Komorebi

wwx & jc: shared one braincell, with the braincell frequently in transit. wwx had it while cooking up demonic cultivation. jc had it while rebuilding his sect to stand as one of the great 4. neither of them had it while they sacrificed organs for each other or when wwx went to the wen remnants and jc led a siege against him

jyl: had one, but was worn down by the lack of braincells around her. at jzx's coffin, she finally said goodbye to it and headed to an active battlefield #yolo

jzx: nothing. nada. bless jl's dad but openly demeaning ur betrothed infront of ur entire generation and her younger siblings does not a braincell make

lwj: had one, but it flew off with the wind that stirred wwx and lwj's hair during their rooftop confrontation

lxc: had one, but it was stolen by jgy when (by lan standards) they made out sloppy style, got married then consummated the marriage infront of everyone present. (ive nvr watched untamed, but im referring to that one scene where their hands touch. scandalous)

jgy: obtained one watching the world tumble around him as he went down jinlintai's stairs for the first time. nothing quite like a shock like that to change your perspective. obtained lxc's braincell, which made him evil for Reasons.

nmj: also had one, he did have to run a sect, but it was tied up in that and the war and didnt contribute much to anything else. upon his death, the braincell returned to nhs, who promptly broke down as the braincell gave him brainpower to uncover dage's murder plot

nhs: inherited nmj's, but did have one, only it was solely for birds and sneaking porn around lqr. (he never needed to use it before, bc dage would always help him out). using the newfound power of 2 braincells, he orchestrated playing 5d chess with jgy

jgy didnt think/didnt want to think that nmj's braincell went to nhs. bc that would mean that dage!nmj who loved nhs still existed, dage!nmj who yelled and shouted at nhs but never quite forced him to do anything he didnt want. dage!nmj who wrote jgy a recommendation letter for his father. dage!nmj who swore brotherhood with him. dage!nmj who didnt care jgy's mum was a whore and elevated him to his right hand. dage!nmj, who i believe jgy, once upon a time, loved. dage!nmj, who jgy killed.

it was easier to think of a nmj who didnt forgive his crimes or accept his apologies. who distrusted him and sought to discredit him. nmj, who in a fit of rage, threw jgy down jlt's stairs like his father had done. nmj, who was the reason, must have been the reason that their relationship deteriorated so badly jgy didnt protest against killing nmj.

otherwise, it meant that jgy killed a dage!nmj, only nmj was no longer his dage. and for jgy who grew up with basically nothing, i think that wld have been worse

Jiang Cheng looks like his dad.

I haven't been watching the anime, though I love fanfics of MDZS and i know all the plot points, but I saw JC'S S3 clip and just-

His entire life he's been told he's like his mum. Her attitude, her personality, her face, her temper. He's even explicitly stated his dad doesn't like him because JC's like his mum and his dad doesn't like his mum.

He's grown up thinking he's the mirror image of her with the same flaws that just makes them unloveable.

But the boy looks like his dad. Not with the way he wears his hair normally, but in his devastation, when it flows loose around him like JFM wore his hair. His colouring matches JFM's like the artist used the eye drop tool. They have identical eyes. I couldn't find a better picture, but i swear he has the same, angular jaw. His eyebrows are his dad's (his mum's were slightly thicker).

His parents died when he was a teen. With the way Lotus Pier burned, it's unlikely he'll have portraits of them, and most everyone else his senior that would know his parents have passed.