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I feel like there's already been a post about this but I can't stop thinking about how Jiang Cheng just knows how to counter JGY's music in the temple and does it immediately and effortlessly, almost like he's been practicing for quite some time in case of a hypothetical fight against a powerful cultivator who is renowned for using guqin music in battle. I wonder why he would do such a thing
jiang cheng is having simultaneous affairs with qin su and jin guangyao; both of them know about it and it actually makes things better because qin su assumes that jgy is gay and that's why he's not having sex with her, and jgy feels less bad knowing that his wife is getting it on with someone. jc is freaking out because he doesn't want to ruin their marriage and meanwhile they're both like "wow this is the best thing to happen to us in forever"
this is what happens when you're a jiang cheng defender. you become a jgy defender as a matter of course and then you find yourself making posts about su she because like. he's just kind of a guy
NO BUT WHY DOES HE HAVE A SWORD THAT DETECTS VIRGINS??????
how anyone could be into wen qing without being into jiang cheng or vice versa just boggles my mind. they are mirror images
what do we think would have happened to jiang cheng if wei wuxian/wen ning hadn't rescued him?
killed pretty much immediately
killed eventually after being tortured long-term
kept alive as a prisoner of war
released back into the wild as an example
and if he was a prisoner of war, do we think he would be found and recovered at the end of the war, or would wwx go crazy and attempt a one-man break-in at the scorching sun palace?
Feng Xin's devotion to Xie Lian is something I think about all the time. He's loyal to the point of self-injury, to the point of ruining his own romantic prospects, to the point of sticking with Xie Lian even when it seems like he's become a completely different person, and to the point where, in the end, he does something that goes against his entire reason for existing thus far in life - to protect and serve Xie Lian - because he was ordered to, and he can't just disobey. He's loyal to the point of searching ceaselessly for Xie Lian in the mortal world, to the point of ignoring his own worshippers (you know, the ones that make him a god) in order to serve his erstwhile master. He's got one purpose and he's lost without it. He ends the book having to figure out what he'll do now that Xie Lian doesn't need him anymore. He's just so great and I want to sink my teeth into him and shake him around like a dog with a squeaky toy
so... nobody knows about the saber spirit.
No one expects Nie Mingjue to mentally deteriorate the way he does, and once that happens, none of them know anything about what's going on.
When did he start to show signs of resentful energy poisoning? Has the saber affected his personality before Wei Wuxian dies - before the war, even? Is he a noticeably different person before the Sunshot Campaign and after, given the necessity of a weapon for battle?
Do the other sect leaders look at him and see a child forced to grow up before his time, a son sworn to vengeance, and attribute his increasing rigidity and bloodlust to that, when there was already something creeping through him from the beginning?
Does Nie Huaisang think of his brother when they were children, and of his brother now, and start to feel, more and more, that he wouldn't recognize the man in front of him if he hadn't watched this happen?
Does Lan Xichen stand by as his friend grows into someone fundamentally incompatible with anything resembling happiness and contentment, and think, something is very wrong here, but not know how to ask about it?
Does Jin Guangyao recall a time when he was Meng Yao, and wonder if the spark he saw in his commander's eye was really as threatening as he remembers or if he's just allowing his current emotions to color his memory, and conclude that this must have been going on for much longer than anyone realized?
Does Jiang Cheng look at his childhood hero as the man shuts down his attempt to speak up for someone with only a few words and advocates nothing but violence instead, and suddenly reconsider his faith in the person he used to idolize?
How much of this is him, and how much of it is the saber slowly driving him deep into anger and paranoia and mental/spiritual instability until he dies of it? Does anyone realize? Does anyone suspect something? And if they do... when is it that they finally figure out that something is wrong?
anyway this has been driving me crazy for the last few days. maybe he's finally found his little spot to rotate in my brain
