#sorry the 'mxy and wwx just look exactly the same' is just so irritating to me THINK WITH YOUR BRAIN

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in cql I don't think wei wuxian is supposed to be read as being resurrected into mo xuanyus body. it's just his own body from before he died. I've seen people say that the show is just implying that mo xuanyu and wei wuxian are just somehow magically near identical in order to keep xiao zhan as the actor but a) cqls costume department is way too good at making the other characters look different at different ages when it's still the exact same person playing them for them to not even Try to make xiao zhan look Any different post res, b) it's confirmed in the first like 15 minutes of the show that mo xuanyu always wears his mask, so reasonably no one at mo manner would know what his face actually looks like, at least at that age, and I can more reasonably suspend my disbelief to assume that mo xuanyu and wei wuxian just have similar lips and jawlines, and also that the sect that has been actively abusing him for years just doesn't care enough to notice, and c) mo xuanyu was very notably a disciple in the jin sect for a period of time, and wei wuxian dropping his mask to reveal himself at koi tower to everybodys (fake) shock implies two things - that people at koi tower and other cultivators who visited when he was there saw mo xuanyus face while he lived there, and that mo xuanyu and wei wuxian look noticeably different from each other. if they Hadn't seen his face, removing the mask would have no weight, and people could reasonably just be like well I guess that's just what the top of mo xuanyus face looks like, and if they Didn't look noticeably different, then removing the mask would once again have no weight, and the people who know what mo xuanyu looks like would just see mo xuanyu and there would be no reason for alarm. plus, knowing the cultivation world post wei wuxians death, or at the very least knowing jiang cheng, if there was just some kid running around with almost the exact same face as the yiling laozu he would be dead already. I think the assumption is very much supposed to be that like many other things between the novel and the drama, the ritual is simply different in cql, and mo xuanyus body was not sacrificed for wei wuxian to inhabit but rather for wei wuxian - body, soul, and mind - to take its place in the physical realm. wei wuxian is too consistent with wearing the mask around anyone who doesn't already know and the scene where he removes it is too monumental for that not to be true

#sorry the 'mxy and wwx just look exactly the same' is just so irritating to me THINK WITH YOUR BRAIN #like it literally doesn't matter at all I'm fully aware but any time I see someone say that I'm like NO THATS WRONG AND INCORRECT #ghost posts #text #wwx #mxy #lb