#general!WWX

[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.)

[sandushengshou]

mxtxnet's october event | day 31: wei wuxian

[randomness-is-my-order]

i will always appreciate that mxtx, intentionally (more likely) or unintentionally subverted the expectation of “humans always focus on the negative” sharply off the cliff edge and made wei wuxian a complete antithesis of that sentiment, wherein, he seems to almost always decisively ignore the negatives (after he has processed them in some capacity) and focus on the positive. it’s like amidst the dark, stormy, cloudy mire of his life, he always manages to find the silver lining and amplify it enough that its weight outdoes the worst experiences he suffers through. you could call it a coping mechanism but i honestly think it’s a different but just as valid fundamental outlook on life. wei wuxian has such an undercurrent of optimism about him and none of it stems from naïveté or ignorance or a sheltered life. it’s that wei wuxian can live through a life of loss and grief and unfairness and still find it in himself to be happy, to hope, to live. it’s that despite everything, he can be optimistic. that’s why it matters so much. that’s why i think it’s such a beautiful piece of characterisation–and a very grounded one at that. it doesn’t feel cheaply done. wei wuxian’s emotions don’t feel paper-thin. his disregard for the negatives only adds to his complexity, instead of taking away from it. and it just makes me think that if this guy, if wei “cultivation world’s biggest enemy” wuxian can find happiness once more, what excuse do we have to not make an effort to achieve the same?

[thegirlinthecher]

[withthewindinherfootsteps]

something about how both wei wuxian and jin guangyao repeatedly say they ‘didn’t have a choice’ in their actions. in both cases, it’s not literal impossibility, instead determined by their mindsets and personal conduct…. but while for wei wuxian that means he can’t do something immoral, even if it means losing all his social power, for jin guangyao it means he can’t do anything to lose his social power, even if it means doing something immoral. the other option is still there, but it’s never one they’d pick.

something about how they’re trying to walk the same path but in opposite directions: wei wuxian willingly left the nice, broad road in favour of upholding morals and debts, while jin guangyao is trying to claw onto it and stay there by any means necessary. in both cases, being parted from it so easily is only possible because this nice, broad road — full of people whose social power is unconditional, given at birth, independent of their actions — was never truly theirs to begin with. but despite how it is possible to be forced off due to nothing, as we see with wang lingjiao, the positions of both these characters were ultimately due to actions they took.

(about how no matter the similarity of the paths, no matter the narrowness of the choices, the direction you take is still up to you.)

[benevolenterrancy]

bros don't let bros walk around with their chest torn open

[oceanbluuu]

No longer just a young master,

No longer just jiujiu’s a-ling

[whetstonefires]

to continue my tradition of mdzs height posting, another character besides mo xuanyu who is routinely and unjustly described as tiny: Wen Qing.

according to the officially released heights, she and jin guangyao are roughly the same size. about five and a half feet tall.

which is on the small side for a man even in china, though not in medieval china, and is ofc loads smaller than the ridiculous giants making up most of the cultivator elite, but is not actually a small person.

that's statistically above average for a woman even in the modern US; in modern china it is often hard for women that height to find off-the-rack clothes. in a historical chinese setting she is mildly gargantuan. five foot six is a positively unmaidenly height.

wei wuxian (as i've previously discussed) is slightly over six feet tall at his original full growth, which is stupid tall even when you're an aristocrat who didn't starve as a child. wen qing is, in turn, too tall for wei wuxian to hook his chin over her head, even if he stands on his toes, unless she ducks.

he's got maybe more than half a head on her. she could headbutt him in the nose from a standing start, as could most adult men because he's a freak.

wen qing would walk among a group of normal-in-context women like a turkey among hens. she is not tiny.

i know cql kind of made her look that way, but in fairness their version of lan wangji is a stick of no great height also. and even on cql she's not particularly small, just exceedingly pale and slim with big eyes. i truly do not know why it's so popular to conceptualize her as teeny-tiny, except maybe for the contrast value. it's not even hornyposting.

[lurkinginnernarrator]

it's been so long since ive done anything mdzs so, post canon wangxian decide to go on a real vacation. except. neither of them can actually laze around and enjoy it

wwx's mind has thought up three new things to make within the first hour, lwj has already done everything he can, he's cooked meals, organized their luggage, leisurely basked in the presence of his husband.. but! they both decide to preserve, going on ambling walks together and sitting and watching the stars. It's nice.

Just nice.

Then, the village that they were holidaying in encountered a problem with a mischievous Yao, and how could they not help?

After outsmarting the Yao, and helping repair the village, wangxian lay down and find that relaxation, for them, is best found in each other, and helping others

When asked about their vacation, wangxian fondly recounts working together to locate the Yao, then putting their expertise and experience together to fashion a trap, the thrilling chase, wrangling their wiley captive, setting to rights an auntie's house in the aftermath.

something about wangxian loving being together and how they cherish that time, but how when they're both running together, united in heart and purpose, helping the common people and working side-by-side, and how they don't really need a work-life balance because (this is so cheesy my god) for post canon wangxian it's not duty, it's not work, it's all love.

Love for each other

Love for their profession

Love of generosity

Wangxian loves being generous. I think that's one of my favorite things about them.

[icyolive]

"Wen Ning hadn't gone over to help support Wei Wuxian in the first place, nor followed them into the cabin. Instead, he crouched on the deck outside. The boys had found this strange at first, wondering why he didn't go in. It was only now that they realized just how wise the Ghost General truly was."

Wen Ning: Follow Hanguang-Jun as he bridal carries Wei-gongzi into a small enclosed area? After a fraught day of fighting corpses, getting dissed by the cultivation world again, and meeting dead loved ones? No I Do Not Think I Shall.

[mpreggificator]

I'm obsessed with the idea of Mo Xuanyu living but the story has not changed that much with him living.

Like, Mo Xuanyu does the soul sacrifice ritual and instead of his body being taken over by Wei Wuxian, it brings him back in his old body and Mo Xuanyu qi deviates on the spot instead. Instead of dying, he turns into a toddler and loses all of his memories.

Before Wei Wuxian can start his second life taking care of a toddler, Nie Huaisang comes in and yoinks Mo Xuanyu cuz can't have him throw a wrench in his plans. So while Wei Wuxian goes off to solve the mystery of the arm, fall in love with Lan Wangji, and live his second life the best way he can, Nie Huaisang is mostly at home taking care of a toddler and trying not to get too attached.

Bonus:

After the main plot, Jiang Cheng goes to the Unclean Realm to confront Nie Huaisang about the whole everything where he discovers that Mo Xuanyu is alive. He also discovers that Nie Huaisang is not that great at parenting and sort of shoves his way to show Huaisang the proper ways of taking care of a toddler. It helps that Mo Xuanyu is cute and small and reminds Jiang Cheng of Jin Ling when he was a toddler.

[unreliable-narratoe]

Accidentally went on MDZS twt and saw a "wwx was SO affected by classism" (valid by itself) take and the subsequent "yzy and jc called him the son of a servant all the time!" (Former did, latter literally says "what kind of servant has their master peeling Lotus roots for them?" He is still classist but I think it's pretty clear wwx is Family to him) takes. For good measure, JGY's name was also thrown around a bit "I don't know how anyone can sympathize with him, classism or poverty or not..." well.

There was also an LQR picked on wwx because he was a servant explanation that got quite a few likes... And I was just... Blocking people left and right for my peace of mind. I was so glad for a second that I've built my own bubble here.

[randomness-is-my-order]

do yall ever think about the fact that there will probably never be a protagonist like wei wuxian ever again or are yall normal?? he’s such a well-rounded, dynamic, all-encompassing PACKAGE of a character that it’s actually been a trouble for me to sink my teeth into epic fantasies these last few years because the MCs are such a huge hit or a miss for most of them and no character in my adult recreational reading career has ever managed to endear me as much wei wuxian has. he MAKES mdzs for me. without his manner of thinking, his method of interacting with the people and world around him, his backstory, his everything, mdzs would not be such a compelling and hard-hitting tale despite having all the elements to make an epic narration. like this guy has set the standard for main characters to be WAY too high. god fucking damn it.

[poorlittleyaoyao]

went screencapping for a shitpost and ended up sitting here with feelings about how, in CQL's staging of the confrontation at Nightless City, Wen Ruohan steps in and attacks Nie Mingjue in direct response to Nie Mingjue attacking Meng Yao. Wen Ruohan's just sitting there chilling until it looks like Meng Yao might genuinely get hurt, at which point he uses his Ambiguously Defined Yin Iron Powers not to hurt Nie Mingjue, but to haul him across the room away from Meng Yao.

And on the one hand, if he one-hit KO'd Nie Mingjue right then and there, we wouldn't get a cool fight scene where Nie Mingjue overexerted himself obliterating Wen guards and trying to take a shot at Wen Ruohan himself... BUT they could've just had Wen Ruohan shoot Ambiguously Defined Evil Magic at him and only succeed in wounding him, which would set up the same fight and make him look like even more of a badass. Or at least have the hauling-away be with a Force choke kind of thing like we see him do with Xue Yang earlier. But it's not! He's just grabbing him and pulling him away, with the effect that his primary motivation seems to just be protecting his new best employee and replacement son! RIP Meng Yao, you were briefly and accidentally someone's favorite kid, but unfortunately it was the guy who was too obviously evil to function.

[trans-yllz]

I don't think that enough post canon depictions of wei "no precedent? I'll be the precedent!" wuxian lean enough into the fact that at his core he is a man with a lot of ambition. I need to see more mad scientist wei wuxian I am so serious

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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