#reminder that you can never disagree with my HCs cause i know and perceive the truth

[anderperries]

if stephen king didn’t want me to headcanon that richie tozier is jewish, he shouldn’t have changed richie’s religion halfway through the book. this man doesn’t even know what religion richie is. and that’s because he is actually jewish.

[pumpkinpaix]

13 for wwx, lwj, lqr, and madame yu

13. Unpopular opinion about XXX character?

👀 all right let’s go.

Wei Wuxian: wei wuxian has done unspeakably cruel things to innocent people, things that are honestly pretty unforgivable. wei wuxian is absolutely a villain in his first life--a villain who breaks my heart, who is completely understandable, but a villain nonetheless. from a raw like, harm-caused perspective? wei wuxian is orders of magnitude ahead of jin guangyao. his personal body count is higher than literally anyone else possibly like, in all of the history of the world.

this does not mean I don’t like him, nor does it mean i think he doesn’t deserve happiness. i love him very very much. but even he says it about himself: he was not a good person. in a very real sort of application, i think he reminds us that even terrible people are people and that compassion should not be given selectively, if that makes sense. that compassion matters and that people can change, even if you never forgive them. and you never have to for that to still be true.

Lan Wangji: lan wangji is enormously self-motivated. i think he finds being a good person difficult, in that i don’t think he likes people, so he finds it hard to care about them. I think he clings very hard to rules not just because like, type-a personality, but because that’s his primary moral compass. I don’t think kindness comes naturally to him, but i think he very much wants to be a good person. i think he has great concern for fairness, but that’s not the same as “goodness”, if that makes sense. so the concept of him always being where the chaos is--i don’t think he does that because he cares for the poor and disenfranchised. I think he does it because he thinks it is unfair that they should give more or less help based on arbitrary markers like class or status. this is sort of flippant, but like, i think he doesn’t do it because he cares about the disenfranchised so much as he doesn’t care for the wealthy. i think his natural inclination is to be petty and selfish and angry, but that he knows this about himself and tries, in his own way, to not be like that--and he does that by using an external system to help him make judgments since they don’t come easily to him. but like, he only tries so much, you know? he’s not interested in playing nice and he doesn’t care who knows it. people perceive it as both a sort of intense honor or an intense arrogance, but I think it’s somewhere in the middle there. this is in contrast to lan xichen, who i think is naturally very inclined towards goodness, in a way that’s often debilitating. anyways, once again, this is not “i think lwj is a bad person” nor is it “i don’t like lwj”. as xichen kin, I have to tell you that i love lan wangji so fucking much. i love his selfishness, and i love his fucked up brain and i love his anger and his attempt to be good anyways, even though it’s hard. that’s really important to me. I think he is bad at empathy, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t care deeply, viscerally, intensely.

Lan Qiren: lan qiren fucked up the jades, but he really was trying his hardest and he loves them very much. he is angry because he loves. i think he harbors a very real and justified resentment for his brother, and that probably some of it spilled out onto lwj and lxc in ways that were not fair, but like. can you blame him? can you really? forced to take on the responsibilities of a sect he never prepared for, forced to raise two children he did not sire or ask for, all while his brother spends his days alone, locked up in his house, forgoing everything in life for a woman that, in lqr’s eyes, is immoral and cruel. his brother abandoned him for her. that’s a lot to handle--so like, his hatred for wei wuxian and his anger with lan wangji--that’s not born out of simple dislike and old-fashioned prejudice. that’s born from anger: at his brother, at wei wuxian, at lan wangji, at himself for failing to save his nephew from this, even when he had tried so hard. did he express that in the best way? probably not, but. I get it. i do not think lwj resents him, nor do i think wwx resents him because they also understand this.

Yu Ziyuan: a lot of people tend to interpret her attitudes towards her children as rooted in her jealousy regarding jfm and cssr, but I disagree. I also think people interpret her cutting words towards jc especially to be like--her trying to exercise control over her kids in her own power play against her husband, but that’s not at all what I see. I think she really loves her children, so much, but that she is afraid for them--that jfm’s antipathy towards her is going to be the cause of their failures. that her failures as a woman and as a mother are going to be the reason her children cannot succeed. and, because of her personality, this manifests as her lashing out at them in that particular way. is it kind? no. does it traumatize them? yes. but like, I think very distinctly the way wwx and jc talk about yzy after her death is very indicative of the respect they hold for her, despite that. is that relationship going to be complicated? yeah. but like. idk. this is a really personal thing for me for Reasons, and I understand why some people really hate her, but I’m not willing to change this interpretation for me personally.

i also have an entire hc as to why she is so angry with cssr, and it’s Not because of jfm’s lingering affections--in a roundabout way, it’s about cssr’s reaction to madam lan, but THAT’S A WHOLE OTHER STORY

WOW OKAY cool here we are then.

salt asks (no longer taking these, thank you for playing!!)