The structure of reversals is something I usually see (and do) in poetry, so I wanted to see if it might work in short fic. I'm so glad to hear you specifically liked that element! You got exactly what I was doing with them, too. Jiang Cheng is a character so clearly in conflict with himself, I could see him arguing with himself like this.
It always gets me when he finally breaks down and talks about that promise, and it's so clear that this is at the core of all the anger, all the blame and bitterness, this hurt baby brother who was abandoned right when he most expected he could depend on his older brother. And I'm a Wei Wuxian stan, and I get why he didn't, but I still wish he'd told Jiang Cheng at the time.
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Date: 2021-08-19 05:24 pm (UTC)It always gets me when he finally breaks down and talks about that promise, and it's so clear that this is at the core of all the anger, all the blame and bitterness, this hurt baby brother who was abandoned right when he most expected he could depend on his older brother. And I'm a Wei Wuxian stan, and I get why he didn't, but I still wish he'd told Jiang Cheng at the time.