#madam yu's a+ parenting

[wangxianficrecs]

Brand New Moves by tawaen

Brand New Moves

by tawaen

T, 7k, Wangxian

Summary: In the most ambitious heist ever planned, Team Rocket attempts to steal two legendary Pokémon – one from the Burial Mounds Gym Leader, Wei Ying; and one from the Snow White Pavilion Gym Leader, Lan Zhan. These two former rivals are paired up to battle against one another for the first time since becoming Gym Leaders! Will they be able to defeat Team Rocket? Or will they loose their composure and their Pokémon? (Just joking, Wei Ying and Lan Zhan never even notice Team Rocket. They only have eyes for each other!) Kay's comments: It's been a hot minute since I last consumed any Pokémon content, but you don't have to be very knowledgeable to get the gist of this fic. Rivals fem Wangxian meet again after years apart to battle, now both as gym trainers and it goes differently than expected. Really loved the slow clearing of the past misunderstandings between them and of course the Wen-Wei found family vibes. And Wei Ying the MILF. Excerpt: “Wei Ying,” Lan Zhan breathes out raggedly. She comes up to the top landing, but doesn't get any closer. “Can you tell me what I did wrong?” Wei Ying tries to keep her voice even, “You didn't do anything wrong.” She doesn't succeed. Her voice breaks as she says that. “You forfeit the match. You are crying. Please, what can I do?” Lan Zhan keeps her voice soft. Before today, they have not spoken in almost four years. Wei Ying has never heard her be so gentle. She clearly will not leave until she knows Wei Ying is fine. So Wei Ying just needs to convince her of that, somehow. “You really didn't do anything wrong. I just wasn't expecting to see Froslass again. I swear, I just need a moment. Then I'll be fine.” Lan Zhan sucks in a breath, “I traded to get Froslass because the other person told me you were the original trainer.” “I'm glad she's with you. That's... I really am happy. I'm just surprised.” Wei Ying sternly tells herself that she is happy. This is what she originally wanted.

pov wei wuxian, modern setting, modern with magic, pokemon fusion, female lan wangji/female wei wuxian, rivals to lovers, misunderstandings, madam yu's a+ parenting, dysfunctional jiang family, jiang family dynamics, pokemon gym leaders, pokemon gym leader lan wangji, pokemon gym leader wei wuxian, love confessions, emotional hurt/comfort, families of choice, burial mounds ensemble as family, single parent wei wuxian

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[tea-cat-arts]

Sometimes I wonder what Jiang Cheng could've become if his parents didn't instill a mix of "crippling fear of failure" and "impossibly high standards" in him. Cuz like, his dad was holding him to the vague standard of being as good as wwx, his mom yelling at him whenever he goofed around like wwx, and then both of them expressed disappointment when he's less successful than wwx. The thing both of them seem to ignore though is that wwx got where he is entirely because he had the freedom to fuck around and find out- he trained tirelessly because he made training fun for himself, he was innovative as a cultivators because he experimented and persisted through failures, and he was able to act in line with the Jiang clan moto because his actions had less political pull than members of the main family. Jiang Cheng on the other hand- if he fucked around he got told to "stop stooping to the level of servants." If his achievements were lesser than wwx's, he got either dismissed by his dad or yelled at by his mom to try harder. And if he picked fights with the Wens, they'd have an excuse to destroy his clan. Like ya- no shit that'd create an adult who's terrified of failure.

The kite game serves as such a good metaphor/embodiment of this set back- with Jiang Cheng never being able to shoot as far as Wei Wuxian because he pulls back and shoots closer the second he misses.

And its sad too because he's shown to be pretty brilliant when he's in "fuck it, we ball" mode. Like, when he's not freezing up, he manages to pull off things like rebuilding his entire clan from the ground up, leading armies and taking back territories from the Wens, and I'm fairly sure he's the only character we see counter the Lan music cultivation techniques (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on that last one. Also feel free to add any of the other cool shit he did that I'm blanking on at the moment, cuz I know I'm forgetting something).

That being said- even with his anxiety, he's still one of the top cultivators. Imagine what a force of nature he'd be if he could sustain "fuck it we ball" mode

[lgbtlunaverse]

Horrible thing to say but I think there's a real chance Jiang Yanli was both of her parents' least favorite child and knew it and just kinda. Had to go on with her life knowing that.

[noinobonoto]

I think the saddest part about Wei Wuxian's abuse by Madam Yu isn't the whipping or the kneeling or the belittlement... but the way she treated his parents.

Wei Wuxian's parents are dead. He is an orphan. He also lived under the same roof as the man who knew and was friends with his parents, especially his father who used to be his servant.

And yet he knows almost nothing about them, he knows as much as a bystander about who Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze were. The only things he has is a foggy memory or two and other people's gossip. All because of Madam Yu.

He can't mention them, he can't talk about them at all or ask about them because he will get punished, because Madam Yu hates their (mainly his mother's) mere existence and makes it everyone's problem. And it's so funny too, that she is always the one mentioning them in the first place, always to insult them. Wei Wuxian grew up in a place where his parents were badmouthed all the time, where he couldn't mention them or learn anything about them from Jiang Fengmian because Madam Yu made it impossible.

It's just so sad.

[carrot-felisidad]

What did they say about the thing when parents are awful, the children are very close and protective of one another?

*squints at Yunmeng Trio and Lan Brothers*

(and I feel like if Jin Zixuan gathered his brothers and Qin su, he would be an overprotective Da-ge, too)

[jiangwanyinscatmom]

no because fr and when they say jc is just like his mother and I'm over here "do you realize that should be offensive, right?" BUT THEY SAY IT AS COMPLIMENT OMG

The man doesn't even like himself yet has an entitlement complex because of her and how she raised him. It's baffling that they try to say because she loved him, there was no abuse.

Or that it's "cultural dissonance". I grew up with a traditional Mexican family where the men are placed on pedestals of entitlement yet called trash as well as the women in our households mocked for being women and expected roles to fulfill as a woman. I saw enough of one of my parents as well as friends mothers being emotionally and sometimes physically abusive while we all claimed it was discipline or for our own good, that they did it because they cared and loved us.

No matter what love is apparently involved it doesn't erase years of abusive harm done to children. We learn to call it not as terrible, not as bad, not that serious from the start because they were parents and it was called respect.

And how Madam Yu stans say these same things is terrifying and sad. No I do not think she is a strong girl boss women when she raised her son to be as awful as her and verbally abused him that he has a self esteem complex that made him hate Wei Wuxian who wanted to support him because she was a hateful and jealous women.

[lurkinginnernarrator]

A thought I had, (this isn't a fully thought out meta, just an impression of sorts.)

Something about Wei Wuxian's inherited vengeance.

Where did Wei Wuxian get that vengeance from? Mild-mannered Jiang Fengmian? Benevolent and kind Jiang Yanli? Cangse Sanren, who Wei Wuxian remembers saying something along the lines of remember the good things people do for you not the bad? Wei Changze?

The child of Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze would've likely done something along the lines of protecting the common people and fighting for justice during the Sunshot campaign, but did Wei Wuxian do that?

No, I tell you truly, Wei Wuxian is also the child of Yu Ziyuan. Did they have anything resembling a healthy relationship? No. But the child of Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze wouldn't slaughter thousands in unholy vengeance. Wouldn't extract oceans of blood for every drop stolen.

But the child of Yu Ziyuan would.

That isn't to say, he's only the child of Yu Ziyuan, no, we see glimpses of the influences of his other parental figures throughout the story.

Look at how he doesn't flinch from leaving the proverbial (paradise) mountain to save the wen remnants (CSSR), look at his compassion for the common people (Jiang Yanli); His sense of loyalty (Wei Changze), level headedness (Jiang Fengmian).

Something about how conscious he is of debt. Does that stem from his inherent preference of righteous action? His desire to do right? Yes. But I wouldn't discount his awareness of debt also coming from a quasi-maternal figure like Yu Ziyuan. Now there is a woman aware of debt, what she owes and what is owed to her.

Everyone is shaped by the adult figures in their life, and we inherit many things from them, such as traumas, perspectives and traits.

I posit Wei Wuxian is no different. But, just like Wei Wuxian, we aren't defined by our parental figures.

[undercover-stories]

I will openly admit that a big reason why I am so harsh on Jiang Cheng is because (and this is as an Asian coming from a small Asian country) I would never have treated my siblings the way he did. Filial piety and cultural traditions be damned. He might have 'succeeded' as a sect leader, but he completely failed as a brother. I don't think he had the right to demand Wei Wuxian to fulfill his promise when it would have cost the lives of countless innocent people. I think the fact that he never gave his brother the benefit of the doubt, in that he wasn't just trying to play hero like Jiang Cheng had always accused him of doing, was shameful of him.

He might have succeeded by society's standards, but morally and even by the standards of the Jiang Clans motto, he failed miserably, and I think it's genuinely one of the things that haunts him. Something that he hides behind his anger and grief because facing it meant facing the part he had played in the demise of Wei Wuxian and indirectly even Yan Li

In The Untamed, I really liked that when Wei Wuxian was falling to his death, there was a moment focused on Jiang Chengs face where he seemed to be asking himself, "What have I done?" But of course, the moment passes as quickly as it came, and that's pretty much Jiang Cheng in a nutshell. He has turned into his mother. Bitter. Angry. Spiteful. Petty in her willingness to blame anyone and everyone for playing a part in her misery except for herself.

I'd like to think at the end that there is a glimmer of hope for him and Wei Wuxian's relationship. But time is probably what they need most.

[fistfuloflightning]

Your sister told me the most interesting story about Sect Leader Yao just now… Is it truth? You know very well A-Sang has a way of twisting words for her own entertainment. It will be shortly~

Nie-zongzhu and Nie-furen, seconds before all hell breaks loose, courtesy of Nie Huaisang.

[chaoticsilver]

I need more fics of people telling wei ying he looks almost identical to his father

[ssuibian]

But she is tho

[tea-cat-arts]

Madam Yu defenders will be like "Madam Yu was a complex person with a tragic life and though none of that excuses her actions, it does explain them so please stop reducing to her to a monster and a caricature of an evil woman" and her haters will respond "so you condone child abuse"

[morethanwonderful]

I feel like the MDZS fandom as a whole really does not talk enough about the existence of Jinzhu and Yinzhu

Like, Madame Yu has goons. Madame Yu has a pair of goons that follow her everywhere and have rhyming themed names. And we've all just accepted this without a single comment

[jubileesstuff]

Young Wei Wuxian: Why should I make my bed, when I'm just gonna unmake it to sleep in it anyways?

Madam Yu: Why should I feed you if your just gonna die anyways?

Wei Wuxian:

Wei Wuxian: I'll go make my bed-

[yu-ziyuan]

i love you jiang yanli shes like an oc to me. she got fridged in the book so now i get to say anything i want about her and no one can prove me wrong because she barely gets any agency in canon so we dont know WHAT shed do given the chance

[brehaaorgana]

Okay I know ppl have written "wei ying gets taken in by another clan entirely," and I do love a good lan clan adoption early on and LQR being a better person for it but. Nie clan finds and adopts WWX, and WWX is able to prevent Nie Zongzhu's saber from being tampered with or does something that allows him to survive that one night hunt. If the timelines I've seen worked out are right that hunt probably happened after the Gusu studies? So WWX is fully into his whole genius baby stage at that point.

What if he prevented Nie Zongzhu from dying really early (even if he didn't save him entirely - like maybe he couldn't prevent some permanent damage...), & got invested exploring resentment energy due to nie clan sabers? What if saving Nie zongzhu is something Wen Qing secretly helps with which is why Mingjue doesn't hate all the Wens nearly as much? Ughhh.

I might write something on this idea.