#untamed mianmian

[drama--universe]

Nature specialist

Requested by anonymous: Howdy-doody! How about The Untamed characters of your own choice x the reader who can interact with nature and animals? They are something like "reader's scouts", so the reader is always the first to know what is happening around them.

Pairing: Untamed girls x gn!reader

Jiang Yanli:

Wuxian had ran off again, courtesy of Jiang Cheng

more specifically the dogs that he had sent Wuxian's way

everyone had been searching for hours, the sky had already turned dark when a last resort was made

you walked in, you were probably the same age as Yanli (14 years old)

which surprised some people, including the girl

you kneeled on the ground, starting where they knew that Wuxian had run off

you walked carefully, hand remaining on the ground as you traced your fingers through the sand

you stopped only after ten minutes or so

freezing in your spot before shushing the family behind you

a deer stood on your path, unmoving as it stared

then, most expectingly, you approached the deer

now Yanli had tried this before as a child

always curious about the wildlife that surrounded her home

always unsuccessful, the animals scattered immediatley after noticing her

yet, the deer approached you and laid its head in your hands

you calmly whispered to the deer, petting it before letting it run off

"Will you come down now?"

you called out to seemingly no one, but looking up to the top of the trees

Wuxian's voice called back softly, asking if the dogs were around

Yanli called out this time, telling him that Jiang Cheng and his dogs had remained at the house

soon enough, Wuxian was climbing down the tree like he wasn't just an eight year old

you gave the kid a smile, picking him up as he waddles your way

he fell asleep the second you hand him to Yanli

she thanks you with a smile before inviting you to stay

she could hardly let you leave at this hour

you end up staying in her room next to her

(much to her mother's disappointment)

you don't sleep much, Yanli insists on questioning you

because she needs to know how you do it

you explain that you can talk to the animals and read the ground

it's like second nature, which she doesn't really get

she asks questions throughout the night

you don't sleep

she insists that you write her through your travels

and you do, which forms a bond with her

which may turn into love later in life

Luo Qingyang:

she was pissed when she first met you

not at you, of course

she didn't even know you, so how could she possibly be pissed at you?

rather at Jin Zixuan

because he's an ass, like usual

she finds herself by the river to calm down, soon surrounded by some birds and rabbits

one bird approaches her first

a cute drongo bird sits on her leg, staring straight at her with curiosity

she's careful to pet it, but it melts underneath her fingers

"He likes you."

your voice is gentle, soft enough to not spook the animals around her

you sit down, a bit closer than Mianmian liked

you notice and scoot a bit further away

in a second, you're surrounded by all the animals

excluding the drongo bird, who stayed close by the girl

she just stares at it confusion before asking how you know

and you're kind enough to explain it

she lights up, smiling brightly and basically vibrating from excitement

get ready for the weirdest pop-quiz ever

because she had questions

a lot of questions

and she ain't leaving until she gets answer

you got there at ten in the morning, you leave when the sun starts to dissapear beneath the tree line

logically, you miss all classes of the day

not that either of you care much

Mianmian speaks bluntly, anything the girl thinks will spout from her mouth

which makes it certain that you will never be stuck in silence around her

but you listen to every single thought, smiling softly the whole way back

you get caught by Jin Zixuan

her mood drops immediately as she glared at the male

you split up, but you send a wink her way before whisteling softly

which leads to a flock of birds to swoop down at Zixuan, messing his hair up and ripping his clothes

you can see the corners of Mianmian's lips lift as she tries to hold her laughter

she'll come to you everytime after he annoys her in any way

but she also just hangs out with when she has free time

Wen Qing:

she meets you later in her life

curtesy of the whole Wen massacre

more specifically in burial mounds

even though the grounds were long decayed from the years of dark energy that hung around, animals had started returning when Wuxian had neutralized part of the forest and mountain

she had warned Wuxian of the trouble it could bring

so when you arrived at the base, she could only give Wuxian the typical "I told you so"-look

luckily, you mean no harm to anyone

you don't care for the opinions of the higher groups against the Wens, you care more for the human lives that were lost because of the feud

seeing how they live just made your stomach twist, because no one deserves to live like a hunted animal

especially not because of someone else's mistakes

you keep yourself busy with Yuan, he is fascinated with the animals and you don't mind indulging him

Wen Qing keeps her eyes on the two of you the whole time

two reasons

one, she viewed Yuan as a little brother and wanted to know if he was safe

two, she was fascinated by the fact that you were able to communicate with the forest and its inhabitants

you seemed to constantly be aware of the animals surrounding you and how the forest felt in a way

sometimes she even caught you staring in the distance with a sad look

she approached you later in the evening, when she caught you once more

you don't even look away from the forest as you answer

"the forest is crying"

it was a simple statement, yet it held so much meaning when you said it

and when Wen Qing looked to the forest, she could almost sense what you meant

maybe it was the creaking of the wood or the cries of animals, but she could believe what you said with ease

she had heard weirder stuff before (unfortunately)

from then on, she caught you more often as you stared into the forest

and every evening, the two of you talked

somedays it was about the forest, but other days you just talked

about past events, life or just yourself

and after a few conversations, you are sure that you didn't want to leave

[nixster627]

Wei Wuxian: What's your type?

Lan Wangji: Kind, smart and also dumb, brave, a good fighter.

Wei Wuxian: That kinda sounds like me. Too bad I'm not a woman.

Lan Wangji: Did I mention dumb?

Wei Wuxian: Yes.

Lan Wangji: Good. Just making sure.

[wangxian-the-zhijis]

The ship:

The shipper:

The anti:

The one who doesn’t know why he feels miserable about the ship he ships:

「除非藍湛，你喜歡绵绵!」

[mushroomwriter]

THE UNTAMED episode 12

[raine-hearts-art]

@qin-su-week Day 2: Sects and Wandering Cultivators

Luo Qingyang returns from her travels to greet the youngest daughter of Sect Leader Qin.

[lewiscarrolatemybrain]

I think the whole fandom way overlooks the whole Mianmian thing. Like, I get it, the Xuanwu cave was the first almost-confession scene, Wangxian fought together and treated each others' injuries and feverishly cuddled. I understand the distraction.

But only Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji and Jin Zixuan stood up for Mianmian. Even before Su She threw her to the Wen, the other disciples she looked to for help actively stood back and would have just. Let her be strung up as bait.

Yes, these were frightened teenagers who knew they were at a disadvantage. They were also trained warriors who had, supposedly, been preparing for similarly dangerous scenarios for years. And out of that entire gathering of people, literally only three were willing to protect her. Only three were willing to fight.

That's indicative of a much deeper problem.

Obviously post-timeskip the Junior Quartet, in a similar situation, would stand up for an innocent. But would their peers? The Lan are oh-so-very-righteous, and we talk about Su She like he was an outlier, but there were other Lan in that cave. There were other Lan who stood aside and did nothing.

Wei Wuxian loved his Jiang sect-siblings, he trained and taught most of them, but they did not protect Mianmian. The Nie, for all the noise they make about honor, did not protect Mianmian. The Jin are the only sect who kind of have an excuse, on account of they don't claim to be good people, but it was the Jin heir who immediately stood up to help.

Nobody else even tried.

... Lan Xichen was at the raid on the Burial Mounds. Nie Mingjue was at the raid on the Burial Mounds. They saw the reality of the Wen they had come to kill, and they killed them anyway.

Their disciples -- kids they had helped train and teach and guide -- were in a cave with an innocent girl, who was just as afraid and unarmed and helpless as they were. That girl was going to be murdered, her body desecrated, used as bait to lure out a monster -- and they all stood back, and did nothing.

Nobody else even tried.

[khattikeri]

drives me nuts when people treat jin guangyao or wei wuxian like they're socialist revolutionaries like no! they're not!! in fact their respective roles in society and complacency regarding its hierarchies is why ANY of the story even happens to begin with!!!

jin guangyao doesn't hold bitterness just because he was born lower class. he is bitter because others deride him and his prostitute mother in spite of both their intelligence, skills, and efforts to climb the ladder.

why do you think we were shown scenes of other prostitutes in the brothel deriding meng shi for being literate, for "trying" so hard? why do you think we were shown scenes of anxin taunting meng yao and throwing shit at him because he was trying to learn cultivation at his mother's behest?

why do you think jin guangyao arranged for the arson of that brothel, burned to the ground with everyone except sisi inside? that's not the behavior of someone who believes in true equality and the inherent worth of sex workers as human beings!

that's the behavior of someone who thinks he's better than them. the behavior of a man who already came up on top through political games and war crimes, backstabbing and spying for the sake of the "greater good".

i won't rehash his argument to nie mingjue that he didn't have a choice-- he had some choice, but no matter what he does his class will come up and people will always assume the worst and try to hurt him for it, which forces his hand to do whatever will protect him best (hence 'no choice').

jin guangyao did everything he could to secure his own safety and a place among those already higher up. and by that point, he'd won it.

the fact that the temple rebuilt on the brothel site is to guanyin, the goddess of mercy, is even more ironic! the fact that jin guangyao has the goddess's statue carved to look like his own mother is proof that he viewed both her and himself as higher than them. more worthy than them.

of course he cared about the general welfare of others (read: the watchtowers). but consider also that there is no watchtower near yi city, which ended up being one of xue yang's playgrounds. jin guangyao can and will turn a blind eye to certain sufferings if it is convenient to him.

sure, jin guangyao made undeniable contributions to cultivation society and accessibility, but he is not at any point trying to topple existing class structures. his adherence to them is in fact integral to his own downfall in the end.

it brings with it the inevitability of society conveniently ignoring his triumphs and genuine moments of humanity to deride him once more as an evil, disgusting son of a whore once his crimes come to light.

now for wei wuxian. he's the righteous protagonist of the story and he doesn't give a fuck what society thinks, yes, but he wasn't out there trying to cause an uprising so that all the poor servant classes and lower could become cultivators. he wasn't trying to redistribute wealth or insinuate that those who are lower deserve to be viewed as equal to the gentry.

the most critical and non-explicitly stated fact of mo dao zu shi is that wei wuxian has always been resigned to his position in the social hierarchy.

his unreliable narration, especially regarding his own past and thoughts, is so damn important. he doesn't EVER tell the reader directly that people treated him any which way at their leisure because of his parents' differing social classes.

no. instead we are shown how much prestige he is afforded as cangse-sanren's son-- reputation as a talented and charming young cultivator, made head disciple of Yunmeng Jiang-- and how little respect he is given in the same breath, as the son of servant wei changze.

the way he is treated by others is as fickle as the wind. if he obeys and does as told, there is no reward. of course he did that, that was the expectation to start with! if he does anything even slightly inconvenient, there is a punishment. of course he has no manners, what else would you expect from an ungrateful son of a servant?

wei wuxian's righteousness is not a matter of adhering to principles he was explicitly taught, the way nie mingjue values honor or the way jiang cheng always tries to prove himself. wei wuxian does the right thing regardless of what the consequences are to him because his good deeds are always downplayed and his bad deeds are always singled out, no matter who or how many people were doing it with him.

he has faced this double standard since childhood. there are points in the novel where it's clear that this sticks out to wei wuxian, but does he ever fight back against that view of himself? does he EVER, at any point in the story, explain his actions and choices to jianghu society and try to debate or appeal to their sense of reason?

no. because he knows, at his very core, that any explicit deviation from their interests whatsoever will be punished.

slaughtering thousands of people is fine when they want him to do it, and when the alternative is unjust torture, re-education camps, and encroachment upon other sects' lands.

slaughtering thousands of people who are trying to paint him as evil for not going along with their genocidal plans, however, is punished.

wei wuxian knows his acceptance among the higher classes is superficial and unsteady. from the age of 10, when jiang fengmian took him in, he knew subconsciously that he could be kicked out at any time.

he knows that cultivation society doesn't care about war crimes and concentration camps and mistreatment of the remaining wen survivors of the sunshot campaign. but the right thing to do now that they aren't at wartime is to help them, plus they'd punish him either way for it, so he will.

in this regard wei wuxian is more self-aware of his position than jin guangyao. he does care about common people and he does try his best to help them as an individual. even if that ends up with him disabled, arrested, targeted in sieges, or dead.

but is he revolutionary? in the full equality, fight the establishment, rewrite laws, change social structures and people's perceptions of class sense?

no. no. he isn't.

now my knowledge of chinese society and history is fairly limited to my hindu diaspora upbringing and our shared cultural similarities ... but speaking to what i absolutely know us true, adherence to one's social class is expected.

this is rigid. efforts and merits might bring you some level of mobility, but in the end, the circumstances of your birth will always be scrutinized first, and your behavior compared to the stereotypes of where and how you originate.

mdzs is not about revolution, and none of its characters are able to truly change its society. there is no grand "maybe cutsleeves aren't inherently bad" or "i'm sorry for persecuting you and believing hearsay, you were truly a good person all along!" at the finale.

people ignore history and repeat it again with the next batch of ugly gossip and rumors.

wei wuxian, lan wangji, and luo qingyang find peace only by distancing themselves from cultivation society and its opinions.

jin guangyao and wei wuxian both cannot ever escape from others' perception of their origins and actions. regardless of their personal beliefs, they are not revolutionaries.

[uncorrectintamed]

MianMian: Ladies and Gentleman allow me to present. Woman not caring. [Points to self]

[yudidoodles]

Mianmian is so chill in this scene compared to Lan Zhan here and it's always funny like it's amazing only Lan Xichen appears to pick up his crush when he gets so defensive of Wei Ying but noooo Lan Zhan can't stand him

[littleartbot]

Magical girls Jiang Yanli , Wen Qing and MianMian for @mdzsshoujo mashup

[cloudplaygrounds]

[eastofakkala]

The Sunshot Generation as Babies/Toddlers

(And That One Story that was always told about them when they got older).

Wei Wuxian: Surprisingly, was a very good kid. There are shockingly few juicy stories. 

Lan Wangji: By contrast, he was an absolutely feral toddler who terrified EVERYONE. Lan Xichen was the only one who could settle him down. It got so bad that Wangji got to attend class with his brother, because discipline did not work. 

Jiang Cheng: Very cuddly baby/toddler. Was nearly kidnapped once or twice because he was offered cuddles. Developed his temper/paranoia/general prickliness later on. 

Jiang Yanli: Accidentally kidnapped Wen Chao once. She wanted to give him soup because he looked sad. He was one year old and could not properly explain he was supposed to stay in place. They were halfway to Lotus Pier when it was discovered that the Jiang delegation had accidentally taken Wen-gongzi hostage. 

Lan Xichen: Much better toddler than Wangji, but for a while refused to walk anywhere on his own. Surprisingly, the adult who gave in to his (very muted) temper tantrums most often was Lan Qiren. 

Nie Mingjue: At his 100-day ceremony, he cried every time Wen Ruohan got close. His father was very apologetic. His mother thought it was hysterical and had to duck into antechambers to laugh in private. 

Nie Huaisang: Normally too sick to do much, but bit Jin Guangshan one time at a delegation when he didn’t listen to the also-small Nie Mingjue’s warnings that Sang-er didn’t want to be held at the moment. Once again, his father was very apologetic. Mingjue was extremely proud of his didi. 

Wen Xu: Made the mistake of shoving Yanli at a discussion conference. She tried to tell him to stop, but he didn’t listen. After the third time, she gave in and shoved him back, knocking him off the pier and into the water. 

Wen Chao: Went through a period of time when his favorite adult was Wen Zhuliu, and he would throw a raging temper tantrum if anyone else handled him. This included servants, other sect leaders, his father and his mother. Neither he nor Wen Zhuliu were ever able to figure out why. 

Wen Qing: While she did not cry very often, she scowled so fiercely at everyone that her parents had an exorcism performed on her at one point for fear that she was being possessed by a very unfriendly spirit. Nope, she just had enough of everyone’s nonsense before her hundredth day. 

Wen Ning: Very nice baby. One time accidentally ripped the head off a doll and cried for hours until Wen Qing fixed it. She explained that he was giving it surgery. 

Jin Zixuan: Very quiet baby. Was routinely taken to healers to ensure he wasn’t sick. Nope, he was just boring. 

Meng Yao: Could climb before he could walk. Meng Shi learned this the hard way when she turned her back and found him on top of a table, clapping his hands and babbling excitedly at her. It was the only time she well and truly freaked out. 

Mianmian: Was left alone in her parents’ garden one afternoon. When they returned, it was to find that she’d somehow dug up five worms and declared herself the worm empress. Once her husband heard the story, he teased her with it for weeks. 

[lotuspiertorturedungeon]

[mushroomwriter]

Coldplay, Fix You

[lanbichenbunny]

Mianmian Appreciation

I love how solid Mianmian is, wangXian meets her on just a small number of occasions.

They save her in the slaughter tortoise cave they see little of her after.

Then in the meeting at Lanling meeting she could sit there and say nothing mind her own business as Wei Ying is badmouthed and trashed by a lot of the clan members.

She gets up and defends him, he wouldn’t even know if she didn’t he’s not there. She’s only just been promoted from servant to clan member.

Mianmian defends him anyway, knowing the potential cost. I don’t lots about her character she’s not in the books much. Even so I don’t feel like she defends him because she feels the need to pay him back owes him for anything.

I feel like she does it because it’s the right thing to do, she’s genuinely angered by the lies and wants to do what is decent and right.

After working so hard just to join the Jin clan, she gives it all up not long after getting it. There’s so much strength in that.

I just love Mianmian’s character.

[imreallyonthishellsite]

If I missed someone my bad. And this is not who is the better friend to wwx, just who do you feel has the best friendship with him

EDIT: I've done some thinking and the "best" can just be whoever has the best vibes with him/most iconic or just whoever you like the most, should've made that clear sooner mb you guys 😅