#he'd have Issues going against his parents but i have faith in jiaojiao's ability to exploit his many emotional weaknesses

[winepresswrath]

22 and 23 for the ask game?

22. Popular character you hate?

I don’t think I really hate anyone except the characters that are pretty unanimously hated. I started out being less fond of Xichen than the fandom generally seems to be, and I’m still not overly fond of Jiggy, but I like reading fic about and thinking about him because he’s very important to Jin Ling, who I adore, and I trolled myself into genuinely really liking Xichen and his sad bad throuple choices. Now I’m actively into Nielan and the 3zun threesome, which is a pretty cursed place to be tbh. All you Nieyao fuckers should feel bad for luring me into your agony pit. Xiyao is obviously very valid but it tends not to work for me on an emotional level all on its own, but like, I tried the fic to see if it would! I tend to like characters more the more I think about them, because I wind up getting into why they’re making the choices they do and then I empathize with those choices and it’s all downhill from there.

23. Unpopular character you love?

I also don’t love anyone in the Jin Guangshan/Jin Zixun/Wen Chao/Sect Leader Yao club, and everybody else is just controversial. Incidentally that is the worst foursome imaginable. I guess I think Jiaojiao is a lot of fun and would gleefully read either Jiaojiao redemption fic or fic where she attaches herself to a less terrible patron and then is gloriously horrible but not in a genocidal or face burning way, but that’s more enjoying the campy awfulness of the character than loving her. I do have a soft spot for social climbing mean girls in social contexts where they genuinely don’t have many options available to them. Get paid, Jiaojiao! I don’t support your Mianmian burning or Shidi murdering but I do support you taking Chaochao for all he’s worth. If someone wrote fic where she set her sights on a teenaged Jiang Cheng and Madame Yu nearly had an aneurysm about it I would think find that genuinely delightful, especially if the plot is basically her first deciding to use him for social climbing purposes and then being like “Wow, it was actually very easy to make this sad lonely dumbass fall in love with me. I guess I’ll keep him!” while even Jiang Fengmian begins to experience alarm in the distance.