#big fan of mu qing calling out feng xin for attaching his identity to the goal of ‘protection’
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big fan of characters who understand each other so well that they are able to use each other’s weaknesses against each other. characters who have been inseparable for so long (whether they like it or not) that they’ve witnessed each other’s crest and fall and studied each other’s dispositions like specimens beneath glass. as a result they’ve crawled into the cracks in each other’s skin & mapped out the soft underbelly hidden beneath all that confidence and pride. so now they’re calling out the other person’s most shameful flaws, sniping at the most sensitive bits of scar tissue they try so desperately to hide, digging out their most humiliating memories or those filled with grief.
if you’re lovers or close friends, then you’re forced to realize that yes, to be loved is to be known, but to be known is also to flay yourself open. you cannot declare yourself above the risk of having someone take advantage of your wounds & you cannot transcend the vulnerability that comes as love’s collateral damage
if you’re enemies… then all i can say is that the sweet respite of enduring coexistence for so long is that you know precisely how to take each other apart. you know how to play the other like putty beneath your fingertips by tugging at their pain points, and that in itself is a glorious thing—but equally so, the knowledge that they can enact the exact same thing on you is inordinately terrifying
#xi text#relationships#tropes#dynamics#fengqing#big fan of feng xin calling out mu qing’s tendency to hide his true self behind a frosty sardonic exterior#calling out how he keeps contradicting himself by convincing everyone including himself that he isnt kind#but he decides to be kind when he needs to be and can be immensely self sacrificial#for those he cares about#calling out how he speaks in circles in order to circumvent telling the truth for fear of the abjection and exposure associated with that#calling out how illogical it is for him to push everyone away despite longing for affection#equally so#big fan of mu qing calling out feng xin for attaching his identity to the goal of ‘protection’#for being nothing without the person he follows and guards like a loyal dog#because who are you without the person you’ve sworn your entire life to#what happened to you when you fell apart with xie lian and you lost the person who reigns at the centre of your life#werent you lonely#werent you aimless#arent you scared it will happen again#you are#you’re terrified#and fx to mq is like#does it please you when you drive away everyone who tries to care for you#does it make you happy#is this what you wanted#why cant you be honest with yourself for once#because you’re scared? you’re embarrassed? you’re scared to admit that your logic and mode of ‘self preservation’ isnt infallible?#that what you call self preservation is actually self destruction??
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