#nie clan

[frankencanon]

you ever think about the fact that nie huaisang's father and brother both died the exact same way — forced into qi deviation via a third party

you ever think about how nie mingjue's obsession with getting revenge for his father's murder might have been foreshadowing for nie huaisang's own obsession with avenging his brother and utterly destroying jin guangyao

you ever think about how nie huaisang is a lot more like nie mingjue than most people realize

#the untamed #cql #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed spoilers #cql spoilers #mdzs spoilers #mo dao zu shi spoilers #nie huaisang #nie mingjue #nie sect #nie clan #jin guangyao #meng yao #spoilers #grandmaster of demonic cultivation

[jubileesstuff]

Wei Wuxian, gardening: Hey, can you bring me the hoe?

Jiang Cheng: Yeah, sure.

*A few minutes later*

Jiang Cheng: Here you go.

Wei Wuxian:

Jiang Cheng:

Nie Huaisang: Why am I here?

#jiang cheng #nie huaisang #the untamed #incorrect the untamed #wei wuxian #lan wangji #incorrect mdzs #incorrect mxtx #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #nie clan #gusu lan

[momzawa-5]

Nie Huaisang doodle 💚

#mdzs #nie huaisang #nie clan #chibi #mo dao su zhi #mdzs fanart #colored pencil #fanart #grandmaster of demonic cultivation

[haiitzmeh]

My lil sweet manipulator 😊

#nie huaisang #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #mxtx #hand fan #nie clan #mdzs fanart #grandmaster of demonic cultivation

[leveneficor]

nie huaisang style ✨

also nhs style:

#nie huaisang #nie brothers #nie bros #nie sect #qinghe nie #nie clan #nhs #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #founder of demonic cultivation #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #nhs does not have a gender #nhs told me hes nb #sangcheng #chengsang

[sizzlingruinsengineer]

Heyyyy it's been a while since I post my art here!

I just finished this Drawing... it's supposed to be a girl dressed in my country's traditional clothes but it turned out to be a girl from nie clan hahahaha ... hope u like it !! ♡♡♡

#art #anime #oc art #digital aritst #digital painting #mo dao zu shi #nie clan #nie bros #nie huaisang #nie mingjue #nie brothers #the grandmaster of diabolism #oc drawing #my oc art #nielan #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #art style #my art #artwork

[guqin-and-flute]

What if the Nie Clan rode big ol mountain goats. Cause mountains.

#My art #My stuff #Nie #nmj #nhs #I looked at Mongolian saddles for inspiration and played with the strappy bits #cause it has to be solid if they’re climbing around the mountains with people on their backs #they could be yao goats cause I don’t think they’re native or that strong/big #I think huaisang would give his goat the prettiest horn decorations #sketchy stuff #Nie clan #goat au

[bookanimeart]

Nie clan be like

#nie clan #nie sect #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #nie mingjue #nie huaisang

[sandradaffodils]

Character design of 14 year old Nie Mingjue for my fanfic! 🤩

#wangxian #wei ying #lan wangji #nie huisang #jiang cheng #lan zhan #wei wuxian #mdzs fanart #mdzs #mxtx #mdzs fandom #mdzs fanfiction #nie mingjue #nie clan

[picturesfrommdzsdonghuathatilike]

#AWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe #nie clan #nie huaisang #episode 3 #front view

[lady-of-the-spirit]

do people have headcanons for how the Nie mothers died? Is there a non-canon but widely accepted fandom headcanon? I'm curious, we got a death story for their father but not their mothers.

#if any version has a canon explanation for their deaths lmk i'm curious about the nie mothers #nie bros #nie clan #nie mingjue #nie huiasang #mdzs #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #i'm saying stuff #qinghe nie

[frankencanon]

if nie huaisang had a twin he wouldn't just be one of those twins who occasionally swaps places with their sibling — no, no one would even know that he had a twin.

(no one except for qinghe nie, of course.)

the nie twins would be frighteningly dedicated to keeping up the act so that they would only need to do half the work and attend half the classes/conferences/events/etc.

(notice that i didn't say half the training, since unfortunately da-ge is more than aware that he has two brothers, not one.)

the poor lans at cloud recesses would feel like they're absolutely losing their minds since they know they just saw nie huaisang in class with lan qiren less than five minutes ago, but somehow he's now by the river on the other side of cloud recesses?!

can he teleport? can he just move really fast? can he time-travel? is one of them an illusion or a doppelganger? how can he be in two places at the same time?! no one knows!!

and this of course continues at sect conferences, as well — someone will see nie huaisang sitting by his brother in the meeting hall, but when they leave the room and walk down the hall to go outside, there he is peacefully reading a book out in the gardens! how?!

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the only way they can really be differentiated is by their sabers, which are similar but not quite the same — but that's irrelevant, since nie huaisang is never seen carrying a saber anway, so how is anyone (outside the sect) to notice?

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they would be absolutely obsessed with making sure that no one outside the sect ever saw them both at the same time, making an effort to disguise the other in ordinary disciple robes, style their hair differently, and even carry a saber any time that the two of them have to be near each other at the same time.

(but only when they have to be near each other — otherwise, they just make an effort to never be seen together.)

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both of the twins go to the indoctrination, but one of them goes in disguise.

no one's going to notice if a random little nie disciple goes missing, but they will notice if the nie heir himself disappears. so while one of them stays in place, the other goes exploring...

and when the disastrous night hunt happens, they're able to get help.

(—and maybe nie mingjue himself arrives just in time to wrest that stupid cursed sword away from wei wuxian before he can get any bright ideas, saving us all a lot of heartbreak in the long run...)

#nie huiasang #the untamed #cql #chen qing ling #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #bamf nie huaisang #nhs #nie bros #qinghe nie #nie sect #nie clan #twins au #mdzs fanfic #cql fanfic #the untamed fanfic #the untamed fic #the untamed fatal journey

[jubileesstuff]

Wei Ying, looking through their clothes: Has anyone seen my top?

Nie Huaisang: Lan Wangji's in the kitchen.

#wei wuxian #nie huaisang #the untamed #lan Wangji #incorrect mdzs #incorrect the untamed #incorrect wei wuxian #incorrect mxtx #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #wang yibo #wangxian #xiao zhan #nie clan #lan clan

[featherlight-whispers]

my favorite nie huaisang-related trope in fics is when he does something very nie-like but not as extreme as the rest of his family. for example, strength. maybe he’s not as strong as other nies, but to someone outside of the family he’s ridiculously strong for someone who doesn’t train

#nie huaisang #nie clan #mdzs #featherlight-screams

[pastelcheckereddreams]

Finally ready to talk about how Nie Huaisang’s revelation of his Sect’s immoral sacrifices to the Sword Spirit in Fatal Journey directly calls back to the main show’s overarching plot re: the vilification of the entire Wen clan, and the subsequent persecution of Wei Wuxian for attempting to stand up for the Dafan Wen sect.

Most notably, this parallel occurs as Nie Huaisang challenges his brother on why the Nie can heartlessly sacrifice human beings for the sake of controlling the sword spirit:

["This is not balance, but sacrificing flesh and blood."]

I don’t think I can even try to describe how this line so perfectly frames the ideological argument of the value of human life against some higher measure of worth. Especially as Zonghui tries to reason that:

["Those corpses belong to evil men."]

To the contrary, this only serves to strengthen Nie Huaisang’s conviction, because it doesn’t matter to him if they were good or evil. He looks straight into his older brother’s eyes as he counters:

["Aren't they human beings?"]

Consider the weight of the entire chronological plot of MDZS, of Wei Wuxian’s character arc, until this moment:

How, at this point in the main story’s time-skip, Nie Huaisang may still be grieving the loss of his friend and trying to reconcile his experience of Wei-xiong's character with the reputation of Yiling Laozu - and how that reputation was both built up and torn down by the very Sect leaders who remain in power: his brother included.  

Consider how Nie Huaisang, in this moment, may remember that his dear friend stood up against everyone - again, the Nie included - when he dared speak out against this same polarised judgement of good and evil, and how Wei-xiong died for it.

And so now, here, Nie Huaisang finally dares to ask - 

“Are you qualified for deciding their fate?”

Of course, at this point, we know that Nie Mingjue himself was a young leader newly minted by war, trying to balance the welfare of his clan against the will of the more powerful sects, and that (more pertinent to the plot of Fatal Journey) he is simply trying to maintain Nie tradition and carry out the role he has been taught to assume since childhood.

But just like his friend before him (and with a fair amount of desperation, considering this might very well be the moment Nie Huaisang fully comprehends the consequences of Dage’s illness - that he will eventually, and is already, sacrificing himself for the same end) Nie Huaisang dares to ask his brother, “Even if [our ancestors] are wrong, you would follow their lead?”

This scene is, of course, much more than an echo of past prejudices from the war against the Wen. It becomes a question of Nie Mingjue’s sanity - how much his illness is influencing his perception of reality, and how it not only perpetuates the prejudices from the war, but also actively harms the Nie by exposing the skewed morals at the core of their clan identity.

But that aside, it is this conflict of ideology that Nie Huaisang exposes which brings us right back to Wei Wuxian, and his stand against the main Sects and their systematic prejudice. In this moment, Nie Huaisang recognises that same flaw, and calls it out in his brother - not only for his current actions, but (with some internal, existential horror) for the crimes of their ancestors the Nie are built upon: sacrificing human beings in order to maintain a fallacy of harmony that is ultimately corrupt.

I wonder if Nie Huaisang would later think back on this moment and grieve in understanding for his friend.

I wonder if his choices from then on - from this moment of Fatal Journey to the resurrection of Wei Wuxian, and further - Nie Huaisang's actions were partially guided by the example of Wei Wuxian.

Am I thinking about a demonic cultivator Nie Huaisang now? Yes absolutely.

I could go on, but I’m gunna stop here. I’m just so full of feelings for the character growth of Nie Huaisang in Fatal Journey.

#nikkiwrites #character analysis #character parallels #nie huaisang #wei wuxian #cql meta #the untamed meta #character meta #nhs meta #nie clan #nie sect #qinghe nie #nie mingjue #sword sacrifice hall #xinglu ridge #nikkiwatches #the untamed: fatal journey #world building #fatal journey

[leveneficor]

nie mingjue and his little brother nie huaisang

this come to my mind...

himouto umaru-chan is EXACLTY like nie huaisang

they both are genius and play dumb

and nii-san taking care to his lil himouto is the same as nie mingjue

#nie brothers #nie bros #nie sect #qinghe nie #nie huaisang #nie clan #nie mingjue #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #himouto! umaru chan #nhs is umaru #niisan is nmj