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MDZS Headcanon #7
Saw a post about Wen Yuan's parents which reminded me of this headcanon.
Truly it is wild how Wen Yuan's parents tend to stay dead in AUs or the parents are so horrible that Wen Yuan needs to be rescued? Wen Yuan obviously wanted his father very much when he was crying in canon. Poor kid.
So I do like to make Wen Yuan into Wen Xu's son. I think it adds delicious flavor that Gusu Lan unknowingly harbors the son of the man that burned down half their home and their most valued library.
Since he does look so much like his father when he is older, I like to think the Gusu Lan who were victimized by Wen Xu may instinctively shy away from Lan Sizhui.
But also as a novel main, there really isn't much characterization for Wen Xu so I make him very much like I imagine Wen Ruohan; chilling, decisive, not shy about using cruelty as a means to an end, but deviates from his father in that he doesn't really enjoy it so much as perceives benefits from it.
I like to think that Wen Xu is one of the reasons that Wen Qing's family took in Wen Yuan when the tide of the campaign began to turn. That Wen Xu, like his father, understood the benefits of favoring a medical genius like his cousin.
As to dad!Xu, I headcanon that he's not an outwardly warm person but genuinely cared for his son and because the Qishan Wen in the novel wear white, this is of course why baby Wen Yuan was drawn to Lan Wangji when he was lost.
Imagining Wen Xu going over reports from the Supervisory Offices while Wen Yuan naps on Baba's lap... Wen Yuan grabbing onto Wen Xu's leg for his attention... Wen Xu, so cold he burns in all his other interactions, but Wen Yuan gets head pats from him and assurances when Wen Yuan does well...
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This artist's impression of Jin Shijia as modern Macbeth. Because that would be hot, wouldn't it.
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I present: the High Geologist, based off this post
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You want to hurt that character because you hate them. I want to hurt that character because I love them. We are not the same.
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me and my brother and yep he's the most annoying person ever born
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I must have told you, hundreds of years ago
That I love you
It's just that you've now forgotten
And I can't recall it myself
Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023) + The Lost Tomb 2 (2019) & Ultimate Note (2020) // 愛人錯過, Accusefive
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a lil board i did for my jingxiao wip, and you, my forbidden, flowering fruit
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one of the most challenging skills i've had to learn as an adult is the art of figuring out whether i'm proportionally annoyed with someone or just tired and overstimulated and looking for reasons to be pissed off
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interlude
Lost focus and drew a consensual workplace relationship (the inherent intimacy of hanging out in an artist's studio to watch them exist in their element got to me)
Zoom in for details I poured my soul into <3
(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)
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