My beef with this conversation isn't with Dan Heng, though. It's with Taoran.
To be clear, my beef is with the writers...who seem to change philosophical positions based on whatever is convenient.
There doesn't seem to be any worry about what happened to Dan Feng, where his original sentence was death. And only after intervention by the other high elders was it commuted to forced molting.
His logic seems to be that since Dan Feng got a reduced sentence after politicking, his own sentence will also get reduced through the same politicking. After all, it was the preceptor pulling on strings to commute the sentence, not Dan Feng, so the politics are being played on the preceptor side. Granted, Dan Feng's case was helped by having an arbiter-general coming in to negotiate (suggesting it was Jing Yuan's political connections that played the biggest role). I doubt the preceptor can convince Jing Yuan to come to Taoran's aid.
So the only possibility is the preceptors, or Taoran has or think they have an arbiter-general on their side... I mean it would be a good set up for a major betrayal plot, but I doubt miHoyo is going to go there.
Dan Feng, maybe he was in PTSD mode still and didn't try, but you'd think that being a political leader he should automatically come with associated social links and power structure ties and stuff that would make others be cautious of how to sentence him.
I'm understanding it as Dan Feng genuinely regrets what he's done and doesn't want a reduced sentence. Based on Dan Heng's response of "I'm not shedding responsibility for my past life's crimes", I'm guessing Dan Feng doesn't believe he deserves anything less. I mean Dan Feng is still supposed to have a reasonable moral compass and probably feels like shit after the fact. There's probably a lot of self hate going on there.
Dan Heng, however, still gets stuck growing up in jail, chained up for torture after his forced rebirth.
I mean how much of this is because it's what the preceptors wanted? Dan Feng, by all accounts, gave the preceptors a hard time and they wanted to get rid of him. The only thing they wanted from Dan Feng was the knowledge of how to make new Vidyadhara. The preceptors didn't want to keep Dan Feng alive to take power again, it's to make sure the knowledge doesn't die with him. So politics wise that makes sense, keep the guy alive but locked up.
With Taoran, the preceptors clearly want him available for their political maneuvers and they seem to be confident they can pull the right strings (based on Taoran's lines). So I'm back to thinking the preceptors have built up quite a huge political coalition in the 721 years since Sedition.
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To be clear, my beef is with the writers...who seem to change philosophical positions based on whatever is convenient.
His logic seems to be that since Dan Feng got a reduced sentence after politicking, his own sentence will also get reduced through the same politicking. After all, it was the preceptor pulling on strings to commute the sentence, not Dan Feng, so the politics are being played on the preceptor side. Granted, Dan Feng's case was helped by having an arbiter-general coming in to negotiate (suggesting it was Jing Yuan's political connections that played the biggest role). I doubt the preceptor can convince Jing Yuan to come to Taoran's aid.
So the only possibility is the preceptors, or Taoran has or think they have an arbiter-general on their side... I mean it would be a good set up for a major betrayal plot, but I doubt miHoyo is going to go there.
I'm understanding it as Dan Feng genuinely regrets what he's done and doesn't want a reduced sentence. Based on Dan Heng's response of "I'm not shedding responsibility for my past life's crimes", I'm guessing Dan Feng doesn't believe he deserves anything less. I mean Dan Feng is still supposed to have a reasonable moral compass and probably feels like shit after the fact. There's probably a lot of self hate going on there.
I mean how much of this is because it's what the preceptors wanted? Dan Feng, by all accounts, gave the preceptors a hard time and they wanted to get rid of him. The only thing they wanted from Dan Feng was the knowledge of how to make new Vidyadhara. The preceptors didn't want to keep Dan Feng alive to take power again, it's to make sure the knowledge doesn't die with him. So politics wise that makes sense, keep the guy alive but locked up.
With Taoran, the preceptors clearly want him available for their political maneuvers and they seem to be confident they can pull the right strings (based on Taoran's lines). So I'm back to thinking the preceptors have built up quite a huge political coalition in the 721 years since Sedition.