#but antis always fully choose takes that are just blatantly untrue
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Antis will be like “Jiang Cheng never viewed Wei Wuxian as family, he was treated like a servant!!! 😠😠😠” but like… if I showed up day-drunk to work, stopped performing my basic duties, kept skipping out when the most support was needed rebuilding, escalated fights during diplomatic events, and refused to tell anyone why I’d started behaving like this, I would definitely get fired. But instead Wei Wuxian has to quiet quit and then actually quit when even that doesn’t work, because as far as we can tell Jiang Cheng would've let him stay as first disciple forever no matter what. So like, if Jiang Cheng thinks of himself as just Wei Wuxian's boss, he does a pretty bad job of treating Wei Wuxian as just an employee.
Are there complicated class dynamics and internal senses of responsibility and debt and duty and obligation fucking both of them up? Absolutely. But Wei Wuxian is definitely not just a servant or a debtor, it’s much, much messier and more complicated than that--which is kind of the problem.
#tbh I think this also comes down to projecting modern (and often western) power dynamics on a very different system#but it's also just flat untrue lol#like you don't let yourself get captured and tortured for Just Some Guy who works for you#not to mention the whole making sure wwx could see jyl before the wedding and get to name the baby#normal things that bosses do for their employees after they quit#once again: there are many things to critique about Jiang Cheng#but antis always fully choose takes that are just blatantly untrue#like the amount of posts that claim he killed wwx when he just flat didn’t is wild#like wwx beat him to that! my man just can’t win!#mdzs#cql#the untamed#jiang cheng#wei wuxian
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