#Jingyi can never be a good therapist

[multifandomworshipper]

Jin Ling: At this point of life, I don't even know what to do

Lan Sizhui: Try meditating it'll calm your soul

Ouyang Zizhen: Try making new friends it'll help you to forget the worries

Lan Jingyi: Try dying then you'll have to do nothing

#Jingyi no #Never take Jingyi's advice #jin ling #mxtx #mdzs #incorrect mdzs #mo dau zu shi #the junior quartet #ouyang zizhen #lan sizhui #Jingyi can never be a good therapist #Actually Jingyi was just trying to lighten up the mood #Don't take Jingyi seriously

[madtomedgar]

post-canon options for lan xichen ranked by how much i, madtomedgar, like them and absolutely nothing else

Good Shit

1. Lan Xichen comes out of seclusion a much blunter person, much more willing to say what needs saying and demand others do the same, spends as much time as it takes putting his sworn brother’s souls to rest so that they can move on instead of destroying each other again, eventually moves on and has a nice, kind of boring thing with Wen Ning. Retires from sect leadership when Lan Jingyi is old enough to take over (so like... 26) and goes rogue cultivating.

1.5 Lan Xichen comes out of seclusion, eventually tries to move forward by moving, goes rogue cultivating, eventually heals and comes to a sort of acceptance of what happened, bonus points if, as in Sun and Soil he finds Jin Guangyao’s reincarnation and gets a sort of second chance with him as he could have been.

2. Lan Xichen comes out of seclusion and resurrects one or both of his sworn brothers, then fucks off into the sunset with them

3. Lan Xichen has absolutely no intention of moving on from anything ever again, but finds/hears that Jin Guangyao is Back and starts shoving breadsticks in his purse like “i’m sorry i have to leave seclusion right now immediately because of reasons”

3.5 The ghost of Jin Guangyao realizes that Er-ge has every intention of staying in seclusion forever and/or dying and is like “this? this i decided to die alone for? this you decide to do with the life i gave back to you?” and starts haunting him in the role of unwanted and reluctant therapist.

4. Lan Xichen goes a little nuts, comes out of seclusion specifically to kill Nie Huaisang

5. Lan Xichen goes a little nuts, comes out of seclusion to resurrect Jin Guangyao and then kill Nie Huaisang, not necessarily in that order

The “fine, I’ll take it” stuff

6. Lan Xichen never comes out of seclusion

7. Lan Xichen drags himself out of seclusion and resumes his duties (possibly including producing an heir) out of a sense of duty, but remains a joyless shadow of his former self

8. Lan Xichen drags himself out of seclusion, but recognizes he’s too fucked up to resume his former duties, and haunts Cloud Recesses like a ghost

9. Lan Xichen uses summon/sacrifice to bring back one sworn brother or the other

The stuff I don’t like

10. Lan Xichen commits suicide without any ghostly intervention to prevent it

11. Lan Xichen goes incredibly nuts and hurts Lan Wangji or Lan Sizhui. 

12. Lan Xichen realizes that Jin Guangyao was a nasty abuser who deserved to die, is better after the break up, and learns what Real Love feels like with fucking. Jiang Cheng or Nie Huaisang or some shit.

#untamed stuff #didn't include any canon divergence where jgy survives here #i don't mean to make anyone feel like i'm #idk attacking their taste #this is just my personal 'what i enjoy or don't' #and while lxc in seclusion forever or suicidal can be great angst #i like him too much to really really enjoy those