Hello! I Didnt Know Who Else To Ask, But I Had A Question About A Eunuchs Pronoun Usage. In Most Media,

Hello! I didn’t know who else to ask, but I had a question about a eunuch’s pronoun usage. In most media, the eunuch character in question uses 奴才, as is typical for one of his position. However, I was watching the donghua, and noticed he used 老奴 instead (the full sentence was “老奴去看看”). I’m unfamiliar with 老奴 as a pronoun and am particularly confused by the 老 part of it, since this eunuch isn’t old (though he may look that way). As far as I know, he is only in his early thirties by this point of the story, unless there is a departure from the novel in regard to his age.

Does 老奴 have a connotation associated with age? Or is it related to familiarity or something else?

(It’s fine if you can’t answer it, I know it’s a weirdly specific question).

I do not know, but perhaps one of my followers can answer...

@liu-anhuaming @meichenxi @rongzhi

hi i hope ur having a good day. i just wanna say i love ur art of jinwei and jinyan sm. seeing other jinwei fans makes my day 🥰 whats ur favorite things about jinwei? do you have any head-canons about him? fave ships?

I'm sorry it took me so long to get back to this! I am moving atm so it took me a while to get back but thank you for the compliment. I actually drew it as a suggestion from @feng-huli that big brain fox.

in terms of Jin Wei, I suppose he is my favorite Eunuch cause he's hilariously simple. Not stupid simple but that the others played a part in almost every political aspect but all he wanted to do was do his job despite everyone always getting in the way of it. I think my only headcanon about him is, is that he has a little garden of perilla and other kinds of mints growing in his little space within the castle.

He's got a green thumb and I ship him with all the Eunuchs.

Léi MèngSha 雷夢殺 - Dashing Youth 少年白馬醉春風

Thunder undercurrents • Killing dreams

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I love the dumbass pure-hearted son in The Blood of Youth, of course I also love the dumbass clowning dad in Dashing Youth!

...☕?/commission

"I'm not eating that rice"

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“Money is important.”