Forever having thoughts about Sect Leader Ouyang telling everyone that if even the kids are fighting they ought to be as well at the Second Siege of the Burial mounds. Because almost everyone agrees that, even without their spiritual energy they can’t leave the children to fight by themselves.
Lan Sizhui has to be at least 17, possibly 18, and most of the other juniors are a similar age with Jin Ling being on the younger end at 15. Everyone agrees that these are children (they’re right) and that they should be protecting them and preventing them fighting and running into danger, that their safety is a priority and they shouldn’t be involved with the adults’ conflicts.
And it’s just- Jiang Cheng was 17 when he became a wartime sect leader. Wei Wuxian was 17 when he was thrown into the burial mounds and became one of the most feared combatants of the Sunshot Campaign. Lan Xichen was 19 when he became Sect leader. Jin ZiXuan was maybe 18 when he was doing most of the actual frontline fighting for his sect.
I’m not sure how much that theme carried through for other clans but likely a considerable amount since the Wen’s had eradicated the leadership of many of the minor clans first.
But the Juniors are children and it’s the adults’ job to protect them. And the adults are there, they’re present and they are planning to leave the children the hell out of it because that’s an option now. These kids aren’t allowed in their war conferences- they’re only there for this as hostages because it’s a given that their parents would come and rescue them.
They’re only there for the rest of the plot because some of them keep running off and ignoring their families’ pleas to just stay within their line of sight and out of trouble. Many thoughts about how these people who led major military campaigns in their teens are now extremely protective of their own teenage children. Like the cultivation world fucked up on so many fronts but at least they seem to be doing something sort of right.
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