#oblivious lan wangji

[wangxianficrecs]

💙 Slow Dancing in the Dark by adrian_kres

💙 Slow Dancing in the Dark

by adrian_kres

T, 3k, Wangxian

Summary: Five times Lan Zhan misunderstood Wei Ying's feelings, and one time Wei Ying didn't let him.

Kay's comments: Hehe, a cute little modern AU with a flavour of oblivious Lan Zhan, who thinks all the times Wei Ying is making a move on him are just Wei Ying "joking around" or "being a friend." I really love adrian_kres's flavour of Wangxian, it just feels so much like them! I really enjoyed the parallels to canon in this AU as well and how sweet it was.

Excerpt: And then, like something out of Lan Zhan's most secret fantasies, Wei Ying wrapped his arms around his neck, kissed the corner of his lips, and whispered, "You're so good, Lan Zhan." He backed away and slipped off his shirt, then his pants, surprising Lan Zhan once again with his dexterity despite how much alcohol he'd imbibed, and then wrapped Lan Zhan in his arms again. This time, his lips were nearly pressed against Lan Zhan's ear which burned in shock and embarrassment. "You're so so good, Lan Zhan. So good to take me home when I needed it. Why don't you let me thank you properly? I'll make it good for you, I promise. You can do whatever you want to me." Lan Zhan swallowed. He'd wanted Wei Ying when they first met and didn't understand it, but he understood completely now. Of course, he wanted it, but not like this. Never like this. "You are drunk," he said, and Wei Ying pulled away. "You really are the best of us, Lan Zhan." In the darkness, he could not make out Wei Ying's face. Lan Zhan imagined he was probably rolling his eyes, no other reaction would make sense.

modern setting, pov lan wangji, modern no powers, 5+1 things, angst with a happy ending, fluff and angst, jiang family dynamics, background character death, getting together, friends to lovers, oblivious lan wangji, college/university, @bichen-suiban-blog

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#Wangxian Fic Rec #The Untamed #wangxian #MDZS #Kay's Rec #Kay's Favorite #modern setting #pov lan wangji #modern no powers #5+1 things #angst with a happy ending #fluff and angst #jiang family dynamics #background character death #getting together #friends to lovers #oblivious lan wangji #college/university #short fic <15k #teen #Slow Dancing in the Dark #adrian_kres

[funkyshoes]

When he’d been a small child, Lan Wangji had found an injured rabbit. Mother had arranged for a veterinarian to come and heal the rabbit, but they’d had to release it back into the wild once it was better. Mother had told him that rabbits want to be free. In some ways, Wei Ying was wild like the rabbit. Did Wei Ying want to be free? No, that did not make sense. Wei Ying had never been injured. Wei Ying was trusting and, like the rabbit, could not defend himself. Lan Wangji remembered when Wei Ying had worked in the coffee shop. He’d always been too friendly with the customers. He had no idea that people could hurt him, but Lan Wangji had brought Wei Ying home where he would be safe.

Courtship Rite

#fanfic #the untamed #dark!lanwangji #oblivious lan wangji #dark!lanzhan #dark lan wangji #work in progress

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

There is a platonic explanation for all this. Right?

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #[accidental kiss] is a purposeful misspelling to reference an old meme. I will blast anyone who tries to correct me with the crunchiest png #The kiss looks like wwx is biting lwj's cheek....It *does* have the consistency of a soft marshmallow so he's not in the wrong. #Once again: wwx was never *ever* oblivious to the implications of the situation. On the contrary: this entire scene + the prior shows- #that he very much understands that this looks gay to the viewers. #He just doesn't think its possible to be loved like that. *Especially not by Lan Zhan.* #Do people forget that LWJ had 13 years to process his feelings VS WWX's (give or take) week? #This is the moment he realizes wwx has feelings and he HATES HIMSELF FOR IT. He feels like he's betraying lwj's trust! #The demi feeling of having spent so long in a comfortable platonic relationship and then getting struck by the 'oh shit' moment. #Its not a soft 'Oh' - Its a 'Oh god they are going to hate me and I can't bear that. I need to be so normal about this or else'. #Pour one out for all of us who've had to go through the trials of trying to conceal the painful realization of deeper affections. #Anyway. *both* lwj and wwx fall in love kicking and screaming and miserable and clawing at the walls about it. #Continuity acknowledgement: wwx's hands are unbound at this point but I had a hellish time with blocking and this was a bit easier.

[unfamd]

look i just think that lwj should get to be as petty and mean and sublimely, perfectly dickish to jiang cheng as he wants, preferably in front of witnesses and with immense prejudice. say what you want about post-canon yunmeng shuangjie and their relationship but you can't tell me lwj would ever forgive jc even if he and wwx repair all their problems and get back to something approaching their relationship pre-war. there's no way lwj wouldn't make every lan clan gathering jiang cheng attends Actual Living Hell for the man with all the pointed subtlety that being Diplomatic 4D Chess Player Lan Xichen's brother has given him. jiang cheng cries multiple times every visit, and not even for nostalgic missing-the-good-times reasons. even the lan juniors feel sorry for him. lan jingyi once asked lwj if he thought he'd gone just a little too far when he told jiang cheng that there was a nice area up in the hills for sword practicing that 'had a good cliff edge he could use'. jiang cheng has never wished to die so many times in one visit. lwj would love to help him with that request, if the opportunity arose

#the untamed #mdzs #wangxian #lan wangji #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #cql #meanwhile wwx is sublimely oblivious to Everything #wwx: it's so nice now that jiang cheng has forgiven me for letting him murder me that time! #lwj (restrained but seething rage at a nuclear level): i hope he chokes on his soup and i get to watch the light leave his eyes #unfamd originals

[lilly10]

WWX (post reincarnation): Lan Zhan looks like his wife just died.

Everybody else: You’re actually not that far off…

WWX: Oh no! Is Mianmian okay?!

[…]

[…]

[…]

WWX: … I’m so sorry to hear that. She was very nice.

#wei wuxian #wei wuxian is oblivious #lan wangji #everyone else knows #mdzs #the untamed

[thegodpleasingcrownprince]

Honestly want to bonk my head when I'm thinking about Wei Wuxian's obliviousness. Like, dude you really thought you've become gay after reincarnating into a body of one?? Bitch no you thought.

He really thinks that AS IF constantly fawning over Mr repressed gay clenches face and throwing flowers at him and constantly yelling out loud that he's the most handsome man he's ever seen isn't fucking gay

And I'm here like, what the fuck

#he is the oblivious idiot I can't stress enough about after FENGQING #LIKE HOW #EVEN AFTER THE LIGHT PAPAPA CHAPTER #BITCH YOU REALLY THOUGHT YOU DONT HAVE FEELINHS FOR HIM??? #lan wangji #mdzs #wangxian #imagine seeing the person you've loved unconditionally and them totally denying the truth OH THE PAIN #im crying bye #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation

[friedwizardwhispers]

Me when part of a fandom calls a main character "oblivious" because *check notes* they are not aware they are in a romance novel:

#this was about wei wuxian at the beginning but then i realised how much this happen in media #(also xie Lian is not oblivious either his confession is literally him saying he wanted to confirm somethinf he already knew) #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wei wuxian #xie lian #i'm sorry to tell you that people but we are not the character we know what we are getting into because we know the genre of the media #we are consuming #wangxian #hualian #lan zhan #lan wangji #hua cheng #fruits basket #kyo sohma #tohru honda #kyoru #it literally happened everytime there is a slow burn #i also think kyo and Tohru got some of that too when Kyo guessed before that she was in love with him #and that's an actual plot point that he know by her confession in the rain #he literally ask her that #before she can even speak

[lewiscarrolatemybrain]

No because I saw a post that showed gif sets of Nie Huiasang kind of low-key nudging Wangxian together pre-All Of The Bullshit and immediately fell in love with the idea of him shipping from the shadows and pulling strings to try and set them up, but MOSTLY I love it for the sake of Lan Wangji, reflecting on all the many (many, many, many) days he spent during his childhood sitting silently in a room with Nie Huiasang doing whatever the hell it was Nie Huiasang was doing while Xichen visited Mingjue or Shufu visited the late Nie-Zongzhu. Lan Wangji did not enjoy these visits. He does not consider them friends.

And Nie Huiasang, who fully knows this, just goes “Yeah, we’ll, I’m YOUR friend, asshole,” and immediately tries to hook him up with his crush.

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #nie huaisang #lan wangji #let them be BROS let them be BUDDIES #I love Lan Wangji going through life thinking that nobody really likes him #completely oblivious to the wall of people psspsspssing at him like a street cat they are trying to befriend

[bnnywngs]

an alternate universe where there's no golden core transplant (either jiang cheng never loses his, or wei wuxian just don't want to lose his) and wei wuxian is on the front lines beside his peers, just waving suibian with precision and doing perfect jiang sect forms while in battle

everyone around just go wow watching it, they look up to wei wuxian, they love talking about his prowess, they want to be on his side or behind him while on battlegrounds, and wei wuxian is as oblivious as he could get

and then we have lan wangji

yes, him

he watches wei wuxian, his lovely, lively, beautiful wei ying, smile sharply as he cut some wens, as he smirks with his face dirty with earth and blood, as he laughs when someone points out he's hurt, and lan wangji gets distracted enough to be on the end of a wen sword, taken by surprised when he hadn't realized there was a soldier so close (when he forgot where the hell he was for a solid second)

lan wangji was mortified while waiting for the doctor to dismiss him, lan xichen looking worried at his brother and trying to understand how it happens because "wangji you're so cautious, you were never hurt before, why now?" but lan wangji refuses to answer and just blush like the loser he is

fortunately (or not), wei wuxian is oblivious, although worried

#wangxian headcanon #wangxian imagine #wangxian #lan wangji is a simp #lan wangji #lan zhan #wei wuxian #wei ying #oblivious wei wuxian #lan xichen #mdzs headcanons #mdzs wangxian #mdzs imagine #the untamed #wei ying pls this man wants to marry you #bamf wei wuxian #sunshot campaign #my writing #bnnywngs imagine

[jiaoji]

Everytime i read misunderstunding WangXian fic and they are ALREADY in a relationship, it just doesn't work well, unless they are forced into it and start to know eachother

#mdzs #modaozushi #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #unfortunaly even when they try to know eachother it always happen the WWX is oblivious and careless or asshole LWJ

[funkyshoes]

“No. We will marry tomorrow. No more delays.” Before Meng Yao could reply, he added, “Goodnight.”

“Wangji,” Xichen said, “we’re in the middle of a conversation. You can’t just leave.”

While Xichen had spoken, Lan Wangji had unlocked his door. “Can. Goodnight again.”

He shut the door in their faces. Xichen looked as if his brother’s rudeness was the most shocking thing he’d ever encountered.

Courtship Rite

#lan wangji #lan xichen #meng yao #oblivious lan wangji #stubborn lan wangji #fanfic #new chapter

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Dishonourable Demonstration

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #ouyang zizhen #jin ling #lan jingyi #lan sizhui #nameless red disciple #Ended up scraping the tying up scene because this episode was getting bloated #There are a lot of fun scenes I will be covering though! #All the juniors in the room *know* what's going on here and have to just be polite about it. #Even if they don't know the exact tradition of the ribbon they can extrapolate the intent. #WWX just got dragged into the room like a bunny in a snare and shown off like a fine prize. There is very little room for doubt. #Remember when I said the juniors seeing HGJ so love struck was like seeing your principal ling on the desk twirling the phone cord? #yeah this is like: The principal has set up a full wedding reception in his office. You are there for detention. #He is asking your opinion on napkin colours and if the neckline on his dress is too low or not low enough. #Once again...poor wwx is the last to know. (Not really - he's aware that this is a social faux pas and is trying very hard to keep- #lwj's social face in tact. He's not oblivious! He just doesn't think this has anything to do with *him* specifically)

[travalerray]

was writing TGoATT and honestly. Felt like I had to make a SQQ joke here

#''clearly the fact that he's staring intensely at me instead of WWX is indicative of his intentions to hide his intentions from wwx but lmao #take this LWJ. I am not a dumbass who is oblivious to YOUR impure thoughts'' jc honey #lan wangji #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #the grandmaster of accidental time travel au #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo dao zu shi #kk's writing tag

[truly-morgan]

[WWX is oblivious]

WangXian | Mo Dao Zu Shi Modern AU 24-03-2021

[#wangxian modern AU]

So this takes place when they are still teenagers. lwj has been pining for wwx for /years/ now, but wwx is the most oblivious boy on earth. lan zhan is just one of his close friends with who he has sometimes rather intimate moments alone with him. But really they are just close friends!

Many wouldn't understand how a troublemaker like wwx could be friends with lwj who would never be caught alive breaking any rule (other maybe if wwx coaxed him into doing so). Most think it’s their mutual interest in art in general that links but jc suspect that lwj is ready to put up with wwx for other reasons, where wwx had simply decided lwj could be a good friend after many years of teasing him.

jc is even convinced that they might be secretly dating and wwx never told him or jyl. the way he always talk about lwj and is ready to stand up for him if anyone dares to criticise him gave him this impression. Why wouldn't he shut up about him if there wasn't /at least/ a little something.

So one day he tries to make him admit to it. "Anyway, how are things with lwj?". wwx looks at him confused, clearly not seeing what he was talking about. "Doesn't he have a special someone?" tried to tease jc, just knowing this special someone /as/ to be wwx.

"So you noticed too" then grin wwx, getting closer to him, "who do you think it is? my bets are on mianmian, she is pretty cute and also seems interested," he said.

then jc looks at him as if he has grown a second head, wondering whether or not wwx is fucking around with him. Where did he get the idea that he was in love with lqy? For someone who is so often with lwj he was really blind.

"Wait, no, that's not what I meant," jc said, frowning a bit, "I was talking about you and lwj".

Then it was the turn of wwx to frown, confused again. "What do you mean, me and lwj? We are just friends of course" he laugh a bit, yet realise soon jc was being serious.

"wwx, you must be kidding me right now? Are you blind? lwj is clearly in love with you!".

wwx then shakes his head, not believing him "Come on, lwj is just being really friendly, he didn't have many friends when he was young, he just shows his appreciation differently".

at this point, jc really believes that /he didn't notice/. "He lets you play with his ribbons!!" in one of their visits to the lan house, since jfm and lqr had taken the habit of having tea, he had learned what it meant. nowadays most people from the lan family were wearing a necklace made of said ribbon with the family crest as a pendant, but lwj had apparently decided to go for a more old-fashioned way like lqr, actually wearing the ribbon.

jc could only remember lwj with long hair, mostly wearing it to tie them or as decorative. He had even been shown one of their ancestor's ribbons, so he could tell the one they were wearing today was way shorter.

What he had remembered well was the tradition of not letting other people than family and partner to touch it. It had somehow stuck with him when he was younger.

wwx was also here, so he /has/ to know, he was most likely even told again by lwj when things weren't as good between them.

Yet he would often see him play with it as it was still in lwj hair, nearly threatening to untie his well-made hair. He had even /seen/ wwx wear it as his neck or wrist when the two of them were alone. He was pretty sure he had even caught glimpses of lwj being one to put it on.

Someone who followed the rule like lwj wouldn't just let anyone play with this ribbon. jc had seen him legitimately get angry when people were insisting on touching it or seeing it more up close. Clearly, he wouldn't have let wwx play with it and /wear it/ if he didn't mean that much to him.

yet after nearly half an hour of trying to convince him jc gave up, not believing how oblivious wwx was.

He ended up talking to lwj, directly asking him if he and wwx were going out. He still had some doubt that he was being fucked with.

Yet all he received was a straight forward "no", lwj admitting he never told wwx because he didn't believe he would reciprocate his feeling, but that he was good with simply being a friend, it was better than nothing.

and this is when jc decided that despite both being considered really smart, they are also both really dumb. Where was this "wwx wouldn't feel the same" coming from? He had never seen his brother act this way with anyone else. Yes, he did have crushes over the years, yet he would always come back to "lan zhan! lan zhan!".

So jc decided to try and put them together, lwj trying to stop him despite not being able to kill off the sudden motivation in the young man. Yet, jc soon realise that fair means won't lead him anywhere, so he manages to rope lwj into following his plan to /show him/ that wwx does feel the same, at least in a way. Sure his convincing isn't totally fair, as he plays on lwj pining for his brother and some technic wwx usually uses. He didn't believe it would work, as he obviously is not wwx, but it still works after some time.

His plan is simply to have lwj divert some of his attention to a girl, anyone would do (except jyl obv), as long as he gives the impression that he does get friendlier to her. jc plays the other part where he sneaks in the idea that lwj is probably going to date her.

at first, wwx is all in for it, then denies it "How could lwj have time for dating? he's always studying!" to look a bit jealous of her. yet he still refuses to accept that he might like lwj more than he first thought.

Then comes the time for graduation and wwx is hit with the reality that he will most likely not be able to see lwj as often as he does, and that he will be far away and probably living thing he won't know and suddenly he feels /panicked/. What will happen to them if lwj starts dating someone? Why does the idea make him want to cry? It's not like he was in lo-

Oh.

And then that's how he realises it, that he /is/ in love with lwj, but just never admitted it to himself.

This is at that moment that he runs out of his house, ignoring the rain as he runs to take the subway, takes the bus and runs the rest of the way to the lan residence.

By chance this is lwj opening to him, suddenly confused and worried to find wwx soaking wet-

because of the rain, nearly shaking because he was getting cold. Yet he doesn't have the time to ask what he was thinking, because wwx nearly yells "Lan zhan I love you, go out with me!".

for an instant lwj stops working, trying to process what he has just been told. Was wwx really confessing to him? One look at the nervous and drenched wwx tells him this isn't another one of his jokes, he would probably not joke about this.

he softly calls his name, putting their forehead together. "of course I will" he answer with a smile.

This is all wwx needs to then kiss him, arm thrown around his neck to pull him closer, forgetting for a moment that he was soaking wet.

He ignored lxc coming from a room asking what was the yelling about, only to turn back and bloc lqr way and sight, saying that it was just wwx.

lwj soon after drags him inside, telling him in needs to change clothes before he gets sick. wwx obliges, teasing him by saying it has to be his clothes or he won't wear them, delighted at the blush he sees on lwj ears.

turns out the universities they wanted to go to are close to one another, so they could theoretically find a place together somewhere between the two.

wwx just knows he will never hear the ends of it when jc hears about his rather sudden confession and how he /might/ have loved lwj all this time. he's just not ready to let jc smugly reminds him how he had been right all this time about wwx just being very much in love with lwj, but too stupid to even notice it (or even notice the clear evidence that lwj was in love with him, even though he was the closest friend he had).

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#tweet archive #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wangxian #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wei wuxian is oblivious

[factsilike]

Wei Wuxian Is Not Oblivious - Rynne - 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]

Something that needs to be said to dispel the commonly accepted fanon 'WWX is oblivious or stupid. '

This post explains all too clearly why he is not.

#mdzs #wwx is not oblivious #for the love of god read the book #wei wuxian #lan wangji #mdzs meta

[ryoceann]

wei wuxian is like "lan zhan is so boring, he's such a stick in the mud", my brother in christ if he's so boring why do you keep hanging around him and talking about him 24/7

#like who do u think ur fooling sir... #wangxian #my brother in christ #the untamed #lan wangji #wei wuxian #lan wangji x wei wuxian #HE'S SO OBLIVIOUS LIKEEE #wei ying wake up