Crow · 5mo
question itself is short but i swear to god i remember you mentioning like actual argalia parallels w hong lu based on the source material and i would love to hear what u mean abt that… i dont think i could find the tweet again bc this hellsite is a damn void but like ‼️ text analysis… if im hallucinating ignore me it would not be the first time but also i havent read any source material so its always fun to hear what folks who have have to say :]
Oh yeah i have those :)
Heads Up I do not know book Argalia at all so this is off of ruina argalia only. I'm also not an Argalia Scholar and didn't consult with my friend who's an angelica scholar and its been a while since i've red chamber posted so this is off what i remember :) but in Dream of the Red Chamber Bao-yu (hong lu's literary equivalent) has a cousin named Dai-yu who he's super attached to. Their actual relationship is pretty on and off but they are Inseperable. Bao-yu's Number One Fear is his cousin being taken away from him because as they grow older it sets in that Dai-yu is going to eventually end up marrying someone and no longer live with Bao-yu. You get what I'm on about now. Eventually Bao-yu gets married and Dai-yu dies because of it (this novel is written like a soap opera) (this is a whole thing it would take forever to explain. it's the climax of the novel) and that whole series of events is what sparks Bao-yu's downward spiral towards the end of the book. (i believe it actually starts slightly earlier but those two events make it Considerably Worse.)
It's pretty hard to explain this stuff without a ton of exposition because this is a 2000 page book in english and that's obviously A Lot but tldr dependency since childhood on a family member in a Hostile Environment and then going off the deep end once shes Gone :)
