no but listen to me lISTEN,,, the endless capacity for love this boy has, despite all the wrongs he suffered through since childhood, and he still has the brightest smile, and he still wants to help ppl and protect and care for his loved ones and Wei Ying is THE SUN *screams into eternity* and you know the quote "the saddest people smile the brightest"? I feel it both describes wwx but also is too limiting because this boy is stronger than his sadness and pain he CHOSES the light *cries*

hello, dianaaa!! 💙 ok listen. i am all up for discussions about wei wuxian and how he's literally the best character of all time in all of fiction but i won't promise there won't be any crying on my part because anything that reminds me of wuxian? and the pain and suffering he went through? makes me cry an entire ocean. like. i once talked about this with my brother? and i CRIED. DEADASS. ok so here we go.

what really pains me about the life wwx lived (i just finished till ep. 33 so i have no idea what happened after he resurrected) is that he kept on building a family of his own. he lost his real family and became an orphan at a very young age, eating off of scrapes and barely surviving THEN he found himself a home in lotus pier. with a brother who's never the best in expressing himself but always always means well, and a sister who's cradled him with love and warmth from the very first moment. he found a home who accepted him and loved him so abundantly he never felt left out. it wasn't his biological family but not once did it feel like it wasn't real. AND THEN in a blink of an eye? he lost it. again. the family he grew up in, who accepted him as no less than their own, massacred and killed mercilessly. for so long, he pondered if there was a place in this world whom he might belong in after that AND THEN!! he meets the victims in the wen clan. he empathized with them and just knew in his heart, that he can't turn a blind eye. and so he turns his back against everything the society deems righteous and decides to build a new home with these people, much like him. AND THE THING IS. HE DID MANAGE TO BUILD A HOME WITH THEM. an unexpectedly found family where they plant radishes and not potatoes, with an older sister who supports him and a loyal ghost brother who'll literally dive into death the second time for him. it's broken, it's not perfect, but it was family. and wwx is happy. BUT THEN!! THEY DECIDE!! TO TAKE THEM ALL AWAY FROM HIM!! AGAIN!!

god, he tried so damn hard to pick himself up every time he falls and the world burned him for it. leaving him with nothing. literally nothing. at least that's what he thought in that final moments he had on that cliff. and man. ugh. the amount of pain he went through for him to change from being the happy, playful, teenager in cloud recesses to the hopeless and broken yiling laozu standing on that cliff and letting himself fall — god. HE DIDN'T DESERVE ANY OF THAT!!! he just wanted to have a family he can call his own for christ's sake. he's not asking for much. and yet the whole world decides to paint him in the darkest light and took everything he holds dear away from him. EVERYTHING.

if i were him, i'd go insane. he deserves so damn much. 🥺