JonetsuDN · 11d
Yes, so Wei is supposed to be Satan. Which I kind of hinted at by giving "Father Chi" schizophrenia grandeur. 😂 I wanted to tag it.. but then it would spoil it, but I might have to tag it.
Chi is Wei's soulmate. His Lilith basically. The cicadas answered to him as well. Male cicadas calling for their mates are the ones who sing, so they both are responsible for the cicadas.
Chi had accidentally reincarnated, forcing Wei to go without him for years, and when Wei realized Chi was going to be born as a human, he tracked down his lineage and stayed exactly where Chi would show up. If I ever decide to extend this I'd definitely dip into their background and how it became that way.. the struggle of Wei's slow aging, and when they return to their true forms.
And yes, I slept for 9+ hours which was a gift and a curse. My body aches when I sleep that long.. but I needed it. I had only 12 hours of sleep over 4 days. 😂
Okay, this answered everything and then some. CC's delusion of being God makes so much more sense now - he's Satan's counterpart, so the grandeur is a twisted echo of what he actually is. The human mind couldn't hold it, so it broke into religious mania. One of the reasons religion exists - to give answers to what we can't comprehend yet.
I didn't know about cicadas' mating calls..both of them are responsible for the song. It wasn't just Wei's presence driving the priests insane, it was a mating call that CC's human brain couldn't process.
Wei's slow aging is waiting. He slowed it so he could stay in the human world long enough to wait for CC's incarnation to appear. If he aged at normal human speed, he'd die before finding him. Otherwise, I don't think slow aging was just for reducing human suspicion - he's doing a lot of paperwork, memory editing, identity management, whatnot. Memory editing is enough for mere humans.
Yeah, tagging does reveal a lot of things - almost the entire plot. But tagging everything feels like spoon feeding readers..though nowadays people do want to be spoon fed. I was very frustrated when the audience was constantly nagging about how they can't tell the difference between real life scenes and acting scenes in "Deep in." God knows what will happen if they watched Dark.
12 hrs over 4 days - I should say a minimum of 6 hrs of sleep a day is healthy. But I'm in no place to say that when I myself have a horrible sleep schedule. The longest was 3 days without sleep, or maybe just 1 or 2 hrs in between, that was yrs ago. Situations demanded it - tf, who made that exam schedule.
And yeah, please do.. if you ever plan to make a prequel or sequel, please do.. ⭐🙏
