#like yes his inaction led to tragedy!! much like lan wangji!!!!!!!

[magnaflourious-nerdity]

People who excessively hate on lan xichen and paint him as some kind of villain in a quest to simplify a complex, open-ended narrative are both boring and incorrect

#its not his fault if you subscribe to moral absolutism!!! #dont push that on him #isnt that just reinforing the lan methodology we all condem so much for punishing wangji so ruthlessly #for the same crime his brother commits?!?! #ie loving someone whos fundamental understanding of the universe syands against those principles??? #the mistake of all lans!!! #tthe only problem being that xichen and jgy stand as narrative foils to the same struggles of their younger generation peers #in you know probably an effort to adress the intergenerational trauma of war and what not #so theyre doomrd from the jump!!!! #im just having dome feelings please be nice to my sons #cql #the untamed #jin guangyao #lan xichen #like yes his inaction led to tragedy!! much like lan wangji!!!!!!! #but we dont all get to start over via the magic of necromancy! #some of us have to be sacrificed to the purpose of the narrative!!!!! #sorry #im just feeling protective of my lil guy #is he free of crime?!?! no!! #but he should not be unilaterally condemned for failing in the same moral pilgramage lan wangji had to struggle with for 16+ years!!! #also for anyone wondering who lan qirens tragic love that bound him to someone fundamentally opposed to the world view he was raised under #its xichen and wangji #like its always been them #his failure is the failure 2 commit tonthat same kind of moral pilgrammage and willingness to fail inthe effort of keeping a so called peace #that worked only for the oppressive party #ok NOW im done probably

[magnaflourious-nerdity]

People who excessively hate on lan xichen and paint him as some kind of villain in a quest to simplify a complex, open-ended narrative are both boring and incorrect

#its not his fault if you subscribe to moral absolutism!!! #dont push that on him #isnt that just reinforing the lan methodology we all condem so much for punishing wangji so ruthlessly #for the same crime his brother commits?!?! #ie loving someone whos fundamental understanding of the universe syands against those principles??? #the mistake of all lans!!! #tthe only problem being that xichen and jgy stand as narrative foils to the same struggles of their younger generation peers #in you know probably an effort to adress the intergenerational trauma of war and what not #so theyre doomrd from the jump!!!! #im just having dome feelings please be nice to my sons #cql #the untamed #jin guangyao #lan xichen #like yes his inaction led to tragedy!! much like lan wangji!!!!!!! #but we dont all get to start over via the magic of necromancy! #some of us have to be sacrificed to the purpose of the narrative!!!!! #sorry #im just feeling protective of my lil guy #is he free of crime?!?! no!! #but he should not be unilaterally condemned for failing in the same moral pilgramage lan wangji had to struggle with for 16+ years!!! #also for anyone wondering who lan qirens tragic love that bound him to someone fundamentally opposed to the world view he was raised under #its xichen and wangji #like its always been them #his failure is the failure 2 commit tonthat same kind of moral pilgrammage and willingness to fail inthe effort of keeping a so called peace #that worked only for the oppressive party #ok NOW im done probably