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DW/ROtTK babbling
You know? Everyone should just skip this.
Thanks to my desire to supply the DW fandom with some well-written pr0n (because everyone needs some decent naughty things to read, and a fandom that thinks that "Woodle" is a proper term to describe a stiffy hasn't got any) I've been picking through my translation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms to make sure I have my facts straight. And, I'm discovering I like Lu Bu quite a lot as a character, besides making the poor bastard the subject of a fic that has him spinning in his grave.
Liu Bei's supposed to be the Good Guy, and we're all supposed to like him because he's the only one of the three major leaders to have any tie-in to the Han Dynasty, but that's kind of boring. Cao Cao is a sneaky bastard, and hardly trustworthy. (This could explain why none of the Wei officers are eye candy in the game, except for Zhang He, and he's hardly gonna end up in bed with a female.) Sun Jian bites it pretty early on, and my affair with Sun Ce ended when he opened his mouth in DW4 and announced "Woo hoo, I got 'em!"
Lu Bu is presented as not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, and it's obvious from the get-go that he's easily swayed by persuasion, especially when it looks like it'll work out in his favor. However, you gotta love that he gets entangled in the oldest story in history, where a pretty girl can ruin everything. One of the reasons Dong Zhuo stays in power is that everyone's running scared of his pet warrior. And yet, Mr. Testosterone makes cow eyes at Diao Chan and snuggles with her in the Phoenix Pavilion, and she gets his goat by basically calling him a wuss if he doesn't get out from under Dong Zhuo's thumb.
Later on in the book, you learn that Lu Bu has a daughter, and that he dotes on her. Now, remember that daughters are not exactly valued in China even in the present day, so that has a high "Awww, cute" factor even now. I love the idea that this powerful and fearsome warrior ends up being wrapped around his little girl's finger - kind of a Rose of Versailles story, if you think about it. I wouldn't want to be the husband he marries her off to, because one complaint from Daddy's Little Girl and guess who shows up on your doorstep. There ends up being a huge hoo-ha about who Lu Bu's daughter ends up married to in the book, but I haven't finished that part yet.
Aaaanyway, guess this means I should get started writing a bit more, ne?
Thanks to my desire to supply the DW fandom with some well-written pr0n (because everyone needs some decent naughty things to read, and a fandom that thinks that "Woodle" is a proper term to describe a stiffy hasn't got any) I've been picking through my translation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms to make sure I have my facts straight. And, I'm discovering I like Lu Bu quite a lot as a character, besides making the poor bastard the subject of a fic that has him spinning in his grave.
Liu Bei's supposed to be the Good Guy, and we're all supposed to like him because he's the only one of the three major leaders to have any tie-in to the Han Dynasty, but that's kind of boring. Cao Cao is a sneaky bastard, and hardly trustworthy. (This could explain why none of the Wei officers are eye candy in the game, except for Zhang He, and he's hardly gonna end up in bed with a female.) Sun Jian bites it pretty early on, and my affair with Sun Ce ended when he opened his mouth in DW4 and announced "Woo hoo, I got 'em!"
Lu Bu is presented as not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, and it's obvious from the get-go that he's easily swayed by persuasion, especially when it looks like it'll work out in his favor. However, you gotta love that he gets entangled in the oldest story in history, where a pretty girl can ruin everything. One of the reasons Dong Zhuo stays in power is that everyone's running scared of his pet warrior. And yet, Mr. Testosterone makes cow eyes at Diao Chan and snuggles with her in the Phoenix Pavilion, and she gets his goat by basically calling him a wuss if he doesn't get out from under Dong Zhuo's thumb.
Later on in the book, you learn that Lu Bu has a daughter, and that he dotes on her. Now, remember that daughters are not exactly valued in China even in the present day, so that has a high "Awww, cute" factor even now. I love the idea that this powerful and fearsome warrior ends up being wrapped around his little girl's finger - kind of a Rose of Versailles story, if you think about it. I wouldn't want to be the husband he marries her off to, because one complaint from Daddy's Little Girl and guess who shows up on your doorstep. There ends up being a huge hoo-ha about who Lu Bu's daughter ends up married to in the book, but I haven't finished that part yet.
Aaaanyway, guess this means I should get started writing a bit more, ne?
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