lan wangji has always been patient of course (except during cloud recess lectures when wei wuxian was around him) but, i don't think many people realize that the frankly stupid amounts of patience that he has 13 (or 16) years later is most definitely linked with him being a parent and a teacher (especially to the little ones).
if people do realize it, it's not talked about enough!
i'm such a sucker about this because i absolutely adore parental lwj and kindergarten teacher lwj. lwj with juniors and babies is just so heart melting.
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I am feeling the urge to write an AU where Jiang Cheng finds A-Yuan instead of Lan Wangji. And he’s conflicted and grieving and angry, but this is a toddler. Maybe a two or three years older than little A-Ling.
And because A-Yuan wasn’t hidden out in the elements for days like he is in canon, but this is relatively close to the battle itself, he isn’t as sick. He’s scared and confused and he’s crying silently for his Xian-gege, and when Jiang Cheng finds him, he looks terrified at the stranger and just starts wailing.
And Jiang Cheng is angry and grieving and this child is a Wen, and the Wen murdered everyone he loved, and the Wen are the reason his brother left him behind, but this is still a sobbing toddler that wasn’t even born yet when the Wen attacked Lotus Pier, a sobbing toddler who is crying for his Xian-gege to come save him, and as angry as he was, and as with as many people as he killed (because he was a soldier in a war, he’s killed many), he never killed a child and he wasn’t going to do it now.
So he awkwardly tries to calm the boy down, and when he cried himself to sleep, Jiang Cheng scoops him up in his arms and carries him off to Lotus Pier.
And it’s rough. Because the only acceptable way to go about this, about taking this boy in, is giving him his name. Making little Wen Yuan into Jiang Yuan. There is something wrong about it. About someone who belongs to those who took everything from him, having his name and his home.
He wonders if that’s how his mother felt, watching the son of the woman who took her husband’s heart run around her home.
There is something wrong about watching that child play and seeing the ghost of his brother, seeing his brother’s smile on his face and hearing his brother’s laughter from his mouth
He wonders if that’s what his father felt like, looking at Wei Wuxian and seeing the ghosts of the friends he loved.
And a realisation dawns on him that it doesn’t matter, because even though this child has the blood of his family’s killers, he can’t fathom the thought of hitting him with zidian. It makes him sick, to think of a child under that thing, or the many other punishments his mother found for them. For Wei Wuxian.
The boy calls him uncle Jiang, and Jiang Cheng remembers another voice calling that name excitedly across the piers, and wonders why his father, who everyone said loved Wei Wuxian, didn’t give him the protection of his name.
Jin Ling doesn’t grow up as alone, here. He has his big cousin Jiang Yuan, who is bright and confident and loves him a lot, and who he follows like a little duckling as he grows up. It’s only when they both grow up a little that they start finding things a bit odd, like how Jiang Yuan calls Jiang Cheng his paternal uncle, yet no one ever speaks of the man having a brother.
So they set to find out.
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i absolutely love the fact that sizhui's life breaks one of the most painful parallels it has with wei wuxian's.
the jiang's (except shijie, because shijie is the best and can never be even slightly mean) always made wwx feel like he owed them just because they took him in and gave him food and shelter.
sizhui was also taken in and raised under lan wangji but he is so clearly loved. his worth and his well-being is so clearly kept above everything else.
like lan wangji stood by wei wuxian's side, breaking the trend of wei wuxian's loved ones leaving his side, he also broke the parallel by raising a kid who knows his worth and that the worth does not lie in how much he can sacrifice himself.
i am such a sucker for found family!
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"Lan Sizhui is just like Lan Wangji" "Lan Sizhui is just like Wei Wuxian" He's literally just Wen Ning with social skills guys.
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