There is so much gorgeous stuff for Guardian Week I feel I am about 152 amazing fanworks behind on everything so thank you for posting them here at a more reasonable rate. ♥
I would argue, as applied to involving Lan Xichen specifically, he's not the asshole. A lot of that is based on both his refusal to believe that NMJ just might know Meng Yao better than he did, and later his admission that he knew Jin Guangyao was doing questionable things, but he was sure JGY had "reasons" he himself would find acceptable for them. At that point, Nie Huaisang clearly wasn't impressed with what LXC would find acceptable, and neither was I. I understand that in the novel, he's both younger and not yet the clan leader at the start of things, which seems to underlie a lot of the defense of him (that and the actor's hotness, but that probably goes without saying); his position is comparable, in a lot of ways, to that of Jiang Cheng. In the drama, however, he's clearly positioned as older and in a position of relatively more power. As a result, his inaction in the face of JGY's machinations reads differently.
That said, take a fanwork like the vid "Start a War", which poses the question: to defeat a monster, must you become a monster? Certainly, it presents its case in how few of JGY's victims NHS saved or even helped. In fact, that's not even part of his agenda, and he re-victimizes them without pause when he deems it necessary. If one is inclined to view LXC more sympathetically, one could argue that's what NHS does to LXC, who was certainly one of JGY's victims, his complicity aside.
I agree on all your points, here (esp the bits about drama!LXC bc I am not one of his apologists--not even close). That said, I still think he's kind of an asshole. Would I do the exact same things and perhaps worse? Absolutely. Am I kind of an asshole sometimes? YEP. 😆
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I would argue, as applied to involving Lan Xichen specifically, he's not the asshole. A lot of that is based on both his refusal to believe that NMJ just might know Meng Yao better than he did, and later his admission that he knew Jin Guangyao was doing questionable things, but he was sure JGY had "reasons" he himself would find acceptable for them. At that point, Nie Huaisang clearly wasn't impressed with what LXC would find acceptable, and neither was I. I understand that in the novel, he's both younger and not yet the clan leader at the start of things, which seems to underlie a lot of the defense of him (that and the actor's hotness, but that probably goes without saying); his position is comparable, in a lot of ways, to that of Jiang Cheng. In the drama, however, he's clearly positioned as older and in a position of relatively more power. As a result, his inaction in the face of JGY's machinations reads differently.
That said, take a fanwork like the vid "Start a War", which poses the question: to defeat a monster, must you become a monster? Certainly, it presents its case in how few of JGY's victims NHS saved or even helped. In fact, that's not even part of his agenda, and he re-victimizes them without pause when he deems it necessary. If one is inclined to view LXC more sympathetically, one could argue that's what NHS does to LXC, who was certainly one of JGY's victims, his complicity aside.
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