#i have a multitude of wen qing feelings lol okay

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@greymouser13 replied to your post “thinkin about wen qing’s arc on one hand: she went from doing whatever...”

Yeah thats a novel change that could make more sense? In novel verse, most of the Wens stayed behind. They were slaughtered anyway but personal sacrifice saved not only Wei Wuxian, but her people too (or at least that was the goal). Someone can correct me, but i think there is like a 3 month gap between Wen Ning's "execution" and the nightless city massacre, and the seige of the burial mounds wherein everyone was slaughtered and Wei Wuxian (who had been going mad)

@greymouser13 replied to your post “thinkin about wen qing’s arc on one hand: she went from doing whatever...”

Destroyed half the tiger seal and was mauled to death by corpses.

@greymouser13 replied to your post “thinkin about wen qing’s arc on one hand: she went from doing whatever...”

This was all cut for time and the horror elements were of course softened/censored. I adore both versions but the novel one makes more sense for Wen Quing's story line.

Yeah, absolutely, the novel version of what happened with the rest of the Wen villagers made more sense!  (I mean, I said ‘unaccountably’ wrt her leading them to the Jin, but it makes perfect sense as a plot necessity - I don’t think Wei Wuxian’s throwing himself off that cliff if he still has people he needs to protect.  I just can’t fathom why she would do it - or why they’d insist on it!  All to protect the guy who’d saved them?  I mean, maybe, but, a whole village for one guy rubs me so very wrong!)  And then the Wen rising up from the blood pool later on in Wei Wuxian’s second life is one of my favorite novel-only bits.  THE BOND BETWEEN A NECROMANCER AND THE DEAD HE ‘MANCES ;___;.

Anyway there’s a lot of things I like about the way Wei Wuxian dies in CQL without the siege - and by ‘a lot of things’ I mean getting to see that cliff scene, Jiang Cheng stabbing the rock!!, Lan Wangji bleeding as he holds on, Wei Wuxian’s peaceful smile falling into the abyss ;___;, etc., but there were definitely a number of plot-related circles they did not manage to square in the adaptation, both for censorship-related reasons and not, and ‘so why did the Wen villagers die’ is one.  (What is the point/resonance of the ‘second siege of the Burial Mounds,’ and why the actual fuck do characters call it that out loud, when there was no first siege!, is a particularly glaring and relevant ‘nother.)

And I very much prefer Wen Qing’s story in the drama overall!  Mostly because there’s so much more of it - I’m so glad that we, and also the other characters, get to know her and Wen Ning at Cloud Recesses Summer Camp, and the Baling Lake adventure, and even the Dancing Peri adventure part one, poorly constructed as it is, and Wen Chao’s Evil Indoctrination Camp, (... doesn’t ‘indoctrination’ itself sound evil? or is this just a translation issue), all before the core transfer happens.

I adore the way that she’s trying to stay out of the Wen clan’s grasping for power, the way that she doesn’t want to work for Wen Ruohan or Wen Chao, but is also unwilling to secede from the clan.  *waves tiny Wen Qing/MianMian flag, lol*.  It’s such a good hard internal struggle... and it fits in just perfectly with the way she’s punished for being a Wen, later.  She struggled - even if vainly, remember the turtle cave - against the abuses that she saw, as much as she could, but not more, walking that line.  But she wouldn’t give up her clan allegiance, it matters to her... and she wouldn’t leave her followers behind... and ultimately it ends up counting against her, as the only thing that matters.