#do i think he is incongruously good with babies post jin ling

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thinking about jiang cheng adopting/having his own kids (i feel like if he was gonna adopt a kid hes gonna adopt a few because his siblings were his comfort growing up and no matter how it turned out hes not gonna deprive his kids of that) but i can also see it as sort of...accidental kid acquisition where hs doesn't acknowledge that hes basically their father until a little later on. thoughts on jiang chengs maybe kids?

I think Jiang Cheng is already a dad by way of accidental baby acquisition! Although he is also very keenly aware that Jin Ling’s original parents loved and wanted him and he has less than no interest in replacing them, so I don’t think he’d ever refer to himself in that way even in the privacy of his own head. He also spends a lot of time yelling about how losing Yanli as a mother negatively impacted Jin Ling, and while I think most of that is about how amazing Yanli was and the frustration of watching your kid struggle with the particular cruelties of other children who’ve identified a weak spot, I think at least part of his anger comes from an uncomfortable awareness of his comparative inadequacies as a parent.

Having brought down your excellent ask with my sad Jiang Cheng feelings, I can definitely see further accidental baby acquisition in his future! Being left holding a screaming child while other people run towards their heroic doom is just kind of his niche. I also like the idea of him coming across an older kid who’s been through it and is actively furious about their own powerlessness in the face of an unjust and unfeeling world that keeps taking things from them. A little angry orphans club, working through it.

#jiang cheng #the untamed #do i think he is incongruously good with babies post jin ling #having micromanaged a series of #wetnurses and nannies into throwing the baby at him and fleeing the room? #yes #do i think that when left with a child in his care he experiences a miserable certainty that the ways he's fucked up #are probably contagious? #also yes #and hmmm i guess i also think that he's actually pretty worried about siblings #especially the unofficial kind #like on some level he has not articulated to himself i think he is probably both worried about how him having kids would make jin ling feel #and how his attachment to jin ling would make his kids and prospective partner feel #he does not want to be in a situation where his wife is constantly mad at him because she thinks he neglects their kids because he loves #jin ling better #or even just #you disadvantage our clan because you're busy running over to carp tower making sure your nephew doesn't get assassinated #i realized that a little angry orphans club working through it is just batman but you know there's some overlap. #the never getting over anything ever club