#like you could have explain yelled at li jing earlier bestie :/

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Li Jing Analysis

My 4th analysis on this guy, and this time it’s about how he handles the entire situation that is Season 5. I love psychoanalyzing this old man :3.

Listen, how would you react if your leader is killed, you inherit his position cause you’re the only one strong enough to take it on, the universe is falling apart, and the one person who knows what’s going on (your own KID no less) won’t tell you any details, despite the fact that he was there and knows exactly why and who caused THE UNIVERSE TO START FALLING APART.

Of course Li Jing would be a cranky asshole since he doesn’t know what’s going on aside from the fact that the Jade Emperor was dead, and MK, Wukong and Macaque were involved. As far as Li Jing was concerned, Wukong WAS the one who killed the Jade Emperor and not Azure since, you know, Nezha didn’t explain to him who it actually was and what actually happened, and instead LET his dad put the circlet on Wukong.

So, now running on a huge misunderstanding that Nezha had every chance to talk to his dad about, he let Li Jing take themselves on a wild chase to track Wukong down, and only told him the ACTUAL PROBLEM when the universe began LITERALLY SHATTERING.

Am I blaming Nezha? No, not at all. But did he have every chance to tell his dad the true story of why the universe is CTRL+ALT+DELETING itself? Absolutely. And this isn’t a “oh, Li Jing won’t listen” thing, because he very much listened when Nezha explained at the end, so I do believe Nezha had every chance during the season to tell Li Jing what was going on and made things so much easier on everyone.

So the way he handles season 5 isn’t unprecedented, seeing as the only things he knows is that the universe is collapsing upon itself and Wukong (who’s known for destruction and chaos within heaven) was 100% involved.

Li Jing is literally lawful stupid, his brain went Universe Deletion + Wukong = Wukong is destroying the universe. Wukong is destroying the universe + circlet, Jade Emperor powers and imprisonment = universe corrects itself. Li Jing is a very single minded person, with his only goal during season 5 being to maintain some semblance of balance to keep the universe afloat. And if your only source of information was keeping all the important details away, what information do you have? None.

So, long story short, Li Jing is a lawful stupid man that has no clue what's going on and thus no way to properly handle the situation, and season 5 was literally just one huge misunderstanding that could have been solved if Nezha just explained everything earlier on in the season.