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chaos_knight posted...

I know, but still kind of amazing the series never delved more into it. Or even really questions what Tien even is in canon.

Tropes are often used in storytelling for that exact reason, they don't need to be explained, or steps can be skipped.
It's why the sentence "She took the single red rose, sprayed it with hairspray, and touched a flame to it while whispering "bastard", tells a whole story and works in modern Western media, because of the tropes, and certain things can be missing from the sentence and it still paints a picture and a story.
In other times, say before the Greek age, Middle age and Victorian age cemented a rose (especially the Victorian age with it's "Language of flowers" as a symbol of love/longing) the story wouldn't make nearly as much sense.