#Jin Zixuan

[stiltonbasket]

my metaphorical kingdom for an AU where Jin Zixuan, engaged to fem!Jiang Cheng since he was a toddler, grows up hating his betrothal arrangements because he has the worst crush on young master Jiang Yanli

[qiu-yan]

followup to this poll

[capricho42]

Sailor Wuxian

[luminouslumity]

And in MXTX-related news, this is as sweet as it is incredibly cruel! Ow, my heart!

[soursoppi]

plucked by the lotus picker

[tbgkaru-woh]

MDZS redesign portraits I expanded on for merch purposes (charm backdrops)

[bishy437]

"Don't talk to me or my child ever again"

[littlesmartart]

Jiang Yanli 🤝 Jin Zixuan raised by angry controlling mother + distant emotionally unavailable father

I think it's incredibly easy to be sympathetic to Yanli and see how the trauma from her disfunctional parents has shaped her personality and created very specific coping mechanisms, but it makes me sad that people very rarely seem to extend that same sympathy to Zixuan - perhaps because we get to see less of his home life, and it's all filtered through the POV of a protagonist who doesn't like him. at any rate, what is shown is that he has a mother who does not hestitate to publically humiliate him and cares far more about her own interests than his happiness and fulfilment, and a father who... well, it's difficult to imagine JGS having much of a real relationship with/influence over a son who feels as strongly about honour and doing the right thing as Zixuan (see: standing up to Wen Chao, his friendship with and defense of Mianmian, leading the Jin forces during the war, confronting Yanli over believing she stole credit from a servant girl, etc.)

I can just really strongly imagine their relationship blossoming quickly on an emotional level because they both really crave that intimacy they lacked in their childhoods (Yanli had her brothers but she was always parentified and put on a pedastal, Zixuan had Mianmian but how close could they really get with a mother like Jin-furen, likely watching them like a hawk to look for Any Funny Business?), and given that it's canon that they stay up late talking and "tell each other everything", they were starting to break the cycle of horrible resentful marriages that traumatise their kids!!! 🥹🥹🥹 truly they were too powerful to be allowed to live

[add1ctedt0you]

The Untamed + ao3 tags

[menelaus-blue]

hello tumblr god spoke to me in a vision and told me i needed to make this so i did.

[junodoom]

swordtember day 10: ceremony

[artsy-alice]

jin zixuan doesn't throw money at his problems. he throws money at his solutions.

(or, the late valentines 2024 post!)

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[batbusiness-schooldropout]

Au where Jin Zixuan and Wei Wuxian become almost friends.

Wei Wuxian: I've been thinking-

Jin Zixuan: Shocking

Wei Wuxian: I'm trying to apologize. Quit making it harder than it already is. Anyway, I shouldn't have punched you when I did. I overreacted, and I'm sorry.

Jin Zixuan: That's ok. I was just thinking that if I had a shijie, I would probably do the same. It was wrong of me to air out my problems in public like that.

*five minutes of silence later*

Jin Zixuan: So are you and Lan-er-gongzi a thing?

Wei Wuxian: No! He's just really fun to tease. I just want to be his friend. And see him smile. And hang out with him forever. And grow stronger together. And go on night hunts together. And stuff

Jin Zixuan: My guy. When we're done kneeling, we need to have a serious conversation

[boarloved-art]

happy wei wuxian morning i cant be stopped

[tossawary]

Thinking about an AU where Jiang Yanli's "weak / mediocre cultivation" was caused by a horrific training accident when she was pretty young, in part to explore the tragedy and disability of it all and in part for the humorous "older relative casually drops wild personal lore that changes your entire perception of them" angle.

Like, Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan's firstborn child is a girl, which is not ideal in this deeply sexist world, but the sect motto is "attempt the impossible", right? It's not unheard of for female cultivators to lead sects and Yu Ziyuan wants her daughter to be the first female Jiang sect leader, to show up the cultivation world, and Jiang Fengmian isn't against the idea and wants the best for his daughter (although he probably doesn't want her to be a copy of his wife). So Jiang Yanli starts her cultivation training pretty early. There's a lot of intense pressure, a lot of expectation and projection and some arguments, and it all culminates in this poor child getting badly injured, with permanent damage to both her body and to her cultivation. It's a "no one's fault and everyone's fault" thing.

Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan quietly drop their plans for Yanli to become the sect leader and focus on a very young Jiang Cheng instead, which is easy in part because everyone expects the son to inherit anyway. A young Jiang Yanli is betrothed to the heir of the Jin Sect and this is basically never talked about ever again. General perception is that Jiang Yanli is a mediocre cultivator at best because she was born that way (she's a WOMAN, after all) and/or because her disposition is just too sweet and agreeable, and OF COURSE the son became the heir as soon as the Jiangs had a son. That's just how things work!

So, in an AU where Jiang Yanli (and Jin Zixuan?) lives and teenage Jin Ling is freaking out about some embarrassing and/or dangerous mistake on a night hunt...

Jiang Yanli, patting her son's shoulder: "It's going to be okay. You know, when I was a young child, I permanently injured myself in a training accident and could no longer become the Jiang sect leader, and it felt like the end of the world, letting everyone down, but it all worked out in the end!"

Jin Ling, whose entire 15-year-old worldview just got flipped upside-down: "...Mother?! What?!?!"

[tbgkaru-woh]

The new generation leaders