#fengmian

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

奉眠Fengmian

Hello there folks! Dropping a line here for anyone who cares, Chaper Five and Chapter Six of DGP have been posted on A03:)

When They look at each other...

went as Madam Yu and Fengmian with my bestfriend last cosmatsuri

Lin Fengmian (Chinese, 1900-1991)

Opera Series. Beauty defying Tyranny, N/D

yeah i had though that way of talking about the situation looked familiar

i hope you can bear with my rambling here, i haven't had a proper conversation/discussion about something im interested in in probably ever, or maybe i just talk like this who knows

anyway, to be clear i dont hate jiang cheng for (most of) the decisions he made like to understand his though process you'd have to recognize the inferiority complex that he was always trying to hide but was unfortunately instilled into him by the piss poor way that the jiangs were raising their two (unofficially three) children while dealing with their own relationship issues and constantly fighting in front of them

then there was the massacre then the loss of his core then wei wuxian went missing in the middle of the war only to return a demonic cultivator who refused to pick up his sword then after the war as the heir now the head of the clan he really had to pick up the politics game because there was literally no one else to fix things up at home and his sister was getting married and the jin clan inserting themselves as the new power and then wei wuxian does something goes and gets him self ostracized from the entire cultivation world by protecting 'war criminals' of whom jiang cheng really doesnt care about since he really just hates any with the surname wen at this point….

[though i don't know if jiang cheng really had any idea what he was doing not to mention i don't know if his voice would have had much sway in a court][though i would assume if he was at the big meetings then he must've kept his head down because there's no way that those guys wouldn't have brought up to jiang cheng that wei wuxian was once the head disciple and they should 'hear out his opinion']

anyway i didn't mean to start a big discussion though its been fun

My initial point was less about what they stood to lose but more of a what they would stand to gain by protecting him like you know him still being alive

Being that they both cared about him the decision weighed on both of them. like when you weigh in your mind if you alone can really stand to let him be killed by other cultivators or will you stand aside and let it happen (lead the charge as if he brought it on himself after killing your sister and her husband he really is too far gone)(or even something like 'at this point there really is nothing i can do' though considering his reaction to wei wuxian being brought back to life i don't know about this one)(but we know the way he hides concern behind anger so… but also he was definitely threatening wei wuxian with fairy and thats just not great. hes changed at least a little in the time since wei wuxians been gone and if they could just talk properly maybe we could find out how much)

Like they both wanted to try protect him but only one of them did actually attempt it and that was both too late and also not late enough and the other one (supposedly) led the attack against him though it was a moot point in the end seeing as none of these three idiots could talk to each other properly or literally any other person that they trusted, if there really was another way out of this situation it would have been in actively figuring out a plan

but lan wangji was still hesitating on following what his clan says is right and what he thinks is right, jiang cheng is so angry and his inferiority complex and all the ways his mom talked to him about wei wuxian keeps popping up at the worst moments not to mention the stress of rebuilding his clan, wei wuxian meanwhile is now public enemy number one and his almost brother keeps trying to ask him questions so hes getting super defensive all the time and never answering properly (almost like hes hiding something)

also i would just like to say that as far as i remember wei wuxian was so strong he probably didn't need to be protected especially since people led an attack on him at the burial mounds a place where he would literally be at his strongest but after jin zixuan then the wens and yanli he was actually at his lowest mentally and wangji was out of commission at this point so when jiang cheng showed up in the attack against him he probably thought that he really was alone

but i can talk about wei wuxians depression all day (its one big 'did you fall or did you let go' type of situation) thats besides the point.

he needed support and he needed to know he had support but he didn't then they both lost him

anyway anyway i was just making an initial observation about a difference between jiang cheng and lan wangji,

it may have been circumstance and personal morals but it was a really obvious difference thats all i'm saying- obviously this is just a one sentence explanation and these characters are deeper than this and those were the younger versions of them, it was a really hard time for all of them