#he and hua cheng are more passive and detached with their care

[navarice]

what i love so much about wei ying is how much he actually loves children. like he canonically is a good mentor/father figure and he wants to have kids of his own someday. it tears me apart inside thinking about how much he suppresses with jin ling because…that’s his shijie’s son, and in another world, he would’ve been the best uncle jin ling ever had. and with a-yuan being his “little one”, he was so heartbroken every time he thought a-yuan probably didn’t make it out of the burial mounds. in yi city, he was the ideal teacher: giving the disciples chances to figure out the solution for themselves and getting some hands on experience by guiding them on what to look for when night hunting…

lan zhan and wei ying’s dynamic with children is so special because anyone with half a brain can tell they care so much about all the kids they come across. truly after the war, with all the orphans and complicated family dynamics, to watch two people who mutually love and support each other through hell and back also simultaneously adopting every broken child is so healing, even when it doesn’t work out in the end.

#mdzs #mao dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #wei wuxian #wei ying #lan zhan #when comparing the three: sqq is okay w kids #and tbh it only worked out bc he knew so much abt lbh #xl is better than sqq but children doesn’t suit him like that #he and hua cheng are more passive and detached with their care #but goddamn wwx is he good #he has that soft spot and he’s silly and he spoils the kids he comes across rotten #he could never even punish them if they do something bad #at most he’ll probably express disappointment (which would be soul crushing tbh) and hand them to lwj to do it for him #it’s the middle of the night #and I’m crying about fatherhood in a fictional book #good night #someone send help