I'm not sure about other works, but the two longer works of the 4 classics are only around 800,000 to 850,000 words. Plus, I'd argue English is easier to read than the Classical Chinese of the original. So maybe the length is because of that clarification. 

-Galaxian-

Screw it imma do nanowrimo.

3 days to plan, 30 days to write baby.

yeah, I was thinking of trying to just maybe do a lower word count instead of 50k words. Maybe 25k? And if I go over, that's cool.

 

I should talk about movies and shows I watch and complete huh? I think it would give more content for my homethread.

Last week, I watched Moonlight. I'm going to admit, this sorta movie wouldn't be something that I normally would watch. I said I enjoyed it somewhat. Interesting character piece or whatever

I would have enjoyed it more if the MOVIE PLAYING SOFTWARE DIDN'T BREAK DOWN AND PEOPLE WERE TALKING.

Sorry for all you guys out there that are like this. Watching movies to hang out with your friends, but when I'm watching a show or a film or something and I actually care about it, silence is usually best. If you make noise, I am going to give you the most judgmental side eye that I can give. Normally, I wouldn't be so judgy, but I'm immersed and you're breaking my immersion, you know? I think the only exception I'd make is if someone was crying.

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*does a double backflip into a spin, inadvertently kicking the Krispy Kream sign down*

NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month (I suppose it can be international tho idk why it can't be that). and it is exactly what it sounds. The default challenge is that you have the month of November write a 50,000 word first draft of a novel (though I suppose it can be any manuscript?)

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I really should keep what I am watching updated more yea?

Last weekend I spent my late night and early morning binge watching Castlevania Nocturne. And I just gotta say:

The animation, the music, the character designs, the fight choreography, all that is quite beautiful

But the writing is very much so below standards. Bad pacing, the character arcs are botched, (most of) the dialogue is, to be frank, foolish, the setting is weirdly written away, and so on and so forth; that seriously ruined the experience for me.

Now, I don't know if I'm in a majority or minority here, but that's my current opinion. I feel like I could write my ideas out on my writing thread, but I probably wouldn't unless if someone wanted a thorough explanation. Though of course I could just not write a page on why the writing is bad and like, also have a convo with someone.

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I'm thinking about my personal stories again. Actually making progress on MCs because I actually decided to sit down and develop characters.

Do you remember that one character I drew with the giant gun swords? Yeah I changed him a lot. I was ORIGNINALLY planning to kill him off so his foil could get development, but the new role I assigned him is much more fitting for his character... and it makes me do a double take on thinking about killing him or not.

Totally random but I don't do line art. I just make my sketches my line art. Did I ever say that?

I feel like I'm more lazy compared to the average artists

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Something like that I suppose, but I never really heard of it. All I've head of is "How to make your lineart cleaner!!"

The method doesn't even appear on the net when I search it up.

It's one of those things that seems to be a thing (a trend) for a surprising number of artworks (I mean I think digital painters seem to do it quite frequently, though ofc it feels a bit different as well) but doesn't seem to be regarded as highly. At least not to the point where mainstream tutorials will advise doing it. 
I think maybe it's because the value in lineart is so that beginners can actually learn what elements in their sketch are the most important in conveying shapes, texture, etc.? I dunno.
I do find it funny how you say you're lazy and so clean up your sketches, but meanwhile I [attempt to] do lineart because my sketches are too messy and cleaning them stresses me out. xD

-Galaxian-

Whew been pretty busy for a bit.

Nah. Not really. I mean, yeah, there is, but by then I'm too exhausted to do any of the stuff that requires effort. I guess I just need to reframe a lot of my view points on hobbies and free time or something.

I'd love to give my opinions of questionable quality, but is it possible for me to do so without having read or watched the manga/anime? 
(And if not, is this your way of roping the rest of us in? xD?)

-Galaxian-

Using spoiler tags for purely ironic purposes

Well, obviously, the actual "right answer" depends on the character's personality and how the theme of memories relates to the character himself, but right now I can think of two overarching ideas for why someone might be afraid to remember happy memories.
One, because it's not just a matter of confronting those happy memories, but also the fact that those happy memories were. He can no longer create new, comparable memories with his wife specifically, because she's gone now, and he can't bring her back. That means not only does he have to finally confront the truth of the person/people he lost, he also has to confront the fact that the only way still available to him is to move forward, creating new memories with different people in different places. This addresses the conflict you might perceive with someone being unwilling to go back to happy memories, versus the conventional sad ones. Maybe a possibility is that by accepting those happy memories, you also have to confront an unhappier and very much current reality.
Two, somewhat elaborating on that, is that those happy memories might produce an inner conflict within him. For instance, he may be of the mindset that if he remembers all the beautiful, bright times he had within his hometown, then how cowardly and pathetic would it be for him to give up on the notion of bringing them back, especially since it's implied he's already gotten over the past in his mind? Again, it depends on how he views concepts like bravery and memories, but I can see someone feeling like they'd be a hypocrite for recognizing how much value their memories have to them or a place has to them, but simultaneously wishing to let memories remain memories rather than taking further action to restore them or bring them back.
Again, I feel like the interpretation would vary a good deal if I were to know whom this character is, but so far I think those are two psychological reasons I can think about, though of course there's that personal bias. I think to some degree, I've also experienced a phenomenon similar to what you're describing here, though maybe not in as big of an extreme. It may help to envision a similar case for yourself where you might decide in a similar way to what this character does. (And if you want to hear me describe my personal examples, I could do so as well; I just didn't include them here because I wanted to keep things more general and thought-provoking for others to add on to.)
I reckon the coat of gold might serve a symbolic purpose as well, but I'm not too sure on that because I dunno how it's wielded in the setting and context of this arc. It's just a guess at something the authors might've chosen to put in. My visualization of it is that it parallels how he chose to approach his memories until now--to encase them in a hard shell of sparkling gold, so dazzling yet impermeable.

A coward time? xD
Humans' ways of dealing with trauma tend to be pretty illogical. I mean, think PTSD and Stockholm Syndrome--even though they're somewhat rare or not entirely proven (in the latter's case). Results like those seem to be the nature of strong emotions, like you said, but also the extremity of the situations that lead to them. "I don't deserve to be happy because my life has been very painful" is also something that seems so blatantly illogical at first glance, but then when one factors in how the individual's life might have involved other people belittling them at every little thing and telling them things that imply they don't deserve happiness from a very young age (for example), and I think one can see why loops like those are hard to break. That's kinda on a vaguely related side note (I just really like psychology), but yeah xD. 

Back on Denken's case, I'm not too sure how well I can grasp his character from what's provided on his page, but yeah, the second idea doesn't seem to apply as well, if at all. So instead, I hope you'll take it as a more general, personally influenced concept. 
I included the above portion despite it being only somewhat related to this part because I feel like no matter how old or experienced he might be, the situation is still pretty extreme. Even in a fantasy world, I reckon not too many people can say they experienced their hometown being turned into gold. So maybe the way he thinks about the situation and related factors isn't as consistent with how he usually thinks or acts. But that's only something to consider with you knowing the character better than I do; it's not part of any argument. From what I can tell, the reasons behind why he thinks the way he does is probably not as extreme or twisted, maybe because he has a stronger foundation to fall back on despite all these years of denial(?).