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OKAY, here we go - Cafecliche's MDZS Fic Master Thread!
💫 All post-canon and sfw
💫 Mostly WWX-pov because chaos bi solidarity
💫 We love softness in this household
The REAL Yunmeng Shuangjie reconciliation will happen when someone says something particularly insufferable, WWX automatically turns to Jiang Cheng and mouths KILL ME, and then they stare at each other in horror for the next 20 seconds
When I say “Wei Wuxian has done nothing wrong in his life, ever,” what I mean is “Wei Wuxian has made multiple mistakes, some with devastating consequences, and his commitment to facing them makes him a great protagonist. Also, he has done nothing wrong in his life, ever.”
An incomplete list of things Jiang Cheng is mad about re: the Wangxian wedding:
- That it's happening
- That he was not consulted
- That Jin Ling asks him what the gift from Lanling Jin should be
- That Jin Ling lets slip that they do not expect a gift from Yunmeng Jiang
A freshly resurrected WWX: Time to really CUT LOOSE
WWX: [checks the homework of children he just met]
WWX: [yells at someone for the children he has just met]
WWX: [saves the children he has just met from death by scary arm]
Thinking about WWX having to do certain things with the Babiest Lans because he’s still building his golden core. LWJ worries that he’ll be embarrassed, but actually he’s just really thrilled to hang out with kids
WWX: Lan Zhan if you stay with me now you can’t turn back. Your reputation will be ruined.
LWJ, internally vibrating with impatience: Please please please please please please
I know we've talked about this before, but it's still incredible that WWX was like 'LWJ consuming my every thought is normal, he's beautiful, everyone feels this way about him' when Lan Xichen is basically identical and WWX spends almost zero time thinking about HIS looks
I really love messy and complicated but somehow functional post-canon relationships in MDZS so once again, I am thinking about the many months where LQR does not acknowledge WWX's existence but starts communicating with him in bits and pieces through LWJ.
The Lan juniors doing some early morning guqin practice with Hanguang-jun and watching their mentor look totally unfazed as a mostly-asleep Wei-qianbei stumbles into the room and envelops HGJ in the blanket he's wrapped in
Forever tickled that 'gege' is age-optional to WWX. He wants to call LWJ gege. He wants to be CALLED gege. He once mockingly called Jingyi gege. Gege is a state of mind
As someone who was terrified about being annoying for like half my life I genuinely love thinking about WWX being adored at his Most Annoying. And not in spite of it. LWJ simply loves his annoying husband.
One of the reasons Lan Wangji is so important to me, which is always weirdly hard to articulate, is like... his arc toward agency is so good?? The way that he cultivates the strength to pursue his own morality and protect who he wants to protect, politics aside?
At any given time I am thinking about that first day in Wangxian's married life where LWJ finds himself (very regally, quietly, and with great dignity) bugging WWX to get his attention
In context "I really did want to sleep with you" is so genuinely sweet, WWX's main concern is that LWJ know he didn't sleep with him out of gratitude
But WWX must look back on it like "you know Lan Zhan it's really neat of your brother not to fling me into an active volcano"
Sizhui’s Inquiry is note-perfect, as always. But he concludes with two notes that Lan Wangji did not teach him.
“Sizhui,” he says. A rare lightness fills him. “Did you just thank the spirit?”
Sizhui just smiles. “It seemed like the courteous thing to do.”
This morning's WWX&LQR thoughts/last night's bedtime story to myself: WWX having bouts of insomnia his first few weeks in the Cloud Recesses, after Wangxian return from their elopement. He doesn't want to wake LWJ puttering around the Jingshi, so he starts going for walks.
Why does this keep happening... I had a dream that I was hit by a car, and the hospital was like “we called your brother to pick you up” and I was like “sounds legit but he’s in a different city?” But then it was JIANG CHENG and he YELLED AT ME.
Do you ever just think about LWJ in the Xuanwu Cave, clutching a feverish WWX, terrified and furious and falling the rest of the way in love at the worst possible time
Peaceful end of the day Wangxian thoughts: when WWX shifts at some point in his sleep so they’re no longer touching, and one of them wakes up enough to make a little distressed noise because Where Husband
And the other (still mostly asleep) guides them back into position
Tonight’s relaxation thought: WWX teasing “pay attention to me” as he and LWJ settle in to sleep, and then LWJ looks at him so softly and for so long that WWX covers his eyes like “okay, ENOUGH, go to sleep you horrible man”
Thinking about Lan Qiren hate-reading a monograph he completely disagrees with and being halfway across the Cloud Recesses before realizing he’s on his way to go complain about it to WWX
WWX, half-asleep: Would you love me if I was a paper bag
LWJ, also half-asleep: I would reuse you until you broke
WWX and also WWX's dick: [suddenly and extremely awake]
Not to lie here and think about Wei Wuxian, but: WWX who thinks LWJ can basically read his MIND as a partner. And certainly LWJ is quite perceptive, but it’s actually just that WWX muses about things long before he realizes he wants them
You know how when someone you love really really dislikes someone, you're like Oh Yeah, We Hate Them in that specific supportive way? That's Wei Wuxian about half the people LWJ hates on his behalf
Sometimes I like to think about how much obvious delight LXC got from dangling his baby brother's crush in front of him just to see if his head would pop like a grape
I just really think Wei Wuxian should be bridal carried everywhere? He has been through a lot and he shouldn’t have to worry about things like “walking”
Me: [almost asleep]
My brain: Remember when WWX tells the juniors in Iron Hook that someone who’s violently dying will scream and cry for help no matter how brave they are. Much to think about.
Me: . Yes. Thank you
Modern WWX would be that friend/coworker/etc who drops tidbits of wild and concerning personal stories at the exact moment you can't ask for more information
My favorite Foxxian and Dragonji tropes are:
- Baby Foxxian protects tiny noodle Dragonji when they're both children and then meets him many years later when he's rescued by a giant sexy dragon
- Foxxian's true form is the size of a Pomeranian and Dragonji is Overcome
Sorry, turns out I am still up, and I am thinking about Wei Wuxian blinking awake in the middle of the night at the slightest sound like he's so used to - and realizing that he already knows it's nothing. It's been nothing for a long time now. He's safe. And he knows it.
I feel very strongly about modern AU Lan Wangji still having absurd physical strength for no real reason. I don't even need an explanation for it. That's Hanguang-jun's business not mine
LWJ: Uncle, please look in on Wei Ying while I am in Qinghe.
LQR: I was unaware your husband needed such monitoring.
[smash cut to LQR grimly sitting at his guqin in the Jingshi because that horrible boy said offhandedly that it was too quiet without Lan Zhan]
I know I have made a version of this tweet at LEAST two or three times, but when the MDZS audio drama made WWX a person who occasionally goes "MWAH" when he kisses LWJ, they did that for me
It's been a while since I did LQR and WWX hours, so: LQR going to WWX's workshop the 1st year of the Wangxian marriage because he assumes he'll have to remind him about Wangji's birthday.
He finds WWX with bloodshot eyes, trying to invent like 3 new talismans for husband
Okay, so: modern AU where Wei Ying, picking up a short-term moving gig for the day, writes down his old cell number as his emergency contact – not realizing that the number has since been reassigned.
Thinking about Jiang Cheng about to serve himself the last of something at a banquet and LWJ serves it onto Wei Ying’s plate instead
Jiang Cheng INSISTS that LWJ made eye contact the entire time. LWJ says that Jiang-zongzhu has an active imagination.
A-YING FIC IS ALIVE, GUYS! [SCREAM]
grow (14k, T, Sizhui-centric + junior quartet, Wangxian, the Cloud Recesses crew, and Wen Ning): in which Wei Wuxian is cursed on a night-hunt, and the juniors rapidly find themselves in over their heads.
Imagine being post-resurrection Wei Wuxian and thinking jokes about your violent death are going to absolutely kill (lol) at parties, and then everyone is just varying shades of uncomfortable, sympathetic, or actually mad at you
- That Lan Wangji looks okay in red
- That Wei Wuxian cries
- That Jin Ling cries
- That there is SOMETHING in Gusu - the trees? the grass? whatever - and it is STINGING his EYES.
Jiang Cheng is not the hardest member of WWX’s family for LWJ to win over—like, JC is a trick because he cannot actually be won over, and LWJ doesn’t actually want to.
The real Expert Level is Wen Qing.
Me: Time for bed! Night, everyone!
My brain: Think of what an incredible relief it must have been for LWJ to see post-resurrection WWX be deliberately annoying after watching him so somber and tired and angry in the months before his death
Me: .
Pre-sleep thought: the Little Spoon LWJ agenda and the Sleeptalker WWX agenda combine into one very important concept: WWX with his face buried in LWJ's hair, mumbling into the back of his neck as LWJ smiles very softly
Thinking about how rumor-proof Gusu Lan seems to be (judging by the fact that no one knew about LWJ's injuries, seclusion, or trying to protect WWX) and how that means post-canon that people who otherwise can't stand WWX are out there swearing he's a lovely in-law, thank you
Baby WWX wondered who would willingly marry into Gusu Lan, but the joke's gonna be on him. Not only will he have a beautiful devoted husband, but he will experience 8 solid hours of sleep for the first time in his life
Happy thought of the evening: WWX absently fussing at his loved ones while he's talking. Brushing dirt off their robes, picking out grass or leaves caught in their hair, straightening their collars
Happy Monday, everyone! Some Foxxian and Dragonji content for Wenwen this fine windy afternoon: Foxxian being an absolute godsend for fussy baby Lans when he's living in the Cloud Recesses. Please imagine a tiny army of chirping noodle-sized dragons chasing his tails.
Maybe I’ve got vaccines on the brain, but: picturing WWX and the babies having to drink medicinal teas during flu season to shore up their immune systems since their cores can’t protect them yet. The kids HATE IT, but if they finish all of it, Wei-qianbei will tell another story
Today's Wangxian thought: by the time WWX finds out about the forehead ribbon, drunk LWJ has not only tied him up with it, but sober LWJ has also seemingly casually let him use it for like a dozen menial tasks
I don’t think marriage would make WWX much less talkative, but also, thinking of WWX doing the married thing of occasionally communicating in tiny noises and expressive grimaces is very good
Married WWX wearing colors he's never tried before and trying simple ornaments in his hair every so often and watching his cheeks round out from a steady diet of sleep and his husband's cooking... effervescent
Today in old headcanons I remembered while getting ready for bed: LWJ after surgery is obviously 'man who doesn't remember he's married and cries over his husband's beauty' but WWX after surgery is an escape artist
Still thinkin bout clingy LWJ. LWJ wrapping his arms around WWX from behind. Tugging WWX into his lap while they're both reading. Touching his arm or hand or waist absently while they're out together like he needs to recharge his Wei Ying battery.
I am feeling Soft today so please consider:
- LWJ standing on the windy side of the street to shield his husband from the chill
- Tugging WWX's ponytail gently so he'll lie on his lap
- Wrapping up WWX from behind as they're both looking at something
- RESTING CHIN ON HEAD
I can’t believe WWX somehow managed to come off as an entire playboy dirtbag to an entire group of Lans when he 1) is fifteen years from figuring out that he has a crush 2) would explode if LWJ tried to hold his hand
@occultings
I still think about the tweet I saw like a year ago that said something to the extent of "when LXC closes his eyes in CQL that's his last brain cell fleeing his body"
I am once again thinking about modern AU Jin Zixuan whose holiday gifts for his in-laws are beautiful but serve only one purpose at most. WWX is the proud owner of a towel-warmer. JC has a produce hammock. YZY was gifted a small skincare refrigerator.
"Are you at peace?"
Jiang Yanli never laughed bitterly in life. She might consider it now. But she won't, even now.
Have you found him, she wants to ask. I didn't get to tell him. He was right there and I couldn't find the words.
Instead, she answers: "Are you?"
Welcome to
#WeiWuxianHasANiceDay
!! I'm going to use this thread to post progressively soft headcanons throughout the day until I make myself cry a little. So like, it's a normal day, just with a hashtag.
When Wangxian return from their elopement LQR is irked in advance about all the LIBERTIES WWX is about to take
Then Wangji mentions offhand that the healers would like Wei Ying to gain more weight and LQR blacks out and serves that horrible boy a fourth bowl of rice
Today I am thinking about: Wangxian having a day with zero obligations and WWX planning a full day for the two of them in Caiyi... except he realizes about a third of the way through that he'd actually just rather they have a quiet day together at the Jingshi
WWX sleeping:
- Either passes out within minutes or is up half the night
- Rotates every hour
- Sleeptalk ranges from adorable to heartbreaking to TERRIFYING
- Nightmares or multi-part stress dreams, there is no in-between
- Despite all this, a pretty deep sleeper
I have been trying to phrase this tweet for like 20 minutes and I am still coming up short, but hello, I am emotional today about LWJ's journey toward agency and control and openly, stubbornly protecting what he loves
Tonight in extremely specific fic needs: please someone write a story in which WWX gets briefly turned into his child self by some curse and the juniors have to babysit him. I just want Sizhui to bury him like a radish.