#the clownery is a core part of his character. its what MAKES him good

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fic from jc’s pov will be like ‘he’s so cool and smart obviously the only one who knows what’s going on and can react reasonably and responsibly while these other other idiots do all they can to give him a migraine, especially wei wuxian, that dumbass, and I need to get him and his dumb friend together because they’re obviously too stupid to do it themselves’ but from the outside it is so clear how canonically he’s working with incomplete information, that he’s been manipulated by older and more corrupt and power-hungry cultivators, that he’s extremely immature and emotionally volatile and physically violent even as an adult, that the flashback conflict is partially because he refuses to see political prisoners as people while wwx refuses to abandon them, that he’s unyielding and often impossible to reason with, that he makes errors in judgement all the time, that his talent is mediocre while wwx’s is beyond genius-level, that wwx can easily and casually manipulate and mislead him, that he’s been wrong for years about wwx’s loyalty and his own power source, that nobody likes in him canon except the nephew he yells at, that the girl he tried to court refused to marry him even when the alternative was exile and starvation, that he repeatedly tries to break wwx and lwj apart and insults their relationship...I could go on. he’s a mess, and he’s really interesting that way, and his supposed fans will persist in pretending like he’s not for what, some kind of superiority complex? you’re hyping up the wrong character