Hong Lu - Tumblr Posts
i have realised i am a carnival fan and a theme park fan thank you don and faust
we had a kitchen episode, a cleaning one could also appear...................
they're so bnnuy coded (if that makes sense)
somrthing something in the book didn't lin daiyu have to repay jia baoyu with tears isn't it funny that Hong Lu can't fuel his base EGO because he usually can't provide that much gloom. Isn't it funny he needs other people to pay him the tears.
here's my "fucked up if true" hong lu theory:
hong lu is an ai/test tube baby
literally this is barely supported at all but theres plenty of wild things we havent been able to tell abt the sinners on first glance and i think it'd be cool
i mainly came about this theory because the basic summary i read of dream of a red chamber was "a sentient rock asks a preist and a monk to show it the world" and i thought "wouldnt it be fucked up if that were hong lu."
also like. listen to me here. hong lu's family would absolutely be the type to get a "designer baby"/make an ai to be the "perfect child" okay.
also this peice of dialogue where hong lu mentions that all of his siblings were just trying to backstab eachother
kind of makes me think of those methods of raising ai where you make a shit ton of the ai and then have all of them compete for something, with only a select amount being able to "live on" or "reproduce"
idk man really i just think it'd be cool
Sinners as programs:
Yi Sang – Cortana/Siri/similar “AI”-that-follows-specific-rules programs. I don’t think poetry generators exist.
Faust – Any calculator game. Look. I love girlfail Faust as much as the next person, but she would be a calculator.
Don Quixote – Shimeji. Ok that’s the post.
Ryoshu – Either comedic malware like Reisenware, actual malware, or mspaint.
Meursault – Windows explorer/non-windows equivalent. He is your file explorer.
Hong Lu – Any digital pet, OR he is a collection of PNGs kept solely on your second monitor for a digital pet rock. I don’t know how to explain this one.
Heathcliff – It’d be far too easy (and a misinterpretation) to go with the malware route. Heathcliff has game engine energy and I am specifically referring to Ren’Py. he’s a Visual Novel engine.
Ishmael – Ishmael is specifically placid plastic duck simulator. No, but actually, Ishmael is any casual game like stardew valley or minecraft. she is never subnautica.
Rodya – Rodya is one of those email websites that boomers adore ❤️ /pos
Sinclair – Sinclair is a book library, like a kindle fire type thing.
Dante – Too easy to say a clock. Dante is an emulator.
Outis – Too easy to say a Trojan virus. She’s honestly a scheduling app.
Gregor – Again, far too easy to say malware (because bugs, get it? I’ll see myself out). He’s notepad.
Bonus:
Charon – An email that glitched out and was sent in like 1786 or whatever the earliest year a computer can claim
Vergilius – Far too easy to say tasque task manager. He’s an antivirus. Scares the viruses into not doing that shit.
Erlking(?) Heathcliff – Yeah he’s malware. He infects your computer, and spreads to other computers.
