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I feel like it's the whole reason for people to watch the first episodes, but also, going back afterward, there's so much there, you're just like WHOAAAAA.

That's fair, I can very much understand his behavior being distressing. I always feel bad when I hear people say stuff like that, because I am very like Wei Wuxian in that way, and very much interacted with people like he did when I was in high school and college. I almost always made a beeline for the shyest person in the room and tried to talk to them. It also worked for us, most of the people I did that with became good friends. But now that I'm older and I often want to be alone and not interact, I find that if someone came over to do that to me, I'd be annoyed (so I understand the sentiment that Wei Wuxian is rude and annoying). Either I lucked out, where I picked people who wanted to be more social and didn't have the capacity, or, similar to Lan Zhan, they got over their annoyance with me and came to like me anyway.

I have lots of conflicting feels about this, too, it's pretty tough to live with the difference between my general belief system now (that everyone is allowed to interact in the way they want and that should be respected) and my behavior then (which, because it worked out for me, is hard to condemn - I would be out many good friends if I had just left them alone like they wanted (and I think they would say the same)). Some contradictions are tough to just live with.

ANYWAY, I agree, the non-flashback parts are the best of all of it! I am partial to them because I love the juniors, but the intervening years has matured all the characters so there is more depth, which is nice.