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Asian dramas and my favorite types of characters

There are my favorite types of characters as a list. A villain with a fatal weakness

Drama: The Scholar Who Walks the Night /밤을 걷는 선비 Character: Gwi Screentime: Secondary Gwi is an ancient vampire and a master of puppets (and Joseon's king is the main of them). He is merciless, invincible and scheming all the drama long, until he accidentally kills a girl, who was his hostage and recalcitrant puppet from her childhood on and was the only one who could scold him and deny him. Nothing about it is said directly in the drama, but after her death he goes insane, kills all of his puppets and this way causes his own death. So, I suppose, she was his only weakness, and I like this type of a personal drama for a villain. Punch-Clock Villain / the Dragon

Drama: 100 Days My Prince /백일의 낭군님 Character: Moo-yeon Screentime: Secondary Moo-yeon works as an assassin for the killer of his father, who is constantly threatening him with the life of his sister. Moo-yeon is a man of a very ill fate: his family was accused of a treason and executed, his sister became a fugitive, he was forced to sell his conscience for his and sister's lives and, as a cherry on the top of this cake, fell in love with the daughter of his captor. And died trying to save her... His story is sooooo sad, but it makes me feel for this character fully. Also, he is the king of whump because the half of the drama he is injured and suffers from his wounds. The whole sad story of this guy is analyzed by me here, here and here.

Drama: The King Loves /왕은 사랑한다 Character: Moo-suk Screentime: Minor Koreans, obviously, like this type of characters, too, so there is another Dragon of the main villain, Moo-suk. In his free from dirty deeds time he h̶e̶l̶p̶s̶ ̶o̶l̶d̶ ̶l̶a̶d̶i̶e̶s̶ ̶c̶r̶o̶s̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶o̶a̶d̶ literally saves cute children and restores self-confidence of young ladies. And then he falls in love, rethinks his life and dies from the hand of his master. Predictable and sad. Still a memorable guy, though. 50 shades of a Byronic Hero

Drama: The Wolf / 狼殿�� Character: Chu Youwen Screentime: Main A Mowgli boy was adopted by a wicked emperor, brought up like a cruel beast and was forced to do some dirty stuff for the emperor. He is mysterious, severe and you never know what's on his mind. As a true Byronic hero. He is some kind of Dragon, too, but it's a Chinese drama and he is a main hero in it, that's why he doesn't really do anything bad during the series. His soul is kind and his heart is pure, but he hides it from his love and deals with all of his problems on his own. It's the reason why all of this drama is a masochistic tango between him and his love. Whump lovers will be happy, too, because he is constantly in chains, pierced by arrows like a hedgehog or works as a slave in mines. As any other Dragon, he has a BE.

Drama: Lost You Forever /长相思第一季 Character: Xiang Liu Screentime: Secondary A mysterious demon general, whose name makes everyone shake in fear. A former demon slave, who is true to his word enough to fight for his benefactor even if he knows crystal clearly that it's hopeless and he and his army will die in the end. A man who has huge problems with expression of his emotions in a socially approved way. Edward Cullen of Chinese dramaland. He is enigmatic, with thick vibes of a bad guy, yet very loyal to his benefactor as well as his love and very selfless. SPOILER TO SEASON 2: because of this loyalty he will die and the love of his life will never-ever find out about anything he has done for her during the story.

Drama: My Journey to You /云之羽 Character: Gong Shangjue Screentime: Secondary A guy was through trauma in his childhood and it made him look intimidating and unfeeling. A tsundere is born! He coped with his trauma by taking extra responsibilities for everything and everyone and turned to be a walking killing machine instead of a man. But an enemy assassin comes to his life and teaches him how to be a human once more. It's a painful experience, but it`s necessary in order to grow up as a character and is beautifully fulfilled. It was a great joy to know that he survives at the end of the story, it's a rare thing for this type of characters, so even if there is season 2 someday, I will not watch it in order not to spoil my impression of the first one. I wrote about him detailed here, here, here and here.

Drama: Princess Agents / 特工皇妃楚乔传 Character: Yan Xun Screentime: Secondary It's the transformation story, too, like a previous one, but this time it's transformation from an ordinary man to a villain. Prince Yan Xun is a hostage colony prince in a metropolis empire, but he enjoys a noble life along with other nobility youth. The society around him is awful, each of these noble youths is a psycho who appreciate human hunt and so on, but cheerful and easy-going Yan Xun doesn't think their bloodthirstiness could turn against him. When relationship between the metropolis and the colony become tense, though, Yan Xun's friends of yesterday are happy to drink his blood. He loses his whole family and, insanely longing for revenge, slowly turns to one of those monsters himself.

Drama: A Journey to Love / 一念关山 Character: Li Tongguang Screentime: Minor This guy has got a very realistic personality and background: he is a bastard who was deprived of mother's love since he was a child. The first circumstance made him power-hungry, scheming and outwardly emotionless, the second one made him longing for mother's love on insanely level. So he is invincible outwardly, but turns into a teary mess when it's about his female tutor, who is a mother figure for him. The contrast between these two personalities is enormous and makes this character very alive and interesting. During the drama he will not cope with his Oedipus complex but circumstances will solve this problem for him.

A pure-hearted hero

Drama: Creation of the Gods Ⅰ / 封神三部曲 Character: Ji Fa Screentime: Main It's maybe strange to find this type of characters in the list of my favorite types, but morality and selflessness of a character is very important for me, too. This story is some kind of King Arthur's legend, but in a Chinese way. The emperor is bewitched by a demon and is bringing the kingdom to it's downfall, the Gods are here to find the savior with the help of a magic scroll that can be opened only by a true king. Ji Fa, a hero of this story, doesn't care about scrolls, but his heart is loyal to his kingdom and to his family (in this very order). He genuinely wants to help his friend-prince to be a king his kingdom deserves and, despite awful things that were done to him and his family, doesn`t harden his soul and betray his ideals. And, I suppose, although he isn't aware of this, he IS the future King Arthur of China. Interesting character decisions

Drama: The Legends/招摇 Characters: Jiang Wu Screentime: Minor This character is something like a rival of the male lead. He is a xinmo - an inner demon of some other character and represents the darkest features of a human's soul. He is a ruthless killer, a dark sorcerer without conscience, but what was very unique, being literary the worst part of a human personality, he values his assistants a lot and genuinely cares for them. A villain is usually a lone wolf. He doesn't trust anyone and doesn't value anyone, his loneliness is usually his weakness and a key to his downfall. So I was pleasantly surprised that sometimes a villain is capable of building healthy relationships with his subordinates.

Drama: Sh**ting Stars / 별똥별 Characters: Do Soo-hyuk Screentime: Minor

This guy truly surprised me. Firstly, he is supposed to be something like a third wheel in relationships of the main couple, but he just calmly got a refusal from the female lead, said "OK" and, absolutely relaxed, proceeded to live his life further. It's something unbelievable for me, because I used to see the insanity caused by an unrequited love to be the plot engine of a lot of dramas. Secondly, he is well-written as a character, straightforward, principled and has tsundere-ish or Byronic vibes - all the character features that I like =) Part 3 will be about other interesting types of relationship, mostly between men.

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wangmiao · 4 days

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Jiang Wu as Cheng Tianle & Li Naiwen as Maolü in 完美有多美 | The Door (2017)

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maggiecheungs · 9 months

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“The gods are to blame. If you have grievances... tell heaven about them.”

A TOUCH OF SIN | 天注定 (2013) dir. by Jia Zhangke

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dmbjexchange · 1 year

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Liu Chang Characters Fortnight, April 3rd - 16th

The 2023 Liu Chang Characters Fortnight will be from Monday April 3rd - Sunday April 16th. These weeks celebrate all of Liu Chang’s characters in the DMBJ universe - Liu Sang, Wang Can, Yan Sanxing, Jiang Wu, and Liu Qianmo (although other of Liu Chang’s characters imported from their canon into DMBJ would certainly also fit!)

Feel free to post your works on Tumblr or on AO3 (or both!), tagging ‘Liu Chang Characters Fortnight 2023′!

Many thanks to Snowy for the graphic!

PROMPTS

Monday 3rd: Family, Identity, "All unwanted personnel, leave!"

Tuesday 4th: Tattoo, Surprise, "Your smile is quite beautiful."

Wednesday 5th: Cat, Date, "I'm just a dirty worker."

Thursday 6th: Fire, Rain, "He's MY team member."

Friday 7th: Glasses, Personal Grooming, "I refuse to argue with a loser."

Saturday 8th: Chocolate, Spring, "It's worth it to die in your hands."

Sunday 9th: FREE DAY

Monday 10th: Sacrifice, Saviour, "I won't let you get away."

Tuesday 11th: Abduction, Pain Threshold, "If I were you, I wouldn't be with him."

Wednesday 12th: Fox, Respite, "Everyone has to listen to my commands."

Thursday 13th: Feral, Loss of Sense/s, "Beat me and I'll tell you."

Friday 14th: Silence, Defiance, "Black lesson is not yet over."

Saturday 15th: Birthday, Peace, "I'm still not the fastest in Changsha."

Sunday 16th: FREE DAY

#liu chang #liu chang mufasa #liu sang #wang can #yan sanxing #jiang wu #liu qianmo #dmbj #daomu biji #sha hai #tomb of the sea #moonfall echo #reunion the sound of the providence #the lost tomb restart #the lost tomb reboot #ping yao wang shi #echo of moonfall #yueyun huisheng

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justawanderingbabbit · 2 years

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Echo of Moonfall's backstory! From the Chinese Ghost Story game.

#dmbj #dmbj adjacent #liu chang #jiang wu #echo of moonfall #finding his other characters might be harder #Think the fox spirit might be part of the game too #and the one with the butterfly might still be Jiang Wu just a different time period?#he has a butterfly after all and that's Qi Xia's reborn form #so much hmmmmmm #Youtube

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cinemaronin · 2 years

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天注定 A Touch of Sin (2013) directed by Jia Zhangke

video edit by Denis La Funk (Cine Ronin) https://www.youtube.com/c/DenisLaFunk

#天注定 #a touch of sin #jia zhangke #chinese movies #chinese cinema #video edit #zhao tao #jiang wu

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camyfilms · 5 months

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八佰 2020

If we raise this flag, it will be a great provocation for the Japanese army. They will stop at nothing to destroy us. They may even use heavy artillery. If that's the case, forget about two days. Holding out for even a few hours will be a struggle. What do you say?

#八佰 #the eight hundred #2020 #huang zhizhong #zhang junyi #oho ou #du chun #zhang cheng #wang qianyuan #jiang wu #zhang yi #zhang youhao #vision wei #tang yixin #hideo nakaizumi

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cinemacentral666 · 9 months

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A Touch of Sin (2013) & Untitled (2013, from Venice 70: Future Reloaded)

Movies #1,106 & 1,107 • Part of My JIA ZHANGKE Director Focus

Alright party people and JZ-Heads, after a slew of somewhat interesting yet tedious documentary efforts, we return with the Chinese auteur's first proper work of fiction since 2006's fantastic Still Life.

In A Touch of Sin he utilizes a loose anthology approach similar to that movie, but with an even more overt, segmented approach. It's also his most violent picture by a wild margin (really his only violent film to date). It's also extremely good.

It's also of note that this is his only post-The World production that was banned in China, and supposedly not because of the violence. Depicting fictional adaptations of several real news stories (the Foxconn suicides for example), I guess it hit a little too close to home for his country's censors.

Though the character motivations are slight at best, I felt that added to the fragility of the intermingling narratives. We know just one thing for certain: that things are gonna come undone. It's a weird hyper-stylistic turn, not just with the violence but with the acting and action surrounding it. Especially after everything else has been so raw, realistic, and minimalist (those Still Life spaceships notwithstanding). Jia's wife and constant collaborator, Zhao Tao, is really hamming it up with this new flair for blood and guts...

That the final stanza — based loosely on the aforementioned Foxconn tragedies — ends only in self-harm is a poignant stamp. Violence is all around. It seeps from society and plagues the individual: both external and internal. Can an animal commit suicide? Of course it can.

SCORE: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½

People look at screens and weep in the two-minute untitled short from the Venice 70: Future Reloaded project which featured a whopping, you guessed it, 70 miniature movies from notable directors. It ends with a bunch of people looking at a screen in a mall. It's good.

SCORE: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#jia zhangke director #2013 #short #anthology #drama #8 #9.5 #🇨🇳#zhao tao #jiang wu #wang baoqiang #luo lanshan #wang hongwei

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misplacedfangirl83 · 2 months

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just because im not a master Wu hater doesn’t mean i wont call out his bs

#lego ninjago #ninjago #master wu #lego ninjago fanart #kai ninjago #jay ninjago #cole ninjago #ninjago zane #zane julien #cole brookstone #jay walker #kai smith #kai jiang #art #artwork #i don’t hate him but he does stupid stuff sometimes #The silly

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absolutelynotsanebaby · 27 days

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Magical girl au stuff

#lego ninjago #ninjago #ninjago morro #morro ninjago #morro wu #lloyd ninjago #ninjago lloyd #lloyd garmadon #lloyd montgomery garmadon #nya ninjago #ninjago nya #nya smith #nya jiang #pixal ninjago #ninjago pixal #pixal borg #mg.au #baby's art

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alizibtheterrible · 7 months

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they are traumatized and armed with god-level superpowers

I love them so much YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND

(I WILL be airdropping these at school tomorrow unprompted.)

(also might do the Dragons Rising Crew idk we’ll see where the vibe takes us)

(free to use sillies)

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wangmiao · 4 months

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Jiang Wu as Cheng Tianle & Li Naiwen as Maolü in The Door (2017) | 完美有多美

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nyaskitten · 13 days

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"Wu hates Kai" mfs when I show them this image.

#ninjago #raine's rambles #kai ninjago #ninjago kai #kai jiang #wu ninjago #ninjago wu #master wu

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kiaerinnn · 3 months

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We all talking about Zane but PIXAL?? She really just fell on the table and called it a day😂

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justawanderingbabbit · 1 year

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InkTober 30

Wu Xie took one look at Lord High Pecker and he knew...

That rooster was not a rooster but pure Qing Yan Hu Li.

And also Jiang Wu, Liu Sang's father.

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Scene from my Liu Sang is a Qing Yan Hu Li fic, wherein we discover that the rooster that adopted him turns out to be possessed by the spirit of Liu Sang's original father.

It is, as usual, complicated.

(NOTE: Very simple effort tonight because I got caught up playing Time Raiders all afternoon and didn't get to the drawing part of my day until late.)

Head canon will always be that the person Liu Sang becomes in Moonfall is Jiang Wu's kid or brother or somehow related, hence his strong resemblance.

#dmbj #fanart for fanfiction #jiang wu #wu xie (mentioned)#inktober day 30 #inktober

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the-ninjago-historian · 3 months

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Some of the oldest Ninjago art I believe. Wow. This is crazy. This is from when the series was first pitched! It looks so cool!

It's also interesting to see the little changes the designs went through. Everyone look slightly different.👀

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