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Fucking obsessed with Nie Huaisang, man. He's the mastermind behind the entire events of the series but we only spend a half a page discussing this. He outtricked the trickster character and said trickster character literally dies praising his deception skills. He threw away years of his life and his entire reputation on a strung-together improv plan that would require him to act as pathetic as possible at any given moment. Out of love. He chooses to be a mediocre magic user because otherwise it will literally kill him. His weapon is literally listed in the glossary as "crying". He just wanted to paint hand fans.

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The strange relationship Wei Wuxian has with Mo Xuanyu absolutely kills me. Wakes up in a confusing place and the very first thing he does is go through every scrap of paper he can find and learn the story of the man who gave up his body for him. Puts everything on pause so he can mentally curse out the people who did this to him. The instant sympathy. It's about the human connection and the grief felt for the very person whose death is the very reason he has a second chance. Never forget that the reason Wei Wuxian snapped back to Jin Ling was because he felt he had to defend Mo Xuanyu's honor. It's never an angst Wei Wuxian feels, but instead a reaching across to the afterlife he just came from and saying "I see you. If no one else in your shitty life ever spoke up for you, then I will." The series doesn't spend too much time lingering on it because we have places to go and people to see, but the fact that before he did any of that, the first thing Wei Wuxian wanted to do was wash their face and simply acknowledge the life of a man who died too young.

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we, of course, came from hell

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Wen Ruohan: *winning the Sunshot Campaign*

Wei Wuxian, a coreless 17 year old with a death wish, a stick, and a magical hunk of iron: *kicks door open*

Wei Wuxian: *chugs margarita* 'Sup bitch, guess who's sonless.

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Gotta admit, it’s funny that it took lwj one look at WWX to understand that he was up to start some bullshit

Truly, lwj knows him well

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Okay. Correct me if I'm wrong but? Kelsier would LOVE Kaladin, and the feeling would NOT be mutual.

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Sazed: hello, I am secretly part of a tradition that our theocratic despot has gone to great lengths over the past thousand years to completely annihilate. I'd like to talk to you about our lord and savior, Literally Anyone Else

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yOu HaVe tO rEaD tHe cOsMeRe BoOkS iN tHe RiGhT oRdEr Or YoU wOn'T kNoW wHaT's GoiNg On!

Gancho, Doug, my brother in Adonalsium (Highly), I'm going to hold your hand when I say this:

Not knowing what's going on is the default state for Cosmere protagonists.

Even Wit, who's whole deal is standing over there in the corner smirking like he knows what's going on, doesn't have a single rusting clue.

Read the whole Stormlight Archive backwards for all I care, you'll still find yourself better informed than Kaladin Stormface

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Adolin

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*clenches fist* kaladin would want me to keep going

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maybe THE honor moment of all time?

(Cosmere Inktober day #13 - Honor)

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Post-canon Wei ying’s dynamic with the juniors is so funny to me bcs these kids do not understand how terrifying this man is. They’re like “oh Wei wuxian yeah he’s a fucking idiot” meanwhile everybody older than them remembers him slaughtering thousands and commanding an army of ghosts against the Wens. Everyone who was older remembers that he was the only reason they won the sunshot campaign.

And I think it would be so funny the moment that some mission goes south and Wei Ying has to take control of the situation in order to save them and be actually fights for the first time in front of them.

These kids would be like bro tf as the silly guy they all these suddenly exploded with resentful energy - like we know he can control the energy itself in a combative way (eg. He spears wen chao and wen zhuliu in the show), so he’s like tearing these enemies apart and the juniors are just watching.

And then at the end he turns around and his eyes are still red and chenqing is in his hands and they’re all just staring at him in bewilderment. Ofc (being the idiot he is) Wei Ying immediately freaks outs and assumes they’re all disgusted by him.

That is until Jingyi crashes out and was like “THAT WAS SO COOL WHAT THE HELL” and Jin Ling is just mad that he always makes them fight when he can obviously hand himself. Wei Ying is dumbfounded for a sec but then he’s really happy because he was so scared for a sec there.

The juniors are Wei Yings number one fans nobody can convince me otherwise.

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god does anyone have a screenshot of that author's note where mxtx is like "idk why fans think lxc is smart. i've done nothing to show that" bc i think of it every day of my life

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Jiang Cheng frowned, “You’re at it again. You don’t really like her, do you? The girl does look fine, but it’s obvious that she doesn’t have much background. Maybe she isn’t even a disciple. She seems like the daughter of a servant.” Wei WuXian, “What’s wrong with servants? I’m also the son of a servant, aren’t I?” Jiang Cheng, “How can you compare to her? Whose servant is like you, having your master peel lotus seeds for you and boil you soup. I didn’t even get to have some!” Wei WuXian, “If you want some just ask Shijie to cook you more. [...]

EXR, Chapter 56

So, I wanted to talk about this specific section.

Let's not delve too much into how the entire topic of conversation is inherently classist (because WWX is right: why does it matter if she's a servant? What's even wrong with being one?), and let's focus instead of what's, to me, one of the most damning pieces of dialogue proving that Jiang Cheng doesn't see Wei Wuxian as a brother.

At this moment, Wei Wuxian is defending his position as a servant, not a family member. He's very much aware of his own social status, and sees no issue with it. That's just how things are.

If Jiang Cheng did, genuinely, see Wei Wuxian as a brother (despite the very classist views he's proving to have here), this would be the moment to say so. To argue "you can't be just a servant when you're my brother in all but name."

But he doesn't do that. Instead, he uses Jiang Yanli's actual sibling-like relationship with Wei Wuxian as his argument… All while being dismissive about it and treating their dynamic with low-key disgust. He doesn't even argue "oh but my sister and you are so close", he argues "what kind of servant has the daughter of a sect leader take care of him like that?" Pretty much repeating Madam Yu's talking points. Jiang Cheng isn't framing it positively, he's mimicking WWX's foremost abuser!!

That's not a defense of WWX's "honor", but a recrimination of how WWX "benefits" from the ambiguity of his dynamic with the Jiangs at this point. The same thing Madam Yu does.

But, back to the whole point behind this post, there's no way Jiang Cheng would jump to use Yanli as an argument if he could use himself. If he felt that kind of connection himself. The fact that's where his mind goes (and the way he speaks about it) says everything.

The point isn't that JC did not care at all for WWX (he did, it was just toxic due to the entitlement and the jealousy he felt. Then that toxicity only grew and festered as the plot advanced, as he became the worst version of himself), but that saying he saw WWX as a brother when he didn't means ignoring the core issue behind WWX's treatment with the Jiangs: he wasn't allowed clear boundaries. He was too close to be "just a servant," but too distant to be "actual family."

The one person who cared to be WWX's actual family was the one with no power to make it a reality, yet this was used by their environment to blur the lines further. An element of the dynamic this exact piece of dialogue also highlights.

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I 100% agree with this, but I also want to stress on the “to close to be ‘just a servant’” part because I think that a lot of readers, in favor of the siblings reading, ignore that the whole “too close to be a servant” thing is actually a very common rhetorical tool used by the rich to escape accusations of abuse and exploitation by their employees. Requiring your employee to come in and cover for you when you’re too lazy to work because “they’re just so dependable, I can trust them like family,” or making your nanny to abandon her own family to give exclusive care to your children because “they just love her so much” is all exploitation that hinges on the belief that (fake) community ties outweigh the need for clear boundaries, compensation, and humane treatment.

We even see this in the fierce corpse extra, too! A servant was clearly being mistreated by his household’s young master—kicked out of school, accused of thievery and ungratefulness, physically assaulted which led to a disability which killed him—but the young master was able to escape condemnation from the community by pointing out that the servant was treated well by the previous madam of the house before her death, which afforded the servant privileges “above his station,” thus making it so that the master wasn’t at fault for rescinding these “privileges” later. The lack of clear boundaries and expectations is not a benefit to the servant but actually a cover for the master to get away with any abuse they want, all the while claiming that any decent treatment they give to the servant is proof of a “close bond” while any of the servant’s complaints become that of “ingratitude.”

Wei Wuxian is only “like family” to the Jiang (minus Jiang Yanli) when they want something from him, whether it be labor (Jiang Fengmian wanting Wei Wuxian to be his son’s companion and minder) or for him to be their scapegoat (Madam Yu and Jiang Cheng blaming Wei Wuxian for any wrong they feel they’ve suffered in life). And the moment he rebels against this exploitation, he becomes the “ungrateful son of a servant” who “abused the goodwill of the Jiang Clan before betraying them and leading to their downfall.” Wei Wuxian may not have been a literal servant by profession, but the fact that the Jiang treated him as one when convenient and refused to make clear his ties to the main branch of the family made plain how they viewed his role in the clan.