... Oh god, the nesting layers of identity drama though

[spindizzy]

What I say: I'm fine.
What I mean: Apparently Mei Changsu's actor said that the character cannot be understood as a human being, but as the embodiment of 70,000 ghosts crying out for vengeance, so I am dying over the number of choices that a writer could make over and layers they could add to a story what to call this character in a scene from his point of view —

(... It also doesn't help that the default for the fandom seems to be to refer to the character as Mei Changsu, and the cast anecdotes someone translated referred to him as Su, and I'm not far enough into the translation of the novel to have opinions so just. I die.)