the way wangxian’s first meeting is literally just we wuxian saying “is that a sword or are you just happy to see me” and lan wangji, who has just fallen in love for the first and last time, immediately trying to kill him
Ridiculous idea. LWJ being ok with his emotions and willing to talk about them
Wei Wuxian: I'll give you one of these jars if you forget you saw me
Lan Zhan: How could I forget such a beautiful person?
Wei Wuxian: Oh. Well... um... that is to say....
Lan Zhan: You're still coming with me for punishment
Wei Wuxian: The sexy kind?
Lan Zhan: Not this time
Let me photograph you in this light
We as a fandom need to talk more about how Wei Wuxian changed the Burial Mounds. In the beginning of the story, we are explicitly told this is a place that will kill you dead and leave nothing behind.
"Look at the dark air. Tsk tsk tsk, the hostile energy is strong, isn’t it? And the resentful energy is thick, isn’t it? Even us at the Wen Sect weren’t able to do anything about it. We could only surround it and prevent people from going in. This is still daytime. At night, really any—-thing can be found in there. When a living person goes in here, both the body and the soul, they cannot return, unable to get out for all of eternity." - Wen Chao, Poisons, Chapter 60
But then of course, Wei Wuxian survives it. And then he returns, to this hell of a place that left him broken and bleeding, because he has no other choice, because the cultivation world is determined to kill innocents and they have no where else to go.
And within the three years that followed, he does what even the Wen Sect in their prime wasn't able to, and tames THE FUCKING BURIAL MOUNDS. The Wen Remnants start farming there, for crying out loud.
(I do think some of the taming started during when Wei Wuxian was first there, because they were able to enter the place without too much trouble.)
By the time the siege happens, people could walk in and out of the place, and it no longer carries with it the horror it once did.
Even after the siege, with Wei Wuxian dead, the clans are able to remain there, loot the place, and set up prevention measures against Wei Wuxian potentially coming back.
The various clans set one hundred and twenty stone beasts on top of LuanZang Hill and initiated frequent soul-summoning rituals, followed by heightened vigilance and searches for strange occurrences from all over the world. - Prologue, Chapter 1
And then, during the second siege, we again see the clans easily enter the place and throw around their ridiculous allegations.
MXTX shows that Wei Wuxian is a genius in many ways, of course, but this is one that makes me love him so much - with sheer ingenuity and willpower, he made a home out of a hellscape.
This is so sweet and mischievous. Like yes, canon wangxian totally would
wwx: oh, i'm just a frail maiden kidnapped by-
kidnapper: you're a man
yllz, very darkly, very powerful: say one more thing and i'm going to make you eat your own guts
kidnapper, scared: ...yes, sir
wwx: oh, i'm just a frail maiden kidnapped by evil men, how i wish i could be saved by a beautiful strong gentleman,!
wwx: *open one eye waiting*
lwj: *arriving in his full lan glory while his husband claps excitedly*
Lan Wangji: “he’s too close! And too naked! Quick! ACT NORMAL”
*bites
Wei Wuxian: So I've tried every talisman, array, curse, whatever, that I can think of, and I do think it's actually impossible for me to get pregnant.
Shen Qingqiu: Oh. That's something you want to do. Well in my world it's been theorized that impregnating a man would not be beyond the powers of a demon lord, but I haven't allowed Binghe to try and figure out if it's true. Ha! With all the ridiculous shit Airplane added to my world I wouldn't be surprised if we have a plant or spell or something that can let a man get pregnant.
Wei Wuxian: ...what.
Xie Lian: My world has a pill that a man can take to let him get pregnant.
Wei Wuxian: you're telling me that both of your worlds have male pregnancy aids?
Shen Qingqiu: hey, I only said that I wouldn't be surprised if it did...
Xie Lian: Actually I could probably change genders to get pregnant too. Or I could impregnate San Lang. I guess there are a few different options.
Wei Wuxian: ....
Wei Wuxian tapping the glass of his enclosure: I want to talk to the person in charge here. MXTX I need a word.
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.
AU where Meng Shi was just a bit more cynical and spent her hard-earned on buying Meng Yao study materials for the Imperial Examination instead of dodgy cultivation manuals. Cultivation is for his father to teach him, after all.
Meng Yao fucking blitzes the exam, because of course he does, and the first time he arrives at Koi Tower it's with an imperial mandate to audit the shit out of them for tax purposes.
always got more 'jiang cheng believes he's entitled to wei ying and his loyalty' and 'wei ying feels like he owes the jiangs' vibes than the two having a brotherly bond
MXTX protags my beloved. Prettyboy table for the win
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