> If a person lost their long term memory, but they continue to speak with the same mannerisms, walk with the same gait, react in the same way to others...has that person's identity changed?
And if we look at it from that point of view, the society they are a part of has posed the answer to that question. The Vidyadhara have one POV, because rebirth is something central to their biology and society. Is the guy who keeps falling for the same woman still the same person each life despite having no conscious memories of his past lives? He doesn't think so, by the standards and definition of Vidyadhara society. Does his many-times-ex-girlfriend? She may or may not have a different answer.
Xueyi's answer to this question is also mired in her being a native Xianzhou species, and the specific way their society system works with regards to the death and the afterlife. Because when the proper steps to avoid mara onset is taken, they're digitally uploaded. Because they take the idea of immortality (biological or otherwise) for practically granted. We have run missions to the Dept of Divination to call up "ghosts" of the dead to answer somewhat frivolous questions, as if the people in question never died.
This is a difference between the Xianzhou native POV vs the Vidyadhara POV, which is in both cases rooted in their specific biological and cultural backgrounds. I don't think Dan Heng would find the Xianzhou POV to be a big surprise. He's seen it clashing up close long enough during his childhood jail sentence.
> transphobic trash
Wut? There was trans in HP?
> supposedly strategic person
He hasn't really shown himself to be very strategic even outside the main plot. Honestly, the "strategic" title was more imposed on him by people who formed their impressions solely based on his fan design, before the patch came out. In story, his role to Feixiao is more like private doctor than military strategist.
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And if we look at it from that point of view, the society they are a part of has posed the answer to that question. The Vidyadhara have one POV, because rebirth is something central to their biology and society. Is the guy who keeps falling for the same woman still the same person each life despite having no conscious memories of his past lives? He doesn't think so, by the standards and definition of Vidyadhara society. Does his many-times-ex-girlfriend? She may or may not have a different answer.
Xueyi's answer to this question is also mired in her being a native Xianzhou species, and the specific way their society system works with regards to the death and the afterlife. Because when the proper steps to avoid mara onset is taken, they're digitally uploaded. Because they take the idea of immortality (biological or otherwise) for practically granted. We have run missions to the Dept of Divination to call up "ghosts" of the dead to answer somewhat frivolous questions, as if the people in question never died.
This is a difference between the Xianzhou native POV vs the Vidyadhara POV, which is in both cases rooted in their specific biological and cultural backgrounds. I don't think Dan Heng would find the Xianzhou POV to be a big surprise. He's seen it clashing up close long enough during his childhood jail sentence.
> transphobic trash
Wut? There was trans in HP?
> supposedly strategic person
He hasn't really shown himself to be very strategic even outside the main plot. Honestly, the "strategic" title was more imposed on him by people who formed their impressions solely based on his fan design, before the patch came out. In story, his role to Feixiao is more like private doctor than military strategist.