veliseraptor:oh boy will you look at that it’s Xue Yang Feelings Hour™ again (I didn’t choose this l
veliseraptor:oh boy will you look at that it’s Xue Yang Feelings Hour™ again (I didn’t choose this life, it chose me)I just have a lot of feelings about this succession of expressions. Like…those first two caps are just. He’s tired. He’s completely fucking defeated. Not only is it pretty rare that he’s not smiling at least a little, even when he hasn’t been (during the argument with Xiao Xingchen, when it becomes clear his resurrection attempts aren’t working), for the most part it’s a storm of feeling - despair or anger or desperation. But those first two shots aren’t that. I wrote a while ago in tags on a post that Xue Yang’s been running on fumes and desperation and at this point he’s all out of both - and it’s not, I don’t think, just a matter of the physical beating he’s taken at this point (though that’s definitely part of it). I think it’s the final recognition that his entire purpose for the last seven (? timeline what?) years is…gone. Shuanghua is gone, the Spirit Trapping Pouch with what remains of Xiao Xingchen’s spiritual consciousness is gone, no less an authority than Yiling Laozu has said that it’s impossible, he’s never coming back. It’s over. There’s nothing left.He’s just done.But then it’s back. He starts laughing, and I have to think there’s some relevance to the fact that he starts doing so when Song Lan gets close. When he has, in other words, an audience. Because he might be dying, he might be finished, but he’s not going to give anyone, and especially not Song Lan, the satisfaction of seeing it.BONUS:Also noticed while screencapping that he never actually looks at Song Lan during this bit, as far as I can tell. When he does turn toward him, it seems like he’s just looking at Fuxue.I could do something with this (weapon something something instrument of death something) but I’m going to quit while I’m not too far behind and also go somewhere else to cry for a bit. -- source link
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