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Having a lot of thoughts about them as a family

Some thoughts:

- Both Shen Jiu and Yue Qingyuan fought for the empire in the last war with the demons during which YQY almost died. Afterwards they were in charge of training new recruits in cultivation. They remained there until Shen Yuan was almost died and afterwards SJ took his family and made them return to a village as far away as they could get.

- YQY almost died because of Xuan Su fuckery. SJ is now terrified of this happening to SY so he refuses to teach him anything to do with spirit swords or allow him to have one.

- SY, with memories here only from waking up post-almost-dying and ones about a novel he read in a previous life (?), actually does super want a spiritual sword if only so that he can maybe go see the creatures he’s been reading about and can’t find near their village. Mostly he wants his baba to maybe lighten up a little bit and trust him to not immediately die (he should not be trusted to not immediately die)

- When the empire calls both YQY and SJ to return to fight, SJ absolutely runs them out of their town.

- SY is hella glad actually because from what he remembers of the book, SJ is supposed to go back to war and like Die. And the YQY goes after him and also dies and listen he’s grown pretty fond of his second set of parents and would like to avoid that actually! Great job, baba!

- and then this fucking cricket shows up

This song just feels so HBO War coded in a way I don’t know how to describe. Like…

“You moved away when you was younger, was it escape or was it hunger?”

“Seventeen years old, how our grins look scary brave.”

“You used to say if not you then who, and you’d go a thousand times or two.”

“Now your names up on a sign in El Dorado driving through.”

“Hell if they know, the difference in a hero, and a man I wish was still by my side.”

YES!!! I LOVE INVISIBLE SNUFKIN STORIES!!

I feel like his characterization from the first book gets thrown to the wayside, where he LOVED nature, but not the people as much, and he was much more emotional what he appeared.

So I always feel like he deserves to become invisible for a bit after things, especially his friends (family) start growing in ways he's not ready to see. They're the only consistent thing in his life, and now they're changing too. And so is he.

How frightening that must be for a little mumrik traveling alone.