#(despite the grey streaks in his hair feng yan isn't actually that old btw. premature aging due to cursed sword; yknow how it is)

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#VAYNE TELL US MORE ABOUT THE SWORD GUYS 👀 #(if you want) #(if you don’t want that’s also fine I will just continue staring at the chain linking them together and going HNNNNNN) (via @jianghushenanigans)

THEEEBES omg thank you for asking about my sword guys! 💜 tbh there's not much plot here, just vibes; feng yan's kind of an alternate version of an oc i've had for a long time. brainstorming "what if it was xianxia?" au stuff with the bestie got a bit more involved than planned and Things Escalated. but here's the basics!

feng yan (courtesy name feng leji, but he'd much rather you didn't) was a kid with exceptional spiritual talent who got scooped up by a cultivation sect at a young age and pretty much immediately molded for Warfare. he's shackled to an ancient haunted weapon that increases his destructive power tenfold and is slowly killing him every time he uses it. feng yan is cool with this! it means he can be Useful! his grasp on his own worth as a human being is, uhh, not great.

that weapon's name is beisheng and it's alive and it loves him, in whatever fashion an unhinged accursed sword who's a guy can love a guy who thinks of himself as a sword. it's (he's? they're? i don't think beisheng has any kind of a concept of Gender) absolutely full of resentful energy and just plain fucked vibes; feng yan's pretty much the only one who can wield it at all, due to his own Big Yang Energy and also the fact that beisheng just likes him.

they're not exactly romantic or platonic, they're a secret third worse thing (doomed soulbound hostage situation). neither one is really fixing each other or making each other worse; beisheng's own nature is pretty immutable, and feng yan resists the corrupting influence of the Horrors by being at heart just kind of a silly guy (despite all the edge). in another life, he'd probably have been very happy as a simple village blacksmith.

to sum up their relationship though, it's pretty much like this: