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flowersdiceandlove · 22 days ago

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What is the ghost!wwx and LQR one about?

this one is so close to being done. It was supposed to be a cracky fic, but got super angsty in the first half of it bc of the premise. Anyway, what it is is that when WWX was thrown into the Burial Mounds by Wen Chao, he died on impact. It was just too high of a drop and the ground too hard. Instead of becoming a demonic cultivator, he becomes a vengeful spirit instead. I took a lot of things from tgcf for this one, so he's able to get a solid and humanlike form. Bc he's in the burial mounds, he takes in a lot of resentful energy, and so that strengthens him, and his stubborn will power lets him control it and not completely lose his senses. When he escapes from the Burial Mounds, he does the same stuff, still has Chenqing and utilizes the resentful energy and ghosts and corpses. The only difference, is that he's a vengeful spirit. I like to think that canon WWX wasn't so much effected by the demonic cultivation and instead what happened to him, but that's just what I like. In this, though, he is being effected simply for the fact that he's a ghost sustained on resentful energy and emotion, wanting revenge on the people who destroyed his clan and home. In this way, it's similar to tgcf ghost logic bc WWX is able to stick around through will power and he'd probably be ranked as a wrath level ghost (at least) on tgcf ghost scale. It's because he's such a strong ghost that he has such a good human form. He's not trying to pass himself off for anything but what he really is--a vengeful ghost bent on revenge--but when he runs into JC and LWJ, they don't realize he's a ghost. They think the heeby-jeeby vibes, and paleness, and lack of body heat, and red eyes, and all the rest are just side effects of his "demonic cultivation." And, he finds he doesn't want to break it to them that he's a ghost. JC and JYL are just so happy to have him back "alive" that he just can't do it. He can't break their hearts like that, telling them that he's already lost to them. So, he stays and pretends he's still alive and a demonic cultivator. Demonic cultivation actually works as a very good excuse for his more ghostly traits. People don't question why he's getting along with ghost and the dead (he's one of them, they know, he knows. the dead stick together when they can. they help each other.), why he looks so pale and like he might just be one of the dead he controls himself in certain light and at certain angles, why his eyes glow with the resentment of a vengeful ghost, ect. And somehow...people buy it. He has such a reputation that no one questions whether he's actually alive or not. He's also strong enough that simple ghost repellents and anti-spirit things don't work on him (like hua cheng when xie lian put the ghost repelling stuff on the curtains of the shrine).

However, he's being effected by the resentful energy. He feels it eat at him more and more, trying to pull him deeper into its clutches until he's just another mindless, bloodthirsty ghost that kills everyone around them. He was a cultivator in his life, so he promises himself that he won't make it so that he needs to be exterminated or suppressed by cultivators after his death. He will not become that. He will just stick around until he's avenged his clan and home, and then he will move on peacefully. He will not put it upon others to subdue him. He simply will not. He keeps telling himself that, repeating it like a lifeline. He won't make them--especially jiang cheng--have to put him down like a rabid dog. He can't let himself become like that. He is only a spirit, though. He does not have a flesh body to insulate his soul from the resentful energy like he did when alive. When the resentful energy tries to eat at him, it has barely any barrier to stop it. He needs a channel. Something to act as conduit so his soul isn't taking the brunt force of resentful energy. This leads him to an idea.

First, he gets the sword from the cave from the Xuanwu of Slaughter. Then, he goes to the burial mounds, finds his dead body, cremates it, and forms it together with the sword in hopes that it will make him able to increase the amount of resentful energy he can use as well as give his soul the respite it needs when commanding the resentful energy. So, in this au, the sword and his ashes form the Yin Tiger Amulet. He finds that it does give him the boost in power he wanted, but also that it's too powerful. The onslaught is too strong for him. This also uses the ashes thing from tgcf, so WWX has to be very careful about how he goes about trying to dismantle the Yin Tiger Amulet because his ashes are so intertwined with it now. If he just destroys it, he could very likely be destroyed right along with it. He also isn't going to let anyone touch that thing. Those are his ashes!! (again tgcf thing where if you possess a ghost's ashes, you can control or destroy the ghost with them)

So, the Sunshot Campaign ends and revenge is taken, the Wen Clan wiped out, but Wei Wuxian just can't move on just yet. Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli need him still. They need his help in rebuilding the Yunmeng Jiang Clan. They still need him, the only other person left from their destroyed home. He still can't tell them he's dead. Not yet. He just needs to wait a bit longer until things are steady again. Then he can tell them and move on. He also needs to figure out what to do with the Yin Tiger Amulet. His ashes are still tightly interwoven with the metal, and he's feeling like it's also tethering him to this world.

So, he stays.

Then Wen Qing shows up, begging for his help, and he finds he has other unfinished business in this world he needs to take care of before he can rest in peace. So, he rescues the Wen from Qiongqi Way. He takes them to the Burial Mounds. He tells Wen Qing that he absolutely can bring Wen Ning's consciousness back.

His fight with Jiang Cheng still happens. When he's back at the Burial Mounds, Wen Qing keeps trying to get him to show her his gut wound that Jiang Cheng gave him, but he dodges. She finally corners him, though, and he has no choice but to show her. He is a ghost, but Jiang Cheng used a spiritual blade. Because of this, there was no blood (unless he willed it) but there is a glowing cut on his "body" clearly marking him as a ghost cut by a spiritual blade. Wen Qing berates him, asking why he didn't tell her he was a ghost, but he asks if it really matters. Does it really change anything for them and their circumstances. The only thing it really means is that people cannot know he's a ghost. If they knew, they'd all come after him wanting to "eradicate the evil ghost" as "righteous cultivators." So, they keep it secret.

When Wen Ning is back as a fierce corpse, the two of them get along even better, bonding over the fact that they're both dead but still a part of the Wen settlement.

Things still happen and Wei Wuxian looses control. After the Bloodbath in Nightless City, WWX holes up in the Demon Subduing Cave trying to figure out how to dismantle the Yin Tiger Amulet. He's worried he's going to lose control again and he promised himself he wouldn't let this happen. That he wouldn't degrade into a vengeful, bloodthirsty ghost that needed to be exterminated. He needed to do this before it was too late and he really lost himself completely.

He doesn't figure out how to do it in time and the Siege of the Burial Mounds comes. The Wen all die (except A-Yuan, of course) and Wei Wuxian decides to just destroy the Yin Tiger Amulet and get it over with, not putting the burden of his destruction on the others. He breaks it apart, destroys it into millions of little pieces that go flying, and his soul is torn apart right with it with a bloodcurdling scream.

People cheer that the Yiling Patriarch is dead (not knowing he's been dead for years and that the "Yiling Patriarch" was a ghost all along). The Jin don't know that Wei Wuxian was a ghost and certainly not that the Yin Tiger Amulet held his ashes in it. So, they try to piece it back together. Xue Yang makes trips to the Burial Mounds and searches for the shards of the Yin Tiger Amulet. Slowly, they piece it back together and as they do, WWX's soul is pieced back together along with it.

Total honesty, I got this idea from misremembering what the donghua’s Yin Tiger Amulet looks like. Imma put a pic, but I thought the bead in the middle was a red gem. I was like “what if that red gem was WWX’s ashes!?” So, just imagine it being a red gem.

He's confused when he becomes conscious, thinking that he never would again, that he would be completely destroyed. It's all fuzzy at first and he drifts in and out of consciousness as a weak, barely there spirit. After a while longer, he finds how odd this really is. He can feel the shards of his ashes still scattered in the Burial Mounds, but he can also feel another location where his ashes are being pieced back together. He investigates when he can, his soul still weak, unable to do much, and he finds Xue Yang's lab. After years of this, he finds that he can't do this by himself. If he tries to collect resentful energy to make himself stronger, the Yin Tiger Amulet that the Jin are in possession of might be alerted. If that happens, they might be able to figure out what the Yin Tiger Amulet really is, and they would be able to control him with it. He cannot let himself he controlled by the Jin. It would be catastrophic. So, he needs help from a cultivator. Figuring out who is the hard part. It can't be Jiang Cheng bc WWX went to Lotus Pier and saw some stuff. Jiang Cheng would just try to eliminate him if he appeared before him. He can't do Lan Wangji bc as far as he knows, LWJ hates him. He can't go to Nie Huaisang bc he needs an actually competent and influential cultivator, and while WWX knows NHS can be tricky, he doesn't have a good reputation. And, in order to go up against the Jin Clan and the Chief Cultivator(JGY) at that, he needs someone people will trust.

So, after thinking through everyone else and against his better judgement, he goes to the Cloud Recesses.

To Lan Qiren.

Definitely not Lan Wangji. He'd probably eliminate Wei Wuxian before he got a single word out. Lan Qiren, however, is highly respected, and Wei Wuxian feels confident that he could out run the man if needed and escape.

Because he's still weak from the scattering of his ashes and also that he's been purposefully not taking in resentful energy, the wards aren't even able to pick up on him, not even able to sense him as a threat. Sneaking into Lan Qiren's home, he approaches him. Lan Qiren, expectedly, freaks out (Lan style) at his appearance. Something to note, is that WWX looks exactly as he did when he died. 17/18 and in his purple Yunmeng Jiang disciple robes. He was able to change his appearance before because of his power, but now he doesn't have and is purposefully keeping it that way so to stay undetected by the Jin.

Wei Wuxian manages to convince Lan Qiren to hear him out. Lan Qiren plays inquiry, and with his skills, knows that Wei Wuxian can't lie through it. So, he believes WWX and knows just how big of a threat this is that the Jin have the Yin Tiger Amulet. WWX avoids telling LQR the part about his ashes bc he doesn't trust LQR. He just asks that LQR help him destroy the amulet and expose the Jin. He says that the Yin Tiger Amulet is his unfinished business in this world and that once it's destroyed, he'll go. He says he'll help LQR destroy it, telling him how to do it. He already destroyed it once, why would he not again? Why try to move on peacefully after all that's happened? He deserves to have his soul destroyed in this way is what he thinks. It's the best plan.

So, the two of them work together for this. LQR locks WWX up in a spirit trapping pouch or a ghost containing array that WWX agrees to. LQR, after trusting WWX not to cause trouble and be a threat and agreeing to let him out so he can gather more intel for them, makes WWX promise not to let LWJ know about him under any circumstances. WWX agrees, thinking it's bc LWJ hates him and would just eliminate him without letting him explain, and even if he knew, that he still wouldn't allow WWX's spirit to be in this world. LQR really doesn't want LWJ to know bc if he did, LQR knows that LWJ would never let WWX go and protect him at all costs. WWX had agreed to move on after all this, so he's worried it would just hurt LWJ more to lose WWX a second time. LWJ already suffered so much, so he just wants to spare him this pain again.

LQR also pieces together the part where WWX was never a demonic cultivator and only ever a vengeful ghost. In this au, there is a common understanding among the cultivators. Whatever one does as a vengeful ghost or fierce corpse is not to be held against who the person was while alive. They understand that after death, a person can become twisted and so their actions should not be held accountable for it could just be the resentful energy and not the person themselves wanting and doing this. Because of this, LQR has to come to terms with the fact that "Wei Wuxian" died before the Sunshot Campaign even had a chance to really start, and that everything after that point was a vengeful ghost. With principals like his and a rigid following of rules, LQR fights with himself about not blaming WWX for what happened after his death. Wei Wuxian laughs about it.

After gaining enough evidence against the Jin Clan, LQR leads the downfall of them, exposing them and their experiments. He takes the Yin Tiger Amulet into his possession and takes it back to the Cloud Recesses to destroy. It’s been a while since I worked on this and I didn’t reread it so the timeline’s a little fuzzy in my head(also the fact that changed it around a lot while I was working on it), but at some point, WWX comes clean and tells LQR that the Yin Tiger Amulet contains his ashes. Anyway, knowing that Wei Wuxian died an honorable cultivator at the hands of the Wen Clan, he decides that he can't just destroy WWX's soul like this. Instead he decides to try to separate WWX's ashes from the metal. WWX says that he should just destroy it and get this over with, but LQR stays firm. So, WWX tells LQR everything about the Yin Tiger Amulet and tries to help him figure out how to do that.

Even though WWX is still a ghost with ties to the mortal world, he's not as imbued with resentful energy as he was before, so he's more like his previous self. He and LQR have bonding time, and they have been through this entire thing. LQR discovers that by merging WWX's ashes with the metal so stewed in resentful energy, his ashes got linked to that metal and that it was keeping him here, making him unable to move on peacefully. They already went to the Burial Mounds and collected the rest of WWX ashes that the Jin weren't able to since WWX could sense where the pieces were, so they are in possession of all of it.

Anyway, LQR thinks he figured out a way for them to separate WWX's ashes and the metal. Not really wanting to wait any longer, they get to doing so, Lan Qiren draws out the array and puts the Yin Tiger Amulet and the rest of WWX's ashes in it. I forget the specifics of how the do it, but it works. In a way.

--This part was what I was really laughing my ass off about and loved about it. The part I was working towards in writing this fic.--

Lan Qiren resurrected Wei Wuxian.

The metal of the sword lies on the floor, and Wei Wuxian, alive and 17/18, is there too. Lan Qiren can only stare, trying to understand what he just did. Wei Wuxian realizes he's alive and breaths in, a large smile on his face, reveling in the feeling of being alive again. He's been a ghost for so long and he forgot how wonderful living is! He runs outside to LQR's (enclosed and walled) backyard, tripping and stumbling from not being used to walking like this again, and runs around, feeling the sun shining down on him and the grass under his feet, and just enjoying it all, laughing and full of joy.

Lan Qiren rushes over to the door, to watch him because he just resurrected Wei Wuxian. This is bad. He resurrected the Yiling Patriarch.

But, then again. Did he? The Yiling Patriarch was who WWX was as a vengeful ghost. This is Wei Wuxian the cultivator. And, watching WWX run around like this, LQR realizes he was also a cultivator who's life was cut short, ended before his time.

As the one who resurrected him, LQR thinks it's his responsibility to manage this whole situation. First thing he does is get WWX some robes so he's not running around naked anymore. WWX marvels over the feeling of clothes! Fabric!! He's loving every part of being alive again. Even the mundane. When you don't have things for so long, you realize how incredible they are.

oh, wow, this got long. almost done. LQR has a talk with WWX about this all and WWX's like "No way am I doing demonic cultivation again. I never did it in the first place. I was a vengeful ghost. Not a demonic cultivator." The resurrection also gave him the base for a new golden core. He just needs to put work into it and he'll have a strong one again. LQR makes WWX promise to stay here and not let himself be seen. WWX had been locked up in LQR's house before, so he has a lot of stuff to entertain himself and is used to it, so he agrees. LQR goes to tell LXC and the elders about what he did.

This is about where I wrote up to. While I was writing, I got caught up in a part and took it in a direction that I hadn't planned. After that, I felt really stuck on how to proceed and so stopped working on it, trying to think of how to keep going. I'm going to have to delete that and keep going like I had first planned😩 There's really not much more to write to this. LQR is basically just going to keep defending WWX and taking responsibility for him since he's the one who resurrected him. Wangxian is also going to happen. LQR is not looking forward on telling LWJ about this. So, yeah. That's that.

I mostly just wanted to write a fic where LQR resurrected WWX and this is the result.

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #lan qiren #wei wuxian #my wips #my writing #my fanfiction #ask game #wip ask game

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whetstonefires · 8 days ago

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#4 please !

Now see this could be tricky, because generally if I don't get some key elements written down very quickly the idea flows away again and the 'yet' disappears, even if I remember generally what it was about, but I have one this time! I am still just enough plagued by this vision that it's not out of the question I'll go for the capture, but so far nada.

Idea was basically a Jiang family character study by way of modern au. (So tw canonical abuse.) I started from the reflection, in a modern au very high chance the Jiangs are divorced, because being a divorcee wouldn't necessarily ruin Yu Ziyuan in the modern world, as long as she was allowed to control the narrative enough that she didn’t look at fault, so it might be on the table.

Especially because modern views on child abuse are such that while she'd hold back more than she already does in terms of physical chastisement, Jiang Fengmian would also be under less societal pressure to not interfere in her disciplinary system too much, and both these factors mean he’s more likely to put his foot down.

So, concept: Jiang Fengmian, when his son is eight and his daughter thirteen, forces the issue of taking in his best friends' abused orphan child whom he’s just managed to track down in a nightmarish group home, probably leveraging the fact that wherever their money comes from it's mostly his, something he usually doesn't do, but she has always known he could, and been fucked up about it (reasonable) and hated him a little (less so) and hates him so much more now (understandable but still fucked up).

They were obviously still both pressured into this marriage by their families, because I literally cannot imagine them choosing one another of their own free will, and if they did that would be an au in an even more dramatic way than being modern, and no longer work as a character or relationship study as far as I'm concerned. I mean or it’s a cql-based au, but that’s not the version of this toxic marriage I find compelling.

Situation subsequently deteriorates to the point that when the boys are around twelve some outside party observes and is repulsed or otherwise upset by Yu Ziyuan's treatment of Wei Wuxian specifically--she's emotionally abusive to everyone in the family, canonically, and it harms Jiang Cheng significantly more than Wei Wuxian, which I think is also pretty explicit on the page, but she's more openly antagonistic about going after wwx because he's basically a proxy for her husband, whom she doesn't consider to be someone she's capable of harming.

And ofc in a modern family scenario, being abusive to your foster kid is more plainly personal misconduct than being unfair in how you discipline one of your husband's many students, even if it is his favorite. Which means she's very unlikely to chase him around with a whip, but whatever she does do will sting that much more emotionally.

Anyway the outside judgement provokes a more explicit confrontation than the last four years of maneuver and attempting to balance all the competing needs according to two very different standards. And the upshot is that by the time wwx is 13, the Jiangs are divorced. To avoid making a humiliating spectacle of themselves they present a weirdly united front in court and have a very smooth uncontested proceding, although the closed meetings with their respective lawyers involved a lot of vitriol.

Yu Ziyuan, despite having a smallish trust fund and probably a job of some kind, though one that's more prestigious than profitable like uh. Olympic fencing coach. Idk what they make but it's probably not enormous. She and Cangse Sanren probably competed in the same events back in the day.

Anyway she gets a solid chunk of alimony, the house, and primary custody of both her children, although Jiang Yanli is almost 18 at this point so mostly she just gets Jiang Cheng. Everyone thinks Jiang Cheng wants it that way, including sort of Jiang Cheng; he has this idea that if he has his mom to himself they'll finally have a good relationship, even though he's also terrified of being left all alone with her. He's complicated. Families are complicated.

Also she would never have forgiven him if he hadn't concurred that he wanted to stay with his mother because she was the only one On His Side.

Jiang Yanli ofc does not move out right away when she comes of age, in part because her brother needs her, but she probably does go to college, so she's only around part-time.

Jiang Fengmian, meanwhile, keeps most of his financial assets and Wei Wuxian, and gets his kids on the weekends.

So that's all setup for how you have this situation where Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng are entering high school--probably the same school, together, but no longer sharing the commute except maybe Monday mornings--and Wei Wuxian's primary residence is Jiang Cheng's dad's apartment.

It’s really chill. They get a cleaning service in once a week and eat a lot of delivery food, but they do cook at least once a week. The canonical thing where they largely agree about what’s funny and what’s right-or-wrong, and so forth, on the one hand really pops when there’s mostly no external conflict disrupting it, but also probably gains more complexity now that it’s not a thread of positivity fighting for its life against a background of drama. They get to know each other better than they ever had a chance to in canon.

Some of that isn't all that positive, because now they have the space to discover the places where they do actually have the capacity for friction, but both of them are very good at dispersing tension (I do tend to suspect jfm's dad was abusive he sure acts like it), and on the whole it's a good thing.

Jiang Cheng is going to have such a mental health crisis, and Jiang Fengmian is going to handle it so badly. Because of course when his son starts replicating his ex-wife's toxic attitudes and behaviors more now that she has primary custody, he’s going to feel guilty and like it’s His Fault, but he’s going to feel like it’s his fault that Jiang Cheng is growing up to be a shitty abusive person.

And even if he’d never say that the subtext would come through, in the assumptions he made when framing communications and so forth, as in canon, so the thing where Jiang Cheng’s father loves Wei Wuxian more than him, or at any rate likes him better and thinks he’s a better person and prefers his company, would wind up feeding into a self-reinforcing loop.

(Jin Zixuan's nasty public remark about Jiang Fengmian treating Wei Wuxian better than his own children hits Jiang Cheng significantly harder in this scenario, where he's being Tormented by the feeling that all his peers know his dad walked out on him for another son. Wei Wuxian's punch is therefore even more clearly primarily for Jiang Cheng's sake, although Jiang Cheng is probably more inclined to see it as being for his dad's. Jin Zixuan is about halfway between the Jiang kids' ages here, so he's a senior saying this shit to a sophomore.)

So that cycle builds to the point where Jiang Cheng would eventually have one of those rare moments where he resorts to actual violence, because his poisoned feelings are choking him so bad his rationality deserts him.

He’s not going to be nearly as close to actually murdering Wei Wuxian as he was in canon the night the Jiang Sect was massacred, because it’s a less extreme situation, but he still goes for the neck. So Jiang Fengmian is in his home office one Saturday about a year and a half into this new normal, and realizes the boys are fighting. He hears through the wall the accusation you stole my dad. He says to himself, well that’s terrible but interjecting myself into this situation would definitely make it worse.

Then he hears sounds of violence, and then an ominous abrupt silence, and updates that analysis.

And when he opens the door to the boys’ room, Wei Wuxian is being strangled. He’s not really resisting, which is because he’s made the call that that’s way more likely to get Jiang Cheng to snap out of it, and thinks it might make Jiang Cheng feel better to get it out of his system (because he does sort of feel like what Jiang Cheng is going through is all his fault, or at any rate is much worse as a result of decisions made for his sake) and is severely underestimating the dangers of choking, but looks to a third party like he’s already passed out and Jiang Cheng is still at it. Which is to say, it looks like a serious murder attempt on the brink of success.

So that sure made that situation worse!

So yeah that's my idea that I probably won't write but it sure has its teeth in me.

#answers #snarglepop-content #ask #ask game #mdzs #meta #modern au #family drama #character study #i'm really sorry to the person who sent me that madam yu ask i worked on it for SO long but i CANNOT find it in my drafts #i'm hoping i posted it and forgot????#anyway this fic is drawn from conclusions i reached trying to articulate for that ask my thoughts on modern yu ziyuan #and how hard she is to work #because yzy's characterization is pretty exquisitely responsive to her context #in such a way that if you change the context she will either behave differently or become ooc #so she's a major failure point in modern aus because she tends to have her characterization adjusted to fit the needs of the story #its desired beats or themes or whump quota #and if you do this carelessly then either wwx and jc also become ooc #or the story ceases to have consistent internal logic #mdzs is a pretty well-balanced machine!#despite how many elements come across sort of slapdash because mxtx literally did not care about that part #i.e. scale or logistics or history-as-such rather than just some of its societal features #but she didn't care *intentionally* so it's generally insulated from undermining the important beats which is such a good trick ak;kjlsdf #ANYWAY #i'm overly invested in how hard it is to depict this family as shown in the novel #because there's so little information and it's so tempting to disregard some of it to get a simpler narrative #so easy to take madam yu's word about things because she's the only one talking #so easy to punch up the melodrama in the wrong spots or iron out the actual ugly bits #to get something easier to grasp at but less realistic #concept up for adoption if anyone wants btw

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xiaokuer-schmetterling · 26 days ago

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Rules: Make a poll with five of your all-time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite. (character propaganda allowed & encouraged!)

lan wangji (hanguang-jun/light bearing lord)

shen wei (heipaoshi/black cloaked envoy)

wen kexing (guiguzi/ghost valley chief)

hua cheng (hua chengzu/crimson rain sought flower)

gideon nav (cavalier primary to the ninth house)

ps i was inspired by a post from @icemankazansky

no pressure tags, all welcome to participate!

@maelstrom-of-emotions @geck-motj @hangmanbradshaw @ferntasie @ra1nbowsk1ttle @gh0st-0f-luke @rynnerie @monsterbaity @gavilansblog @travelingneuritis @goneahead @mayberrycryptid @classygreydove @girlwarlock @furbyairride

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jiangwanyinscatmom · 5 months ago

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For the ask game..... what about you give me ALL of your headcanons about Wei Wuxian? 🤸🏼‍♀️

ALL???

Hmmmm personal favs:

When he's very deep in thought or while he's deeply engaged with a chore etc, he ends up sticking his tongue out a little

He starts giving any and all Lans a flower as his own inside joke whenever they do something for him

The only one he uses pet names for is Jin Ling ( how much is teasing how much is doting depends on the day)

He's the do it and find out what happens mom

He picks out his favorite pieces of food dishes to share, Jiang Yanli, now Lan Wangji

He plants rabbits in weird places that people come across in Cloud Recesses

He makes up bedtime stories and says it's because Lan Wangji needs more dream fuel (does he mean this to be dirty or not depends on the day)

He's a gourmet and knows when food is good

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wei wuxian #ask game #let him be a happy little domestic stay at home dad

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mxtxfanatic · 11 months ago

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Hello, new danmei fan here. I'm really late into danmei, just started last year (so I missed the hype). Just when I confused which blog to follow, I found your blog. Thanks so much for this blog of yours, it really helped me to understand more of the stories. I just finished MDZS, TGCG, SVSSS and now I'm reading 2Ha.

For this ask game, can I ask MDZS or SVSSS?

Before I start reading, many people said that SVSSS is inferior to other MXTX works, after finishing the books, I disagree, because I enjoy them all the same....

I mean, if starting last year is considered "late," then I'm also behind, because I only started reading things a few years ago lmao! But it's never too late when fandoms are still booming (for better or worse). So I see we're finishing out the mxtx novels.

MDZS

Favorite Character: Wei Wuxian

Favorite Arc: all Drunk Lan Wangji encounters!

Character I Think is Underrated: Lan Wangji, if i have to hear “he’s boring” from people who can’t read one more time…

Character I Think is Overrated: all of the antagonists and villains. Jiang Cheng is not "single mother!jiujiu," he is just a bitchless Wen Chao. Jin Guangyao is not "poor little Meng Yao forced to do things against his will," he is a a calculating murderer who will scheme against, betray, and kill anyone who stands between him and ultimate power. Madam Yu is not a "girlboss" (unless we accept the real meaning of that word, which is a woman who gains power by ingratiating herself into oppressive systems as the female alternative to corrupt male leaders), she is a domestic abuser who made every single person in her family and husband's clan miserable.

Favorite Ship/Pairing: Wangxian

Something I Love About the Book: I love the way this book is adamant about good always eventually being rewarded. That even if the outcome of doing good was terrible, that does not make the effort wasted or useless. Lan Wangji protecting Wei Wuxian at Nightless City was worth it even if he was almost killed for it, because it made sure that the yin tiger tally did not end up in the Jin Clan's hands as a completed weapon. Wei Wuxian saving the Wen was worth it even though he was killed for it, because A-Yuan got to live. Wen Qing and Wen Ning saving Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian was worth it even though Jiang Cheng betrayed them in the end, because their clan still got to live through its last descendant. None of their actions were met with immediate rewards, but the larger implications of them led to better outcomes than had they just kept to themselves and the status quo of corruption, as everyone else had.

SVSSS (my favorite of the three 🤗)

Favorite Character: Luo Binghe, hands down

Favorite Arc: Holy Mausoleum Arc, cause y'all (Shen Qingqiu 😒) gonna stop falsey accusing my baby, today!

Character I Think is Underrated: Bing-mei version of Luo Binghe, not because he's "unpopular," per se, but because mainstream fandom's perception of him seems to be that he is just Bing-ge who cries, and this is a complete mischaracterization of his character based on popular fanon. I see too much hate for him in this fandom because of it

Character I Think is Overrated: Shen Jiu. The man was a child abuser and died to one of his victims because he chose to be a child abuser. There is nothing tragic or unfair about that. Leave that man in the ether where he'll hopefully never have a chance to harm another person again.

Favorite Ship/Pairing: Bingqiu

Something I Love About the Book: Shen Qingqiu. The man is trying his damndest to do right in what he considers a doomed narrative, but the moment he realizes that his efforts have actually made things worse, he immediately pivots his actions. He never tries to justify himself, deflect from criticism, or misplace responsibility. He has one goal in mind, and that is to make as many people's lives as he possibly can better than what they originally ended up as.

#svsss asks #mdzs asks #ask games #anon #favorite svsss character close *close* second is sqq

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jcs-singular-slut-strand · 6 months ago

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chengxian for ship bingo pls!!!

Hey bbg 💜❤️

I think that shipping them because of canon and in spite of canon can and should co-exist. Cause look at those CQL acting choices, the way novel Wei Wuxian tries so hard to not think about him but then goes and subconsciously looks for him in everyone he meets. He tells Jin Ling to stop acting like Jiang Cheng at Yi City, why is that Wei Wuxian? WHY IS THAT??

Anyways I'm insane about them. Which is pretty apparent. I'm not too sure about wanting them to be happy, cause Xiao Zhan and Wang Zhuocheng both look really pretty when they cry so like... 🤷‍♀️. But I'm also not sure if they haven't kissed already, cause you know Wei Wuxian would be the type to say they should kiss "for practice"

THESE BASTARDS ARE SO AESTHETICALLY PLEASING!!!!!!! They fit so well together it isn't even funny. They grew up together, they trained together, they slot in together in order to function properly like those cardboard aeroplanes

It's great

I am also a very big fan of this video

And here's the blank bingo sheet

#chengxian #xiancheng #ask games #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #the untamed #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo dao zu shi

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aoxue · 7 days ago

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TITLES TIME: ONE DAY, LEAVING, QINGSU AND T4T SONGXIAO TO NOT FLOOD YOU WITH SEVERAL ASKS

ALRIGHT. Here we go! For the WIP Ask Game

One Day

The premise of this one is actually an exploration of a friendship between Song Lan and Mianmian over the years! The structure is based on the movie One Day (2011), based on the book of the same name, which follows two people over a number of years, checking in on what they're doing, separately or together, on the anniversaries of their first meeting.

Right now, this fic is starting with the two of them meeting when Song Lan brings Jiang Yanli to Jinlintai in CQL, and would follow them through Mianmian's exit from the Jin sect, them resettling Qishan refugees together, Mianmian mourning Jin Zixuan's death and building a family, Song Lan's continued search for Xiao Xingchen and his eventual disappearance....

She watches Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan’s stilted reunion, but the sect heir’s relief is obvious – at least to Luo Qingyang. She oversees Jiang Yanli’s escort into the Jin household and into safety. Song Daozhang remains on the fringes doing the same. He speaks little, but he cuts in as needed. He has a private conversation with Jin Zixuan, with Luo Qingyang to listen, and he explains the circumstances of Jiang Yanli’s arrival, the fate of the Jiang clan, and the anticipated later arrival of Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian alike. He emphasizes the strict secrecy of this information. But when his role is fulfilled, he steps back into the shadows, letting the chaos of the night wash through the Jin household while he watches from the sidelines.

Leaving

This is my take on what would happen if Song Lan got ahold of Xiao Xingchen before Xiao Xingchen left the celestial mountain post-surgery. It's not a pretty encounter.

Song Lan is sleeping, five steps away. Xiao Xingchen wonders how he looks, lying in the dark. If the worst of the cuts and chemical burns are still visible on his skin, and if the immortal master’s miraculous healing has mended his broken bones by now. If his face is still troubled by pain and grief beneath the bandages over his eyes, or if he’s finally managed to achieve some peace in sleep’s oblivion. He could be within arm’s reach in a breath. Xiao Xingchen could so easily run his hand through Song Lan’s long hair, press a final kiss to the top of his head before parting ways with him forever. He stands there, his fingers curling at his side. His shifu's cold words from days before echo in his mind. “This isn’t your home anymore.” He can’t stay here.

Qingsu

Wen Qing/Qin Su is my ultimate MDZS wlw ship and the idea is maybe someday I write about it. Premise is Jin Guangyao wasn't going to just squander the talent of the greatest doctor of their generation and Wen Qing has been yet another Jin Dungeon Secret right up until the time of Qin Su's suicide... attempt. Jin Guangyao pronounces her dead, but he actually hides her away with the best medical care available. And she also becomes a Jin Secret. For how long? Enough for some healing to happen and some romance to blossom.

Even with the thick veil obscuring her lower face, Qin Su thinks she would be beautiful, if not for the heavy darkness beneath her eyes and the sallowness of her skin. Her hair has gone grey at the temples, flying away from her plain topknot bun, and framing her level, piercing gaze. She's hard to look away from.

T4T Songxiao

As it says on the tin, Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen are both trans men. They discover this when Song Lan's possible endometriosis rears its head :( So it's a hurt/comfort piece with Xiao Xingchen looking after him, followed by some meaningful self-disclosure, including Xiao Xingchen sharing information about xianxia testosterone and celestial top surgery lol

“Song Daozhang,” he calls – just loud enough that he hopes he’ll be heard, but soft as possible to keep Song Lan from startling. “I’m back.” A miserable groan rises from the other side of the tent wall, followed by the heavy rustling of fabrics. “Can I come in?” A few moments with some further rustling pass, and then an affirmative grunt comes. Xiao Xingchen pokes his head into the tent to find Song Lan on his side, bundled in blankets, although there’s barely a chill in the evening air. His unbound hair tangles all around his face, which is twisted up in discomfort. His outer robe lies shrugged off to the side, and his boots are haphazardly flopped near the tent’s entrance, nothing like the neat piles Song Lan usually keeps his belongings organized in. Never has Xiao Xingchen seen the honorable, dignified Song Zichen Daozhang in such a state. Something aches in his chest when he looks at him, unguarded and hurting like this.

#asks #ask game #woohoo going big to start out #songxiao #qingsu #aoxue.doc #idk do i fill up the character tags with this. i guess #xiao xingchen #song lan #luo qingyang #qin su #wen qing #mdzs

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