#(i just prefer cql's designs even when it's about something that didn't happen in the show ok?)

[cqlfeels]

Apologies in advance for the theorising, but I have a question about Wei Wuxian/Ying. Before he defects from the Jiang sect, why do they allow him to wear red and black robes if he's been inducted into the main family and the other male disciples wear purple? (I noticed that Jiang Yanli doesn't wear purple very often. Doesn't she have a golden core? (And therefore cannot be part of the work the sect does, so they do not give her the robes?))

I understand, from a writer's point of view, this is done to single him out as the anti-hero protagonist, but wasn't he the head disciple one point? Surely, they would make him represent the sect by wearing purple? Or was it simply because when they picked WWX up from the streets, they tried to give them to Him and he refused? Or did Yu-furen (Madam Yu) refuse to give him the robes because WWX was just a street rat, and he didn't deserve them?

Design questions depend on specific adaptations. I'll assume you mean CQL, but let me know if I got it wrong.

I usually prefer to try and answer questions from Watsonian points of view, but I have yet to think of something that would make sense in-universe?

What I think happened with CQL is that most of the show takes place when WWX is on good(-ish) terms with Yunmeng Jiang, but the showrunners also wanted to have the iconic white!LWJ/black!WWX look, so it was easier to just... Have WWX wear black and red most of the time. But that's just a guess.

If I were coming up with designs, I'd do one of the following

Only the sect leader's family wears the colors of the sect. This would allow WWX to dress in other colors, but then so would background characters, so it's a moot point in terms of making the protagonist stand out

WWX wears the colors of Yunmeng Jiang, and changes to red and black when he breaks with the sect. I would even take it a step further and dress him as a head disciple, more like a background character than like a sect leader's son

As for JYL, the drama seems to imply she doesn't really cultivate due to vague health issues. But she does wear the colors of the sect! She just does it in pastel shades. That pink/lilac stands for purple probably isn't lost on you, but she also likes aquamarine, which stands for the teal we see JC and Yu furen wear. I'm not sure if the teal is supposed to bring to mind water or lotus leaves, but it's definitely meant to be part of the Yunmeng Jiang palette in CQL.

On that note, I know there's a Great post somewhere about the best designs for each part of the story (@layzeal it was by you, wasn't it?) but I can't seem to find it 😭

[br-disaster]

true love’s kiss

#i just think fc!nmj should regain his consciousness magically after all was said and done #they've just been through a lot you know? #weirdly this is my second attempt at drawing huaisang kissing fierce corpse!mingjue's forehead but this time i think it worked #the background was based on a low quality screenshot of the guangyin temple #the coffin nmj is sitting on is at ground's level for reasons #nie mingjue #nie huaisang #nie brothers #nie bros #cql fanart #(i just prefer cql's designs even when it's about something that didn't happen in the show ok?)