you know what’s crazy? how lan xichen defended jin guangyao saying that though the world had many misconceptions about him he still trusted his character just to have that affirmation thrown at his face — no, it’s not even about the naivety of it that makes me laugh, it’s about how he was the person to have seen lan wangji’s grief, had seen his persistence in raising a kid on behalf of wei wuxian, had seen his trials and his willingness to be beside wei wuxian regardless of the world telling him that the guy’s evil. he’s seen it firsthand.
all the while he probably must’ve pitied his brother, uniting with the sects to kill wei wuxian nonetheless, because he didn’t believe in the patriarch’s innocence. it’s that unconscious patronisation that makes it all the more ironic. and the fact that it was exactly jin guangyao’s actions that led to wei wuxian’s downfall.
i know lan xichen’s a good person, but it’s obvious that him and lan qiren had judged wei wuxian countless time throughout it all, and not only because he was ‘tainting’ lan wangji. i was quite annoyed when he called wei wuxian ‘his only mistake’, because, in fact, lan xichen was the one who mistakenly believed in the biggest villain, so he doesn’t have any room to talk. he committed three mistakes: by his perspective of lan wangji and wei wuxian’s relationship, of wei wuxian’s evilness and in his sworn brother as a whole.
it’s more than justified that he took his time in seclusion. it takes a while to come around such a massive mistake (did he think that too, when he saw his brother doing the same all those years ago?). not to mention that it must’ve been a big blow to realize that nie huaisang wasn’t the person he thought he was as well.
this parallel just came to me and i had to rant it so. i know it’s obvious, but yeah. don’t get me wrong, i just think lan xichen having this bit of a ‘fate’ is so good to the novel. brilliant move, mxtx, brilliant move.
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mdzs headcanon of the day #251 !
jin ling is genuinely so gps reliant and will cry if you bring it up. he thinks if he ever had to navigate without gps it’s over
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in my opinion, iang cheng isn’t much of a nice person. at least not anymore. i hate to remind you that, and i don’t judge people who like him regardless, it’s okay, but he isn’t a nice person at all. ignoring for a moment the fact that he was brutal towards who knows how many demonic cultivators because he held a grudge against wei wuxian (because of a grudge, like, seriously??), he refused to help the wens.
and i don’t care about his reasons for it, i don’t care about any political conflict he wanted to avoid, he refused to help the people who he knows (he knows, yes, because he woke up in the middle of a house with wen qing and wen ning taking care of him, didn’t he?) helped him in his lowest moment.
wen ning and wen qing went against their own sect to shelter jiang cheng and wei wuxian. and jiang cheng couldn’t offer one word of defense on behalf of them when they needed. and worst of all: he’s been in the burial mounds, he checked with his own eyes the lives of innocent people, he’s seen a kid in the middle of the refugees — and still he refused to help.
the other sect leaders haven’t been there, so they have a bit more credit for not knowing who were in the burial mounds. but jiang cheng did. and he just didn’t give a fuck. that’s how huge of a difference exist between him and wei wuxian. it was inevitable that one time or another wei wuxian would break his promise. and for me, jiang cheng deserves it.
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and you know you're going to fall
written for the 2023 rally for palestine raffle; a timestamp for wangxian witch/familiar verse!
Word Count: 7.5k
Summary: Three homecomings.
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The backstory that I want to know the most from MDZS is Madam Lan. I have so many questions about how that story went.
Why did she kill the teacher? I doubt it was just a fun little murder she committed cause if it was then they never would have let her live let alone let her children be the heirs of the sect. Plus a woman killing a man in a position of power is usually for a good reason.
If she and Qingheng-jun were in seclusion in different houses, how did Wangji and Xichen come about? Like did they have conjugal visits with each other or something? Was it only because Qingheng-jun needed and heir? If so, why was Wangji also allowed to be born?
How did she die? Was it suicide because she was confined to a home and only allowed to see her children once a month? Did she get sick?
Why were her children only allowed to see her once a month? That is a really long time to go in between visits especially for kids who were probably taken away from her right after being born.
I just think there is a lot about her that needs to be explained.
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