#there's a lpt of versions of wx that work but they have GOT to match

[llycaons]

and I really am fond of the epic romantic lan wangji with the grand gestures and the perfectly timed acts of service and the unrelenting support I just think you've gotta inject some groundedness in there besides 'wow...he has freckles...it makes him look so human' (real line I read once) bc it does feed a little into the cultivation world's false image of his untouchable perfection but even more importantly it's ALSO that people project onto wei wuxian so bad to make him anxious and self-concious and average and diminished in the narrative to make him the everyman and forget what a confident, unique, incredible, brilliant, thoughtful character he is, and what a powerhouse he is in his own right in both a romantic and nonromantic sense, so the story becomes the one-sided and unbalanced savior relationship it never was in canon. that too