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coquelicoq · 1 year ago

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[Image description: Four black-and-white stills from "The Untamed" with text added. They show Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng learning that the other lost their golden core, and again when they each decide to sacrifice themself to save the other.

1: Wei Wuxian with tears in his eyes, hearing Jiang Cheng talk about the Core-Melting Hand. Text reads: "You'll never" 2: Jiang Cheng crying during the golden core reveal. Text: "recover" 3: Wei Wuxian looking down at an unconscious Jiang Cheng right before the core transfer, his mouth set in determination. Text: "from that kind" 4: Jiang Cheng realizing the Wen are about to capture Wei Wuxian. Text: "of devotion."

Altogether, text reads "You'll never recover from that kind of devotion." /end ID]

Leah Horlick, For Your Own Good

#i love this quote for them because does it mean you'll never recover from someone else's devotion to you?#or from your devotion to them?#por qué no los dos #the untamed #they're brothers. they are BROTHERS #parallels #also looking up the scenes these are from so i could write the ID was a trip because #the first two come right after wei wuxian has fallen down because jiang cheng pushed him #(well in the second it's jiang cheng right after he's had a memory of wei wuxian falling down bc jc pushed him)#in the first jc says i hit you with all my strength just now. did you feel it? and wwx is like hit me again so i can performatively #act like you're sooo strong but jc doesn't do it. then later in the conversation jc is telling him that wzl crushed his parents' cores #so they couldn't resist...and that's when he shoves wei wuxian who falls off the bed #(so technically i think in that shot what wwx is reacting to is learning about yzy's and jfm's cores rather than jc's #but they're all pretty related and anyway it's unclear to me the exact moment wwx understands about jc's core #so i decided to describe it as wwx learning about jc's core because i think that's the gist of the set)#then in the second jc has just remembered scolding wwx during his daydrinking era for not cleaning his sword #wwx does his aw shucks bro i'm such a maverick arm-around-the-shoulder move and jc shrugs him off #but since wwx doesn't have a core anymore he falls to the ground #and then when jc approaches he holds out chenqing and tells him not to come nearer #wwx falling even when he has a core because of how much he loves jc (and the jiang)#and wwx falling because he doesn't have a core anymore (which is because of how much he loves jc)#and technically the golden core reveal happens right after the fight at the ancestral hall (during which wwx collapses)#wwx: always falling over and usually because of jc #giving up his golden core meant he couldn't cultivate the sword path anymore sure but you know what really screwed him over?#he lost the ability to speak the love language of Shoving. that was a huge blow to their relationship #(also all the lying. that contributed a bit as well.)#but also that's the FIRST thing that jc says to him after jc loses his core. the FIRST THING he does after he wakes up #& wwx is like 'jiang cheng can you hear me? do you recognize me? jiang cheng please talk to me'...is to push wwx and say #'did you feel it?'#jiang cheng lost the ability to speak the love language of Shoving first and he acknowledged it RIGHT AWAY

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