#I MEANNNNNN...

[poorlittleyaoyao]

WRH expressing baseline interest/concern for his sons and being at least somewhat displeased out loud that they died, combined with novel!WRH who is not blackmailing WQ or WN and in fact favors them both because their dad was his favorite cousin, makes for an interesting contrast with our other resident supervillain JGS. Sure JGS doesn't have a canonical torture hobby for kicks, but WRH is capable of caring about other people, so?

Technically speaking, WRH in drama canon might not have a torture hobby! He has a demonic cultivation hobby, and he has people torn asunder by his legion of I Can't Believe They're Not Zombies, but if he's also torturing people on the side, we never see it. Meanwhile, MY seems to be serving WRH in the exact same capacity as he did NMJ; WC describes MY as being "a new right-hand man" who is "highly favored," and WRH commends MY for his strategy when battles (seem to) go well for them. JGS might well be the only one of JGY's bosses in The Untamed who makes him murder people beyond what one would expect in a war! YIKES.

But yeah, on rewatch, I was really struck by how much WRH genuinely cares about his sons? Not in an indulgent way; when WC fucks up, WRH rebukes him for his carelessness and doesn't accept whining excuses. (ex: when WC tries to blame his failure to intercept Wangxian & Co. at Dafan Mountain on WQ interfering, WRH snaps back that it's WC's own damn fault WQ interfered since he endangered her people.) But he doesn't ever force them to do something they REALLY don't want to do, as JGS does repeatedly with JZX. And I can't see WRH keeping his sons' killers alive on the off-chance they proved useful, as JGS does with WN. We see WRH become distressed at the news of WC's death; we do NOT get a similar scene with JGS even though we very pointedly get one with Madam Jin.

In fact, the one time we see one of WRH's kids actually afraid of him is in one scene prior to the sack of Lotus Pier, when WRH strikes at WC after WC tells him the Xuanwu of Slaughter is dead. In that scene, he's visibly ailing from a resentment-induced qi imbalance and isn't able to get treatment because WQ is in Yiling, and it's clear from WC's concern and shock that this is UNUSUAL. His behavior is due to the effects of the resentment on his body and spirit.

...And now that I typed all that out, you know who that sounds an awful lot like? NIE MINGJUE, who is annoyed at and stern with his little brother's fuckups, but doesn't become violent until he's got ancestral curses fucking up his blood. Ahhhh. AHHHH.

[oldbutchdanielcraig]

“once again sees Reid shine above the rest” and meanwhile this is the first time this entire season Reid has been around for more than one minute at a time.

[kekwuit]

[kevjeanday]

Deep in the throes of AFTG brainrot and I can’t decide if I’m more angry that did not know this or that I now do

[tea-the-not-understanding]

Love this twink. Love him so much that he's my most favourite toon.

Coal is seconds fav, lol

[pmpwbrrs]

OFF STRING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RAMBLE UNDER CUT with no conclusion. just babbling

I reeeeeeally like to think that going off string requires A LOT of sacrifice. That it's not that easy to just ..... Get off

I love to think about how hard it is to cut off your godlike metal giant body from yourself. Are you even going to be yourself after this? Is it painful? I think it should be. What happens to the can right after? It's still you. What happens if your puppet dies? Are you going to wake up in another cycle? But what about the can? IT'S STILL YOU!!! WHAT IF

I looooove thinking about how fucking difficult it is for an iterator to even EXIST out of their can to begin with, and how it fucks up their already (most likely) shaken up mental health. And physical health. That it's extremely hard for them to walk, to get up after they fell, to touch, to see, to feel, to run, to fight, to rest, to be alive. That not running thousands of processes on the back of your mind is making your head dizzy, that you can't stand straight and be balanced because of how you used to have an umbilical arm, and how painful it is not to have it. How hard it is to be dependent just on your little, vulnerable, pathetic (in comparison) new body and a few neurones

It's just so much

And I love to think that they STILL can't get rid of all the curses that they had

[urloveangel]

[bramasoles]

so am i just supposed to move on with my life after jason grace's death

[seanchaidh7]

Brat 🩵 Alex

[rogdona]

[concretesweetner]

Is xgaster just the multiverses elon musk

[tetzoro]

i want to take his heart + my heart and make them kiss

[davvekat]

Also the chap 2 sneak peek type thing someone found is intersting af

Idk if anyone else talked Abt this so I'm posting it

[carlyraejepsans]

tragic! area man on second viewing of media he liked catches previous misunderstanding that makes things unbelievably more lame

[soloavengers]

[thebuckandeddiething]

I'm making this a presumed dead Eddie idc

come on.