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// Wei Wuxian

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XIMILIA

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[blackfire]

Given the circumstances as you've described them to me, I imagine that much is true.

（ not everyone would take that as an invitation to continue, but wei wuxian is hardly everyone. ）

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Mm. His mother was extraordinarily hard on him. She often compared him to me and found him wanting. It was a constant source of bitterness for her, and she made sure he knew.

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[Wei Wuxian is all at once stricken and he curls his fingers into his palms, guilt a sudden blackhole in his chest. The next response appears barely half a second after the first.]

She had her own difficulties. It's exceptionally tacky of me to speak ill of the dead, and unfilial to speak so cruelly of someone who put a roof over my head. Madam Yu was brilliant, unwavering in her love and loyalty for her children, and wonderfully fierce.

[blackfire]

（ he understands, truly — and yet, on the matter of filial piety, in some way he feels he surrendered his right to an opinion on it. a man who raised a blade to his own blood... it was inexcusable then as now, as sins go.

perhaps that is why, of the two of them, he is the one who can speak thusly. ）

In my experience, it has been that speaking ill of the dead indicates behaviour or actions that warranted such a thing in their life.

You are considerate to emphasize her virtues. However, to me, such praise seems undeserved.

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[A while passes without a response. Far longer than is normal for Wei Wuxian when he's engaged in conversation with Itachi. Eventually though, a reply appears.]

She was a good mother to her children. [It's an insistence on his words, but it isn't a denial of Itachi's either.

And then, an admittance he has never made aloud though he has long known.]

Jiang Cheng's father favored me. Enough that it created rumors about my parentage. It made me a threat to his standing. He never held it against me, but Madam Yu. I mean, you know what that would have done to her, don't you Itachi? [Her husband playing favorites with the son of a woman he'd loved more than her. The rumors of infidelity. The whispers about who was the true heir. If she was hard on Wei Wuxian, then it was only because she loved her children. He can't fault her for that. He never could.]

[blackfire]

I do.

（ people had been thrown from the uchiha compound and stripped of their clan name for less than the murmured suspicion wei wuxian speaks of. he was aware from a perilously young age of societal propriety, the rigid constraints of society. perhaps that was why the easiest cover story to reach for, when it came to the eradication of his kinsmen, was that he was tired of their limitations. ）

But she was an adult. The burden of responsibility was on her to know better than to to hold cruel rumours against a child. How she treated her biological children is irrelevant to me. I care for how she treated you.

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[To that Wei Wuxian does not reply.]