Ethically sourced necromancy

Shen Yuan: horny and/or chronically online

Luo Binghe: you cherish childlike innocence even when it's twisted to the point it's barely recognizable. You love to explore how trauma shapes a person

Luo Bingge: "free my man even though he did all that shit"

Shen Jiu: you're able to look past how people present themselves and see the hurt child inside, ironically similar to Luo binghe fans but you'll never admit it

Yue Qingyuan: horny

Shang Qinghua: horny

Mobei Jun: you have a soft spot for characters who are cold due to child neglect. Also you are horny

Sha hualing: horny

Liu Mingyan: you LOVE to say "God forbid women have a hobby" in response to everything women do no matter how absurd

Liu Qingge: like CRAZY horny

Ning Yingying: you are puppies and rainbows and sunshine

Tianlang Jun: you love to call him a slut even though he's probably only had sex like one time

Hideous things should be kept hidden away.

NYY: Kay-kay!

MQF: Would you say that Shen Qingqiu favors you more over other disciples? For example, do you receive special treatment or gifts from him?

NYY: oh yeah, Shizun never makes me do chores so my hands are pretty and soft like a lady’s! And he gives lots of gifts, but I’m not allowed to say where they’re from :(

MQF: I see… and would you say Shen Qingqiu has more physical contact with you than others?

NYY: Yeah, Shizun doesn’t like to touch adults so I make sure he doesn’t get lonely! I give him lots of hugs, and sometimes he even lets me sleep with him when one of us has nightmares!

MQF: I— I don’t know what to say to this…

SJ:

MQF:

My Recipes & MXTX Characters: Part 6

like. that guy did not care what anyone thought. he had a whole system for ignoring yu ziyuan's opinions when he felt she was wrong. he's intense about duty. wei wuxian was very much his favorite student.

if that favorite student had in fact secretly been his own son, he'd have processed the paperwork at the first opportunity. and by the time the boys were teens, have given serious consideration to passing jiang cheng over for the inheritance, if wwx showed any willingness to take the job. because he had serious concerns about jiang cheng's psychological fitness for the role.

acknowledging a bastard with an existing legal father and adoption are afaik the same exact legal process; he wouldn't have had to lie or openly admit anything to do it.

(which is exactly why if he had adopted the kid everyone would have considered that an admission, regardless of the facts. which pretty plainly would not have stopped him. because if jiang fengmian cared enough about that sort of thing to make his decisions on that basis, he wouldn't have handled the entire wwx situation with the deliberate shamelessness he in fact did.)

and which is why, while this logic probably is very identity-affirming for wei wuxian, it only makes jiang cheng feel worse. 'no see, he's not actually a threat to your position, because if he was you'd have lost already.'

jgy remembers su she’s name and compliments him on his skills, and su she basically swears his undying loyalty to jgy

wwx is nice to wen ning and compliments his shooting skills, and wen ning decides that he’ll do anything for this person he just met

wen ning/su she parallels are delightful to me partly because I keep seeing people sort of have that realization over again (I think I’ve gotten ‘OHHHHH sms is jin guangyao’s wen ning!’ replies on a couple of my posts over time :P) and every time I’m like yes!!! welcome 2 the revelation! i should make membership cards!’ yelling about All (most) of the parallels and some vague thoughts about….. Meaning…. under the cut because it’s too damn long!

Every character in this book who’s survived to the present day is walking around under the immense weight of both victim and perpetrator trauma thanks to this culture of clan extermination and if we’re not engaging with that then what are we even doing with these characters, you know? That’s the meat, that’s the juice! Does it change how the murderer carries the weight of their act if the murdered old woman was your own mother, or your enemy’s mother, or an old sex worker nobody cared about? If you did it for revenge or personal gain or to save your own life or the lives of your family? Does it change how you carry the loss of your loved ones if you understand the reasons they were killed? If it was socially sanctioned? If they were guilty or innocent, soldiers or civilians?

Tianlang-Jun and Su Xiyan's Trade Deal.