#the surprisingly tender relationship between mad scientist and construct

[mikkeneko]

Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion as I'm still new in the Untamed fandom, but anyway I know WWX was happy to have Lan Wangji back in the timeskip forward, but he could have paid more attention to poor Wen Ning constantly in the background and being left behind everywhere.

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Well, there are a couple of axes here! The top factor in my answer is that I strongly believe that Wen Ning Deserves Everything, so I absolutely think that after everything he’s been through he deserves people to fuss over him and be kind to him, and since Wei Wuxian is one of the very few people left in his life who don’t think he’s a monster, he absolutely should! 

The second axis is that it’s hard for me to tell, not having read the books, how much of WWX’s disregard of Wen Ning is due to Wei Wuxian’s flighty and distractible nature/preoccupation with Lan Wangji and the other things going on in his life, and how much of him being left behind/in the background is just ‘the show writers put him in this scene but didn’t know what to do with him because he wasn’t there in the book.’

And the third is that I’ve seen people argue that what Wen Ning really needs is not more of Wei Wuxian’s attention, but some time and space away from him to find himself and grow some relationships that don’t involve revolving around WWX as the center of his universe. Hence him going off with Lan Sizhui at the end of the series is actually the best thing for him! I can accept that interpretation.

In the end, I come out on the side of: Yes, Wei Wuxian should pay more attention to him and repay his loyalty in kind! BUT I would also like him to form other relationships with people who can be nice to him aside from Wei Wuxian. Or, ideally, just shift over into a Wen Qing’s Not Dead, We Never Saw A Body, They Kept Wen Ning So Why Not The #1 Mad Doctor Of The Generation? Anyway Wen Qing Is In The Jinlintai Basement Please Pick Her Up au.

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