You can get that type of hand ornament on Ebay, too - just not like Wig Boy's version; most of them seem to have skulls and other such things on them, which, nah. :-) If you think they might have Wig Boy's version at Mandarake, I will send you a screenshot! (Why yes I do have one, why do you ask? erm. *g*)
The question of psychopathy/whether Zhu Jiu would have been okay if he hadn't come across Ye Zun... it's a good question, and I'm not entirely set on my kneejerk response of "he would have gone bad anyway". But my initial response (which I still consider the most likely) is the result of how he reacts to Ye Zun; that he seems to do what he does in response to Ye Zun's "persuasion" mostly of his own free will, and that he reacts the way he does.
Unlike other people we see hypnotized by Ye Zun later, Zhu Jiu doesn't act like a sleepwalker; he seems to be the master of his own actions (I think Ye Zun doesn't have nearly as much power yet and can't actually control people the way he can later, but that's a different issue). That he accepts Ye Zun's poisonous lies as easily as he does probably does have to do with magic, since Ye Zun's lines are bad enough that he needs magic to make them convincing *g*. But that Zhu Jiu jumps straight to murder in response, and shows no remorse afterwards, seemed to be his own choice to me. A non-psychopath might have begun rebelling more and more, questioning things, rousing the rabble, started radicalizing himself... and might well have ended up in the same place eventually. But to jump straight to murder?
So that's where my impression that he already had issues came from: his near-instant turn-around and the eager - and instantly murderous - way he embraces a leader and a path that seems more rewarding to him.
So, headcanon time: Basically I think Ye Zun has been trying this with pretty much every person who came across his field of rubble, without enough oomph to erase their own will, as he can later. And Zhu Jiu is the one in whom it takes, because he already has the seeds in him. He's the one who takes it to murder and thus throws his life away, dedicating it to Ye Zun through a combination of choice and no other options being left. Meanwhile, the other people Ye Zun whispered to are probably the ones spreading the rumors the Envoy is a traitor... but that's all they're doing. Because they are not psychopaths. ;-)
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The question of psychopathy/whether Zhu Jiu would have been okay if he hadn't come across Ye Zun... it's a good question, and I'm not entirely set on my kneejerk response of "he would have gone bad anyway". But my initial response (which I still consider the most likely) is the result of how he reacts to Ye Zun; that he seems to do what he does in response to Ye Zun's "persuasion" mostly of his own free will, and that he reacts the way he does.
Unlike other people we see hypnotized by Ye Zun later, Zhu Jiu doesn't act like a sleepwalker; he seems to be the master of his own actions (I think Ye Zun doesn't have nearly as much power yet and can't actually control people the way he can later, but that's a different issue). That he accepts Ye Zun's poisonous lies as easily as he does probably does have to do with magic, since Ye Zun's lines are bad enough that he needs magic to make them convincing *g*. But that Zhu Jiu jumps straight to murder in response, and shows no remorse afterwards, seemed to be his own choice to me. A non-psychopath might have begun rebelling more and more, questioning things, rousing the rabble, started radicalizing himself... and might well have ended up in the same place eventually. But to jump straight to murder?
So that's where my impression that he already had issues came from: his near-instant turn-around and the eager - and instantly murderous - way he embraces a leader and a path that seems more rewarding to him.
So, headcanon time: Basically I think Ye Zun has been trying this with pretty much every person who came across his field of rubble, without enough oomph to erase their own will, as he can later. And Zhu Jiu is the one in whom it takes, because he already has the seeds in him. He's the one who takes it to murder and thus throws his life away, dedicating it to Ye Zun through a combination of choice and no other options being left. Meanwhile, the other people Ye Zun whispered to are probably the ones spreading the rumors the Envoy is a traitor... but that's all they're doing. Because they are not psychopaths. ;-)