I would love to know what MDZS was like from Wen Ning's pov.....
When jiujiu refused to take you with him on a night hunt. So cruel and unfair! Jail for jiujiu for one thousand years!!!!
When did WWX fall in love--before he died, or after he was resurrected?
I propose a third option: both are true.
I'm very firmly in the camp of WWX being head over heels pretty much right from the start, but that ignores a lot of the emotional growth between the two of them after his resurrection. On the other hand, calling that growth "falling in love" ignores his obvious feelings right from the start, and also just doesn't seem like what's going on. His thoughts and feelings about LWJ don't really change all that much.
But here's what does change: WWX starts thinking about himself.
He starts putting himself and his needs into the equation. He goes from seeing LWJ as a trustworthy and good paragon of virtue to seeing him as someone he personally trusts. From objectively the most handsome person in existence to someone he personally really wants to sleep with finds handsome.
So it's not that he fell in love after resurrection--he loved LWJ right from the start--but also he did fall in love after resurrection, because that's when he started thinking about LWJ as someone he could be with. Not that he didn't want to be with him before; instead, he didn't have a concept of personally wanting (being able to want, being allowed to want, being allowed to have) anyone at all.
*a sketch requested by my patron--- Jiang Cheng with SanDu and ZiDian (my weapon spirit oc design) celebrating lunar new year :3
Ok, but listen.
Jiang Cheng, in nothing but his inner robes, gunning it barefoot down the walkaways of Lotus Pier, because his beloved nephew (age four) decided to escape his bed and climb into an unsecured boat that is now being pushed by wind into the lake, much to Jin Ling's wailing dismay.
JC didn't even think to use Sandu, just launched himself full-tilt from the end of the pier with sheer physical brass of knowing he can eat that twenty metres...
A few minutes later, he was rowing the boat back with one arm, the other full of a wailing nephew, adrenaline finally settling down.
As a guqin player, Lan Wangji has long nails, right? However (due to reasons and whatnot) they’ve been breaking a lot lately, which is inconvenient if you ask Lan Wangji, but downright a tragedy if you ask Wei Wuxian.
Cue to Wei Wuxian pretty much being gone the whole day for several days, falling asleep in the library, and also getting caught near the female disciples’ area twice, until he comes back one evening (past curfew) with the cultivation world’s first ever baby blue nail polish.
At first, he just wanted something to help strengthen Lan Wangji’s nails, it wasn’t even going to have color, but then the female disciples opened his eyes to this whole new world, and really, his Lan Zhan would look so good, wouldn’t he?
And that’s why now Gusu Lan’s Hanguang-jun is often spotted with flawless baby blue nails, which causes many people to swoon at the sight of him, no matter how many times it happens, and yes, that includes Wei Wuxian. The end!
To be loved by a god. 🌸
The thing about Hua Cheng is that there is in fact two wolves inside him and one is the very cool extremely competent hopeless romantic ghost that rose to power to support the love of his life whenever he needed him and the other one is the cringefail 10 year old who saw a boy so pretty he forgot to hate the world and instead took a nose dive of a giant wall because he was experiencing being a fangirl for the first time and both those wolves start fighting when Xie Lian throws hands.
i bet wei wuxian sees a lot of people in jin ling. i think he sees the arrogance and reluctance of jin zixuan in him and the way he swings his sword. i think he sees jiang yanli's kindness and earnestness in him. i think he sees jiang cheng's quickness to anger and little mannerisms in him because that was after all the man who helped raise him.
i think jiang cheng sometimes sees little traces of wei wuxian in jin ling, which doesnt make sense because he never met wei wuxian until he got resurrected and so maybe jiang cheng is seeing things, but on days when jin ling laughs or runs down the wooden platforms of lotus pier, picking lotus seeds from the water and going "jiujiu, look!" all he can see is his older brother doing the exact same things, laughing the same way and calling for his attention in the same way too "jiang cheng, a-cheng, look!"
they both see what they love in jin ling
Lan Xichen: Uncle, you seem almost...wistful lately.
Lan Qiren: It's nothing very important. I've received some insight that has reminded me of the happier moments of my youth.
Lan Xichen: Oh? May I ask what caused this?
Lan Qiren: As you're not doubt aware, Wei Wuxian harbors so level of affection for Wangji.
Lan Xichen: Yes. Although I must admit I thought that would aggravate you.
Lan Qiren: It did. It still does to an extent. But a few days ago, I witnessed that horrible boy walk into a wall because he was looking at Wangji and not where he was walking. It reminded me of how Wei Changze acted when he first fell in love with Cangse Sanren.
Lan Xichen: Really?
Lan Qiren: Yes. In short, the guest students this year show promise, the weather has been mild, and a Wei is pathetically in love. So I'm feeling a little nostalgic
I love this soo much. I saw it once and now it's ingrained in my brain. It is soo soothing to watch, this man is like, just so happy in this.