Day 3/30 of analyzing sangyang until season 3 comes out
Today I’m analyzing ch 2-4, SPOILERS AHEAD.
so for starters lau is stupid as shit but we already knew that (ily anyways lau). xin literally begins ch 2 by saying that if someone was working with the head family they would have no problem getting into the annex, and this mfer doesn't put two and two together that THEYRE THE ONES BEHIND THIS. and bro has the audacity to ask xin "why dont u js move out" GIRL WHY DO U THINK??? UR SISTER WAS LITERALLY KILLED OVER THIS???
this is also the first time that we see any servant of the head family, its just his hand but still. i like the choice to basically have the servants be faceless entities, because it doesn't rly matter what they look like. coupled with the fact that we have never once seen any elders of the head family, it makes the head family seem as more of an ominous threat.
i also find the way that xin lied/manipulated lau into going to lian for help rly funny and interesting. he tells lau that he wont tell lian because she'll overreact, but he knows damn well lau will ask her anyways (possibly cuz he js hates listening to xin). speaking of more manipulation, xin telling lau that whoever is behind this is probably an outsider, yet a few pages ago bro was saying that an insider could easily get in no problem... lau pls rub ur brain cells together.
side note, the panels w lau saying "woof" are so cunt.
fun fact: at the end of ch 2 we see that xin's bday is october 22, meaning that the 1st chapter took place on october 22. this is also the day that the first chapter of sangyang was released. pretty neat huh?
chapter 3 introduces us to yajin and mali. i'm fairly certain that the tattoo template we see mali drawing ominously in the dark is the one that's later tatted on xin's back. yajin mentions that he had seen xin before and lau didn't believe him. this is actually true as in chapter 17 yajin saw xin from a distance in high school.
chapter 3 is the first time we see xin raising his fist in the air, a gesture which lowkirkenuinely gives me ptsd everytime i see it. xin lwk messed up for this like look at lau's face he got genuine shellshock from ts. also when we see our first glimpse of child xin, he's wearing a t shirt, which probably wouldn't fit into the canon timeline correctly whatwith the whole xin scratching himself and wearing the head family's garb situation. just thought it was cool that the author probably hadn't worked out all the details abt xin's backstory yet. later on when we see a glimpse of all the heir-guardian pairs, we can also see xin's brother wearing a blazer instead of his usual robe.
in ch 4 we get a bunch of lore dumps basically. also i find it funny how lian was deadass going to tell lau the root of the problem (the relationship btwn the head and collateral lines) and she stops herself because theres nothing left to eat. this part i will work into my theories later, but i think part of the reason why lian has this plan is so the head family and 1st collateral line will gain access to all the artifacts and can therefore not rely on the other collateral lines anymore.
Day 3/30 of analyzing sangyang until season 3 comes out
Today I’m analyzing ch 2-4, SPOILERS AHEAD.
so for starters lau is stupid as shit but we already knew that (ily anyways lau). xin literally begins ch 2 by saying that if someone was working with the head family they would have no problem getting into the annex, and this mfer doesn't put two and two together that THEYRE THE ONES BEHIND THIS. and bro has the audacity to ask xin "why dont u js move out" GIRL WHY DO U THINK??? UR SISTER WAS LITERALLY KILLED OVER THIS???
this is also the first time that we see any servant of the head family, its just his hand but still. i like the choice to basically have the servants be faceless entities, because it doesn't rly matter what they look like. coupled with the fact that we have never once seen any elders of the head family, it makes the head family seem as more of an ominous threat.
i also find the way that xin lied/manipulated lau into going to lian for help rly funny and interesting. he tells lau that he wont tell lian because she'll overreact, but he knows damn well lau will ask her anyways (possibly cuz he js hates listening to xin). speaking of more manipulation, xin telling lau that whoever is behind this is probably an outsider, yet a few pages ago bro was saying that an insider could easily get in no problem... lau pls rub ur brain cells together.
side note, the panels w lau saying "woof" are so cunt.
fun fact: at the end of ch 2 we see that xin's bday is october 22, meaning that the 1st chapter took place on october 22. this is also the day that the first chapter of sangyang was released. pretty neat huh?
chapter 3 introduces us to yajin and mali. i'm fairly certain that the tattoo template we see mali drawing ominously in the dark is the one that's later tatted on xin's back. yajin mentions that he had seen xin before and lau didn't believe him. this is actually true as in chapter 17 yajin saw xin from a distance in high school.
chapter 3 is the first time we see xin raising his fist in the air, a gesture which lowkirkenuinely gives me ptsd everytime i see it. xin lwk messed up for this like look at lau's face he got genuine shellshock from ts. also when we see our first glimpse of child xin, he's wearing a t shirt, which probably wouldn't fit into the canon timeline correctly whatwith the whole xin scratching himself and wearing the head family's garb situation. just thought it was cool that the author probably hadn't worked out all the details abt xin's backstory yet. later on when we see a glimpse of all the heir-guardian pairs, we can also see xin's brother wearing a blazer instead of his usual robe.
in ch 4 we get a bunch of lore dumps basically. also i find it funny how lian was deadass going to tell lau the root of the problem (the relationship btwn the head and collateral lines) and she stops herself because theres nothing left to eat. this part i will work into my theories later, but i think part of the reason why lian has this plan is so the head family and 1st collateral line will gain access to all the artifacts and can therefore not rely on the other collateral lines anymore.