#man imagine if jiggy had bothered to go after jiang cheng

[winepresswrath]

I sometimes think about how Jiang Cheng and Jin Ling have 1.5 decades worth of hate and rage against Wei Wuxian deeply rooted in their souls but then suddenly Jiggy and his bootlicking minion admit that it's all part of their evil plan and WWX was just a very convenient scapegoat and suddenly their world collapses because everything is pointless and what should they do with all this hatred now and I'm just 1 second away from collapsing

I think it was already kind of collapsing via exposure to the reality of Wei Wuxian! That’s how you get Jin Ling crying on the pier after Wei Wuxian and Wen Ning show up to rescue them, Jiang Cheng inviting Wei Wuxian into the throne room, and that whole sequence of events at Carp Tower where Jiang Cheng really should be turning in the Yiling Patriarch over to his sister’s brother-in-law so they can set him on fire as a family and instead he is making pointedly snotty comments about how thin Wei Wuxian’s cover story is and letting him roam around his nephew’s home unimpeded. There’s this great line from the book where what Jin Ling takes from the experience is that Wen Ning, Wei Wuxian, and Jin Guangyao did all play a role in his father’s death, but he can’t really hate any of them and he’s not going to feel bad about that. I really like that for him.

#jin ling #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #i do think it's a little bit unfair to wen ning #who regardless of what universe we're in #had no say over either his zombification or what various flautists used him to do to zixuan #but it's not like jin ling knows the ins and outs of flute based zombie control #and anyway i'm sure he'd appreciate the sentiment #i do kind of assume his feelings about jiggy are complicated #not hating someone #even loving them and appreciating that they loved you #is not the same thing as being cool #with the roles they played in the death of your aunt #cousin #father #and to some extent mother #it is very hard being jin ling #i think he handles the experience with a great deal of grace #considering #man imagine if jiggy had bothered to go after jiang cheng #and win his trust #they're coparenting and he's very alone i don't think it #would have been that hard #prickly and disenclined to make new friends as he is #game over right there D: saved again by jc's personality #Anonymous