About the 7s visual novel's characters and their symbolism
Taking a break from fanfiction to infodump about my favorite thing ever, which is symbolism in etymology! Sit down because this is going to be a long one... and if you read the whole thing I applaud you and also would love to talk about your thoughts!
Lin Zhaoyu
The origin of her name is actually stated in game itself, coming from the Book of Odes- a Chinese poetry book. Meaning literally, "morning rain," it is taken from the following poem. The letters that make up her name are bolded.
蝃蝀在東、莫之敢指。
女子有行、遠兄弟父母。
朝隮于西、崇朝其雨。
女子有行、遠兄弟父母。
乃如之人也、懷昏姻也。
大無信也、不知命也。
Here is the translation of the poem:
The part about her being untrue to herself in marriage rings very true.
Li Sushang
The symbolism of Sushang's name is connected to that of multiple other characters, despite the literal meaning of it sounding quite simple on the outside. You might see her name via MTL written as "plain clothes," but it's a stark oversimplification of something that's partially lost in translation.
素 (Su) refers to plain silk which has not been dyed, or white silk.
裳 (Shang) is a dress.
The first letter of her name is shared with her mother. Between Sushang, Suyi, Lingshuang, and Su Mei, there is a correlating theme of clothing that I will touch on in each of their sections.
Qin Suyi
As she had amnesia, Suyi does not remember her birth name and was gifted a new one by Fu Hua. Following the trend of how she named Su Mei, her name was also taken from the book of odes. The word Suyi appears in two different poems- again, I've bolded it as written in both.
揚之水、白石鑿鍪。
素衣朱襮、從子于沃。
既見君子、云何不樂。
揚之水、白石皓皓。
素衣朱繡、從子于鵠。
既見君子、云何其憂。
揚之水、白石粼粼。
我聞有命、不敢以告人。
And the translation:
The second poem:
庶見素冠兮、棘人欒欒兮、勞心慱慱
兮。
庶見素衣兮、我心傷悲兮、聊與子同歸兮。
庶見素韡兮、我心蘊結兮、聊與子如一兮。
And the translation:
From the second poem, you can see the references to grief in regard to clothing. While Suyi and Sushang both have the same literal translation of their names, "plain clothes," Suyi's name also carries an additional symbolism. The second letter of her name, 衣 (Yi), refers to a robe instead of a dress, so her name refers to "a robe of colorless silk." This specific term is used in certain contexts to refer to mourning garments, as it is customary to wear white while mourning in some parts of Chinese culture.
This theme of dye is continued in other contexts, where Suyi is known among the Seven Swords as "The Blade of Ink-Dyed Incense." Additionally, her Xuanyuan sword, while known in English as Ebonstyle, is also referred to in Chinese as "Ink-Dyed Incense"- but the word for ink used is different between the two. (It is not letting me copy/paste Chinese words right now so, source: trust me bro)
To delve into my personal thoughts, I think it's so clever that Sushang is "a dress yet to be dyed," while Suyi is a mourning garment, since Sushang still has a long life ahead of her, and Suyi has passed on. Anyways please hit me with a car.
((fun fact: the last letter of Suyi's name, Yi, is shared with Raiden Mei (Yayi), hence why her name comes through MTL as "bud clothes" sometimes 😭😭))
Su Mei
We actually do not know Su Mei's birth name either! She was given a new first name by Fu Hua, and was going to be given Zhaoyu's last name (Lin), but chose to take her mother's surname instead. The reason as to why she chose (or was recommended by Fu Hua) to change her name while still remembering her birth name is unclear.
At Zhaoyu's recommendation, her name also comes from the following poem of the Book of Odes:
It is not letting me highlight the text :,) so the part of the poem that is her name is "margin of the water." Mei specifically refers to where the bank of a river meets the water.
Fun fact: Her surname Su is shared with the MANTIS Su! It is said in legend to also be the surname of Xuanyuan's descendants.
At a time where Filial Piety was of the utmost importance, her changing her surname to take her mother's surname is significant. To change your surname from your father's name could be seen the same as disowning him. At the time, women did not change their names to that of their husband when getting married, hence QIN Suyi vs LI Shen or LIN Zhaoyu vs MA Feima.
While not significant to her name itself, she continues Sushang and Suyi's clothing theme. Her ability revolves around being able to see the threads of fate and predict things that may happen. Hence, it is said about her that anything she says will come true. It's never mentioned in the text, but if you zoom in up close to this art of her, you can actually see her threads surrounding her.
From the threads plus her hair color, it makes me think of the legend of "The Red String of Fate," which is ironic being that she says she does not love anyone.
Cheng Lingshuang
Yes, she does share a surname with Cheng Lixue, but no, they are not related. Lixue was named by Fu Hua, and her surname comes from the philosopher Cheng Yi, and a saying about his disciples waiting for him in the snow, hence Lixue- Snow. Their names are so similarily themed that it's likely not a coincidence on Hua's behalf, but it's more of a homage than them actually being related.
Lingshuang means ice frost. It does not come from the Book of Odes.
To continue the talk on Filial Piety, Lingshuang is the only character to not go by her surname, either in character or on her actual dialogue name tag. She's only referred to as her full name twice, once when she is introduced as a baby, and twice when Senti is beefing with Sushang and low-key throwing shade on her master's name. Lingshuang is a character who ignores societal rules, and Filial Piety is no exception- she has no reason to care about her family or her father, so she disregards her name.
Any instance of her name being translated as "Ling Shuang" is a following mistake on HYV's localization team. (I did personally email them and they fixed it 😭😭😭) It was because the translators did not receive the context that she doesn't use her surname, so they assumed how her name was separated by first and last, as Chinese names don't have spaces between the two. If you spell her name with a space in the middle I will show up at your house at 3am.
The theme of clothes continues from her kid's as she has a loom in her house which she uses to make silk. She says that honing her fingers in such a way is also a way to hone her martial arts.
Ma... Yanqing, Feima
Ma Feima means "the horse is not a horse." He changed his name to this after getting married because he hated his past identity. It comes from "Bai Ma Fei Ma," a Chinese grammatical paradox that does not make sense in English. Don't ask me to explain it because I can't, but it means "the white horse is not a horse."
Ma means horse, and is also the most common surname within the Chinese Muslim community (specifically the Hui people.) It is used often in reference to the prophet Muhammad.
Yan means swallow, continuing Hua's bird theme.
A lot of his names and titles relate to horses. He really likes horses. A lot.
Jiang Wanxi & Wanru
These two get the smallest part because they aren't developed enough for me to GAF (I'm sorry 😭) basically their names come from a poem in the Book of Odes, which is funny since Hua isn't even the one that named them.
I hope if you read this that you enjoyed this session of Fun Facts With Mel and please tell me your thoughts. I also definitely forgot something so I might go back later and add things. Thank you for reading!
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taixuan sect in chapter 27
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HSR!Yanqing x a Lin Zhaoyu!EXP!Reader bc we can agree that OG/HI3D!Yanqing was not a good person and Zhaoyu deserved a better version.
"Lin Zhaoyu is a very serene, soothing and polite person, able to address situations without overreacting or panicking. She is obedient, listening to every order her master (Fu Hua, or in HSR Marshal Hua) asks, but despite this she still questions if those corrupted (Honkai in OG, Mara in HSR) can have mercy. She is also kind, buying gifts for her fellow peers, and helping others even though she has no reason to help them at all." <– Her personality ^^
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A/N: Admittedly, I barely remember that part of the story arc, because it's been a very long time since I've gone through it. So I'm very thankful for your description! And I also thank you for the request!<33
Content: Fluff, established relationship, mentions of battle/fights, sfw
Reader has no set pronouns!
((Not fully proofread))
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Yanqing was always so impressed with everything you did. You handled everything with care and peace, never once losing your composure. He always admired to be more like you, even if you told him that there was no need. You fell in love with him for who he was and didn't want him to change, which just made him appreciate you more.
You always followed your given orders, always followed the rules. You were so different than him and yet also fit him so perfectly. You two completed eachother in the best ways possible, something many people saw and complimented you two on. You kept him in check and out of trouble, whilst he reminded you to take more breaks and have fun every now and then.
He especially respects your skills and morals on the battlefield. He loves how strong, yet honourable you are. You are merciful to even your enemies, a level of inner peace and serenity Yanqing could only ever dream of reaching. And so, he always supported and agreed with your decisions and opinions, even going as far as defending them to your superiors. You were always right to him, how could you not be?
Yanqing is so thankful, whenever you get him a gift and it usually being a rare sword he wanted to have so badly. He'd return the favour by practically spoiling you with his allowance. He doesn't care, if he has no money by the end of it. In his mind, it's worth it, if it's you. You're always so willing to help him out with everything, even with training. He doesn't know what he has done in life to deserve such a kind and peaceful soul like you, but he is definitely never losing you either.
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A/N: I hope this was okay! Thank you again for the request!<33
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I saw the WiP grab thing! Haha, the AE harem certainly looks interesting! I assume its some period drama, au type thing?(assuming hua was rather bitchless in her ae period😅😅)
LMFAO congrats anon you gave me a good chuckle. It's a pseudo-au that was started before I actually started playing Honkai, all when I looked at this stigma and thought: "1) there is nothing straight about that and 2) hua ma'am you are giving me very toppy vibes":
Anyway more here:
“Master…”
Fu Hua turns her bemused attention back to her protege, and catches Zhaoyu briefly worrying at her bottom lip, her two hands still clasped together but just on the verge of fidgeting.
“Master…will you not say something? Anything?”
“And what is it you would like me to say? Or perhaps…what is it you would imagine me doing?” Hua speaks so perfectly even and cool, the only betrayal of the foreign urge to tease that has suddenly overcome her a single, raised eyebrow.
Lin Zhaoyu turns a brighter red than the first blooms of the plum flower upon the snow laden branches of winter. She is pretty, Hua realizes abruptly, all flushed and squirming under the full attention.
She takes a deep breath as if to steady her resolve, and then speaks, and for all that her voice drops in pitch and volume, Zhaoyu does not stutter—and she does not look away.
“I imagine the privilege of disrobing you, Phoenix. Of undoing the ornaments that hold your hair up, and parting the silk that hides your skin. I imagine your knuckles against my lips, where I can taste the shape of your calluses and the salt of endless toil. And I imagine kneeling before you as I try to grant you a reprieve, even if but for an evening, from that ceaseless work which you pursue…like petals falling from flowers and gifted to the wind.”
The wholly intimate implications are hardly lost on Hua, and now it is her turn to blush. A heat suffuses through her, part embarrassment—when did this all start, and how was she so unaware of it until now?—and part something else. Something that uncoils within her gut like a serpent that has spent its whole life sleeping until now.
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me to Kiana on this new chapter: Can you Naruto run a little faster, babe?
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DESTROY THE CORRUPT, THE RULE THAT SHE WAS TAUGHT AND FOLLOWED EVER SINCE BECOMING A DISCIPLE OF THE PHOENIX. but she was still hesitant, she still gave people mercy. she knew very well that would result in her death ... she knew she had to do better. but it was hard. lin fought back the urge to sigh, gaze down as she watched herself go through the steps to make onigiri. her master hadn’t eaten so the student wanted to try her hand at meal prep.
not that she was any good at it, however, seeing as how disfigured the onigiri was. ❝ hmm. ❞ ( @pearlofshenzhou )
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Let's play game of guess
But before that if some of you haven't read the novel
Read Here
• After Fu Hua was killed by her disciples, who was the one helped her body escaped to the stone chamber?
Lin Zhaoyu
Su Mei
The twins
Cheng LingShuang
Suyi
Ma Feima
Kallen
I'll post the prologue of Chapter 3 later 👻
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this is sushuang to me
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@uwasari liked for a Genshin starter ages ago that I only got to just now and I am extremely sumanai
“.....Zhaoyu, there is no need to linger in the doorway so. I can sense the uneasiness in your qi.”
Fu Hua’s voice is soft as she remains in bed for yet another day, her injuries continuing to ache. Still, she at least knows that her recovery is undoubtedly in progress, as slow as it may be. It only emphasized the true gravity of the injuries she had suffered at the hands of her students. Eyes closed, a soft sigh leaving the adeptus’s lips--Her azure eyes open half-liddedly, before she manages to use what little energy still within her to turn her head to face Lin Zhaoyu.
“Is there something you need ask of me?”
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If requests are still open, may I please request a continuation of the Lin !Zhaoyu!Reader meeting Jing Yuan, whog their dynamic and height differences (rip Yanqinq)?
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Hey there!
So I stared at this request for an eternity and tried to think about what to do with it and yeah... I just don't think I want to write a continuation at the moment for it, because there wouldn't be much to write about.
I hope you understand and thank you for the request anyways!<33
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i will say this. i love lin zhaoyu so much, ever since i first saw her in the manga. and knowing me, i will want to write her so expect to see her on my multi.
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Whumpmas in July Day 18: quiet (prompt)
For @whumpmasinjuly day 18, a short bit of my new project.
CW: bloody nose, implied torture and mass murder
“Why…Why does that man hate you so much?” Lin Zhaoyu winces as the words crawl out of a throat burning and raw from screaming. There is blood dripping from his noise, spreading across his lips and down his chin, but he is still smiling that awful, foolish smile of his that Liao Xuerong would have found infuriating on any other person.
Lin Zhaoyu infuriates him for other reasons, like insisting on getting captured alongside him, but Liao Xuerong doesn’t have it in him to hate that smile. He closes his eyes so he doesn’t have to see it.
“You’ve heard of the Battle of Taicheng?” Liao Xuerong begins, already tasting the acrid combination of blood, sweat, and iron on his tongue. Lin Zhaoyu does not need to respond; even small village children have heard of the Yan State’s depressing victory at Taicheng Pass. Liao Xuerong is all too aware of the scars pulling at his skin as he continues, “General Han didn’t plan on sacrificing the standing army at Taicheng. He abhorred the idea and was vocal about it, even if that meant he would be demoted right after the battle.”
“They say that General Han was killed in battle early on,” Lin Zhaoyu says slowly, his bright eyes dimming as he pieces the evidence together. “General Han Wenqi, that was this Han Jiang’s father?”
“Yeah,” Liao Xuerong sighs, despite how the movement pulls at the bruises wrapped around his ribcage. “His Vice Commander was told to incapacitate him if he refused to carry out the plan. That Vice Commander was my father, Liao Pengjie.”
“Oh,” Lin Zhaoyu says simply, perhaps lacking the energy to say anything further. Liao Xuerong keeps his eyes shut, as if being unable to see the young man across from him means he no longer exists.
Liao Xuerong had grown used to the quiet the first time he was imprisoned here. It devoured every thread of sanity he had in him, at first, until he welcomed Han Jiang’s torture sessions because pain meant something more than the silence that reminded him too much of the mountains of the dead at Taicheng Pass.
It’s quiet and still now, but it’s not silent. Lin Zhaoyu, even if he says nothing, is constantly shifting in discomfort. He refuses to groan in pain, but Liao Xuerong saw his expression was pinched and sweat glistened on his brow from the effort of suppressing his reactions. After a while, Lin Zhaoyu finds enough energy to lift his head again and laugh quietly into the cold, still air.
“How immature. He should be happy, shouldn’t he? His father didn’t have Yan’s best interests at heart, but he is still hailed a hero.”
Liao Xuerong frowns. He’s not wrong, but Liao Xuerong has never thought of it that way.
Lin Zhaoyu sighs, his breath catching in his throat, and says, “But who am I to talk? In the jianghu*, no one would think twice of seeking revenge on the behalf of your family. In fact, who can respect you if you aren’t willing to avenge your own blood?**”
“You shouldn’t have come here,” Liao Xuerong says, changing the subject to one that has bothered him from the second Lin Zhaoyu chose to accompany him. “You have no obligations to follow me to the ends of the earth.”
“Of course not. If I did, I would definitely never have come,” Lin Zhaoyu laughs sharply. “I chose to come here of my own free will, you don’t have any right to stop me.”
He has always thought that somewhat timid, but chatty boy he met four years ago is certainly a strange one. Right now, Liao Xuerong is equal parts grateful and filled with dread.
For better or for worse, he doesn’t have to endure the silence alone.
*I’ve translated this annoying term as the martial arts/pugilistic society, but it doesn’t fit in the dialogue. :p 江湖 means mountains and rivers, it refers to the outskirts of mainstream society and can apply to more than just martial arts.
**One of the most important Confucian virtues was filial piety, so loyalty to one’s “own” was expected and socially enforced (see: Zhao Wuyi and boxie whose entire families were executed due to the crime of a single person in the family).
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Engagée au Kunlun Fight 74, Aurélie Froment s’est inclinée face à la chinoise Wang Kehan dans ce qui constituait un des main-event de la soirée. Pour sa grande première à l’internationale, l’agathoise s’est dite satisfaite de son combat même s’il n’y a pas la victoire au bout.
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A chacun sa victoire
Aurélie sait d’où elle vient. En quelques mois, elle pris le titre de championne de France, celui de championne d’Europe ISKA , elle a pu se tester à l’étranger dans une grande grande organisation. Elle sait la marge de travail qui lui reste à effectuer pour prétendre au graal, à savoir le titre de championne du Monde. Après de nombreuses péripéties imposées par la vie, la française fait parler d’elle et c’est une juste récompense au regard du travail fourni à la salle avec Aurélien Cramail et Christophe Rodrigues qui l’accompagnait lors de ce périple en Chine.
Résultats
61.5kg Championnat du Monde . Reserve Fight: Jiang Feng bat Zhang JinHu aux points
61.5kg Championnat du Monde . 1/4 Final A : Lin Qiangbang bat Taiga aux points
61.5kg Championnat du Monde . 1/4 Final B : Zhao Chongyang bat Somai aux points
61.5kg Championnat du Monde . 1/4 Final C : Daniel puertas Gallardo bat Jiao Daobo aux points
61.5kg Championnat du Monde . 1/4 Final D : Wang Wenfeng bat Cristian Spectu aux points
80kg Super Fight : Jente Nnamadim bat Bo Fufan par TKO2
76kg Super Fight : Zheng Zhaoyu bat Fernando Nonato par TKO2
75kg Super Fight : Li Zhuangzhuang bat Albert Kraus aux points
85kg Super Fight : Artur Kyshenko bat Timur Aylyarov par TKO3
100+kg Super Fight : Asihati bat Artur Gorlov aux points
61.5kg Championnat du Monde . Demi Finale A : Lin Qiangbang bat Jiang Feng par KO1
61.5kg Championnat du Monde . Demi Finale B : Wang Wenfeng bat Daniel Gallardo aux points
76kg Super Fight : Huang Kai bat Danil Vinnik par KO1
63kg Super Fight : Wang Kehan bat Aurélie Froment aux points
61.5kg Championnat du Monde . Finale : Wang Wenfeng bat Lin Qiangbang aux points
Kunlun Fight 74 : ça ne passe pas pour Froment Engagée au Kunlun Fight 74, Aurélie Froment s'est inclinée face à la chinoise Wang Kehan dans ce qui constituait un des main-event de la soirée.
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why is it that anytime mihoyo introduces a new girl in HI3, I fall in love so fast?
oh right I’m gay
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