Your Window to Inspiration: Seamlessly Browse Tumblr!
Someone told me my hair and fashion style was “too 2010s.” It’s only been two years. Please!😭😭😭
Pardon me while I throw everything I own away and buy hundreds of dollars of now clothes so I can be one of the cool kids.
Seriously though, who has the time, money and energy to completely reinvent themselves every time a new style drops. Not me. 👋
The correct answer is: Time is a construct. Pain is eternal.
There are many clues that suggest this is year 1, such as his first wake up scene where he’s surprised he has the shackle, the fact that he’d only had one incident of forgetting to eat which suggests he’s still freshly mortal, the displaced citizens. Then the more telling events like it being the first Zhongyuan to pass Xie Lian without him noticing. (Maybe he’d just been doing good with eating for a couple years and suddenly slipped, maybe the nightmare was so disorienting he forgot he has a shackle, maybe nobody was celebrating Zhongyuan during the wars aftermath.)
Conversely, there are things like the day his parents die is the day Yong’an completes construction of their palace in Yong’an (did they start building before Xianle fell? Or are they construction wizards? Or was it just remodeling?) and the fact that Lang Ying has a seriously progressed case of Human Face Disease. (Although there might be a time skip between the palace being built and the Xie Lian attacking)
And the fact that it says “a few years ago when Xianle fell” during the interaction with white no-face on the mountain (but define “fall” was it when the gates were sieged, was it the pagoda, the disease, or when the last soldier died on the battlefield?”
All this to say. Fuck it, I don’t care anymore.
Also, thank you @quetzalpapalotl for helping me sort through this
Why is it common knowledge that the flashbacks in Volume 6 (7s) take place starting 4+ years after the fall of Xianle? As in, they’ve been on the run for 4+ years. I can’t find anything to support this in the text, and there’s a lot of context clues that suggest it hasn’t even been a full year.
Please point me in the right direction to confirm this.
Is that timeline fanon or canon?