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labyrynth · 2 years

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PSA for “canon jiang cheng” folks:

please stop using the “subordinate” thing as a basis for your arguments. that word does not mean what you seem to think it means.

y’all talk about jc asking wwx to be his subordinate as if it’s like some show of disrespect. some of y’all literally use it as “evidence” that jc “never cared about wwx” and that he “never viewed wwx as anything but a servant” but like.

my friends. subordinate literally just means “someone with a lower rank (than someone else).” it does not carry any connotations of subservience, servitude, lesser worth, or disrespect.

we understand how sect leadership works in mdzs, yes? there is One (1) sect leader.

Everyone who is Not the sect leader, but is affiliated with that sect, is Subordinate to the Sect Leader.

nobody ever claims that lan xichen didn’t care about lan wangji, lan qiren, or any of the juniors, even though they were all subordinate to him as the sect leader.

nobody ever claims that jin guangshan viewed madame jin, jin zixuan, or jin zixun as “just servants” or even servants at all, even though they were all subordinate to him as the sect leader.

hell, nobody even claims that nie mingjue viewed meng yao as “just a servant,” even when meng yao actually WAS a servant!

[edit: apparently some people are taking objection to calling meng yao as a servant? y’all, they literally made him be their water boy. what would you call that?]

that’s just how leadership works! being subordinate isn’t a bad thing!! it’s just “a person who has a boss”

“right-hand-man” IS a subordinate position to “sect leader,” and it’s also literally the highest position jc could have given wwx without quite literally making wwx sect leader!

so like. unless you ARE legitimately arguing that jiang cheng should have forced wei wuxian to become sect leader of yunmengJiang, just…please drop it.

that word Does Not mean what you Think it means. the thing you are Mad about is Made Up. please just let it go.

#mdzs discourse #mdzs talk #mxtx talk #*kicks hornets nest*#canon jiang cheng #IF YOURE GOING TO BE WEIRD AND WRONG AT LEAST BE WEIRD AND WRONG **ACCURATELY**#it was only a matter of time before i tagged a mdzs post with discourse…#i’m just surprised it’s not about jgy #that one catmom person and the fanatic are such egregious repeat offenders #like can you please take off your ‘jiang cheng is an evil supervillain abuser’ glasses for like 5min and realize how ridiculous you sound #can you please behave like a normal person who makes normal person judgements #and doesn’t just swallow whatever weird random rumor you heard from someone’s cousin’s friend #weird judgements like ‘jiang cheng beats children and murders people in his front yard’#i’m still not over that post it was just so 💀💀#like you really think if jc wanted to murder people he couldn’t find a better place to do it than his front yard??#i have them both blocked but i saw a weird reblog on someone else’s post #and i was like ‘wow what a weird and nonsense reply that sounds like they’re replying to someone other than op’#and sure enough #like…setting aside the fact that what jc was actually asking to be able to depend on wwx #esp in context he was looking for support PERSONALLY. not as ‘heir to jiang’ but as ‘jiang cheng son of jfm and yzy’#bc he never felt recognized by his parents! BOTH of them overlooked what he had achieved in favor of praising wwx (jfm) or scolding jc (yzy)#if jc didn’t care about wwx or thought he was above him then why wouldn’t he refute the twin prides thing?#what jc was asking was ‘can i depend on you to be my lifelong friend’#‘can i trust that you will always have my back’#in retrospect if things hadn’t gone to shit so soon after they prob would have sworn brotherhood once they were actually. you know. adults.#anyway #jc is a lot more complicated than y’all want to make him out to be #if your perception of a character limits them to a single emotional spectrum then you’ve done something wrong #he’s a prickly boy that’s it. it’s not that complicated.#hedgehog boy. if u pet him the wrong direction it’s gonna be pokey. ur supposed to pet the OTHER way. it’s not his fault if u pet him wrong.

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