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Katie-Didn’t

36:05 yes and no. Yes there’s a genetic component to how talented your children will be as cultivators but it’s more like eye color than hair color (there’s like over 100 genes for eye color that you pass on). So yes, having two parents with high/no ceilings for cultivation levels greatly increases your children’s chances of having the same. But you also have Jiang Cheng and Yanli as examples that it doesn’t always work that way too. Wuxian’s mother had beauty, power, and education AS A CULTIVATOR, NOT as a lady, and a personality that was NOT considered ladylike where she was going to defer to her husband. She was also no one when it comes to “who’s who”. Boshen Siren only takes in orphans off the street that are both talented AND have the type of personality/attitude she’s looking for. That sort of optimistic innocence and willingness to help other kids rather than fight with them or take THEIR food their time on the streets being starved and mistreated still hasn’t taken away. They also have to be young enough that their memories of their time before training with her will be hazy at best, if not completely forgotten. When Xue Yang said she didn’t understand how the world works and had the right idea staying in her mountain not messing with things she didn’t understand, he wasn’t totally wrong. That’s why her rule for her disciples that decide to leave never being allowed to return is in place- she AND they are too good and innocent for the way most people act and she both doesn’t want to and can’t handle it but it’s also not something you can teach. If anyone actually LEARNS to handle it they’ll lose that child-like free flowing happiness and if they come back, all the other disciples will be affected. If they DON’T learn, they’ll be betrayed, hounded, plotted against till they become hermits like her, go far far away, or end up falling victim to something someone has done. That’s why 3/4 of her students have ended up dying, 2 of of which history says became evil and went on murder sprees, Wuxian’s mother, realistically speaking was most likely a setup/plot because what kind of random night hunt could have taken down her AND her husband that quickly that she was willing to take her 4yo with her on? It’s just one of those things where “even if it’s true it doesn’t mean you should say it in front of everyone” and quite a few people were either jealous or angry at of his mom for being beautiful, powerful, (angry for who she married when she could have married THEM except Lan Qiran has a grudge because he proposed and she was like “YOU?!? You’re kidding right? The most boring person with the most rules and restrictions when I don’t even want to join a clan?” then cut off his beard while he was asleep as well as using a lot of self-made talismans and spells that weren’t strictly traditional when he was even more uptight about that stuff) AND refusing to work inside the clan system to become a wandering independent cultivator. The things by which people are judged- bloodlines, cultivation power/talent, being learned AND intelligent, embodying the things that are supposed to make you gentlemen and ladies (martial arts, calligraphy, horseback riding, archery, knowledge of literature, etc), beauty/handsomeness, social status, and martial skill taught by your master are things she only ranked well in a few of and wasn’t exactly interested in playing the game anyway. It’s basically the same issue Wuxian is having, even though he understands, conforming is too hard, NOT conforming is too hard and he’ll have to carry the burden of loss either way.

Katie-Didn’t

37:14 The Lotus is actually some important symbolism here- the lotus represents purity and rebirth cycle. A little west of China it also represents divinity passing through all the elements towards the sky to bloom. It grows out of the mud but stays clean showing purity of mind & spirit. It’s unusual growth cycle has it going back to murky/muddy water at night then it comes out and blooms in the morning symbolizing the cycle of life, death, and resurrection/rebirth Basic representation of who we know Wuxian is with the purity of mind and spirit (regardless of flaws, whenever anything serious presents itself he’s always trying to do the right thing, doesn’t even consider the cost to himself because he knows he’ll live with whatever it is) and what we know is going to happen with the rebirth cycle.