purrfectlycontent · 1 year ago
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something something this scene from the trailer being a parallel to mary-ann and seymour (fated to end up alone in their despair and having to “act” a part)
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add this to the fact that mary-ann’s last name was guillotin and furina gets, well…
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jiangwanyinscatmom · 2 years ago
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I was thinking of who to ask this question but I saw an ask asking if you play genshin, now I that I know you do I find it best if I ask this to you. I keep seeing genshin content on my FYP TikTok even before I joined mdzs fandom even though I don't play. Just yesterday, I saw a post saying there's a parallel between diluc & kaeya and wwx & jc. I don't know the lore about diluc & kaeya, I just searched the two names together I saw sweet things but the comments section crying say otherwise. Are there really parallels/similarities between the two supposedly brothers? (Supposedly is there because jc didn't actually look at wwx as a brother unlike Yanli did.)
Not... much? Since there is way more than just the "grew up together in childhood" part of it all between these two duos.
(I am so sorry this is so long I'll put it under a read more lol for anyone not interested in the diffing lore of both)
Kaeya had specifically been adopted by the Ragnvindrs out of sheer good will with no other stipulations, but this was under a years long sabotage plan against Teyvat by Kaeya's people. They very much DID grow up as actual siblings and thought of the other as such. They also both became Knights, as it was encouraged by their father (Kaeya's goal had just been out of revenge originally to begin ruining Mondstadt).But, where it differs there is that Kaeya really did want to help and become a part of Mondstat and the knights because he came to admire Crepus and his ideals and Diluc himself had no hate of him growing up.
Where they fell out was due to Crepus dying by using planted false visions (delusions) that were originally made by the Fatui and Kaeya's people that are more or less extinct. Both do not want Archons or gods anymore, for different reasons, The Fatui because they see their Archon as the overarching God of the world and Khaenri'ah just does not believe in the intervention of the gods as divine and are imprisoning humanity.
Kaeya, had decided not to ruin his family because he came to love them and fully integrated into Mondstadt. But, because of how their father died he felt guilty of his original purpose of being adopted and tells Diluc the truth (who mind, had to kill his father to keep him from suffering from the backlash of the fake vision). The Knights wanted to hide the reason why Crepus died so not to tarnish their reputation, a lie Kaeya was willing to obey. While Diluc wanted to know more of the origins of the fake visions. Where this is different is that DILUC didn't want to associate with his brother anymore due to his continued lies and still following the Knights of Favonius who he saw as hypocritical instead of solving anything significant. Kaeya still believed in the ideals of the knights and continues to be a relevant part of their campaigns. Diluc has reasonable doubts when it comes to Kaeya and not wishing to have him be a large part of his life anymore and did lash out to fight him before disowning him.
As for Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng, well, first part is automatically different as Wei Wuxian was never adopted or called a son. He was only a a servant ward of Yunmeng Jiang and it was the expectation he would be friends with Jiang Fengmian's children. Wei Wuxian also is very adamant of respecting his parents and having loved them with the few memories he had. There was far more duty bound servitude expected from Wei Wuxian, due to being "saved" by Jiang Fengmian. One he himself acknowledges at the end of the book as the reason he never talked of his core loss, because he would see it as a poor excuse to remove any responsibility he had promised to the Jiangs to protect Jiang Cheng. Their entire relationship hinges upon debts first and foremost.
And one-sidedly at that, as Jiang Cheng viewed Wei Wuxian as a servant of him and Yunmeng Jiang and not a brother. Wei Wuxian was very careful in not defining the Jiangs as more other due to what his relationship was made to be with them to the world, and this extended to Jiang Cheng as the promise between them was:
Jiang Cheng was quiet, but he seemed to have calmed down a little.
Wei Wuxian put an arm around his shoulders again. “When you become the family head, I’ll be your subordinate. We’ll be just like our fathers.
This is not a unspoken promise of brotherhood but of an expected place in each other's life without major change, or familial equality. Wei Wuxian was aware of his station as a servant, but was content with that, he didn't want or crave more, because he had no higher expectations of his place that he had been given in life. But, this also wasn't a forever promise to "always be by Jiang Cheng's side" as Jiang Cheng construed it.
When Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian fought, it wasn't because of any sort of betrayal from Wei Wuxian, but the lack of support Jiang Cheng felt he didn't need to also provide, while thinking Wei Wuxian was always trying to selfishly sabotage him (whether in talent, or because he was trying to help strangers instead of placing his "duty" to Jiang Cheng first.).
Kaeya and Diluc DO have the history of being raised as family to be labeled as having a family fallout, Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng do not. As Kaeya and Diluc don't feel any debts between them and it was the lies that were revealed and maintained after their fathers death that made their ideals converge. Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng always had different ideals, and it was duty that made them associate so much only.
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