#lan zhan/lan wangji x wei ying/wei wuxian

[elogval]

Summer with you ☀️🌧️🌈

[chirpycloudyrobin]

Devil Flute Upon Graves, Wei Ying

The newest and youngest of the currently known existing Supreme-ranked ghosts. His emergence from the Kiln is treated by the Three Realms as the start of what could be a new generation of Calamities. His notoriety comes from his second "death" where he leveled the infamous Burial Mounds, swallowing more than half the ghosts and resentment within the Mounds, and releasing enough backlash to force Mount Tonglu to awaken.

Under the cut are more details about his reputation, appearance and abilities as a Supreme-ranked ghost.

REPUTATION (as a ghost)

His moniker, Devil Flute Upon Graves, references his use of the Devil Flute Chenqing to control the undead and harvest resentful energy from them.

Wei Ying is considered by many to be the first of a potential new generation of Great Calamities. His close association with both Hua Cheng and Xie Lian has others considering him as Hua Cheng's "successor" Calamity, much to the chagrin of both Ghost Kings.

His territory is considered to be the Burial Mounds and sometimes the greater Yiling area. Within the area, he has a few scattered worshippers after his short stint of helping the Yiling civilians post-Sunshot Campaign, and his "cleansing" of half the Burial Mounds in the wake of his "death". Turns out eating half of the vengeful ghosts/corpses and dispelling most of the condensed resentful energy around the area helped improve the lives of the Yiling civilians greatly.

Additionally, his existence as pure yin energy straight up unnerves many who come across him. Though he appears quite animated in the outside, many describe his presence as unnaturally cold or empty or still. There's no natural balance within him at all and the dissonance between his outwards appearance and his ghostly presence just freaks people out.

APPEARANCE

His true appearance is similar to his time as the Yiling Laozu, though healthier (as healthy as a ghost would look like) and more androgynous in the sense that the features that he inherited from his mother, like his eyes and nose, have been enhanced. His eyes have also become a more intense silver, though it could be just the effect of his red eye makeup. His clothing remains in his signature black and red palette although the black is more prominent now. His outermost black robes have bright red feather designs clinging at the end, giving them the appearance of dripping blood. Overall, his appearance invokes the feeling of a crow that had recently bathed in freshly shed blood.

After the failed summoning by Mo Xuanyu, Wei Ying's primary disguise is that of a young adult ex-rogue cultivator named Mo Shanxi. His facial features are a mix of his original appearance and Mo Xuanyu's, to claim distant blood relations. His clothes as Mo Shanxi are in whites with hints of deep, almost black reds, and are reminiscent of the clothing of his mother, Cangse-Sanren, and his martial uncle, Xiao Xingchen.

ABILITIES (as a ghost)

Pure Yin Energy Body: Wei Ying's ghostly body is made of pure, condensed yin and resentful energy straight from the Burial Mounds. Just by being in his presence alone can agitate the most peaceful of spirits. WY can either consciously suppress his yin energy or he hangs around people with an abundance of yang energy to balance him out (hint: LWJ). The composition of his ghostly body means it's ridiculously easy for him to switch back and forth between male and female forms, though his natural form remains androgynous in appearance thanks to the abundance of yin energy.

Ghostly Cultivation: His signature cultivation style. His main instrument for this is Chenqing, which is known as the Devil Flutein the Three Realms. Since he is now a ghost, practicing this path has no repercussions to him anymore. In fact, using resentful energy boosts his natural ghost powers. At some point in time, he will also learn how to use other people's hatred of or negative emotions towards him as a power booster as well

Ghostly Demon Crows: Everywhere he goes, he is accompanied by a murder of red-eyed, crows made of condensed resentful energy. They seem to be empathetically connected to him and can act as additional eyes and ears. They're chatty, yappy things who are notably fond of Lan Zhan, Wen Ning and the junior quartet (LSZ, LJY, OYZZ, JL).

Wei Ying's crows tend to eat Hua Cheng's silver butterflies, but they quickly spit them out because according to Wei Ying, the butterflies "taste super nasty". This habit of his crows is often a point of contention between the two Ghost Kings.

Demon Crow Transformation: His outermost robes seem to allow him to transform into a demonic crow at will, sort of like a corrupted version of the "Swan Maiden". According to him, he gained the robes/ability long before he became a Supreme/Devastation rank ghost since it was apparently a "gift" from the Burial Mounds itself

Connection with the Burial Mounds: Since Wei Ying was "born" as a ghost from deep within the Burial Mounds, he seems to have an empathetic connection with it. He doesn't know the full extent of this ability since he is still technically a newborn ghost.

WHERE ARE HIS ASHES?

His ashes are in the form of a near-indestructible chai hairpin that he wears. It looks like it's made of a silvery, metallic material and carved into the shape of a crow's wing. It seems to be held in place by supernatural means since it never falls off even in the heat of battle.

(Yes, he does give his hairpin-ashes to his Lan Zhan. Yes, he gave it before the Big Confession. No, he isn't aware that the entire hairpin exchange gave off the vibes of a newly-engaged lady giving her fiance a hairpin as a love token.)

[frroggy]

for the blorbo who suggested wlw wangxian, FEAST YOUR EYES

[anyanary]

One and only

[neo-kid-funk]

More Office AU! Wangxian

[umeji-imeji]

So.......... I might have become obsessed with MDZS too I redrew my favorite book illustration, and added the color (original artwork by Marina Privalova)

[hitorimaron]

thirteen years

[murasaki-cha]

I once saw someone describe WangXian as "autistic gay bunny enthusiast falls for a bisexual with adhd" and.... yeah no notes there that's accurate

[1895locktva]

The Second Jade of Lan.

So, I recently finished the novel and wanted to do a take on how I imagine this character.

On the left, Lan Wangji/Zhan in his 15/16 years old, when he first met Wei Wuxian; on the right, Hunguang-Jun in his 30s, just a few days away from finding the reincarnation of his lost love.

An adema: Although all of the Lan clan's clothing are described as white, I like to think that they typically feature blue and gray color patterns, like the clouds that adorn their symbol. But, as our narrator himself says, Lan Zhan appears wearing all white clothes: mourning clothes. Well, I just really thought about it. Quite a lot.

***Also guys my dear friend promissed me that if this hits 300+ he will create a Tumblr pls help me out here I've been wanting this for YEARS

[ven1ae]

[elogval]

Falling

[retiredpeach]

Hogwarts!AU wangxian

Imagine wwx dragging every weird creature he can find for lwj to see

[frroggy]

Day 1 of redrawing The Untamed/MDZS as wlw

‘who is right? Who is Wrong? What is black? What is white?’

Rain breakup amirite

[anyanary]

I’m completely normal and not feral about them

[noenvyy]

"Bring Me Tomorrow/Stay With Me" A MDZS AO3 Fanfic Excerpt

A chapter from my most recent finished work commission done by the incredibly talented @silverink58 who took so much time and care into making one of my chapters comes to live with their amazing work! Please give them a follow at: https://silverink58.tumblr.com/

And check out the fic on Ao3 at the link above! Note: Art reposted with artist permission

[narik0h]

ORV x MDZS