please come tl;dr at me about Shen Wei

[extrapenguin]

I need to figure out stuff about Ye Zun, and [spoilers], but also stuff about Shen Wei! Since having other people say things about the thing is in general a productive way for me to acquire thoughts, I now invite your opinions on Shen Wei and secrecy. He's trying to tell Zhao Yunlan the absolute minimum to protect him and also the timeline, yes, but in a divergent scenario where he was unavoidably associated with Zhao Yunlan, how much would he tell? What do you think is the core of the (over)protectiveness and secrecy? What is the root of his nondisclosure?

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[jo_lasalle]

(FWIW, I'm saying things like "I don't see a reason why..." without all the caveats one could possibly make because you put it out there as a discussion question and I'm thinking things through as I type for what I'd find most logical in the abstract. All sorts of scenarios can be made to work in an existing story that has, like, circumstances and tone and whatnot, so don't let me throw you off if you wanted to go elsewhere! Just offering bouncing-off points!)

[extrapenguin]

No problem – I get you! Pretty much anything can be made in character with enough set-up; the difference is zero set-up vs 100k of set-up. This is me trying to figure out what the zero to <1k set-up options would be.