MDZS AU where Jiang Cheng realizes that Lan Sizhui is the Wen orphan that Wei Wuxian took care off during the Burial Mounds arc, decides that's close enough to qualify him as Nephew, declares that no Nephew of His (much less a surrogate son of Wei Wuxian's) is going to be raised in the Cloud Recedes, and immediately launches into a custody battle with Lan Wangji.
But since neither Jiang Cheng or Lan Wangji can acknowledge that Sizuhi has any connection to Wei Wuxian, both begin steadfastly and stubbornly insisting that he is a Cultivator of peerless potential and skill and he belongs in their sect thank you very much, and would clearly be very unhappy in the other's. This confuses the hell out of the already mystified Cultivation world, who had barely adjusted yet to gossiping about Sizhui being Wangji's illegitimate child by mysterious love affair.
(Eventually the common consensus in the rumor mills is that both JC and LW where in love with Sizhui's mother and both believe themselves to be Sizhui's real father.)
(LW couldn't care less what gossips say, but JC has to bite his tongue till it bleeds to avoid telling anyone the truth in a fit of anger.)
(It was Nie Huaisang who put that rumor out in the first place, partly to troll JC, partly because, in a way, it's a little true.)
1K notes
·
View notes
Whenever I try to imagine relationship between adult Jin Ling and Jiang Cheng, it's always JC going "boo-hoo, now that he's all grown up, he will fly away from the nest and forget all about me and leave my old bones to rot as things should be" and JL going "FINALLY. FINALLY IT'S MY TURN TO FUSS OVER YOU".
Something like this:
JL: When was the last time you touched grass? No. No, look me in the eyes. Answer the question. When was. The last time. You touched grass? Okay, I'm staying here and I'm not going anywhere until you touch grass. Go on, do it. No. No, don't you dare! Come on. Just a little bit, it's okay. There you go! Wasn't so bad, was it?
---------------------------
JC (staying in the distance, holding hands to his mouth and shouting): IS IT ENOUGH BASKING IN THE SUN?????
JL (watching him from afar, also holding hands to his mouth and shouting): FORTY SECONS DOESN'T COUNT AS 'BASKING IN THE SUN'!!!
JC: FUCK!!!
---------------------------
(Jiang Cheng and Jing Ling are enjoying dinner in silence, when suddenly--)
JL: Name three good things that happened to you recently.
JC: *grumbles*
JL: Come on.
JC: Uhh..... Okay, I..... Uuuuuuugh... I saw a cute dog yersteday!
JL: Oh, that's a good one. I'll count this for two.
JC: Aaaand I just named a good thing that counts for two?
JL: That's two plus zero. Think harder, uncle.
---------------------------
JC: Sometimes I wish you flew away from the nest and left my old bones to rot.
JL: You should have thought about it before taking care of me.
---------------------------
JL: From now on you will sleep at least six hours per night.
JC: No.
JL: It's either that or hugging Wei Wuxian next time you see him.
JC: Six hours is good, I can do that.
(Jiang Cheng turns Lotus Pier upside down to find a rat who keeps reporting to Jin Ling about his sleep schedule. He can't find that person. Of course he can't! They are ALL rats!)
1K notes
·
View notes
had to join in with the "piers is rescued and is able to be saved au" train
attempts to reconstruct his arm only got so far and now it's in time out to prevent further mutation. he also keeps his electric abilities
351 notes
·
View notes
This is probably Too Niche, but to the vivid dreamers out there: do you ever get nostalgic for a place from your dreams that isn't real? I have recurring locations in my dreams that just. don't exist. And I find myself thinking about them or having "memories" about them even though they don't exist and never have. But they're real in my heart even though I'll never go there.
(tell me about these places in the tags, I'm so curious)
206 notes
·
View notes
It just seems very them.
original post / quilt image
bonus:
Close up on Piers' scarring + skin grafts. And electric eels for Pier's boxer briefs!
34 notes
·
View notes