#this isn’t to demean what XLH also went through

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I looked up the age of the child actors for young Xiao Lanhua (Xiyun) and Dongfang Qingcang because I thought that would be indicative of what their canon ages at the time should be.

Xiao Lanhua’s was eleven when the show filmed, which yeah that tracks. I always imagined her as 10-11 when she was sealed away.

But bb DFQC’s was also eleven, and wow if that isn’t the most excruciating thing I’ve ever heard. Eleven!! When he survived endless torture and was forced to kill his own father!! When he was put on the throne. He wasn’t even a preteen yet. I hate it so much.

#love between fairy and devil #I know it isn’t like ‘wow explicitly canon he’s eleven now’ but I assume they meant him to be in an age range of a couple years max #otherwise they would have cast differently #also we have no idea how immortals age so both of them may technically have been older #but that was their physical and mental age #bb DFQC has two actors #one plays him when he’s even younger #but this is the one that plays him when everything goes down #this isn’t to demean what XLH also went through #she watched everyone she knew and loved get murdered #but because her memory was wiped until she was reborn it didn’t really shape her #now she has to live with it though and man… #like she has memories of a family now which I’m sure she loves #but she also has… that