#Mo Dao Zu Shi #Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #Xue Yang
Thoughts on Xue Yang and XueXiao or SongXiao???
Here’s what I think: The term psychopath is used for someone who is unstable and violent. Xue Yang is a psychopath. He doesn’t care about killing or hurting other people; he is violent. The part about him being unstable is probably debatable. Just to make it clear, I’m not using the term psychopath as an insult (or a compliment.) Being a psychopath doesn’t mean that you don’t have emotions or that you’re an idiot. Xue Yang is a genius, and he definitely has feelings and emotions–he just doesn’t understand all of them or know how to deal with them properly. Xue Yang is literally one of my favorite characters, and lots of people like him because of his tragic backstory or awesome character (as in, he’s a great “villain”) and lots of people don’t because he’s a horrible person (regarding his apathy and “evil” personality.)
The way Xue Yang treated Xiao Xingchen was actually horrible–BUT— does that stop me from scrolling through every XueXiao fanfiction on the Internet? No. Of course not. Xue Yang x Xiao Xingchen is so interesting to read because everyone has a different take on it. I literally love this ship so much. 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶
Realistically speaking, Xue Xiao would never work out. (In the words of Wei Wuxian) Xiao Xingchen hates Xue Yang. Personally, I think Xue Yang had something for Xiao Xingchen. The way he reacted when Wei Ying (stole or took back) Xiao Xingchen’s soul was kinda heartwrenching. That fighting scene was just 👌❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥. Okay but I didn’t love Wei Wuxian in that scene. I mean he was right, in saying Xue Yang didn’t deserve Xiao Xingchen’s soul, and saying he should have executed himself (if you wanted revenge for XXC the one you should have killed was yourself, not Chang Ping-Wei Wuxian, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, animation.) But at the same time, I wish that we could have seen a bit more of the aftermath of Xue Yang’s death. It just felt kinda empty that they defeated him, a villian who I think is pretty well written, but then his body disappears and its just like “oh yay we defeated him.” Idk.
Also the scene where Xiao Xingchen found out, and (idk if its just me but…) Xue Yang actually sounded kinda regretful when he said “I shouldn’t have promised to get the groceries today.” (Btw I’m talking about the animation here) I do also think that Xue Yang was trying to explain his situation to Xiao Xingchen, and expecting him to sympathize. That moment was Xue Yang letting his walls down. The look on Xue Yang’s face when Xiao Xingchen called him disgusting (totally understandable but 😭)–he was hurt and obviously the best way to react when someone hurts you is to set their ex-best friend/potential-love-interest-who-you-tricked-them-into-killing on that person and push them to the point of suicide. Duh. 💀
😅okay. If you read all the way to here, thank you soo much for bearing with me. I had more to say I think but then I got to the skull emoji and like my mind just blanked and my writing spree just ended. Anway tell me what you guys think in the comments!
P/S- any Xue Xiao fic recs is appreciated! I’m not super into Song Lan/Xiao Xingchen/Xue Yang (aka all three of them) but I’ll take pretty much anything else.
P/S/S? P/P/S?- Should I do another post about Xue Yang and Wei Wuxian, bc the parallels between them are kinda fire❤️🔥