The guy is just saying the move names. 1. Flash step, 2. prodigal son ball kick 3. Bear shaking off fur. The woman’s trying to get him to sweep the floor.
Yeah that part is a bit hard to explain but it means something like a person that has gone off to make their own destiny. It can mean anything from a vagrant to wanderer to a self made man and can be either positive or negative.
You can think of it as the ronin archetype without the samurai backdrop. The ro part of ronin is the same kanji.
chinese martial arts sometimes have random names. The names don’t necessarily have any meaning other than describing what the move looks like.
The prodigal son part is similar to some moves that have a random animal name like “monkey stealing peach””Tiger claw”, and the kick ball part is describing the movement.
The Wuxia genre date backs to millenia, and lots of its literature is fiction based on pre-existing fiction that itself are based on previous pre-existing fiction and so forth, all with vaguely pre-established legendary characters and narrative settings. So yes, it's essentially mostly fan fiction lol. Western equivalents could be like stories of King Arthur, Robin Hood, etc, and they're all the same principle of remaking original content before the term "fan-fiction" was coined in the 20th century.
i dunno if these people are trolling you with their answers, but I'm guessing the kick is like an ungrateful parent kicking their "ronin" son out of the house?
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u/Surrounded-by_Idiots 13h ago
The guy is just saying the move names. 1. Flash step, 2. prodigal son ball kick 3. Bear shaking off fur. The woman’s trying to get him to sweep the floor.