#answered; yin

[babyitsmagic]

what are your muse's biggest red flags when it comes to dating?

how would you describe your muse's interior design style?

is your muse hiding something serious from those around them? why?

for Wilder, Yin, aaaaand Sage

Wilder:

"Fucking everything. I don't communicate. I lash out. I'm not even fucking baseline nice. I don't think I have any goddamn green flags, aside from being a good lay." Which had only caused more problems, really. "I have no interior design style. I keep a mountain of books in the house, I never have enough shelves, and I pile shit all over the floor. And at this point? No. I don't think there's anything I haven't had to share whether I liked it or not."

Yin:

"Absolutely none. I'm a flawless partner," he answered, smirking, before adding, "But honestly? Frank conversation isn't my strong suit and for someone not always great at monogamy, I can be quite jealous." Not a good look. "For interior design? Expensive and oh, what's the nice word for it? Maximalist, I suppose? I like nice things and I like having lots of them."

He shrugged. "My secrets are numerous. I'm old. But Cordae knows about Viola and Robert knows about Calla, so I don't think there's anything I'm intentionally hiding at this point."

Sage:

"I'm possessive, controlling, and manipulative. I learned everything I know from Azazel, who's a walking red flag. I try to make sure my apartment isn't a red flag. I don't care what it looks like, but I know an empty, undecorated place is unsettling to most people, so I've got some art work and a couple posters up. Most of my furniture is re-sale shit, which is exactly what someone my age should have." She rolled her eyes. "I'm hiding lots of things all the time. Demon, remember?"

[lazycranberrydoodles]

getting back into the untamed and i had a thought. / follow for more yllz babygirlism

[thegreatyin]

while im still catching up on dungeon meshi there's a quick thing i forgot to mention earlier

what was their fucking problem

[daily-yin]

yin getting scammed online (request from my sister)

Day 63

[canisalbus]

One of these days a blog called felis atra is going to show up and fight your depressed dogs with their manic cats and it will be beautiful im just saying

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[smilesatdawnmain]

Are Yin and Jin experts on souls sharing since they have lived like that for a long time ? Would be funny if they taught MK and Xiaotian about that

Note: They are ACTUALLY experts XD They are the best out of anyone to teach MK and Xiaotian

(Also, out of the two, only Yin can kinda read)

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[one-flower-one-sword]

Hello! I love reading your analyses. What are your thoughts on Quan Yizhen and Yin Yu?

Thank you for your ask! I'm so happy you like reading my posts, that really means a lot to me ;_;

Okay so I really like both Quan Yizhen and Yin Yu as individual characters and also their relationship, I don't know if I have anything interesting to say about them though ;A; but I'll give it a try!

First thing that comes to my mind is really how what happens with the both of them once they're in heaven is such good evidence of how toxic the work environment and the power structures up there are. Everything they already struggled with in their sect is even worse; the jealousy, the bullying, the intolerance, the abuse of power. Quan Yizhen was drawn to Yin Yu because of Yin Yu's kindness, but I think he could tell that the pressure to conform to heaven's power structures was starting to chip away at it:

Quan Yizhen kept going. "They cussed at me first. I don't even know them. They said I was a low-ranking heavenly official and yelled at me for no reason, then they laughed at me and told me to scram and not to block their way. I told them to apologize, and they wouldn't, so I beat them up. They only shut up when I beat them up, otherwise I wouldn't have hit them."

Things were considerably more peaceful in the current time*, but in the early days, some heavenly officials - from both the Upper and Lower Courts - would throw their weight around and bully lower ranked officials with less experience. Yin Yu sighed.

"Are lower-ranked heavenly officials beneath other people?" Quan Yizhen asked.

"No," Yin Yu replied.

Was that true? It was obvious that he didn't believe his own words, and Quan Yizhen noticed.

Quan Yizhen, who hasn't ascended yet, declares that he doesn't like heaven, and when Yin Yu admits to the same, Quan Yizhen suggests that they go back to the human realm. But Yin Yu is deeply caught up in what's essentially sunk-cost fallacy; because ascending to heaven was both his dream and quite hard for him, he wants to stay even though it's making him increasingly unhappy. He can't face the fact that his dream has turned out utterly disappointing.

I think they're also a good case of why it's downright impossible for individuals to change the power structures of the environment they find themselves in on their own - Yin Yu tries to conform and to get by with smoothing over conflict whenever it happens, essentially just forcing himself to endure it all quietly. Meanwhile Quan Yizhen rightfully doesn't understand why he should let himself be mistreated and pushes back, though that also essentially doesn't change their situation and only leads to more pressure being put on the two of them. From his perspective, leaving is the best choice since life in the sect, where he was simply left to train all day, was much better for him. But it's also understandable that from Yin Yu's perspective, it wouldn't be much better since he'd already been having similar problems back then with people expecting him to manage and control Quan Yizhen.

Plus, Yin Yu is very conscious of the opinions and expectations of the people around him and quite anxious to fulfill said expectations - I can imagine that he wouldn't know how to deal with his sect's reaction if he, a cultivator who had received the ultimate honor of ascension, were to reject said honor and go back to being mortal. Kind of ironic to think that once he's banished, he will start working for a ghost who did reject his own ascension.

*Minor aside, since this it's from when Xie Lian was watching those events unfold, I think it's less that things are actually more peaceful now and more that Xie Lian doesn't yet know how deeply the corruption of the heavens really runs and how bad things really are. Plus, he overall spends very little time in heaven, so I don't think we can fault him for having this impression.

Speaking of Xie Lian, I find it very telling that the ghost realm, and specifically Ghost City - the one single autonomous place within all three realms - eventually becomes both his and Yin Yu's home. I know people joke a lot about Yin Yu deserving a raise and such, but I think they forget what it actually means that he's the right-hand man of Hua Cheng, given that Hua Cheng holds so much power and influence in all three realms that he's the only one Jun Wu is genuinely wary about. That's an incredibly high position, not to mention the level of trust Hua Cheng shows Yin Yu, like in the amnesia extra when he sends him to deal with the monster that stole Xie Lian's memories. I'm going to get more into this in the Yin Yu-centric meta I've been working on though.

One thing I've been thinking on as I'm drafting this reply is that I feel what ties all four of these characters together is how their relationships started because of acts of kindness, both big and small, and the long-lasting effects thereof.

Like for Xie Lian and Hua Cheng I think no explanation is needed. Then Quan Yizhen and Yin Yu's relationship started when Yin Yu asked his shifu to take Quan Yizhen in to their sect when he met him as an abandoned child that really wanted to learn martial arts and got beaten up by adults for it. Then Quan Yizhen's friendship with Xie Lian started because when that play that very cruelly mocked Yin Yu was shown in heaven, Xie Lian was the only one that cared how upset it made Quan Yizhen and threw a chopstick to make the curtains fall.

And I feel like for Yin Yu, it might be the same with Hua Cheng, who he stays loyal to because Hua Cheng was the only one to help him and the one to take him in when all of heaven abandoned him:

"Chengzhu has shown me grace. He saved me -"

"I know," Jun Wu said. "He even helped you pacify and send off Jian Yu's vengeful spirit after he died during your banishment, am I right?"

Hua Cheng right from the start is described as someone who, despite being a Ghost King, is known to sometimes do "odd acts of kindness", and I feel that taking Yin Yu in was one of those. Because think about it - by the time Yin Yu is banished, He Xuan has already infiltrated the heavens, so there's not really any valuable Intel to be gained from taking Yin Yu with him. I can't really imagine Hua Cheng doing it just to spite the heavens either, at least not completely, since he lets Yin Yu hide his identity and apparently no one (except apparently Jun Wu) knew where Yin Yu even was for years. But I can imagine Hua Cheng coming across Yin Yu - a god banished and shackled, abandoned and mocked by all of heaven, punished essentially for someone else's choices but taking the blame regardless, accompanied only by a wrath ghost - who might that have reminded him of?

Sorry, I feel like i probably ended up talking about lots of other things than what your question was about. It's when I start thinking about the themes and stuff in this novel I can't stop ;A; Feel free to ask a follow-up question(s) if I got too off-topic!

[rottonfishie]

Who would win, Yin and Jin in cannon, or Wukong without his powers in your au?

I am just thinking of all of the options the two idiots might do to fight Wukong (not realizing he cannot walk)

Yin and Jin would obviously win in a fight against Wukong and would be very confused when it was so easy. Then, the two knuckle brains put two and two together. I imagine the conversation going something like this :

Yin : "So. You can't walk?"

Wukong : *hanging upside down in an elaborate trap* "Yes..."

Jin : "Uhm. Well, this is awkward."

Wukong : "Yeah."

[winterpower98]

Random evening Cursed AU thoughts:

So, seadon 5, after the stones get split, Jin and Yin get pieces of Mei's.

What kind of power do you think they get? Fire based, or electricity based?

No matter which one, I'm betting money that the will eather set fire to Macaques dojo, or the theater, on accident.

~*~

Honestly, I was thinking both

Green fire to Jin and green electricity to Yin

[centuryberry]

I’m a liiiiiiiiiittle bit dumb and kinda new to JTTW, so I was hoping to get some clarification, if that’s okay!

Are Yin and Jin the same twins that tricked Wukong into the furnace? I thought they were, but started second guessing myself after the recent chapters where they turned out to be Lady Nine Tail’s sons

No, no, it’s all good! You’re right about Jin and Yin being the twins who tricked Wukong. As punishment for their actions, the Celestial Court cast them out of Heaven and had them reincarnate in the mortal realm (a very common punishment). It was like that in the original jttw too.

And so, they were reborn as Lady Nine Tail’s sons. Which was why Yue didn’t recognize them lol.

[yingjiaoyue]

Lin

(She's wanted to confess yin :3)

“Oh? Flowers for me, darling? How flattering of you~”

___

She likes how you confess to her.. Yall will be dating for quite a while 😇 congrats <33

[babyitsmagic]

Dirty Secret! for Yin

@ofviolentdeath || Send “Dirty Secret” and my muse will confess Something dirty/naughty!

"Please. I'm a hedonist. Nothing dirty I'm involved in is a secret. If it won't kill me, I've either tried it or will try it with the next interested person."

"In the spirit of the game, though, I can give a confession, I suppose. ...I ended things with my ex-wife, which is... not a secret, but not exactly public information. But she would have murdered me in my sleep if it would have gotten her ahead, and I eventually had to stop pretending she wouldn't. But here's the secret: I still loved her when I ended things. I still loved her for a long time after that, too. And I'm not sure I'll ever be able to hate her like I maybe should."

[kingwuko]

I thought of a head cannon that’s kinda funny to me

Mako starts treating Wu more chivalrously after they start going out like opening doors for him and pulling out his chair and yin just thinks mako finally came around and started giving the king the respect he deserves

has no clue they are boyfriends

OOOhhhhhhh Yin! Grandma Yin. She'll figure it out eventually when they kiss in front of her 🤣 Or when she gets their wedding invitation lmaooo

[thegreatyin]

oh so THIS is where the list of every single funny bat + assorted funny bat aliases comes from. i was wondering about it for ages

[layzeal]

so i was thinking back to some discussions on the watchtowers jgy built and whole "was there some insidious motivation?" "was it money laundering?" etc etc but imho these questions are not only unfounded but also neglect one point it was actually brought up in the book about them: "why weren't there any watchtowers near yi city?"

[yintsukareta]

Shoma why are people mpregging your blogs

i dont know. my anons are all somewhat insane but its fine (maybe)