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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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[personal profile] shangba 2025-12-31 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
( There's a moment's draining pause when Lan Wangji suspects Wei Ying does not anticipate his reaction — when he gazes, owlish and long, and sees not just the man, but his hurts, the throne of his disappointments.

This child should not have lived through such hardships. He should not have suffered so. And this man, who cares more for his welfare than he ever did his own, who sacrifices with impunity —

One of Lan Wangji's hands is occupied with Yuan, who gazes each way, pointing out the banalities of a home of some means, however noble, however austere. The other reaches out calmly for Wei Ying. )


Did not think to prepare you a bed.
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[personal profile] shangba 2025-12-31 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
...no.

( A truth, pulled away from him, like teeth. Painstakingly extracted. He pauses only long enough to descend Yuan on his own agglomeration of blankets and silken sheets, where he balls up, pleased, to inhale the scent of fresh laundering.

Lan Wangji considers, briefly, to sink at his side and stroke his hair, but restrains himself at the last moment. How often does Yuan enjoy something only his own? Let him have this, while Lan Wangji looks on, heart molten — before recalling his second guest with a nod where two pillows crowd his one bed. )


We may share. ( A beat, then carefully: ) Or I take the floor.

( There is no world in which a guest of the house exiles himself to the cold, winter-tattered surface. )
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happy new year!

[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-01 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
( Must you ask so? But then, he knows Wei Ying's truth, knows too that Lan Wangji's own shameful dithering and later revelation have pressed unto him the need for crude clarity.

The child, at least, pays them minimal attention. Between the effort of the road and the warmth of Lan Wangji's quarters, he's curled up abed, flirting with somnolence. Pretty boy. Their undeserved miracle.

Lan Wangji's gaze returns to Wei Ying, soft. )


Yes. ( And he comes close, closer still, hands cupping Wei Ying's face, his cheeks, as he leans in silently. ) May I?

( What he pledged: on arrival. )
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and to you, friend!

[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-01 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
( Waiting, dreaming. At the very least, once hyperbole has been aptly stripped away — approving of the possibility. Lan Wangji's mouth is a soft thing, only melting further.

A testament of his own weakness, that he steals glances where the child yet slips before trickling closer and closer, hands gentle as they frame Wei Ying's sides. He dips in, and his mouth chases a line first on Wei Ying's forehead, then his eyelids, then his lips, his honeyed lips.

A chaste kiss, kindly. A welcome that doesn't overwhelm, but greets with affection. He suspects this will suit them both. )


Hello.
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-02 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
( At least, in this, they're honest: mouths tender, hands kind. They come together like children and break apart like friends, and if passion withholds itself — it's because so often Lan Wangji suspects he would unravel if restraint ever cracked, ever gave way.

But then, Wei Ying's sweet confession startles him, gaze diffused, questions inevitable. He intends no harm, but hears it in his own voice, chilled, before the words have fled him. )


...why? ( No. Too cold, even to his own ear. Recalibrate. ) You did not, before.

( If anything, Wei Ying seemed of a mind to think of anything but Lan Wangji, prior. )
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-02 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
( And has marriage made better men of them? Different? Has marriage turned Lan Wangji into a palatable version of himself that Wei Ying may deign to accept into his life, willing?

Certainly, his friend — his husband — suggests so. And for all Lan Wangji questions the sudden optimism and enthusiasm, he cannot help but indulge in it, gratefully nodding along with Wei Ying's explanation. Something to look forward to, in a world so cruel it has stripped him of his rank, his war merits, his achievements as a cultivator, his reputation...

...even his ribbon, hair drifting forlornly on a back hunger has starved small. It is for Lan Wangji to break away now, bound for his single vanity table, where hair ointment and bath salts keep the company of a scant few adornments.

The pick isn't shocking — Wei Ying's red ribbon stands out. )


Wear it whilst here. We shall purchase you one new from Caiyi. ( And before Wei Ying may object: ) A wedding gift.
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-02 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
( As dashing. No. Better. Prettier, in ways Lan Wangji hardly cares to mention, wholly and infectiously enamoured. Wei Ying enthrals him, pedestrian in his appearance, but wholly, insurmountably desirable all the same.

To glimpse him is to want him (here and there and close). Lan Wangji wants, and his desire is too obvious, too plain, too human when his hands reach out to tease a few stray hairs trickling down from Wei Ying's hairstyle and drive them back up, behind his ear. Pretty. )


Married women wear their hair up.

( But then, Wei Ying is presumably a bride, but not a woman, for all he claims to have born a child. Biology and sense need not align in this. )
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-03 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
( For a moment, he calculates, classifies: what answer does Wei Ying want of him? How can Lan Wangji best deliver it? Hair up, so that Wei Ying can enjoy the satisfaction of showing his obedience, of earning approval? But then, Wei Ying does not thrive off rules-based submission.

If he asks, it's to signal objection. If he asks - just as Lan Wangji's fingers dip down, departing - it's because he wants an alternative.

Lan Wangji can give him that. )


You're not a woman. ( Not so sweet, so careful, so bound. Let Wei Ying have what relief he can of and through this. )

Do as you like.
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-03 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
( ...cute. Unfairly so. A vision of his own. If Lan Wangji lingers too long, he kniws, they both know, he'll be as putty in knowing hands.

Better to remove himself, to nod and accept the concession and impress no further requests upon a man already thieved of so many of his choices. )


For me, on special days. ( But is their reunion in the home Wei Ying married into not one? Ah, no more of this. ) You journeyed long. Will you dine?
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-03 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
( Instructions for him,for Yuan. Truly, Wei Ying once served upon a battlefield. Lan Wangji cannot deny him, cannot presume, and yet —

He finds himself for the first time in their evening at odds with Wei Ying, even as he permits him to take custody of the child in his untroubled nook.

A fair strategy for their evening, yes. Barring the inevitable brief divorce of an allegedly fresh couple. No. Lan Wangji has allowed much, but not this. )


Zewu-Jun and Uncle both enjoy children. Yuan may be introduced to the infant disciples by them. ( A pause, then: ) Or eat here, beside us.
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-03 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
( They are negotiating, he suspects, if not with each other, then with themselves. Like Lan Wangji, Wei Ying too seems unwilling to contemplate an outcome that doesn't see a-Yuan enjoying the better part of his stay in pristine conditions.

Selfishly, Lan Wangji has already had the handful of days to strategise to ensure that while maximising Wei Ying's and his time together in some degree of passable privacy. He hesitates, then: )


Shall ask. ( The answer known, but still he performs the protocol to summon then send across a butterfly with the appropriate solicitation. ) The infant disciples here also share a dormitory. If he wishes time alongside his peers.

( To play, he needn't say, because the sect prefers the conceit that, surely, their very own fledgling youths never indulge in the indignity of leisure time. )
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[personal profile] shangba 2026-01-04 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
( A little elbow. Please. As if Lan Wangji hasn't become intimately aware of the extent to which his title is as nothing to children, who scale, cling and coo on or at him without regret. He is grateful for their keen compassion to forgive his inability to engage them wholly.

Even now, though Yuan largely sleeps, Lan Wangji cannot help the burst of affection within his chest, to think of a creature so at ease in his home that he burrowed in to sleep, without qualm. It means more to him than to most. )


Then, he is invited. ( Better to embrace the inconvenience of a squirming, good-natured, jovial body than to begrudge it. )

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