Shuanshuan (軒軒), real name Shuanyuan (軒轅), is a major character in Nine Sols (Game). He is an orphaned human child who lives in the Peach Blossom Village, and the first person Yi meets after waking.
Appearance[]
Shuanshuan is a little boy with brown skin, and light grey hair that obscures his eyes. He has a big ahoge at the top of his head. He is normally seen in a brown robe that goes slight past his knees, while its sleeves extend to his wrists. Afterwards, he continues to wear the long-sleeved navy robe he wore during the sacrificial ceremony throughout the game.
Story[]
The first time we meet Shuanshuan in the game's intro animation. Stuck at the Primordial root of Fusang Tree for 500 years, Yi wakes up listening to Shuanshuan's flute performance through his dreams and confusing it with his younger sister's performance. The events take place after the sacrifice ceremony to which both of Shuanshuan's parents were called. The orphaned boy quickly becomes attached to the hero, calling him "Big Bro", And treating Yi like his own family and living together.
Two years after meeting Big Bro, A good harvest prayer festival is held in the village, Shuanshuan is chosen to "live with the gods". Little boy does not understand the essence of the ceremony nor realize the consequences, believing in the tradition. Meanwhile, At this sacrifice ceremony, Yi must enter the underground temple. However, Big Bro breaks protocol and saves Shuanshuan from sacrifice ceremony, revealing his identity to all the villagers of Peach Blossom village.
Shuanshuan sincerely does not understand Big Bro's actions, and tries to find out who Yi is and why Big Bro disrupted the ceremony. So Shuanshuan follows Yi's footsteps with Shennong, and soon reaches Yi's base camp, Four Season Pavilion. Shuanshuan wants to solve many questions, such as asking why Yi left without saying anything, but Yi tries to send him back. Undeterred, Shuanshuan returns Yi what Yi told him, "Pioneering Your Own Destiny." and expresses his desire to stay with Yi. As a result, the boy is allow to stay at pavilion with Yi's permission.
Throughout the game, Shuanshuan continues bonding with Yi, and also becomes friends with Kuafu, Ruyi, and Chiyou. He also picks up many new skills when Yi gifts him enough of the Solarians' artifacts scattered around. These skills include calligraphy, furniture design & assembling, playing the flute, gardening, writing a novel about martial arts, watercolor painting, ceramic crafting, cooking, telelurgeing and engineering and programming. Sometimes Shuanshuan gives wise advice to Yi by playing the Qiankun Go Game with Yi.
During the last half of the game, it turns out that Shuanshuan is aware that Yi was responsible for the death of his parents and the situation in which he and other humans have been facing. However, he knows Yi is different from the past and now Yi is a good man who gives for him, and chooses to continue being Yi's family. When the apemans have to board on the ship to evacuate to Pale Blue Planet, Shuanshuan is given the Mystic Nymph from Yi, and he promises Big Bro to look after it.
When Shuanshuan is informed by Yi that Yi himself won't be able to join the ship, he tears up and begs Yi to reconsider. However, Yi turns down and apologizes for not being able to repay the little boy's wishes, asks Shuanshuan to live well with Kuafu and other humans on the Pale Blue Planet. And says farewell to him one last time, "Life and death are one. When the end comes, we' ll just return to heaven and earth. Don't worry that I'll be there as part of you for all eternity." Watching New Kunlun completely destroy and extinguish over the ship's window, Shuanshuan realizes that Big Bro is gone, and bursts into tears in sorrow.
After arriving at the Pale Blue Planet, Shuanshuan looks at the sun rising in the sky from where he followed Mystic Nymph, and ready to restart the human society with the other villagers and Kuafu.
Personality[]
Shuanshuan is a naive but very considerate and kindhearted child. He does not dwell on the other person's appearance, and recognizes their character only through the good deeds shown by the other person and accepts them easily, and sees and praises other person's strengths more than theirs flaws. He doesn't hold grudges, while also values promises immensely.
Usually Shuanshuan seems to accept separations from loved ones, Which he believes is destined to come. But his true heart is that he is afraid of losing his loved ones, because he suffered a lot of loneliness due to losing his parents. This can be seen as an incident in which Shuanshuan was so preoccupied with making memories with his parents in a virtual reality, after being gifted a VR device by Yi, which led him to forget about reality for 10 hours. Shuanshuan also talks about camping with Yi and his parents and other dear acquaintances in her dream, and often, after Yi's work is completed, he expresses his desire to travel and live with Yi and his colleagues.
Shuanshuan is also an intelligent kid who learns new skills quickly. This is acknowledged by Ruyi, Kuafu, Chiyou who have observed him, and especially Yi. According to Yi, Shuanshuan will be able to learn more things quickly in a place where he is free, which he has not been able to due to the limitations around him.
Function as an NPC[]
Yi talks to Shuanshuan often, and gives Solarians' artifacts to him as a gifts, it will increase his favorability. And the more things change so that the landscape of Four Season Pavilion can stand out, starting with the details. There may also be an event to provide materials or facilities to help Yi.
Trivia[]
- Shuanshuan is likely based on the Yellow Emperor Shuanyuan 軒轅, with "yuan"'s pronunciation being the same as "Apeman" in Chinese. Moreover, the place where the Emperor was born called 有熊, 熊 itself meaning bear. The one who is next to ShuanShuan at the end is Kuafu, who resembles a bear. At last, people believe that the Yellow Emperor is one of the founders of Taoism, which is befitting - the person who has influenced ShuanShuan the most in the game is Yi, who is technically a Taoist Priest.
- According to the game developers, Shuanshuan was supposed to be super energetic and ran around all of New Kunlun during the game's development stage.