#ill just wax poetic about wwx's smile being the sun

[gentil-minou]

Anyways I saw this new merch art at like 5am and my brain exploded and I wrote the start of a half sleepy one shot so here

...extremely indulgent hybrid bunny witches wangxian childhood friends AU

EDIT: Now a one-shot

All witches are born with a hybrid form that they must learn to control by ten. At that time, they will be given their witch's name and join the coven officially as a fully fledged witch.

But Lan Zhan is nine and a half, and he still can't control his ears and his hybrid form...

They're big and unseemingly, embarrassing the way his Ge cam pull and tug on them. And every time he coos and calls him cuts, Lan Zhan puffs up with anger.

Rabbits aren't common hybrids, and he's the only one in the family. Ge learned to control his form at 7, why is he late?

He resolves to spend much of his time practicing on his own in the field behind thier home. He goes through all the meditation and steps, including envisioning the way his human ears might look.

He casts the spell, following the instructions perfectly...but nothing happens. Water wells up in his eyes and it takes all of him to hold them back from falling

Not with sadness, but with frustration. Lan Zhan is at the top of everything! The best in his class, an accomplished musician, and can performing spells his older peers can't even dream of.

But this spell... why is it that this spell is so impossible for him?

His ears droop down and Lan Zhan uses then to block the rest of the world, focusing on the ground he's sitting on. He starts ripping up the grass at his feet.

A voice calls from just a few feet away, "Hey! Don't do that, you're hurting it!"

Lan Zhan's head shoots up in surprise. No one is allowed on the back hills. Who is this intruder?

And there standing before him is another boy around his age, with fluffy black bunny ears and a smile brighter than the sun overhead lending him a halo effect, so dazzling Lan Zhan has to squint his eyes just to see him properly.

Lan Zhan has never met another rabbit before. He's not sure what to do, what's the proper etiquette?

It doesn't help that this other boy is very distracting as he runs right to him and plops down in front of him and starts patting the ground gently, consoling the grass.

"Poor little grasslings, is this mean gege hurting you?" The boy pouts but there's a teasing glint in his eyes when he glances at Lan Zhan.

Is he making fun of him?

Lan Zhan feels the blood rush to his own bunny ears and knows they're looking terribly pink, but he can't help it.

How dare this boy make a fool of him! He's just here trying to get his ears under control so he can't make his family proud, and the boy comes over to mock him!

Lan Zhan feels his lip quiver, and to his horror a tear falls from his eyes into his lap, followed by another.

He's crying in earnest now. It's been years since he cried in front of someone else and he's so shocked by it he can't get the tears to stop falling!

The boy looks at him wide-eyed with the same surprise, clearly agreeing that Lan Zhan is just a loser who is just a failure.

Until the boy finally speaks, "Whoa, whoa, it's okay." His voice is soft and gentle. "This Wei Ying only meant it as a joke. The grasslings don't mind, really, they'll grow back. You don't need to cry."

Lan Zhan huffs, unsure of how to say it's not the grass he's crying for.

Lan Zhan watches his hands as he twists them. His bunny ears droop, brushing against the side of his head as he sniffles.

But although this Wei Ying couldn't understand, he still leans forward so he can peer up at him. His dark eyes shine like the magical sparkles his mama used to cast before bedtime. Her own little stars, she'd call them.

One of Lan Zhan's tears catch in the boy's ears, clinging tight to the fur. But Wei Yung doesn't seem to mind.

Instead he hums contemplatively, before he bounces up to his feet and declares, "I know! I'll show you a spell! But you gotta keep it a secret, okay? No one knows it."

Lan Zhan can't stop himself from scoffing. Is this boy saying he invented a spell? This young?

Impossible. Shameless.

Wei Ying takes his skepticism in stride and grins down at Lan Zhan. "Just you wait, you're gonna love this."

Then he steps back, clasping his hands together and shutting his eyes tight, a furrow deepening between his brows.

He starts humming, quietly like he's trying not to disturb anything. It's not a tune Lan Zhan is familiar with, but lots of spells have songs. The problem is that when they backfire they can often create quite the mess.

Lan Zhan leans back slightly, his tears forgotten. He's somewhat wary this is all going to turn very bad, but he can't look away. He finds he has no desire to look away from this boy at all.

Then, to Lan Zhan's shock, a glowing circle appears around the boy. They're not scheduled to learn how to make arrays until they turn 13, but Wei Ying can make one already?

Wei Ying’s hair lifts by some unseen force as his ears stand straight up. His humming grows louder as Lan Zhan’s eyes grow wider.

Then, all at once Wei Ying stops humming and the circle disappears.

Wei Ying beams. "So! What do you think? Neat, huh!"

Lan Zhan blinks up at him. Nothing has changed, is this another trick?

Wei Ying gives him a confident crooked grin. "Look down, you'll see."

Lan Zhan looks at the ground in front of him and gasps.

Where before laid the remains of grass tearing is a patch of brand new bright green grass, growing proud and strong.

This...is creating life. This isn't something a regular witch can do. Most accomplished ones can't! Let alone a boy.

Just who is this magical boy?

TBC Honestly if I do continue it'll either be on the threadfic or in a one-shot on ao3 but they're just so cute ahh

#normally i would just stuff this in my private discord server with all the other ideas and then maybe revisit them one day #but im having fun sharing a bit here #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wangxian #mdzs fanfiction #wei wuxian #lan wangji #bushy writing #anyways if there are typos please blame my autocorrect and sleepy brain thanks #also twitte is an interesting platform to post fics because it means i have to focus more on plot than descriptions #which might actually be a good thing otherwise ill judt wac #ill just wax poetic about wwx's smile being the sun #sjjrjsjjga

[lianhuawu]

ok ill bite. why jingyi and ouyang zizhen?

me, opening up my 70 page powerpoint presentation on this subject specifically: I’m glad you asked.

- okAy so we all know jingyi is a hurricane yes or yes? he’s a beautiful  wonderful disaster of a lan sect disciple in terms of temperament and we love him all the more for it.

- zizhen is sweet and pure and waxes poetic about a-qing’s beauty. zizhen is the first to declare that he’s ready to keep fighting with wwx, even if these kids are probably exhausted after what they’ve been through. zizhen was the one to speak up in wwx’s favour when the other sects converged on burial mound.

- now we all know that zizhen’s father is overprotective, nevermind that his son is clearly super capable. now imagine zizhen admiring jingyi for his brashness. he’s quiet because that’s who he is,he’s always deferred to his father because thats what is done. then suddenly here comes this lan disciple, of all people, who yells when he’s excited and charges straight into battle and smiles as bright as the sun given form.

- jingyi has always been told he’s too impulsive too temperamental too loud too this too that. he’s tried for years to fit into the mould of a perfect lan sect disciple, but he’s no sizhui. he feels things strongly, and it’s hard to tamp down on those emotions. he’s always been told he’d be more if he were less - less noisy, less rash, less himself. that he’d be more lan if he could be less jingyi. and yknow, after a while, he’s fine with that. he gets it.

- now imagine jingyi meeting zizhen again at a discussion conference a few years later and just being absolutely thrown. here’s this boy who sees him for all that he is. all the loudness and the chattering and the general ‘un-Lan’-ness. here’s someone who has never expected him to be anyone besides lan jingyi.

- jingyi stomps his foot when his arrow misses the target and zizhen laughs. jingyi speaks up against another cultivator’s bad behaviour and zizhen squeezes his arm in encouragement (he’s so used to arm squeezes as a way to tell him to drop it that he nearly loses the tail end of his argument when he looks over his shoulder to see zizhen smiling at him)

- zizhen smooths out jingyi’s rough edges, calms his temper. jingyi pushes zizhen to get out there and be the best version of himself he can be.

- in conclusion i love these two and i could talk about them for hours okay

#so much zizhen content in the last few chapters im living #yo anon no lie tho i thank you for this i love zizhen and i love jingyi and i love zizhen and jingyi together #hmu if you want to yell about them cause im doing for yelling like 24/7 #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #lan jingyi #ouyang zizhen