Y'know the guanbabies (Excluding guan Ping) can be easily fixed, If you could fix them how would you do It?
I’m sure I’ve discussed it before somewhere, but I guess I can go over it again here, since I don’t remember where the post was or what it might have been called.
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I love how you would have handled the Guan-babies, but let's say that instead of Guan Ping being untalented, he turned out to be a talented scholar AND military strategist though not of Fa Zheng's caliber, but for the latter, he discovered such talents of his far too late; he didn't get the chance to show this talent to his father and his brothers.
During the battle of Fan Castle, he realized every single of Guan Yu's mistakes, but Guan Yu never heeded any of Ping's words as in his mind, Guan Ping was a brute warrior, not a keen strategist. It's only right before their execution Guan Yu finally realized that Ping was right all along.
Ping, on the other hand, would regret the fact that either; he was not powerful enough to carry out his own plans to cover up his father's military blunders, or was not persuasive enough to convince his father of how fatal his blunders were. This would still make him a tragic man while not making him a totally untalented person.
Sure, this has no historical basis whatsoever, but so does Huang Zhong being old, Guo Huai being always sick, or pretty much the existence of Guan Suo.