I have noticed, in the mzds fandom, that many people have a fixed view of characters. What I mean is, they'll take what they know of a character by the end of a story and apply that to the character throughout the entire story, as though they were static and unchanging. Jiang Cheng is angry, always and forever. There was nothing to cause him to be angry, he just Is.
Jin Guangyao is a Betrayer, and Wei Wuxian never trusts him ever. There was nothing to cause him to Betray, he just did that and it's what he was always going to do.
Lan Xichen Does Not Trust Wei Wuxian, and he never ever had.
Nie Huaisang *is* a devious, clever, Schemer. He was always scheming, he is always Up to Something.
etc etc
it's quite strange. not sure why people do that. sometimes people do that even when it is explicitly contradicted in the text (eg, Wei Wuxian, if he thought about Jin Guangyao at all, thought that he was a pretty good guy with great ideas).
