OK let Jiang Cheng and Wen Qing have a political marriage of convenience and slowburn fall in love as they desperately try to save their people and are slowly forced via associating with their brothers to grimly take on saving everyone else as well.
also is anyone else charmed but a little alarmed by how all the Yunmeng Siblings go for people who are a combination of
- Powerful
- Competent
- Share their values BUT
- Are initially kind of mean to and/or dismissive of them
- but in a way where if said powerful/competent/mean people DID choose them then they’d turn that power and competence to protecting them & theirs so like. the problem is can you be good/charming/worthy enough to earn that.
- oh babies.
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#this got me thinking about how unfazed wwx was by lwj being mean to him though. like i think it really didn’t register for him that much?#like sure he wanted to get a rise out of lwj bc he thought it was funny but also#being somebody’s punching bag isn’t new to him. being lashed out at for minor faults isn’t new to him#compared to madam yu and what he was dealing with on the streets this IS really just play fighting#and like. living in an environment where he can be punished at any time for any arbitrary reason (he breathed wrong in yzy’s presence)#he has two options: become incredibly meek and try to avoid punishment by never doing anything#or get used to punishment and learn how to endure it because it is going to happen and there’s nothing he can do about it.#and clearly he has gone with the second option. and that’s what he’s doing in cloud recesses too.#these 3k rules are so arbitrary and numerous and against his nature. there’s no way he’s not going to get punished#so there’s no reason for him to try particularly hard not to get in trouble.#and not only does lwj never actually hurt him he also protects him on occasion (e.g. the cold pool cave)#so in wwx’s mind that’s like. best friend material.#(the forehead ribbon is to wwx as a friendship bracelet is to a kid at summer camp)#the untamed#ANYWAY this post was about jiang cheng and wen qing and that part is ALSO galaxy brain#i would love to see them begrudgingly getting roped into supporting their brothers’ grand Causes for Justice#while they’re both like ‘i need to focus on my own goddamn family who the fuck are all these orphans’#well they’re YOUR orphans now. surprise!!! tags via @howdydowdy
Yes! And I think Jiang Cheng has kind of conditioned him to hear “your behaviour is APPALLING and you should be EMBARRASSED” as “I want to come play with you but I’m dutiful and repressed so you’re going to have to try a little harder to make me break. We’re going to have so much fun once you finally win me over!” There are people like Madam Yu and LQR who can’t be won over anyway and will always be looking for ways he’s a fuckup; people like JFM and Yanli who find him inherently delightful; and people who can be tormented into understanding his charms.
they’re your orphans now. surprise!!! is just the essence of Wen Ning and Wei Wuxian’s bond wen qing is also in the lan wangji jiang cheng category but i think he respects that she’s between a rock and a hard place and is thus not quite so available for being annoyed into being bffs he’s a lot gentler with her also he’s rightfully a little scared of her and lan zhan is special for many reasons but one of them is that he promotes himself to co-captain of the Wei Wuxian is Amazing Actually Just the BEST club right when WWX is resigning himself to having to give up on being friends with him after all that’s the very unexpected thing for him i think that even though he can’t be a charming/annoying ball of sunshine and fun for LWJ anymore and is doing a bunch of dark magic LWJ disapproves of for real LWJ still wants him around u continue to have such good tags and interesting thoughts and i both appreciate and am tormented by it
