It’s not called projecting it’s called Being Right About This Character
AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OOOOUGHHHHHHH AAHHHH
blah blah blah, teenage angst or something.
Something that is in fact SO important to Wei Wuxian is that, fundamentally, he is hot. He is Thee Hot Girl. He’s shooting five arrows blindfolded as a charged political statement and he’s doing it with zero magic powers AND he was sexy when he did it. He beats out his own brother (sorry, Jiang Cheng) for Most Eligible Bachelor despite being literally dirt poor and not a sect heir. He lives rent free in the minds of everybody twenty years later, to the point that JC and LWJ are literally Like That and NHS literally constructed his revenge plot around him and— look, just watch the scenes at the Second Burial Mounds Siege. Oh, and they use all his inventions, even though he’s an evil heretic, because uhhh they were really good inventions. Actually. Like he was in fact at the top of the field as an inventor and innovator. And he was hot. AND he had no powers. Whoops.
I just never stop thinking about the fact that Hua Cheng is a ghost fueled by love, when most ghosts are fueled by resentment. Not to say he doesn’t have resentment in there because he sure does but that’s not the reason.
And not just any ghost, but an incredibly old, incredibly powerful ghost. Everything he has done and built, every time he has clawed himself back into the world, has been because of the enduring love he holds for Xie Lian.
Micro-dosing on reanimating corpses by going to build a bear