Bionic Yang Guo

[pannonian]

Just found this interesting bit from the translation of ROCH on wuxiapedia. Athena and Icyfoc are credited with translating chapter 37. The scene is in the Iron Spear Temple, after Ke Zhen E had related the story of Yang Kang's siding with the Jin and betrayal of Song.

Yang Guo held his head with both hands in grief and indignation – he
never expected his father to be such an evil traitor. No matter how
great he had become, it was hard to erase his father’s bad name. The six
people sat there silently while the crows continued cawing.

Such was the grief of Yang Guo, that he whipped out the wooden hand he had in his pocket for occasions such as these, just so he could hold his head in both hands.

OK, who was responsible for this? Athena, Icyfox, or Jin Yong?

[Guo Xiang]

Just found this interesting bit from the translation of ROCH on wuxiapedia. Athena and Icyfoc are credited with translating chapter 37. The scene is in the Iron Spear Temple, after Ke Zhen E had related the story of Yang Kang's siding with the Jin and betrayal of Song.

Yang Guo held his head with both hands in grief and indignation – he
never expected his father to be such an evil traitor. No matter how
great he had become, it was hard to erase his father’s bad name. The six
people sat there silently while the crows continued cawing.

Such was the grief of Yang Guo, that he whipped out the wooden hand he had in his pocket for occasions such as these, just so he could hold his head in both hands.

OK, who was responsible for this? Athena, Icyfox, or Jin Yong?

This totally cracks me up.

[PJ]

OK, who was responsible for this? Athena, Icyfox, or Jin Yong?

I can tell you it's definitely not Jin Yong

[tape]

And he didn't SUPPORT his head or REST his head on his hands. He HELD it...maybe his head is bionic too!

[sniffles]

I can tell you it's definitely not Jin Yong

That is pretty amusing. But in defense of the author, as a writer myself, I can tell you it's darned hard to remember all those little details sometimes! You'd think an author could never forget that a character only has one arm, but when you're busy trying to write an interesting or important scene it's possible to forget all kinds of things about your characters.

[CFT]

Had he lost his arm at this point?

[sniffles]

Had he lost his arm at this point?

Definitely. The part at the Iron Spear Temple where he learns about his father happens near the end of his 16-year wait for XLN.

I think JY was trying to tie up all the loose ends before reuniting YG and XLN, so he inserted the scene where YG runs into Ke Zhen E and finally learns the truth about what happened to his father.

[Athena]

I didn't translate that part.

[PJ]

pannonian, I think you've got your answer by process of elimination

[IcyFox]

No comments.

[darkcser]

I remember my first pass through ROCH expecting a Yun development. That's Yun as in FengYun.