To be fair, probably most people don't forget Canada exists because they've been in a world where it doesn't for decades.
"World tree? Damn, that is so much cooler than growing a new body with a special kind of mushroom. That I didn't actually end up having to use." Pause. Lots of people's mothers need them, probably, without them coming back to life. "Your mother sounds... important?" he hazards.
Shang Qinghua exists in a quantum state of being Chinese and not being Chinese because he's lived in fantasy ancient China for longer than he was alive in actual China! And nobody in Proud Immortal Demon Way calls anything 'China'. 他不是中国人, 苍穹山不在中国*, but also, yes he is, and anyway PIDW is pretty damn Chinese regardless because he wrote it that way. "Casper works! I'm pretty sure I remember westerners don't go by their family names that much! It's nice to meet you?"
*'He is not Chinese, Cang Qiong Mountain is not in China'. Look I realized I knew enough Mandarin to type that in it and I got carried away.
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"World tree? Damn, that is so much cooler than growing a new body with a special kind of mushroom. That I didn't actually end up having to use." Pause. Lots of people's mothers need them, probably, without them coming back to life. "Your mother sounds... important?" he hazards.
Shang Qinghua exists in a quantum state of being Chinese and not being Chinese because he's lived in fantasy ancient China for longer than he was alive in actual China! And nobody in Proud Immortal Demon Way calls anything 'China'. 他不是中国人, 苍穹山不在中国*, but also, yes he is, and anyway PIDW is pretty damn Chinese regardless because he wrote it that way. "Casper works! I'm pretty sure I remember westerners don't go by their family names that much! It's nice to meet you?"
*'He is not Chinese, Cang Qiong Mountain is not in China'. Look I realized I knew enough Mandarin to type that in it and I got carried away.