#this post is a disaster but i stand by the WWE-ification of MDZS and the Danmeification of WWE

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MDZS PRO WRESTLING AU

Now under a cut because I realized how godforsakenly long it is:

Maybe it's galaxy brained but hear me out:

Wei Wuxian's descent from beloved irreverent face into behated heel with a dedicated fan base

Jiang Cheng the extremely polarizing face/heel/face/heel guy who meanmugs at the audience regardless of whether they're cheering for him or not

Wei Wuxian jumping out of a coffin to interrupt his own funeral a-la the Undertaker

JYL as their manager who gets engaged to the promotional company's son

Wen Ning who starts out as a gentle scaredy-cat character who doesn't know his own strength, but ends up as WWX's modern prometheus themed crony. Grew up watching pro-wrestling on TV

Wen Qing as the on-site doctor who's so very tired of treating wrestling related injuries.

JZX is a very stiff, money themed, rich boy owner's son type character but all he wants is just to be happy and unperceived. He just wants to retire and be a boring house husband but he can't get away. (He eventually escapes don't worry)

JGY as the Nie Bro's long-suffering manager whose life is full of real, unscripted family drama he cannot escape

Nie Bros as a Powerhouse/Trickster duo

NHS blowing kisses at opponents to interrupt their grandstanding monologues and then hiding behind NMJ when they get mad him

NMJ's character is a berserker who just like. Screams and rips open his shirt as his entrance bc he didn't have any other ideas.

Twin Jades of Lan as untouchable technical faces who refuse to break rules to the extent that they should be boring, but they're. Very popular.

Wangxian tag team -> nemesis -> tag team. It's a extremely long running recurring storyline that thrives on WWX's image change into his goth aesthetic heel character

NMJ and JGY falling out after JGS orchestrates an unscripted, career ending screwjob on NMJ after NMJ openly/bluntly acknowledges his bad behavior while on video (for anybody who hasn't been cursed with a pro wrestling special interest: a screwjob is an unfair or controversial finish that often involves cheating or outside interference)

After this, NHS goes through a scripted character arc of teaming up with a revolving string of other characters in order to get "revenge" on whichever poor wrestler got pressured into doing the unscripted takedown on NMJ. But then he also exposes JGS for tax evasion in real life and almost causes the demise of the whole company

The drama. The mess. The gender and sexuality of it all. The way everyone acts like they're divorced from everybody else. The unscripted real life betrayals that are treated as spectacle. The court of public opinion and the dissonance between reputation and inner life. My third eye is open