littlesmartart:so after listening to “burn” from hamilton today I had a lot of post-temple xichen fe
littlesmartart:so after listening to “burn” from hamilton today I had a lot of post-temple xichen feelings that I just had to get out, because like… look, I’m a jgy stan as much as any other xiyao fan, but it does annoy me how so many fics have xichen forgive him so quickly? like, yes, the situation is complicated because jgy died, and yes, xichen is an inherently compassionate and empathetic person who I think, out of anyone in the story, has the capability to forgive him, but… regardless of how much anyone may sympathise with jgy, twenty years of xichen’s life and love and trust just got destroyed right in front of him in the space of a few hours! let him be angry! let him be bitter! let him be fucking furious! let xichen have “ugly” unpleasant emotions! let him be more than just the perfect first jade of lan!so yeah. the song felt appropriate for him - the idea of wooing each other via letters, of xichen searching them afterwards for any signs he could have spotted, him “erasing himself from the narrative” by going into seclusion, and then burning the letters… under the cut are some sketches from screenshots of xichen anger faces (I am… still very much trying to figure out how the FUCK his jaw and cheekbones work) and then some more exaggerated anger faces that didn’t turn out to look very much like xichen but HEY it’s good practise I guess??? Keep reading -- source link
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