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Fuxi and Nuwa are extremely interesting because, prior to my deep dive, I had never encountered with primordial deities that were morally conflicted by divine incest. In many largely accepted versions of their myth, they don't want to marry and explicitly ask the heavens for a sign to avoid doing it. They make all sort of ridiculous challenges to keep this sign from happening. It takes firm heavenly intervention for them to move pass the natural taboo and, even when they are to marry, they are still bashful to the point of Nuwa covering herself with a fan so her brother wouldn't see her.
Curious thing to omit in the new myth, don't you all think? Very convenient. The base content express this urgent opposition to incest, even as divine entities to whom human morals don't apply, yet CalebMC are like 'let me fuck my sibbling in a pond, yippie!'
Just so you know, even in greek mythology, when humans committed incest, they were punished. Oedipus married her mother Jocasta and he ended up blind and exiled, while Jocasta hangs herself, for example.
So, now, Caleb's myth...
I stand corrected in one thing: the myth is not 'nothing smoothie' like I stated before in one of my crash-out tweets and it isn't a copy&paste from other myths either. It was brought to my attention that the issue lies within the english localization. Again. They seem to have copied, or at least heavily relied on, the style, wording and structure of the translation from existing material. In mandarin, Yin Yang Sundering has nothing in common with Where The Stars Scatter or other previous myths.
The myth has its own unique concept and it's fairly beautiful. Lore wise? Very attractive. Writing wise? It has its moments, but there was weakness. I need context, I love context, and I wasn't given any for many things that I think needed it. There are also many fillers.
Talking about context...
They never really state how Caleb or MC came into existence other than saying they are two flowers from the same steam which can have many interpretations. I was expecting a background, getting answers to questions such what type of creature they are, where they are from and whether or not they were birthed, created or just spawned. All that we are given is that they both are 'the netherworld lord', then, only near the end, it is said that they existed before in the mortal realm and that Caleb was a spirit master who created the netherworld to live there with MC and avoid losing her to the task of balancing the yin and yang. Still, little clue about what they are and how exactly are they related other than they immortal and powerful.
Everything surrounding their origin is vague. Simple as that.
In the current timeline, we know that they are orphans and that MC was formed form a literal ball of energy, so how could there be blood between both?
In Decoherence, they are created in a lab and Caleb is a countermeasure for MCs power.
In this myth, however... nothing. Nada. It was the opportunity for them to play out the incest in a way that at least had substance and they didn't. CalebMC were kinda just there already when everything started. Like, I understand that they are two flowers in single steam, but how did that flower come to be? It is ridiculously broad allegory. Unless you start talking about sharing parents in a traditional sense explicitly, the 'baby sister/big brother' thing they got going is forced and just an shallow aesthetic with no purpose other than being kinky.
Infold doesn't have consistency at all and they love to be vague when it comes to this little issue. Here I introduce this screenshots. In one, they ask about the spirit master companion, not sister, yet once you hit it and mc asks, she says sister. Then later, when Caleb dies and comes back with no memory after MC nurtures him back to life, MC calls herself his little sister and proceed to give the most vague explanation as to what a sister is. As far as I know, friends and romantic partners do that as well. It's not exclusive to little sisters.