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Bing Bing is Candace’s closest cousin from China. The two spent their childhood together in Fuzhou, and Candace associates Bing Bing with the “Fuzhou Nighttime Feeling” that she remembers so vividly from that time. When Candace moves to the U.S., she and Bing Bing two sporadically stay in touch over WeChat, but their communication falters due to their growing language barrier as Candace’s Mandarin regresses. Later, when China has been completely ravaged by Shen Fever, Candace attempts to reach out to Bing Bing over WeChat to see if he is okay, but she receives no response.
Bing Bing Quotes in Severance
The Severance quotes below are all either spoken by Bing Bing or refer to Bing Bing. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7 Quotes
When I was a kid, I named this feeling Fuzhou Nighttime Feeling. It is not a cohesive thing, this feeling, it reaches out and bludgeons everything. It is excitement tinged by despair. It is despair heightened by glee. It is partly sexual in nature though it precedes sexual knowledge. If Fuzhou Nighttime Feeling were a sound, it would be early/midnineties R&B. If it were a flavor, it would be the ice-cold Pepsi we drink as we turn down tiny alleyways where little kids defecate wildly. It is the feeling of drowning in a big hot open gutter, of crawling inside an undressed, unstaunched wound that has never been cauterized.
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Bing Bing Character Timeline in Severance
The timeline below shows where the character Bing Bing appears in Severance. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 7
...that sells bootleg American movies and porn out the back. The fourth uncle’s son is Bing Bing , Candace’s favorite cousin and first friend. She remembers walking the streets of Fuzhou at...
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Chapter 18
...later that night. Her aunt does not pick up the phone. She sends her cousin Bing Bing a WeChat message in stilted Mandarin and waits for a response.
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