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AU where everything is the same except Zhou Xu is super acquainted with Scorpion because they both (used to) head the two biggest assassin organisations and came across eachother many many years ago.
They despise one another but in a bickering “I’m better than you” way which disguises legitimate admiration on Scorpion’s side (because the scorpion sect was founded after Window to Heaven and is clearly somewhat inspired by Xu) and begrudging affection on Xu’s side (because Scorpion is a traumatised young psycho and we know Xu has a soft spot for those).
I imagine it’s kinda like Ye Baiyu and Wen Kexing’s semi-sibling dynamic except a lot less aggressive threats and fights and more extremely venomous passive aggressive remarks, suiting their different characters.
Of course for this au to work it means Xu knows a lot more about that side of the empire. I’m imagining he’s told to bring Chengling to Zhao Jing he’s like, oh for fuck sake, that guy? The Scorpion’s owner?
Wen drags Xu to Jing’s celebratory banquet and he still ignores everyone but entirely more pointed. He’s more guarded and protective of Chengling after seeing how the douchebag snake (Jing) treats him.
Xu discovers the Scorpion Sect and the Window of Heaven are working together and he’s personally offended.
Wen’s all “Why does the Scorpion Sect matter if Chengling is safe?” and Xu is like “Because, unlike Window of Heaven, Scorpion’s assassinations are messy and lack tact, it’s a complete misuse of recourses” and Wen’s just like “…what”
The three have their dramatic meeting after killing two of the four scorpion assassins and Scorpion is like “Chief Zhou, a pleasure to see you, an unexpected pleasure, however, given I thought you were hiding away like the traitorous coward you are :)” And Xu bites back “Scorpion King, I sincerely hope you’re enjoying life as a pet dog. My apologies for killing your assassins, I truly believed they were trained enough to withstand a sick man. My mistake.”
Wen just stands there like bad news: my soulmate and Scorpion seem to know and are currently on the verge of killing one another, good news: I am very turned on right now.
Scorpion is still like “why the FUCK have those two psychos found eachother this is not good” like the icon he is.
Possible subplot of this AU: Scorpion tries to manipulate Xu into rejoining the Window of Heaven because quite simply it is so much less useful to him without Xu heading it. They just mindlessly use Xu’s previous plans and trinkets. There’s no ingenuity and it’s far less brutal and organised than it used to be. Sure the poisons are useful but that’s it.
His plan is to piss off Xu and frame the current head of Window of Heaven, hoping to make Xu angry enough at them to stage a mutiny.
He attempts this 1 time. Xu realises quickly that it was actually Scorpion, proceeds to set one of Scorpion’s bases on fire, killing a bunch of his subordinates. Scorpion gets the ‘don’t fucking try me bitch’ message and stops.
Side note to this: Xu disappears for a few days to do this. Wen goes insane. Where the fuCK IS HE ILL KILL ALL OF YOU
Xu comes back to calamity. Wen is literally the embodiment of “I thought you were never coming home so I panicked.”
Another side note: Xu realises it was Scorpion because he brutally tortured the person directly responsible for the action. Safe to say he was pissed off.
Yes I might just want more of Xu being a brutal and epic assassin lord. In my defence I think Wen would enjoy that too. Also I want Scorpion to have more friends because he’s a baby and I love him.
Ghost Lord Wen later has to deal with the dead ghosts because most of the subordinates at the base were actually his and he’s just like: Xu did w h a t
“Yeah they’re all dead, mainly burned to death because they were drugged with smoke and locked in the base.”
Bad news: my soulmate has killed a bunch of my subordinates. Good news: I am once again turned on
I just like the idea of Scorpion immediately triggering Xu’s inner incredibly brutal and violent assassin lord because Xu often fools us audience into believing he’s not a psycho just because he’s retired and I think it would be a nice juxtaposition.
“Don’t kill innocent people!!” proceeds to murder 40 people as a warning.
Xu realising Wen is the Ghost Lord goes pretty much the same except hes like “but did you HAVE to work with the Scorpion Sect.” And Wen is like “I have literally killed people. I led to the death of Chenglings family. This is what you’re upset about??” “yes”
ALSO before the offical reveal I want a discussion where Wen is like: “Do you dislike the Scorpion Sect so much because they’re… ghosts??” And Xu, having been asked this before by people in the Window of Heaven when he was still the leader, immediately triggered “The fact that they’re ghosts is not an excuse for Scorpion’s idiocy! Clearly the current lord of Ghost Valley has no issues having a well organised and competent group!!”
Wen: *blushing* oh ok
Xu, recovering himself, “oh an also murder is bad of course and ghosts are evil and everything.”
Also headcanon that when he’s really mad Xu calls Scorpian Xie’er and it’s kinda terrifying and kinda sweet
Possible extreme plot divergence where Scorpion is like ‘hey if I can heal the nails can you work for me’ and Xu is like ‘no’ but Scorpion puts it on his list anyway because he’s gonna open the armoury anyways so why not? Plus, you know, the Ghost Lord seems to care about Chief Zhou, so it could be good leverage. Totally not because Scorpion cares whether Xu dies or not. No. Definitely not. In fact he’d kill him himself if it wasn’t so inconvenient for him. Why is it inconvenient for him? Oh you know because the, uh, because, um, are you dARING TO QUESTION HIM
Wen and Scorpion end up fighting over the Yin Yang book and they almost kill one another until Xu arrives and breaks it up like “it’s fine Wen leave it alone if you die I’m going to kill you.” Wen begrudgingly backs off and Scorpion is like “fantastic now Chief Zhou come with me I’ll use the book to remove your nails.”
Wen: What
Scorpion: What?? He said he’d work for me if I removed them
Xu: no I didn’t
Scorpion: yes you did
Xu: No I didn’t. I specifically said “Respectfully, I would rather die right now then spend more time with you than necessary.”
Scorpion: Well yes but you will work for me
Xu: no I won’t
Scorpion: just come, say you will work for me and then break your word and don’t Jesus Christ do you have no survival instincts
Xu: what
Wen: you do realise I was going to use the book to heal him right? You could’ve just let me win the fight and avoided all this??
Scorpion: … oh
CONCEPT (yes I know this au post is becoming way too long but my brain box will not shut up so neither will I):
So they’re first meeting is preluded by a bunch of vicious attacks on eachother because they’re assassin organisations fighting for dominance what do you expect
And then Scorpion kidnaps one of the Window to Heaven members and tortures them to get information out of them. He reasons that this member is a lower member and the information he’d know wouldn’t be worth the manpower to save him, but it’s still information and he can’t really get anything on Window to Heaven or their mysterious leader, so worth the risk to kidnap. 2 things make this not go to plan.
1. This member is stupidly loyal to the leader of Window to Heaven. Like, will not break. Closest useful thing he says after hours of torture is when Scorpion’s main assassin says this member will not be rescued, to which they responded “I will suffer and die for my lord.” Insane.
2. While Scorpion was right that this lowly member wasn’t worth the manpower, he failed to account for the fact that Xu is feral. He literally just travelled over there himself, with no backup, slaughtered everyone, and rescued this guy. Technically not a single manpower was wasted. Less technically, what the fuck.
Scorpion arrives to check on the situation, after hearing the guy won’t break, only to find everyone dead, the young Window to Heaven member crying about how the fact that he got kidnapped put Xu in danger, and Xu in his assassin get up, covered in blood, with an awkward hand on the member’s shoulder. Scorpion just stands there for a solid minute watching this like what??? the??? fuck???!? This member has literally no importance why is he getting such treatment????????
Im just super here for Scorpion being very confused by Xu for a while because he doesn’t understand the idea of kindness. He only understands being treated well for a purpose. Our poor traumatised boy.
Tbf Xu is a merciless assassin lord out of all the people who you’d expect to express kindness you would not think him but hey the duality of Zhou Zishu we love him
Scorpion defends this confusion by being very aggressive of course which Xu responds to in turn because he’s mad he can’t pay back the losses Scorpion caused (his whole “I never suffer a loss that I don’t pay back” is very unhinged and I love that for him) as he’s been ordered to stop attacking the Scorpion Sect and come to an agreement.
“But they are disorganised and the assassins follow their own whims we could easily take them.” “Zhou I gave you an order.”
By the time Scorpion realises Xu is straight up just a kind person the rivalry has already started and he can’t really go back now woops.
#word of honor#word of honor au#fanfic#wenzhou#word of honor fanfic#wkx#wen kexing#zhou zishu#WOH#zhao jing#xie wang#scorpion king#kinda love to just highlight with this au xu’s uncanny ability to attract the undying devotion of young traumatised murderers#like it’s not just Wen Kexing#you gotta love that for him#I reckon it’s because of the rough on the outside but kind hearted thing#like he’s definitely not trying to butter you up and manipulate you#in fact he’d rather you hated him#but also he would be kind and help if you needed it#young traumatised psychopaths: hey this is my emotional support Zhou Zishu#don’t touch him he’s mine#I would do anything for him#Zhou Zishu: I hate you all *affectionate*
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this scene is bery VERY wenzhou coded
#i think about them daily#i was thinking of who to put where but i settled with this since zzs at the beginning of the show just qanted wkx to shut up#like my guy wkx was making heart eyes while zzs was (secretly falling in love) & kinda annoyed lol#art#fanart#drawing#天涯客#word of honor#word of honor fanart#tyk#tyk fanart#tian ya ke#wenzhou#wenzhou fanart#wen kexing#zhou zishu#priest#danmei#danmei art#danmei novel#princess mononoke#ghibli#ghibli redraw#studio ghibli#princess mononoke redraw#shl fanart#shl
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the ye baiyi effect
#word of honor#wen kexing#rowan gifs#userbon#tusermona#tuserashinlae#userhanyi#baek1nho#lextag#roserayne#seamayweed#tostrangers#lizlookatthis#wen 'criminal offensive sideeye' kexing#wen 'had it not been for the disapproval of my ah-xu i would've slaughtered you where you stand' kexing#(like he had a chance)#i love his face.#anyway if any taglisters want off rowan's word of honor wild ride please let me know. 😨 i am just. out here doing whatever#i still have a few more things i want to gif as well so . its not even over yet
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i think abt kexing raising gu xiang so much, they make me UNWELL. most fashionable siblings in ghost valley.
#shl#tyk#word of honor#faraway wanderers#shan he ling#wen kexing#gu xiang#tian ya ke#my art#art#drawing#fanart#in my heart of hearts they treat eachother like lil dress up dolls#kexing does gu xiangs hair she paints his nails. badly because shes just a lil kid but she gets there.#he picks out fancy robes for her as a kid and he likes to make them match#idgaf abt canon i do however gaf about letting my fave siblings be happy#me n my housemate finished woh and this is my way of coping xx
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《山河令》 WORD OF HONOR (2021) | Episode 20
Dear, the kiss that steals your breath Will steal your soul instead When night is all that's left So wait, keep your heart inside My hand won't keep it safe I'll just feed on dreams and smile as hope slowly dies –The Rigs, Run Baby Run
#my gif#okay so the way wkx doesnt think these times can ever return#not just that things change and will naturally turn into memory#but also that he feels like he won‘t ever get another chance at being as happy as he was then#simply because hes Changed now#and he knows Bad Things Happen (to him) (because of him)#it reminds me of the nails reveal scene (‚i found u bad its too late.‘)#only much worse because so much more of wkx himself is revealed#so the stakes are higher#and he and zzs are so much closer#he inevitably needs to reveal what happened to zhen yan#but how can he? when hes convinced zzs will turn his back#if he ever finds out The Other Side of him (master of ghosts)#hes like working with a deadline#hnnng#wen kexing#zhou zishu#zzs#wkx#gifset#word of honor#wenzhou#山河令#shl#shan he ling#also this is dedicated to Spare Me by staringatstars#which im currently rereading again and its having me Feel Things#about wkx & his yearning to sacrifice himself if the odds are against him#also: hii!!!!!! my first gifset!!!!! i know its not perfect but thats fine (tears of labour streaming down my face as i smile bravely)#priestnet
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The ULTIMATE wooby eyes.
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#woh#word of honor#poorly drawn woh#wenzhou#zhou zishu#wen kexing#shl#sometimes cause of the way I write my “ts” it looks like qin song is saying “shirt shirt shirt”#also sorry for slow updates#life does not like me right now#like damn just lemme draw my gays
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“All is fair in war.” WORD OF HONOR (2021). Episode 32.
#word of honor#wohedit#wohdaily#asiandramasource#cdramasource#cdramaedit#cdramanet#xie wang#wen kexing#*#faiza gifs#like i said yday .... yall both SHOULD just fuck it out.#honestly xie wang is the typa guy that has chemistry with EVERYONE man he should have had MORE scenes with yby and wkx and zz tbh ..........#instead of just with that RAT zj.
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Big golden retriever ! 🐶
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(be careful, he will bite if you’re not zzs)
#shl#wkx#woh#shan he ling#tian ya ke#faraway wanderers#word of honor#wen kexing#山河令#天涯客#温客行#finished this show a (very long) while ago but never really drew any of the characters#so here’s a quick. very quick. doodle#just for fun lol#i like his outfit sm so I might find an excuse to draw him more hehe
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So was no one going to tell me Wen Kexing literally puts his lips on Zhou Zishu’s shoulder in episode six of Word of Honor or was I just supposed to find that out for myself?
#word of honor#censorship? who dat#wen kexing#zhou zishu#just started watching#don’t actually spoil anything for me#i don’t normally like live actions but this one is growing on me#still need to read the novel later though
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During the first episodes of words of honor:
#she is just standing there looking a Wen kexing and wondering about his taste in men#poor gu xiang#gu xiang#wen kexing#zhou zishu#wenzhou#ah xiang must be wondering whyyyyy wen kexing is so obsessed with someone who looks like they are about to doe at any second
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the thing about wen kexing is that in many ways he has the soul of a wealthy gay socialite & aesthete in 19th century europe
#im deadly serious. every time ithink about him now i just think about oscar wilde &co and like. yeah#its the constant literary references + obsession with peoples objective beauty + the decadence veiling sincerity + the cunty outfits.......#pip squeaks#word of honor#tian ya ke#wen kexing
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Oh look it's our favorite murderer babygirl
#art#digital art#illustration#babygirls#wen kexing#word of honor#faraway wanderers#if murderer why hot#yes its another gay man#shut up i just like gay men ok
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watching his moon
#wenzhou#山河令 word of honor#word of honor#shl#tyk#tian ya ke fanart#tian ya ke#tyk fanart#wenzhou fanart#I JUST KNOW THIS SCENE HAPPEND#like sorry but wkx having white hair is tge PERECT excuse for zzs to call him his moon argg#someone write a fic to this plss im begging u#wen kexing#zhou zhisu#art#fanart#drawing#danmei#zhou zishu
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Fuck Word of Honor
What the hell was Ep. 35? I wanted wholesome fluff after all the shit that happened and was so happy to see Gu Xiang and Cao Weining get married because they’re so cute (and more of the found family dynamic because I love it)
Fuck everything, and I cried like 3 times during that episode
#yeyarants#i hate this show#I went to it fucking blind#no clue what is was about#well I did know it was a Chinese bl and was similar to the Untamed#but like#I thought the wholesomeness would happen in the last few episodes#guess what#no#I just don’t know anymore#I have to read the novel#I’ll read it after finishing the show#literally one episode away#atleast more gay shit with Wen kexing and Zhou Zishu?#hopefully?#Danmei hell am I right#word of honor#faraway wanderers#shan he ling#also anyone know a good website to read the English translation of the novel?#I do want to read it
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I love dark ENFP's that took the wrong path. Being manipulative leaders of evil group and hiding their identity while also having a messed up childhood.
They are my sweet little meow meows
And boom now their hair turned white and they were willing to sacrifice themselves for their loved one
#the sad thing is that Obito was alone unlike wen kexing who even had gu xiang who was like his sister while Obito was all alone#I was thinking about this for a while and I am sorry I just see many similarities between them#I am into both of these series so much and they are both my favourite characters from it ><#did I mentioned that they were both fighting their loved one as well :D#obito uchiha#naruto shippuden#wen kexing#word of honor
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im wondering how much of zhou zishu‘s anger in episode 10, when he finds wen kexing digging a grave for the four sages of anji after they died trying to protect the glazed armour, is him being shaken at seeing his zhiji‘s attempt at a futile task. at seeing wen kexing going through the exact same thing zhou zishu has gone theough, is still going through, and also responding to it with a repent that eats away at his insides just as it does for zhou zishu. zhou zishu himself is carrying the nails, putting them inside him is his way to pay for his debts. they eat up his life and cause him constant pain. he is never allowed to forget for even a minute. wen kexing has caused these senseless deaths, after underestimating the consequences of his violence, and is now locked in an endless futile cycle of making something whole that is already broken. he is trying to dig a grave using a sword, and when the sword breaks halfway through, he tries to continue using the broken pieces. zhou zishu is angry with him, the four sages meant to him that there is still hope in this world, that you can still live a quiet and gratiyfing life far away from corrupt power struggles and still be happy, only needing your zhiji and nothing else. that this kind of life is possible, in a world such as theirs. they also form a parallel to him and wen kexing. zhou zishu and wen kexing both have their demons, and they are aligned in their wish to lead such a life. but wen kexing caused the four sages‘ deaths by exploiting these exact corrupt power struggles, he doesnt want a quiet life, he seems to want only chaos. it is as good as spitting on his and zhou zishu‘s shared dream. but how much of that rightful anger and hurt is zhou zishu‘s pain at seeing a reflection of himself in wen kexing? of wanting wen kexing to hurt as much as he does, wanting him to stop with doing something that doesnt matter anymore? wanting him to repent, but repent in the right way? wanting him to search his own soul and find what it is that causes him to want to be so chaotic and ruthless? to think before causing yet another catastrophe?
#im just spitballing here#lots of feelings because im creating a gifset of this scene#wen kexing‘s little meltdown there moves me deeply#hes so helpless in the face of it#he wanted violence but not like this#he wanted chaos but not like this#people should die and pay but not these people#hes trying to make good on it but he doesnt know how#hes shaken and shattered and horrified#the reality is so much more complex than what he had theorized it to be#cue zhou zishu entering the scene#my thoughts#word of honor#wen kexing#zhou zishu#wenzhou#four sages of anji#word of honor episode 10
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