Sizhui calling Wangxian his parents
Not to mention, toddler A-Yuan literally calling LWJ Dad and WWX mom. Or him running up and hugging Wangxian. Or going on a night hunt specifically with only Wangxian in night hunts and being referred to as the ‘little one’ when WWX is reminiscing about his own travels with his parents. Ah yes what a horrible ‘worse’ fanon to truly be on top of the list.
Jiang only seeing WWX as a servant.
Well Jiang Yanli called WWX her brother publicly. Jiang Cheng never does and till the end demanded that WWX act as his subordinate and well WWX was definitely not family or equal for YZY. JFM also wanted WWX to be for his son what his dad was to him, which is why he brought him back, a friend and also a trusted subordinate. So entire Jiang family treating him as a servant isn’t true. But the idea that he was an equal or like a son or whatever sure isn’t either.
LWJ playing Inquiry/believed WWX would return
Yeah that’s fanon, mostly coming from CQL I believe. LWJ didn’t play Inquiry for 11/13 years and he didn’t think WWX would come back. There’s no proof of this other then people just wanting angst and wanting LWJ to obsessively play for WWX to return.
Lan Qiren was in love with Cangse Sanren
Also fanon. Their relationship in the book is portrayed antagonistically but a lot of people like to headcanon that LQR had a crush on CSSR hence his aggressiveness as a tsundere trope. There’s no proof of it, especially since he treats her teenager son as someone to be stomped out and calls him the greatest evil or something equally stupid during the CR lecture arc. Dude is beefing with a teenager which doesn’t add up if he supposedly loved the mom.
None of the Wen Refugees were cultivators
If I’m reading this correctly, it means that all the when people WWX saved were cultivators in canon? In which case, A-Yuan was a 3 year old toddler. And not a cultivator. Not to mention granny Wen who didn’t seem like it either. Frankly I’m not sure what horrible fanon this is supposed to be other then proclaiming it’s okay to massacre people because they were ‘probably’ evil despite the novel telling that people like Wen Ning and the team he led did not take part in the fighting. Not to mention Wen Qing who was a DOCTOR and a refugee and cultivator didn’t either. Because cultivation doesnt just mean fighting and the novel is clear that the Sects vowing they won’t do anything if WN and WQ give themselves up and then had a ‘Let’s Murder Everyone Anyway’ party makes them the bad guys. Not the people who ran from being put in death camps and were not harming anybody.
Jiang Cheng abused Jin Ling
You don’t have to twist yourself into a pretzel to justify a 30+ year old man beating his 14 year old nephew to the ground multiple times in the book and claim it’s totally not abuse. Or that his curse and verbal threats didn’t matter when the book narrates Jin Ling running away afraid that JC would really break his legs. Did JC love Jin Ling? Yes and he would die for him. That however doesn’t negate or magically make okay his physical violence or verbal abuse.
I’ve already made a giant post compiling all the excuses so I’m not doing it again.
Jin Guangyao killed his son
This is annoying because it completely ignores the entire scene with Qin Su confronting JGY. In the whole scene she constantly demands for JGY to give her a straight answer and he doesn’t. He twists his words and emotionally manipulates and gaslights by twisting the situation onto her, asking her how she could think of such a thing, if she believes he’s that kind of person, how could she believe rumours and so on. That entire scene is chilling and showcases JGY at his finest, as his wife conveniently dies and and he uses the situation to immediately benefit himself and cast off doubt.
And he admits his entire list of crimes himself to justify himself to LXC in an attempt to manipulate him later too. It’s not ‘JGY lies so he’s lying about this too’. Its ‘context matters’.
JYL forgave WWX for JZX’s death
This is kind of a nothing burger of a statement. Because JYL neither forgave him nor hated him. Saying that her forgiving is fanon implies that she didn’t actually forgive him but that’s not true either: she never actually got the chance to do anything either way.
What she did do was run out to a battlefield when she found out WWX was there, not be overcome with rage, not say anything hateful or that she won’t forgive him, and still call him her brother.
And then in the next scene she sees someone trying to sneak attack WWX and immediately saves his life by pushing him out of the way with ‘explosive strength’.
Her instinct was to protect Wei Wuxian so this fanon is frankly ridiculous and anyone thinking that Jiang Yanli will rage and hate Wei Wuxian and wish upon him a thousand deaths has no idea of her character and nature and is confusing her with the other Jiang purple guy.
I don’t think I missed anything so that’s about it. It was very funny to come across a list where fanon and canon is so mixed up. And somehow the WORST fanon is Lan Sizhui treating Wangxian like his parents??? as if the entire novel doesnt have them like a pseudo-family anyway. You don’t need to have a PSA of ‘I love you I think of you as my fathe.’ ‘Oh I love you too son’ so blatantly written when the little things matter and make you a family anyway.
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