Wen 丨 Amon
I don't think even the most senior historian of the Three Kingdoms period could have imagined that Sun Ce, the "little overlord of Jiangdong" who lived before 1850, first appeared on the popular search list of Chinese social media in the 21st century because of his chest.
When I saw the four words "Sun Ce chest muscles" hanging high on the hot search list, I clicked on it without hesitation. Just when I thought the content would be the archaeologist's latest excavation report, I was "created" by two big breasts from the surface.
After waking up for two minutes, we realized that this "Sun Ce" was not Sun Ce, and what we imagined in our minds was a complex archaeological skeletal muscle restoration map, but what appeared in front of us was a beautiful Live2D typical of two-dimensional games.
Codename Kite game screen
The word "Sun Ce" here represents the male protagonist from the female mobile game "Codename Kite". Don't rush to see women quitting the game, this article does not contain any formal meal links, after all, this game has only been tested for less than half a month, and there is not even a national service.
Although I believe that most readers are not one of the audiences of women-oriented games, they must have heard of the recent popularity of "Codename Kite", which has been ranked first on the APP STORE's Hong Kong server free list since the day of its release, and the popularity has not yet dissipated.
Compared with our stereotypical female games, this game can explode by relying not on the "sense of substitution" or plot and character that is usually used to judge otome games, but on very straightforward big breasts.
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It is true that Sun Ce is not the main male protagonist of "Codename Kite", and the game icon is not him, and he did not appear late until the fifth chapter of the game. At this time, as the female protagonist and the main controller, we have already met with the four male protagonists, but it was not until the first meeting with Sun Ce that this game really had a discussion in China and airborne the first hot search.
"No one can refuse a big-breasted puppy", is the comment made by the players of "Codename Kite" for Sun Ce. Although Sun Ce's Live2D itself has enough remarkable parts, such as pigtails, open waist, earrings, and adult male faces, but there is nothing that can most intuitively attract the player's attention than his vigorous chest muscles.
Sun Ce's first meeting in the game
Seeing this, some gay readers who have experienced the "muscle" work may be a little puzzled, after all, if you want to refer to the big-breasted aesthetic in some two-dimensional BL works, Sun Ce's level of Live2D can only be called an "airport". But if you put him in the game of cute and white thin and childish aesthetics, it is indeed enough to praise the "choppy waves".
Even 12 years ago, some Tieba netizens answered the reason for Sun Ce's high popularity in advance - "big breasts".
But this has nothing to do with the "prophet", just because Sun Celihua in the card game "Three Kingdoms Killing" also has a pair of big breasts, and the painter even kindly wears him a low-cut small vest.
Sun Ce card standing painting of "Three Kingdoms Killing"
Coincidentally, Sun Ce, a martial general in the card mobile game "Three Kingdoms Fantasy Continent" launched by Guangzhou Lingxi Interactive Entertainment in 2020, directly gave "Deep V" deep under the navel for fear that players would not be able to notice his chest muscles.
And Sun Ce in "Glory of Kings", although the original leather wore a conservative high-necked vest, he was finally forced to follow the flow of his peer "Sun Ce" in the skin of "Journey of the Sea" to expose his chest.
At first, I thought that this was just a niche sexual fetish that belongs to Chinese, after all, the foreign works of the Three Kingdoms that we are more familiar with, such as the image of Sun Ce in the series "True Three Kingdoms", "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms" or "Three Kingdoms", are in most cases tightly wrapped, like an image of a gentleman with abstinence.
It wasn't until I saw that Sun Ce in this year's blockbuster "Wolong Skyfall" was finally "complicit in the stream", proudly showing his chest muscles to the world, and even Sun Ce's "little bully suit" opened the neckline to the waist, I was satisfied.
It seems that it's not just me, but now when players all over the world think of Sun Ce, the image of big breasts will automatically appear in their minds.
I tried to find a trace of "Sun Ce's big chest" theory on the omnipotent Internet, but I could not find any historical records, and even if I asked CHATGPT, it was only a yin and yang weird way to advise me not to pay too much attention to physical characteristics that are less important than his talent and charm.
After listening to it, I dug a little more behind the hot search, and found that the reason why Sun Ce in "Codename Kite" can stand out among the many "Sun Ce" who walk all over the place with big breasts is indeed because the vertical painting is tempting enough, but another more important incentive is that he sets a chaotic emotional line in this work.
A few days after the game was launched, Weibo "Codename Kite" Chao Talk became very noisy, and directly used less than one-thirtieth of the number of other mobile games to make Chao Talk hot to the first place in the mobile game list.
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Click in and see, half of the players are scolding the card level, and the other half of the players are saying something that ordinary players can't understand at all, such as what otome rot, what Ce Yu Ce Qiao Party breaks the defense, what dream girl dream man, what clay sculpture powder and so on.
It looks complicated, but if you look at it carefully, it suddenly becomes clear, this is actually a battle for ownership against Sun Ce's big chest.
The first party came from Sun Ce's purest "dream girl", they came only for Sun Ce herself, and called themselves "Ce Mei". Whether it is the little bully of Jiangdong in the history of "Three Kingdoms" or the little milk dog in the female game in front of them, they are the lovers of their dreams, so if someone has to find a boyfriend or something in a fan work, this is absolutely unacceptable.
The second party is the rotten women from "Ce Yu CP". The love between Sun Ce and Zhou Yu has been the most popular pair in the domestic Three Kingdoms fandom since ancient times. But in the setting of "Codename Kite", the heroine, who is Zhou Yu's own sister, is actually going to fall in love with Sun Ce? Isn't this NTR?
The third party is the famous and righteous way supported by historical materials and orthodography: the "Tseqiao CP" party. As a couple who clearly had a husband and wife relationship in the book, the "Ce Qiao" party could have clearly stepped on the heads of other fan fans, but the male and female couples are not very popular in the Three Kingdoms fandom, and "Codename Kite" sets the heroine as someone who can get close to Sun Ce under the guise of Da Qiao's identity, which must be worth burning, right?
Ah yes, the heroine is Zhou Yu's own sister on the one hand, and on the other hand, she is in love with Sun Ce as Da Qiao, and the plot of "Codename Kite" is so outrageous, so that history fandom lovers have to divide into the current three-legged appearance and argue endlessly.
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Not only that, but in order to satisfy Sun Shangxiang's bad taste, the heroine in the game asked Sun Ce to steal Lv Bu's underwear, Lü Meng's women's clothing, Lu Xun went to the Qinglou to pierce his ears, Lu Su indulged in blind dates and other anti-heavenly plots, even if it is a "historical overhead" is a little too chaotic and evil.
The original plot is that Sun Shangxiang asked the heroine to steal Lü Bu's underwear before she was willing to join his subordinates
I don't want to make too much evaluation of "Codename Kite", after all, it has just been released, and the popularity and operation are also unstable, although from the perspective of gameplay, I can only say that it is mediocre plus the value of Krypton, but it is also a precedent for domestic women to play games.
But those scolding battles around Sun Ce shocked me for a while, it stands to reason that Sun Ce is only a character with little ink and lack of popularity in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" or other IP works of the Three Kingdoms, how can it be placed in the fandom but it is enough to explode such a big splash?
As a historical IP with far-reaching influence and a large number of fans, Sanguo's fandom has always maintained a very high degree of discussion, and it can almost be called one of the most productive and widest audiences in Chinese historical circles. Considering the historical status of its most popular fanfiction "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", perhaps this "one" can also be ignored.
But when it comes to "Three Kingdoms Fandom", the first impression that flashes in the minds of many older netizens is likely to be those who have seen the "Raven" who ruined their lives, and some of the famous Three Kingdoms Raven tips are still widely circulated in the corners of the Internet.
One of the protagonists of "Ge Quanmei" is Sun Ce
The TV series "New Three Kingdoms" broadcast on CCTV around 2010 became the best nutrient for these Ravens at that time by relying on the original plot that deviated too much from the epic.
What "Wei Guo loves his wife, Wu Guo loves Lori, Shu Guo is all Ji" can be regarded as a relatively serious fanme, and more outrageous "Ge Quanmei, bright and sad, petite Dong, heroic mother Cao Chengxiang" and other enduring vulgar literature are more everywhere.
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At that time, the two camps that suffered the most were Cao Cao's father and son, and the other was the Jiangdong Sun family. There is no other reason, they are all engaged in "Raven", that must be the more chaotic the blood relationship, the more complicated the relationship between uncles and nephews, the more entangled love and hate, the better, we eat this "smelly".
But these have now become the history books of the years, and now when you mention the Three Kingdoms fandom, if you dare to talk about something like "Cao Cao gave birth to his son", you will definitely be reported and banned.
It only exists in some "toilets" that have been criticized by thousands of people
Therefore, at this time, the Jiangdong Sun family has become the most convenient and skilled target for the "Raven widows", of course, the scale of creation is no longer the same as before.
Although it is not as good as "Zhuge Liang", which has the main promotion bonus of popular games such as "Honor of Kings", "Sun Ce" TAG still has more than 900,000 views on the largest domestic fan website LOF.
However, compared to the large amount of "dream girl" literature in other popular Three Kingdoms character fandoms, most of the "Sun Ce" TAG is produced by male men or male and female CPs. That is to say, compared to Sun Ce himself, the fandom prefers to discuss Sun Ce's emotional entanglement with other characters.
Not only do I have such doubts, but the strange contrast between Sun Ce's "low popularity" and "CP fever" has also been a contradiction that fanfans have talked about in the past. After years of discussion, they came to a conclusion that was generally acceptable to each other - because Sun Ce died early.
Sun Ce, one of the most important generals of the late Han dynasty, lived only 26 years before being assassinated. Fortunately, Sun Ce became famous at a young age, and at the age of eighteen, he led a thousand people to fight the bandits, and his strategy and courage allowed him to unify the Jiangdong region in only five years, so although he did not live long, he also won enough praise in historical records.
And he died early enough. The fifth year of Jian'an, when Sun Ce was assassinated and died, coincided with the confrontation between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao at Guandu, and Sun Ce's unexpected death prevented him from participating in one of the most important battles of the Three Kingdoms period, resulting in damage to the Jiangdong forces he represented at that time, and did not fight any defeats that were notorious enough when he was alive.
《War of the Three Kingdoms》Sino-Russian chest
Therefore, although the honor created by Sun Ce was not at the forefront of the Three Kingdoms period, it was unexpectedly not infamous, but was highly evaluated compared with the generals of the late Han dynasty of the same period, leaving countless reverie space for future generations.
It is also because he died early, so the records of Sun Ce's appearance in the history books are stuck in his prime. "Three Kingdoms Zhi Wushu Sun Poyu Counter-Chuan I" wrote: "Strategize as a person, beautiful appearance, good funny words, broad in nature, good at using people, those who see the people, do not do their hearts, and are happy to die." ”
Dying early, long handsome, and with (suspiciously) large chests, such a character is the most convenient in fan creation. You don't have to worry that your imagination of him will be too far from history, nor do you have to worry that the public's evaluation of his appearance will affect your aesthetic creation, and you can kill men and women, which is not a perfect tool for second creation?
Sun Ce in "Famous Generals Matchless"
What's more, his orthodox wife is the famous beauty of the Three Kingdoms Big Qiao, the orthodox bamboo horse is the famous handsome man of the Three Kingdoms Zhou Yu, and the orthodox younger brother is the famous emperor of the Three Kingdoms, these three people alone look at the popularity is not ordinary, and at the same time, the bonus in Sun Ce's related fan creations suddenly increased his appearance rate in the fandom.
Coupled with the domestic explosions of "Three Kingdoms Killing", "Glory of Kings" and so on in the past two years, as well as the "Codename Kite" talked about today, gave him a big-breasted filter bonus, such a character who only participated in a small number of stories of the Three Kingdoms has become a fragrant food for the fandom.
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What Sun Ce reflects is the once extremely tolerant acceptance of the domestic fandom circles of the three countries.
Men and women, men and women, father and son, brothers, no matter what kind of love, have their own place in the Three Kingdoms fandom, which can also be seen from those enduring "Three Kingdoms Raven".
Ce Yu in "Forgetting the Wind and Flowers"
The most taboo OOC (Out Of Character) in fandom has also become a widely accepted shortcoming for readers in the Three Kingdoms Circle.
Because whether it is a creator or a reader, our understanding of the Three Kingdoms largely comes from the fan work "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and even the earliest "Ce Yu CP" creation wife in history can be traced back to Yuan Zhen's "Zi Buyu Shuanghua Temple" written in the Qing Dynasty.
The world's misunderstanding of the role of the Three Kingdoms has almost become a collective memory mixed in the bones.
But what I never expected was that the tolerance that has always been widely praised by the Three Kingdoms fandom did not work here in "Codename Kite".
Chen Shou wants to calm down, which received more than 7,000 submissions and 80,000 followers in just five months, launched a Weibo poll two days ago to ask fans whether submissions related to "Codename Kite" should be banned here.
In the eyes of fans of the Three Kingdoms, the setting of Sun Ce's little milk dog in "Codename Kite" completely violates the image of the heroic overlord in the historical records, but in previous submissions, these enthusiasts have praised works such as gender transition and Sun Ce's replacement by the traverser.
The vote received 1,034 participants, and with a 56% approval rate, it was decided to temporarily ban all discussions about the game. This also represents the fandom chaos that began at the beginning of the game's open beta, ending with both sides taking a step back, but it is clear that it is actually Codename Kite that ultimately profited.
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Codename Kite not only gained unprecedented discussion from this chaotic battle, but also finally stuck to its "can't help but rot" announcement when questioned on Twitter, and continued to occupy the top position of the mobile game free-to-play list as a clear female game.
And what about the Three Kingdoms fandom? However, because some of them have a double standard of this work and the "Raven" party, they have been criticized by some history fandoms, but fortunately, through timely enclosure restrictions, they have retained the right to speak on their main discussion places.
Otherwise, according to the current voice of "Codename Kite" players and the degree of anti-heaven in the plot of this work, what is about to strike in the future is the second wave of "Three Kingdoms Raven".
But I'm still curious how much impact new players can have on the Three Kingdoms fandom landscape, which is now a foregone conclusion. This may depend on the lifespan of "Codename Kite" in the current situation where most mobile games die early.
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