I really hate when people dismiss Mo Ran suffering.
I love Wanning, and yes he did suffered a lot and yes he's a sweet little pie.
But Mo Ran also suffered. They at very least suffered equally, each, a different type of suffering. And Mo Ran is also a little pie, he's also good.
He took the flower in the place of CW after knowing him for only for two months or something. He wanted protecting fuckin worms, WORMS. He's a kind and sweet boy. And went through a lot in a very young age, the fact he snapped and killed all those people is on that, anyone so young that keeps being pushed, abused like that, can snap and have a moment of insanity. Kill a bunch of assholes and try kill yourself after is not exactly an act of pure evil.
And everything he did with the flower well he was with the flower and I don't get why some people can't separate and understand MR and TXJ.
I have seen this type of thing before multiple times, maybe because of it, that to me was so easy to understand and accept.
For example, in The Vampire Diares, we have the vampires with and without humanity. Stephan without his humanity is a psycho who rip people's head and than put them back, with humanity he's sweet and kind and don't hurt people.
In Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel with his soul is also kind and sweet and good, the first love interest of the MC, but without his soul he's a psycho who killed thousands, tried destroy the world and tortured emotionally and psychologically the MC who loved him. In both cases, is pretty clear that their both version is the same character, the same person, yet for more that they blame themselves, people around them(and mostly of the fans) understands that the version without the soul/humanity is a broken version, not complete, not full, therefore not really themselves. They/we all know that what they're as evil is part of them, is their dark side. Cause those storie are about that. We all have darkness in ourselves. And what keep us from doing evil, following our darkness is out humanity/our soul/our ability for goodness/empathy. Call what it may. Without we're incomplete. Broken. Not fully ourselves.
MR as TXJ, was broken, he was incomplete. Was not himself. He had not memories of good. He had no ability for good left.
I just don't get who is unable to forgive him, maybe cause I grew up with similar stories, forgiving Stephan, Angel. And god even those who were evil by choice and merely regretted later like Regina from Once Upon a Time.
You may not like him, why though why why, but dismiss his pain? That's a little out of my understanding, that boy suffered all kind of things someone could suffer for two lifetimes, before he was even 30.
The worse was how he was manipulated in all ways, his body became a puppet, his mind was deceived, his soul broken, his feelings played. Got killed, tortured, abused as a child, had that horrible experience with his mother...
Because of the flower, he as a broken soul, tortured the man he loved and whom he tried to protect and had sacrificed for.
Every time I think carefully about every single thing he went through I feel like crying and really sad and really angry at HBN, forgetting my whatever other feelings I might have for him. MR is just that one character I wish to keep in a little pot to protect from the world</3
