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powerisyours) wrote2013-03-09 02:12 am
powerisyours) wrote2013-03-09 02:12 am
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not actually an essay
But a sort of "oh yeah he got canon updated in December and this is what happened and reasons why your friendly neighborhood Jiu Wu has been relatively standoffish and completely unwilling to talk about his problems the past few months" also I wrote the majority of this in like November oops.
Also basically a summary for the end of X-Family and a large chunk of K.O.3an Guo with some camp stuff thrown in as a bonus.
Jiu Wu was originally taken from about five minutes into the last episode of The X-Family--a few hours, give or take, after the death of his master; the person who trained him, and who was essentially the only person he ever saw for the five or so years leading up to the events of the series. Following this, he agreed with Xia Tian and Lan Ling Wang to fight the Fire Ambassador--a fight they knew they wouldn't be able to win, but they couldn't sit back and do nothing, either. As the Zhong Ji Tie Ke Ren/Ultimate Iron Man, Xia Tian casts a powerful freeze spell on both Jiu Wu and Lan Ling Wang, saying that he'll fight, so they don't have to die. Xia Tian fights alone for a while, until Jiu Wu and Lan Ling Wang are able to break his spell on them and join him. Shortly afterward Han, Xia Yu, Xiu, aChord, and the members of Dong Cheng Wei (the front line unit of the Iron Imperial Army) show up to join in the fight. Each of the five Original Power-Users (Jiu Wu, Xiu, Han, Lan Ling Wang, and Xia Yu) release their elemental power. But the combined power of the Iron Man, the Original Power-Users, and Dong Cheng Wei is not enough to overcome the power of the Fire Ambassador. He easily defeats them but recognizes their will and desire to protect their dimension, and agrees to leave the Iron Dimension alone (at great personal risk) to see if they manage to fix the dimension's problems on their own.
After the fight with the Fire Ambassador, Xia Tian was able to play the Iron Man's weapon (a badass guitar) and unlock the Dimensional Door, once again permitting travel between the dimensions. Xia Tian's mother returns from the space between dimensions, and Jiu Wu, Xia Tian, and Lan Ling Wang travel to the Gold Dimension in order to transfer some of their power to their alternates (Ding Xiao Yu, Wang Da Dong, and Wang Ya Se) who had lost their own power in their dimension's fight against evil. After their power had been restored and the dimensions were back on the right track, Jiu Wu forbade all unnecessary inter-dimensional travel.
Though he only physically appears in a flashback while shapeshifted into Han's form, he is a background player in the following series, K.O.3an Guo/Zhong Ji San Guo/Ultimate Three Kingdoms, and frequently speaks telepathically to the other characters.
Xiu, despite knowing how much trouble he'll be in if Jiu Wu finds out, allows Da Dong, Xiao Yu, and Ya Se to bully him into taking them to the Silver Dimension on vacation. Da Dong accidentally drops a coin, which rolls down a hill and eventually causes a boulder to fall onto a group of young men in the midst of a brotherhood pact - Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Liu Bei. The boulder knocks out Guan Yu and crushes Liu Bei, leaving him severely injured. As Liu Bei is Xiu's Silver Dimension alternate, it's decided that Da Dong and co. take Liu Bei back to the Gold Dimension with them, and Xiu will stay behind in his place. This incident starts the ball rolling for the Silver Dimension's shift in balance. For a while, Xiu tries to do everything he can to prevent himself from disrupting the balance of the dimension, but gets too involved when he realizes that the Silver Dimension's story is eerily similar to that of the stories in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. After getting Dong Cheng Wei to bring him a copy for "reference", he ends up messing things up anyway, instead of letting the dimension take its natural course. It is at this point that the members of Dong Cheng Wei point out that Jiu Wu is getting irritated with Xiu, but is letting him stay until the real Liu Bei is healthy again.
When both the Iron Dimension and the Silver Dimension begin to lose their balance, Jiu Wu goes to the Silver Dimension to investigate. At this point he comes across Xiu and Wu Hu Jiang/The Five Tiger Generals (Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and Ma Chao) trapped by a group of powerful demons, and using telepathy, gives Xiu instructions on how to defeat them. After more investigation, he returns to the Iron Dimension, but sends Xia Liu (Xia Tian's grandfather) to the Silver Dimension to assist Xiu in fighting the ever-growing number of demons and demonic power-users. It's around this point where he becomes angry with Xiu for betraying his trust and pulling the Silver Dimension further and further off-track with his actions, his unwillingness to listen to the members of Dong Cheng Wei, and his love for Silver Dimension resident Sun Shang Xiang (who is meant to be with the real Liu Bei).
When the real Liu Bei is healed and has been returned to the Silver Dimension, Jiu Wu orders Xiu to return to the Iron Dimension, allowing him twelve hours to say his goodbyes. Liu Bei then once again gets attacked and near-fatally injured, Jiu Wu instructs the members of Dong Cheng Wei to bring him to the Iron Dimension to heal, and orders Xiu to stay behind in his place. He becomes increasingly angry with Xiu as the show progresses, and eventually he takes Xiu to another dimension whose balance had been completely destroyed, to show him what would happen if he continued to insist on being together with Sun Shang Xiang. Shortly after, he begins suspecting that the Sun family has ties to the Iron Dimension, least of not being the fact Sun Shang Xiang is able to use the Iron Dimension's Yi Neng spells (Silver Dimension residents are unaware of their Yi Neng, and those who possess it are merely considered to be strong fighters, much like those of the Gold Dimension).
At this point, he's had enough of Xiu's running amok, and he returns to the Silver Dimension in Han's form to personally bring Xiu back to the Iron Dimension. "Xiu, you're coming back with me." "But Meng Zhu, what about Ah Xiang and my brothers, I can't just leave without--" "As I recall, you're called Xiu, not Liu Bei. You're coming back with me." With that, he hopes to prevent the horror that would have befallen the Silver Dimension that Xiu's being there would have caused.
The truth about the Sun Family comes to light, and Jiu Wu allows Xiu to return to the Silver Dimension with orders to do what he can to save it. When Xiu, Wu Hu Jiang, and others get trapped in what is essentially hell, he orders Xia Tian as the Ultimate Iron Man to help him try to break it open. When they manage to do so, Jiu Wu puts everyone back into their proper dimensions and forbids travel between dimensions without permission. That problem solved and both the Silver and Iron dimensions healing again, Jiu Wu goes back to doing his normal everyday "my dimension is in order" Meng Zhu responsibilities.
Through this he's grown; become more battle-worn and less likely to put up with what he thinks is bullshit or people being assholes for the sake of being assholes; he's more likely to fight back and give what he gets. He's still quite friendly, but isn't nearly as easily trusting as he was. There won't be too much difference to his current CR; at most he'll seem a little more grown up/experienced and put together than he previously was, though he's still prone to making bullheaded decisions that will probably get him killed if he thinks it necessary. Doing his job correctly and acting as one in his position should is his main priority, and he's not as likely to let himself get pulled away from that just because he's in camp and he should be doing camp things while he can--he doesn't trust himself not to get too comfortable with that sort of thing and take it for granted, when he knows full well he could go home at any unknown point in time.
Buuuut his emosplooge doesn't really end with that. In the past few months several people he was close to--some of the first people he could legitimately think of "friends" and truly cared about, including Xia Tian--went home, leading him to seriously consider whether or not he should really be getting close to people, and he started backing away from doing much of anything but exchanging pleasantries and friendly greetings. Add on that his first and best friend Takeru had his own stuff going on and they barely spoke at all for nearly two months (to the point of outright avoiding each other until camp forced them to get their feels out) and he was basically in "nope" land. Rather than try to cope with the pain of potentially losing his best friend (thus driving the point home that pretty much everyone important to him dies or goes away), he essentially went into shutdown bossman mode and just continued to distance himself further; if he's not close to anyone, he won't get emotional or show weakness and he'll be able to continue on as he always has--by being alone, taking care of everything on his own and dishing out orders to his army of meatshields.
So there was that, and then the additional bonus of Huang Zhong and Ma Chao coming to camp, which serves as another reminder of Xiu's betrayal, as well as having the knowledge that their Big Brother Guan Yu is the Silver Dimension's alternate of his own master--it's a mix of sadness and jealousy that they have someone to go home to, whereas he'll never see his master again. He doesn't like that he feels that way about it and he tries to shove it down, but it's the sort of thing that always hangs out in the back of his mind. It's a giant pile of "so the one guy that I was supposed to be able trust with everything betrayed the shit out of me and now I'm sad because I can't trust anyone anymore"
He is starting to get better about it; clearing the air with Takeru helped, and he's working on pulling himself out of his shell again, but it'll be a long, hard road and he'll have plenty of bumps along the way.
TL;DR he is a mess of feels and leaderguy issues and this whole thing makes no sense.
ETA:
Also basically a summary for the end of X-Family and a large chunk of K.O.3an Guo with some camp stuff thrown in as a bonus.
Jiu Wu was originally taken from about five minutes into the last episode of The X-Family--a few hours, give or take, after the death of his master; the person who trained him, and who was essentially the only person he ever saw for the five or so years leading up to the events of the series. Following this, he agreed with Xia Tian and Lan Ling Wang to fight the Fire Ambassador--a fight they knew they wouldn't be able to win, but they couldn't sit back and do nothing, either. As the Zhong Ji Tie Ke Ren/Ultimate Iron Man, Xia Tian casts a powerful freeze spell on both Jiu Wu and Lan Ling Wang, saying that he'll fight, so they don't have to die. Xia Tian fights alone for a while, until Jiu Wu and Lan Ling Wang are able to break his spell on them and join him. Shortly afterward Han, Xia Yu, Xiu, aChord, and the members of Dong Cheng Wei (the front line unit of the Iron Imperial Army) show up to join in the fight. Each of the five Original Power-Users (Jiu Wu, Xiu, Han, Lan Ling Wang, and Xia Yu) release their elemental power. But the combined power of the Iron Man, the Original Power-Users, and Dong Cheng Wei is not enough to overcome the power of the Fire Ambassador. He easily defeats them but recognizes their will and desire to protect their dimension, and agrees to leave the Iron Dimension alone (at great personal risk) to see if they manage to fix the dimension's problems on their own.
After the fight with the Fire Ambassador, Xia Tian was able to play the Iron Man's weapon (a badass guitar) and unlock the Dimensional Door, once again permitting travel between the dimensions. Xia Tian's mother returns from the space between dimensions, and Jiu Wu, Xia Tian, and Lan Ling Wang travel to the Gold Dimension in order to transfer some of their power to their alternates (Ding Xiao Yu, Wang Da Dong, and Wang Ya Se) who had lost their own power in their dimension's fight against evil. After their power had been restored and the dimensions were back on the right track, Jiu Wu forbade all unnecessary inter-dimensional travel.
Though he only physically appears in a flashback while shapeshifted into Han's form, he is a background player in the following series, K.O.3an Guo/Zhong Ji San Guo/Ultimate Three Kingdoms, and frequently speaks telepathically to the other characters.
Xiu, despite knowing how much trouble he'll be in if Jiu Wu finds out, allows Da Dong, Xiao Yu, and Ya Se to bully him into taking them to the Silver Dimension on vacation. Da Dong accidentally drops a coin, which rolls down a hill and eventually causes a boulder to fall onto a group of young men in the midst of a brotherhood pact - Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Liu Bei. The boulder knocks out Guan Yu and crushes Liu Bei, leaving him severely injured. As Liu Bei is Xiu's Silver Dimension alternate, it's decided that Da Dong and co. take Liu Bei back to the Gold Dimension with them, and Xiu will stay behind in his place. This incident starts the ball rolling for the Silver Dimension's shift in balance. For a while, Xiu tries to do everything he can to prevent himself from disrupting the balance of the dimension, but gets too involved when he realizes that the Silver Dimension's story is eerily similar to that of the stories in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. After getting Dong Cheng Wei to bring him a copy for "reference", he ends up messing things up anyway, instead of letting the dimension take its natural course. It is at this point that the members of Dong Cheng Wei point out that Jiu Wu is getting irritated with Xiu, but is letting him stay until the real Liu Bei is healthy again.
When both the Iron Dimension and the Silver Dimension begin to lose their balance, Jiu Wu goes to the Silver Dimension to investigate. At this point he comes across Xiu and Wu Hu Jiang/The Five Tiger Generals (Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and Ma Chao) trapped by a group of powerful demons, and using telepathy, gives Xiu instructions on how to defeat them. After more investigation, he returns to the Iron Dimension, but sends Xia Liu (Xia Tian's grandfather) to the Silver Dimension to assist Xiu in fighting the ever-growing number of demons and demonic power-users. It's around this point where he becomes angry with Xiu for betraying his trust and pulling the Silver Dimension further and further off-track with his actions, his unwillingness to listen to the members of Dong Cheng Wei, and his love for Silver Dimension resident Sun Shang Xiang (who is meant to be with the real Liu Bei).
When the real Liu Bei is healed and has been returned to the Silver Dimension, Jiu Wu orders Xiu to return to the Iron Dimension, allowing him twelve hours to say his goodbyes. Liu Bei then once again gets attacked and near-fatally injured, Jiu Wu instructs the members of Dong Cheng Wei to bring him to the Iron Dimension to heal, and orders Xiu to stay behind in his place. He becomes increasingly angry with Xiu as the show progresses, and eventually he takes Xiu to another dimension whose balance had been completely destroyed, to show him what would happen if he continued to insist on being together with Sun Shang Xiang. Shortly after, he begins suspecting that the Sun family has ties to the Iron Dimension, least of not being the fact Sun Shang Xiang is able to use the Iron Dimension's Yi Neng spells (Silver Dimension residents are unaware of their Yi Neng, and those who possess it are merely considered to be strong fighters, much like those of the Gold Dimension).
At this point, he's had enough of Xiu's running amok, and he returns to the Silver Dimension in Han's form to personally bring Xiu back to the Iron Dimension. "Xiu, you're coming back with me." "But Meng Zhu, what about Ah Xiang and my brothers, I can't just leave without--" "As I recall, you're called Xiu, not Liu Bei. You're coming back with me." With that, he hopes to prevent the horror that would have befallen the Silver Dimension that Xiu's being there would have caused.
The truth about the Sun Family comes to light, and Jiu Wu allows Xiu to return to the Silver Dimension with orders to do what he can to save it. When Xiu, Wu Hu Jiang, and others get trapped in what is essentially hell, he orders Xia Tian as the Ultimate Iron Man to help him try to break it open. When they manage to do so, Jiu Wu puts everyone back into their proper dimensions and forbids travel between dimensions without permission. That problem solved and both the Silver and Iron dimensions healing again, Jiu Wu goes back to doing his normal everyday "my dimension is in order" Meng Zhu responsibilities.
Through this he's grown; become more battle-worn and less likely to put up with what he thinks is bullshit or people being assholes for the sake of being assholes; he's more likely to fight back and give what he gets. He's still quite friendly, but isn't nearly as easily trusting as he was. There won't be too much difference to his current CR; at most he'll seem a little more grown up/experienced and put together than he previously was, though he's still prone to making bullheaded decisions that will probably get him killed if he thinks it necessary. Doing his job correctly and acting as one in his position should is his main priority, and he's not as likely to let himself get pulled away from that just because he's in camp and he should be doing camp things while he can--he doesn't trust himself not to get too comfortable with that sort of thing and take it for granted, when he knows full well he could go home at any unknown point in time.
Buuuut his emosplooge doesn't really end with that. In the past few months several people he was close to--some of the first people he could legitimately think of "friends" and truly cared about, including Xia Tian--went home, leading him to seriously consider whether or not he should really be getting close to people, and he started backing away from doing much of anything but exchanging pleasantries and friendly greetings. Add on that his first and best friend Takeru had his own stuff going on and they barely spoke at all for nearly two months (to the point of outright avoiding each other until camp forced them to get their feels out) and he was basically in "nope" land. Rather than try to cope with the pain of potentially losing his best friend (thus driving the point home that pretty much everyone important to him dies or goes away), he essentially went into shutdown bossman mode and just continued to distance himself further; if he's not close to anyone, he won't get emotional or show weakness and he'll be able to continue on as he always has--by being alone, taking care of everything on his own and dishing out orders to his army of meatshields.
So there was that, and then the additional bonus of Huang Zhong and Ma Chao coming to camp, which serves as another reminder of Xiu's betrayal, as well as having the knowledge that their Big Brother Guan Yu is the Silver Dimension's alternate of his own master--it's a mix of sadness and jealousy that they have someone to go home to, whereas he'll never see his master again. He doesn't like that he feels that way about it and he tries to shove it down, but it's the sort of thing that always hangs out in the back of his mind. It's a giant pile of "so the one guy that I was supposed to be able trust with everything betrayed the shit out of me and now I'm sad because I can't trust anyone anymore"
He is starting to get better about it; clearing the air with Takeru helped, and he's working on pulling himself out of his shell again, but it'll be a long, hard road and he'll have plenty of bumps along the way.
TL;DR he is a mess of feels and leaderguy issues and this whole thing makes no sense.
ETA:
Rei: How did that not essay come down to "BLAME IT ALL ON XIU. HE BETRAYED ME AND MADE ME SAD"
[4:55pm] Ryuusei: well that is basically what it boiled down to
[4:55pm] Rei: BUT THERE WERE THINGS AND REASONS
[4:55pm] Ryuusei: I CAN PUT IT IN THERE IF YOU WANT
[4:55pm] Ryuusei: I WILL DO THAT RIGHT NOW
[4:57pm] Rei: idc, I was getting the image of Xiu coming to camp and his cabin getting hate mail addressed to him from Jiu Wu's fan club
[4:57pm] Ryuusei: .
[4:57pm] Ryuusei: .asdlkfjd
[4:57pm] Rei: "HOW DARE YOU" "HE TRUSTED YOU"
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