#if he’s not busy Jiang Cheng will in fact give him one and

[canyourfavesurvivecastledracula]

Can Wei Wuxian survive Castle Dracula?

I actually wrote up a long analysis for Jiang Cheng back at the very start of this blog  but then realized I was misunderstanding some of the plot points. I'm still reworking it. And then you guys started joking about Paprika Hendl for The Locked Tomb posts and I was like, wait you know who is ALL ABOUT CAPSAICIN AND QUEER DREAMS? so yeah we're doing the protagonist.

[disclaimer: I have not actually read Dracula or MDZS, just  a lot of fanfic and meta and dashboard osmosis]

So first: he would accept the crucifix from the old woman. He also would charm the pants off her and the other villagers giving him warnings, so that they would be sad to seem him go more because they're genuinely fond of him than because they fear for his life. He's good at distracting people like that.

BUT BEFORE THAT: Wei Wuxian would be thrilled to discover paprika. Finally something spicy in this strange land! The Queer Dreams are either business as usual or an added bonus. I'm not saying he abandons the plot entirely (he would be tempted, but he has a strong sense of duty) but at the very least he's going back for seconds.

He would clock Dracula's supernatural evil pretty quickly I think -- he does this professionally, and he's one of the best. He's unfamiliar with Dracula's type of vampire but he's good at improvising. He might even start a fight in the coach -- but I think, if Dracula's putting on the whole servant routine, Wei Wuxian would be more likely to wait and investigate. No point in taking out the servants and leaving master free to keep being a problem, and he has not the slightest sense of self-preservation.

Wei Wuxian is unfortunately very familiar with various flavors of abuse and manipulation. He would also manipulate right back, and abuse the heck out of guest right/hospitality norms. Dracula would not enjoy this -- WWX is skilled at antagonizing people almost to the point that they're willing to contravene social mores to kill him, but not quite. On the other hand, he might also feign that Dracula is getting to him, because an overconfident monster will reveal more information.

Wei Wuxian would explore every part of the castle as quickly as possible, he would probably find the Girlies before they found him. He would not allow any baby eating, and that might actually be what causes him to flee the castle (to bring the baby to safety). If he has his flying sword, neither cliff nor wolves are a problem, but even without that I think he can figure something out? He's terrified of dogs but he also knows how to manage that phobia enough to get out of the situation. He only dies to cliffs if he intends to, and he's survived other falls from great heights.

...in fact, people familiar with this story know that I've been kinda burying the lede. Wei Wuxian canonically survived something worse than Castle Dracula, after he'd been beaten within an inch of his life and stripped of spiritual power, thinking he'd fulfilled his debts and was ready to die. I've assumed none of those disadvantages here, and given how the Burial Mounds turned out...

What I'm saying is, at the end of this, Castle Dracula has a new dark lord. There's no more wolves and children aren't taken in the night, but people whisper terrible rumors of graves disturbed. This fell presence is a little more tied in to the local economy, though -- the castle now imports peppers by the ton. The manservant who picks up supplies is a friendly enough, though a strange foreign fellow himself. He'll hang out in the local tavern(? I know we discussed coffee shops as social foci in this setting previously, but WWX is more of an alcoholic than caffeine junkie) telling endless fantastical tales from far off lands, but all that he'll say about his master is that he won't cross anyone who doesn't cross him first. The locals take the warning to heart and keep well clear.

[tags if I could submit tags: he's probably not actually robbing graves, at least not very often?, he'd respect local burial practices once he understood them, but he also wouldn't mind the rumors if they get people to leave him alone to study forbidden magic/mad science in peace up at the castle]

#submission #wei wuxian #unindexed

[moondal514]

Just Leave a Comment Fest 2023

I was too disorganized to post daily totals but my final overall comment total for the @justleaveacommentfest was: 56

Which, considering how busy my week was, isn’t half bad

Thought I’d make a fic rec list of a few of the fics I read (reread in some cases), loved, and commented on that were on theme for each day of the fest

Day 1: old/new fics

Fandom: All For the Game

Don't Speak Against the Sun by zeffyamethyst

adversus solem ne loquitor.

Sometimes it's not about winning, but how you play. Other times it's about doing whatever it takes to come out on top. Like, literally on top because Sarah enjoys holding Tish down.

The iconic 1st ever aftg fic that inspired Nora to create Laila and Alvarez

Fandom: All For the Game

The Love We Unravel by fullyvisible/ @fullyvisible

Jeremy deserves a comfortable, safe life; Jean knows he can't give it to him - and neither can Kevin. But they don't consider whether Jeremy thinks they're a risk worth taking.

Excellent KereJean angst

Day 2: <2k words

Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi

dam wei ying your bobbies by Yuisaki

"Are you even seeing my nipples?"

Lan Zhan's hand is still pressed to Wei Ying's chest. The nipple in question is poking at the center of his palm. Possibly where his lifeline is, which is an unspeakably cruel piece of irony and the fact that kindness is dead in the world. "I see them," says Lan Zhan instead.

At the banquet after the Grand Prix, Lan Zhan measures the circumference of Wei Ying's chest, among other things.

Will never be able to look at donghua!yiling laozhu ever again without thinking of this fic and cackling

Fandom: Six of Crows

honey to taste by alltheworldsinmyhead/ @alltheworldsinmyhead

"She reaches up and rests her hand lightly on the nape of his neck, pulling him towards her.

“Let’s not go anywhere today,” she says. “Write me down in your calendar, Dirtyhands. I’m yours for the weekend.”

Some gorgeously written post-canon Kanej

Day 3: au’s

Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi

notes on a rivalry by HeylookGiraffes/ @heylookgiraffes

“Ooo,” he says, turning the stand towards him. “‘Card-bored for cardboard ensemble,’ that’s original. Might as well write a dedication with that title.”

“You’re not even in music,” Jiang Cheng hisses under the background of voices arguing.

Nie Huisang raises an eyebrow and pulls out a French horn. In the front of the room, Wei Wuxian’s voice rises.

“I’ve never seen you use that,” says Jiang Cheng.

“I’m a man of many mysteries.”

Wen Qing turns around. Her rubberband and cereal box guitar creaks ominously in her hands. At her glare, the two of them fall silent just in time to hear Lan Wangji say, cool as a cucumber:

“It is no wonder that Wei Ying never writes for real instruments, since he can barely write for ones of his own creation.”

Nie Huisang looks like Christmas has come early. “This is even better than I imagined.”

Literally the exact modern composers au I was dying to read after I finished the MDZS novels

Fandom: All For The Game

Into The Deep by Fortheloveofexy/ @fortheloveofexy

Neil Josten stares at the large building in front of him, his mouth twisted into a small frown.

Yesterday, Browning had handed him a manila folder containing his new name, his new life. Included in that file had been a note, the same slightly crumpled note he’s holding in his hand now, with the name of his new employer.

Foxhole Aquarium. Ask for David Wymack

Absolutely iconic mer au

Day 4: rarepair/platonic

Fandom: BBC Merlin

The Shoemaker by fleete

Historical magical AU. In turn-of-the-century Glastonbury, Freya Lake is the headmistress of an orphanage for magical children. And despite all the seers’ dire warnings, Freya is happy; her infatuation with the shoemaker’s apprentice—who may or may not be a girl underneath his shirt and trousers—is slowly coming to a head. But then a woman claiming to be Morgan Le Fay shows up on the orphanage steps, demanding to see Emrys, and Freya is forced to rearrange her priorities.

Fun fact: this fic was one of the 1st portrayals of an genderqueer character I ever read and so rereading it years later made me quite unexpectedly emotional and I’m glad I got to fix my crime of having not left a comment on it before

Fandom: Good Omens

Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot by xylodemon/ @xylodemon

In which Crowley starts over. Again, and again, and again

Hilarious and fantastic read

Day 5: try something new

Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi

work song (crawl home) by animediac/ @jaywalkers

Jiang Cheng looks at Nie Huaisang curled up on his bunk, covered by a spare set of Yunmeng Jiang robes, and something inside him remembers the stories of soldiers coming home to their lovers.

Chengsang is a ship that never would’ve occurred to me on my own (prob cuz I haven’t watched cql) but if anyone could convert me to it, it would be Róisín and this fic is of course gorgeously written

Fandom: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

The Pleasure Principle by fluorescentgrey/ @yeats-infection

"You weren't exactly starting from square one on the road to madness."

So I have watched exactly one Black Mirror episode (and it wasn’t this one lol) but Gen is such a talented writer that I would prob love reading even her grocery lists so it’s no surprise I love this fic despite my unfamiliarity with its canon

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Loved this fest, will continue to comment on fics as I have been doing. Much love to fic writers out there, thank you for sharing all your work and talent <3

#fic rec list #fic rec #aftg #mdzs #good omens #bbc merlin #black mirror #just leave a comment fest #soc

[mejomonster]

Anon watching Love and Redemption here. OMG thank you so much for your incredibly thoughtful response. On the topic of misunderstandings, people get so heated and I was really looking for a more measured perspective so thanks for that. Also, your reply has me HYPE so I wanted to share some of my thoughts (I'm till ep 9 now)- I adore the romance but I also love the space this show gives to friendship. Minyan and Linglong being excited about reuniting w Sifeng and being just as hurt as Xuanji by his aloofness.

Xuanji and Sifeng both saving/protecting each other is just something I'm absolutely loving. Also, the inversion of gender roles- this was something that drew me towards the show, like Xuanji being on a traditional (male)hero's journey . But what you said about Sifeng's lover's curse being about purity/chastity and comparing Linglong and Jiang Cheng has my mind blown! I can't wait to see more tropes being turned upside down, already we had Sifeng defying the notion of all demons being Evil. Lastly, here's some spoilery speculation- Hao Chen definitely strikes as someone with an ulterior motive, he has some connection to Xuanji probably in their past life?

Is Sifeng the star of mosha maybe? I know some spoilers about him being a demon. Don't tell me though!

I see and appreciate you, life is just busy ToT

Okay so I'm not spoiling star of mosha but would LOVE to hear what you think once you find out -3-)/

I'm also curious how you feel about who the villain/s are and how those feelings change as it becomes more obvious who the villains are.

Also Mickey He, who was a hottie in Jade Palace Lock Heart, plays Sifengs sect leader legendary drama queen <3 which is a fun fact

I do love rhe friendships in this show. I feel the whole core friend group cares a lot for each other. If you've ever seen Good Omens, the friendships in that and the way of solving problems with love and desire to help also drew me to Love and Redemption.

Something you'll notice about this show and demons is... demons are used in this a lot like dixingren were used in Guardian. Which is very unlike the usual trope. The more demon situations play out in LaR, the more apparent it becomes they're not actually evil in any particular way, not any more than any human generally is, with some bad leaders just like some Sects have awful leaders, and then well. Extend that realization to the Heavenly Realm. This story does a lot to critique absolute power, following leadership blindly and what it means to figure out morality based on your own experiences and explorations versus just believing what you're told, and it does quite a job of using what you Expect each trope to function as/symbolize/get treated in this type of romance three lives xianxia story to comment on such things. Like. Sifeng is a demon. In this type show, like say Eternal Love, typically the demon is the second love interest who never gets the heroine. Who is inevitably corrupted or evil or pitiful and can never escape ultimately that he Is the demonic lesser "bad" one role. (Love Between Fairy and Devil actually also subverts this trope with the "demon" as the main love interest and hero, but it's definitely not the norm it is the exception and I love when this particular trope is changed like this). To extend this, in Eternal Love the "ultimate" bad guy is the Evil Demon King who wants revenge and to destroy the world. His princess and prince demon children might be better and have good intentions, but as his kids they get an extension of his bad ultimate fate. That can be contrasted to what Sifengs story will turn into later: how much does he bear suffering because humans dislike demons, Heavenly realm dislikes demons, despite whatever Sifeng has actually done (good or bad). In fact which demons even committed the kind of evils they're being punished for in LaR, and does LaR paint it as inevitable and acceptable pain they endure. Or as something that should NOT happen and is morally fucked up (like when Xuanji defends Sifeng and starts realizing how much she's been taught that is actually perpetuating harm and not helping innocents). In LaR when the star of mosha is revealed, the Evil Demon King from Eternal Love parallel, is the star equally painted as evil without a backstory? Is the star evil at all, does LaR paint the star as evil like Eternal Love would, or does LaR do something else with the star? Is it fair to assume just cayse the stars role is "evil demon king" that the star is actually evil, or was that just an assumption audiences were likely to make based on the usual tropes of these shows, an assumption that will be shattered and used differently. (There's so much this show does in terms of trope you expect versus how LaR will actually be using the character, which involves expecting the audience to Expect the usual trope outcome then instead LaR veers in a way different direction).

I absolutely love that Liu Xueyi was cast as Hao Chen. He does such a good fucking job and made me feel a Lot

A (minor) spoiler I am giving you is:

The show ends happy. I just wanted to put that out there because I know one never knows with a show like this

#love and redemption #replies #anon #anonymous #ask

[sandupommelfrog]

Had some thoughts ab vague urban fantasy vampire Xicheng au

the Jiang family r apothecaries and serve both humans and non-humans. The Yu line has been p involved in criminal underbelly type stuff but Yu Ziyuan stopped doing that several yrs before they had kids together. She still teaches her children how to defend themselves.

Wei Wuxian is great at experimenting and creating new elixirs and shit, Yanli excels at putting customers at ease and figuring out what options there r for whatever help theyre seeking, and Jiang Cheng is bookkeeper/paper work extraordinaire.

YZY and JFM still hv a troubled marriage bcut the fact that since the 3 siblings started working, they fill different but essential roles and work in tandem at the shop, its gotten a bit better.

In this part of the city, non-humans r p chill and the humans who r aware of them r like “oh thats just my flatmate Marleen shes chill but like i hv to hose her down after she comes back covered in mud and twigs from a full moon romp”

So hunters r not particularly well liked even by humans bc of History, but they deal w monsters and demons that ur average person cant.

Lan Zhan walks into the shop one day looking to restock his toxin antidotes and Wei Wuxian is immediately and obliviously smitten and invites him to various parties and shit, to which he declines but keeps finding reasons to visit the shop and see Wei Ying <3

Lan Xichen is in the depression zone bc he was tricked by a black market trader (JGY?? Idk yet) into killing several innocent non humans and is seriously doubting whether he can make sound judgements and actually protect ppl. LWJ recently made him move back into their shared apartment but hes still hving a rough time.

the Wens r a vampire clan, and the Wen siblings frequent the shop too and deliver them warnings that Wen Chao is going to try to extort them

after the Jiangs refuse to give in to their extortion attempts, they burn down their shop. Their parents r alive but comatose and the siblings go into hiding

Wen goons r ab to nab WWX but JC sacrifices himself and gets killed and turned.

WWX gets LWJ’s help since the Wen extortion stuff was already a big no-no but an attack and kidnapping like this is under the Lan hunter’s perviee. WWX goes apeshit and takes 10000 psychic dmg when he goes to rescue his babie brother only to find a feral and hungry babie vampire JC.

JC is subdued and put into needle coma by Wen Qing while and WWX recuperates before going to make Wen Chao regret being born but uh oh! The Wens hv gone into hiding now that the Lans r involved.

WWX feels at fault for JC getting kidnapped and turned bc He is supposed to b Protective Older Brother and convinces Wen Qing to bag his own blood to feed JC. Yanli also offers her own blood, altho she cant donate as much.

JC eventually is pulled out of the coma, feeds, becomes lucid, and then falls in depression times as he struggled to come to turns w being a vampire now and he is an extremely hungee boy bc the Wens did something to him.

The Yunmeng sibs stay in hiding for a bit. Yanli salvages what she can from the family shop and w Wen Qing’s help, still meets w clients. WWX runs himself ragged trying to donate enough blood to keep JC lucid and sated and also trying to come up w a tonic to suppress his unnaturally strong hunger.

JC is an anxious mess wrt losing control again and also how WWX is exhausting himself w how much blood hes giving him. JC does what shop paperwork he can while learning the vampire basics from Wen Ning.

WWX finally perfects a tonic to suppress JC’s hunger and is able to recover physically and while they both love each other a lot, things r a bit rocky rn.

Now that hes feeling better, WWX starts to spend the weekends w LWJ looking for the Wens. JYL by chance gets into contact w JZX, werewolf heir to a Business Place or sth and starts trying to negotiate a deal to acquire funds to rebuild the shop while they also both navigate their own awkward mutual-but-believes-its-unrequited-attraction.

WWX and LWJ dont come back one day, and arent answering their phones. JC suspects that theyve finally gotten their heads out of their ass and r fucking. He has negative desire to bug them while Thats Happening but hes unexpectedly run out of hunger tonic and WWX’s notes r illegible.

So he finds LWJ’s address and breaks into their apartment, LXC is just vibing, lying down in bed, w the lights off when he hears someone pick the lock. The Lans hv a fair amount of enemies so hes ready to beat someones ass, esp if theyre the reason Wangji hasnt come home.

LXC catches JC by surprise and pins him against the wall in a kind of sexy way and after a lot of snark from JC LXC’s like oh ok ur chill and lets him go. Theyre both v worried ab their brothers and JC eventually explains his situation and LXC offers himself for JC to feed on while they look for them.

#jiang cheng #jc #mdzs #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #cql #wwx #lwj #lxc #lan xichen #xicheng #vampire au

[drwcn]

Hello! Quick question: JC-antis will prove their (insane) arguments about him by citing how the "real" JC is described in MXTX's text. I know a lot of the story revolves around the danger of rumor and hearsay, but in my English translation, the story seems to be written in 3rd person omniscient, which unfortunately seems to give their argument some weight. Could you lend me some insight regarding the original Chinese or any cultural elements that might help me defend my Fave? Thanks! <3

i mean Jiang Cheng is very much a little shit face, but is he a bad person? Hmmm no.

as far as i'm concerned, antis can say whatever they want and i just...block ppl LOL

it's hard to give really concrete evidence without digging up the real text and MDZS is....VERY LONG. And i just can't...be...bothered.

But I will say one thing about Chinese as a language. Sometimes I found that translation often made what is just "casual speech" very abrasive and aggressive and rude sounding in English.

Even just the most basic example from the show: when that dude from episode 2 fainted in the Fairy Temple, Sizhui is translated to say: hey what's wrong with you? Or something to that effect. (the only reason i can pull this up as an example is bc i recently started watching it again with a new friend who i've infected. i'm like patient 0 in this untamed epidemic that's going around in my friend circles).

Which honestly, if a person fell down in front of you and your automatic response is what's wrong with you? People would be like wtf, why are you so rude? But in Chinese, it's....not a rude thing to say. In fact that is exactly what Sizhui says: what's wrong with you/what's going on with you?

And this is Sizhui we're talking about. Like the Angelic Boy of the mdzs universe no matter which iteration.

So naturally you can see how that plus a shitty temper would make Jiang Cheng seem like an irredemable asshole.

Not to mention all the misreading into the cultural dynamic, trope dynamic that people seem to be doing left right and center. Completely heedless of the myriad of people telling them bruv, you're reading the book wrong please calm down.

It's like whenever i read a good fanfic and i see the words "Madam Yu abused Wei Wuxian" - I click (x), right away. I'm too old and too tired to deal with this kind of shit in my life.

Also the absolute projection I see in some people's analysis/fic/headcanon. Bruh....

But who am I to tell people how to live their lives? If they get more out of mdzs/cql than is intended by the author or production team, well that's none of my business. I can have selective blindness.

and do i feel show jc is a bit watered down than book jc? hmmm yeah, to an extent. but also i feel that's the thing with books right? when i read it i imagine one thing, but when i see it as a visual in the show, that's both the director's interpretation of the character as well as the actor's interpretation of the character. and i decided that it's canon enough that it's not ooc, and i actually like the show's interpretation so that's what i'm gonna stick with.

#corie replies #cql #the untamed

[theuntamedaus]

Hi hello I am once again back on my bullshit™.

I have had an idea for what I will call Music Band AU. I do not have a plot (yet), my brain isyelling "Scott Pilgrim" likeits life depended on it, but I do NOT want that, I have something a bit different in mind.

So.

I have, as clear as day, the Lans as being classical musicians/traditional musicians and also composers. They play traditional chinese instruments like the xiao, the erhu, the qin, etc along with some western musical instruments like the clarinet, the piano, the strings. I do not have any idea who plays what, I will figure it out later.

Nie Mingjue is the owner of an indie music studio and he publishes mostly metal kind of genre.

He is also the owner of a Nightwish-like Metal band whose vocalist Meng Yao abandoned everything to follow his father Jin Guangshan's Big Brands Studio.

Something he will eventually regret, but ATM we are not there yet.

Anyway.

Enter the Jiangs - beloved and beloathed. JFM and YZY are one of those who are like "yeahmy child is so gifted and talented, let's ruin their life forever by forcing them in the music industry". You know. Like Michael Jackson's parents, or Britney Spears' parents, that turned out oh-so-well.

In fact.

Yanli is a beloved pop idol à la Blackpink and Jiang Cheng is trying but his voice is not made for pop - he does try pop-punk but yet again, too rough, or high, or low, and he's never good enough, for JFM's standards.

And also there is "adopted son" Wei Ying who is doing just GREAT and BRILLIANT job at being the pop idol whom Lan Wangji, dragged out of his shell by Nie Huaisang, bc LXC and NMJ are besties, is absolutely head over heels, so what use is JC in JFM's eyes?

Needless to say, there is a lot bickering, fighting, yelling.

*uh, I have just had a flashback to my experience, no I will not elaborate*

Anyway. And it's after the last sunday lunch gone wrong that JC just leaves before even touching his food and goes in the city. He is thinking a lot, maybe he is thinking of leaving the family, the business, or maybe he wants to start his own label, how much it would cost anyway?

And he finds himself looking at some microphones in a music shop - unaffiliated with the Lans, the owner is probably Mr. Yao or Mr. Ouyang.

THe owner is like, I can see you are pointing big puppy eyes at those mics, do you want to try them?

And JC, full of the whole "you are a failure,you will never be enough" says "Sure, I can try..."

And he sings like a rock kind of song, and y'all know that I am a Jiang "Angel Voice" Cheng truther.

NMJ happens to be in the shop because he needs a new amplificator or something and hears JC.

And he is in awe.

Who is this amazing singer and why has he not heard about him ever. That's the one I want for my band, he is perfect. And he introduces himself and JC is like "you liked that?!"

"Why yes it was perfect, come to my studio, meet my band give it a try".

And it takes a bit of convincing, Huaisang chips in, but JC discovers that his voice is perfect for Metal and joins NMJ's band.

Are his parents happy? Nope and they voice their disappointment, which just prompts JC to just pack his things and go.

Yanli and Wei Ying try their best to mellow things, they don't want JC to go, but JC is fed up.

He goes to NMJ's studio, explains the situation and NMJ and NMJ is like "New Family Member Acquired".

You can read this as MingCheng if you wish, I kind of like the paiting, but only if it's @felinesomnambulist or @bloody-bee-tea (sorry for the tags, you both do write amazing MingCheng fics).

I will probably come back on this because I am enjoying the idea, but I will elaborate once I have kicked my brain around a little.

#the untamed #modern au #music bands au #jiang yanli #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #nie mingjue #nie huaisang #wangxian #mingcheng

[thelurkerfox]

Okay, genuine question-

Why do people hate so much on Jiang Cheng?

Now before y'all get the pitchforks - I'm not a stan! I'm neutral to the guy.

Coz yeah, Jiang Cheng did some fucked up shit, treated Wei Ying like garbage in many cases, and is quick to throw blame around, and was willing to sacrifice the Wen remnants despite them being either innocent or having even helped them. For that Jiang Cheng deserves to get his shit rocked, abso-frigging-lutely. He's not a poor little meow meow.

But at the same time - as a character he's the perfect example of someone's pride absolutely ruining them. He's a prideful bitch, no less coz of how Madam Yu raised him, I assume. His whole characterization runs off the fact that he's too proud to admit his wrongs, and is too focused on keeping up an image, than doing the right thing. Unfortunately I know people personally like that, and the one thing they need is a wake up call and a punt to their ego.

And Wen Ning did quite a lot of damage to it with the Golden Core reveal. (Side note - so proud of Wen Ning, you go buddy, I've got your flower.) Wen Ning absolutely raked Jiang Cheng's pride against the coals. And it was so bad Jiang Cheng went into seclusion - which to me gives hope that during that time he will realize what he has done and will actually own up to his shit behavior when he comes back eventually.

So again - I'm neutral. Among the Jin Guangyao's, Jin Guangshan's and Xue Yang's in the story, Jiang Cheng isn't this evil monster. He's an asshole, granted, but an asshole who still has a chance to fix whatever he can. Nobody in MDZS is entirely innocent - the difference is how they handle it. Some apologized and attoned for their mistakes, some are fumbling about failing to see their mistakes, aaaand well some are criminal masterminds who had to pay the price. Humans are flawed, and it's nice to see all these flaws of different severities be handled and explored.

I will point out, I did only watch the Donghua and read the Manhua, so perhaps I don't have the full picture. Do feel free to maybe shed some light on things, and hey, I'm always open to see other perspectives! I'm just genuinely confused why people so agressively get mad and rip into people for liking JC (which, please don't do that, it's none of your business how someone enjoys a media, we have seen worse on this webbed site-).

#mdzs #the untamed #jiang cheng

[truly-morgan]

[Kinktober 2021: NTR (18+)]

ZhanCheng | Mo Dao Zu Shi Modern AU 11-10-2021

Day 10: [NTR] / T̷e̷m̷p̷e̷r̷a̷t̷u̷r̷e̷ ̷P̷l̷a̷y̷ / S̷e̷l̷f̷c̷e̷s̷t

Lan Xichen is the best husband, but he cannot be rough enough in bed for Jiang Cheng. Wei Wuxian is all that he ever wanted, but he is not submissive enough in bed for Lan Zhan.

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Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji truly wanted to stay true and loyal to their husbands, but sometimes things don’t go as planned. They both truly loved them, honestly, no one could have been better than them. But... Sometimes the best everyone where else was not so good when came time for bedroom fun. 

Jc was happy with how attentive and good lxc was to him, he felt like he had never been loved by anyone like that. Lxc was ready to do anything not to hurt him.

But sometimes when they were getting more passionate jc wanted for him to be... rougher. He wanted to be manhandled, he wants for someone to take control fully, to tell him what to do, to punish him if he doesn’t listen.

It took jc years to come to terms with the fact he was this submissive in bed, he truly like it, like how he could fall into a subspace and just forget about everything that made him anxious. He trusted lxc and would be more than happy to let him do whatever I wanted to.

But his husband was rather scared to be too rough, scared he would hurt him for real or that jc would not like it. He did try to be rougher, but the man couldn’t stop himself from being soft. Sure, jc could run with that, but sometimes the need to be dominated properly was heavily there.

Lwj was more than happy to have the person he has been in love with for so long as his husband now. He loved his creative mind, how he always helped him try out new things, how he was able to understand and read him so easily. But in bed, it was not always as he would love it to be. Wwx was not interested in BDSM much, unable to really submit to him. The most they did were roleplays that were not necessarily what lwj was looking for.

He wanted wwx to submit to him, to slowly turn pliant to his orders, begging for him when he was not giving him what he wanted, to punish him when he didn't listen.  But he did not do that because he wouldn't force wwx to do something he would not enjoy.

Then they both ended up attending the same four days business conference in Lanling. It was a big event so it was not surprising to see each other, although they didn't expect to be in the same hotel.

“What do you mean there is no room to my name" frowned lwj as he was told that his reservation was non-existent and that all their rooms were booked. He tried asking if it might be under his husband's name, but still nothing.

“Having room problem?” jc asked with a sneer. His smile didn’t die down even with the glare he received from lwj, as it was not a common sight to see either of the jade brother failing at organisation.

Yet lwj didn’t give him more attention, looking on his phone if any hotel had a free room, although the conference seemed to have caused everything to be booked.

Jc waited a bit, before sighing a bit. He had started to be on... friendlier terms with wwx after his sudden return. If he wanted to keep it up, he might as well do so by starting to not get annoyed at the very sight of his husband.

“If you do not mind taking the couch, I can let you stay in my room” jc suggested, already turning to the receptionist so she could give a key to lwj.

“I will be troubling you then,” lwj said with a slightly forced smile, not ready to refuse the suggestion, especially when he needed a room anyway and wasn’t necessarily wanted to go somewhere shady either.

Then they went all evening not talking to each other, only messaging and calling their husbands to say how the flight went and to pass the time. Same thing once the conference started, only a small good day when lwj went out before him in the morning and nothing more.

But when jc went back to the hotel room that night, it was another story. He had a bit too much to drink after following some seniors. Admittedly he should have stopped a bit earlier.

He greeted lwj, going to the other side of the room, fighting with his own clothing that wouldn’t open correctly. He started talking about his day, more out of habit than anything as he also cursed about the damn button on this shirt.

All the while lwj was trying to stop him to help (if he was going to be stuck with his husband's childhood friend, he might as well try to be on good terms). “Sit.” he said firmly, accidentally using the same ton he would use in the past when he would do scenes with subs.

He did /not/ expect for jc to suddenly drop to the ground at the sudden order, eyes growing suddenly wide at what he just did, blushing deeply. When he tried to stand up lwj stopped him, looking down at the blushing man. Something sparked in him. This is what he had been looking for in the past years. 

“kneel,” he asked this time, jc quickly moving to kneel in front of him, looking up at him, something in his eyes telling him he was waiting for more.

Lwj went to touch his cheek, his thumb running over his lips. “Who would have thought that my brother’s husband was so obedient when you use the correct tone” he said, gaining a quiet whine from jc who tried looking away, only for his jaw to be grabbed, forcing him to look up again.

“I don’t hate it, being on your knee like this suits you well,” he said, making the other man react again. 

They both knew they should snap out of it right now, they were both married.

But lwj missed someone being submissive to him; 

But jc wanted to know what it was really like to let someone dom him. 

“The safeword?” lwj asked before he would go further, “Red” was the answer he received, nodding as it seemed good to him. Now they could go.

Soon his fingers were holding onto jc hair, the man's pretty lips around his dick, happily letting him fuck his mouth like he wanted to, jc’s hips moving as he tried to grind against his own hand through his now too tight slack.

“No touching” lwj ordered, feeling more than hearing the whine and moan of jc protesting his order, yet his hands still moved away, trying to keep his hips from moving. “Good boy” he praised, jc moaning again at this, the look in his eyes simply too great. So praising, was it?

“a-yin is doing a great job, if he keeps being a good boy I will reward him, you are a good boy aren’t you?”. Jc tried nodding while sucking him eagerly, wanting to be called a good boy again and be rewarded for being a good boy. “Then be a good boy and swallow everything, then I’ll reward you”.

And jc did it, swallowing every drop that was given to him, showing him that nothing was left. He was then looking up expectantly at lwj, wanting his reward and praise after doing what he was told to do. And he got it, lwj getting caressing his cheek calling him a good boy again, helping him up and trapping him between his body and the wall. “Now you can cum” he says, his legs going up between his leg, jc quickly starts to grind against him. He would probably need to get his clothes cleaned before going home, but it was alright.

He was quick to come too, especially with the sweet praises whispered directly into his ear, not used to this kind of feeling. “Please fuck me” he begged, hips still stuttering against him, firm hand on them making him stop. He truly wanted those strong hands and arms to simply manhandle him as he wished.

And he got what he asked for. Lwj lifted him without effort, his legs wrapping around his waist by reflex, being carried quickly to the bed. His clothes were quickly taken away (he will probably be able to thank him later for not ruining) them and was soon under the mercy of those hands, searching for anything that would make him moan sweetly under lwj who was still very much clothed.

But soon his teasing became too much, jc wanting more than some teasing, yet those large hands wouldn’t let him try to get what he wanted. He quickly started whining, begging again to be fucked. He did receive a slap on his ass, quieting him down after a moan.

“Gege, please~~” he whined, the name coming to him unconsciously after hearing wwx tease him so many times like this. His breath nearly caught at the look he was given by lwj, not realising he had hit the right place.

Lwj decided it was time to move a bit more, going to his luggage (not without jc begging him to come back) to see if he had some lube they could use (thankfully he always has some in them, a habit of him travelling with wwx).

“Show me how you prepare yourself,” he says, pouring some lube on him and teasing his rim a bit, catching his hand to also lube them. Jc was a bit shy from the request, squeaking a bit when lwj spread his leg to see better, large hand forcing him like this as he simply kneels between them. Yet jc wasn’t going to ignore the order, starting to finger himself, moaning under all the attention he was given, trying to give him a show.

But soon it was starting to be too much, knowing he was getting pretty ready for it not to hurt, lwj was apparently around the same size as his husband and he knew his body well. “Gege pleeease” he whined again, catching onto what would make him cave in.

He had a pleased expression when lwj did so, only to have his smirk whipped away by the sudden intrusion into him, lwj not really giving him time to laugh at his victory.

This is what he had been waiting for. Being fucked into roughly and quickly, large hands on his hips holding him strongly enough to leave behind marks, not being given a chance to catch a breath as lwj seemed to find the perfect angle to torture his prostate.

He didn’t know if the walls were soundproof, but right now he didn’t really care, moaning like he probably never did before, pleasure building off as he was used like this, even enjoying the lips and teeth against his neck, marking him low enough to be hidden, but still high enough that someone could see if he wasn’t careful with his clothes.

When he finally came it came strongly, making him cling onto lwj, tightening around him and receiving all his cum. He felt light and fuzzy afterwards, trying to hide against lwj as he enjoys the feeling.

Lwj pulled out, moving them around so he could hold jc in his arms, keeping him close as he slowly came down from his high, patting his hair as he was whispering how good he did.

Maybe he was never close to jc before (heck they probably hated each other at some point), but he would never skip aftercare or even just make his partner for the night comfortable.

He had also discovered a new facet of jc he did not know about and something in him wanted more of this.

The next morning was a bit awkward, but despite the fact they knew they should feel guilty for cheating on their respective husband, neither of them actually regretted it: this is the thing they had been looking for for so long.

They decided to do it again until the end of the conference, where they silently agreed to never do such a thing before, to let this die. 

They both knew they wouldn’t keep that promise.

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(I really like this one tbh sdjfihbfd I feel like I might wanna make a mini-series of "The times where they broke their promise" >:3)

Original - AO3

#tweet archive #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #zhancheng #lan wangji #jiangc cheng #kinktober 2021 #netorar #cheating #modern au #sub/dom #nsft

[tsuraiwrites]

weekly fic roundup

I’m an even more avid fic reader than writer, so trying to share some of the fics I’ve enjoyed this past week. mostly long fic.

ASOIAF & Solo Leveling

Breaking News: Westeros Lord Marries Stranger? What You Read Will Shock You! — tywin lannister/sung jin-woo wip

A story where Sung Jinwoo is a S rank hunter who's still busy clearing gates on Earth and taking care of his sister but has also (accidentally and unknowingly) gotten himself engaged to a certain blonde lord on another planet.

BNHA

Oracle — midoriya izuku/shinsou hitoshi wip

In which Izuku's quirk allows him to remember his past life and it becomes his driving force to become a hero and mend the mistakes of the people from his past.

Dragon Age

Someone Else — gen (so far) wip

Canon takes a brick in the face by the name of Carver Hawke.

Or: The “modern character in Thedas” trope done a liiiittle differently. Maker have mercy on us all.

Or: I can’t find a fic where the transmigrated modern character in Thedas actually massively changes canon from DAO to DAI, so I write it myself.

MDZS 江山如有待 | It Seems the Hills and Rivers Have Been Waiting — jiang cheng/ofc wip

Fan Dingxiang cultivates the swole path. Jiang Cheng doesn't know how to handle that.

pine branches swaying in time — jiang cheng/multi wip

The second time Jiang Cheng lives, he is not born as the sect heir.

The Sandman

Giving Sanctuary — dream/hob gadling wip

In 1689, Hob Gadling and Dream meet once more, after Hob has lost everything. That night, their meeting goes on longer than expected when the conversation turns to what it means to live, to lose, and to be the fathers of dead sons. Unable to bear the thought of sending a man who so echoes Dream's own grief back into the night alone, Dream breaks his own rule and invites Hob to stay with him for a time, at least until he can get back on his feet.

The story of two grief-stricken, divorced, and widowed fathers to sons they lost too young truly seeing one another and there, at their lowest point, doing their best to put themselves and each other back together.

Stranger Things

Chronomancy for Beginners — steddie wip

Bleeding out in Dustin’s arms, Eddie’s more or less made peace with the fact he’s dying. The last thing he expects is to wake up in his seventeen-year-old body on the day Will Byers goes missing. If this is real and Eddie hasn’t had a total psychotic break, maybe he can prevent a whole bunch of bad shit from happening.

Too bad no one took the time to fill Eddie in on the finer details of what the fuck’s been going on in Hawkins since November 1983.

Also, 1983 Steve Harrington kind of sucks.

The Witcher

The End Is Where We Start — duny/pavetta wip

Ciri can't accept defeat, so she gives herself a second chance in the way that only Ciri could.

Everyone else is just trying to keep up.

#fic rec #weekly fic round up #asoiaf recs #solo leveling recs #bnha recs #mdzs recs #the sandman recs #stranger things recs #the witcher recs

[queenofzan]

#xicheng negative (idk how tags work anymore i’m so sorry if this shows up where xicheng likers congregate)

like there IS a seed of an interesting dynamic there. i have read and enjoyed a xicheng fic before. but it seemed to actually be doing something with their comparative positions and reactions to uhhhh betrayal that people don’t usually seem to deal with?

like actually xichen retreating to seclusion after jgy’s death seems like a terrible idea, and he’s putting either lqr or lwj on the hook for sect leader duties, which is RUDE and JUST LIKE HIS FATHER but mostly like. bro give yourself a week or two to mope and then GET THE FUCK BACK OUT THERE JFC YOU”RE GOING TO DIE

and you know who was not allowed to mope or even mourn for as long as he wanted/needed? jiang cheng. who had a sect to rebuild, and a child to raise, and arguments with jgy about how to raise said child to have

and jiang cheng a: has been working with lxc for 13/16 years even if they’re not ~friends~ and b: DOES NOT ENJOY IT WHEN PEOPLE SLACK OFF AND CAUSE TROUBLE FOR THEIR LOVED ONES. even if those loved ones are lwj! i assume! but especially because troubling lwj is now also troubling wwx and we KNOW how jiang cheng feels about that. NO he’s not hauling lxc out of seclusion for his brother BAKA

(you could get an extremely funny fake dating fic out of that tbh. jc panics and is like I’M IN LOVE WITH HIM and lxc is like sandu shengshou we have barely spoken outside of sect business for twenty years and jc is like but i can’t! talk to my brother!!!! and if there is one thing we know about lxc it is that he IS easily manipulated by polite pathetic men)

like i do feel like they would both be better off if they were a little bit more like each other, and obviously it would be extremely funny to completely ruin/upstage their brothers, but like

the personalities involved are...not exactly just. going to casually hook up. (can you imagine either of these men doing anything casually ever again after the temple. lxc is going to second guess every feeling he has for the rest of his life. jc is going to assume people only care about him inasmuch as they can use him. even if they were both for some reason mutually pining it would basically REQUIRE outside forces to intervene)

like these are both dudes who retreat into personas when threatened, and who are threatened by. basically everything at this point.

this post makes it sound like i like xicheng. i don’t mind the idea of it! but most of the stuff i see is so fucking bland! what’s the point!

(also i have never seen anyone make anything of the fact that jgy was DEFINITELY complaining about jc’s parenting opinions for the last 13/16 years and lxc, despite trying to be a fair person, is absolutely still predisposed to disapprove of jc’s parenting tactics. he loved jgy! he trusted him! he is going to have a lot of trouble getting the important parts of jgy’s personality out of himself, he can’t bother extricating every opinion he absorbed through long exposure!)

(also extremely funny: the idea of lxc offering a [mild] criticism of jc’s handling of jin ling and jc mcfreaking losing it, like any lan in history has any room to talk about literally anyone’s parenting strategies. what would you know about it! what children have you raised! and like. lwj was in seclusion and severely injured for the first three years a-yuan was a lan. lxc absolutely helped raise sizhui. but also if he mentions their brothers’ son to jiang cheng he will lose this argument even if he wins it)

#mdzs #apparently i have thoughts #it's a perfectly good ship that no one is willing to dig into with the messiness it deserves

[rosethornewrites]

T & G reading since 2/2

Finished

Teen:

You've Been Hit By (A Smooth Criminal), by stiltonbasket

In which Wei Wuxian is under an enchantment, and Lan Wangji is a faerie trapped in the unwitting thrall of a vampire.

Fairness, by snowberryrose

In which Wen Qing gets drunk

Or: Wei WuXian is more observant than he’s credited

Divergence from episode 29

be honest with me now, by sassybluee (5th in a series)

Sometimes, even though they are married, Lan Wangji feels as though he doesn’t know Wei Ying at all.

Su She Eats his Heart Out, by KizuKatana (3 chapters, locked)

The (bitter) third party pov of the epic college romance between Wei Ying and Lan Zhan, as told from the pettiest NPC to ever exist.

- - - - -

A new student transferred into the university in their second year, and Su She was gleeful to see how much Lan Zhan was irritated by him from the very first day that the student (Wei something) showed up late for class with a ratty hoodie pulled up over his head and proceeded to sleep through lecture. Finally, someone else would be the butt of everyone’s jokes as they watched Wei Ying constantly try and fail to get Lan Zhan’s attention. When midterm grades came out, Su She was expecting the guy to be humiliated.

That was… not what happened.

Worse still, Lan Zhan was now actually turning his head to look at the guy when he spoke. And... wait, was Lan Zhan… putting his hand on the guy’s ass?!

No. Su She does not accept this.

Est-il Impossible D'echapper, by Comfect (4th in a series)

Jiang Cheng finds someone else who's been touched by death, and finds out some important information.

Title from Shakespeare (when he was writing in French), as always.

Content warning for canonical threat to the life of a child (the child does not die in this fic and will not die in this series)

In Which Jiang Cheng Ruins Everything, by AshurbanipalJones (10th in a series)

Wen Qing felt like all her internal organs were about to explode. Was this what Qi deviation felt like?

“Fuck you,” she said, and stormed past him.

Behind her, she sensed rather than heard Hanguang Jun following. Then his voice, low and cool and even, “You, Jiang Wanyin, are a fucking moron.”

Ridiculousness, by snowberryrose

In which Nie HuaiSang concocts a story

You Were More Than Just A Short Time (and i´ve got a lot to live without), by razzleberryicedtea

After the battle at Bu Ye Tian Lan Wangji felt like he couldn´t breathe.

There was a heavy weight on his chest and his lungs constricted every time he gasped for air, feeling a sharp pain in his body that was entirely unrelated to the punishment of thirty-three lashes, which the elders had agreed upon.

(Wei Wuxian is dead but Lan Wangji is not. He has to keep going somehow, especially with being a father now.)

Saviour of the Universe, by sami (part of 2 series, 3 chapters)

"Good morning, James," Jordan greets the young man who brought her patient. "And good morning, Catp'n Flint. James, I hope your mothers are well?"

General:

chancellor of the morning sun, by stiltonbasket (11 chapters)

The disgraced Madam Lan gives birth to a daughter first, not a son.

The Lan sect has never had a woman for a sect leader after Lan Yi, and does not wish to have one again.

Lan Wangji refuses to claim his sister's birthright.

These three facts have shaped Lan Xichen's life, for as long as she can remember.

No Time For Leisure, by nirejseki

Protecting and taking care of Lan Qiren is serious business.

As far as his cousin, Lan Yueheng, is concerned, everyone should get a chance.

My Pet Rabbit Found His Husband at the Library, Or: How One Mischievous Rabbit Got Lan Zhan a Boyfriend, by katje

Lan Zhan had thought today would be like any other day working at the library. He had been working at this branch for nearly three years as the Youth Services Librarian, and he had his routine down to an art. From planning programs to culling books and replacing them with books more children would enjoy to holding animal therapy sessions with his Flemish Giant rabbit Tofu, he was as set in his routine as one could be working with the general public.

Little did he know, however, his peace would soon be disrupted by none other than Tofu himself, who was usually a model employee.

OR

Lan Zhan is just trying to do his job, but his pet rabbit has other ideas - namely, finding himself and his baba a husband.

The Trouble With Politics: a Treatise on Jiang Sect Deputies Gone Rogue by Sect Leader Wei Wuxian, by stiltonbasket (20 chapters)

Jin Zixuan dies. A siege is called at the Nightless City. A bodyguard flees from the Jinlintai, and journeys to the Burial Mounds to fulfill a life debt to the Ghost General.

Lan Wangji just wants to woo Wei Wuxian in peace, and figure out if Jiang-zongzhu's ex-deputy will ever stop trying to chaperone them.

(Or, the one where Yu Zhenhong stands by his da-shixiong, and becomes the head disciple of the rising Yiling Wei sect.)

Unfinished

Teen:

I've Heard of Second Chances, but This Is Ridiculous, by velvet_green

One of Wei Wuxian’s experimental talisman arrays sends himself, his husband and his brother to that mythical land of long ago – the Gusu Lan lectures of their youth.

Wei Wuxian is amused. Lan Wangji is silent. Jiang Cheng is angry.

And their younger versions are mostly just very, very confused.

Instead, by apathyinreverie (locked)

Wei Ying is found by someone other than Wen Chao after the Core transfer.

Or, the one where Wei Ying is never thrown into the Burial Mounds, never invents demonic cultivation. He still manages to become the lynchpin of the Sunshot Campaign anyway.

Your Shelter, by cosmicmilktea

“There is no need for sorry,” Lan-gege had told him, what seemed like such a long time ago, “Robes can be cleaned.”

But a soiled robe in Lotus Pier means lashes on his back and a night of kneeling in the ancestral hall, even if Jiang Cheng and all the other disciples also came back with mud and reeds painting their robes. A soiled robe means hearing baba and mama's names spoken in malice and ridicule. It means a gentle chiding from shijie as she pats his head and offers him a bowl of warm soup, which only made him miss the warmth of Xian-gege's safe embrace.

His back hurts, and his knees ache from kneeling so long. Beneath his robes, Lan-gege's ribbon presses close to his heart, and it reminds him how he had felt so safe with the two men. How baba and mama had also made him feel safe even without the shelter of gilded walls and roofs. He longs to be that safe again, the longing building and building in the too-small confines of his chest until Wei Ying can not hold it in any longer.

He runs.

General:

Lies and Truth, by parodismal (locked)

What happen if Lan Wangji decided to actually check Qiongqi Path after Wei Wuxian leave?

....

It leads to a domino effect towards a new Chief Cultivator

Is it a better?

Or worse?

一寸光阴一寸金, 寸金难买寸光阴, by orphan_account (likely abandoned)

His eyes fluttered closed, his body went limp and the next thing he knew-

Pain flared on his cheek and his ass hit the ground.

He blinked, eyes dazed and mind numbed from shock. He cradled his bruised cheek, eyes taking in Wei Wuxian, furious and indignant and-

Young.

Wei Wuxian was young, he was wearing Gusu robes-

Everyone was young.

Jin Zixuan was young, he was alive-

He’s travelled back in time.

[Jin Zixuan Time Travel Fix-It]

the sea meets the moon-blanched land, by rkivees

“I'm sorry, Lan Zhan.”

“This is in no way Wei Ying's fault.” He shook his head, eyes focused on Wei Wuxian's face when he said it.

“I could've helped you earlier.”

“You were worried about the ones who could not protect themselves.” His voice was deep and sober, “Like the promise we made 10 years ago.”

or, wei wuxian leaves lotus pier right after their classes in cloud recesses and that's when he finds himself

#the untamed #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #cql #chen qing ling #untamed fanfiction

[featherfur]

Lan Jingyi gets one (1) hug from Jiang Cheng when he gets slammed into the ground during a hunt, Jiang Cheng is so relieved that he didn’t kill one of Jin Ling’s only friends that he immediately just grabs him and hugs him as tightly as he would Jin Ling.

Lan Jingyi is stunned, blown away, absolutely astounded and he gets why the Jiang Disciples are in love with Sandu Shengshou now. He’s never been hugged so tightly and enveloped completely and he has to assume that’s what being hugged by a bear feels like (WWX snickers that’s NMJ’s hug would probably kill him) he doesn’t want to leave, he’s half ready to go almost die again.

He’s already holding out his arms and in his best I’m-Jin-Ling’s-Friend-Therefore-I-am- Nephew-Voice asking “Hug Jiujiu?”

Lan Sizhui and Jin Ling are holding him back, Sizhui’s insisting that Hanguang-Jun will be there to save him soon, Jin Ling’s saying to stop trying to hog his uncle. Zizhen is standing beside Jiang Cheng and offering him a pastry and cementing himself as Jiang Cheng’s favorite. (Jiang Cheng doesn’t know what’s going on, he’s just turned off his ears, as long as they’re not dying he doesn’t care)

Jingyi is almost uncontrollable when Hanguang-Jin arrives. Until Lan Wangji lays a hand on his shoulder and murmurs “Good job”

Jingyi calms instantly, eyes shining up at Lan Wangji. Lan Sizhui sighs a breath of relief, Jin Ling screeches because “HOW DARE YOU TURN ON MY UNCLE SO EASILY?!?” Zizhen offers Jiang Cheng another cake. Wei Wuxian is on the ground laughing, he is the only one who understands.

#jiang cheng #the untamed #mdzs #Lan Jingyi #Wei Wuxian #hanguang jun #lan wangji #lan zhan #jin ling #lan sizhui #ouyang zizhen #Jingyi does however keep asking for hugs whenever he sees Jiang Cheng #if he’s not busy Jiang Cheng will in fact give him one and #within an hour Jin Ling usually shows up to ask for two hugs so Jingyi will ask for three and so on #Jiang cheng usually cuts them off at two because he has shit to do but he will let them chatter at him and say if their #ideas are stupid or not which is great because Hanguang Jun usually just goes ‘mn’ and then they get yelled at by sizhui for being stupid #this cuts out the middle man and Sizhui isn’t sure what he’s supposed to do with life if their pranks are suddenly smart #zizhen can get absolutely all the hugs he wants he’s JCs favorite and if JL doesn’t get married soon then JC will marry them together #Hanguang Jun is actually Lowkey offended but when Wei Wuxian told him to go hug Zizhen and Jin Ling he decided that JC could hold that titl #LWJ will instead hold the title for the COOLEST person who lets them do stupid shit #WWX can’t believe he’s the voice of reason (he really isn’t all that often) and just pretends to whine

[bloody-bee-tea]

Beetober 2022 Day 1 - Bees

Jiang Cheng has his mind made up by the time he gets out of the doctor’s office. Today is the day his casts came off and Jiang Cheng will use his newly found freedom of hand-usage to find an apartment for himself.

He’s sick and tired of living with his parents and their overbearing-ness and he’ll move out as quickly as possible.

Jiang Cheng shoulders his bag higher, his hands shaking a little bit from disuse, and he makes his way over to the Nie house.

He doesn’t think looking for an apartment right under his parents noses is going to go over well—especially not with his bad luck—and he’ll need to make a list of all the things he’ll have to do.

Changing bank accounts—he’s going to set up his own account—and buying furniture. He’ll need electricity and an internet connection and he doesn’t have anything for a kitchen. That will all have to be bought.

Jiang Cheng feels a little bit giddy with his new plan and he actually can’t wait to get started on it. In his eagerness he slips two times along the way to the Nie house, but he somehow manages to catch himself each time. He just got rid of his casts, he’s in no rush to get new ones and so he’s quite happy with the scraps he has on his hands.

“Hello!” Jiang Cheng yells into the house when he finally gets there, but he doesn’t get a reply so it’s safe to assume that Nie Huaisang and Nie Mingjue are out.

That’s all good as well, he thinks, because that means he can set up camp at the kitchen table and immediately get started on apartment hunting.

He’s deeply engrossed in it by the time the brother’s come home but everything he found so far doesn’t meet his standards. Even though he significantly lowered them already.

“Hello,” Nie Huaisang greets him, and going by the way he slams his bag down on the table it wasn’t the first time.

“Hi,” Jiang Cheng gives back, startled out of his thoughts. “Welcome back.”

“Better,” Nie Huaisang nods and then makes way when Nie Mingjue comes into the kitchen.

“Your casts came off,” he immediately observes. “Let me see.”

Jiang Cheng sighs but dutifully holds out his hands so that Nie Mingjue can inspect his wrists.

They healed up nicely, even the doctors said so and Jiang Cheng beams at Nie Mingjue even as a shudder runs down his back from the way Nie Mingjue moves his thumbs over his wrists.

“It’s all good now,” Jiang Cheng tells him but he sees the exact moment Nie Mingjue’s gaze falls onto the scrapes on  the base of his hands.

“What happened?” Nie Mingjue asks with a sigh and Jiang Cheng shrugs.

“Nothing much. I fell on the way here. Twice,” he sheepishly adds and Nie Mingjue sighs again.

“Any worse injuries?”

“Nope, just this,” Jiang Cheng promises and for once it’s true too.

“You need to be more careful,” Nie Mingjue tells him and Jiang Cheng nods, even though they all know it’s out of his hands.

It’s not like Jiang Cheng can change the fact that he has exceptionally bad luck.

“Stay for dinner, alright?” Nie Mingjue then asks, but he leaves before Jiang Cheng can even give him an answer and Jiang Cheng tucks his hands close, already missing Nie Mingjue’s warm hands on his skin.

But he shakes that thought off and turns back to his laptop, completely forgetting that Nie Huaisang is still there in the kitchen with him.

“You’re as busy as a bee. As busy as an entire hive of bees, actually, so what’s up? What are you doing?” Nie Huaisang asks as he peers over Jiang Cheng’s shoulder at the screen.

Jiang Cheng feels him tense as soon as he understands what he’s doing.

“What are you doing?” he asks again, this time with more emphasis.

“I’m looking for an apartment. I’m going to move out of my parent’s house.”

Nie Huaisang blinks at him.

“Da-ge!” he then yells through the entire house and it takes Nie Mingjue barely a minute to come back.

“What?”

“Our dear Wanyin thinks about moving out of his parent’s house. Into an apartment of his own,” Nie Huaisang explains and Jiang Cheng looks down at his laptop.

He knows that it might not be the best idea, not with how likely he is to have an accident on the very first day, but he does not want to see if Nie Mingjue is going to be disappointed in him.

“No,” Nie Mingjue immediately says and Jiang Cheng flinches at that.

“But—“

“Absolutely not, Wanyin. You’re going to die the very first day you’re staying alone somewhere and I will not allow it.”

Jiang Cheng works his jaw at that because Nie Mingjue might not be entirely wrong but Jiang Cheng does not want to stay another night in his parent’s house either. He’s sick of them fussing over him and telling him just what he can’t do all the time.

“Move in here,” Nie Mingjue says and jolts Jiang Cheng out of his thoughts.

“What?”

“Move in here,” Nie Mingjue repeats. “We have the space and like that you’re not alone and can’t bleed out from some freak accident. And you’re away from your parents.”

“I can’t possibly ask you to let me move in,” Jiang Cheng gives back, even though the idea doesn’t sound half bad.

He likes being at the Nie brothers’ house and if he’s being honest he likes it even more that he didn’t have a serious accident here yet as well. Sometimes it feels as if his bad luck can’t follow him into this house.

“Good thing that I offered then,” Nie Mingjue shoots back. “We’ll get your stuff this week. Are you fine going furniture shopping with Huaisang?”

“But the guest room is furnished.”

“But not with things you’d like,” Nie Mingjue knowingly says. “We’ll make it your room, so you get to choose the furniture.”

“Oh, please take me with you,” Nie Huaisang immediately whines and really, what is Jiang Cheng going to say to that?

“Okay, yeah,” he agrees. “I think—I would like that. Thank you.” He gives Nie Mingjue a small smile who positively beams at him in return.

“Welcome home then, Wanyin,” he warmly says and Jiang Cheng feels as if he’s glowing.

Moving in is a quicker process than Jiang Cheng anticipated. His new furniture gets delivered almost as soon as he bought it and even though his parents don’t seem to be too happy about the fact that he’s moving out, they relent once they find out he won’t be alone.

It seems like everyone is worried about him slipping and breaking his neck in his own apartment should he live alone.

But like this at least someone will immediately notice if he dies, and to be honest it’s kind of reassuring for Jiang Cheng as well. Plus living with Nie Huaisang and Nie Mingjue is actually really great and Jiang Cheng wonders how he ever thought he could live alone.

The fact that Nie Mingjue and Nie Huaisang are always just somehow there when Jiang Cheng is about to have an accident is just a bonus.

At first Jiang Cheng barely noticed it. Yes, he fell down the stairs once but Nie Mingjue was walking right past and only had to hold out a hand to stabilize him. Another time Jiang Cheng was about to reach into the dishwasher for a spoon and didn’t see the knife sticking out but before something serious could happen, Nie Huaisang had asked him a question and Jiang Cheng forgot about the spoon completely, avoiding any bad injuries.

Nie Mingjue and Nie Huaisang would never tell Jiang Cheng not to do anything but he knows they don’t like it if he does anything in the kitchen or the bathroom when they are not home to keep an eye or ear on him at all times and in all honesty, it’s not so bad to accommodate their wishes.

Especially not when they turn out to be right.

Jiang Cheng is just about to get out of the shower when his foot slips and he can already tell that this fall is not going to go over without any serious injuries, so he closes in eyes in pure self-defence.

Except he doesn’t hit the floor.

Instead, Nie Huaisang’s hands come to rest on his shoulders, keeping him upright and prevent him from falling.

“Huaisang!” Jiang Cheng says, completely scandalised, because he is butt naked but Nie Huaisang only rolls his eyes at him.

“There’s nothing down there that I haven’t seen. Just be happy it was me and not my brother who found you.”

“He would have seen something like this as well, wouldn’t he?” Jiang Cheng snappishly asks and Nie Huaisang rolls his eyes at him.

“Of course he has seen this as well, but I guess you would be even more embarrassed given your little crush on my brother.”

Jiang Cheng knows he’s beet red in the face so he doesn’t even try to refute Nie Huaisang’s claim

“What did you even want here?” he instead asks, hoping to redirect his attention.

“Oh,” Nie Huaisang brightly says. “I came here to steal your shampoo. It simply smells heavenly and I wanted to use it for myself.”

“You can just buy a bottle of it,” Jiang Cheng says with a sigh, finally reaching for a towel to protect whatever little of his modesty is left.

“I could,” Nie Huaisang agrees. “But then you would have died, so I think I’m going to steal from you for a while longer.”

And just as he says it, he reaches past Jiang Cheng for the bottle and then leaves, happily humming a song under his breath.

Jiang Cheng sighs but he guesses Nie Huaisang is not wrong. He’ll just have to remember to buy new shampoo more frequently from now on.

A few accident free days later, Jiang Cheng is in the kitchen, preparing dinner for all of them. He’s bustling about, making sure that everything is going to be ready on time, and he feels as happy as he hasn’t in quite a while.

At least until he takes a step back from the oven and his foot gets caught in something. Jiang Cheng falls backwards without a way to catch himself anywhere and he knows the outlay of the kitchen well.

He knows that the table is right behind him and he knows, he just knows that he’s falling in a way that means the back of his neck will collide with the edge of the table.

‘This is it then’ he thinks, because with his luck, he’ll break his skull or his neck—probably even both—and Nie Mingjue will come into the kitchen only to find his body.

It’s not a pleasant thought but there’s nothing for Jiang Cheng to do. He can only fall.

“Uff,” he says when he collides with something warm and sturdy instead of the cold, blunt edge of the table and before he can stumble further, Nie Mingjue’s arms come up around him.

“Got you,” he whispers into Jiang Cheng’s hair, holding him close.

“Hi,” Jiang Cheng shakily says as he peers up at Nie Mingjue, his life still flashing before his eyes. “Thank you.”

“Of course,” Nie Mingjue says, but he doesn’t quite manage to let go of Jiang Cheng.

“How—” Jiang Cheng swallows heavily as he carefully leans more into Nie Mingjue’s arms “—how do you always know? Why is one of you always there when I’m about to have an accident?”

“When you’re about to seriously injure yourself,” Nie Mingjue corrects him. “You had plenty of accidents before.”

That’s true, but none of the accidents ever ended in an injury. The really dangerous ones always get prevented by either Nie Mingjue or Nie Huaisang.

“But how are you doing it?” Jiang Cheng insists on asking and he feels how Nie Mingjue shrugs.

“I guess we’re just lucky that way. Maybe our good luck cancels your bad luck out. I’m just glad I was here right now, because that could have ended badly.”

“So badly,” Jiang Cheng whispers and then decides to simply fuck it.

Nie Mingjue’s arms are still around him even though he’s safe and sound by now, and surely that has to mean something, right?

So he turns around in Nie Mingjue’s arms and looks up at him.

“Thank you,” he whispers and leans up to press a fleeting kiss to the corner of Nie Mingjue’s mouth.

Jiang Cheng might be daring but he can’t quite bring himself to kiss Nie Mingjue just like that.

Nie Mingjue doesn’t seem to be having the same problems, because when he leans in it’s to claim Jiang Cheng’s mouth with his.

“Hi,” Nie Mingjue breathes out when they part and Jiang Cheng has never seen such a soft, happy smile on his face.

It’s a good look on Nie Mingjue.

“Hi,” he gives back and steals another kiss which turns into two and then five.

“I think your dinner is burning,” Nie Mingjue eventually regretfully says and Jiang Cheng whirls around.

“Oh no!” he rushes to the oven, stumbling in his haste but Nie Mingjue’s hand is on the back of his shirt, keeping him upright and preventing him from faceplanting into the hot pot.

“Careful,” Nie Mingjue says and Jiang Cheng smiles wryly at him even as he tends to dinner.

It’s not as if he isn’t careful. It just never works.

“I think you’ll have to stay close by if you don’t want me to hurt myself,” he daringly says with a side-look at Nie Mingjue, who is leaning against the counter.

“What an incredible hardship.” Nie Mingjue rolls his eyes as he says it and then casually reaches out to take a knife out of Jiang Cheng’s way.

He was just about to reach into it, too.

“I don’t understand how you’re doing this,” Jiang Cheng breathes out and Nie Mingjue smiles before he leans in for a kiss.

“I have a build in ‘my heart is in danger’-sense and I’m just working accordingly to it,” he explains and his words make it sound like the kiss is not a one-off thing like Jiang Cheng secretly feared.

“I see,” he nods, and briefly leans into Nie Mingjue. “Thank you for listening to it.”

“Always,” Nie Mingjue promises and hands Jiang Cheng the knife, clearly trusting him with. At least for now.

Jiang Cheng beams at him and then gets back to working on dinner.

(Nie Mingjue’s sense works perfectly; it can’t prevent the less severe accidents but Jiang Cheng would be dead ten times over without him and they both know it. Nie Mingjue never gets tired of swooping in and saving his heart at all times of the day but he gets to retire from that when they marry. It seems like their luck mixes that day and it comes out pretty neutral for both of them. Jiang Cheng is glad to no longer almost die at least twice a day but Nie Mingjue thinks fondly back to the days where he got to catch Jiang Cheng in his arms. To make up for it, he swoops his heart up at least twice a day, not that Jiang Cheng is complaining much about that particular habit.)

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#bt writes #beetober2022 #mingcheng #the untamed #mdzs #hurt/comfort #modern au #humor #fluff #getting together

[robininthelabyrinth]

Hi! This is for the prompts: LWJ and WWX get together at Cloud Recesses but it’s a secret. When it does come out tho, probably due to WWX mischief some how. JC comes to the conclusion that LWJ has managed to ‘defile WWXs honor’ and now JC has no choice but to fight on behalf of his big brother, who clearly has been wronged.

Honor, Defended - ao3

Untamed

1

“What are they doing,” Jiang Cheng said, voice strangled, eyes staring.

Nie Huaisang stood up on his toes and squinted over his new friend’s shoulder. “Fighting?”

It looked like fighting.

“No.”

Not fighting? In that case, at least by Nie sect standards, that meant –

“Flirting?”

Jiang Cheng growled, which meant Nie Huaisang’s guess was right. “I’m going to kill the rotten bastard in white! I bet he waited until Wei Wuxian was alone just for this. How dare he take advantage of my – of Wei Wuxian!”

“I mean, I don’t know about that? They seem about tied,” Nie Huaisang said, making a mental note – not that many people could match up against Lan Wangji, especially when he was in a you-are-breaking-the-rules sort of snit. “Each one’s giving as good as the other gets, if you know what I mean…I’m talking about fighting!” He added hastily, seeing Jiang Cheng’s expression. “Just the fighting! And hey, maybe the Lan sect doesn’t flirt through fighting?”

“Don’t be ridiculous,” Jiang Cheng said. “All cultivation sects flirt through fighting.”

Damnit, Nie Huaisang thought to himself with a sigh. That means I’m going to have to train with saber after all if I’m going to get somewhere here, doesn’t it? Well, at least da-ge will be pleased…

“Are you going to interrupt?” he asked, hiding his face behind his fan. “If fighting is flirting…”

As expected, Jiang Cheng choked. “Not all fighting is flirting!” he hissed. “But that most certainly is!”

Nie Huaisang didn’t understand fighting, so he just shrugged.

“Why don’t you confront him later?” he suggested, but Jiang Cheng shook his head, his features already settling into a mulish expression that had no right to look as attractive as it was. “All right, I see I can’t convince you. Good luck defending your brother’s honor, then?”

-

2

“If Lan Wangji doesn’t stop flirting with Wei Wuxian in class, I’m going to do something violent,” Jiang Cheng said.

“Okay, now I know you’re delusional,” Nie Huaisang said. “But still very pretty. Oh, I’m torn…actually no, I think I’m fine. I mean, what cultivator do I know that isn’t a bit delusional?”

“Can you stop talking nonsense and focus on how we’re going to split them up?” Jiang Cheng demanded irritably. Really, it was no wonder that Nie Huaisang’s best attempts at flirting were going nowhere. Jiang Cheng was thick.

In many appealing ways. Mm.

Damn his bad taste.

“Well, I think first you have to start by reversing your statement until it resembles the truth a bit more,” Nie Huaisang said, trying to be practical. “It’s Wei-xiong that’s flirting with Lan-er-gongzi, not the other way around.”

“He’s just like that!”

“A giant flirt, you mean?”

“Sociable,” Jiang Cheng insisted with the sort of blindly loyal stubbornness that was sadly very, very appealing to those surnamed Nie. Mouthwatering, even.

“Right,” Nie Huaisang said, dabbing at his mouth with his sleeve to make sure he wasn’t drooling. “I see. All right, I’ll help you. I’ll even promise to find a way to break them up for good, guaranteed – but first you have to meet one condition.”

Jiang Cheng arched his eyebrows, looking unwillingly intrigued. “Name it.”

“You have to come up with one way in which Lan-er-gongzi has been flirting with Wei Wuxian that isn’t ‘he existed being pretty in his general direction’.”

Jiang Cheng opened his mouth.

Nie Huaisang waited.

“…maybe he should consider being less pretty,” Jiang Cheng grumbled.

Nie Huaisang patted him on the shoulder, then left his hand on his shoulder because why not.

“We’ve all thought that about him over the years,” he said. “Better luck next time.”

3

“You’re supposed to be helping me preserve my brother’s honor!” Jiang Cheng hissed at Nie Huaisang, who had made absolutely no promises of that sort without giant loopholes that he could walk right out of. “Not – encouragingthis!”

“I didn’t! I just helped Wei-gongzi play a tiny little prank –”

“With pornography!”

“Tasteful erotic art,” Nie Huaisang corrected.

“With cutsleeve pornography!”

“Cutsleeve tasteful erotic art.”

“Nie Huaisang! You’re missing the point!”

“Am I?” Nie Huaisang asked thoughtfully, tapping his fan against his lips. “I don’t know, I’m not sure I am. Can you explain what the point is again?”

Jiang Cheng threw his hands up into the air. “Listen, it was bad enough when Wei Wuxian got thrown out of Teacher Lan’s classes and had to go copy rules in the Library Pavilion for a month; that’s disgraceful and loses face for our sect, but at least his personal honor was preserved –”

Bad scholarship was, in fact, not an impediment to having personal honor. Nie Huaisang knew this fact forwards, backwards, and intimately.

“But then Teacher Lan fell for Lan Wangji’s tricks and decided to assign him to supervise copying –”

“Lan-er-gongzi has tricks? That’s news to me.”

“…well, either way, they got cooped up there in that room, together, alone, for – for weeks!”

“Hasn’t Lan-er-gongzi been using the muting spell on Wei-xiong most of that time?”

“No, eventually Wei Wuxian learned his lesson and now he shuts himself up whenever he sees him starting up the spell, he complains to me and shijie about it constantly every night,” Jiang Cheng said, grumbling. “Stop interrupting me!”

“Sorry. Go ahead.”

“Anyway, if that wasn’t enough, you’re now encouragingthis debacle by setting up a prank that involves Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, and cutsleeve pornography.”

“I did,” Nie Huaisang agreed. “And it’s tasteful erotic art, Jiang-xiong.”

“Why do you keep insisting on that?” Jiang Cheng snapped. “Isn’t it the same thing?”

“No,” Nie Huaisang said patiently. “Because I also have pornography, and it’s a lot less tasteful.”

Jiang Cheng stopped, utterly distracted from his previous rant. “...you do?”

“Mm. Want to see?”

-

4

“Lan Zhan! Lan Zhan, wait for me, I want to talk to you – I need you! See, for whatever reason, I can’t find Jiang Cheng anywhere. Can you help me look –”

Nie Huaisang shut his window before Jiang Cheng could overhear and get distracted.

They were busy.

-

5

“All right,” Nie Huaisang said. “I admit it, you’re right.”

Jiang Cheng looked at him. “…you do?”

“I do.”

“Right about…what?”

“About the flirting, and Lan Wangji having tricks,” Nie Huaisang said, nodding wisely. “See, the Lan sect take their rules about their forehead ribbons very seriously. It’s parents, children, and lovers only. So if you ran into Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji entangled on the path near the back mountain, both of them soaking wet, with Lan Wangji’s forehead ribbon wrapped around their wrists…why, that’s practically an elopement!”

Jiang Cheng, predictably, turned purple. “He eloped with my – I’m going to kill him!”

“Have fun with that,” Nie Huaisang said happily, and watched as Jiang Cheng drew his sword and charged, shouting something.

Wei Wuxian attempted to defend their conduct, except apparently their conduct involved finding the ghost of a Lan sect ancestor –

“Did you bow?” Nie Huaisang asked, very unhelpfully. “Both of you? So you’d say you’ve made your bows to the older generation? Have you bowed to heaven and earth yet, too?”

Lan Wangji gave him a death glare, but maybe he should have thought of that before writing to Nie Huaisang’s brother disclosing details about Nie Huaisang’s love life.

“I’m going to kill you!” Jiang Cheng roared.

Nie Huaisang smiled over his fan at Lan Wangji and gave a jaunty little wave.

-

+1

A few days earlier

“Wait, so, you’re actually together?” Nie Huaisang asked, and Lan Wangji nodded. They were having tea together the way they always did at the middle of the week, a tradition started long ago when their brothers were visiting and being utterly intolerable. Even their long-standing fight with each other would be put aside for mid-week tea. “Well done!”

Lan Wangji’s ears turned a little red. “Mm.” After a few moments, he added, “Mm.”

“No, no, I don’t think you need to worry,” Nie Huaisang said. “He may seem flighty, but he’s very loyal…the Jiang sect might object, though. They can be a bit tetchy about these things.”

Arched eyebrows.

“What do you mean, how would I know? Have you somehow missedthat I’ve been trying to snag Jiang Cheng all summer? There are more things in this world than Wei Wuxian’s waistline, shapely as it may be.”

Eyes narrowing.

“…don’t you dare tell my brother!”

A smirk, not that anyone else – excluding Lan Xichen – would know.

“I don’t care about your ‘appropriate conduct’! If you tell my brother that I’m dating instead of studying, I’ll find a way to make your life miserable, too! Just you wait!”

#mdzs #jiang cheng #nie huaisang #lan wangji #wei wuxian #my fic #my fics #honor defended

[flyndragon]

One of the biggest problems with any half-serious reconciliation between WWX and JC is the fact that WWX's post-canon family, the ones he now loves as much if not more than JC, all have reason to loathe and mistrust the latter (LWJ - look at canon, LSZ and WN being the 'leftovers' (JC's word) he wanted put down and whose entire family he voluntarily led and contributed the most to slaughter. I don't think any of the three would 'ban' a detente but they couldn't possibly want JC (cont)

2/ in THEIR lives and why should they? WWX wouldn;t ask of of them. So how do you think the WWX and JC would manage to connect - just at Koi Tower? JL would probably like that, and it would respect WWX's other loved ones' feelings and history.

Anon, first of all - thank you for sending me my first ask? I am very much not an expert on anything mdzs, and have only written one (arguable) meta on why I like a ship. I haven't published any fanfic (due to my own insecurities, not necessarily because I don't write it, lol) on this topic either.

But, if you really want my little opinion about it, I can give you a couple thoughts! In a list, because that's how my brain functions.

1. Lan Shizui - He is going through a time after canon, but that is completely disconnected to JC! He probably has very few thoughts about the guy post-canon other than the fact that one of his adopted dads really doesn't like the guy.

He basically is rebuilding his identity as a Wen and learning more about them (implied by his post canon road-trip with WN) and is going to be busy reconciling this new identity he may have suspected was missing but didn't know about with his identity as a Lan. Jiang Cheng wasn't the only person at the siege! LQR and LXC were there too!! That's his uncle and (essentially) his grandpa! I think he's going to be way more preoccupied with the deep emotional issues from that than he will from any interacting WWX does with JC

And we also have to question how close is he with wei wuxian post canon in our fanfic. I know we as the fandom and fanfic authors love to make them act as a father and son, completing, along with LWJ, a nuclear family. But LSZ has lived the vast majority of his life without any idea he had a connection to the yiling patriarch! They share a cute moment at the very end, but he's off to find himself with WN. Lan Shizui has been raised by lan wangji and had wei wuxian as an occasional babysitter for 6 months or so when he was four, and he only has barely started remembering that time in his life.

When I look at Shizui I don't think he has the power or desire to stop WWX from reuniting with his brother. And, even if he wanted to, I don't think any reconciliation would make a big enough impact in his life such that JC was 'forced' on him. Even if jiang cheng visited the cloud reccesses, LSZ is gone. And even if they were there at the same time, would they be forced to interact? The way JC is most likely to be 'in [shizui's] li(fe)' is through Jin Ling. Which isn't going to be affected by the relationship between wwx and jc.

2. Wen Ning - Admittedly, I am the least familiar with his character out of the three you cited. But, although his big snapping moment with the golden core reveal, I don't know how specifically afraid of or pissed off at JC he is post canon. I think he mostly doesn't like Jiang Cheng for emotionally hurting WWX more than for anything involving the Wen. WN participated in the war, he knows what JC went through. I think that if he sat down for a minute and contemplated the things he said at the reveal, I think he would know they were a bit unfair. If he is going to be angry at JC for the burial mounds siege, he also has to be angry with LQR, LXC, a lot of unnamed cultivatiors from every other sect, and most minor sect leaders. Along with anger for the previous major sect leaders who are now dead.

And he wasn't even at the siege.

I think that most of wen ning’s anger at JC is on behalf of wwx, who he feels was wronged by JC. So if wwx wanted to reconcile, I highly doubt WN would stand in his way. And again, as with shizui, I don't automatically think that wwx reconciling with jc means that WN is automatically going to be forced to interact with JC.

3. Lan Wangji - Why does lwj hate jc? Seriously. You said 'look at canon', and I agree, LWJ does hate JC in canon. and JC responds to that hate with hate. It’s not hard to nail down - LWJ hates jc because of wwx. because even though he was at wwx's death and knows that JC didn't actually stab his sword into wwx, he firmly believes that the actions JC took drove wwx to his death. Its the same reason he hates himself during the timeskip.

That, and LWJ is used to being the only petty bitch in the room (cloud recesses). He doesn't have the emotional insight to recognize that sometimes yelling at someone can be a sign of how much you care. They have different communication styles, and that mostly comes with lwj judging how jc interacts with wei ying. Though we, as the audience, with wwx's pov and our own insight, see they love each other, lwj cannot. So he thinks JC is just actually being mean for no reason.

But again, like WN, he is weak for wei wuxian. if wei wuxian chooses to have a better relationship with his brother, LWJ might protest but I think he would ultimately relent.

This will mean he might have to spend actual time with JC, but ... he's chief cultivator. He's GOING to have to anyway. Not to mention, it seems like he did anyway, judging by their junior night hunt supervision.

I don't think wei wuxian would mind their continued animosity. In fact, in certain scenarios, like their night hunt chaperone death glare match, I bet he'd find it kinda funny.

4. You seem to taking specific umbrage with JC calling the wen remnant 'leftovers', and believe that he specifically wants wen ning and wen yuan to die. You probably took this specific word from chapter 73 of the exiled rebels translation of mdzs. If you look a bit closer, you can also notice that JC's next line of dialogue "I doubt you'll even return all of them". He is making this argument because he wants the brother he loves to be safe and somewhere JC can protect him. He is, throughout this entire scene, pointing out that this is a political disaster and how this hurts both his brother and the jiang. and even then, he does NOT expect all of the wen clan to be returned. He is expecting Wei Wuxian to smuggle a few (or even a lot!) of them away - perhaps people like granny and any children?

Also, wen ning is a fierce corpse who just killed some dudes. Although he did so justifiably, he is still the sort of demon that cultivators kill all the time, and wwx hasn't shown that its even possible to bring back his consciousness. We know he will, but that’s a ridiculous idea to the average cultivator. JC doesn't think he's telling WWX to kill a person at this point but a zombie, which they as cultivators kill all the time.

5. But, in the end, should LSZ, LWJ, and WN all hate JC's guts and refuse to even look at his fucking face post canon - they DO NOT control wei wuxian. WWX has met someone and listened to what they wanted him to so when he wanted the opposite perhaps three times in his entire life. If there is a reason that he thinks he should go talk to his brother, if there is a reason he thinks he should go to lotus pier, if there’s a reason he thinks his brother doesn't hate him anymore and wants to have WWX in his life, WWX is GOING to GO. That’s just his nature.

(the reasons are obviously the territory of fanfic)

WWX respecting 'other loved ones' feelings and history' does not mean denying himself of an equally important relationship in his life. Maybe it means not taking them when he goes to visit JC (and yes, I mean at lotus pier). Maybe it means not talking about Jiang Cheng to them. But it doesn't mean abandoning any hope of ever having a positive relationship with his brother again.

Reconciliation is not about them. Its not about how much hurt JC arguably caused other people surrounding WWX. Its about these two brothers reconnecting with the last person from their family living.

#no extremes here! #wei wuxian #can have a positive relationship with his husband and his best friend and his son and his brother at the same time #also #if i have two people in my life that dont like each other #the solution is not to simply abandon one #and i feel sorry for you if that is your go to solution #i will absolutely understand some people will respond that #jiang cheng #is different because hes an abuser or some shit #but your wrong and if you want to know why you can simply click on my blog and backread #JC anti's don't interact challenge #but also i would like it to be clear that I love all of these characters just #so much #and i didn't mean any of this to be negative towards any of them #they're all precious precious babies #lan wangji #lan shizui #wen ning #mdzs