#while the conductor sticks his head out the window and commits to the crash rather than doing ANYTHING to stop it

[mxtxfanatic]

So seeing your post about the ages of wangxian it made me think about how that means that at the beginning of the story we see JC he’s probably 35-36 and he’s still acting like a 20 year old. Mans is almost 40 and all he can think about is still killing people who remind him of wwx instead of trying to get himself an heir to continue his clan. Like he can help raise JL all he wants that boy is still the Jin heir, not Jiang.

Well Jiang Cheng is only 5 days younger than Wei Wuxian, so he’d be around 33/34 at the start of canon, but that makes things even more hilarious because you have people who make serious arguments about “poor baby brothrr jc” who needs to be coddled because he’s Baby Brother™️ (ignoring the fact that he and wwx never consider each other brothers) which apparently means that he is physically incapable of doing anything on his own and therefore everyone else is obligated to inconvenience themselves for him.

But at the same time, I’m supposed to believe that this idea of jc as a giant man-baby who still needs to be tucked in at night and have his hand held during nighthunts and be told he’s a “good boy” for clan leading as a part of his Baby Brother™️ rights is also mature enough to have “singe-handedly” raised an infant into a “well-adjusted” pre-teen with only the strength of his two hands and “love” for his dead sister because Jin Ling has no other family in existence, neither the Jin nor Jiang have any servants who would undoubtably be in charge of children, and sexist jc would definitely be directly involved in the “woman’s work” of childcare?

You can never win with fanon because it’s all wildly conflicting characteristics in a trench coat masquerading as “personal interpretation.” Canon jc is the best version. Just let him be pathetic!