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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[extrapenguin]

Coming here late without Starbucks (like the Envoy himself!) to co-sign this and also confirm that yes, this is Shen Wei's first date.

To me at least it seemed pretty clear that on the scale of "most shy still plausible Shen Wei" and "most smooth still plausible Shen Wei", ExtraPenguin's story holds the ledger distinctly in the direction of the former, seeing how he reacted in his first meeting with Zhao Yunlan,
Well, I was trying to base it on their meeting in episode one (while not having canon available to review), in which he does get a bit flustered and is not at all smooth. Do I interpret the point of "most smooth still plausible Shen Wei" not as far towards smoothness as other people? He is, after all, plenty awkward and flustered in the early episodes, and while he is elsewhere competent socially, I would not call him smooth (but that's probably just fucking the comma).

[jo_lasalle]

Uh, in trying to answer your question, I was being me and the answer got long and kind of specific. I would take sth that references specifics of a WIP to email now - do you want to shoot me an addy through DM or do you want a hopefully shorter version here?

[extrapenguin]

Given that the specifics in question have already been published on the internet/on this very journal, I'd say that the cat of that matter has left the bag and had some kittens. But if you're more comfortable discussing out of sight, I'm emailable at extrapenguin at gmx dot com! I do enjoy long and in-depth thoughts on words I've written, in any format. :P