#the untamed fatal journey

[waitingforminjae]

scene of all time

#JI LI ACTOR OF ALL TIME. #the untamed #mdzs #cql #the untamed fatal journey #ji li #nie huaisang #jin guangyao #meng yao #zhu zanjin #f: the untamed #videos #ur like xiao zhan's the best actor in this show hands down BUT WAIT HERE'S JI LI W A STEEL CHAIR!

[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

[pastelcheckereddreams]

Love that they chose not to give Nie Huaisang elaborate braids in this movie to highlight the internal conflict he has regarding Nie traditions (at least that’s what i headcanon). But what I love even more is that they left Nie Huaisang’s hair kinky from them.

#nhs outfit appreciation #sort of #nie huaisang #fatal journey #the untamed fatal journey #nikkiwatches

[eldestjane]

Just watched Fatal Journey and now I'm sad 😭

#the untamed fatal journey #it's good though #a little more heartwrenching than i thought though #and i was expecting it to be sad

[popsigills]

Restrain your grief

#mdzs #the untamed #ma dao zu shi #nie huaisang #artists on tumblr #digital art #art #lowkey watching fatal journey has worsened the nhs hyperfixation even more now

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Wáng YiZhou 王翌舟

Wb update 12.08.2023

Looks like someone finally remembered their logins for their account. I've missed his cryptic posts and dimples!

#wang yizhou #chinese actors #the untamed #the flaming heart #ark peace #dear mayang street #an eternal thought #your highness the class monitor #strike back #warm happiness #second child time #fatal journey #cql #cdrama

[lost-sheep]

...If I can meet you once again

 I'm willing to walk through the burning sea

#separation at qinghe #fatal journey #nie mingjue #nie huaisang #mxtx mdzs #mdzs #danmei #mo dao su zhi #nie bros #魔道祖师 #聂怀桑 #聂明玦 #the untamed #mxtx fanart #qinghe nie

[untamedmetablogiguess]

the other thing about Fatal Journey is that it is an almost perfect example of my the-untamed-as-a-dnd-game thing. they are literally exploring a dungeon. it's set up with a bunch of smaller fights and also various puzzle rooms. it leads them to an ultimate boss fight. splitting the party is a bad idea. they take a few scenes to pause and have an intense emotional conversation. like!!!!!

#the untamed #fatal journey #the wwx is a bard theory #which is just my general mdzs-dnd tag lol #dungeons and dragons

[themaevethcometh]

i find it interesting that everyone has accepted that nie zonghui inexplicably has two sabers when no one else in the show dual wields and my sister and i both assumed that he carries huaisang’s saber when we first watched fatal journey.

think about it. mingje wouldn’t let huaisang go on such a dangerous mission without his blade, and if huaisang wouldn’t carry it, he’d have someone else have it on their back, someone who he trusts and who he plans to have stick by huaisang to give him the blade the moment he asks for it.  zonghui has probably done this numerous times just from ensuring huaisang doesn’t leave his blade in random spots at the unclean realm, so much so that the saber is perfectly fine being wielded by him and he is adept at using it alongside his own blade.  when huaisang takes it from him in the woods, it’s not one of his subordinates giving him one of their swords, it’s him finally taking up his own saber, a decision that he still doesn’t feel comfortable with and therefore recants when he gives the blade back to him to hold again in the tomb

#maeve posts #nie huaisang #nie zonghui #fatal journey #the untamed #that's my headcanon anyway #and then i think he leaves it in the tomb with zonghui when they leave #i think that journey is him deciding for sure that he doesn't just hate swords but that he's never going to use a blade specifically again #and i think mingje is emotionally distraught enough to let him especially after the conversations they had in there #idk it's probably more likely that zonghui just. has two sabers. not for narrative purposes but because the creators thought it'd look cool #but i just can't fathom mingje bringing huaisang along without also forcing him to bring his sword #and if huaisang himself won't take it then someone else will take it for him

[wangxian-the-zhijis]

Me, watching nmj’s arc for the first time, seeing his qi deviation and jgy killing him: oh sad. Anyways—

Me, after watching Fatal Journey: OHMYGOSH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

#reminding everyone to watch the fatal journey #it’s abt nhs and nmj #after watching cql and you didnt care about nmj and nhs then Fatal Journey will prove you wrong #the untamed #cql #nie mingjue #nie huaisang #fatal journey

[momzawa-5]

This shot from Fatal Journey GAVE ME CHILLS OMGGGGGGGG

#nie huaisang #fatal journey #fatal journey cql #cql #nie mingjue #the untamed nhs #the untamed #nie bros

[frankencanon]

Wu Xi (Word of Honor) vs Young Nie Mingjue (The Untamed: Fatal Journey)

please tell me i'm not the only one seeing this

#nie mingjue #wu xi #word of honor #the untamed #mdzs #cql #mo dao zu shi #woh #faraway wanderers #woh wu xi #word of honor wu xi #young nie mingjue #the untamed fatal journey #lord seventh #fatal journey #nmj #cql fatal journey #cdrama #historical drama #wu xi lord seventh

[pastelcheckereddreams]

Specifically not thinking about how, in Fatal Journey, Nie Huaisang points out again and again that the things that Nie Mingjue thinks he is seeing may not actually be true, and how fruitless it was to even try, because Nie Mingjue was too sick and too headstrong. 

Specifically not thinking about how Nie Huaisang then spends the next decade deflecting people with, “I don’t know, I don’t know,” to either coerce them or avoid their anger, always deferring to their recollection of events.  

Definitely not wondering how much of his private helplessness Nie Huaisang poured into his Headshaker mask. Because who could ever answer where the coping mechanism stops and the manipulation begins? 

Definitely don’t wonder how much of his own flaws he exaggerated to elicit sympathy from Nie Mingjue’s Sworn Brothers, and how much he may have hated the Headshaker for it. 

Don’t ask where they blurred, or at what point they became indistinguishable.

Nie Huaisang would probably say they always existed together, he and the Headshaker. Because really, how much of the Headshaker is Nie Huaisang? How much of himself does the Headshaker owe to that trauma and anger and grief in Nie Huiasang’s past?

Huaisang tries not to think about it - how the Headshaker plays the game Nie Huisang himself, in Fatal Journey, detests: the polarisation of good and evil, the abandonment of one’s own morals and selfhood for a greater cause. 

So don’t ask how much it tears him up inside. 

He doesn’t know. 

#brb gunna write a lot about this #specifically for #my sangwangxiang agenda #also yes is it taking me literally days to get through Fatal Journey because i am a nhs stan and i can't help but meta everything #welp #nie huaisang #fatal journey #the untamed fatal journey #nie mingjue #director nie #nikkiwrites #character analysis #nie huaisang meta #drabble #sort of

[jiaoliqiao]

Nie Mingjue & Nie Huaisang in 乱魄: Fatal Journey

#theuntameddaily #theuntamededit #mxtxnet #chinesemedia #the untamed #fatal journey #nie huaisang #nie mingjue #cdramaedit #chen qing ling #cql #cdrama #*mine #girl help why is fatal journey so grainy

[grandmaster-of-bunny-cultivation]

Reposting my old CQL fanart (7)

#the untamed #CQL #my art #fanart #pencil sketch #nie huaisang #nie mingjue #fatal journey #mdzs

[nutcasewithaknife]

What really gets me about Nie Huaisang is that all of his schemes are not for his brother, but for himself.

It's not just about putting his brother's head back on his body. It's not about getting his brother back, because that's beyond impossible. It's definitely not to avenge his brother the way he would've wanted to be avenged, because Nie Mingjue would never ever approve of the dishonourable way he went about it, under the radar, breaking fifty different taboos. It's because Jin Guangyao broke Nie Huaisang's trust and destroyed the person he loved the most, and for that, he had to pay with everything he held dear - the people he loved, his reputation and status, and ultimately his life. And what drives me fucking insane is that he didn't have to!!!! NHS was terrified of being found out and killed off, but he still did it because that was all he had left - his fury, and his fear to temper it. The boy who actually was outraged at the sword hall is gone, and right and wrong don't matter anymore. Not when it comes to this. It's a very selfish sort of fury he falls into - nothing righteous or just or redeeming about it. It's not about defeating a dangerous, powerful man. It's about defeating the man who ripped his world apart. It's just a man broken by circumstances so badly that he's not even trying to fix anything anymore, just doing what he thinks is necessary to keep the pieces together.

#nie huaisang #nhs #nie brothers #cql #fatal journey #the untamed #nie bros #they fuck me up so so much #meta