#brought to you by 2 different post that talk about how Jiang Cheng was selfish and abandoned Wei Wuxian

[lecinea]

Once again I have to shout into the void that Jiang Cheng was a sect leader and all of his actions and opinions reflected not only on himself but on the entirety of Yunmeng Jiang.

Which means that while Wei Wuxian was able to distance himself from his sect, Jiang Cheng never could so if he decideded to do something politically charged like take the side of Wen, the other sects would have a reason to attack his sect that was only just recovering from a massacre. Yes, that sounds like a responsible thing to do.

[weiwanyin]

Idk if it's always been like this, but everytime I go into the Jiang Cheng tag there's always hate posts by the same people and it's annoying as hell. Idc if they want to rant on their own blogs, but at least they could leave their hate out of the tag (nevermind how mental it is that they spend every single day ranting about how much they hate a fictional character or that most of their arguments don't hold water). Anyways being a Jiang Cheng/Chengxian fan on this site sucks.

I have noticed in the last couple of years is not enough for people to just say "I don't like this character" and just move on. But what bothers my about a lot of the JC/CX hate is the double standard. I have mentioned it before with my talks with @necroprankster

1. People blaming Jiang Cheng for not supporting Wei Wuxian with the Wens and using it as a reason why WWX should never forgive him. But then have no issues with WWX not holding the Lans accountable for their role in their events, specially Lan Xichen. The Lans were part of the siege too, they happily murdered innocent Wens the same as the Jins, The Jiangs and the Nies. Even LWJ never became involved in speaking up for them. His only interest was in getting WWX out of there, it did not matter to him that others died.

Some people can argue he saved A-Yuan. But he only did this because he was the sole survivor and he knew WWX cared for him. But let's be real. While we don't have a set number its very unlikely A-Yuan was the only child in that camp. The others were just not as lucky. And while people treat LWJ as a father figure to him, they never use familiar titles between them so it is far more likely he was just raised with the other disciples with some oversight from LWJ more than LWJ being parental.

2. People constantly shitting on JC for asking WWX to abandon the Wens and calling him selfish for expecting WWX to abandon the Wens to die to go back to Yunmeng...and then f*cking turn around and romanticize the whole "come back to Gusu with me". The irony of people calling JC selfish for that in one post followed by 10 different fan arts of how romantic LWJ was for asking WWX to do the exact same thing...ok.

3. Let's be real if the story had mentioned the Lans or another clan was going around murdering demonic cultivators, a lot of people would argue that those demonic cultivators were probably not going around saving puppies. Because all canon examples we have of characters using demonic cultivation are doing it for selfish and murderous reasons. Even Mo Xuanyu, he only brought WWX back because at that point he wanted him to wipe out his family as a vengeful spirit.

As I said, I don't think the issue is just JC not being your favorite. I am just tired of the double standard or the outright rewriting of canon to excuse it.

Don't get me started on CX, funny how many "antis" of that ship went on to lose their minds over Word of Honor. Funny how Shidi f*cking is ok there. I see you all.