Been seeing more than a couple posts saying:
“Why is Wei WuXian Sizhui’s father but Jiang Cheng not his uncle? Wei WuXian isn’t actually his father/ You shouldn’t be calling Wei WuXian Sizhui’s father/etc.”
The reason why we can call Wei WuXian Sizhui’s father is because Sizhui himself calls Wei WuXian his father/father figure more than once in the story.
The first time is during his life as Wen Yuan during Yiling Date. Fanon loves to say that a-Yuan was calling Lan WangJi his father but that just plain wrong.
Guys, Wen Yuan is one years old during this scene. He just met Lan WangJi and was terrified of him. There is no way in the world that a one year old is going to call a man he just ran into randomly his father.
We have to presume Wen Yuan’s parents are dead because they aren’t in the Burial Mounds; Wen Yuan is either with his grandmother or Wei WuXian in the scenes he’s in. It’s also impossible for him to have any memories of his birth parents because he was a literal infant in the labor camps and we have the added knowledge that even Wei WuXian has no memories of his parents when he lost them when he was four, so what chance does a-Yuan have?
Wen Yuan was in the market with Wei WuXian. Wen Yuan got bored and walked away from Wei WuXian without his notice. (Kids do this, I’m sure a lot of you did it at least once as a child.) Wen Yuan realized he lost sight of Wei WuXian and then ran into Lan WangJi. Upon seeing Lan WangJi’s face, Wen Yuan immediately started crying and calling for his “father”.
There is literally one person in this scenario he could be calling for and it’s not Lan WangJi.
Later, after WangJi leaves the Burial Mounds, when WuXian says he heard a-Yuan call WangJi his father, Wen Yuan literally says that he wasn’t talking about Lan WangJi. He wasn’t calling for any of the other Wen Remnants because he refers to them as aunts and uncles, granny, etc.
The second time is during his life as Lan Yuan.
During Yi City, Sizhui tells Wei WuXian, while he still believed him to be Mo XuanYu, that he felt safe around him and that nothing could go wrong while he was there- the same way he felt about Lan WangJi. He also later tells Wei WuXian that Lan WangJi was both an older brother and father figure to him.
Once Sizhui regains his memories, the first thing he does is follow Wei WuXian and then breaks down crying about how much he missed him. His memories resurfaced from seeing ChenQing, something he was around a lot as an infant because he was using it as a teething toy; which we can infer means Wei WuXian spent a lot of time around Wen Yuan as a child because you’re not leaving your main weapon alone with a baby.
Jiang Cheng is not Sizhui’s uncle because Jiang Cheng murdered his entire family and tried to kill him. He is not his uncle because the narrative states that when Jiang Cheng first saw Wen Yuan, freshly recused from from the labor camps, that he “had no love in him at all” and then not long after demanded he be returned to the labor camps.
Sizhui has no reason to see Jiang Cheng as a family member. Sizhui has no reason to love Jiang Cheng. Jiang Cheng is not a part of his family.
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