#i will not stop yelling about this until ppl give lxc the respect he fucking deserves

[a-cutebird]

it’s so irritating to see people say that lxc trusted meng yao/jgy “too much”, like... the ONLY reason y’all think this is because jgy is a Bad Guy™, which we ONLY know because we, the audience, were granted the privilege of seeing the truth behind this bright-eyed, dimple-cheeked twink - a truth that lxc never saw, not because he was blind, not because he didn’t try, but because jgy deliberately deceived him for over a decade.

i guarantee that if jgy had turned out to be a Good Guy™ like fandom darling wwx, we’d all be singing lxc’s praises for sticking by his side despite the whole world being against him, the same way that folks sing lwj’s praises for being stupidly loyal to wwx despite there being multiple witnesses to him committing murder (accidental or not) and then, later on, despite personally seeing wwx slaughter hundreds of lan sect members.

we cheer for lwj’s devotion because wwx is portrayed as a Good person with a kind heart who gets traumatized & corrupted by external forces.

but we condemn lxc’s because jgy is ultimately shown to be a Bad person with a gross, self-serving attitude who is given multiple chances to redeem himself but continues to be selfish until his dying breath.

it’s an annoying double standard. and lxc deserves better.

#mdzs #lan xichen #lxc #jin guangyao #jgy #meta #i know i've already made similar posts #but #i will not stop yelling about this until ppl give lxc the respect he fucking deserves #also if it sounds like i'm bitter about wangxian #it's 'cause i am lmao #nothing against the ship #there's just a lot of annoying shit that surrounds wangxian #this sort of double standard being one of them #but just to be clear #wangxian itself is really sweet & wonderful #dumping on other characters or using them only as plot devices for wangxian or #ignoring all sorts of contexts just to prop up wangxian #is not sweet or wonderful