the untamed

#anyway its su she giving up everything he'd worked his whole life for to protect jin guangyao#and follow him to the ends of the earth so he wouldn't have to face it all alone#he clawed his way up! made his own sect! succeeded where others wanted very much for him to fail!#faced ridicule and scorn to become leader of a rising sect and was by all accounts good at it too!#and he left it all behind for the one person who bothered to give a damn#plus its not like he has anything to fall back on. he's throwing away his own support net because he needs to to be the support net for jgy#no one else is going to pick him back up#and no one can argue he's even doing it for the greater good or on principle or because its a good and noble thing to do (@jin-zixun)

my only crimes were loving too much and confusing love with violence and so also extreme violence too i guess also i stole a few things too

i love the way wei wuxian and jin guangyao have no relationship at all. like you've got your hero and you've got your villain and they're highly complementary characters who wind up being instrumental in each other's downfalls, and also they met like, what, four times? with zero one on one conversations? jin guangyao barely even bothers to manipulate wei wuxian during the temple showdown and wei wuxian watches jin guangyao die with all the emotion of someone who just noticed a dent in their car and is wondering how it got there

This is really never more apparent than when a fanfic author is writing a canon AU where the situation doesn't quite line up to the original events, and the author is presented with the problem of trying to make Wei Wuxian care enough to foil whatever Jin Guangyao's scheme is

nie huaisang in cql episode 50: just ended an 18 year relationship. im ok tho it wasnt my relationship.