#YZY

[pierrelouisauvray]

[piosplayhouse]

[Qi Qingqi x Yu Ziyuan] What could have been

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[pro-royalty]

Chlöe Bailey

[sinisaa]

[qourmet]

been talking a Lot about yu ziyuan on other platforms, sharing a Lot of headcanons and adopting a Lot of meishan yu headcanons...

featuring jinzhu & yinzhu!

[lurkinginnernarrator]

A thought I had, (this isn't a fully thought out meta, just an impression of sorts.)

Something about Wei Wuxian's inherited vengeance.

Where did Wei Wuxian get that vengeance from? Mild-mannered Jiang Fengmian? Benevolent and kind Jiang Yanli? Cangse Sanren, who Wei Wuxian remembers saying something along the lines of remember the good things people do for you not the bad? Wei Changze?

The child of Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze would've likely done something along the lines of protecting the common people and fighting for justice during the Sunshot campaign, but did Wei Wuxian do that?

No, I tell you truly, Wei Wuxian is also the child of Yu Ziyuan. Did they have anything resembling a healthy relationship? No. But the child of Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze wouldn't slaughter thousands in unholy vengeance. Wouldn't extract oceans of blood for every drop stolen.

But the child of Yu Ziyuan would.

That isn't to say, he's only the child of Yu Ziyuan, no, we see glimpses of the influences of his other parental figures throughout the story.

Look at how he doesn't flinch from leaving the proverbial (paradise) mountain to save the wen remnants (CSSR), look at his compassion for the common people (Jiang Yanli); His sense of loyalty (Wei Changze), level headedness (Jiang Fengmian).

Something about how conscious he is of debt. Does that stem from his inherent preference of righteous action? His desire to do right? Yes. But I wouldn't discount his awareness of debt also coming from a quasi-maternal figure like Yu Ziyuan. Now there is a woman aware of debt, what she owes and what is owed to her.

Everyone is shaped by the adult figures in their life, and we inherit many things from them, such as traumas, perspectives and traits.

I posit Wei Wuxian is no different. But, just like Wei Wuxian, we aren't defined by our parental figures.

[indeedgoodman]

[kikki-art]

Everyone Jiang Cheng ever loved dying in a glue trap.

[notklra]

[debonairboys]

Talking down on me

[trans-xianxian]

you've been competing with others your whole life

oceansize by oh wonder / family jewels by marina / emily palermo / something you needed by flipturn / home is not a country by safia elhillo / keeping thing whole by mark strand / least of all, our bodies and other fine machines by natalie wee / the unabridged journals by sylvia plath / slyvia plath / the hours by michael cunningham / watching television by marie howe / space struck by paige lewis / clementine von radics / milk by samia / grief lessons: four plays by euripides trans. anne carson / I used to be a hole in the ground by katie maria / frankenstein by mary shelley / the double image, anne sexton / @/ojibwa / if my body could speak by blythe baird / so we must meet apart by jennifer s cheng / aphrodite made me do it by trista mateer / a little middle of the night by molly brodak / boot theory (crush) by richard sicken / yves olade / for your own good by leah horlik / trista mateer / love letters or suicide notes by doc luben / cocaine and abel by amigo the devil / agua viva by clarice lispector / cut by catherine lacey

[pierrelouisauvray]

[el-blog-de-ness]

[nutcasewithaknife]

Can't help but think about how much of Jiang Cheng’s 'I am nothing without my core' outburst when he wakes up after losing it is not because he needs to be the best but because he just lost the only thing he could do for his mother after she died. If it would've mattered less to him once he'd gotten the time to mourn her loss. If he stays up at night thinking about how all his accomplishments so far were possible because of Wei Wuxian's core, and how that would've disappointed her even more. If he thinks that she would've let Wei Wuxian give him his core had she been around back then, and feels an old but horribly familiar anger burn through him. If he still curses her for her last words to Wei Wuxian and curses himself for parroting them. If he curses Wei Wuxian for believing them.

Can't help but wonder if his dedication to the sect was to protect its people and those who depended on it just as much as it was about continuing a legacy, upholding his duty. If he really did all that to make his dead mother proud and earn his dead father's respect, if these considerations ever took first place in the light of day where he had a sect and a nephew to look after, or got relegated to the late hours when he lay awake, haunted by the past. Can't help but wonder if he ever saw Jin Ling cry, realised that his own mother would've scolded him for showing weakness, and decided that what she thought mattered less than he'd realised.

Can't help but wonder how much his mother still haunts his life.

[sinisaa]

Slawn 4 WET

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