Jfm - Tumblr Posts
Rewatched ep7 of donghua and this is how it went, right?
i’m just thinking about why jiang fengmian found wei wuxian when he did?
generally i (and i’ve seen many others in the fandom) assumed that news of wei changze and cangse sanren’s deaths was common knowledge not long after it happened yet wei wuxian spent years on the streets until jfm went and got him
but would jfm do that? and the excuse that “well yu ziyuan wouldn’t let him,” doesn’t feel quite right to me either because why would she suddenly change her mind/he suddenly be willing to go against her when he wasn’t before?
what i do think is that jfm’s son didn’t have any friends to the point that his only companions were dogs (*cough* jin ling parallels *cough*) and jfm remembered his old friends who have a son around jiang cheng’s age
he hasn’t heard from them in a while, they’re wanderers it’s not like he’s got an address where he can get in touch with them so he has to track them down
and learns they were last seen in yiling
why go himself?
jfm is a sect leader he had the resources that he didn’t have to investigate this personally but he might have at least wanted to be the first to greet wcz and cssr as a good will gesture since they were his friends and he wants to reconnect
he doesn’t learn they’re dead until he gets there
this whole time he expected to find his friends happily living their lives with their son but they’re dead what happened to their child?
did the people of yiling know who wwx was? did they tell jfm where to find wwx?
so jfm where he expected to find a happy family instead finds his friends’ son a starving orphan so in the worst way he gets what he wanted: a companion for his son
there’s not much information about pre-canon so these are just my thoughts and i’m not trying to say what “really” happened because we readers can’t know we don’t have access to that information
but what we do know is that news in the mdzs universe generally spreads through rumors and (from what i recall) cultivators don’t frequent yiling so only the common people would be left to spread rumors (which we also know cultivators don’t usually listen to)
we also know jfm loved his children, he was a generally kind person, he didn’t like conflict but wasn’t afraid to do what he thought was right so if he knew his friends were dead and their son an orphan why wouldn’t he help?