S.M. Carrière . com
Connect:
  • Home
  • About
  • Titles
    • Daughters Of Britain
    • Dear Father
    • Ethan Cadfael: The Battle Prince
    • Human
    • Skylark
    • The Dying God & Other Stories
    • The Seraphimè Saga >
      • The Summer Bird (v.1)
      • The Winter Wolf (v.2)
    • Your Very Own Adventures >
      • Skara Braens
      • Sky Road Walker
    • WIP Updates
  • Art
  • Other Projects
    • Editing Services
    • Charity Efforts >
      • Gàrradh nan Leannan
      • Have a Heart Campaign
    • Journal
    • Martial Arts
    • Silver Stag Entertainment
    • The Adventures of Grimglum the Nord
    • SMC Awkwardly Plays
  • Shop
    • Books
    • Art Prints
  • Contact

The Untamed Who's Who: Wei Wuxian

16/11/2020

0 Comments

 
Good morning, Readers!
Picture
Listen, when I said I was obsessed with this show in last week's post on Black Gate Magazine, I meant it. I'm really obsessed. I figured, to please myself and literally no one else, I'd do a review series of each episode - one a week. There are fifty episodes, so that will take me through all of 2021, pretty much. So, starting January of next year, I'll be doing a write-up of each of the episodes for my Monday posts. That takes a lot of stress of finding topics off my shoulders, actually.

This will be my second watch of the series. It's available on Netflix, but I'll be doing my second watch through on YouTube (where it is also available), largely because a cursory glance at the comments reveal that they're choc-full of really useful information that helps with my understanding of what's going on.

I figured that not a lot of my readers will share this obsession, so I'm starting off with a few posts about the people you should be paying attention to (or characters that I just love the hell out of), because I can. It's my blog.

*insert pout*

​Why am I pouting? Well, because this first character does an awful lot of it in the show (what a segue, if I do say so myself).
Picture
This smiley young man, played by Xiao Zhan, is one of the two main characters, and the character through which we see most of the narrative. Wei Ying, also called Wei Wuxian and later the Yiling Patriarch, is a plucky, outspoken, trickster character in the beginning, who also happens to be extremely clever. He is that really annoying person in your class who mucks around during class, never does their homework, and still manages to get top marks. You know, that person. His boyishness would be annoying if I were his classmate, I think, but is portrayed in the series as innocent and fun. Besides, his intentions more than make up for it.

​He does so many incredibly selfless things for those he loves, and those he feels are deserving of that sacrifice. He is genuinely the definition of a hero - not someone who simply does good deeds, but the courageous soul who does good deeds when it's really, really, really hard. When doing the good deed earns scorn instead of praise. When it is painful.

Also, the poor dear is petrified by dogs.

I feel his alignment would definitely be chaotic good.

He is an absolute whirlwind of mischief in the beginning, but it is all harmless. And for all his mischief, his heart is bigger than the ocean. When the need to act justly arrises, Wei Wuxian rises to the occasion, doing what is right and just, though the world turns against him for it. And he pays for it. Oh boy, he pays.

Throughout the story, he goes from a carefree youth, loved and admired by almost all, to a troubled outcast loathed by almost all.

His story is tragic, ending in his death.

But don't worry, he comes back again, and his story gets a much-needed positive turn.

I love, love, love Wei Wuxian's tragic story very much, but this cheeky monkey isn't my favourite character. Close, though, particularly because his arc is so... Because things get dark for him, but he stays true to his principles, and I find that very admirable.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    S.M. Carrière, a Celtic Studies enthusiast, writes fiction.  And this blog.

    Archives

    September 2023
    August 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    September 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014

    Categories

    All
    Book Reviews
    Events
    Gaming
    Human
    Life
    Rants
    Reading
    Seraphimè Saga
    Seraphimè Saga
    Skylark
    Television
    Training
    Travels
    Writing
    YouTube

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly