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Blade Runner 2029 #5

I had some thoughts on Ashin of the North that I actually felt like posting so if you don’t want spoilers and haven’t blocked the tag, ignore this post. 

There’s a general consensus, from the people who’ve seen it and posted about it so far, about how Ashin and Yeong-shin parallel each other (something I hope they explore in the next season). This post really put into words what I liked about Yeong-shin as a character which more or less said that despite his cynical exterior, his actions show a commitment to bring up others with him and I feel as though this is a major distinction between him and Ashin and it’s because of a key difference in their similar circumstances.

Both of them, due to the agendas of corrupt powers, are the sole survivors of their communities who were already very low on the social hierarchy of the kingdom. But how they relate to others around them is different. The general consensus is that Sumang village was a leper colony and you can’t get much more ostracized than that. However it’s not like that was the only leper colony in Korea, certainly not the only place with poor people in general, and I feel like Yeong-shin’s experiences in places beyond the village enabled him to have a sense of class solidarity because he sees what other people like him are going through because of corrupt and powerful people. He himself is also still seen as a Korean citizen, belonging to somewhere even if those of high social class dehumanize him. It’s why he helps others within the show.

Ashin on the other hand is coming from a liminal place, not seen as Jurchen or a Korean citizen (the first scene with her father and community, a Korean family getting meat from them refuses to touch him). The only experiences Ashin has had with people outside her community were the worst both sides had to offer, the Jurchen who killed her village and the Korean soldiers/officials who orchestrated it and continued to use and abuse her afterwards just like they used her father as a spy. The only safe place, the only people who she had solidarity with was her own community which was taken from her. It’s a big reason why she still clings onto her family and her past so much even though all that’s left of them are feral corpses. Ashin has seen her worth in the eyes of Jurchen and Koreans and she doesn’t see any worth in them either, hence her plot to let it all burn down. 

1. Ashin was very much in the right of starting the zombie apocalypse. #yaasqueen #SLAYYY #girlboss

2. Despite him only having 5 mins of screen time, I see a lot of gifs of Ai Da Gan, and therefore concluded he is the fandom's hottest man like damn he fine, fine as hell (or I'm just projecting this second part lmao)

Honestly, give a tragic, depressed woman a bow and a homicidal maniac an axe to throw and I can just-