#mtas wei

[ryllen]

#mtas #my time at sandrock #mtas wei #mtas builder #fanart #i found my true love target ; v ; #the smiling type is the ones that truly snatch my heart #they bring me the utmost joy #as much ironic it is unsuur makes me unsure of the rest of the stage after confession #i just thought i marry him in case the builder parents come and there would be some kind of scene over it like in portia #till the very last minute my heart was somehow still half in about it #tho in the game unsuur is read very close as 'unsure' i actually pronounce it differently bcs it's close to something in my language #unsur : means element; i thought that's nice bcs it feels closely to rock related thing #https://translate.google.com/?sl=id&tl=en&text=unsur&op=translate #if anyone even interest the slightest on how it sounds when pronounced by me here's the google translate link #but yea i'm dying that it is literally being pronounced 'unsure' #pls help him he just needs to be given a chance to command so he can learn to do independent thinking from experience #like yeah probably there would be lots of mistake at first #but u're like a mom justice who decides everything for the child so when u ask the child they just be like don't know ask mom fshdshd #he needs to be put out there #or had that been done justice if so i am sorry ; v ; #but seriously i'm dying when i kept adventuring with justice and logan and unsuur was just told to wait like a puppy fhsdh #he needs to be taught how to decide things by himself seriously #it's honestly hard to write unsuur's character #like no matter how u tried somehow it doesn't feel as close as funny or as serious deadpan like the original #wei here is like a piece of white paper i can scribble whatever i want #it's unexpected #but i ended up liking wei

[oldcrystalmouth]

I don't know precisely what point in the gam those Yan murals came down, but I hope they had some fun with them first.

#my time at sandrock #mtas wei #mtas yan #mtas slack #mtas builder #fanart #comics #black and white

[britishsass]

Wei - MTaS Headcanons

I've seen basically nothing about this guy, so I feel like posting some headcanons about one of my favorite characters in My Time at Sandrock.

Wei has anger issues. (Or, rather, had-- He's gone to seminars and read multiple books about it, as he says when you compliment him on his personality.)

He can be absolutely terrifying if he's upset. (Have you seen what he says if you give him hated gifts? "Are you not afraid someone will put you in your place, going around acting like this?" according to the wiki, holy heck. Dude can be horrifying if you ever do get on his bad side, but he tries his best to make that hard)

He's tried to get away from Yan before. There were lots and lots of incidents with the two of them accidentally moving to the same town and ending up arguing over who moved first, until Wei just sort of... Gave up on trying to escape.

He's got major trust issues. (He mentions his own team was paid off to abandon him in the Periphs, his partner Esmerelda left him because of Yan, etc.)

He liked his dad better. (He mentions how his father tried his best with teaching them, while Yan mentions his mother when sand drawing)

Wei's love of weapons is partially from his time spent in the Periphs, though he enjoyed a nice spar beforehand as well. (He used to win every Showdown at High Noon. He stopped competing after a while because he thought it ruined the fun for others.)

Wei and Yan lived in Portia when they were younger, though most of the Portian residents don't remember them. However, Presley, Higgins probably do, though Higgins was young when he met them and wasn't a fan of either.)

He loves relics, and used to have a nice collection of his own! However, during his stint of being presumed dead, Yan sold all of them.

He has chronic headaches and backaches, though he usually works through them. Fang, Owen, and maybe Mi-an are the only ones he's ever told that to-- mostly because he never thought it was important to mention.

Wei's closest friends in Sandrock are Owen and... yeah, it's just Owen for a long time. Though he appreciates Mi-an and the builder, he's most likely to go to Owen if he needs someone to just talk to.

He doesn't celebrate his birthday. Throughout his life, it was a day of arguing with Yan, so he just. Doesn't care about it being his birthday anymore. It's another day, and if someone celebrates it with him, bully to them! But he's happy to just have a normal day.

He'd like a very normal life already, please, just give him a normal life without Yan ever coming up again.

He loathes it when people call him President, Yan, or anything even vaguely about that.

He doesn't really agree with the Church of the Light (Too interested in relics and the like) but he does understand them.

Feel free to add more if you have any headcanons! I'd love to hear.

#my time at sandrock #mtas #wei mtas #mtas wei #wei my time at sandrock #my time at sandrock wei #mtas headcanons #my time at sandrock headcanons #the owl posts #the owl writes #mtas spoilers #my time at sandrock spoilers

[nagalias-mindscape]

Just had a horrible realization on the Friend List thingie for My Time at Sandrock. The one that shows the character’s relationships.

Pen and Matilda get the status “Leave” (Left) when they leave Sandrock. Miguel remains in jail until you either send him away or attempt to reform him, at which point he either rejoins Sandrock Society, or, I assume, to jail (at which point his status will change to “Leave”? I don’t actually know, I chose to give him a second chance).

Yan, however. Retains his status like Miguel. Either this is unintentional, or it implies he’ll be back.

Now I’m imagining a whole thing where we have an additional twin-trouble. Maybe Yan tries to attempt to murder Wei (again) and we get a scenario where have to attempt to save Wei from the desert whole he’s impersonating his brother.

Wei, the poor bastard still traumatized from his time in the Peripheries. The poor bastard who still gets comments occasionally on how he’s actually Yan in disguise, or that Yan was better, or whatnot.

Maybe this event helps him settle into Sandrock?

#text #mtas #mtas yan #mtas wei

[brightcalamity]

Spoilers about late game things:

Man, Wei is weird, isn't he? (This is a compliment) Making an opposite of a guy who is comically evil, and you get a guy who should be...comically good? I hope that's where they're going, because that's how I read him.

Quotes:

Wei:

Well, if you know my brother's birthday, you know mine. But in case you didn't, it's the 14th of Autumn. They say there was a solar eclipse that day.

So are Wei and Yan like those 7 brothers from Portia? Except instead of the colors of the rainbow, they're light and dark? Good and evil? Yan is the dark shadow that blocks out the sun that is Wei? But he's also the guy who shoplifts from Arvio? It actually makes me feel a tiny bit sorry for Yan. Like, was he capable of being any better than he is?

Our father used to always tell us, "Be hard on yourself, go easy on others." He always tried his best with Yan, but my brother... There was no getting through to him. When I moved in, I found engraved in his desk... "Go easy on yourself, go hard on others." How strange that he relishes in such behavior...

Cursed...

I was a guild commissioner previously; I'd regularly join expedition teams going in to the Peripheries. We'd always hire a crack team to fight alongside us. We were careful. Always did everything right. One excursion, my team abandoned me out there, having been paid off by Yan. That... is a story for another time...

Poor Wei...

⁠My brother did always enjoy playing his identity swapping games... Prior to this, the longest he ever got away with it was a month in middle school when I went away for the grammar rodeo... When I got back I had some choice words for him, all of which were carefully constructed semantically!⁠ ⁠ Long ago I had a true love by the name of Esmerelda. She, too, was taken from me by my brother. One day, i came home to find her furious. She claimed that I had said the most horrible things to her. I tried to explain that I have an evil twin...! But she wouldn't believe me...

This poor man....

We send Yan to jail, and we don't have to deal with him again. I can't help but think that Wei is going to be haunted by him for the rest of his life.

Don't worry about my brother coming after either of us. He's safely locked away in a maximum security prison, and his assets have all been frozen. So even if he did have some way to communicate with his shady associates, he'd have no leverage.

:( For your sake, Wei, I hope so.

Hugo:

I feel for Wei. I mean, somewhere, deep down, he's got to have some love for his brother. It must be hard to deal with family like that. People who have just completely lost their way...

I think Wei needs therapy.

Miguel:

Yes. You all are free from Yan's loathsome presence. I however, am forced to bask in it...

You made this bed, Miguel. No, I still feel sorry for you.

Qi:

The twin commissioners are a fantastic study in the nature vs. nurture issue. Of course, these two men have identical DNA, so what exactly led them to become such different people? Hypothesis one: it's the mustache.

I think this is a bias being expressed by the creators of the game which show why they only give us ugly facial hair options.

Unsuur:

With Wei around, it kinda feels like Yan is still a member of town. Except he's, like, good. Most bad guys we meet end up being misunderstood and eventually turn good. It's almost as if... The only way Yan could ever be good is if he were a different person completely. Hm...

This one is probably actual commentary, though, ha.

Venti:

I heard you got a new Commissioner! Did he increase your salary? New healthcare plan? Well, at the very least, is he providing free mustache removals?

Wait! My mustache conspiracy theory! There's more evidence!!!

Okay, I'm kind of bummed because I was searching the wiki for a dialogue line I think is kind of interesting. Like, he says Mi-an is teaching him about "fun." Like, he didn't get it before. He went to grammar contests as a kid. He reads in his spare time. I enjoy the idea of him being just so wholesome and Good that he's just as much of a weirdo as everyone else in town.

Yan also gets disappointed in you when you give him gold and he realizes you probably just found it instead of stealing it. He enjoys his evil. Getting something honestly makes him sick. The closest he comes to giving a shit is if you get to be besties with him and he says he'd try to betray you less than everyone else. He still betrays you basically just as much or even more than them (since you're pals with him).

Hm? Yes, of course, I cheat on the Builder Charts! You'd be a fool not to! Do you have any idea how hard it is to win that thing legitimately? Eh? You don't cheat? What's wrong with you? I thought you were cool! Oh, and don't even think of trying to turn me in. I'll lie!

Since he's evil in like a magic way (and a dumb way, since if he was less like he is, he'd get away with more) I bet he enjoys when he betrays you because you're pals. If he likes you, it's because of the way he sees himself in you. He makes assumptions about your behavior and is disappointed when you act differently than he would. He could have left Wei alone and done his evil, but instead he had to ruin his life over and over.

Anyway, where was I going with this? Oh, yeah. Wei should be his bright mirror. He takes up knitting as a hobby and ends up making baby blankets and caps for cancer patients on the side. He goes on the roller coaster and there's an accident but he fixes whatever broke before anyone got hurt. You see him checking out the new woods and he's walking through it and birds and desert hares flock to him.

If you're going to do the evil twin thing, I think you need to push it until it's ludicrous.

#mtas wei #mtas yan #mtas #meta

[todo-el-amor]

Mta wey pensé que eramos amigos, pero eres igual que ella, culero.

[hamliet]

2Ha (up to 120)

Or, Hamliet’s review of the most blatantly ‘problematic’ novel she’s ever read, which has beautiful writing and themes, and an intriguing plot that she apparently wrote a Jin Guangyao AU of without realizing it last year. Whoops. 

This is my fifth Chinese web novel, btw, after reading MXTX’s three novels (all of which I think are thematically rich and top-quality writing and character development-wise) and Female General and Eldest Princess (which has great main characters but shoddy writing). To a degree a lot of this might be due to the translation, but 2Ha is absolutely beautifully written in its dialogue, metaphors, and descriptions. 

The story revolves around the redemption of an evil emperor--Mo Ran--who commits suicide in the very first chapter, only to wake up as his fifteen year old self with a chance to redo everything... but he actually doesn’t (at first) have all that many regrets or think he needs redemption, so there’s that. Thematically, it seems to mostly be coherent so far, but it’s hard to say with only 120/300 chapters read, and I’ll discuss the ‘mostly’ below.

The main character, Mo Ran, is basically what would happen if you combined Xue Yang with Jin Guangyao and Wei Wuxian in a blender, but then strained out the decency Jin Guangyao and Wei Wuxian in particular clung to. If Jin Guangyao and Wei Wuxian are, archtypally, akin to the Kylo Ren/Loki archetype, then Mo Ran is Darth Vader or Thanos. 

What I appreciate about this is that the novel doesn’t make Mo Ran sympathetic because it doesn’t have to: we empathize with him because he is framed honestly. There is not an attempt to manipulate sympathy, but there is an honest portrayal of complexity without whitewashing, and that is a wise choice on behalf of the author. He’s a straight up bad dude who sucks rather than a sympathetic person who clearly wants to be good but through a combination of circumstances and personal terrible choices, is not. Or so it appears at first until Mo Ran eventually realizes/remembers that he did want to be good after all, once... and it’s directly stated as much. Yet those desires have been beaten out of him, and often he’s the one who did the beating on his own soul. 

Basically, the novel seems to be asking whether it is possible for even someone that cruel, that evil, to be redeemed. And the answer thus far (up till 120) seems to be that yes, he can be, but in a complex sense. 

Of course, there are all manner of... elements that make it a novel I absolutely encourage caution towards before engaging. The translators are great with warnings, and I had to skim some parts. There is violence, but to be honest it’s less violent than TGCF, as someone said to me before I read and which, thus far, is a sentiment I’d agree with. My main issues is its portrayal of sexual assault, which I honestly think it’s unnecessarily graphic and eroticized at parts. That said, the story does frame it fairly responsibly (as something reprehensible, but the eroticization of some brief flashbacks contradicts this and so undermines the overall framing). Rather like Scum Villain, it also seems to be aware of the unhealthy dynamics in the ship (particularly the initial age gap) and so layers it with contradictions (he’s actually lived to 32, so he isn’t fifteen; Chu Wanning is then de-aged too, nothing happens until they’re older anyways). The layering works in multiple ways, because the novel seems to, at its core, be about exploring the very limits of love, redemption, etc., in each and every crevice of possibility. 

On a personal level, the chapter where Mo Ran is awaiting judgement to get into hell and the memories of all the people he has tortured and killed start calling out his sins, and then we flashback to Chu Wanning asking Mo Ran not to forgive him, not to forgive others, but simply to forgive himself after Chu Wanning subjected himself to Mo Ran’s worst impulses, and it’s this memory, this phrase, that stops the sentence before its even written, that quiets those voices... I found it deeply meaningful, and that was perhaps my favorite chapter. It encourages empathy and enduring suffering with each other, suggesting that an honest understanding and love saves us. There’s a theological aspect to it that resonated with me as well (and, as a side note, I’m curious to read the entire thing before charting it out, but there seems to be a very clear alchemical influence as well). 

However, I earlier mentioned the slight eroticization that seems to make murky the overall framing. There’s also one recent plot twist that seemed to damage the themes. I really, really didn't like how Rong Jiu's story ended even if it's ambiguous. It essentially is, as the author even directly said in her author's notes, just that Rong Jiu wasn't lucky enough to find someone who wouldn't give up on him. After Rong Jiu spent so much time pointing out the disparities in fairness to Mo Ran (why do you get a second chance while I don’t?), to have his story presumably end with "f*ck you got mine" really does not work. At least in MDZS, while Jin Guangyao isn't saved and Wei Wuxian is, Wei Wuxian empathizes and points out that it's because of a rotten society in the end, rather than just "sucks to be you." I really hope this ends up being wrong and she didn't actually continue to leave his fate up in the air as she stated she planned to do in the author's note, because if she did, that's depressingly contradictory to the story’s themes. It’s one thing if Mo Ran will later go back and save Rong Jiu, which is where I hope it’s going; it’s entirely different if this really is the ending for him, and would keep the novel from thematically approaching MXTX’s level. 

So yeah. I am eager to see where the novel goes, although the translations are on hiatus (hats off to the translators for their beautiful work!) and I’m wavering on how desperate I am as to whether to try the MTA translations or not... 

A theory that very well may be wrong: I suspect the mysterious black-veiled water user is actually Shi Mei, mostly because Shi Mei is likable yet missing serious flaws, unlike every other major character, which makes me suspicious. He also had that very weird line during the Lake Arc when Mo Ran was captured, and water is associated with healing, which Shi Mei is also associated with. Oh, and Water Mystery seems very interested in Mo Ran loving Shi Mei and protecting his life. So if he isn’t Shi Mei, he’s someone connected to him. 

For now? 8/10, but with serious warnings for those who might seek to read it. 

#2ha #hamliet reviews #the husky and his white cat shizun #mo ran #chu wanning #rong jiu

[buckwheat-flower]

oi nenê!!! vim te comentar que comecei a assistir the untamed, E TO VICIADA. metade do tempo eu passo boiando - nunca tinha assistido nenhum drama (assim que se chama né?), ainda me é um pouco estranho a compreensão do audio em outra lingua - e outra metade simplesmente apaixonada. qual teu episódio favorito? qual teu personagem favorito? você gostou do final?

aaaah que notícia maravilhosa 💞💞

pra mim também foi um impacto, mas a gente acostuma com a língua diferente, com os costumes e cultura. inclusive é uma ótima porta de entrada pra aprender novas culturas, eu aprendi mta coisa com the untamed 🥰

o passar boiando é normal, afinal a história é um pouco complexa e também se não tá acostumado com o estilo do drama, aí fica mais complicadinho mesmo 😅 mas a gente vai e achando, eu pesquisei mta coisa pra entender haha.

então, eu gosto mto dos episódios finais, não saberia te dizer especificamente haha, pq o drama inteiro é maravilhoso. eu diria que o wei wuxian é o meu favorito (mas ta todo mundo meio que no mesmo patamar kkkkk com exceção de alguns, o resto eu amo demais). e sim, eu fiquei bem satisfeita com o final!!!!

#ask #answered

[ryllen]

I have never ventured to the side of wanting to romance unromanceable NPC before,

but isn't Wei kind of a marriage material ?

#my time at sandrock #mtas #mtas wei #fanart #he is a good person and all #bright eyes and wide smile #honest to boots and hardworking #he's those type of men who say oh i'm married already #but if he is noooooooooot................... #see where i am going here #drawing him reminds me of albert and aziraphale #it's like the mix of the two #I'M DYING AT ALBERT'S VOICE ON MTAS #THAT'S NOT HIM #THAT'S NOT THE ALBERT I LOVE #HE WAS MUCH MORE GOOFY #MTAS HIM IS SO SNOTTY I CAN EVEN SAY I HATE HIM AAAAAAAAAAAA!! #i also heard mayor gale's mtas voice on some vid NO THAT'S NOOOT HIMMM EITHERRR......... #HIS VOICE WAS MUCH MORE KINDER AND FUNNY AND DISTINCTIVE #I'M SO MOURNING OVER THEM #HARD #changing of VA never an easy hit to take BUT THAT WAS DRASTIC #mtap voice was mostly so distinctive #other than nora and paulie me think #can't wait till i can play date with wei #i want to know more about him #can we play date with him?? #despite his character art his 3d model eyes are big and adorable

[oldcrystalmouth]

I don't know if anyone is in the mood for the hilarious commissioner brothers.

#my time at sandrock #mtas yan #mtas wei #mtas mi-an #fanart #black and white #they could honestly be a comedy duo #except for the whole attempted homicide thing #i apparently haven't posted to this in like two years #oops

[britishsass]

Wei returns home to Portia, and finds that his brother is gone, Sandrock has suddenly gone radio silent, and something very bad is going on just across the mountains.

Of course, it may be a bit too late to do much, but… with the help of two criminals, a lone builder, an exhausted carpenter, and a Duvos soldier, there's gotta be some chance of success.

~

AKA: I caved and wrote more MTAS fanfic, this time with lots more spoilers for the story. So be warned-- this time it’s spoilery, more than just saying what happened to Wei beforehand.

#mtas #my time at sandrock #mtas wei #mtas builder #builder mtas #mtas fanfiction #my time at sandrock fanfiction #my time at sandrock fanfic #mtas fanfic #the owl writes #i still gotta design the builder here tbh

[nagalias-mindscape]

My sister is writing a fluff piece. For MTaS. It’s got some weird kinks to it, but it’s mostly platonic found-family fluff.

Builder x Unsuur with Logan x Haru sprinkled in. Maybe Grace x Owen, but I might be wrong about that one. I think Mi-an x Elsie is there, too?

Logan and Haru adopt Andy via canon plot. Then decide “fuck it, we’re adopting all the strays” and end up going “you’re our kid now, too” to both Grace and the Builder. Pretty certain that my sis has fallen in love with Wei and he's going to end up in said pseudo-family by the end of everything.

For context, my sister hasn't completed the game. She hasn't even met Logan except via my own completed save file where I'm married to Logan and that one- ONE- brief moment right after the water tower gets blown up and he's fleeing the scene.

#text #mtas #fanfiction #I was given permission to post this as written.

[oldcrystalmouth]

It's 7am in Sandrock and you ambush your boss with the camera.

#my time at sandrock #mtas wei #digital art #fanart #why is he so flipping adorable

[ryllen]

Half a decade lost in the wilderness of peripheries, with stomach full of grass & monster meat

#my time at sandrock #mtas #i don't exactly know how to draw stranded wei still looking like wei but here he is #mtas wei #fanart #he looks like hiccup

[oldcrystalmouth]

There really ought to be more art of this guy.

#my time at sandrock #mtas wei #fanart #digital art

[oldcrystalmouth]

For the love of god, send help.

#my time at sandrock #mtas wei #mtas winter #fanart