Esquilax said:
Honestly though, if you want her to be live a normal life, perhaps hanging out with the suicidal apprentice of a mass murderer is a good start.
Hey, I said someday, not now!
Besides, it
is a good change of pace from hanging out with a suicidal old coot with murderous tendencies. Small steps. We'll get there. :D
I'm not exactly sure how it's a regression, but she seems perfectly fine with talking to people, even if a bit awkward about it. She went up and talked to Yunzi even though it is their first meeting, didn't she?
Well, the sentences seemed shorter and less fluid to me. Might be just my imagination, though. If she has the nerve and stamina to have a verbal fight with Yunzi, who is quick-witted and sharp-tongued, then all is good, I suppose. Still, I hope she continues to improve.
Anyway, since I started talking about how the characters view the world, I have another matter I'd like to talk about. Specifically, this:
You guys had two big chances to demonstrate interest: first by talking to the Ashina fighter at the tournament, then going after the Fire Cult to follow Yunzi. Unfortunately you picked neither, thus establishing where your priorities lay.
Now, please don't take it the wrong way, but something about it does not sit well with me. When we didn't talk to the Ashina fighter, we didn't know about the calamity that befell them - we had thought they were safe somewhere far in the north, despite the troubles on the border. We did not intend to visit them in a year because we had Zhang's challenge to worry about, first and foremost. There was no reason to trade a talk with a man who we did not even know speaks the same language we do on a chance to proceed in the tournament. If we knew more about the situation, I suppose the result could have been different.
It was somewhat the same with the cult - we thought that we could achieve more by acting independently - and maybe we still would. Going with the foreigners just because Yunzi might have been there seemed unreasonable at a time. Jing isn't a lovestruck fool who can't see anything but the object of his passions, even if Yunzi
were one.
In short, if something gets a lower priority than another thing, it does not mean that the second thing is of no interest to us. You don't go shopping when your house is on fire, even if nothing in the world pleases you more than a shopping tour. When the emergencies get taken care of, and things return back to normal, the priorities shift. They may shift even just by getting more information.
Where am I going with this? Yes, I know, choices and consequences are great, but I feel that the current choice follows in the steps of two previous ones. People other than me feel like Yunzi is starting to slip through our fingers, but it is just because the circumstances are stacked against us in such a way that there are always more dire and pressing matters to attend to. The star-crossed lovers, indeed. I would not want this to be mistaken as a lack of interest in certain developments on players' part... or on Jing's part, for that matter.
Even though I didn't do anything to learn more about Ashina at a time, even if I am not following Yunzi now, I still care for them a great deal. I don't know how Jing feels, but I'd like to hope that he shares the sentiment.
her for that.
