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I don’t think I’ll ever get over the relationship between the Wen remnants and Wei Wuxian. They were, in the broadest sense, each other’s victims, indirect as it may be. I mean, it was the Wens who burnt down Lotus Pier and killed absolutely everyone who had been there save for Wei Wuxian and his siblings. Then, a Wen takes the single most important thing to a cultivator from him in a process that draws out over days, and immediately after he’s attacked by Wen Chao and Wen Zhuliu and thrown into the Burial Mounds. He gets out and is immediately thrown into the midst of the Sunshot Campaign, where every single Wen he ever sees is one who wants him dead. And from the Wens’ point of view, this is the man who had the single most significant impact on the war, the man who desecrated the bodies of the dead and heralded their destruction with a single blow on his flute. This is the man who killed their sect, and aided in its complete annihilation.

And they’re forced to trust each other! They have to live together and learn how to co-exist and I’m absolutely certain that for the first few weeks the Wens do the best they can to avoid Wei Wuxian. They stay silent and bow when he comes by and make sure to give him a wide berth whenever they can. And Wei Wuxian has nightmares. He wakes up in the middle of the night, pain lancing through his veins and can’t focus on anything but the wide, gaping emptiness inside him and when he sees Wen Qing, he flinches. She reaches out to hand him a bowl and he prepares himself for the pain. He sees Wen Ning and he remembers his kindness and care, but he also remembers his hands holding him down to the ground as he screamed in agony.

But they’re still everything they need from each other. The Wen remnants were Wei Wuxian’s salvation in so many ways. This is the man who has always been pushed and pulled between duty and status and he’s failing in both regards. Without a core, he can’t fulfill his duties as the head disciple, he can’t stand beside his sect leader with a sword by his side and be ready to fight and compete and do what he’s asked to do. Wei Wuxian is powerful, but his power has only turned him into a target; his status as a servant and as the main reason why they were actually able to win the Sunshot Campaign puts Jiang Cheng and the rest of the sect under immense social pressure and Wei Wuxian is well aware the direction things are going, and that it’s no where good. But then Wen Qing shows up and begs for his help and he can finally do something. He can finally uphold his promise to protect the defenseless, and he does. He takes the Wens and he tries to protect them as best as he can and that’s exactly what the Wens need. They need someone who would protect them, who is strong enough to stand between them and the rest of the world because they aren’t.

It would be so simple for their relationship to be that simple, for Wei Wuxian to just be the shield that stands between the Wens and the rest of the world. But it isn’t. They light and place the lanterns outside so they can guide him home to them. They live together as a family and they invite Wei Wuxian in. In many ways, the Wens were the greatest family Wei Wuxian’s ever had. Namely, they’re all equals and they’re in this together. No one cares that Wei Wuxian is the son of a servant, no one cares about the rumours that he was Jiang Fengmian’s bastard son, no one cares that he doesn’t wield a sword or fight righteously. They’ve all lost their homes and any status that they’d held and now they’re just people gathered around a fire sharing food they’ve grown together. They don’t care about his reputation, be it as a flighty and disrespectful cultivator or as the arrogant demonic cultivator who went against everything righteous and acceptable. All they care about is the fact that, even though he doesn’t know how to farm, he gets down on his knees and digs through the dirt with them, that he discusses alcohol with the uncles and asks the aunts how to farm and wash clothes and cook. And let’s not forget that the Wens’ entire future is held within A-Yuan, he is their hope and their legacy and all they have left, and they give him to Wei Wuxian. A-Yuan reaches out for him and they let him take him. They let Wei Wuxian hold him and feed him and play with him and they trust him with everything that A-Yuan represents and is. They trust the man who helped take everything away from them with the one thing they have left. And Wei Wuxian trusts them in turn, he needs them and he loves them and he’s free in a way he’d otherwise never be able to be. And then he loses them.

mikkeneko

#honestly so much of mdzs didn’t focus on a love story between wwx and lwj#so much of it focused on just loving in general with every person you meet#love your brother even if he’s not by blood. love your friend even if they stand on the other side of the battlefield.#love the innocent after the war is over. love the heretic if all he ever wanted was a quiet farm and a son to dote on.#but most importantly#never love people who only want power. - via @blasfumi