#lan xichen is not the stepdad he is the dad that STEPPED UP! | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

lgbtlunaverse · 7 months

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Not every single child - adult caretaker relationship is automatically a parental one and I'm very aware fandom is overeager to label them as such and I've talked about that in the past! HOWEVER!! I firmly believe that in the event of a time travel au where post-canon lan xichen - squarely in his 40s and feeling like he aged an extra two decades since guanyin temple - were to somehow be transported back in time and meet 7 year old big-eyed "never done anything wrong in his LIFE" baby Meng Yao it would take him all of 3 hours to decide that he's a stepdad now.

#in canon xiyao are equals and despite their societal power difference they are in fact both very careful to treat each other as such #as much as xichen's feels protective towards jgy he respects him even more #but that dynamic would change significantly with such an extreme age difference plus postcanon lxc's... everything #also... more than anything a-yao needs a decent fucking father figure. someome PLEASE adopt that boy #lan xichen is not the stepdad he is the dad that STEPPED UP!#the 3 hours are him speedrunning all the stages of grief on loop at the sight of a small living meng yao #and then he's grabbing him and meng shi and they are getting out of there!!#mdzs #meng yao #lan xichen

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