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idle thought #285
Sep. 19th, 2021 11:59 pm...oh yeah. I totally forgot in Dynasty Warriors 5, Xiahou Dun has a snake eyepatch too. Just like Majima.
A Strategist's Flight Part II
Jul. 3rd, 2015 05:44 pmSacrifices in the name of art. Lovely. I'm sick, now, because I don't really have that much time to write so have to do it late. But you guys didn't come here to listen to me complain. You guys came here to listen to me tell a story, and in the end I think it was worth it.
The messing up of the r/l thing was a Japanese pun. Or something like that, since it involves alternate readings of things, and in Japanese, r and l are synonymous characters.
I did some research, but it was late, so I never did figure out what they'd use for carrying wine on long journeys and ended up using the generic 'vessel'. If anyone knows, please let me know.
Just a reminder, style names:
Kongming = Sleeping Dragon = Zhuge Liang
Guangyuan = Shi Tao
Oh, and in case anyone was wondering, the Tiger of Jiangdong is Sun Jian. Not a style name, but still important.
Main Points:
Zhuge Liang fanfic, probably Red Cliff/Chibi movie based.
Summary: Zhuge Liang must implement his first strategy.
Word Count: 1779
Rating: T, some violence but mostly threats of such.
The messing up of the r/l thing was a Japanese pun. Or something like that, since it involves alternate readings of things, and in Japanese, r and l are synonymous characters.
I did some research, but it was late, so I never did figure out what they'd use for carrying wine on long journeys and ended up using the generic 'vessel'. If anyone knows, please let me know.
Just a reminder, style names:
Kongming = Sleeping Dragon = Zhuge Liang
Guangyuan = Shi Tao
Oh, and in case anyone was wondering, the Tiger of Jiangdong is Sun Jian. Not a style name, but still important.
Main Points:
Zhuge Liang fanfic, probably Red Cliff/Chibi movie based.
Summary: Zhuge Liang must implement his first strategy.
Word Count: 1779
Rating: T, some violence but mostly threats of such.
( In Flight )
A Strategist's Flight Part I
Jul. 2nd, 2015 11:51 pmOkay, this is what I was working on. Until late, unfortunately, but it got done, and I'm really proud of it. (I'll notice all the typos later, I'm sure.) This idea has been rattling around my brain for a while, but it was only yesterday that I ended up writing it. For whatever reason, this was brought on by reading Ukitake fanfic, including the lovely Meifu's Gate. Really, I don't understand how my brain works.
This, like the earlier Patience, draws off of many sources, but I guess maybe first and foremost Red Cliff, since that's the only one where he's been depicted with a hawk's wing fan. (Crane's wing is the usual. I can't tell what the weapon is in Dynasty Warriors, and it's been a few days since I've played that, so I don't remember the name of his weapon. Bad. Okay, I'm gonna look this up. Okay, it says swallow wing and raven wing, so the point still stands.) It probably also draws a little off the Japanese Romance of the Three Kingdoms animated series, since I recently rediscovered that. /grins
I actually had to do a little more research. I usually go crazy with research whenever I find something new I like, but it's been a little while, and in any case I didn't know much about his family. Or friends/schoolmates.
Poor Xu Shu.
If style names confuse you, look them up or take a peek at Patience, my Xiahou Dun character study. This is kind of a character study, too, but it definitely has more action than Dun's. Funny, huh? The titles hint at that though.
Kongming = Sleeping Dragon = Zhuge Liang
Guangyuan = Shi Tao
Intrigued by this dialogue from Red Cliff:
"Why carry a fan on a cold day like this?" -Zhou Yu
"It helps me remain calm. It's the one old habit I cannot give up." -Zhuge Liang
"You do not look like an anxious person." -Zhou Yu
Main Points:
Zhuge Liang fanfic, probably Red Cliff/Chibi movie based.
Summary: Zhuge Liang goes to 'school', but when he returns all is not well.
Word Count: 1870
Rating: T
( Soaring )
This, like the earlier Patience, draws off of many sources, but I guess maybe first and foremost Red Cliff, since that's the only one where he's been depicted with a hawk's wing fan. (Crane's wing is the usual. I can't tell what the weapon is in Dynasty Warriors, and it's been a few days since I've played that, so I don't remember the name of his weapon. Bad. Okay, I'm gonna look this up. Okay, it says swallow wing and raven wing, so the point still stands.) It probably also draws a little off the Japanese Romance of the Three Kingdoms animated series, since I recently rediscovered that. /grins
I actually had to do a little more research. I usually go crazy with research whenever I find something new I like, but it's been a little while, and in any case I didn't know much about his family. Or friends/schoolmates.
Poor Xu Shu.
If style names confuse you, look them up or take a peek at Patience, my Xiahou Dun character study. This is kind of a character study, too, but it definitely has more action than Dun's. Funny, huh? The titles hint at that though.
Kongming = Sleeping Dragon = Zhuge Liang
Guangyuan = Shi Tao
Intrigued by this dialogue from Red Cliff:
"Why carry a fan on a cold day like this?" -Zhou Yu
"It helps me remain calm. It's the one old habit I cannot give up." -Zhuge Liang
"You do not look like an anxious person." -Zhou Yu
Main Points:
Zhuge Liang fanfic, probably Red Cliff/Chibi movie based.
Summary: Zhuge Liang goes to 'school', but when he returns all is not well.
Word Count: 1870
Rating: T
( Soaring )
Patience: A Xiahou Dun Character Study
Jun. 15th, 2015 11:57 pmOccasionally when figuring out how to write characters, I wish people would write things like this. I don't copy other's conceptions of characters, but it helps me figure out how others view them, gives me ideas, starts me on the path. A glimpse of someone else's vision suddenly makes my ideas much clearer. (Specifically, I'd like to know how to write a character showing up in SS, but as I'm gathering, most people hated the flatness of the character, so nobody's bothered.)
I really like the simple elegance, or whatever. It's not my usual style, but I like it. There's a lot of references, and the story draws from historical and the novel and maybe Red Cliff, for Cao Cao's appearances anyway, because I still have yet to figure out where Xiahou Dun was supposed to appear in that, and Dynasty Warriors of course.
On another note, has anyone seen the Wei music video to a song called Empire? I found it a couple years ago and now it's MIA, which is sad because I liked it and hadn't yet put it in a playlist. I think it started with Zhang Liao... and of course, DW:Empires doesn't help the search.
EDIT: Oops. Maybe I'll include the thing about style names here. You can look up the long version on your own, but the short version is that they're kind of like Chinese nicknames, so most don't use them for each other unless they're close.
Cao Cao = Mengde
Xiahou Dun = Yuanrang
Zhuge Liang = Kong Ming
Main Points:
Xiahou Dun character study
Summary: A look at Xiahou Dun's character, including why he's a much more patient man than he appears.
Word Count: 2,419
Rating: T? (Nothing except the promise of danger, but this is Xiahou Dun.
I really like the simple elegance, or whatever. It's not my usual style, but I like it. There's a lot of references, and the story draws from historical and the novel and maybe Red Cliff, for Cao Cao's appearances anyway, because I still have yet to figure out where Xiahou Dun was supposed to appear in that, and Dynasty Warriors of course.
On another note, has anyone seen the Wei music video to a song called Empire? I found it a couple years ago and now it's MIA, which is sad because I liked it and hadn't yet put it in a playlist. I think it started with Zhang Liao... and of course, DW:Empires doesn't help the search.
EDIT: Oops. Maybe I'll include the thing about style names here. You can look up the long version on your own, but the short version is that they're kind of like Chinese nicknames, so most don't use them for each other unless they're close.
Cao Cao = Mengde
Xiahou Dun = Yuanrang
Zhuge Liang = Kong Ming
Main Points:
Xiahou Dun character study
Summary: A look at Xiahou Dun's character, including why he's a much more patient man than he appears.
Word Count: 2,419
Rating: T? (Nothing except the promise of danger, but this is Xiahou Dun.
( Patience )
