I have lately been watching the anime The Apothecary Diaries. (Or rather, over the past four or five days I've binged the show, but as it's simulcasting that just means I've watched the first ten (or was it eleven?) episodes and caught up to its current status.)
It's really good (so far), and obviously it must be doing well, because Goodsmile has pre-orders up for Nendoroids of the two leads, and a Pop-up Parade of the heroine. Without knowing how the story will end, I'm not sure if I want to spring for all three, but I will probably have to get the Pop-up Parade because of the following weird brain logic.
I was thinking about the figure and mentally commented to myself that the Pop-up Parade of Maomao might fit in nicely next to the Pop-up Parade of Wei Wuxian...and suddenly I found myself thinking how cool it would be if Maomao was the reincarnation of Wen Qing.
So now I suddenly and totally headcanon that she is, in fact, the reincarnation of Wen Qing, and I kind of want to write a fanfic wherein Maomao meets the still-existing fierce corpse version of Wen Ning, who recognizes her as his sister, and he's thrilled to get to see her again after so many centuries. I don't think I ever could write that, since The Apothecary Diaries is set in a much more realistic world without magic and monsters and the undead, but it could be a fun cross-over regardless of that. (Uh, aside from the fact that it might be a little dubious to have a cross-over between an actual Chinese IP and a Japanese IP that's merely set in ancient China. (Okay, technically I don't know for a fact that The Apothecary Diaries is originally Japanese, but...I feel like if they were just adapting a Chinese novel or whatever then the characters would all have family names, and yet they don't, which is just really weird to me. They all just have given names, unless Crunchyroll is purposefully screwing up the subtitles so that a whole lot of people with two single-character names are being treated as having one two-character names, which is equally implausible. There's also the fact that if it was based on a Chinese novel or comic or whatever, then you'd expect a Chinese animation studio to be doing the adaptation, not a Japanese one.))
Long story short, now that I've come to the weird brain conclusion that Maomao is Wen Qing, I almost feel obligated to buy the Pop-up Parade of her. 😅 (Especially since lately I've been putting together Nendoroid dolls to represent various other Mo Dao Zu Shi characters besides the two who have official rep, but I have not so far done one for Wen Qing. Just Jiang Cheng, Jiang Yanli and Wen Ning. I did spot a dress I could buy that would do for a Wen Qing Nendoroid doll, but finding a Nendoroid with hair that could do for Wen Qing is another matter entirely, and much more difficult to pull off.)
On an unrelated note, some time ago, I reported on some crazy activity that seemed to be entirely one (or more?) bots loading my blog's main page over and over again. And then later on I reported that the bot seemed to have moved on after more than 11,000 pageviews.
