no wonder JC is jealous.