Lingering Questions
I got some questions! I didn’t want to interrupt the flow of the episode posts so they’re all here now! Sorry! First, the ones I got multiple versions of:
Will you make another blog to rate Wei Wuxian/Jiang Cheng/Jin Guangyao/Wen Ning etc. and how gremlin/angry/snakey/baby etc. they are? If you don’t, can I do that instead?
A lot of people have asked me if I have plans to Do This To Myself Again and make another rating blog. I don’t have any immediate plans! I definitely need a little break after this surprisingly time-intensive undertaking! Maybe watching the show seven times in a row was, in fact, too many times... (psych i’m gonna watch it again soon nobody can stop me)
if you’d like to do one yourself for another character and another trait/emotion/whatever, have at it! Please do message me about your endeavour if this blog inspired you, I’d love to check it out!
Do you have another blog and can I follow it?
I don’t really post much, but if you’re interested you can follow me on my non-fandom blog here. If I ever decide to do another blog like this one, I’ll post about it there first!
That’s a great question, and I don’t have a clear answer for you. I think that, for all characters, their impact on his ability to feel peace is pretty variable depending on where he was both in terms of the plot and his relationship to them. I think I might go into this in more detail on my other blog later. But for now, here are the people who affected him the most just generally:
Wei Wuxian, as you noted, undoubtedly increases and decreases his peacefulness the most dramatically. He often bumped Lan Wangji up at least a full point, all other things in the scene being equal. However, he also sent him the lowest he could go. It really depended on how many Evil Vibes Wei Wuxian was putting out and whether he’d murdered anyone they knew recently. Post-return I gave everything an unspoken (but I think we can all agree very necessary) Wei Wuxian Is Alive Bonus of +0.5 points.
Jiang Cheng always had no impact on him until after the time skip at which time his presence was always a negative, and sometimes quite strongly so, depending on how Menacing he was being to Wei Wuxian at the time. Usually at least a full -1, sometimes -2.
Su She was universally a negative hit to Lan Wangji’s peacefulness post-betrayal, because he sucks so bad lol. At least a -1 at all times after the betrayal.
The Lans didn’t get specific bonuses or decrements. Lan Sizhui almost always improved his peacefulness just generally, particularly as a baby. Lan Wangji is the Softest Dad and it’s too pure, honestly. The rest of the Lan family usually had a pretty minor effect, except for whenever Lan Xichen was aggressively shipping him with Wei Wuxian, and whenever Lan Qiren tried to cultivate the gay away.
I answered this in the tags of a post, but I know that the tags may be missed sometimes, so for anybody who missed the tags: the answer is Rakuten Viki! They allegedly have the best English subtitles, though they do take the rather amusing step of literally translating peoples’ titles (see: Brilliance Overgrowth Lord. It would have taken so much less effort to call him Zewu-jun, but here we are. Here we are living in a Brilliance Overgrowth World).