#NO LOOK AT THIS DISORIENTING UNCLE MATH ALSO I MADE THIS DEEPLY TERRIBLE FLOW CHART

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If jingyi is adopted by nielan, sizhui is wangxian’s child, and Jin Ling is Jc’s ward plus biologically and legally jc and WWX’s nephew. Does that mean these kids can post a “we be irritatin’” meme but instead it’s “we be cousins.”

oh yes absolutely. this family dynamic is making my lose my Mind with how many uncles there are like it's hard to comprehend. because jin ling notoriously has a lot of uncles but now he has more... bonus uncles. wei wuxian and jiang cheng (and jin guangyao but he's ugly and dead and mo xuanyu but he's pretty and dead) are his uncles but by marriage nie huaisang and lan wangji are also his uncles and, technically, so are lan xichen and nie mingjue via being his uncles husbands brothers (you're not having a stroke that's a real sequence of words that means things, unfortunately) and THEY'RE married so like. uncle². and it's like that for All Of Them just slightly shifted depending on who the kids parents are. I've helpfully provided this graphic to make things "simpler":

if this incredibly comprehensible and well made infographic doesn't help, let me brake it down character by character:

lan sizhui:

his parents are wei wuxian and lan wangji, which means that jiang cheng (wei wuxians brother) and lan xichen (lan wangjis brother) are his direct uncles and jiang yanli (wei wuxians sister) is his direct aunt. if jiang cheng (in this au) is married to nie huaisang, then nie huaisang is lan sizhuis uncle by marriage, if lan xichen is married to nie mingjue, then nie mingjue is also his uncle by marriage, and if jiang yanli is married to jin zixuan, then jin zixuan is ALSO his uncle by marriage. but we're not done! your uncle by marriages brother could also be considered your uncle. don't know what this is called so I'm referring to it as being someones 'second uncle'. nie mingjue is lan sizhuis second uncle because he is nie huaisangs, his uncle by marriage to jiang cheng, brother. the same goes for nie huaisang - he is nie mingjues brother, who is lan sizhuis uncle by marriage to lan xichen. mo xuanyu and jin guangyao would also be considered second uncles. wen ning is a bonus uncle related to nobody else in his family, wen qing is a bonus aunt. if we add this all up, lan sizhui has eight (8!!!) uncles and two aunts

lan jingyi:

his parents (in this au) are lan xichen and nie mingjue, which means that lan wangji (lan xichens brother) and nie huaisang (nie mingjues brother) are his direct uncles. if lan wangji is married to wei wuxian, then wei wuxian is lan jingyis uncle by marriage, and is nie huaisang is married to jiang cheng, then he is also his uncle by marriage. if wei wuxian is lan jingyis uncle by marriage, and jiang cheng is his brother, jiang cheng is his second uncle, and vice versa for wei wuxian. if wei wuxian and jiang cheng are both his uncles by marriage, then their sister, jiang yanli, would be his second aunt, but her husband, jin zixuan, would probably not be considered his uncle in any respect. lan jingyi has four uncles and one aunt

jin ling:

if his parents are jiang yanli and jin zixuan, then wei wuxian and jiang cheng (jiang yanlis brothers), and mo xuanyu and jin guangyao (jin zixuans brothers) would be his uncles directly. if lan wangji is married to wei wuxian, then he is his uncle by marriage. if nie huaisang is married to jiang cheng, then nie huaisang is also his uncle by marriage. jin guangyaos wife, who I cannot for the life of me remember the name of, would be his aunt by marriage (and his direct aunt. unfortunately.) lan xichen is lan wangjis brother, so he would be jin lings second uncle. nie mingjue is nie huaisangs brother, so he would Also be his second uncle. they're married which really does not mean anything familialy but seems like it has extra uncle power. jin ling has eight uncles and one aunt

lan sizhui and jin ling have the same number of uncles total, and all three of them have the same number of "living" uncles, but lan sizhui has the most "living" direct uncles because of wen ning. they all share two uncles in common: jiang cheng and nie huaisang - perhaps one day they, too, adopt a child, making my graph even more colorful. IMAGINE the family dinners. amazing

I imagine ouyang zizhen, much like myself currently, just sitting on the ground with his head in his hands trying to piece it all together after they explain their family tree to him. he comes to the conclusion that he's happy to be from a smaller clan where this kind of shit doesn't happen. but since he's related to none of them in any way, he could date or marry any of them. I cannot explain the way this possibility and the uncles it would create absolutely shakes me to my core. goodnight