#was when the clans came together and the jin were sowing the seeds of wwx rebelling against the jiang

[mxtxfanatic]

I really liked your explanation of the difference between JC and LWJ when it came to how they were constrained by their personal issues. I feel like JC is often seen as "uwu fav uncle who did no wrong and just loved" but that's not true. All the characters may have fucked up, big or small, but it's the way in which they (WWX or LWJ) always try to do the right thing.

In what ways do you think LWJ held back in the ways he could have helped? Or was what you mentioned about talking and pressing the issue after the flower banquet the extent of that?

Man anon, you sure do know how to hone in on a point of conflict 😭 But seriously, I won’t answer this not because I have an issue with the question but because my thoughts on what Lan Wangji could/could not feasibly have done during wwx’s first life has actually changed quite a bit the farther I get from having read the book, and I realize that a lot of my opinions have been influenced by how much I didn’t like how the discourse on the topic was going. (Seriously, I hate the “well he could’ve died!” argument as to why it was “the right choice” for lwj not to side too much with wwx*, because wwx and the Wen remnants DID die, so what makes lwj so special????)

I was actually gonna revisit this when I did my reread (which will probably happen in April to celebrate my one-year anniversary for reading mdzs 🥳), so if you stick around, that’ll go up at some point.

*I’m speaking a little tongue-in-cheek here since the debate is about whether or not he sided with wwx as much as he could’ve at the time, but those previous discourses that pissed me off were definitely worded as “it was good for lwj not to publicly side with wwx because he could have died otherwise”

#mdzs asks #anon #currently i believe that the crucial moment lwj could have made a difference #was when the clans came together and the jin were sowing the seeds of wwx rebelling against the jiang #where lwj calling out jgy gets derailed by lxc siding with jgy #also i think he (and literally anyone else) could have followed wwx to the labor camp to verify his words and actions #but that’s as far as I’m willing to go with my thoughts atm #without rereading