#he looked at the circumstances and he decided what he owed (full unimpeded sight) and what he deserved (blindness) | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

aoxue · 2 years ago

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Thank you and in addition, for XXC specifically: you also need to do better than looking at the eyeball situation and concluding “he’s dumb and gay and can’t count.” You are missing the entire point of the gesture and the character.

here's a fandom challenge: stop referring to lxc and xxc as himbos or at the very least build up a good defense that doesn't fall back on "he trusted the villain"

#lan xichen #xiao xingchen #meta #mdzs #look the meta's been written a dozen times but #1) you're going to generalize about his whole intelligence based on one (1) horrible situation #2) there is no evidence of stupidity being the motivating factor there???#he knew what he was doing. he's not a character to deal in half measures with anyone and particularly not someone as dear to him as sl #he looked at the circumstances and he decided what he owed (full unimpeded sight) and what he deserved (blindness)#nobody just 'OOPS i'm so silly i gouged out BOTH my eyes.' that takes commitment all the way through #3) bold of you as an outside observer to look at a character within a story and belittle them for not anticipating #an absolutely buckwild series of coincidences and intentional deceptions culminating in the perfectly tailored tragedy #and while xxc could never have predicted the events of yi city specifically #he never went 'hehe i'm going to blind myself and nothing bad or inconvenient will ever come of it'#anyone would know that would make one's life difficult. xxc said 'yes. and i'll take it'

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