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tintin-caps · 11 months

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The Adventures of Tintin - "The Blue Lotus" (1991)

#tintin #the adventures of tintin #snowy #chang chong-chen #wang chen-yee #didi chen-yee

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professorcalculusstanaccount · 9 days

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How would you describe Chang's relationship with his adoptive parents in your wonderful au?

Chang is adopted pretty quickly, so it's likely they didn't get much time to get to know each other as well as most adopted families nowadays. My thoughts on Chang and his adopted family are below!

Chang's heroism in The Blue Lotus was impressive, which leads to lofty expectations Chang himself feels incapable of meeting. He struggles to adapt to life in Shanghai, the Wangs' upper middle class culture and has problems at school, having missed out on a few years of education and a lot of unresolved trauma.

He's frustrated at his own inability to fit in, and guilty about flubbing this opportunity at life they gave him. Part of him feels like he's tearing their family apart. The Wangs are desperately trying to give Chang a good life, but feel completely out of their depth.

He also can't help but compare himself to Didi, his much older adopted brother and their biological son, who is scarily competent and a clear favourite of their mother.

Didi is aware that his father may have expectations for Chang to join the Sons of the Dragon. Having experienced the pressure and danger first-hand he takes it upon himself to foster a sense of agency in Chang so he will be capable of choosing for himself when the time comes. Didi trains Chang in martial arts and is tough on him in general, but encourages Chang to travel when he expresses an interest in it. Chang on the other hand encourages Didi to have fun and let loose!

Mr Wang has high expectations for Chang because he believes in him. He and Mrs Wang genuinely care for him and only want the best possible life for him, but this sometimes comes across as them expecting Chang to be somebody else. They first thought Chang was much like Didi, disciplined and quiet, but Chang's rebellious streak catches them off guard. Mrs Wang is particularly shaken.

It struck me how gentle the Wangs were with Didi while he was under the influence of madness poison, and as they are good friends with a mental health specialist, they would absolutely take Chang's mental health seriously. Whether or not they fully understand each other is another thing. As Chang slips into a deep depression they decide to send him off to London to meet his uncle, hoping a change in scenery will help him. On his way through Tibet however, his plane crashes into the mountains...

#tintin #adventures of tintin #asks #comic #fanart #chang #wang chen yee #honestly i think a spinoff comic about the exploits of the sons of the dragon would be super cool #i would love to see didi in action #before the madness poison he was a very effective agent lol #genuinely feel didi is one of two characters in the tintin universe that could beat tintin in a fight #the other being professor calculus

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aboardthescheherazade · 2 years

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Le Journal de Shanghai, a pastiche designed to look like a newspaper from right around the end of The Blue Lotus. It looks to be from between the 1990s/early 2000s. This copy is hand-marked as number 33 out of 50 copies.

#tintin #wang chen yee #chang #wang didi #thompson twins #rastapopoulos #racism cw #mitsuhirato #scans

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tintin-caps · 1 year

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