#and then JGY was like ‘yes. good idea’ because Jinlin Tai makes people INCREDIBLY paranoid

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I love the Su Minshan-Jin Guangyao-Xue Yang dynamic cuz it’s just. Three dudes, each going steadily more insane over time for their own personal reasons, each almost certainly accidentally influencing the other two to reach new heights of cuckoo bananas that they never would have reached by themselves. For over a decade. It’s awesome.

#there are a lot of very complex reasons why JGY ends up as totally unhinged as he is by Guanyin Temple #but I simply cannot discount the idea that hanging around Xue Yang was a contributing factor #in the timeline of cql canon Xue Yang has been in full mental breakdown mode for what. seven YEARS by the time WWX comes back? yikes #also. while I don’t want to discount JGY’s intelligence I think the idea of hiding a weapon UNDER. YOUR SKIN #is so deranged it could only have come from Xue Yang #and then JGY was like ‘yes. good idea’ because Jinlin Tai makes people INCREDIBLY paranoid #especially if you have no allies and are 100% convinced that no one would ever help you and everyone is constantly plotting your downfall #and if you have done a handful of very bad things that you feel very guilty about #like I think JGY’s mental health is way worse than JGS’ ever was because JGS simply doesn’t feel bad for doing bad things #JGY feels absolutely HORRIBLE about doing bad things (…usually) but he does them anyway #and then they haunt him. and then he spirals slowly for over a decade