#mdzs husband au

[captainkirkk]

I want to see characters being taken care of in an explicit and worshipful way. Home-cooked meals. Hair brushed and braided by gentle hands. Little gifts just because.

I want to read about characters who are not used to kindness being bombarded by acts of service. This trope works romantically and platonically. Give me found family and acts of service - all the ways a character is wrapped up in wordless, explicit care after years of cruelty and having no idea how to handle. I need it.

[mediocretosubpar-soup]

trapped without escape scenario. jc and lwj. only one living person can leave. jc argues that because his sect will be fine w/o him, and jl is doing well, it should be lwj bec. wwx needs him.

and lwj has to talk him into a compromise where jc drowns him, drags him out and then revives him. bec. wwx will not be fine w/o jc alive in this world. this is asking a lot from lwj bc. jc is doubtful. lwj has to recount almost every instance of wwx longly talking about jc. this is made more terrible than it already is because at some point, jc tries to reassure him that wwx clearly is totally gone on lwj and much happier with him than he ever was in jc's company. this is uncomfortable because jc is so clearly hurt by wwx's avoidance and so earnestly happy that wwx has found happiness. lwj has had a very clear one-dimensional picture of jc in his head for over a decade and now jc is doing things that are not one-dimensional, don't fit what lwj has taken as truth for almost half his life and lwj doesn't enjoy this.

eventually, lwj is gently drowned (they put him to sleep first bec. jc insists that drowning is traumatic), dragged out of the trap and then revived via mouth to mouth resuscitation and gentle zappings of zidian. jc then proceeds to carry him out of the trap and choke the people who sprung the trap to death. lwj groggily approves of jc telling them that they were fools to try and go after wwx via them, jc even thinks of asking after the people who set this plan into motion. jc then takes lwj to an inn where jc takes care of lwj who, to his dawning horror, realizes that wwx and jc are similar in their bedside manner.

eventually, jc takes lwj back to cloud recess where wwx is already worrying and ready to fuss over him. jc, in spite of everything lwj has told him, is going to quietly leave. never saying anything! which is why lan wangji is forced to invite him in for tea. (this invitation is incredibly awkward and truly unfortunately phrased but it clearly costs lan wangji so much to extend this olive branch that jiang cheng can't refuse.) wwx has no idea what is going on but somehow jc and lwj are getting almost along?

[demonicfarmer69]

pathetic jfm strikes again

[bananaproved]

Sad hc of the day is that Meng Shi's father used to be an official of a decent rank until the day he commited a major mistake, or got accused of an important crime which led to his entire houshold being convicted with him. Important members of the household got killed, but unimportant ones, like Meng Shi that was a young girl at the time, got reduced to a pariah status. For women, this kind of status often meant being sent to prostitution, which was what happened to Meng Shi.

When she had Meng Yao, she knew she would not be able to offer him the same kind of happy childhood she got, but she did everything she could to try to help him to get closer to the position he would have naturally gotten if this tragedy did not happen to their familly before. Since passing the imperial exam was not an option because of their status (and let me tell you that if he had the possibility to pass it, Meng Yao would absolutly slay the imperial exam and officialdom in general. Bro would be in the top 3 graduate on first try and become a 4th rank official before 30.) becoming a cultivator was probably the second best option and what Meng Shi choose to bet on.

Sorry for a hc that make Meng Shi's already sad life a little more sad in a different way but tbh I think it really make sense for her, it would explain why she is so educated, why it is so important for her that Meng Yao achieve a good and respected position and why JIn Guangyao choose to wear an official cap as soon as he got recognized by his father.

[waitineedaname]

something that will never fail to be amusing to me is when an mdzs college au needs the name of a professor, and then suddenly shen qingqiu is there

[rarepears]

wen ruohan x shen jiu? shen jiu gets turned into wen ruohan's newest consort?

Oh man, imagine a different kind of Wen Jiu fic where it’s really Madame Wen getting reunited with an old childhood friend turned sect leader upon the death of the former’s husband.

A very unfortunate death.

And of course when a lonely widow struggling to death with the consequences of his husband’s death…

No one is very surprised to hear that Madam Wen gets remarried. Especially not when it entails getting married to one of the most powerful sect leaders on the continent.

(Heaven knows that a strong sect leader is very much needed to reign in the two Wen heirs who aren’t related to Madam Wen by blood. If even Wen Ruohan couldn’t control his unruly waste of a second son from something as drastic and insane as attacking another sect - rumors has it that the recently deceased sect leader’s death was a stroke from hearing Wen Chao’s actions! - one could only hope that a more powerful sect leader such as Yue Qingyuan could be more successful.

Didn’t Yue Qingyuan defeat one of the cultivation world’s biggest threats, a heavenly emperor?)

[digitalstowaway]

AU where nmj doesn't die

He does suffer from qi deviation as jgy planned, but he didn't die. He just kinda. Hides away. nhs is forced into being sect leader all the same, becoming known as headshaker.

lxc doesn't speak to him--he tries, but nmj won't see anyone.

Years go by. Shit goes down. jgy dies.

And nmj goes out in public for the first time. The first thing he does is see lxc who's very much not okay after killing jgy. It's okay though bc nmj has the vibe of a soaking wet cat.

All is good eventually and lxc goes to his uncle like 🥺 can he stay here?

And lqr is like sure why not what's one more husband in Cloud Recesses? Bring a donkey too like wwx. Who cares anymore.

nmj is uninterested in cultivation anymore and just spends his time doing lil crafts (he understands the appeal now of hobbies but he will not be telling nhs that bc they are NOT on speaking terms)

lqr actually likes nmj though. Like he always has and now he's like oh he's nice. wwx can learn a thing or two.

wwx is always in the background throwing his hands up in the air like all he does is breathe and it breaks three rules

[lizhly-writes]

anyway what if qijiu mdzs reincarnation au. yue qi gets to be jiang fengmian and shen jiu gets to be yu ziyuan. fun new dynamic where jiang cheng IS dad's favorite child because he's so much like mom. tragically his mom hates him now (sort of, it's complicated) because he's so much like her and god, does she hate herself. HER favorite is jiang yanli. for no apparent reason (certainly not because jyl is anything like her husband >:o).

i guess something explodes when you bring wwx in.

[sleepyssnail]

Welcome to yet another "What Shall I write Next" Poll! And without further adieu!

These will all be written! If all goes well I'll try to finish all of the ones on this poll in order of most voted on to least (with my other little passion projects in between, namely the SQH 12/12 Achievement AU). I just have too many WIPs and the inability to choose.

Anyway HAPPY VOTING!

[weirdocat83]

MDZS AU idea!

It’d be bittersweet if post canon after some time passes WWX gets welcomed into the lan clan properly. Like, they start actually treating him like family and he has no fucking clue how to handle this development or process it because his place in “family” has almost always been ambiguous.

it’s never really clear where he stands with the jiangs and I’m 90% sure that’s intentional. Meanwhile, although the wens clearly love him in a familial sense, he was also their protector from everyone who wanted to kill them which also makes his place weird. It’s also possible that he never processed that that’s what an actual family is like.

So imagine someone with next to no proper concept of family suddenly being welcomed into a clan that tends to be so protective of each other that it can actually backfire from being good into being concerningly bad. Meanwhile Lan Qiren and Lan Xichen are both kind of having mental breakdowns because what do you mean he had little to no parental guidance??? What do you mean he was practically a scapegoat for the Jiang sect??? (They both fight the urge to desecrate a certain clan leader and wife’s graves…) at the same time so many things start to click into place. (Lan Qiren may or may not start feeling some guilt in regards to how he treated WWX when he first met him) Lan Qiren tells WWX a few stories about his parents, what they were like, what they looked like, their history, etc. they start to get incredibly protective of him while Wwx has No Clue how to react. Meanwhile LWJ just holds his husband close in his confusion because this man needs to adjust to people caring about him.

Later they end up interrogating Jiang Cheng about their childhood in lotus pier for confirmation (because wwx has a weird memory and 100% does not remember all the horrible things that happened) and once what Wwx said was more than confirmed nothing overt happens but behind the scenes they get very protective and make an effort to to include him a little more.

[myblurryreality]

MDZS headcanons (& fanon) takes that no one asked for! 👍🏽

- Wei Wuxian would have left the Jiang sect if the war never happened

- In the right circumstances, Jin Zixuan and Wei Wuxian could be friendly (idk Abt friends)

- Lan Xichen and Jiang Yanli would have made a cute and content couple, like the quiet constant love.

- Jiang Fengmain and Wei Wuxian's parents drifted apart but there was no true bad blood

- Qingheng-Jun was selfish and paralyzed with it, he was too narrow-minded to see the hurtful ripple effects his decisions would have.

- I headcanon that though they look enough alike to be referred to as twins, Lan Xichen favors his father and Lan Wangji favors his mother.

- I think Wei Wuxian would have developed Guido eventually, even without the war.

- In the modern world Jiang Yanli would have gone low contact with some of her family.

- Wei Wuxian, similarly, would have done so with the Jiang's in the modern world

- Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji would have gotten together during the lectures under the right circumstances.

- This is not a headcanon, but I relate to Lan Wangji's mortification over getting a crush, in this economy.

- In a soulmate AU, where one gets the name of their soulmate at 25 that only you and your soulmate can see, Jiang Cheng gets his to only realize it's someone he killed or he killed someone dear to them. (This is a fic idea)

- Lan Wangji (15) is the youngest of the young masters we were introduced to in his generation and Jin Zixuan (16) is the oldest.

- I feel like Jin Zixuan and Wen Qing would have made a good political match. She's cunning and experienced enough to navigate the trappings of the Jin Clan and guide her husband.

- I headcanon that the Yu clan while politically ruthless when marrying off their daughters, were generally decent people for gentry folks. Madam Yu's personality was all her own.

- I also headcanon them as matriarchal and that they offered to take in Wei Wuxian but Jiang Fengmain refused.

- Madam Jin is a bitch but I don't think she's Madam Yu bad.

- Wei Wuxian would have made something of himself even if he had never been taken into a clan, I could see him becoming a farmer.

- While I much prefer the book canon, the handfasting scene in 'The Untamed' adaption opens up so many plot doors.

[qiu-yan]

scratch all other discourse, the single most obnoxious MDZS opinion is that jiang yanli "didn't do enough" for wei wuxian. tell me why i'm seeing people in the goddamn subreddit criticizing yanli for not "protecting wei wuxian from yu ziyuan" when yanli was literally also a child?? under the power of the same guardian???

within the story, jiang yanli repeatedly puts the happiness of wei wuxian (and also jiang cheng) before her own happiness. she was their emotional caretaker in a way yu ziyuan and jiang fengmian never were, and even though it was unfair and wrong that a child was parentified in this way, she still loved her brothers until the very end. on a metafictional level, meanwhile, jiang yanli is already written to be less a person in her own right and moreso a high-impact fridgee (thanks to the post that coined this term); her main narrative purpose is not to exist in her own right but rather merely to add tragedy to a male character's story. therefore, on every level ranging from watsonian to doylist, jiang yanli has already dedicated basically everything she has towards her brothers.

and this is still not enough for you? you want to make yanli's existence about wei wuxian Even More - the level of disregard for her own personhood in canon wasn't enough for you? is yanli a person, or is she wei wuxian's shiny accessory?

is this why so many yanli lives AU fics have yanli completely and immediately forgive wei wuxian for husband-manslaughter? even though canon itself states that she could neither say that she had forgiven wei wuxian, nor the opposite?

the same reasoning applies to jiang cheng stans who argue that "yanli didn't love jiang cheng enough," too. jesus mcfucking christ.

[panther-os]

absolutely in fucking love with @scarlettohairdye 's name for mianmian's husband, it just Fits in a sort of mouth feel and brain clicky way. however I cannot for the life of me find anywhere on the internet where scarlett mentions what characters are used in his name so I went hunting for the most likely suspects. there are approximately a million different ways to write fan wenxin, including two common surnames and one that has to do with trading/merchant-ship, but this one made me laugh and also just Feels Right

凡温馨

(fán wēn xīn)

google will tell you this means "where warmth" but Google is a liar and my actual Chinese English dictionary written by actual Chinese people says it means "common/ordinary/mundane comfort" (if you are also actually chinese and this is wrong please dm me)

but I do think "common comfort" is an amazing name for a non-cultivator who's just a stable presence supporting his wife

I'm also working on a list right now of English names for mdzs characters, for me to reference if I ever write a fic where they need to use them (somewhat likely, writing fic is hit or miss rn, but I live in an area with a ton of exchange students, immigrants, and visiting overseas businessmen so those situations are familiar to me) and I took the liberty of putting down "William Fan/Wendy Fan" for Fan Wenxin. 😅

anyways scarlett is my current favorite author when it comes to fic for my special interests. recs include:

Covered in Bees | T, Wangxian | Beekeeping au with tons of bee fun facts, one of my favorites long before I read scarlett's other stuff

leave all your love and your longing behind | E, Wangxian | Modern au feat. An Asshole Dog (TM) and some of my favorite modern characters dynamics ever

i know who i want to take me home | E, Wangxian | Su She and Jin Zixun are assholes and bartender Wei Wuxian rescues drunk Lan Wangji

There's a Baby Loose in the Burial Mounds! | T, gen | a-Yuan is very loved

My Zhiji's On Broadway | E, Wangxian | the most amazing of drunk Lan Wangji shenanigans, feat. the Washington State Convention Center as Sir Not Appearing In This Fic

stray cat strut | E, Wangxian | Wei Wuxian is cursed (ish) as a cat, Lan Wangji finds a random cat on a night hunt, aka the fic that gets vocal trash's cover of stray cat strut stuck in my head every time I read the title

[coolshadowtwins]

The next step on my MDZS Pokémon au, with part 1 being here, we’re going back in time from the Juniors!

Rules that I mentioned- 1) Everyone has a team of three. 2) their started is the equivalent to their sword, and has their swords name. If they have a second, named weapon, then a second Pokémon has a name. Let’s go!

So the Pokémon protagonists that we will be following are, *Drum roll 🥁🥁🥁*

Yep! It’s Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian!

So the story starts out with them only having an Eevee each. All three siblings got an Eevee, as the family got the eggs from JFM’s own Vaporeon.

The Jiangs own the water gym in the region, except JFM is also an elite four. So when the tournament season starts, and JFM can’t take gym challengers and instead has to take elite four challengers, who would man the gym?

The answer is Madam Yu. But her main team is not primarily water based, so she has to use gym Pokémon to match her husbands theme, which she hates. (I don’t have her drawn yet, so when I do, I’ll post her) She wants JC to take over, but he can’t with just an Eevee. So, it’s time for his Pokémon journey!

JC just wants to do his family proud, and get water types to take over the gym. He’s fully expecting to evolve his Eevee into a vaporeon. I had a little trouble, debating what other Pokémon to give him that felt JC, and if you can think of something better, please tell me! But I ended up going with Feebas, because I can only imagining him trying to fish up a Magikarp to get a gyarados (after probably episodes and episodes of trying and failing to get a water type) only to get a Feebas. And through ~shenanigans~ he has to keep the ugly, weak fish.

Of course, he doesn’t really know what it evolves into. Imagine his surprise later…. (I have a separate, older JC drawn up to show later)

I gave him a lotad, because you’re fighting a angry looking trainer that sends out a Ludicolo is hilarious to me. I don’t have an image of how he got that Pokémon, or when, but I do think it’s his last.

Now to WWX.

He got his Eevee, Suiban, at the same time as JC, when they are 10~ just a little after coming to live with the Jiangs. Side note here- I have no idea how his dog phobia works here. Is it a specific dog? Is it just dog Pokémon? I said before that Yiling is the graveyard town of the region, so maybe he’s just scared of Greavard. He was still on the streets after losing his parents, just like canon.

I think Zorua is his last Pokémon. I gave him that one purely because I felt it fit his vibes. I think he gets Drifloon when they pass through Yiling, to challenge the gym there. He actually had this Pokémon as a kid, and it got left in Yiling because it wasn’t in a ball. So when it saw WWX again, it just started following him again. I gave him Drifloon because of the Pokédex entries saying how it steals children! I felt that it was horrifying enough to work! JFM comes to find his dead friends child, only to find him living on the streets, with a Drifloon following him? Horrifying.

I think he gets his Drifloon before JC gets anymore Pokémon. Maybe he even gets his Zoroa before JC gets anymore Pokémon. This makes JC that much more desperate to catch something, leading to his fumble with the fishing.

I also don’t know which Pokémon gets to be Chenqing. I feel like, being the one got in Yiling, it should be Drifloon. But I think Zorua would be the ‘feared’ equivalent to the demonic cultivation. I would love to hear your thoughts.

Another thing that I imagine for WWX is that he had expected to take over the gym when JC, in the future, started completely taking over for his dad- gym and elite four. Like Madam Yu is doing. He fully expects to evolve his Eevee into a vaporeon as well, and had expected to get a team of water types to match. JC is not that happy when he ends the journey with the team that he has!

But it’s fine, right? He’ll just used borrowed Pokémon like Madam Yu does, and it’ll be no problem!

I was going to add a third to this post, but it got long! So I’ll add it in the next one!

Next time! The boys first gym battle, with (reminder) only an Eevee each!

[snake-and-mouse]

As much as I adore Lan Wangji taking Sizhui in and raising him like, hello this is my perfect son who I adore his name is I Miss My Dead Husband. There's al most nothing I love more than mdzs aus where A-yuan is raised by Wei Wuxian in the Burial Mounds and is still his adorable sweet little bunny self but also becomes a creepy ass Yiling Patriarch Jr.