... anyway i took it in a different direction as that's both sad and also we're in some nebulous "i cannot tell what canonpoint this is but sometimes i think it's post-canon" space
yeah he's the lowest bar, and in cql you don't even get the maybe if you care and try hard enough long enough you might, possibly, one day, sorta, kinda have his soul reknit
............. look i'd have him kiss huaisang but if they switched out then HOLY SHIT HUAISANG WHAT LONG GAME WERE YOU PLAYING TO SEDUCE FUCKING WEI WUXIAN AS LAN WANGJI
oh i'm just outright giving him flak for everything post resurrection, he outright is not helpful and it's his active choice to let a guy 16 years out of date with everything have no help on hand for any of it
it just becomes really sadly stark in visual medium where this guy, who does know the last sixteen years of shifting landscape, doesn't even breathe a word about qinghe's situation/nie huaisang anything
cql it also makes sense because the theory was no confirmed death/body so everyone's been kind of limbo, even if like... fatal journey goes with "but actually he's dead, look, now we're officially mourning"
i have no horse in that race for anyone else, but if things seem off on my end it's likely because if it's not from cql i'm not keeping it in mind/taking it into consideration
wei wuxian pretty strongly reacts to both the whip scars and then lan zhan turning around and that branding scar, though he only verbally addresses the whipping
beep boopsure subtle
jfc