#supervillain wei wuxian

[wangxianficrecs]

Wei Wuxian, worst supervillain by antebunny

Wei Wuxian, worst supervillain

by antebunny (@antebunny)

G, 3k, Wangxian

Summary: Lan Wangji has never met a worse supervillain. He finds this rather remarkable considering that he has, during his tenure as Hanguang-jun, fought quite a large number of villains. Certainly some of them, like Wen Ruohan’s two successors, Wen Xu and Wen Chao, lacked style, as did Su She and Jin Zixun. But what they lacked in style, each and every one of them made up for in sheer villany. Even Wang Lingjiao didn’t hesitate to kick a puppy she saw on the street. The Yiling Patriarch, on the other hand. Well. Mojo's comments: Adorable. Excerpt: It’s on a stormy night that Lan Wangji finds the Yiling Patriarch leaning against the side of a building, deep in some alleyway, clutching his side with one hand. His breath comes out in erratic bursts, and his sopping wet hair runs down his face and his back like ink down a brush. His silver eyes are dull when he sees Lan Wangji land lightly on the paved ground, clear umbrella held above his head, moonlight filtering through the plastic. They barely register shock, or fear, or anything else. The Yiling Patriarch slowly pulls his hand away from his ribs, lets both of them hang by his side. Black liquid drips off his hands like ink onto paper. “Have you ever seen blood in the moonlight, Lan Wangji?” The Yiling Patriarch asks. “It appears…” He lifts his hands. Raindrops pelt his palms, rinsing away the dark liquid. “…Quite black.” Lan Wangji looks at him. The Yiling Patriarch tilts his head back, closes his eyes. He lets rain pelt his face as well, as if it could wash him away. “No one at the prison died,” he says. “There’s that, at least,” the Yiling Patriarch murmurs after a pause. 

pov lan wangji, modern setting, secret identities, superheroes/superpowers, fluff, attempt at humor, light angst, tooth-rotting fluff, crack treated seriously, superhero lan wangji, supervillain wei wuxian

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#April 2024 #Wangxian Fic Rec #The Untamed #Wangxian #MDZS #Mojo's Rec #Gen #short fic <15k #Wei Wuxian worst supervillain #antebunny #pov lan wangji #modern setting #secret identities #superheroes/superpowers #fluff #attempt at humor #light angst #tooth-rotting fluff #crack treated seriously #superhero lan wangji #supervillain wei wuxian

[bodhimcbodeface]

I respect people’s choices but I personally don’t get the appeal of watching shows about terrible people. I didn’t like arrested development all that much, and I have no interest in succession because they all seem awful

#people who are good at heart but are driven to do awful things? #that’s Wei Wuxian that’s my BOY #supervillains who need to retire with their bf and life their cottagecore life #is like the majority of danmei I’ve encountered #THATS my jam

[piosplayhouse]

I say this all the time but the funniest genre of Jiang Cheng discourse to me will always always be when people prop him up as some kind of supervillain-like figure gaslighting and manipulating Wei Wuxian out of spite like no offense but .. JIANG CHENG ? you think JIANG CHENG is smart and forward thinking enough to manipulate WEI WUXIAN?? LMFAOOO

#thats just straight woobification babes !!! its just incorrect im sorry!! #please name one plot event that Jiang Cheng planned by himself without the help of any other characters.

[rayan12sworld]

💠💙Crafty Tricks

By:covalentbonds

Summary:

“Hussy.” Wei Wuxian hissed under his breath. Squirmed for a moment, he should be kinder and it wasn't even wrong.

Because it wasn't as if, as if—

“Hussy!” He gave up and whined into his champagne glass again. “She's a total hussy.”

“Yes.” A familiar sounding voice said in agreement.

Wei Wuxian yelped in surprise as he turned sidewards to see the broad figure of Lan Zhan's uncle glowering at someone who was not him for a change.

To be specific—at Wang Lingjiao who was plastered all over a suited and impossibly handsome looking Lan Zhan.

Or,

Impossibly, inconceivably Lan Qiren and Wei Wuxian find themselves agreeing with each other.

Chapter:1/1

Words:2,748

Status:completed

”Wangji.” He said, pointedly not looking at Wang Lingjiao. “Uncle?” Lan Wangji greeted back. Wang Lingjiao gasped and bowed. “Lan Laoshi..” Lan Qiren's eye twitched but he still did not look at her. His expression was filled with utter disregard.

He glared at her, then looked up and glared at Lan Zhan, lips pressed into a sullen pout, unable to help it—he had always resorted to puffing up his cheeks when displeased around those who indulged him so, Jiang Yanli and Lan Zhan— and loudly hmphed for good measure. Lan Zhan blinked. “Wang Lingjiao.” Lan Qiren finally acknowledged, as if performing a favor with no honorifics at all. “Separate yourself from my nephew.” He commanded. Wang Lingjiao's eyes went wide. Her lips pressed together in rage but Lan Qiren continued. An illustrious tiger to her mangled flea. Before she opened her mouth to say something in that grating voice, Lan Qiren spoke. “It is entirely unbecoming of you to drape yourself over a promised man.” “Promised?” She screeched. Lan Qiren cleared his throat. “Yes.” “To whom?” Her voice had climbed up in pitch. If she was a supervillain, her grating voice would be her weapon. “To him.” Lan Qiren said. All of them stilled. Wei Wuxian looked at her. Looked back at Lan Qiren. Avoided looking at Lan Zhan. Looked at her beady creepy eyes again. He did not know what the fuck was going on but he'd never say no to creating chaos. With a deep breath, he left Lan Qiren's side and simpered up to Lan Zhan. “Er-gege.. Wei Ying was so lonely..” He whined. “Why is er-gege letting this protozoan stick to him huh? Hmm, lady why are you touching my man?” ~~~😂😂😂Lan laoshi knows what is he doingggggg

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”How many did you send?” Lan Wangji asked his uncle. Lan Qiren, looked at him tired, no doubt. “Thirty. As you asked. Why?” “Hmm. No particular reason.” Jin Zixuan had sent twenty five. Yu Ziyuan would notice. He knew she would. Good, he thought smugly.

#wangxian #wangxian recommendations #mdzs #mxtx mdzs #wangxian fanfic #ao3 recs #the untamed #mdzs fanfic rec #mdzs lwj #lwj #mdzs wwx #lwj x wwx #Crafty Tricks #wangxian fic rec

[whetstonefires]

Do you think Itachi would make a good Wei Wuxian? One could substitute Jiang Cheng for Sasuke.

....oh my god it returneth. After how many months????

Okay. Okay, no I don't. Hard no. He could not do it. I can see the shared bridge, the 'to save you I will contravene the laws of gods and men and embrace my own destruction, and I will not consult you on the subject.'

But they were addressing fundamentally different types of problem, and crucially: Itachi's plan was someone else's idea.

Itachi is an inflexible person who, however, was brought up to understand that the demands of authority figures (the decisions of adults, I will never get over the clear retcon making him thirteen at the crucial juncture) are immovable boundaries that you have to problem-solve within.

Wei Wuxian is an extremely flexible person, who understands rules as recommendations or requests being made of him by people whom he may or may not bother to accommodate.

Itachi is a weapon and a child soldier, and did mass murder and betraying-his-brother-to-protect-him because someone cornered him into it.

He shows some signs of willfulness, under enough stress, but he isn't creative. Maybe he could have been and those aspects of his character just got shut down and failed to develop to cope with the trauma of murdering people when you're six, because he was a sensitive child and couldn't afford to stay that way and that explains so much about him. But he's just not. There is no way he could or would be Wei Wuxian.

Wei Wuxian has a lot of childhood trauma too, but it's almost the opposite in type; he makes his choices in a corner too, but they're his own solutions, which nobody else in the world intended him to make or could even have predicted. (Except the mass murder when the Jins started pulling shit, by then they could have and should have called that.) Even inasmuch as he becomes a weapon, and inasmuch as he subordinates himself to Jiang Cheng, all he does is close off options for himself.

And he acts above all voluntarily--even when he's reacting in the moment in ways he's going to regret when he has time to think, even when it's painful and awful and self-destructive, it's all done of his own will.

If you put Wei Wuxian in Itachi's position, he would see it as a people problem and try to solve around the people. The politics are deliberately insolubly awful, and Wei Wuxian is not politically minded, but Wei Wuxian simply would not accept 'kill your own sect because if they start a war they'll die anyway and innocent people will be caught in the crossfire and it will be your fault, but if you save the day by setting yourself up as a supervillain your favorite person can live' as a reasonable premise.

Taking all the hate on himself is something he'd be willing to do but the rest of it...

He would kidnap tiny Jiang Cheng and run, and let the grownups figure out their own shit, or he'd invade an Uchiha leadership meeting and speak up uninvited, or he'd try to expose MadaTobi as an outside agitator, or he'd concoct an elaborate Danzo-assassination scheme, or he'd sneak into the Hokage's office and be like, gramps i got some abnormally fucked up orders even for ANBU, is this you and if it is what the fuck?

Or various other things, depending on his specific relationships with the specific adults on the board. Like Itachi he's bad at asking for help, but he's also bad at giving in. Wei Wuxian even having parents makes him a different kind of guy a little bit, so a scenario where he's convinced to kill them is hard to frame, but also pretty much out of the question. Where is jyl in all this.

I don't think a Danzo type of guy would try to use a Wei Wuxian type of kid in this way in the first place, but anyway.

Wei Wuxian would look at the proposed 'solution,' deliberately contrived to be acceptable because every other outcome was even worse or impossible, and refuse to bite. He kobayashi-maru-breaks himself into his bullshit, that's one of his hallmarks, that's basically the opposite problem-solving style of what gets Itachi into his long ruin.

Itachi meanwhile, in the scenario that his Sasuke was clan heir and he wasn't for some reason, still wouldn't consider crippling himself so Sasuke could reach his full potential.

Itachi in Wei Wuxian's position would go in and start killing Wens, probably including Wen Ning because he was there and would not be given time to defect (if he even would in the absence of Wei Wuxian having tipped the scales by making a good impression previously, we don't know) and stop when he had a corridor out.

And then he'd find somewhere safe to put Sasuke, and the fact that his brother was no longer fit to engage in high-level ninja fights would be 1) a great validation for his 'don't get dead' agenda 2) on some level something he'd envy, though I don't think he'd spend any time with that thought since obviously his power is their most valuable asset, for the surviving.

It would be better if Sasuke could also defend himself but his individual distress at being ninja-disabled wouldn't be a thing to solve, just kinda push through. There are no more Uchihas left to lead so what does it matter.

If Itachi somehow wound up seeking safe harbor with Tsunade, he'd be supportive of Sasuke/Jiang Cheng's grim determination to recover no matter what awful medical interventions it took, but having her rip out his chakra system for Sasuke, or whatever, wouldn't really be on the radar. He'd agree if Sasuke and Tsunade both wanted it, but that wouldn't happen and isn't the same thing anyway.

I also don't think it's particularly likely Itachi would be able to develop a new branch of zombie mysticism under any conditions. He's creepy but he's not committed to it the way some of his colleagues are, and like I said before his creativity is nothing much to speak of.

These two went with roughly similar 'solutions,' sure, but to wildly different problems. They would not make each other's choices.

#ask #hoc est meum #ramblebrambleamble #return of the mdzs naruto character swappage #offspring of the jane bennet cinematic universe #guy whose ability to exercise his own judgment has been systematically crippled #cannot stand in for guy who will not STOP from exercising his own judgment #even in places and scenarios where nobody thinks there are decisions left to be made #naruto #mdzs #fun ask #s;lkjakfl;dfd; #meta

[androidfate]

Yanli is wayyy too patient she asks to never be separated from her brothers and wei wuxian is like okay we will never separate then immediately drugs her and sends her off with some dude she barely knows. That would be my supervillain origin story if it was me.

#i’d commit fratricide #why are eldest daughters always getting treated like this #the untamed

[ineffectualdemon]

About your Jiang Cheng post:

As a J.C. lover, having watched the series and read the book and agreeing that novel J.C. is totally aro

the show really doesn't do Jiang Cheng justice (the actor is fantastic though) but it doesn't do anything reprehensible with his character if that is any consolation.

the JC and WQ story felt out of place even before I read the novel but I think we have China's censorship to thank for it? like I think they had to give some type of forbidden love romance because while in the book its WWX and LWJ they couldn't really show it blatantly on the show. Also because of the whole story arc changing to include WQ and WN in the cloud recessess high school maybe the rewriters thought it would help us feel something idk.

Also it gave a chance for more female presence in the story itself so go women.

I'd say my bigger problem with the show is the entire yin iron gag. Instead of making Wen Ruhan just an evil man with power, they tried to turn it into greatest supervillian with demonic cultivation

That's good to know that they don't totally ruin my boy but making him like know Wen Qing does make his refusal to help them later much more callous and cruel which I just hate

But yeah making Wen Ruhan a supervillain with demonic cultivation is really bad because it really undercuts Wei Wuxian's character arc

I get they changed the name but the source material is titled "The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation" I suppose the live action was like "we can't have the main character be morally grey or have done really fucked up things in his own!"

But that's one of the things I like about Wei Wuxian's character!

During the war he is driven by revenge and does things that are disturbing

He really freaks LWJ out! And yeah the people he's using this against are "bad" but does that justify what he does? Like that's a legitimate question the text poses

He's basically a weapon of mass destruction and by creating demonic cultivation he inadvertently leads to others doing horrific things too using his knowledge and tools that he left behind

And he has to deal with that guilt!

Why do all the adaptions make his worse actions not really his fault? Yes it's his fault let him be fucked up!

Also let Wen Ruhan be awful but normal human awful. You don't have add more. He sucks enough as is

#mdzs #the untamed #jiang cheng #wei wuxian

[darkelectron]

I just think Wei Wuxian should get to be a little bit evil, a little bit mad genius. goes round cackling and telling mean stories about the things he's done and the people he's killed, like this dude is a mass murderer and you bet he's never regretted it. wears his supervillain outfit down to the pub and sits in a spooky corner and pretends to be dark and brooding. pretends he's a ghost to kids that wander by. hangs people up to dry when he sees them being shitty to others. boi has been slenderman for the last decade and a half, you bet kids had nightmares about him growing up. I just think he should be allowed to be evil and the villain and have fun with it, and I also think it's really funny that Lan Wangji keeps trailing behind him like 'thems the breaks pal' whenever anybody tries to get him to do anything cause this man didn't go supervillain with him the first time and it sucked, so if he has to also be a bit evil this time round to keep Wei Wuxian in his life, then there are much worse things. and also it's kinda hot.

#type: thoughts made of colour #the untamed #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #mo dao su zhi #static burst

[kaz3313]

I have a few ships that "break the main pair" as it were yes

Zhancheng, naturally, as I am obsessed w purple grape man and find his mutual hateship with Mr. Ice Statue very fun. I love pretty enemies to lovers ships. They're just so funny when you have an outside perspective. Also, mutual healing >>>>>

Ningxian is good. Kind of messed up and makes me sadder than I'd like to feel but still good. I often think about writing frankenstein AU for them but I have no idea how I'd go about it and I HAVE ENOUGH PROJECTS NO

I also like WWX with NHS during Cloud Recesses or modern era but specifically as casual buddies who look at porn together and kiss sometimes

Then I also do enjoy WWX and LWJ with various Qishan Wens (Lord Supervillain in Red and his fed-after-midnight children) in AUs where the Wens win. Very dark and exists primarily in my own head but still very fun.

How could I forget.... Chengxian, my beloved. I usually prefer them as platonic because there is def an oversaturation of romantic content in fandom but they're good as romantic too. I love how they used to get each other and get TO each other. I love making my faves uncomfortable and these two are perfect for embarrassing each other or making each other want to cry.

I don't understand WWX/JZX at all because you're just doubling the peacock and not adding additional flavors but you do you mwah

- Villain Anon

Zhancheng for me is the best w/ mutual mourning- I’ve recently gotten into that “trope” it’s just delicious to kiss cause of your obsession over another man. At the same time- I like any where they were like introduced to each other in childhood and were like childhood enemies but also inseparable 😂

FRANKINSTEIN NINGXIAN BELOVED!! YESSS!!! I LOVE LIKE WHERE WEN NING GAINS A CRUSH ON WEI WUXIAN BUT BELIEVES ITS ONE SIDED BUT WEI WUXIAN ACTUALLY THINKS HES THE BEST EVER AND!! also something something rhe low key necro if in canon verse. MMmmmm. If you ever write the franken au pls send to me I’ll put it in my mouth and chew on it /positive

Casual buddies is lovely. They can figure out their sexuality together~ I hc Young NHS has gained crushes on basically everyone and so Post Canon very rare moment when WWX is trying to reconnect they get drunk and NHS admits he was crushing hard on him during the Lan Lectures (maybe a casual Wangxian+SangSang 3sum comes out of it)

Yes!! Yes!! Wen Win Aus Or War Went Different in general is my jam!!

Chengxian is so complicated and that’s why it’s so compelling for me!! Messy both platonic and romantic!! I want to smack both of them so they can figure themselves out tho

I double the peacock because I want to see a peacock fight!! Peck each other eyes out bitches and then get into a real situation and tend to each other’s rooms- as enemies tho obviously 😤 no feelings. I also feel like JZX has a “I want the shit beaten outta me kink” and WWX doesn’t hesitate to punch him 😂😂

#romance mention #so many ships #villain anon

[dangerouscommiesubversive]

Tagged by @materassassino, to whom I owe a number of other question memes that I swear I'm going to answer soon!

Favorite Color: Purple! Although lately I've also been increasingly fond of darker greens.

Currently Reading: Mostly a lot of fic, since I just finished Once Upon A Tome a day or two ago. Next up on the docket for actual print media is the second volume of Qian Qiu/Thousand Autumns.

Last Movie: ...good lord, I don't remember. Like, I watch a decent number of movies but I'm fully spacing right now. I think most recently was a family rewatch of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem now that it's on streaming.

Last Song: An orchestral rendition of "Midna's Lament" from LoZ Twilight Princess, from an album that we listen to pretty regularly in the house

Last Series: Spongebob Squarepants with Gremlin, and Kamen Rider V3 last night

Currently Playing: Gris, when I remember to pick up the Switch

Currently Working On: For fic, primarily "Equilateral," my MDZS canon divergence fic where Wei Wuxian and Mo Xuanyu are sharing a body, although I do have other WIPs. For original writing, a romance novel about a reformed supervillain romancing his boyfriend's husband. (Boyfriend and boyfriend's husband are also, naturally, superheroes.) For crafts, Gremlin's Link costume for Halloween--the hat turned out a bit snug, so I'm making it over, and I'll also be making a rupee wallet with resin rupees to go in it, a bomb bag with bombs, a pouch for his ocarina, and a tunic which I'm tailoring from an adult-sized green t-shirt.

Tagging: Uh. Anyone who feels like it? I'm tired today, do this and tag me and tell me what you're up to.

#dangerous communist propaganda

[ladysunamireads]

Darling, where is my Super Suit?

Darling, where is my Super Suit? by Dandelynn

After going rogue and single handedly toppling the biggest crime syndicate of the country, hero Wei Wuxian is declared a supervillain and calls himself the Yiling Patriarch. Wreaking havoc wherever he goes, he is considered the nation's most wanted criminal. As the number one hero of the Gusu Hero Association, it falls to Lan Wangji to put a stop to this menace to society.

Bold of the public to assume that their esteemed Hanguang-Jun is actually fighting the Yiling Patriarch, though.

Words: 5362, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Niè Huáisāng, Niè Míngjué, Mèng Yáo | Jīn Guāngyáo, Yú Zǐyuān, Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín, Wēn Qíng

Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Superheroes/Superpowers, Fluff, Established Relationship, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Secret Relationship, Supervillain WWX, Superhero LWJ, WWX is a menace on society, crack idea turned into a fic, currently only funny haha jokes, might get angsty and serious later, expect the Incredibles references, No beta we die like wwx, wangxian wreaks chaos, and topples evil conglomerates, sometimes by accident, because that's what soulmates do, might add tags along the way

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46202758

#AO3 Feed #FanFiction #AO3 Wangxian #♥ #Wangxian #Lan Huan #MDZS #⚣ #⚔️ #R:T #Modern AU #Soulmate AU #Fluff #A:Dandelynn

[wangxianficrecs]

a wild heart to tame mine

by theroyalsavage

G, 10k, wangxian

Summary:   It's a tale as old as time. Boy moves back to the city he'd fled years before. Boy meets superhero. Superhero saves boy's life. Superhero accidentally breaks the front window of boy's place of employment.

(Lan Wangji just wants to retire from hero work and live a quiet life. Fate, however, has other ideas.)

My comment:  This is great!

Excerpt:   “Are you hurt anywhere? Do you need a hospital? I don’t see any blood, which is a good sign, but you might have a concussion. I think you hit your head. Do you think you have a concussion? Am I supposed to ask you what the year is? I feel like I am. Quick, what’s your phone number?”

superhero au, strangers to lovers, bookshop owner lan wangji, superhero wei wuxian, supervillain wei wuxian, hurt/comfort, retired superhero lan wangji, happy ending, first kiss, getting together, @theroyalsavage

#Wangxian Fic Rec #MZDS Fic Rec #The Untamed Fic Rec #The Untamed #wangxian #superhero au #wangxianficrecs #strangers to lovers #bookshop owner lan wangji #superher wei wuxian #supervillain wei wuxian #hurt/comfort #happy ending #first kiss #getting together #a wild heart to tame mine #theroyalsavage #short fic <15k #general

[winepresswrath]

The thing in canon is that A-Yuan isn't really WWX's son at the Burial Mounds, and this IS a hill I will die on. He is a child being raised by a village, so not only is he a Wen, he's a child that just exists in WWX's vicinity and so Not Nephew until post canon. In a universe where shit still went real bad but JC considers A-Yuan to be WWX's, the kid is smuggled back to Lotus Pier. I don't know that he gets the Jiang name or if JC makes one up for him, but now JC gets to be his mom AND his dad

Wen erasure is the source of like 85% of my bitterness in this fandom but I also think Jiang Cheng just doesn't really have any idea what Wei Wuxian's dynamic is with A-Yuan, or who A-Yuan is. He also does not care, and would not care unless Wei Wuxian made a specific kind of fuss that I think he'd only be up for it he knew he was facing imminent death. Like that is a Yanli-Jiang Cheng difference; she'd have smuggled the kid out in her skirts in a heartbeat, but no one asks her to, which is incidentally why I will die on the hill of Wei Wuxian thought he had at least some chance of achieving the impossible and making it out alive.

#none of this stops me from reading fics where Jiang Cheng raises a-yuan #the flavour! is increadible #and while I really love the fluffier cql side of things with the healing and growing #I would also totally read the novel verse siege remix #also with learning and growing but with a horrible looming wound #and some really fun Jin Ling parallels #make it messy! though I feel like sizhui would not stab Jiang Cheng #I can kind of see him starting too and then Jiang Cheng grabbing his sword to help him finish it #:D #anyway the other 15% is people who think that Jiang Cheng has to be either 100% correct in his grudges or 100% wrong #doing Yanli dirty #and the idea that Jiang Cheng's problem is that he blames other people for HIS problems #when 95% of the time ​it's that he blames the wrong other people for his problems #because basically 100% of his non Wei Wuxian problems are in fact the direct consequence #of someone who is not him waking up and choosing violence #and a fair few of his Wei Wuxian problems are too! #like if 2/5 world leaders weren't supervillains Jiang Cheng is just some dude grumpily laying ghosts to rest surrounded by his family #his single biggest problem is that his people were slaughtered when he was a child #but sure! he should take responsibility for his role in idk #breathing Wen Ruohan's air?

[robininthelabyrinth]

After the Wen melt his golden core, they throw Jiang Cheng into the burial mounds.

One of his arms had broken on impact, but he’d remembered his lessons, protected his head and his chest and tried his best to roll rather than land flat – he’d fallen so many times, following Wei Wuxian, that it came instinctively, and so it was only broken, not shattered, and his leg had only been dislocated and sprained. It wasn’t as bad as it could be, Jiang Cheng reminded himself, and then let out a half-sob of utter despair because actually yes, it was.

His parents were dead, his sect destroyed, his golden core melted, and he’d been thrown into the burial mounds like a heap of refuse that they hadn’t care enough to actually bury; how could it get worse than this?

Wei Wuxian is still alive, he reminded himself, alive and free, and that wasn’t nothing. His mother would have roundly condemned his decision to run out into the street to make sure the Wen soldiers wouldn’t capture Wei Wuxian, would have screamed at him to remember that he was the future of the Jiang clan, not Wei Wuxian – but he knew himself, knew the truth, knew that no matter what he did Wei Wuxian would be better, and right now they didn’t need blood, they needed better.

Wei Wuxian would get revenge for their parents. Wei Wuxian would protect Jiang Yanli.

Jiang Cheng’s own wellbeing was, in comparison, entirely superfluous.

Besides, insofar as it was a consideration, it would very soon not be: a cultivator without a golden core, trapped in a place with this much resentful energy? He’d be dead within an hour, if he was lucky. Longer, if he wasn’t. He had no way to defend himself, not without any energy –

Spiritual energy is energy; resentful energy is energy too, Wei Wuxian’s voice rang in his ears, cheerful and irreverent as always. We can use the spiritual energy stored in our dantian to split mountains and fill oceans; why can’t we make use of resentful energy as well?

No. What Wei Wuxian had theorized was impossible – resentful energy corroded the spirt, affected the temperament; to even think of encouraging it, spreading it, using it was anathema, condemned by all righteous cultivators….though he wasn’t, anymore, was he? Neither a cultivator, with his empty dantian, nor righteous, with how he had given away the burden of revenge, betrayed his filial responsibilities, disappointed his ancestors.

He squeezed his eyes tightly when he felt the wind pick up, the cries of ghosts intertwined with it – they would be here soon, ready to devour his flesh and scatter his bones. If he were to make a decision, he needed to do it now – and to do it without any hope of success, with only Wei Wuxian’s casual speculation and none of his genius, and with the knowledge that even if, through endless toil, he managed to conquer the resentful energy, he would be looked upon by all as an abomination.

Even hoping for a good result…it was impossible.

There are some things that can’t be said even if you’re angry, his father’s voice said in his ear. If you said them, it means you still don’t understand the motto of the Jiang Sect…

Yes, he doesn’t understand! His mother shouted. But what does it matter, as long as Wei Ying understands?

Jiang Cheng opened his eyes.

Attempt the impossible, he reminded himself. He’d never known what the impossible was, not the way Wei Wuxian always seemed to grasp instinctively, but he could try, following a crooked path laid out in a moment of idleness. And – and anyway, even if he became a monster, Wei Wuxian had promised long ago to always stand by his side, to protect the Jiang sect, to make them strong. He wouldn’t throw that away over some unorthodoxy; he wouldn’t betray him, wouldn’t turn his face from him, wouldn’t pick some other part of the cultivation world over him . Even if Jiang Cheng couldn’t count on himself, he could count on Wei Wuxian.

He painfully pulled himself up to sit, moving his dislocated leg into position with his unbroken hand and settling down into a meditation post. This probably wouldn’t work, he knew, but – attempt the impossible. He couldn’t lay down and accept his miserable fate; he had to try.

He closed his eyes once again, let himself sink down into focused concentration, and reached –

A bird flying in the dismal skies above the Burial Mounds saw beneath it a sudden spark of lightning, its color starting out a bright purple and slowly darkening until it was the color of old blood.

#mdzs #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #my fic #my fics #Jiang Cheng would be the world's bitchiest Yiling Patriach except for the fact that where he goes his sect goes #so Lotus Pier is just going to have to buck up and become a proper supervillain lair #sorry not sorry he doesn't make the rules #only supervillain lair where you get fed really tasty soup on arrival #Anonymous

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mission report by bosbie

T | 13k | Completed, Oneshot

Lan Wangji is a superhero, and Wei Wuxian is the supervillain who saves him.

#lan wangji #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #wen ning #wen qing #lan xichen #modern au #superhero au #superhero!lan wangji #supervillain!wei wuxian #wangxian #wei wuxian & jiang cheng #mdzs

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so one big difference between novel and show is that in the novel jiang cheng rocks up to the burial mounds to ask wei wuxain wtf dude a jailbreak??? and instead of sparkly wards there's a literal zombie army. in retrospect it's purely defensive and i honestly can't blame him but it's still very much true that he went to the burial mounds and raised an unholy army. ghost general doesn't need an army but wei wuxian made one anyways

Wow, first anon!  It’s exciting. *waves* hi!

I find it kinda funny that Jiang Cheng is the one who’s so often accused of being a blunt instrument.  And he is, a little, but he’s also really strategic about it.  Like, he’s blunt and abrasive and aggressive and he doesn’t prevaricate much if at all but he figures out how to apply those characteristics with precision.  He uses them to create a very specific picture and is quite impressively effective at using it.  That’s how he kept YMJ from collapsing and being absorbed by the Jin, that’s how he built them back up again stronger than they were before.  He takes everything about himself that should by all rights be a cudgel and learns to wield it like a scalpel when he needs it to be.

But it’s really Wei Wuxian who approaches every problem like it’s a nail and he’s got the biggest hammer.  Like, his entire first life is a study in how Wei-never met a situation he didn’t want to escalate-Wuxian does not at all understand subtlety or discretion or why the “go big and break it” approach is not always the right one.  He responds to every situation with “I’ll go bigger and get meaner and be scarier” then turns around all surprised pikachu face and goes “why does everyone think I’m a threat to them?” as if he hadn’t been actively threatening to murder them like thirty seconds ago.

Case in point above: what should you probably not do when most of the world thinks you’re going insane and spiraling into supervillainy?  Levy death threats against every major power in the world, go set up shop in the quintessential supervillain lair and raise an undead army.  Not even getting into the ramifications of grabbing the Wens because, while a significant factor in that whole clusterfuck, is it’s own can a worms.  Wei Wuxian is the text book definition of a blunt instrument and I kinda just scratch my head at people who try to paint him as some strategic genius because he just...he just isn’t.

#The Untamed #Wei Wuxian #Jiang Cheng