#and jiang cheng feelings

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The dog days are over.

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[asha-mage]

MDZS AU where Jiang Cheng realizes that Lan Sizhui is the Wen orphan that Wei Wuxian took care off during the Burial Mounds arc, decides that's close enough to qualify him as Nephew, declares that no Nephew of His (much less a surrogate son of Wei Wuxian's) is going to be raised in the Cloud Recedes, and immediately launches into a custody battle with Lan Wangji.

But since neither Jiang Cheng or Lan Wangji can acknowledge that Sizuhi has any connection to Wei Wuxian, both begin steadfastly and stubbornly insisting that he is a Cultivator of peerless potential and skill and he belongs in their sect thank you very much, and would clearly be very unhappy in the other's. This confuses the hell out of the already mystified Cultivation world, who had barely adjusted yet to gossiping about Sizhui being Wangji's illegitimate child by mysterious love affair.

(Eventually the common consensus in the rumor mills is that both JC and LW where in love with Sizhui's mother and both believe themselves to be Sizhui's real father.)

(LW couldn't care less what gossips say, but JC has to bite his tongue till it bleeds to avoid telling anyone the truth in a fit of anger.)

(It was Nie Huaisang who put that rumor out in the first place, partly to troll JC, partly because, in a way, it's a little true.)

[nadiasna7]

I came across a fallen tree I felt the branches of it looking at me Is this the place we used to love? Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?

[s2pdoktopus]

Drawing a really old meme

[readingandbooking]

No one understands Jiang Cheng like I do except that’s the point. Jiang Cheng’s character is only truly understandable by the reader. And you have to make an effort. The narration fights you at every turn. The characters themselves aren’t interested in doing any heavy lifting. Wei Wuxian is too tired and hurt. Lan Wangji can’t let himself see anything but the mirror of his failure. There is no convenient Wen Ning to blurt out the truth for him. None see him clearly. There is only Jiang Cheng, his words, and his actions.

[sandushengshou]

the untamed + text posts

[monabee-draws]

Crazy that one of the underlying takeaways from MDZS is that you should be punished for believing what people show you.

Jiang Cheng was never told anything about wwx's actions and repeatedly watched him break all his promises to him and YMJ (even after he, JC, gave up himself and YMJ for wwx, he did not receive the same in return from his own knowledge pool.) Yet, he is very suddenly expected to be remorseful and grateful when Wen Ning reveals the core transfer. The world JC lived in had these truths: WWX isn't helping to rebuild our home, training our disciples. He has become a drunk and is actively undermining the sect and what little authority I've been able to cultivate, which is devastating enough when I am the only young war hero/sect leader excluded from the great sects' sworn brotherhood allyship. When I (JC) try to find out why he's doing this and stop him, he brushes me off and makes light of it. I continue to tolerate it anyway because he's wwx and I love him. Then, instead of putting in the work he should be to save our people he turns around and saves the Wens, at great expense and danger not only to our sect but himself, as one of the only people I still have left. When I tell him he cannot have both he chooses them. I still make sure he knows he's loved and belongs with the Jiang (by bringing our sister to see him before her wedding) even though, by all accounts, he has foresaken us on what feels like a series of whims. Then, he kills our brother in law (he never gives me an explanation or excuse.) Then, when I and everyone he's pissed off confront him, he gets our sister killed, goes crazy, and is torn apart by his own ghosts. Somehow 13 years later after picking up all the pieces he left behind and raising the nephew he orphaned and rebuilding the sect he abandoned (alone) I am simultaneously expected to be remorseful for not being grateful to him all these years for something I never asked him to do or knew about, and which I was actively tricked into and repeatedly lied to about. In the adaptations where I don't immediately fall on my sword and punish myself in the epilogue (seclusion in CQL the donghua) the fanbase determines I am a terrible horrible person for it.

This post is also tangentially about Lan Xichen taking the heat for JGY's actions even in MXTX's writing (abandoned by LWJ at the height of his pain, entering seclusion.)

[yustinamishka]

You know that scene in Turning Red? What if Jin Ling saw that lost and traumatized younger version of Jiang Cheng…

[unreliable-narratoe]

Something about Liu Qingge and Jiang Cheng both carrying around physical objects of their loved ones so they can return it, but the Receiving never quite having the same impact as the Returning. LQG carrying around Shen Qingqiu's fans until he can take it back, except SQQ's already forgotten about it/gotten a new one and no longer has the same use for it. JC carrying suiban around on his back until he finds Wei Wuxian, except WWX can no longer use it. There is no real relevance for the object on the receiving end. Not anymore, at least. And it's very. Hmm.

[pastelshroomsbasement]

its that time of the month, jiang cheng LETS GET IT!!!!!

[coquelicoq]

rewatching the scene of jiang cheng yelling at wei wuxian after unmasking him in qinghe is destroying me. first of all absolutely every single angry cruel thing he says is actually a bid for connection and a plea for reassurance, so jot that down. secondly he is soooo jealous of both lan wangji and wen ning (because of the way they have chosen or been chosen, respectively, by wei wuxian) and not trying to hide it even a little bit. thirdly he keeps referring to their shared history and to things that wei wuxian should remember about it and even explicitly (passive-aggressively) brings up wei wuxian's promise that they would be together forever??? and clearly wants wei wuxian to come home so bad?? and yet has never ONCE even ALLUDED to the fact that he lost his golden core because he would do anything to keep wei wuxian safe?? like that is a card he could be playing if he wanted wei wuxian to choose him (which he clearly does) but he never plays it? even through the end of the show he literally never ever ever plays that card???????

[allamaiqbaloo]

the untamed (2019) // sophocles, jean anouilh, trans. lewis galantiére: antigone

[monhiio]

"Leave. I want to be alone."

"Please don't make me"

"I wont repeat myself."

"At least look me in the eyes when you send me away. Your Highness."

[s2pdoktopus]

When Jiang Cheng says something he shouldn't have said.

[ID: A MDZS comic. Jiang Cheng angrily shouts, "I wish I didn't sacrifice myself to the Wen for you!" Wei Wuxian looks stunned. "... What?" Then he looks furious. "You did what?!?"

Wei Wuxian grabs Jiang Cheng by the collar and growls, "C'mere you little shit. Say it again. What did you do?" Jiang Cheng, sweating, goes, "Nothing," and Wei Wuxian pleads, "Jiang Cheng, please..." Jiang Cheng looks down and puts a hand over Wei Wuxian. "Wei Wuxian..."

Jiang Cheng looks up with an earnest expression. "It's all in the past, it doesn't matter anymore. Let it go. (Or something.)" Wei Wuxian looms over him and scolds angrily, "Don't you dare use my words against me!" End ID]

[sandushengshou]

Jiang Cheng & Wei Wuxian | missing wwx

[randomness-is-my-order]

the idea of jiang cheng “adopting” or even having any magnitude of amicable/favourable relationship with sizhui—wen yuan—after discovering him instead of lan wangji or during any other period of canon is extremely absurd and offensive to the point of hilarity. some people mistake jiang cheng’s hostility as being solely directed towards wei wuxian (often thought to be attributed to his prior “love” for wei wuxian turning incredibly sour post-yanli’s death) but no, jiang cheng didn’t let go of his resentment for the wens, either. even after the genocide that he led and was a part of. he was still hateful towards the wens.

“And,” the proprietress added, “I’ve also heard of another person who was frightened away.”

“Frightened away by what?” Wei Wuxian asked.

Surely, this person couldn’t also have coincidentally run into Jiang Cheng using his whip on someone. Just how diligent was Jiang Cheng in his arrests, and how frequently did he lash people?

“No, no,” the proprietress said. “It was his bad luck too, I guess. His surname is Wen, and of course, Sect Leader Jiang’s mortal enemy is also named Wen. He hates every person in the world who bears the name Wen, and he grits his teeth at the mere sight of them, clearly wanting to skin them alive. So of course, his face was not a pleasant sight…”

so honestly, i think a person like jiang cheng could never reasonably set aside his hatred for the wens to “look after” wen yuan when he couldn’t even do so atleast 15+ years after his grievance with the wens began (the only valid reason he has to hold against the wens was the lotus pier massacre and that too, the wen remnants had no hand in). this is also besides the fact that jc knew wen yuan was amongst the wen remnants when the siege happened.