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Guardian icon post, with Shen Weis, Zhao Yunlans, and Ye Zuns! Taken from episodes 12, 22, 39, and 40. I experimented with different sorts of cropping for this one; some icons are available in multiple compositions. Including the variants, there are 24 Shen Weis, 20 Ye Zuns, and 8 Zhao Yunlans. Two have been featured before.

Shen Wei

1-5

6-9

10-12

13-16

17-20

21-24

Ye Zun

1-3

4-6

7-9

10-12

13-16

17-20

Zhao Yunlan

1-4

5-8

One thing I'd like to see is meta on icon composition, and how different cropping can produce an entirely different feel to the resultant scene, so, if you want to talk about that, please do! I don't think I have any post starter comments for that discussion, though, beyond the examples in iconization. And thank you for bearing with my formatting editing; have a yoga instructor Ye Zun as compensation.

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extrapenguin

Ha, thank you! It's also very nice to have multiple people iconizing stuff – tinny's icons are all much more edited, frex, while china_shop's icons are contrast-edited screengrabs, as lynndyre's icons seem to be, while I'm 100% on the pure screencap crop composition train. (Well, I did edit the Youku logo out of one of the Ye Zuns, and for one of the Nirvana in Fire icons I edited Jingyan out of the shot because his mom was perfect but he was distracting. :P)

Ahahaha 8 Zhao Yunlans trying to stop 20 Ye Zuns would be too cruel. Though each of the Yunlans would have exactly 3 Shen Weis fussing over him, which would be an ... interesting sight to behold.

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rheasilvia

8 Zhao Yunlans trying to stop 20 Ye Zuns would be too cruel. Though each of the Yunlans would have exactly 3 Shen Weis fussing over him

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I tend to think the Ye Zuns would take each other out, which would leave the Shen Weis to fuss and scold and smile fondly and tuck in to their heart's content... what an interesting mental image that is. :-)

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extrapenguin

Or maybe the Ye Zuns could be convinced to go to therapy? At least one of them? The Zhao Yunlans would be all Zhao Yunlan #8 about it, even if there were a plethora of Shen Weis fussing over them. Unless they started competing about whose turn it was to tuck in the Zhao Yunlan...

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rheasilvia

You know what, I think a large number of Ye Zuns is the best chance of convincing one of them to go to therapy out of sheer contrariness! "Hah! You pale and puny imitations will not go to therapy because you are *too feeble* - BUT I SHALL NOT BE STOPPED!!!!"

The Zhao Yunlans would be all Zhao Yunlan #8 about it, even if there were a plethora of Shen Weis fussing over them. Unless they started competing about whose turn it was to tuck in the Zhao Yunlan...

The Shen Weis would no doubt come up with a sensible schedule enabling them to cook, clean, guard and take care of Zhao Yunlan efficiently... and the question of whose turn it was to be tucking in their Zhao Yunlan would be rigidly regulated. Otherwise, the steely but seemingly polite arguments might get out of hand, and nobody wants that.

And yes, the Zhao Yunlans would be very #8. Poor souls. They might never get a chance to escape and fondle the Hallows again!

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extrapenguin

:D Indeed! Perhaps we could have, hm, 4 Ye Zuns go to therapy while the other 16 take each other out, so we have 4 households that consist of 1 Ye Zun, 2 Zhao Yunlans, and 6 Shen Weis with a very strict schedule of whose turn it is to cook for Zhao Yunlan today. (Oh my got this would be hilarious.)

I expect the Zhao Yunlans would all organize amongst themselves (and the Ye Zuns?) to give one of them a chance to escape to fondle the Hallows so that they might all collapse back into one again! Then there'd be only one Shen Wei to fuss over one Zhao Yunlan and one therapied-up Ye Zun, which would require much less scheduling...

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rheasilvia

Interesting question: If you swallow and digest yourself 16 times, what will happen when you collapse back into one? ;-)

I suspect the Shen Weis might get very snippy and passive-aggressive with each other after a while. There just aren't enough Zhao Yunlans to go around! Under those conditions, even the best and most strictly regulated schedule will struggle...

Heee, yes. Nothing can keep a Zhao Yunlan from touching the Hallows. Not even 24 Shen Weis. ;-) (Solo and I dubbed the man Hallows Boy when we were watching the series for the first time - seriously, the man just cannot keep his mitts off those potentially lethal artifacts!)

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extrapenguin

Interesting question: If you swallow and digest yourself 16 times, what will happen when you collapse back into one? ;-)
:D This is hilarious! Ye Zun acquires all of his own powers 16 times? Perhaps he becomes better at digesting people?

The Shen Weis would definitely get very snippy and passive-aggressive, commenting on anything seen as not obeying the schedule, even if the delay was of seconds. The Zhao Yunlans would definitely want to fix the mess. Darn, now I want this in a fic! Sigh.