characters who are bitter ♡ characters who are envious ♡ characters who loathe abandonment ♡ characters who’s default emotion is anger ♡ characters who have god complexes but no self esteem ♡ characters who cry when being critiqued ♡ characters who’ve felt neglected since birth ♡ characters who mask empathy w rage ♡ characters who black out when angry ♡ characters who become alienated/feared due to how they present themselves ♡
wait lan qiren and jiang cheng would totally bond over raising their orphaned nephews and being done with the entire cultivation world oh my god
it’s all fun and games and thinly veiled gossip until one of them says “you’re a good uncle” and the other bursts into tears and says it back- and now they’re BOTH crying?!
so anyways they could have been BFFs in an alternate timeline.
and btw both of their “older brother” figures left them??? bro the way they’d bond INSTANTLY-
Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji seem to have grabbed the wrong weapons. Can you help them solve this predicament before Jiang Cheng hits someone over the head with the guqin?
Cute commission of my confused boys I asked matchasakura2 to draw, thank you! <3
sorry but if anyone in their generation is going to cultivate to immortality its going to be jiang cheng and hes going to do it out of sheer spite
like nobody things its going to be huaisang, including huaisang, thats fair
but EVERYONE says surely it'll be the twin jades of lan. but xichen doesnt want to cultivate anymore post-guanyin temple and wangji doesnt see a point of immortality if wei ying cant be by his side
but nobody says it'll be sandu shengshou, despite his reputation for being ruthless, powerful, and able to build himself and his sect up from literal ashes. people are already talking about the next generation, perhaps lan sizhui or jin rulan
of course jiang cheng wants jin ling to cultivate to immortality, but he's pissed off that nobody thinks he can do it, (even with wei wuxian's stolen core) despite the fact he hasnt aged a day since the sunshot campaign
so jiang cheng decides fuck it, fuck you, fuck all yall, i dont even particularly want to be immortal but im doing it just to prove you fuckers wrong
I can now recreate most of chapter 8!!! / bonus features below the cut / follow for more cool stuff
Jin Ling's sprites:
His share code is MVDLXY :)
Congrats, Jin Ling! You have 3 different poses, showing three different levels of irritation, making you the most complex character so far.
His sprites were traced off of Cody Hackins from 1-2. His little puffed-cheek sprite screamed Jin Ling.
(NASA announcer voice) Aaaand we have soundtrack. I thought Luke Atmey's and Furio Tigre's themes both suited Jin Ling pretty well. Other contenders before I decided on Moderato 2004 were Allegro 2002 and Investigation - Middle 2002.
Will take a break from these for Art Fight probably but they have been sooo fun to make. Plus I get to show off my objection.lol skills outside of stupid discord arguments.
Jiang Cheng's sprites & Nie Huaisang's sprites / masterpost