i love the way wei wuxian and jin guangyao have no relationship at all. like you’ve got your hero and you’ve got your villain and they’re highly complementary characters who wind up being instrumental in each other’s downfalls, and also they met like, what, four times? with zero one on one conversations? jin guangyao barely even bothers to manipulate wei wuxian during the temple showdown and wei wuxian watches jin guangyao die with all the emotion of someone who just noticed a dent in their car and is wondering how it got there
Don’t leave that in the tags lol
#they are foils they are opposed they are both instrumental to absolutely tearing the others life#but they did not ever have a crumb of a relationship whether positive or negative (tags from @littlegreenmp3)
they really said i got no beef with you to each other while making mince meat out of each other’s life
I did think about this once, but this post is way better articulated.
A truly underutilized Huaisang plot is him killing time during his ten years of revenge plotting by being a minor thorn in Jin Guangyao’s side. He has had years of training in the art of being an obnoxious younger sibling and now he’s going to make this one man’s life hell.
Nie Huaisang interrupting every one of Lan Xichen and Jin Guangyao’s little tea dates to cry about his problems. Nie Huaisang intentionally antagonizing other sect leaders during meetings, until every Cultivation Conference is twice as long and three times as miserable as it needs to be. He can make Jiang Cheng start shouting just by wearing the same lotus perfume Jiang Yanli used to and no one even realizes it’s him riling them up! Nie Huaisang letting thirty rowdy Nie Juniors lose in Lanling with spending money. Nie Huaisang getting three year old Jin Rusong trumpets and drums and non-washable paints. Jin Ling has five ponies thanks to Nie Huaisang and they’re all horribly trained.
Jin Guangyao, balancing the Nie Sect’s expenses for the 7th year running: Do you want to explain to me why you added a line item to your budget that just says “summertime sadness”?
