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This thing. The face-tilted-down, eyes-tiled-up, Princess Diana-pose thing. This particular example includes the Small Smile (tm). To say nothing of the dimples, of course. Like, I wanna put this poor, tired, little character in my pocket and feed him little snacks and let him take a fucking nap. I will hide him under my hat. This could probably be termed the "Poor Little Meow Meow response."

I know that's more an actor/acting/character depiction thing than a character thing but does that count?

A more character-specific favorite moment from the novel* is during the Sunshot Campaign after a battle when MY (I sort of mentally separate MY and JGY as two different "eras" of the character; don't know if that's common) comes across a baby that somehow survived the fighting and he scoops it up and soothes it and, if you've listened to the audio drama, it's really sweet and it's an element of the character that I think gets overlooked a lot.

I don't want to get into fandom discourse. I like to keep my head below the parapet when it comes to fandom discourse. But I do feel like you have to acknowledge the (apparent) contradictions in a character to appreciate the complexity of characterization (and the complexity of people in reality). So here's this character who ends up being pinned as The Big Bad for understandable reasons but who still loves and misses his mom a lot and will do things like rescue babies from a battlefield and sing them a little lullaby.

Also, memo to Jin Guangshan: Let him hold his nephew. Let him. Let him hold the baby. A lot of killing could have been avoided if you had just. Let. Him. Hold. The. Baby.

But no. In classic JGS fashion, he's gotta fuck everything.