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in my goth necromancer era (wei wuxian | 魏无羡) ([personal profile] dieva) wrote2025-12-30 10:24 am
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happy birthday, lan wangji!

[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-23 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
( There is an abruptness, an animal hurt to Wei Ying that doesn't align. Their morning, their midday have all gone satisfactorily, subject to neither scrutiny, not quarrel. If something occurred to darken Wei Ying's temper, it cannot have been today, now.

Still, Lan Wangji cannot hope to riddle every aspect of his husband's temper. Here, now, he is resolute to illustrate whatever it is that has once more divided them. Sunken on the floor, frail enough to appear as if no better than the child they've briefly abandoned.

Lan Wangji goes with him, gaze owlish when he watches Wei Ying's exposed wrist, his arm. No gash, no signs of bruising, no great, foul, visible battery. Then...? Poison? )


You injured your arm?
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-23 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
( His qi throughout meditation. Perhaps a lack of consistency, given Wei Ying's dismissal of the forms. Some manner of neglect or the other. Lan Wangji's frown is tender, ambivalent — but he concedes, reaching out to position his fingertips and opening himself, his awareness to the course of Wei Ying's flows.

...only to find, strangely, nothing that answers him. Could Lan Wangji's own emotional volatility be so strong that he cannot retain his composure to sense out Wei Ying's qi? Could Wei Ying's sickness have so frailed him?

He tries again, and again, and then once more. Concedes, finally, gaze limpid and wary when he turns it up. )


...forgive me. I fail you. Cannot sense your qi. ( But then, it strikes him: ) A trick?
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-24 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
( Not a trick. Dried-up meridians. Nothing feeding them for some time.

And flashing back, ruptured fragments of violent, lightning-fast memory: Wei Ying, smiling. Plunging from the clouds on his sword. Demonstrating the rapid ruthlessness of Suibian.

Wei Ying, lost to the Wen. Emerging in plumes and dark fire. Succumbed in the claws of his new demonic cultivation. Relinquishing his sword, their path.

Wei Ying, now: empties, where Lan Wangji's hand still lingers, touch uncertain, on a wrist all bones and taut skin. Wangji's mouth, dry. Gaze emptied.

Not a trick. )


...Wei Ying. Wei Ying, how?
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-24 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
( Sunshot was not kind.

But this is open, bare-faced cruelty. Ugliness past measure or control. He watches Wei Ying and sees the shape of his hurt, grasps the private horror of its implications. Knows, in ways sullen but profound, whaf a depleted core spells for a cultivator.

What is left of his recourses.

For a long, pained moment, nothing. Only his gaze washing his hands, only the ruin of his questions. Breathe. He can't; breathe.

He looks up, wet-eyed but firm. This is not his hour. This is not his agony. )


...how?
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-24 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
( Don't tell anyone. And Wei Ying's hands broken and frantic, and his eyes stormed, and the push and the pull that assails Lan Wangji, part and whole.

He must be kinder to this man hereon, it strikes him. He must give him tenderness and care. Wei Ying cannot bear it otherwise. He has no core. He has no core.

And Lan Wangji slowly peels Wei Ying's hands loose off his sleeves, catches them and draws them up to have, to hold, to kiss after. Slowly. Carefully. Hereon, only slowly and carefully. )


Tell me everything.
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-24 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
( Wen Zhuliu. He who melts cores, who ruins men. Dog of the Wen. Lan Wangji's eyes shutter, the righteous shiver that courses him a force uncontainable. His fingers delay, squeezing Wei Ying's belatedly.

Then, finally, wretchedly, he opens his eyes again, Wei Ying consuming the majority of his focus. No. His husband already undergoes the toll of his confession. Lan Wangji cannot subject him to worse, on count of his own cowardice.

Wen Zhuliu, a third party, the Burial Mounds. He understands, he thinks. )


Who were the victim and doctor?
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-25 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
( Don't tell anyone. Then, a matter of sentiment. A core not stolen, but freely given. Or perhaps wrested by someone so beloved that even a transgression would be seen as a regrettable sacrifice.

Lan Wangji's gaze lingers long, plaintive. Over Wei Ying's mouth, the stern line of his eyes, his unfailing beauty. Sweetheart. Oh, his sweetheart. Though Wei Ying may never wish to wear the name, he is that, unfailingly. )


...Wen Qionglin? ( It would explain the mysterious origin of his resurgence. )
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-25 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
( ...Jiang Cheng. Jiang Wanyin. This fool, this beautiful fool, ever ready to sacrifice for his brother, for both his siblings. For a family that never treated him justly, led by a matriarch that wished him burned off the register.

Lan Wangji's mouth hangs stiff, open. He wants to speak his objections. Wants to scream.

Startles himself, instead, when wet dances heavy down his cheeks, and he's only a burst if parting energy, driven forward to clutch the sides of Wei Ying's collars, to bring their mouths together, clumsy. A kiss born not of ardor, but the base animal need to comfort in the only way in which a man bereft of the right words ever can.

He loves him, strong. Loves Wei Ying, lessened. His heart breaks. )
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-25 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
( For a time, silent. Resolutely mute, brought together by the sickness of their dependency, without beginning or end. Percolating. They kiss, touch, sweep away tears. Lan Wangji's head drifts tentatively, until their foreheads connect, and they may breathe together, anchored.

This man. This man hurts, this man grieves, yet Lan Wangji clings to him as if to a fixture, adding to his troubles. His man. Oh, Wei Ying. Wei Ying. )


You have hurt so much, so long. ( Alone, bearing the aches of amputation, of doubt, of the cultivation world's injustice and offences — and the burden of his secrets. )
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-25 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
( Three years. Three years of Lan Wangji sitting, hesitantly, among the ranks of those who questioned Wei Ying's devotion to orthodoxy. Three years of solitude, of estrangement. Three years of pain come — and never gone.

He does not secure permission first. By right, he should. Yet his hand flows down on Wei Ying's front, sitting where his core should sleep, first with questioning fingertips, then the flat of his palm. Nothing. Not now, nor ever forthcoming.

A shudder seizes him, and he aches once again. Aches without cure or resolution. His eyes shutter, and he pulls his touch away. )


You will never hurt again. I pledge.
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-25 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
( A difficult promise, nigh impossible. He knows. Knows too that Wei Ying is correct to name his limitations. Yet still, it needles and bleeds him to consider that, for all his efforts — the world may prove indifferent. Wei Ying might deem he has not tried enough.

No matter. For now, his arms come and round and enclose to surround Wei Ying. He pulls his husband to himself, nudges him nigh on Lan Wangji's own lap. If he is near Wangji's thrumming, churning, furnace of a core, he need not be cold.

No, he need never be cold again. No assisted. )


Let this be my worry.
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-26 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
( Dangerous, and only more so now that Wei Ying has formally defected. Without the custody of a clan, his powers are rogue, wanton, desires. He is... a liability the sects can afford to claim requires neutralisation. Something they can thieve and wrest from each other's hands.

And he is so beautiful, Lan Wangji supposes. So frail, so lost in Lan Wangji's arms now, as he's brought close in an embrace that reassures him, more than Wei Ying, of the Yiling Patriarch's ultimate whereabouts.

Here, alive. Here, safe. )


I am your sword. I am your shield. I am your stair step.

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