Reblogger of multitudes. Also, cats. Aro/ace; slightly neurodivergent; chronic pain; they/them or she/her. There is no theme. Also be warned: I don't tag anything. ANYTHING.
why do people act like Wen Ning is like… totally well-adjusted and normal and the only sane man in a situation? this guy:
was attacked by an evil statue as a kid resulting in part of his soul getting sucked out
got one compliment from some guy he’d never met and immediately attached himself to said guy to the point of risking his life and betraying his entire sect just to help out the guy’s brother/bestie who he basically could not care less about except he’s related to That Guy Who Was Nice That One Time
is brutally murdered while being forced into slave labor and comes back from the dead as a zombie so full of repressed anger that he commits mass murder without even being fully cognizant of what he’s doing
goes to live in a place full of dead people with the last living members of his family (his big sister and like 20 elderly folks plus his four-year-old cousin) and The Guy, who is now a mad scientist necromancer, trying desperately to scrape out a living from their corpse radish farm and slowly starving to death
accidentally murders someone and The Guy gets blamed for it so he tries to sacrifice himself to save The Guy and it doesn’t even work and Wen Ning’s entire family dies and he spends 13-16 years being experimented on by a different mad scientist necromancer
immediately breaks out of the secret torture dungeon when The Guy returns, then starts following him around like a lost puppy
discovers that he’s not the only sentient zombie in the world but the one other sentient zombie can’t talk and is too interested in another quest to even want to hang out
learns that his four-year-old cousin is actually alive and goes off to have adventures with him for a while and teach him about their family legacy
like. this guy is not normal. he is so messed up in the head. things have happened to him that no one else understands and seemingly no one cares except the cousin who barely remembers him. he’s considered a monstrosity by 99 percent of the world. he’s still a little obsessed with The Guy but The Guy straight-up abandons him to go travel the world and have crazy wild sex with the man who raised his cousin into a very nice young man during the 13/16 years of evil necromancy torture. what the fuck
The Greeks had this word, right, we have no idea where it came from, it just kinda popped up out of nowhere, and it could mean either apples, cheeks, or boobs. Problem is it looked and sounded *exactly* like another, unrelated word which could mean sheep, goat, or any animal in general really, which must have got confusing if you were a farmer talking about your livestock, but anyway…
Then the Romans, having stolen practically everything else from the Greeks, thought they’d nick this word too, because Latin isn’t confusing enough without throwing in a bunch of loan words. And they adopted it to mean a pumpkin.
Then the English came along and were all like “when in Rome”, and stole it, where it became our word ‘melon’. Which has now come back to mean boobs.
If you want to write a dumb little story with a dumb little plot and ridiculously silly characters. No one’s stopping you. Genuinely, no one should be allowed to stop you. Write that dumb story with your whole heart and don’t hold back.
ok the dumb little story turned into a lot of work why does this always happen
the “came back wrong” trope except like… they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like “oh no… what have i done…. shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!” and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like “oh shes soooo weird” but shes just normal
