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30 Days of Guardian
1 Oct 2019 21:1724. The one thing you most wish they'd expanded on because it was a cool idea and needed more details
The fact that Shen Wei slept for 10k years, buried beneath the earth! He's a time traveler into the future! I wanted everything about his early days in modernity and how he adapted. In 10k years the culture must've changed a lot, both topside and in Dixing, so we have Shen Wei with his half-remembered harvest festivals and counting time by full moons stuck either in Dixing with the ... Algae Festival or whatever and zero stars or Moon, or in Haixing another fully unfamiliar set of everythings. They cheated a bit and had everyone speak modern Mandarin and write with modern hanzi, but the cultural setting – from material culture to hairstyles – has changed dramatically.
Shen Wei's adapted admirably well to it, but I want the investigation of the little things that he hasn't had the time or opportunity to perfect and thus screws up with in odd yet consistent ways. I want Shen Wei nostalgic for something from his youth, even if he knows that the modern era is a much better place to live. I want something that acknowledges Shen Wei as alien to both Haixing and Dixing, a relic of yore with no place to go and find home save those he carves out himself. And I want him to find that he has friends who're okay with him being a time-traveling alien who had to learn all of modernity as an adult. I want to give him a little corner of the universe where he doesn't have to pretend.
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The fact that Shen Wei slept for 10k years, buried beneath the earth! He's a time traveler into the future! I wanted everything about his early days in modernity and how he adapted. In 10k years the culture must've changed a lot, both topside and in Dixing, so we have Shen Wei with his half-remembered harvest festivals and counting time by full moons stuck either in Dixing with the ... Algae Festival or whatever and zero stars or Moon, or in Haixing another fully unfamiliar set of everythings. They cheated a bit and had everyone speak modern Mandarin and write with modern hanzi, but the cultural setting – from material culture to hairstyles – has changed dramatically.
Shen Wei's adapted admirably well to it, but I want the investigation of the little things that he hasn't had the time or opportunity to perfect and thus screws up with in odd yet consistent ways. I want Shen Wei nostalgic for something from his youth, even if he knows that the modern era is a much better place to live. I want something that acknowledges Shen Wei as alien to both Haixing and Dixing, a relic of yore with no place to go and find home save those he carves out himself. And I want him to find that he has friends who're okay with him being a time-traveling alien who had to learn all of modernity as an adult. I want to give him a little corner of the universe where he doesn't have to pretend.
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