just saw a blog trashing on jiang cheng (nothing new) and i was outraged, obviously. according to this person, "if jc didn't want wwx's core, why didn't he just give it back" and a bunch of other "takes" this is especially outrageous bcs jiang cheng hate is sooo normalised that some self-proclaimed fan could make such a wrong, inaccurate comment.
first of all, the core transfer was something jiang cheng did not know about or consent to. wei wuxian knew this, so he blatantly showed no regard for jiang cheng's opinion and gave his own golden core away. when i watched the untamed for the first time, i cried a lot. i cried bcs wwx got sooo much hate for choosing to cultivate in the demonic path, and all bcs he had no other choice. this was my thought before reading the book. after gaining some insight and trying to understand the story from jc's perspective, its almost like—why didn't wwx ask for jc's consent? why was wen ning blaming jc for that, "you could never be equal to him" i don't hate wen ning at ALL. i actually like him a lot.
BUT many people can say that "jc hated wen ning for killing jin zixuan too, when it was technically his fault" EXCEPT they (including wei wuxian and wen ning himself) didn't KNOW that killing jin zixuan wasn't wen ning's fault until the revelation in the guanyin temple. on the other hand, wen ning was PERFECTLY AWARE that jc was unconscious during the whole golden core transfer and genuinely had no idea that something like this happened to him. so wen ning, blaming jc for something that's not his fault, something he was not aware of is simply undeserved.
"why did jc not return wwx's core?" we don't know if he did that post-canon. "jiang cheng is homophobic" it was perfectly justifiable for jiang cheng to be mad at wei wuxian, who was not a part of the sect to take his unmarried lover to visit the jiang ancestral hall. an ancestral hall is where the dead members of a sect leader's family are honored, it is a place that is sacred and sensitive. shouldn't he have asked jiang cheng, the sect leader permission for entering the hall, as he was not a part of the sect anymore?
the other "take" is that jc is a child abusing perpetrator and someone who supported genocide. well, this is easily understandable. a 17 year old boy, who just lost his parents, had his home destroyed and inherited a sect during tumultuous political situation would definitely not be able to afford invoking the wrath of public and other powerful sects. he could not help a demonic cultivator protect innocents bcs he was ONLY 17 years old, trying to rebuild his home and run a WHOLE SECT. he couldn't afford to protect the wen remnants bcs he had his OWN people to look after. and the child abusing part—smh. he literally raised his hundred days old nephew by himself after his sister rushed into a battle field and got herself killed. if anyone's a child abuser, its yu ziyuan, not jiang cheng.
i find hilarious and outrageous when some people say that jiang cheng was apparently wei wuxian's abuser, that he saw wei wuxian as a servant. THIS MAN GOT HIS OWN GOLDEN CORE CRUSHED SO THAT WEI WUXIAN WOULDN'T BE CAUGHT BY THE WENS AND SUFFER THE SAME FATE!! who would do that for someone they consider a servant?? many people wouldn't even do that for a sibling. wei wuxian sacrificed his own golden core for jiang cheng bcs he felt like he owed jiang fengmian and yu ziyuan. he did that out of love, but also out of the thought of paying a debt. jiang cheng got his golden core crushed simply bcs he loved wei wuxian and didn't want him to lose his life. there is a difference.
"jiang cheng used to torture demonic cultivators, even when some of them weren't actually demonic cultivators" WHO TOLD YOU?? two juniors gossiping? that's the only source of information. so you choose to believe gossip in a story that literally says don't believe in gossip. "jin ling said that himself" jin ling spent most of his life in lotus pier. do you really think jiang cheng would bring a demonic cultivator in a place that jin ling lived in?
and apparently some of us are morons who don't blindly worship wei wuxian and lan wangji and actually criticize them for their actions. if jiang cheng participated in war, so did both of them. if jiang cheng killed people, so did wei wuxian. so did lan wangji. if jiang cheng has blood on his hands, so do both of them.
but jiang cheng is to blame for genocide, and war. right. smh.