#mentions of jiang cheng

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Jaing Yanli's bad luck with sauce continues.

[roxiusagi]

and a second comm for @neurodivernon ^ ^

this time in the theme of the Karatez japan bath collab designs

[wangxian-the-zhijis]

The ship:

The shippers:

The anti:

The legendary third wheel:

[lurkinginnernarrator]

I just adore the thought of WWX also being an assassin for the jiang clan. In addition to his head disciple duties. OH. And then JC not finding out until AFTER.

I just think it'd be cool if there was more than one reason WWX liked to hang out on rooftops, if you catch my drift.

OH and additionally to his love of the taste, he also eats really spicy food during his Yunmeng days because he's building immunity to poisons.

[add1ctedt0you]

The Untamed - Episode 19

Throughout the night, he [Jiang Cheng] had somehow managed to sleep a couple of times. The first reason was that, having been too tired from crying himself weak, he couldn't help from passing out. The second reason was that he still had the hope that this might be a nightmare. He couldn't wait to wake up after some rest and open his eyes to find himself lying inside of his room back in Lotus Pier. His father would be wiping his sword in the main hall. His mother would be angry again and complaining, scolding Wei Wuxian who winked in a funny way. His sister would be in the kitchen, thinking as hard as she could about what to make today. His shidi would be refusing to do their morning lessons properly and jumping around.

The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Chapter 59, Poisons- Part Four

[demonicfarmer69]

jin ling feels like hes being...watched... >_>

[mxtxfanatic]

Idk how to respond to OP. Here's what they said, "I LOVE wei wuxian i really do he's a sweetheart and im so happy he got to find love and a home with lan wangji hes one of my fav mxtx characters ever but. if was jiang cheng and i had to give up my dog for some random kid i would have beat him with hammers i'm sorry jiang cheng was way more forgiving and kind than me."

I have to admit, OP is good at warping that specific scenario to make it seem like Wei Wuxian was the unreasonable one here.

Worst part is, some guy said this in the comments, "I have said it before and will say it again: if Jiang Cheng really hated Wei Wuxian Lotus Pier would have been FULL of dogs. They would take in any stray for MILES no questions asked." 😭😭😭💀 As if this proves that Jiang Cheng still cares about Wei Wuxian.

(PS I absolutely love what you're doing for tgcf, it always makes my day when you post, keep up the good work! 😆👌)

Well this is easy: Jiang Cheng doesn’t care about the fucking dogs, and no amount of crying about them on his behalf will make it any more morally acceptable to call for the abuse or abandonment of an orphan for the crime of having an “inconvenient” phobia.

Also, Jiang Cheng canonically keeps Wei Wuxian’s fear of dogs private because he knows no one would believe him if he said it and he also wants to beat Wei Wuxian “fair and square” (which we see goes out the window the moment he gets mad and uses Fairy to torture him). But Jiang Cheng isn’t keeping dogs because he literally does not care about them.

[lavender-phoenix-flames]

"You gotta recognize jc's canon positive traits too"

Hmm, Is he selfless? No. Is he kind? No. Is he a good sect leader? No. Is he a good uncle? No. Is his skills or intelligence exceptional? No. Is he good at regulating his emotions? No. Does he have a likable personality? No. Is he charming/charismatic? No. Do women want to even date him? No.

What good traits exactly? That he is a good swimmer and ranked 5th on the eligible bachelor's list and What else?

A few good things he did:

Distracting the wen guards, telling his mom not to torture wwx that one time, him rescuing wangxian and leading others out from the xuanwu cave, finally letting wwx go at the very end.

BUT these good actions are very few in comparison to the amount of harmful, outright terrible and wrong ones. While he is not evil he isn't exactly a good or admirable person either.

[danmeichael]

Can u talk about why JC is your fave

jiang cheng was not my favorite character for a long time. specifically, i actively disliked him when i first watched the donghua.

a turning point, funny enough, was actually the scene in the donghua where he chokes wwx. which i think says a lot about me... much like that scene says a lot about jc.

that was a scene that really humanized jc for me and showcased really clearly what he was in that moment. a lost child, a helpless child desperately vying for any amount of control through violence and lashing out at those around him because of it.

i like when characters do that -- when they hurt the people around them in moments of weakness without really meaning it.

you know when a character asks a loved one to run an errand for them, and something terrible happens while they're running that errand? maybe their loved one gets into a car accident and dies, for example. and instead of blaming the conditions on the road that caused that, the other driver in the accident, the hospital for not saving them, they think "if only i hadn't asked them to go out?"

it's because it's smaller. it's easier to conceptualize that blame, it's easier to grasp guilt or to place fault on a single, knowable entity.

reality isn't like that. there is no one singular point of fault. it's not their fault, not really. but a single point of failure is easier to conceptualize, to cope with, more satisfying in the moment than "sometimes things just happen"

jiang cheng doesn't hate wei wuxian, he isn't really mad at wei wuxian for saving lan wangji. or rather, he won't be when he's calm or in hindsight.

but he needs something manageable to be angry at. he needs something smaller, some neat, easy solution this all stems from that he could say "this wouldn't have happened, if--"

he doesn't really blame wwx. but in addition to... everything, wwx is also the one stopping him in that moment from doing the thing he could do to, his monkey brain thinks, exert control and make it hurt less.

this is wwx's fault. this is wwx's fault, because he saved lan wangji, because he wouldn't let him go back to try to save his parents, because he wouldn't let him try to get revenge. but it's not, really. and deep down, he knows that. he knows the wens would have come for them eventually whether wwx saved lwj or not. he knows he could not have saved his parents. he knows that he would have died trying to get revenge and left jyl and wwx alone. he knows there's nothing he, or wei wuxian could have done.

but being out of control while you're in pain is scary. so he lashes out. because he can control being mad. because he can hurt wei wuxian. because he needs something, anything in that moment to feel like he isn't spinning out and about to crash.

i think that violent ugliness in response to his own suffering is compelling.

that sort of added onto the endless "what if" pursuit common of fandom, after finishing the novel and finding that jc and wwx were still estranged. logically, that was the best possible ending. them suddenly getting along at the end of the book for a happy ending wouldn't have made sense for either of their characters. them making up in a way i found satisfying would have taken another 2 english volumes and circumstances i can't even imagine, and mxtx might not have even written it in a way that i found satisfying even under the theoretical that she did devote an entire additional novel to making it happen.

but that ambiguous, unwritten, theoretical making up that exists in my minds eye haunts me.

even after all that, i still didn't *like* jc. he was compelling, i appreciated him as a mechanism in the narrative, but he wasn't my blorbo. i didn't *like* him in the way i *like* other favorite characters.

no, no. the real catalyst is that nobody who dislikes jiang cheng dislikes him for the right reasons and it pissed me off so bad that i became protective over him.

there's plenty of good reasons to hate jiang cheng but you're just MAKING UP ONES that DO NOT EXIST and IGNORING ALL OF HIS INTERESTING CHARACTER WRITING.

what do you MEAN he doesn't love his brother?! what do you MEAN he only warmed to jyl's marriage because he came to see her as a political pawn and didn't actually love her either?! what do you MEAN he should have just been GRATEFUL that wwx surgically placed his entire fucking martyr complex into jc's body while ACTIVELY LYING TO HIM ABOUT IT?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S A MISOGYNIST? WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S *COLORIST*????? AM I FUCKING LOSING IT????????? DID I READ A DIFFERENT FUCKING BOOK??????????????

being so pissed off by incorrect analysis of his character made me think about him as a character, his nuances, his relationships with his family and his position of power.

there's no specific trait or scene or thing about him that makes him my favorite. he's just a good shape. he clicks into my brain in a good way.

[clementine-and-pomegranates]

me: *falling in love with every tragic misunderstood purple character that are absolutely detested and hated by everyone in the fandom because they get in the way of the protagonist and their story when it was never their fault simply an unfortunate victim of the fate and mold they can never escape because their creators made them that way* I will love you even if no one does, I hope to be the one person to give you something you were always worthy of, and you will never have to fight me for it, I will simply give it to you freely.

[khattikeri]

mxtx's track record with shixiong-shidi relationships is hilariously negative now that i think about it. just a festival of one-sided overzealous violent shidi, and their agitated shixiongs who with each successive book series increasingly go "holy shit what is wrong with you?? leave me alone!!"

[web-novel-polls]

MXTX Side Characters Upper Bracket

Zhuzhi-lang from SVSSS

Submission 1: Snake boy my beloved

Submission 2: I love him

Additional Propaganda:

Jiang Cheng from MDZS

Submission 1: Extremely traumatized yet also somehow the most normal and functional by the end. Huge bitch but I (and at least one of the other characters) think he deserves to be even worse after everything he's been through

Submission 2: Simultaneously badass and the most cringefail man. Extremely funny and stylish but still manages to be very uncool. Cries a lot. Also he's lost a lot of tumblr polls—let's give him another shot! We definitely love him more than his dad did!

Submission 3: He's got mommy issues AND daddy issues. He loves his sister and his shige so much. He's traumatised and incredibly competent. He rebuilt his whole sect! He's an asshole (affectionate). He's purple! He's got the coolest weapon ever conceived. I'm so worried about his blood pressure basically all the time. 

["Anti-Propaganda" that attacks other characters is NOT allowed. Please only give reasons to vote FOR a character.]

[jiangcheng-lover]

Hi,

Does anyone have recommendations of Jiang Cheng fanfics with angst (a bit), not really Lan Wangji friendly (if possible), and Jin Ling being born but the most important thing would be an apology of how Jiang Cheng is the best character of MDZS and deserves the whole world (and excuses)?

Hope to have some responses.

Thank you ❤️

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Wei Wuxian 🤝 Maleficent: Not being invited to a child's birthday party but showing up anyways (to make things worse).

(for @youremysunshine8)