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Like she's so repressed and you won't know what goes on in her head but she still grew up in a sect where lying facedown in water bodies looking like drowned corpses was acceptable entertainment .

Yunmeng Jiang is probably weirder than any other great sect what with its weakly implemented nearly non existent hierarchical structure and practices ( catching water ghouls with bare hands , ingestion of spices like a addict , throwing people into lakes as swim practice et etc )

She's a very sweet and polite lady . She's also secretly very weird . She actually does share the humour of Wei Wuxian . His mischievous bullshit genuinely makes her laugh . Her admonishment is only for him to take care of himself and remain away from trouble actually . They both have a very common sense of humour because they ARE SIBLINGS

His descisions were not really out of his own will and he was a child without the understanding of right from wrong with a literal demon having thrust into his hands and immense power and responsibility to uphold it's existence . He was misguided and his descisions heavily manuevered , arising from a need of motivation or sustenance or an ambition in life considering he had yet to experience genuine love and comraderie with anyone .

Wei Wuxian saved the Wen remanants personally and went ahead to live with them because he owed the Wen siblings a huge debt which he intended to pay back however he could . It's not a martyr complex or a morality complex . It's as simple as that. He realised they'll be treated unwell and I'll in Jianghu, knew he had debts owed and tried to pay them back when the situation presented itself. Not everything has to be a convoluted psychological complex , something Western fans are obsessed with, often using therapy and psychological terms for even minute and simple reactions.

Had these Wen remnants been anyone else he owed nothing to , Wei Wuxian would not have personally invested himself in their well being .

EDIT : for those hard of hearing , not once did I insinuate that repayment of debts is not a virtue . Being Asian myself, even I understand what the gravity of an owed debt entails, especially one corcerned not only with your lives but the respect of your deceased family / superior/ mentor . At the cost of treason even ! It is a virtue ! Practiced without much thought because these actions are based on societal principles followed since childhood! Doesn't make Wei Wuxian any differenct from the normal . It's an expected action, not something he does out of his way to do !! It's not a martyr complex or his own self esteem speaking , he's just repaying a debt .

And since the novel is primarily from his perspective he appears very rational because he's constantly analyzing the situation while being under the influence of his emotions and he *appears* and agrees with himself that he *is* acting rationally and practically .

Even under duress , or rather , especially under extreme stress , Wei Wuxian has a tendency of rather than dealing with his emotions, ignoring them and searching for a means to *cure*himself of the *problems* causing him said emotions while simultaneously counteracting the external situations presented to him .

It's not that Wei Wuxian has strict forms of morality or principles , like most people state , it's that his intellectualization often stems from a *need* of having morality he internally couldn't counter . Because he's gone too far in several cases and he really wants to not have to deal with emotions like the guilt and regret and so many unnamable emotions and having a strict code to fall back on in times of indescion .

I also think this to be a reason why he was so tremendously drawn to Lan Wangji . Curiosity and his constant need to analyse his situations and implement the appropriate characterization and mental defences .

I'm using Tumblr for anonymity and also because I barely used conventional social media and I KNOW someone does have a detailed red string conspiracy board since 2017 so pls send me a google drive copy .

Most haters I've come across are like , so weird about him . The only MDZS content they post is always about Jiang Cheng . And they constantly place every thing he does to the point that the fact he still breathes after Wei Wuxian's death as WRONG . You post bashing on another character and suddenly Jiang Cheng haters arrive in the comments like a summoned Soul Of The Damned to provide just how much worse JC is compared to everyone, ever .

What's surprising is that they don't seem to like Wei Wuxian that much either . He's only a tool to further demean JC as a character and a person .

The post isn't even about him and they're going to nitpick at it till they find a suitable phrase to post EVEN MORE HATRED over Jiang Cheng . He's mentioned in a less negetive and a somewhat neutral light and suddunly you're illiterate and lack reading comprehension to not paraphrase him as an antagonist that deserves to be held responsible for every wrong in Jianghu ever and should be put down like a rabid dog .

Sometimes I want to approach them and go "If you're being held at gunpoint please blink twice" but nooo . These people are like , so weird about him . On purpose. They make their entire MDSZ fandom contribution about him on purpose!!

Like I'm sorry for liking this character because he's so well written and complex and complicated Honoured Individual , but are you in a position to call me a mindless braindead person for that when your ENTIRE life revolves around them ???? It's like , so funny . Once someone clocks you down as *disdainfully voice insert* JCFan , every post has to be About How Stupid You Are To Subtly Imply That JC Is Good .

I think if that person is Jiang Cheng , it's even better . He despises political shenanigary . What worth is holding an affair over another going to gain him anyway ? Qin Su is beautiful and so is her husband . He has two lovers and no commitment, something he didn't want to nake since it could have reprucussions in the future while his sect is so unstable .

Actually , he would think currying favour with the Jin heir is even better . Not only does he have more open access to his nephew and his sister (she lives mfers) , he's given funds !!!

What more could he possibly want . Perhaps having someone on his side also provides mental stability to Jin Guangyao ( hopefully thinking) and he kills off his father far earlier . Nie Mingjue gets increasingly doted upon by Lan Xichen and Lan Xichen only because the youngest sworn brotherhood is very busy with his new wife and his mistress (?) mister (?) . So he improves , and doesn't die .

Jin *chronic people pleaser* Guangyao whose compliments are either flattery or they go extremely overboard when genuine (he compliments Lan Xichen's qugin skills by stating he's going to demolish his own because it's useless now that he's been shown *true* skill ) with Jiang *emotionally constipated with issues of selt worth so fantastically low it's surprising how he's alive* Wanyin are going to get along in either a therapy modulation way or "I'm going to make these circumstances so much worse'' way .

Qin Su herself might come to understand that her husband loves her in a different sense , that perhaps he's never seen her sexually and that he's been gay all this while . She has a lover , a doting husband and a baby that she miscarries under mysterious circumstances but she falls pregnant with another soon enough. She becomes overprotective, hyperawate of possible danger and this boy grows up well . He doesn't die and Jin Guangyao becomes a father (uncle) . Jiang Cheng has become emotionally bound to the couple now that his son / daughter is born . His loyalty is now , to the Jin , far greater.

(Arbitrarily Jin Guangyao would simply never try to endanger his reputation, something he values so much . And that he would never actually let a bastard child live as his son , it's conjecture at this point . We can still entertain bullshit etc etc )

Do you think Ning Yingying, naive and young and sweet grieves , upon the death of her old master in the Palace of the man who slaughtered him ?

Do you think she knew her insistence that he never touched her will be disregarded ? (Its never implied canonically that she claimed her master to bear inappropriate feelings towards her , it was a tidbit added by the Palace Master to ingratiate his image of a lecher even more , no prosttitute is questioned , no other documents about his slave contract or even Qiu haitang's origin is presented . This is a stage and Ning Yingying has no place ). Do you think she was angry and hurt and she wanted to save her shidi when she couldn't before ? Do you think it never occurred to her that her shifu , great prominent and untouchable could have ever required saving ?

She was cajoled by Luo Binghe . Who was lost for five years . Who she'd effectively raised . Who she loved , her shidi and then grieved , alone on a peak that celebrated his death . Do you think she took her anger , braided it into a thick chord and suffocated her younger self ? Do you think that when her little shidi came back , dark robed and angry like the caricatures of fallen gods , his mark of sin as brilliant as the blood she wiped off him when he was little , when she too , was little , was hopeful . And she's been angry for so long . At injustice to him by the shifu she holds such regard for . At the disregard to her personally simply because she's only a ditzy girl , she found comraderie? Hand in hand she loved him , as she had all these years. Her grief making a desperate woman out of her she agrees to wed him . To do whatever he says . That she was empathized with , no matter how false , for once. And she would do her utmost to uphold it .

Do you think when her sect razes in flames and screams of her shidimei and shige ring in her ears and her shidi , Husband now , comes covered in ashes and his other , other wives beside her follow him gleeful at the carnage she realises that it was never about justice . That's she was implicitly involved in burning down her home with innocent people inside ? That her shidi , Husband only wanted revenge. That's he's not who she remembers? That she was , and still is a tool . It only changed hands . And he intends to use her to further doom the man who raised her .

Do you think Ning Yingying finds trophies from his shifu's house in her husband's rooms . Do you think she does not know how to grieve the people she'd stopped loving long ago but she was wrong about it ? Because Ning Yingying loved her sect , loved her shifu , loved the Qing Jing disciples . They were a family , through Luo Binghe had never become a part of it . Even if she began resenting then , she never did stop loving them .

Do you think she looks at Liu Mingyan and wants to kill her ? The traitor to her own sect , the girl who killed her own shifu , who got Ning Yingying's shifu killed , married to her husband not for live , not for aid but simply for revenge . Do you think she finds the anger turned grief turned rage inside her once shimei and finds a twisted sort of empathy there ? Do you think she flinches at her sight , knowing she could have become that ?

Do you think Liu Mingyan despises Ning Yingying's Qing Jing greens that she'd taken to wearing lately , now that the insurmountably exhausting size and drama of the Harem keeps increasing. Do you think it's a way of somehow , somehow rekindling her friendship, her love with her husband , who brings home new women every week ? Or is it her own quiet rebellion? Her own way of grieving ? Because Ning Yingying is exhausted and this is all she can do .

What does she make of Qiu haitang ? Does she realise the similarities between them ? Does she realise that she was a placeholder to her shifu ? That even to him she'd been but a tool , a thing . That her shifu had much regards for the woman who doomed him to a death worse than that of a pig ? Does she weep ? Does she try to change herself desperately ?

Do you think she ever finds courage to visit the water prisons that holds her Master ? Alive or dead or otherwise ?

Do you think once Luo Binghe returns from the other world , he spends more time with her than ever before? Do you think it's her cold eyes ? Her stolen fans painted by her Master's undefeated hand ? Do you think she becomes, in a desperation to change herself, someone else ? ( And who else could she becomes but him ? )

I am the shape you made me . Filth teaches filth . Father .

I want Shen jiu to undergo the sheer horror of interacting with his least like shidi , who is..now.......a woman .

His brain shortcircuits and speedruns seven stages of grief in five seconds max , the last two involving more denial and then astral projection because he has a mild ( horrifying) deviation . He doesn't know what to do . His contigencies are failing . His vitrol evaporated and the brute , who looks like a beauty calamitous enough to cause wars has his hands folded and covered in monster blood . Like , he can't bully her !! That's a woman!!! Said woman just about punted him on his peak . He still doesn't want to draw his sword

I want every fucking demon falling for the Lady Cultivator that whoped their asses in five minutes . Chaos !! Marriage offers everywhere !!!! Nothing can be done here !! Liu Qingge still doesn't stop his routines , most of which are fucking off to find new monsters .

The sect leader is desperately trying to protect the honour of his newly acquired shimei and fight off suitors all while simultaneously trying to coax back his strategist who's ,.....stopped functioning . All together .

Shang Qinghua is drowning in paperwork . He's crying , probably .

Liu Mingyan is busy writing yuri rpf .

The sect is contemplating lockdown . Liu Qingge, unfazed , fucks off to fight monsters again .

Tianlang jun shows up. He has things to say .