Having never read Superman

[mayoraasei]

Or been interested in Smallville and the spate of Superman movies and comics and merchandise...

My idea of the perfect hero has always been 沈浪. It's the only reason why I like the character so much, because otherwise he's frankly too perfect (and unshakeably confident about it too).

....Just randomly.

Apparently there's a Superman movie coming out >_>

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[kwis-148.livejournal.com]

sorry, nothing beats Mr Darcy.
BBC version mind you!

[jezjezjezza.livejournal.com]

My idea of the perfect hero has always been 沈浪? what does 沈浪 say? my computer reads it as two white boxes T_T

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Er..doubt you've heard of him ^^; He's a main character from a not-so-popular book by a very popular Chinese wuxia (martial arts) novelist.

Shen Lang.

I love how the author names his characters T__T The guy's name means "wave" or "wander" or "exile", and that's the feeling you get from him. It's impossible to tie him down, and at the same time he's "in exile" because people thought he was dead.

I really like him because even though he's the perfect hero (righteous, just, confident, EXTREMELY GODDAMN clever, and really really good at martial arts...oh, young and good-looking also helps), he doesn't care to stay in that role. He comes into the world to complete what his father died doing, and then just as abruptly and noiselessly leaves it again. He doesn't have any attachment to the hero role or even the notion of pushing his ideals on people (because he never actually does go out there and "rights wrongs"). Even though he has really (well, heroic) righteous ideals, you get the sense that his entire mission is to finish what his father started, and that's all. He doesn't really care how the world turns out after that. It's only a sense of filial duty that ties him down. I really admire that sense of detachment and objectiveness, and his assured confidence in his own beliefs and abilities.

I really like this author's male characters ^^; Even though they're ridiculously dramatic and unrealistic (amongst the most common criticisms), I like their patent reluctance to be "the hero". ....But the guy's female characters are another matter >_>; I guess we can't have the best of two worlds. *Sigh*

....Oooh, there goes 8 minutes of study time. Muhahaha. LWR™

[jezjezjezza.livejournal.com]

O__O ah. *brain melts* whoa! what did his father start?

XD what are the female character's like? *pout* hmm, it sounds bad, nevermind.. LWR^tm :D

o__o you noticed it too? I went to zap my pets but couldn't get anything except the front page of the site to load :/

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Hmm. If I remember correctly (since it was 3 years ago since I read the book ~~; ) His father was amongst the few top martial artists who went up to this mountain to find this book that taught really powerful techniques (or some similar thing) and then destroy it (to stop people fighting and killing each other over it). In the end the "thing" never existed and was just a rumour started up by an evil guy who just wanted everyone (especially the top fighters) to kill each other.

He (Shen Lang) basically came back to hunt down this evil guy. But the way he does it didn't feel so much like revenge as justice? Like...he's so emotionally uninvolved about it, not the "he caused my father to die" but rather "my father wanted to get rid of this evil before he died". So he got rid of the guy and went back into hiding.

It makes it sweeter because he's pretty young (our age), and his dad died when he was 9? Or 11? Which makes his maturity absolutely extraordinary.


....The girls are the most annoying I have ever had to read through. Yes, they're worse than Miaka. Yes, that's possible. Not all of them are, but the main ones are always really really really bad.

[jezjezjezza.livejournal.com]

ah I see..

o__o he's our age and he kills someone.. o__o ah well, martial arts stories tend to go like that I guess.. oh dear, I have a feeling I can imagine what you mean by 'annoying', and yes, I agree that's possible.

it's working? yay! :) ooh, congrats :D I want the latest one but I'm too stingy to buy it yet since the prices should fall (it's not a one use item is it?)

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Muahaha...he never ends up killing the guy.

Not because the guy turned out to be a nice guy, mind you.

Just...he never got to him before the guy died XD

[jezjezjezza.livejournal.com]

what the.. o__o *pout* aaw.. it's one of those subtle things.. *faints*

hehe.. lwr^tm

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

O_o; Subtle things? O_o;

Come to think of it...I can't recall him actually killing anyone at all. Which is pretty rare for wuxia.

(Especially this author's stuff)

Hmm, I kind of think of wuxia as the Chinese version of fantasy. They have much the same elements and feel, after all.

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

It's working again.

I finally got the fishing avatar! ~~;

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

PS: Neopets isn't working? ;__;

[beliael.livejournal.com]

Neopets is working for me.