the aliens would have the opportunity to lose the knowhow to build/run interstellar spaceships
This is a very good point! Alternately, perhaps they weren't the ones who *built* the spaceship. Perhaps they never knew more than the basics of how to maintain it for long enough to reach their destination (if they even had one and weren't just flying away from something, rather than to something).
Yes, I also thought of Dixing possibly having resemblance to the spaceship! I look forward to reading your story. :-)
A reincarnation is not the original, so a lot of the reasons people cite for liking reincarnation stuff – "second chances" etc – seem to me like they don't apply, as it's at best getting a replacement goldfish of a character.
Oh, I agree - that's not what interests me about reincarnation. There are a lot of other possible plots that work better for me; I never liked the "second chance" thing much either, because it's not the same person without their original memories (although things are complicated with the drama's ending, argh).
This, though? A time-twisty double twist with ZYL replacing himself? I love that thought. (And seriously, why does Ye Zun know that it's useless to try to change the past because time will right itself? It's like he TRIED, and failed. *g*) And I love the idea of Zhao Yunlan someday grabbing up Shen Wei's weapon in the heat of the fight and using it with instinctive expertise, and being at a loss to explain how he knew how to fight with a sword - and perhaps always having had nightmares he put down to an overly active imagination. And then more and more strangeness coming out... just that kind of creepy thing. :-)
Remembering flashes of a life the character never lived, along with the resulting identity issues, could be a very nice element in a story, I think.
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This is a very good point! Alternately, perhaps they weren't the ones who *built* the spaceship. Perhaps they never knew more than the basics of how to maintain it for long enough to reach their destination (if they even had one and weren't just flying away from something, rather than to something).
Yes, I also thought of Dixing possibly having resemblance to the spaceship! I look forward to reading your story. :-)
A reincarnation is not the original, so a lot of the reasons people cite for liking reincarnation stuff – "second chances" etc – seem to me like they don't apply, as it's at best getting a replacement goldfish of a character.
Oh, I agree - that's not what interests me about reincarnation. There are a lot of other possible plots that work better for me; I never liked the "second chance" thing much either, because it's not the same person without their original memories (although things are complicated with the drama's ending, argh).
This, though? A time-twisty double twist with ZYL replacing himself? I love that thought. (And seriously, why does Ye Zun know that it's useless to try to change the past because time will right itself? It's like he TRIED, and failed. *g*) And I love the idea of Zhao Yunlan someday grabbing up Shen Wei's weapon in the heat of the fight and using it with instinctive expertise, and being at a loss to explain how he knew how to fight with a sword - and perhaps always having had nightmares he put down to an overly active imagination. And then more and more strangeness coming out... just that kind of creepy thing. :-)
Remembering flashes of a life the character never lived, along with the resulting identity issues, could be a very nice element in a story, I think.