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Discussion Friday
I was just recently on a three day long train trip, which got me thinking:
1) if you were to go on a three day long train trip, are there any cnovel characters you would like to be your travel buddies? And who do you think will be a terrible travel buddy, and why?
2) if you have read any novels involving train travel that you enjoyed, what role did that train/train travel play in the novel?
Any other train related comments, all good too!
1) if you were to go on a three day long train trip, are there any cnovel characters you would like to be your travel buddies? And who do you think will be a terrible travel buddy, and why?
2) if you have read any novels involving train travel that you enjoyed, what role did that train/train travel play in the novel?
Any other train related comments, all good too!
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PS: hint of what kind of novels I read.
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It's okay if they kill other people on the train! But hm, that would delay the train substantially because everyone will be a suspect...
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Spoilers for Mist
I am reminded of the train in Mist, that exists in an alternate timeline bubble and the original timeline and that was pretty interesting because of the two timelines stacking!In terms of travel companions, ugh it's hard. I love so many murderous people.
... I would like to travel with the "cat" from Evil as Humans. They are adorbs. okay, maybe cnovel pets will be good!
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Travel companions...that's a tough one! Shen Qiao and Yan Wushi would be entertaining, I think.
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I hope nothing happens during the train ride though xD
Nobody challenging anyone to fights!
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People NOT to be travel (for leisure!) buddies with: Luo Wenzhou and Fei Du as a tandem. Like obviously everything will be fine and they do take care of people and know how to get out of trouble, but they are historically too chaotic (and often too distracted by work) when they try to go on vacation LOL. Plus they wouldn't be able to get their hands/off each other, I'm sure.
2) I liked the train arc in My Five Elements Like You by Xi Zixu! Kind of a mystery-horror "there's a doppelganger inside the train" thing. Same with the Little Mushroom train scene, except with more horror and trauma - I do remember a friend commenting as we were reading the book that she had a hard time believing that trains could be so functional and on time in the apocalypse. XD
Also in They All Say I Met a Ghost by Cyan Wings, the ML was always traveling by train and it was funny though I can't remember the details now. I just realized most of my examples are horror-adjacent...
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I can't remember any train related arcs off the top of my head. I like trains as a setting and they can be good for mystery/horror, but I guess none actually stood out to me in the novels I've read!
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I think Wen Ning would be a good travel companion, that's more my speed.
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Oh, he would!
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Terrible travel buddies: Shen Qingqiu would probably fret all the time that he's OoC and it would be too stressful. Wen Chao, Jin Quanghsan (do I need to say why?).
On the fence: Wei Wuxian, Hua Cheng, Luo Binghe, Xue Yang: on the other hand they would be entertaining but on the other hand it could go Very Terribly.
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I really liked Murder on the Orient Express, for train novels...
eta someone said Wen Ning's name on Mastodon (maybe related to this??? I'm too blotto to read carefully) and I've changed my vote to Wen Ning. (eta 2: yes it was in relation to this, and yes it was ehyde.)
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There's also an incredible sequence involving a crowded, chaotic road trip by RV, which can be summarised thus: bicker bicker bicker KILL INTRUDER WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE bicker bicker bicker.
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I am very fond of Li Wei of Designated Cleaner, and Shen Jue of Passerby xD but they are a DANGER to be around 😆 As trouble magnets, being on a train with them may end up with us disastrously finding ourselves in a rules-governed train of an pocket dimension/Instance. Thank you, but no thank you!
2) I looooove reading about train-based pocket dimensions in semi apocalypse, unlimited flow novels because solving or working around the rules is always very entertaining. As mentioned, the most memorable for me are Turns Out The Passerby is The World Ending Boss, and Designated Cleaner of Unlimited Flow Instances, which both feature this trope :P
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Gonna see if I can get my hands on it
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I hope there are no murder cases if travelling with the Modu people!
They All Say I Met a Ghost, iirc was a bus. But the ML did travel by train briefly! (It's been a while since I read it though)
Mystery horror train is a great combination!
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But definitely entertaining!
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XY on the train? I'd get off the train xD
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Agree wen ning might be a good travel companion
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Are there anyone from To Embers We Return you'd think will make good travel companions?
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and for anyone not familiar with it, ToG is a korean webtoon!
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My joke nomination is for For comments: Highlight for spoilers! *the sole non-cybernetically-enhanced human in the story who has also trained herself in the art of poison so that she can literally kill you with a touch. She would either respect your boundaries on the road trip, or she would not. In the latter case, it would be a very short trip*
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this is a good point lol
Mystery horror train is a great combination!
it's like a locked room, except they're moving! XD
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