#several years and ANOTHER war later who should be found in the Jin dungeons | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

mikkeneko · 2 years

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Why do my self-indulgent emotional fictional scenarios require so much BACKSTORY. I’m not INTERESTED in hashing out the details of a post-sunshot political landscape where the Jiang parents survived but Wei Wuxian was working on the side of the Wens, I’m INTERESTED in a story where Lan Xichen gets custody of a post-war fucked up WOMD Wei Wuxian entirely on the strength of his principles alone and gradually makes the transition from teeth-gritted “human life is the priority” to “oh holy shit this kid has been so fucked up and betrayed by literally every authority in his life”

#fics I probably won't write #the diverging point in this AU is at the Qishan Wen discussion conference #where WRH takes enough interest in WWX to demand that Yunmeng Jiang turn him over #and Wei (now Wen) fights on the Wen side during Sunshot #only to get handed over to the Jin at the end of the war #with the promise that they'll execute him #spoiler: they do not execute him #several years and ANOTHER war later who should be found in the Jin dungeons #alive and doing demonic cultivation research for his captors #you guessed it! it's WWX #but the point of this AU is not to try to determine #who Jiang Yanli gets married to if Jin Zixuan dies in sunshot #what role the Jiang clan holds in the post sunshot landscape if they weren't massacred by the wen #how betrayed the Jiang siblings feel about Wei Wuxian working for the Wens during that period #how they eventually reunite #the POINT of this AU #is for Lan Xichen to stick to his principles even when he really doesn't wanna #the POINT of this AU is lan xichen choosing kindness and grace even when he finds it personally distasteful #and being narratively rewarded for that instead of punished #for a change

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