#no wonder jiang Cheng is like that

[mushroomwriter]

THE UNTAMED episode 09

#theuntamededit #theuntameddaily #cdramaedit #cdramasource #dramasource #dailyasiandramas #cqledit #chen qing ling #Jiang Cheng #Wen Qing #ChengQing #The Untamed #TU ep09 #cql p #cqlmoments #myedit #id in alt text #he's so consistent in his worry for her safety I FEEL SICK #like in this scene everyone else is wondering what's going on and how much she knows #but Jiang Cheng immediately asks her if she's all right

[incarnadinedreams]

"even people who claim to like Jiang Cheng don't actually like him in the novel"

Nah I read that whole damn thing and liked him every scene he was in. Speak for yourself you have no idea how deep the novel!Jiang Cheng Derangement Syndrome goes in MY head

#seriously though why do people keep spouting that nonsense #when everyone I know that loves jiang cheng loves him in the novel (granted I am in a bubble) #(it's a wonderful bubble) #even if they started as cql mains most have read the novel and still liked him there #(not that being cql-only is a problem! love all of you too!) #over here I've only read the novel (and watched the donghua after) and look at me. I'm Like This just from reading the novel!!!

[fanning-the-flames]

I always wanted to draw a Jiang Cheng with a dancer’s grace, and Sargent’s El Jaleo is such a lovely and dynamic painting I kept wanting to adapt it. So we have Sandu Shengshou maybe doing a demonstration to his disciples? Or torturing some unlucky (lucky?!) demonic cultivators…

#Jiang cheng #Sargent #el jaleo #work in progress #underpainting #making the spectators make sense is going to be a pain I already know it…just don’t look and think too hard about that #I have enough on my hands wondering if Jiang cheng is dressed even remotely like ancient Chinese or xianxia…definitely not practically #zidian probably will defy physics but so do cultivators so hopefully that’s fine

[ultfreakme]

Love how major Jiang Cheng ships are just highly oedipal or highly electra. Like he was crushing on Wen Qing who’s as severe and direct as Yu Ziyuan and then there’s his biggest ship with Lan Xichen who’s as pleasant and polite as Jiang Fengmian. A good chunk of us can agree that Jiang Cheng has some kinda mommy/daddy issues at all times.

#jiang cheng #it's just FUNNY to me that the two BIGGEST ships for Jiang Cheng just went 'ah yes he has problems with his parents that are reflecting- #on his other personal relationships' #Wei Wuxian watching WQ and JC interact and JC and LXC interact is likely very similar of 'oh this is wonderful......wait a minute-' #now you might be wonderign where nie huaisang- his other big ships fits into this #this is obviously about his shidi wei wuxian issues #'Wdym elaborate long term revenge was an option?'

[l1ghth0p3]

Jiang Cheng lost everyone. He had no support system at all, the only family member he had left was a baby.

#I cry over this a lot #also jiang cheng taking care of Jin ling as a single dad mandalorian style resides in my brain rent free #jiang cheng #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the untamed #like no wonder he’s so angry

[travalerray]

My headcanon of Jiang Cheng being aspec is so deeply ingrained in my brain that I will start writing a piece and be like "yeah so canon implies that he is aroace so I am gonna—" and then freeze and go "bitch what canon"

#jiang cheng #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo dao zu shi #kk's rambles tag #in my defense if you hand me someone whose first reaction to every instance of flirting in the text #regardless of the gender it is directed towards is deep annoyance then I will definitely pin aroace to him and go about my day #also I am a donghua first and q made a very convincing episode about him being teased about not having a wife by WWX and him dreaming about #having a companion to accompany him again (....which sure looked an awful lot like wanting his childhood back esp if you notice the kind of #clothes the ''wife'' was wearing lmao+the fact that the face is turned away from the audience) and then waking up to jl calling him #(continuing the point about the donghua and the wife: it reminds me of the vague wish for companionship in THAT kind of a society esp #with someone as lonely as he is. But he doesn't really... Want that. He just wants someone to stand beside him. And that's really fucking #sad I think. Sadder with the preceding dialogue of ''what would I want a wife for? Someone to argue with?'') #(it's also really fucking awful if you have wx lecturing him about finding someone and wwx leaving again like damn I sure wonder why he's #miserable wwx)

[demonicfarmer69]

for xichengclipse2022 event on twitter: day 7 | DILF

jiang cheng realizes he has a type ....unfortunately

#xicheng #jiang cheng #lan xichen #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #jc: no one can match him in his beauty!!!! no one! no one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #when i tell u i was screaming as i drew jfm #ghdfgjdhgkjdhg #the funniest thing abt this is that my hc is that jfm does not approve of lxc. because lxc reminds jfm too much of himself #i wonder why he doesnt like that :eye emoji: hehehehh #ive blessed him with self awareness but only a crumb tho #jc: hes a daddy but at what cost

[piosplayhouse]

Just wondering, does anypony who's read mdzs more recently than I have know if it says anything canonically about how Jiang Cheng treats children in general (besides Jin Ling and Wen Yuan)? For whatever reason I've come across a lot of JC is especially bad with kids takes and I don't remember if that has any actual canonical basis or if it's just fanon based on the way he disregards Wen Yuan (imo not really a good unbiased example considering the whole Wen thing).

#my followers are usually very good but reiterating just in case please be civil #just wondering since i saw a post just now that was like ymj doesnt have child disciples anymore bc of jc being violent #which ehh idr enough about mdzs to deny but i do feel like you have to consider that jc went through that exact same thing #that wwx did . y'know like watching literally all of the younger disciples in his clan end up dead at the hands of the wen for just playing #i wouldnt be surprised if a reason he didnt take young disciples was more tied to that #well anyway idrc just wondering #mdzs #jiang cheng #mo dao zu shi

[amynchan]

people ask who hurt me

there are names, sure

but at the top of the list

is my own

#not me just picking at my own hurts like some kinda dog trying to figure them out #and thereby hurting me in the long run #even when I try not to #y'all ever wonder why I ID with Jiang Cheng #this is it

[zebratimw]

assortment

#uugg #svsss #mdzs #man I don't wanna tag shdjfkg #all of these excluding jiang cheng I plan to finish some day anyways dhfjkg #altho when is the question... hngg.... #also the first one is dhfjgkg bingqiu but like... withthat new geisha skin from idv #its called resilience of bamboo and is a rich green with bamboo and a black n red fan... idk man it just makes me think of them 🥺 #also I'm djjfjgg stressed rn #I'm making cosplay and I keep making little mistakes that ruin everything shfkgkg #ah.. it's so annoying... I hate all of it... but gotta push through anyways 💪 #also I got accepted teehee its an open enrollment so I was going in no matter what but its nice to get rhe email after waiting hehe #but also I think my friend is irritated with me so I've been leaving them alone but they also had like a breakdown so #idk how to go about interacting with them rn #cause like on one hand they completely ignored me earlier so clearly they don't wanna talk to me #but on the other hand they were having a rough time and maybe I should've said something anyways #and now its been hours and I'm still stewing on it shdkfkg so like I wanna say something still but now its awkward hfjfkgkh #man... I'm just gonna keep working UAHDKFKG #aiya.. I've been thinking about it before and moreso recently but I really don't make a good friend do I ? #sometimes I wonder if I'm capable of deeper emotion beyond myself cause moments like these make me think about how I always retreat #instead of pushing forward yknow like its awkward and weird but better going than pussyfootin around but ah I feel too awkward #so I just don't so like.. isn't that just me saying to myself I don't really care for my friend ? like even if its awkward for me wouldn't #it be better anyways? I've always been bad with comfort I've lived a very sheltered life so I lack a lot of experience and in a way empathy #so I've always been more on the cowardly and selfish side of things for sure... for a friend one should do better right but I can't seem to #be capable of doing more I just loiter jrjrjt how much is it base personality and how much is just lack of any real experience ? ehh.. #well no need to think too hard or else I'll be more useless sbdjgkg at least lets work and be a bad friend than be useless AND a bad friend

[tigerlily-gray]

One thing in this fandom that does not get talked about enough is the depression facial hair both Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng are sporting post Lotus Pier. Truly iconic.

#wei wuxian #jiang cheng #mdzs #cql #the untamed #I always wonder about it #like wwx spent 3 months in the burial mounds and a week in a cave and nothing #but a few days at the yiling office and they’ve both got some growth #was it the stress? #was it meant to maybe establish a timeline? #a mystery for the ages

[ephemeralgalaxies]

nah cause the funniest part for me is still Jiang Cheng thinking that LWJ actually hates WWX so much like this man could not have been more wrong.

#want to put him in the microwave of my brain and watch him spin around #JC: don't bother LWJ. he hates your guts #no but he does want to rearrange them #im so sorry #the untamed #mdzs #cql #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #jiang cheng #lan wangji #wei wuxian #lan zhan #wei ying #jiang wanyin #jc #lwj #wwx #like no wonder he never realized that WWX was actually dying without a golden core #this man couldn't even see the literal heart eyes #LWJ literally was such a simp for WWX even before Nightless City like how could anyone doubt #literally everyone else knew they were at least friends #like they gave LWJ so much shit at that conference thingy when he defended WWX bc they thought it was bc of their 'friendship' #wangxian #JC be like: those bitches gay? #that's it that's all. he's just confused

[hannigramislife]

You know what's truly devastating?

Jiang Cheng raised Jin Ling. Jiang Cheng doted on him and helped him and punished him and taught him and loved him–

Jiang Cheng loved him. He loved him so much that the boy may as well have been his own son. He loved him with a ferocity that burned brighter than Zidian's spark. He hovered over him constantly, he showed up on the boy's nighthunts.

He knows, now, what a parent's love feels like, because he feels it for Jin Ling with every breath he takes.

Jiang Cheng now also knows, really knows, that his father never loved him at all.

It's a bit of a surprise, even considering everything, but it's the truth. You couldn't be that indifferent to your child if you loved them. Jiang Cheng would never even consider treating Jin Ling the same way.

I wonder when, during the years he spent raising Jin Ling, did Jiang Cheng have that "oh" moment of realization.

#the untamed #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #jin ling #jiang fengmian #fuck him

[shanastoryteller]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Lady Mo au?

a continuation of 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60

Oh, A-Cheng.

Jiang Yanli's eyes burn but she doesn't let the tears fall through years of long practice.

When she'd woken and they'd told her that A-Cheng had killed A-Xian, she'd laughed.

It doesn't feel like a joke anymore, except for one where maybe she's the punchline.

She knows that he didn't mean to do it. She's not even sure that he did do it - the idea that shoving A-Xian off a cliff would do more than lead to some bruises is laughable. Maybe if he'd been exhausted, as he probably was, he could have broken something. There's no way, even at the height of A-Cheng's rage and grief when he thought her dead, that he'd meant for his blow to kill. That he would have thought that it could have.

Jiang Yanli reaches for her brother's wrist, feeling the strong thrum of his golden core under her fingers.

When Wen Qing told her what she'd done, Jiang Yanli almost regretted saving her, nearly ended her life herself.

It was only the knowledge that Wen Qing would have let her that stayed her hand.

When A-Xian went over the cliff, he didn't have a golden core. He hadn't had a golden core for years. Because he'd tricked A-Cheng into taking his.

For the first time, Jiang Yanli had hated him.

Still, Wen Qing had admitted that even without his golden core, she doubted the fall could have killed him. He'd endured worse without it and survived.

However. He hadn't lost quite so much then. He hadn't thought her dead then. It's possible it killed him because Wei Wuxian let it kill him. She'll never know if that's true. She hopes it isn't.

They never found a body. A-Cheng clings to that still, but there'd been plenty dead during the war that never left bodies behind. Besides, if he was alive, he would have come back. He would have heard that she was alive and came back to her even if he was convinced that A-Cheng never wanted to see him again.

He never came back. The only answer is that he's dead.

"Okay, A-Cheng," she says softly, patting the top of his head like when they were children. She wonders who he saw that reminded him of A-Xian, if someone laughed a little too loudly, if they were a little too rude or a little too bright.

"He did," he mumbles, turning into her hand. "But not even to us. Asshole."

"I know," she says. He'd most of the way asleep already. He probably won't notice if she starts crying too.

It kills her, but she'll never tell him to stop, never tell him why all his hope is wasted, why he'll never find A-Xian no matter where he looks.

She's never told A-Cheng the truth about his golden core and she never will. It would break him, to know that all that's left of their brother now sits in his chest.

#prompt answers #prompts are called #asks #anon #untamed #rip jiang cheng #the boy who cried brother

[essekknits]

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.

#mo dao zu shi #jiang cheng #lan yuan #lan sizhui #jin ling #wei wuxian #jiang yuan au

[mooniyuta]

i am once again asking for wei wuxian to have a truly happy moment in his life i cannot stand this anymore

#the childhood at lotus pier the rivalry between him and jiang cheng #THE DESTRUCTION OF LOTUS PIER??? #cutting ties w the jiang sect the only home he’s ever known all to save jc’s reputation do u know how in pain i am #even the happier moments he has w the jiangs always has a sadder context behind it #no wonder this man has no clue lan wangji likes him #i’m just- when he cries to wen qing and asks what to do it’s made me realize #he has never asked anyone else for help bc he’s always had to do things on his own for himself #IM BROKEN #THEY CANNOT BREAK MY MAN LIKE THIS #wwx feeling lost and horrified and guilt after he accidentally killed jzx #guilty*** #is just getting to me rn #mdzs #this is just me ranting while reading the book basically #or well crying ranting #i have never been so stressed and heartbroken for a character…… MAN