WujiWatch: CQL Rewatch Episode 21
This episode features one of my favorite scenes: the strategy meeting that Wei Wuxian blows into (with such force that the attendees have to cover their eyes) just to flex on all the sect leaders about how they can’t do jack shit without him, after which he saunters off with a smirk like Reputation-era Taylor Swift. Before this scene, when Wei Wuxian is bad, he’s scary-bad; but in this scene, he’s sexy bad. (You can tell Lan Wangji agrees, too, even though he’s all tortured about it. 😂)
But the other thing that’s great about this scene is how it casts a retroactive light on Wei Wuxian’s character throughout the whole flashback arc up to this point. Because when you see Wei Wuxian running around Cloud Recesses breaking rules, punching sect heirs, later running away from home to go adventuring with his bestie, you think, “this guy doesn’t give a shit about propriety and decorum and hierarchy.” But once you’ve seen the strategy-meeting scene--in which Wei Wuxian:
(1) gives the world’s shallowest, most half-assed bow to a meeting of people who all outrank him (some of them by a lot!),
(2) says a bunch of vague bullshit about the Yin Iron that boils down to “maybe I’ll have a way to counter it in a month, maybe I won’t, idk, nothing you can do either way, sucks to be you,”
(3) point-blank refuses to take questions or explain further, and
(4) waltzes out like he's got somewhere more important to be, pausing only to
(5) be really rude to Lan Xichen on his way out,
you realize that, actually, the prior version of Wei Wuxian did care about that stuff, at least a little—because this is what it looks like when Wei Wuxian really has no fucks to give.
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I hate MDZS so much. I can't ever read anything again becouse how am I suppose to find someone like Wei Wuxian? Any other character is ranks behind the goofyness of this man, and the angst also. How can I ever be normal again? How can I not compare everyone to him?? Help me
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wangxian au wherein Wei Wuxian thinks he’s finally safe and wanted by someone. Where Lan Wangji thinks he has finally grasped onto Wei Wuxian for good. But alas, the world is cruel, wicked, and most certainly has some form of personal vendetta against them.
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Another universe in which Lan Wangji has to watch Wei Wuxian run away from him.
Based on the lyrics from The Front Bottoms’ song Twin Sized Mattress
with tears in my eyes i begged you to stay you said 'hey, man, i love you but no fucking way'
Wei Wuxian had been staying with Lan Wangji in secret ever since the latest fight had broken out between him and Madam Yu…
It was a tale as old as time; Wei Wuxian finds himself in a minuscule amount of trouble for something he didn’t even do and then Madam Yu in turn goes ballistic on his ass. “You’re so ungrateful Wei Wuxian blah blah blah selfish blah blah blah our family would be better off without you BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!” Usually, when these unfortunate situations occur, Wei Wuxian has mastered the art of shutting up and trying to become as small as humanly possible. He’s learned that just taking it is far less painful than trying to stick up for himself, yeah he stopped playing that angle a long time ago. Except this time had been different. So much different because when passing the yard, his shijie overheard the beginnings of a verbal lashing and had pointedly had enough of the way her mother acted towards Wei Wuxian, so this time she decided she was going to do something about it. Except that something ended up with Yanli being flung to the ground as her mother’s hand connected with her face instead of Wei Wuxian’s. Yanli, at the last second, had thrown herself in front of her mother’s force of anger, all to protect her precious a-xian. For once, Madam Yu was speechless as she gazed upon her own flesh and blood crumpled on the ground, wearing a face of horror and shock, much like Wei Wuxian’s own expression. Before anyone had time to move, Jiang Cheng was on the scene, running in after hearing the commotion. Meeting his sister at her side, Jiang Cheng took one glance up at Wei Wuxian, and muttered a single word, “leave.” So Wei Wuxian did what he knew best and ran away. He ran out the door and away from the house that had sheltered him since childhood. He ran as far as his aching limbs would allow, through streets and alleys, past buildings and trees. He ran until his own screaming thoughts could not be heard over the pounding of his heart. Wei Wuxian finally slowed down only when his legs had carried him to stand before an all too familiar structure, the Lan house.
Now Wei Wuxian sits at the edge of Lan Wangji’s bed, gazing back and forth between the pale glow of the moon and the quiet calmness of Lan Wangji’s face, peacefully blanketed in sleep. It is in these moments where Wei Wuxian gets to truly appreciate Lan Wangji for all that he is, without having to hide behind the compliments disguised as jokes or teasing loudly while quietly admiring. He gets to look at his face in awe of how someone who presents so rigid when awake can appear so vulnerable when eyes finally close. He thinks he will miss Lan Wangji the most, especially these still moments in time where he’s just a boy sitting beside another boy and for a second it doesn’t appear as if the ground will open up and swallow him whole. But, these moments tend to end as quick as they begin.
When he had first stood outside Lan Wangji’s window just those few weeks ago, out of breath and out of options on where to go and what to do, Lan Wangji had pulled him in without a second of hesitation. Wei Wuxian could never truly figure out just what made Lan Wangji act so kind towards him. Surly it couldn’t just be his outrageously good looks and cunning personality, really they had only interacted a handful of times here and there. These times usually consisting of Wei Wuxian teasing Lan Wangji until his ears turned a lovely shade of red or Lan Wangji sticking up for him in a situation where Wei Wuxian definitely did not deserve his kindness. Without even realizing it, Lan Wangji was kind of always just there when and where Wei Wuxian needed him even if he didn’t know it himself. Which is the reason why it makes having to do what he’s about to do that much more difficult.
Earlier in the day, Wei Wuxian was hiding in his usual spot in the closet while Lan Wangji had his daily guqin lesson with his uncle the next room over. Wei Wuxian happened to hear another person entering the room and had caught bits and pieces of a conversation seemingly between his Uncle Jiang and Lan Qiren. Jiang Fengmian was apparently trying to find Wei Wuxian, little did Lan Qiren know that he was right under his own roof, so Lan Qiren had regretfully informed him of his unknown whereabouts and sent him on his way. That’s when Wei Wuxian knew that he couldn’t possibly put Lan Wangji in this position any longer. Omitting the truth when it came to Lan Qiren was one thing, but for Lan Wangji to lie directly to his uncles face on Wei Wuxian’s behalf about his own whereabouts just could not stand. He cared about Lan Wangji way too much to let him be dragged down by his own string of bad luck. That’s when Wei Wuxian decided that he had to leave, leave the safety of a roof over his head and the warmth beneath the covers of Lan Wangji’s bed.
He had slipped out from beneath the blankets awhile ago, still just sitting on the edge of the twin sized mattress, not able to bring himself to move any further away. But alas, he is Wei Wuxian, and Lan Wangji…is Lan Wangji and so he cannot be selfish with this decision. He has settled with the fact that all good things must come to an end, he’s living on borrowed time as it is. So with one final show of willpower, Wei Wuxian stands up and makes his way over to the window he first came in through. Opening it with a careful slowness as not to allow any unnecessary sounds to escape. He was just about to duck underneath the pane, one leg already out the other side, when he heard a quiet, “Wei Ying?” Wei Wuxian knew in that moment that he’d been caught, so he slowly turned around, not expecting to see the sheer look of sadness and confusion splayed across Lan Wangji’s face. For a moment, no one spoke. The two boys just looked at one another, a silent conversation playing out between their eyes. Wei Wuxian saw the moment where Lan Wangji realized what was happening, and it was gut wrenching. Wei Wuxian started opening his mouth to say something, anything, when Lan Wangji cut him off with a singular choked out word, “stay” and then an even softer, but just as devastating, “please.” The breath caught in Wei Wuxian’s throat as he struggled to think of even a single scenario where he could stay, but in the end all he could do was let out a shaky breath and cast his eyes towards the floor as he muttered, “no fucking way.” And then he left. Left behind the safety and the warmth that had been freely given to him. Left behind promises of a better tomorrow. Left behind his Lan Zhan. And just like that, he was running away again.
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Lan Wangji: Why are there little handprints all over the walls?
Wei Wuxian, whispering: Why are there little handprints all over the walls?
A-Yuan, whispering: Because I have little hands.
Wei Wuxian to Lan Wangji: Because he has little hands.
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