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[fanvid] to be the foam on the waves, the breath in your lungs

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A Justice in the Dark fanvid set to one of the Mo Du audio drama songs: In which Luo Weizhao follows Pei Su into the abyss. Clips from this video were taken from various episodes of the entire series.

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Work title is roughly based on the song title, which evokes 1) a four-character phrase about fish trying to survive on land by drawing from each other's breath, 2) the line in the bridge where they sing about dissolving into seafoam 10,000 years later, clinging inseparably to each other through the waves of time. You can read translations of the full song here.

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- 朝夕如昨: "Day and night" + "like yesterday"—To me, this feels like a haunting memory remembered as clearly as it was yesterday.

- 你眼中飛蛾撲火: "In your eyes, self-destruction"—where "self-destruction" is expressed by the image "a moth darting into the flame". I wanted to keep the image but didn't know how to do it elegantly. :(

- 為何選擇 沈默: "Why choose silence?" = This is a perfectly ambivalent line that can refer to both Fei Du (keeping his secrets from LWZ) and Luo Wenzhou (seeing the signs but choosing not to say anything). Ordinarily I read it as the former, but IDK, I felt like going the other way this week.

- 是誰輕聲誦讀著: "Who is softly reading"—I used to assume this meant the Reader in the radio station, but having just seen eps 28–29 I'm beginning to think it could be Fei Du's mom too.

- 地獄之門大開著 眼前愈發渾濁: "The gates of hell are wide open / My vision gets cloudier/murkier": Probably because the conspiracies are going even deeper than imagined? I just went with "shrouded with darkness".

- 默念惡魔的名冊 奄奄壹息是我: "The one silently reading out names from the list of demons and is on their last breath is me"

- 這人間萬家燈火 /值不值得 / 靠岸停泊: "The thousands of lights of this world / are they worth / docking for"—referring to all the houses that are lit up at night. Fei Du is looking at other homes, families, ordinary lives, and wondering if that world is worth it. This is one of my fav lines, which I think was represented very well in JitD and the warm lights in LWZ's home VS the cold emo villa; I took it from the second verse and moved it up.

- 也無悔 深淵 同往: "No regrets / into the abyss together"