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wangxianficrecs · 1 month

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One for Heaven and Earth by cerbykerby

One for Heaven and Earth

by cerbykerby (@cerbykerby)

T, 7k, Wangxian

Summary: An incredulous "Whoa," behind Lan Wangji yanks him out of his meditative state. He spins around fast enough for his wet hair to stick to his cheek. His eyes widen in horror. On the shore of the Cold Springs, Wei Wuxian stands, half-dressed in his own robes. He holds up Lan Wangji's heavenly robe, the fabric shining like spilled stars at midnight. "Lan Zhan," Wei Wuxian breathes, a whole constellation reflecting in his eyes. "What's this? It's so—" ---------- On the night Lan Wangji's mother left, she gave him a divine robe and told him to never let anyone see or take it from him. Kay's comments: Absolutely loved this re-telling of MDZS where Lan Wangji's mother was a heavenly maiden and made heavenly robes for him and his brother. A very creative look at the backstory between Lan Wangji's parents and I love the subtle ways it affected his relationship with Wei Wuxian as well. Beautifully written too! Excerpt: The Gusu Lan forehead ribbon means self-restraint. It is not meant to be touched by anyone other than one's fated person. Only with one's fated person can one truly be free. The heavenly robe is a gift bestowed on Lan Wangji by his mother. It is a status symbol as much as it is a part of his identity. Celestial blood flows through him. The robe is proof that he is entitled to walk among the heavens as he does on earth. To steal his robe would be to deny him his birthright. To even have permission to touch his robe would be a sign of complete trust. A forehead ribbon from his father. A heavenly robe from his mother. Both hold heavy significance. Neither can be given away without careful consideration. Which, to Lan Wangji's alcohol-riddled mind, is the perfect reason why Wei Wuxian should have both items.

pov lan wangji, canon divergence, madam lan lives, lan family feels, chinese mythology & folklore, fairy tale retellings, canon compliant, hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, grief/mourning, loss, angst with a happy ending, supernatural elements

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 4 months

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Turtle Takedown Teamwork.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #tulu xuanwu #Something about changing the action sequence to something gentle is hilarious to me.#The lesson here is “Be nice to turtles. They are gentle creatures. And many are very endangered.”#don't get me wrong here; I love this scene a lot. LWJ's string technique is one of my favoyrite things.#We do get a fair amount of LWJ fighting but I always loved how the theme of strings comes into play.#There is actually a lot to unpack with LWJ being associate with 'strings'.#The musicianship: Of dedication and rigor in one's practice.#The tension between following along a path or composing your own way forwards (playing what has been written vs composing)#A string is a tightly coiled/taunt entity; The same tension that makes it sing so beautifully can be it's downfall if pushed too hard.#And as a non-musical string - something that binds. Be it to his sect and family or how he binds his fate to WWX -#LWJ cannot exist without his binds. It is not something which ties him down though. It keeps him together.#And he himself *is* a bind. He 'ties wwx down' in ways that are initially negatively viewed ('come to gusu' - feels like: come be trapped)#But later it is shown how (despite being introduced as a free spirit) WWX truly wants to be bound to something and someone.#Marriage is a bind he wants. He wants to be tied and grounded by LWJ.#It's starting to sound like innuendo. Let's call his fondness for being literally tied up smart thematic writing.#Finally. Sex scenes that are important to the plot and characters

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bnnywngs · 1 year

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a-yuan: i want that

lan wangji: sure

wei wuxian: no

lan wangji, shocked: ....what

wei wuxian: you already have a lot of toys sweetie, you don't need another one

lan wangji, still shocked: how can you say no to your child?

wei wuxian:

wei wuxian: *look at teary a-yuan* no

lan wangji: *shocked gasp*

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hellosweetie99 · 3 months

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Feeling insane about this today

Family portrait

#THEY ARE A FAMILY #wei wuxian #sry I have a lot of feelings about their little family #all of them is love #the untamed #mdzs #lan wangji #lan sizhui #mo dao zu shi #wangxian

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impatiencegyu · 8 months

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Jin Ling and his Jiu-jiu

Jin Ling is seven when he almost understands love.

It's past midnight, and he had had a very bad nightmare. Someone was chasing after him, calling him names and yelling that he was an orphan, and that his uncle was dead, and that he had no one left in this world, and so on and on and on—

He had woken up screaming, rousing his uncle who was fast asleep and had gone to sleep dead-tired. I woke him up, Jin Ling thinks guiltily as he twists his fingers into his uncle's shirt, burrowing his teary face deeper into his neck.

"What is it, A-Ling?" Jiu-jiu's voice, though rough from sleep, is soft and comforting as he cradled the boy into his lap. "It's just a nightmare, alright? No one is going to hurt you — I'll break their legs before they get to you."

Jin Ling giggles wetly, wiping at his eyes before leaning his head on his uncle's shoulder and looking up. His jiu-jiu was the best in the whole world. He was so handsome, and so cool, and all his friends were jealous of him because he was just so cool. Everyone loved him, though he was often grumpy — the only person he didn't get grumpy at all the time was him. And Sang-gege, of course.

Ah, Sang-gege. Jin Ling thinks, suddenly straightening up, before lying back down against his jiu-jiu's chest.

"Jiu-jiu?"

"Hm?"

Jin Ling hesitates, before leaning his head slightly up. "Jiu-jiu, can I ask you something?"

"Well, go on," his uncle tilts his head to a side.

"Jiu-jiu," Jin Ling whispers, closing his eyes as he leans his head back on his uncle's chest.

"Jiu-jiu, do you love Sang-ge?"

He hears his uncle's breath hitch, and smiles a bit when he felt his heart speed up under his ears. "Jiu-jiu?"

He heard his jiu-jiu huff before he asks, "Suddenly? What brought this on?"

"Well, Sang-gege loves you. So I thought you would—"

"He said that?" Though he doesn't look up at him, Jin Ling heard the sudden softness and something — hope? — in his uncle's voice.

"No, but he looks at you like that."

"Like what?"

Jin Ling makes a face as he continues, "Like Zhan-ge looking at Wei Wuxian."

"That's Da-jiu for you," his uncle corrects, and laughs as Jin Ling makes a face again.

"Like Da-jiu and Zhan-ge look at each other."

"Do I look at him like that?"

Jin Ling contemplates that for a moment, before shaking his head. "No, you are different. Your eyes go all soft, and sometimes I think you don't even breathe when Sang-ge is here. You go all warm and soft even if you snark at him all the time, and you almost always look at him like that."

Jiang Cheng's mouth has fallen open at some point. He opens it, closes it, then lets out a snort. "That's way too observant for a 7 year old."

Jin Ling smiles smugly at him, before commenting in wonder, "Jiu-jiu, you are so red right now, you look like tomato soup."

His uncle's smile gives way to a scowl as he lifts Jin Ling off his lap.

"That's enough for now. Go to bed."

"But jiu-jiu!" Jin Ling whines as he's dragged into his uncle's bed, and immediately smothered by blankets. "I don't wanna sleep! I wanna talk about Sang-gege!"

"I said sleep." Jiang Cheng climbs under the covers with him, switching the light off, and cuddling him close. Jin Ling sighs, observing his uncle's face in the soft glow of the nightlight. Then he whispers.

"Jiu-jiu."

"What?"

"When am I going to fall in love?"

"Sleep."

"But jiu-jiu—"

Jiang Cheng now cuddles his nephew closer, closing his eyes as he hugs him tight to his chest.

"Another word and you can go back to your room. Sleep."

Jin Ling huffs, annoyed, then gives up and closes his eyes too.

"Good night, jiu-jiu."

"It's almost morning now, idiot child. Sleep. Wake me if you get a nightmare again, okay?"

Jin Ling smiles wide at that, and nods against his uncle's chest, before dozing off.

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krispycreamsicle · 2 years

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Song-daozhang, sometimes I feel like you educated people are really the worst at cursing. You just repeat the same words. Nothing creative. No killing power. I haven't used those words since I was seven.

#song lan #xue yang #theuntameddaily #mxtxnet #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #cql #mdzs #yi city #*my gifs #so i'm having yi city feelings (what else is new)#but specifically i'm having feelings about how sl chooses to insult xy here #he says 畜生 which can be translated as beast bastard or brute #but it can also be translated as 'domestic animal'#xy's been dehumanized his entire life until a certain blind daoshi saved his life #but even then being a 'monster' being an 'animal' is really all he knows #so it's probably easier for him to rationalize his enjoying his domestic life with xxc and aq in terms of a predator stalking it's prey #he's not really a *human* who craves silly things like *love* or *family* or *security* or anything no no no #he's a beast who's taking his time stalking his prey before he pounces #but song lan calling him a domesticated animal just. flips the power dynamic xy thinks he has with xxc on it's head #if xy's a domesticated animal xxc is his owner. xy isn't the one with the power here it's xxc #(which i think is more accurate but xy would never fully admit this to himself)#and that breaks the illusion. it forces xy to face his actual feelings and how his life actually is without any pretenses #so his mask slips! he drops the smile he's hidden behind and shows that behind that mask he's. well. a frightened animal #also 'those words' that xy stopped using at seven are referring to 畜生. which. that's a spiel for the tags of a different gifset kjhghjk

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wenningfanclub · 11 months

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I love a modern-AU dadfics as much as anyone, but we have to stop glossing over how Wei Wuxian adopting A-Yuan would impact the Wens. Because if he does, something has gone terribly wrong for them and it would absolutely affect everyone involved.

The issue is that A-Yuan has primary caregivers other than Wei Wuxian who should be taking care of him, and if they're not in the picture then there’s going to be a reason why. The first person missing is Granny Wen, who is Wen Yuan’s actual caregiver in mdzs and would most likely be taking care of him. Unfortunately in most dad!xian fics she's immediately fridged or has her grandchild taken away from her due to her age off-screen—which would be deeply traumatic for everyone involved, especially if she’s subsequently unable to be involved in her grandchild's life.

The second person who would be taking care of A-Yuan before Wei Wuxian is Wen Qing. Sometimes the in-fic reason for her not being his caregiver is due to unavoidable circumstances (usually financial issues, which like. yikes), but most of the time it comes down to Wen Qing not really… wanting? to be a caregiver, often because she’s too busy or is putting her career first or is just too much of a GirlBoss. So she chooses to adopt out Wen Yuan to Wei Wuxian (again, off-screen) and that's the end of that.

Listen. Not everyone wants to be a parent. Not everyone should be a parent, or can. It’s a reasonable and valid decision to prioritize other parts of your life over parenthood—especially if being a parent or caregiver wasn’t your choice in the first place. But Wen Qing is going to have SOME kind of feeling about letting A-Yuan be adopted out of her family, and that feeling is probably going to be complicated or bittersweet, if not painful. Not only because she’s, you know, a human being with emotions, but Wen Qing’s primary motivation in the book is to take care of her family and keep them together. So her deciding “nah, I’m too much of a girlboss to be a caregiver, here’s a free kid and I’m going to feel absolutely nothing about this cause it’d be inconvenient for the fluff” is not only a dismissal of how complicated that decision would be for her, it’s also wildly out of character. No matter what the reason is, she's going to feel something about it.

(I’m not getting into how Wen Ning is never tapped as another potential caregiver btw because we're really not ready to talk about ableism just yet)

If you love the idea of Wei Wuxian adopting A-Yuan in your modern au, there’s are a couple of changes that can address this. One is to make Wen Yuan not related to Wen Qing and the shared surname is just a coincidence, like Lan Jingyi. Another is to have them be a blended family where they’re all caregivers for A-Yuan, or have Wei Wuxian be his primary caregiver but help A-Yuan actively maintain a connection to his family of origin. Or have Wei Wuxian adopt A-Yuan but the Wens actually get have feelings about it for once, regardless of why it happens—sorrow, frustration, relief, gratitude, regret, something. Let Wen Qing have complicated feelings and let them shape her relationship with Wei Wuxian, too, for better or worse or just messier. Maybe even let Wei Wuxian, who was also separated from his family of origin and is a walking ball of family trauma, have complicated feelings about it as well! Or go the extra mile and let A-Yuan have some emotions about it for once, because regardless of the context the loss or change of support structures is traumatic, especially for a small human.

Anyway read A Temporary Fix by Bosgood for your complex Wen family feels (feat. Lan Wangji adopting Wen Yuan, because all of this goes the same for him as well).

#mdzs #the untamed #wei wuxian #wen qing #wen ning #wen yuan #lan sizhui #I didn't even get into the legions of other dafan wen either #like where's uncle four??#where are the aunties??#not to mention that wwx isn't wen yuan's dad in cannon #he's a very cool babysitter/fun uncle/involved caregiver but he's not his dad #and that doesn't diminish their relationship! a-yuan having multiple caregivers and guardians is a good thing!#idk I just hate seeing wen yuan's birth family shoved into a meat grinder or stripped of complicated feelings #I get that people want a fluffy kidfic but c'mon y'all we can do better #stop fridging Granny Wen 2k23 #can you tell I want to be a parent but have Feelings about the adoption industry

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clementinecoastline · 2 years

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what lan sizhui and jin ling represent to each other drives me up the fucking wall

you have lan sizhui, who represents what wei wuxian gave everything up for. he abandoned his family and station all to protect the wens, and after all of it, lan sizhui is the last one standing. (technically wen ning is there but. im counting him as a casualty). and on the other hand, you have jin ling, who represents everything that wei wuxian gave up. the chance to see his nephew. the chance to see jin ling’s parents. the lives of his parents.

and both lost everything over each other. lan sizhui lost his family because of jin ling’s. jin ling lost his because of lan sizhuui. they are so terribly intertwined. even if they had never met, they would still be connected by grief, and by wei wuxian. by what they gained and what it cost. by the time they meet, theyve spent years carrying the weight of what the other lost, the weight of wei wuxian‘s decisions

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maevionart · 2 years

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Wei Ying is bad at saying goodbye

(First day of kindergarten)

#how are there only like 200 wx kid fics?#and ive read them all #well #almost #i need more #wangxian family feels #lan yuan #wei yuan #lan sizhui #my art #wei wuxian #wei ying #lan zhan is off screen but hes there #sketch #doodle #nothing serious #dadxian #dadji #mdzs

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trans-xianxian · 6 months

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the goofs about lan wangji and jiang cheng having so much history but still being indifferent towards each other are funny and all but it's also just like not true? even if you ignore subtext or inferences that require a little bit of analysis, like lan wangji being one of the biggest sources of jiang chengs insecurity and envy, or the fact that obviously lan wangji would feel negatively towards jiang cheng because he is often so volatile to someone he loves and wants to protect, some of the first blatant information we learn about both of their characters is that they Do Not Get Along.

jiang cheng is immediately antagonistic towards lan wangji and lan wangji outright refuses to speak or even look at jiang cheng, the implication of that scene being that this is not an uncommon interaction for them. one of the most iconic scenes of the pre flashback episodes is the Most Tense And Uncomfortable Tea Related Interaction On Earth. post res jiang cheng is constantly insulting lan wangji to his face and on many occasions lan wangji has to stop jiang cheng from hurting wei wuxian, the love of his life

but on top of that they both, at some point in their post res arcs, recognize that the other person is important to wei wuxian, and are willing to put aside their differences for that. for lan wangji, it's him asking wei wuxian if he'll tell jiang cheng about everything, telling wei wuxian "he's your brother". for jiang cheng, it comes at the very end of the show, when despite his lasting insecurity and anger, he lets wei wuxian go with lan wangji without reacting negatively even when he's alone, saying "take care" as he watches them leave together

like lan wangji and jiang cheng So Obviously have a plethora of feelings about each other and their respective relationships to wei wuxian its kind of insane to be like "haha but they just don't care isn't that silly". like what show are you guys watching

#its also like.... neither of them are the main character #so of course the show is not going to tell or show you outright exactly how they feel about each other #because its not the main focus of the story #so of course you have to do a little bit of inference based on the other stuff we know abt their characters #lan wangjis incredibly strong principles will automatically clash with jiang chengs cowardice #jiang chengs insecurity around losing his family/being abandoned is obviously going to focus on someone his brother spends time w over him #like sometimes you have to think a little bit to understand characters crazy I know #ghost posts #text #lwj #jc #wwx #yunmeng bros #wangxian

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robininthelabyrinth · 1 year

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Why was lan yueheng's threat of not speaking to him so horrifying to the surrounding lans? Loved that he carried 3 math textbooks around with him.

Lan Yueheng is fundamentally a friendly amiable person, who doesn't hold grudges or really get angry at anybody. It takes an awful lot for him to get even a little upset, much less a lasting sort of upset, and getting upset enough that he decides to stop talking to you is about as bad as it gets for him.

And, like. sure. you COULD keep talking with someone who upset Lan Yueheng enough to make him decide not to talk to them.

if you were a monster or something.

(to put it a different way: imagine someone going to the Lotus Pier and Jiang Yanli - Jiang Yanli, the nicest person on the planet - publicly declares she refuses to talk to them. as far as she's concerned, that's all she's doing.

but, you see, there's JC and WWX and literally everyone else at the Lotus Pier standing behind her going "we don't know or care what you did wrong but we are here to Have Some Words...")

#He's not actually that bad i swear!#like most families the Lan are very 'you fuck with my boy you fuck with me'#LWJ and LJY do not want to spend the rest of their lives going #while also feeling crippling guilt every time they themselves talk to LYH #who would never ever hold it against them that they're still friends with him!#which makes it worse

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wangxianficrecs · 30 days

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They Say by ChilianXianzi

They Say

by ChilianXianzi

T, 3k, Wangxian

Summary: "If anyone were to finish off the Yiling Patriarch once and for all, of course it would be Hanguang-Jun!" Lan Wangji's step stutters, halts. Perhaps on any other day, he would have ignored the stray jibe, when Wei Ying's presence is not so keenly missed after weeks of separation. On any other day, when it's not so close to the anniversary of Wei Ying's death, perhaps Lan Wangji would simply walk away. Brush off the outlandish hearsay like water off a duck's feather coat. But not today. Kay's comments: OK. So. Rumours and how they can lead to destruction are a core theme of MDZS, however, I never really thought about how rumours and their continued existence can be almost traumatic for certain characters? So this story really gave me something to think about, with Chief Cultivator Lan Wangji really suffering due to people still whispering about how he will conquer the Yiling Laozu. At the end of the days, Wangxian have each other, but even they cannot ignore the rest of the world completely. Great story, absolutely loved it! Excerpt: There were all manner or rumors as Lan Wangji weaved through the jianghu and the land, of the Yiling Patriarch's evil deeds, of his betrayal to his Sect, of the curse he left on the world upon his much-deserved death. Already, the memory of Wei Ying's voice was blurred in his mind, the curve of his smile smudged with time and Lan Wangji's own pain. He wanted to lash out, wanted to scream at the people who handled Wei Ying's name so callously, so cruelly, staining the last of his memories with careless hate. To be free from worldly matters. Perhaps it had been a prayer, his mother's fervent hope for her son's life to not be dictated so by the words and made-up stories of others. But in his avoidance of worldly opinions and the judgement of others, Lan Wangji thought that perhaps he had lived no life at all. Had circled neatly around the things that would have made him himself, until Wei Ying had challenged all of his caution and distance. And so Lan Wangji endured. Broke more of the rules etched in his heart by his Sect as he tried to do what he could for the people the Cultivation world ignored and neglected. He spoke his mind, showed his distaste of the corruption and greed of the Sects, stopped going to the lavish conferences his fellow Cultivators were so fond of. He tried to listen more to ones who were often unheard, to understand more why people did the things they did. Raised A-Yuan with the freedom and abundance of visible love he was denied in his own childhood.

pov lan wangji, post-canon, canon modao zu shi & the untamed combination, chief cultivator lan wangji, established relationship, married lan wangji/wei wuxian, rumours, implied/referenced character death, grief/mourning, fluff and angst, good parent lan wangji, lan family feels

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stillwanderingflame · 17 hours

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Title: so much that it hurts Rating: G Fandom: Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Relationship: Jin Ling & Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng & Jin Lin, Jin Ling & Lan Yuan | Lan Sizhui, background Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian Some Additional Tags: Canon-Divergent Vampire AU, Angst with a Happy Ending, Confrontations & Reconciliations, Family Feels, Identity Reveal, Rabbits Word Count: 11k [complete]

Summary:

“You can ask me anything, A-Ling,” he says brightly, crouching down so that they’re eye to eye. “Um…they said that the Yiling Patriarch is traveling with Hanguang-jun and that he wears black robes and carries a dizi.” Shishu’s smile gets weird. It’s different somehow and Jin Ling doesn’t like it, but he keeps going. “They also said…they said that the Yiling Patriarch’s name is Wei Wuxian, but…isn’t that Shishu’s name?” The pavilion is silent after his question.

Jin Ling meets his uncle and learns the truth of who he is.

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #mdzs fic #jin ling #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #lan wangji #wangxian #(technically but they're established/in the background)#family feels #because that's what I'm all about these days #(backdated for jl's bday bc that's when I would have wanted to post it)#wanderingflame fic

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schrodingers-hoarding-problem · 13 days

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why yes i am once again thinking about lan sizhui aka a'yuan aka the beloved aka my baby

#i love him ok #hes just a child and i want him to be loved always #time to go look up more modern au fics where hes wangxian's kid #all the family feels and significantly less trauma #jae’s thoughts #mxtx #mdzs #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #lan sizhui #wen yuan

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acemdzsfan · 2 months

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I think I might have just head cannoned literally all of my favorite characters as AroAce even before I realized I was on the A-spec.

They aren't allo until proven, and even then, they might still be A-spec -> Basically my thought process.

#like obviously Wei Wuxian and Lan Zhan are allo and romantically in love with each other #But I just kind of went: hmm #Maybe not?? Lan Zhan feels sooo demiromantic/sexual #Cale just reads as an AroAce character who made the biggest family #and Soukoku is just vibes of a queerplatonic partnership #I may have just been stumbling across AroAce characters on accident actually #Saiki is just AroAce #Zuko.... is Zuko. I think it's the vibes #and Jason Todd feels sooo asexual that learned to flirt really well despite not really caring about sex coded #also Malleus #and ruggie #and just about every twst character #oops #mdzs #the untamed #mo dao su zhi #bungou stray dogs #wei wuxian #dazai osamu #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #soukoku #bsd #lcf cale #lcf alver #trash of the counts family #alberu crossman #tcf cale #cale henituse #avatar the last airbender

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morethanwonderful-archive · 2 years

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Thinking about the cycles of dysfunction in MDZS, and the different brands of misguided that crop up in every clan.

The Nie family curse is single-mindedness. Nie Mingjue is too black and white in his view of the world, which makes him cruel to Wei Wuxian and unable to cope with the truth of Meng Yao. Nie Huaisang is relentless in his quest to avenge his brother's death, willing to endanger anyone and everyone in order to get his way. Once a Nie has decided what is right, he will do anything, hurt anyone, to achieve his view of justice.

The Lan family curse is too much love for people they cannot stomach. The Twin Jades' father falls in love with the woman who kills his teacher, and he can neither accept her deeds nor let her go, so he chooses to lock her away. Lan Xichen swears brotherhood to a man who does not hesitate to commit heinous acts to get his way, but he chooses to brush aside those heinous acts and assume they are justified, because he cannot bear to look at them more closely. Lan Zhan falls in love with a man who would rather die than follow a rule he disagrees with, and it takes him years—takes him until it's too late to save his life—to learn to accept Wei Ying on his own terms.

The Jin family curse is self-centeredness in the extreme. Jin Guangshan assaults countless women, abandons countless children, all for the sake of his own pleasure, but refuses to help out an old flame because it's "too much trouble." Jin Guangyao lies constantly and kills countless people, including his own young son, all for the sake of furthering his ambitions. Jin Zixuan is famously arrogant as a young man, rejecting his fiancé because he feels she doesn't deserve him. Jin Ling, even as a teenage boy, sets up countless nets that ruin others' night hunts, feeling no sympathy when confronted with how unfair this is.

And the Jiang family curse. The Jiang family curse is the inability to suffer without taking it out on those around them, even when it is deeply undeserved. Jiang Fengmian and his wife both act out their frustration with each other via their treatment of Jiang Cheng. Madame Yu also takes out her anger toward her husband and her situation in life via the abuse of Wei Wuxian. Jiang Cheng clings to his brother as a scapegoat when he's desperate, blaming him for the deaths of his parents and sister (and helping kill him for his crimes), and he raises Jin Ling to do the very same thing. And even Wei Wuxian, when he's pushed, comes to assume malice from everyone around him, lashing out at people like Lan Wangji and Jin Zixuan that genuinely want to help.

#mdz #mo dao zu shi #and people like Jiang Yanli or Jin Zixuan that overcome their family curses?#well they don't tend to live very long #especially not in the era before Wei Wuxian's death #it's just not a society that responds well to goodness and kindness #but through wangxian's efforts and the new generation. it's getting better #lan sizhui feels an instant (familial) connection with Wen Ning (who he knows killed his good friend's father among many others)#but he copes with it quite well #and Jin Ling comes around to wwx and wn much more easily than Jiang Cheng does #the kids are alright #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #english major hours #also yeah I know this is a little reductive #and most of these characters have a lot more going on than just these problems #but I still think that the familial patterns stand

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