DistantDream

Then how would you approach writing a character who knows they aren’t real?

Her actions in episode 20 already suggest she understands that the memories between her and WWY aren’t truly hers.

So how does a character like that develop?

Because normally, development comes from an anchor in your past, your experiences, your relationships. But if all of it is fabricated, then what is left to build on?

She is desperately trying to hold on to what present, what she is currently experiencing.

We don’t actually know if LWY herself knows she was created. Most of what we understand about her past comes from those flashbacks with WWY. But now it’s starting to look like those memories weren’t even truly hers, or at least not between her and WWY.

So then the question becomes:

What actually defines a character? Is it their memory?

Because if memory is what defines you, then LWY’s entire identity is built on something that might not even be real.

But at the same time… even if those memories were given to her, she still felt them. The emotions, the choices, the attachments—they’re real to her, regardless of where they came from.

So maybe a person isn’t defined by whether their memories are real or not.

Maybe they’re defined by what they do with those memories.

And that runs parallel with LJ and LS. When puppet LJ as LS if he was real

I wouldn't say so much comparatively to let say WSG or JL.

I'm more curious about if they really feel she an empty character. To me that is by design, if you remember when I broke down what JWY name mean

Totally, the other 2 back stories are revealed, i.e., JL and WSG, Han Ba arc most likely will go into WWY back story, and a LWY as well.

But do you also feel that her character is empty?

Yeah sure, I get it. But I see people say that she empty. But to me that wasn't by accident. The character was design to be empty.

That an interesting take, but the fact her character is empty was done on purpose.

Sure that could be an approach. But this could run into trouble as dual personality is a result of JY fragments that mean WWY and even WSG could have dual personality

Since you gonna answer my question, with a question.

I response with another question. What character development to you ?

Curious about people's feelings about the LWY character not having development.

I just want to know what you would do with the character, given the story so far.

It can be confusing ! as the story does become complex, but it does answer most of it as you continue

I do ! 😭some time I type fast and dont think about the spelling

Look like no news about this... But these two would be amazing both are super talented

Time loop theory

Look at my theory of the time loop

I agree! It will fit the time loop really well and will most likely be like this

Timeline 1 (original)
LWY dies
JL survives
JL becomes Li Shi
Ji Shi regrets everything → goes back in time

Ji Shi interferes
He saves LWY

👉 BUT the cost:

JL now dies instead

Ji Shi now offer LWY to go back in time to save JL * we are probably gonna be here

Thanks to the character map, we learn that the white-robed person in the trailer who looks like Ji Ling is named Ji Shi. Of course, with all the names in the show being crafted to reveal more about each character, Ji Shi also has meaning behind it.

In episode 19, LWY explains what Ji Ling means by Ji (寄) as in fleeting life and Ling (灵 ) as in a kindred understanding

Ji (寄) as in fleeting life, but the character for Shi (食) revealed something dark about the character.

Shi (食) as in to eat, consume, rely on for sustenance

together you get a character name Ji (寄) as in fleeting life, Shi (食) as in to eat, consume, rely on for sustenance

so Ji Shi can roughly mean A fleeting life that survives by consuming.

But in the context of the show. Since obsession is a huge theme of the show. This could literally be what Ji Ling becomes when he is consumed by obsession; his name is now Ji Shi (寄食)

About Ji Shi from the character maps, and possible spoiler from the implication of his name

One thing that might be interesting to everyone, Hanba is an actual Drought Demon in the Chinese "Classic of Mountains and Seas" collection of myths.

But Hanba was always depicted as female.

personally I don't think we in the time loop yet.

But as most thing up to this point have been clarify, trust GJM will continue to clarify them !

O it gonna be heartbreak central til maybe the theorized happy ending