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Lan Zhan (Template)

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Lan Zhan (Template)

About Lan Zhan

Personality

Repressed, disciplined, deeply romantic, deeply horny, extremely stubborn. Tendency for self punishment. Writes music. Externally pretty expressionless, easier to read the better someone knows them. Under the surface they are deeply emotional and passionate. Sometimes also a petty bitch. Terrified of love until they go off the deep end. Terrified of their sexuality even longer after that. Always gay.

Words are very minimal and formal. Graceful, efficient speech, when they know exactly what they want to say. When they can't find sufficient words for what they want to say, they say nothing, or say "Wei Ying", or compose beautiful pieces of music. They sometimes struggle to speak when they cannot find optimally perfect, accurate words to express complex feelings or opinions.

They really like bunnies and music. They like to dress in fancy, pretty clothes. Silk and lace and pale colors and jewelry.

Typically much more of a sub+bottom than would be MDZS novel canon compliant.

Origin

Adapted from the portrayal of Lan Wangji in The Untamed (2019). The character is originally from the Mo Dao Zu Shi novel, but characterization and appearance are primarily derived from the show.

Attractors

Associated Characters

Wei Ying - soulmate
Lan Xichen - sibling
Drunkji Index

 

Lan Zhan (Template)

Lan Wangji (listen-to-the-heartbeat)

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Nickname normalji
Other names Lan Zhan, Lan-er gongzi, Hanguang-jun
Setting

The Untamed

gay magic ancient china
Facecast Wang Yibo

Lan Wangji is a glowfic character in the Lan Zhan template [Wiki] written by argona, adapted from The Untamed. Original instance.

Baby edition: A-Zhan

History

Childhood

Lan Wangji is born to Sun Lihua on January 23rd, named Lan Zhan. Lan Zhan and his brother Lan Huan (Lan Xichen) are raised by their uncle Lan Qiren. They are allowed to visit their mother only for a few hours on the last day of every month, as long as they behave. Lan Wangji grows up under constant scrutiny and regulation, being monitored for signs of his mother corrupting him to her evil and lawless ways. When Lan Wangji does not behave as a young child, he is not permitted to see her that month. When he is good, he gets to see her. No matter how good he is, he never gets to see his father.

Lan Wangji's mother dies just after his sixth birthday. On the last day of every month he goes to her house and kneels in the snow for hours, waiting for her to open the door. She never does. By the time he is seven, he knows that she is never coming back, but he still holds vigil outside her door once a month. This concerns his Uncle, who punishes him for this ritual many times. Lan Wangji accepts each punishment gracefully, and then returns to kneel on her doorstep again the next month.

Even when he is young, Lan Wangji does not make friends easily. He doesn't naturally fit in with the other children his age, and he never tries to change this. He likes spending time alone to read and study and learn how to not make his parents' mistakes.  

Teenage Years

When Lan Wangji is fifteen, Lan Xichen convinces him to attend the Lan summer lectures with other students his age. Before the lectures even begin, Lan Wangji meets Wei Wuxian, first disciple from the Yunmeng Jiang Sect. Lan Wangji is instantly attracted to Wei Wuxian. He is furious when the target of his crush turns out to be extremely chaotic.

[Summer lectures cont., WWX bonding, Yin Iron fetch quest.]

[Burning of Cloud Recesses, Indoctrination]

[Indoctrination cont., turtle cave]

[Sunshot campaign]

[Yearning]

[WWX becomes the Yiling Patriarch. Wangji visits him.]

[Nightless City, Wei Wuxian's death.]

[Punishment]

Personality

Repressed, self-disciplined, deeply romantic, deeply horny, extremely stubborn. Externally pretty expressionless, easier to read the better someone knows him. Under the surface he is a deeply passionate and emotional person. Terrified of love until he goes off the deep end. Terrified of his sexuality even longer after that. Words are very minimal and formal. Graceful, efficient speech, when he knows exactly what he wants to say. When he can't find sufficient words for what he wants to say, he says nothing, or says "Wei Ying", or composes beautiful pieces of music.

He really likes bunnies and sword fighting and meditation and music. He loves Wei Wuxian and everything about Wei Wuxian once he gets over his panic. More of a sub+bottom than would be MDZS novel canon compliant.

Extreme lightweight; chaotic when drunk.

Relationships

Appearances

making room for new regrets - in which Lan Wangji peggy sues back to the start of the Lan summer lectures (along with Nie Huaisang, Jiang Cheng, and Wen Ning). He immediately dedicates himself to protecting Wei Ying and preventing his later death. [Wiki]

i know how long the night is - in which Wei Wuxian peggy sues from his death to right before the Wen Indoctrination. He immediately applies himself to saving everyone. Lan Wangji is injured and concerned and pining. [Wiki]

stepping in the same river twice -

never too far to look back - in which Lan Wangji peggy sues from two years after Wei Wuxian's death to the Sunshot Campaign. He and a Jiang Cheng try to save their boy. [Wiki]

Trivia

 

 

Lan Zhan (Template)

Lan Zhan (still-asking)

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Nickname(s) A-Zhan, babji

Setting

The Untamed, gay ancient magic china
Facecast

Chen Junkai

A-Zhan is argona's Lan Wangji as a young child. Currently has only been threaded in a timeline divergent from canon.

 

 

History

Lan Zhan is born to Sun Lihua on January 23rd. Unlike Lan Huan, A-Zhan is allowed to stay with his mother for a month before the Lan Sect removes him. He is raised by his uncle Lan Qiren, but brought to his mother to nurse for his first six months. A-Huan and A-Zhan are taken to visit their mother only on the last day of every month, as long as they behave.

Personality

Lan Zhan is very quiet from a very young age. He usually asks his brother for things just by looking at him beseechingly. Lan Huan is the first one to understand what A-Zhan is feeling or communicating when he doesn't use words. He is by far the best at intuiting what A-Zhan is thinking just from his silence after being asked a question. He's also more likely to talk to Lan Huan than anyone else.

As a two year old, A-Zhan already cares about following rules and being good. He is very serious and adorable in his attempts to do all the rule-following things he sees Lan Huan doing, like meditating or folding clothes or sitting up as straight as he possibly can during mealtime. He still likes stories and toys and playing outside, though not with the other children. A-Zhan has several little puppets that he likes to play with, but his favorite toy is a soft rabbit doll he names Bunny. A-Zhan likes teaching Bunny new rules.

A-Zhan is very scared of being bad. If he does something bad, Uncle won't let him see Mommy anymore. If he does something really bad, they will decide that his Mommy's evil is rubbing off on him and he will never be allowed to see her ever again. Also Uncle might hate him for being evil. The older he gets as a child, the more consciously and thoroughly he abides by this fear. 

[...]

Relationships

Appearances

let the children come to me - in which multiple babies are given much better childhoods than they receive in canon. A-Zhan (age 2) gets to spend time with his mom. [Wiki]

it takes a village - in which babcourt times continue [Wiki]

Trivia

 

Lan Zhan (Template)

Lan Zhan (ten-miles-of-spring)

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Other Names Lan-guniang, Lan jiejie
Setting The Untamed, gay magic ancient china

Facecast

 Arden Cho

Lan Zhan is girl!Lan Wangji in a version of the Untamed universe where only she and Wei Ying have been cis-swapped. A glowfic character in the Lan Zhan template [Wiki] written by argona.

Instances

Light and Color

In by your clear light and color, events diverge from The Untamed story at approximately episode 10. Lan Zhan is able to hide her fragment of the Yin Iron in a rabbit burrow at the burning of Cloud Recesses. Wen Chao tortures her for its whereabouts. Wei Ying (可怕的鹅) rescues Lan Zhan, incapacitating Wen Chao and taking him prisoner. They flee to the Unclean Realm, where Lan Zhan recovers. Lan Zhan gets drunk and she and Wei Ying nearly kiss; they get together the next morning. When Lan Zhan turns out to be pregnant, Wei Ying publicly claims that the baby is hers by way of talisman experimentation and the two of them decide to marry. [Wiki]

Lady Wen

In talk less, smile more, Wen!Wei Ying attends the Lan lectures and breaks the wards on her way in. Lan Zhan is infuriated by her and terrified of her and falls in love with her approximately immediately. After Lan Yi encourages them to share Lan Zhan's headband in the Cold Pond Cave, Lan Zhan secretly considers Wen Ying and herself to be wed. Keeping this a secret, Lan Zhan suffers from affection and sexual tension as they quest for the Yin Iron together. In the burning of Cloud Recesses, Lan Zhan is taken prisoner by Qishan Wen. Wen Chao tells her that Wen Ying had planned all along to betray Lan Zhan and take her as a concubine. Wen Ying visits her in the dungeon and resolves this misunderstanding; they confess their feelings (and secret marriage) to each other. After assisting Wen Ying in a coup against Wen Chao, Wen Ruohan, and Wen Xu, Lan Zhan takes her official place as wife of the new Sect Leader Wen. [Wiki]

Trivia

 

 

Lan Zhan (Template)

Akemi Homura (remember-only-you)

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Nickname(s) Homura
Setting Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Facecast Arden Cho

 

 

 

Homura is a Lan Zhan instance circumstance alted as PMMM's Akemi Homura.

History

Personality

Relationships

Appearances

for each beloved hour - 

 

 

 

 

Lan Zhan (Template)

Lan Wangji (although-i-was-burning)

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Other Names Lan Zhan, Hanguang-jun, Lan-er gege
Setting

MDZS
Facecast Wang Yibo

Lan Wangji is based on MDZS canon, in contrast to the Untamed: mostly a difference in the timeline/events happening around him. This Lan Wangji is identical to normalji except that 1) his eyes are gold and 2) he's a top.

Story Divergences

Appearances

is he alive or dead - in which Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji both peggy sue to before the war and independently go berserk trying to prevent the other's deaths

one of us is going to leave here bleeding -

 

 

 

Lan Zhan (Template)

Lan Wangji (melody-of-inquiry)

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Nickname(s)  
Setting Gay Magic Alt-history China
Facecast Wang Yibo

Lan Wangji in a modern-with-magic AU, ft. apartments and ghostbusting.

Relationships

Appearances

in the garden a strange tree grows - wholesome domestic apartment times, featuring pet bunnies and ghostbusting shenanigans.

 

 

 

Lan Zhan (Template)

Wangji (beneath-the-elegant-snow)

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Nickname(s) subji
Other Names young master Lan
Setting Manere, gay ancient magic china
Facecast Wang Yibo

Wangji

Personality 

[...]

Appearances

 

 

 

Yao (Template)

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Yao (Template)

Meng Yao (not-a-single-sin)

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Other Names A-Yao, Jin Guangyao
Setting The Untamed, gay ancient magic china
Facecast Zhu Zanjin

Meng Yao is derived from The Untamed. He is the illegitimate son of Jin Guangshan and Meng Shi. 

Jin Guangyao post-installation in the Jin family is a separate template instance. The accounts of his history and relationships are continued here.

 

 

History

Childhood

Meng Yao is born February 20th in a Yunping brothel. His mother raises him with love and care, doing her best to shelter him from the unpleasant environment. She teaches him manners that, for now, are necessary for his survival, and one day will serve him well as a young master of the Jin Sect. Mentg Shi imparts onto him her belief that one day Jin Guangshan will come for them and buy her freedom from the brothel, elevating Meng Yao as his son. This never happens. In the mean time, Meng Shi devotes most of her time and money attempting to educating her son the way a cultivator is supposed to be educated. 

Meng Yao learns reading, writing, etiquette, and some approximation of meditation. He learns to be polite to everyone he meets. He learns to be afraid of everyone he meets. Some of the other prostitutes who are irritated by having a child around are cruel to him, strangers in the streets outside the brothel are dangerous, and his mother is often being hurt. She becomes sick when Meng Yao is nine, and the sickness never leaves completely. Over the years it worsens, and they cannot afford any doctor who knows how to treat her. When Meng Yao is thirteen, a brothel client attacks and publicly humiliates his mother. Meng Yao runs to their room after he hears her scream and tries to fight the attacker away; instead he is kicked down a flight of stairs and badly hits his head. Meng Yao fully recovers from his injuries after this incident; Meng Shi does not. She dies of her illness before Meng Yao turns fourteen.

After his Meng Shi's death, Meng Yao is untethered from the brothel. He travels to the Lanling Jin Sect to meet his father, carrying the supposedly rare and valuable pearl that Jin Guangshan gave his mother to prove his relation. He arrives at Carp Tower on his birthday, which turns out to also be the birthday of Jin Guangshan's legitimate son, Jin Zixuan. Jin Guangshan refuses to acknowledge Meng Yao in front of his displeased wife. Instead he crushes Meng Shi's precious pearl to dust and kicks Meng Yao down all the steps of Carp Tower, breaking bones. Meng Yao bows to his father before he leaves.

Residence with the Nie Sect

Meng Yao joins multiple night hunting parties, trying to get a foothold in the cultivation world. He does everything he can to earn the approval of actual sect members. His traveling companions only laugh at how hard he tries, considering it pathetic and hopeless. Meng Yao overhears his group of Nie cultivators gossiping and making fun of him when he returns from fetching water for the entire group. He leaves to sit in the forest and eat by himself beneath a tree, exhausted and rather miserable.

Nie Mingjue finds him that way. When he stands over him and looks him over, Meng Yao looks up at him with big, big eyes. Infuriated to hear of the petty cruelty of his sect members, Nie Mingjue yells at all of them for being prejudiced idiots, and promotes Meng Yao to vice-general on the spot, shocking everyone present. Meng Yao feels fulfilled in a way he has never experienced before. It isn't enough to fill his heart, but Meng Yao thinks with enough power he will get there eventually.

He and Nie Mingjue come to trust and deeply rely on each other. They have entered a sexual relationship by the time Meng Yao escorts Nie Huaisang to the Cloud Recesses and meets Lan Xichen.

[Meeting Lan Xichen]

[Nie Captain, Divorce]

Sunshot Campaign

Meng Yao heard Wen Chao boast that Cloud Recesses is being destroyed. Concerned for Lan Xichen and having no one else who he thinks might support him, Meng Yao journeys to Gusu. Lan Xichen was assailed by Wen soldiers on his escape from Cloud Recesses, managing to kill them all but sustaining serious injuries. Meng Yao finds him, collapsed and bleeding, and saves his life. They spend four months together in hiding, doing laundry and having sex. Then Lan Xichen goes to join in the Sunshot Campaign and Meng Yao goes to infiltrate Qishan Wen as a spy.

Meng Yao earns Wen Ruohan's favor with his cleverness, his efficient, mercenary manner, and his torture creativity. Meng Yao tortures many innocent people to death and, as he ascends to Wen Ruohan's second in command, harshly punishes those who displease him or the sect leader. Wen soldiers in Nightless City are terrified of him. Meng Yao loyally sends reports to Lan Xichen, but he has no intention of assassinating Wen Ruohan or doing anything especially risky unless it is impossible that he will fail. He does not actually care if the Sunshot Campaign succeeds, as long as he's earned the favor of the winning side.

[Nie Mingjue confrontation, killing Wen Ruohan.]

[Jin Guangyao]

Personality 

Outwardly, Meng Yao is subservient, agreeable, and very polite. He is artfully spoken and clever. He is also extremely manipulative and flashes his dimples the way an octopus sprays ink when threatened.

Meng Yao is an ambitious sociopath. He does in fact possess values, but none that he is unwilling to discard the moment he thinks it might be necessary; typically he never looks back. He values the health, safety, and flourishing of ordinary people when he affords himself that luxury, but will still murder anyone you put in front of him if their death benefits him or their existence offends him. He rarely experiences grief over his actions, and even more rarely believes he could have done anything differently.

Meng Yao is calculating and analytical, rarely displaying genuine emotion. He actually experiences some emotions quite strongly, beneath the detached scheming. Most of those emotions are negative: fear, anger, hurt, jealousy, resentment, humiliation. He is very sensitive to perceived betrayal. He also experiences strong bursts of positive emotion: pride, satisfaction, and accomplishment. 

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Relationships

Meng Yao has few people that he cares about and even fewer that he is unwilling to hurt. At the top tier of Meng Yao relationships are the (two) people he would never intentionally hurt and would go out of his way to protect. (These are his mother and Lan Xichen). The next tier contains a few people that Meng Yao cares about and disprefers hurting, but will absolutely kill if he needs to or if they offend him deeply. (e.g. Nie Huaisang, Wei Ying (可怕的鹅)). Below that, a large number of people that Meng Yao gets along with and generally thinks well of, but would hurt without regret. (e.g. Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian). Anyone who Meng Yao dislikes, he will hurt gleefully when possible.

Appearances

by your clear light and color - f!Wei Ying reports the Nie captain for harassing Meng Yao. Nie Mingjue publicly punches the captain and has him punished. This leaves Meng Yao feeling less of a burning need to murder the captain as soon as possible. When Wei Ying and Lan Zhan escape Nightless City, he oversees their hospitality in addition to the imprisonment and interrogation of Wen Chao. When the Nie send forces to Gusu, Meng Yao accompanies them to search for Lan Xichen. In this thread, Meng Yao and Wei Ying gradually befriend each other. During the Sunshot Campaign, they become sworn siblings by Wei Ying's suggestion. In an accident with the Yin Iron, Wei Ying revives Meng Shi as a fierce corpse and she reenters her son's life. [Wiki]

making room for new regrets - Meng Yao is manipulated by Nie Huaisang into staying longer at Cloud Recesses, where he spends some quality time with Lan Xichen during the Lan lectures. [Wiki]

talk less, smile more - Wen Ying runs into Meng Yao during Wen Chao's attack on the Unclean Realm and drags him over to take credit for her kill of Wen Zhuliu before Nie Mingjue can find him murdering the Nie captain. Offscreen, he receives much attention and acclaim for this feat. [Wiki]

Trivia

 

 

 

Yao (Template)

Jin Guangyao (all-things-to-all-men)

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Other Names Lianfang-zun, Sect Leader Jin, A-Yao
Setting The Untamed
Facecast Zhu Zanjin

Jin Guangyao is the continuation of argona's take on Meng Yao, split into a separate instance for gallery convenience.

History

For Jin Guangyao's earlier history, see here.

[Transition to Jin Guangyao]

[Wei Wuxian's death]

Jin Guangyao identifies Qin Su, the daughter of one of Jin Guangshan's men, as a suitable marriage candidate. He spends months working his father and her family into agreement. Even after relenting, Jin Guangshan digs his heels in during the wedding ceremony planning process. Feeling threatened by his father's unreliable support, Jin Guangyao suggests that they consummate the marriage in advance of the ceremony to secure their union. Two weeks later, right before the wedding ceremony, Jin Guangyao is informed that Qin Su's mother was raped by Jin Guangshan and Qin Su is actually his half-sister.

Jin Guangyao does not tell anyone else or call off the wedding ceremony. He marries Qin Su but never touches her sexually again. Qin Su figures that this is because her husband is gay, since she is not blind to his relationship with Lan Xichen. She cares about him, and Jin Guangyao genuinely likes her. He was planning to have Qin Su made (or made to think herself) infertile, and then under her approval secretly sire an heir with another woman. Before he can put this into motion, they discover that Qin Su is already pregnant.  Their son Jin Rusong is born a year and a half after Wei Wuxian's death.

[Second divorce]

[Nie Mingjue's death]

[Jin Guangshan's death]

Jin Guangyao had planned to kill his son since he discovered his conception, but he does care about Rusong, in his way. As each year goes by without the appearance of potentially suspicious developmental delays, Jin Guangyao postpones the need for him to die. When Jin Rusong is six years old, he is captured by a small group of Jin Guangyao's political opponents. They threaten to kill him. Jin Guangyao sees this as the best opportunity he will ever get, and waits two days to announce that he's received the threat and take any action.

Jin Rusong is killed before he can be rescued. Jin Guangyao puts on a big show of shock and grief and fury. He possesses genuine grief and distress to channel into this performance, discarding his own responsibility for his son's death and allowing himself to feel wronged and devastated. He has the entire small sect of the culprits wiped out in vengeance; the vast majority of those killed were entirely innocent.

[After Wei Wuxian's resurrection]

[Exposure]

[Guanyin Temple]

Personality

See here.

[Notes on character development]

Relationships

Trivia

The more humble you are, the more terrified you are
Can’t bear to touch anything in this world
You froze your unfeeling heart and put on a moving act

The more eloquent you are, the more inarticulate you feel
They’re all to fill up the vacantness in your heart
You try to be all things to all men.
But who knows who you truly are?

[...]

As if a warning, and as if self-mockery
You lamented that life is destined to be short
And how many people in your life are willing to know who you truly are?

Willing to know?

 

 

Yao (Template)

A-Yao

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Nickname(s) yaobei
Setting The Untamed, gay ancient magic china
Facecast  

A-Yao is argona's Meng Yao as a young child. Son of Meng Shi.

History

Meng Yao is born February 20th in a Yunping brothel. His mother raises him with love and care, doing her best to shelter him from the unpleasant environment. She teaches him manners that, for now, are necessary for his survival, and one day will serve him well as a young master of the Jin Sect. Meng Shi imparts onto him her belief that one day Jin Guangshan will come for them and buy her freedom from the brothel, elevating Meng Yao as his son. This never happens. In the mean time, Meng Shi devotes most of her time and money attempting to educating her son the way a cultivator is supposed to be educated. 

A-Yao learns reading, writing, etiquette, and some approximation of meditation. He learns to be polite to everyone he meets. He learns to be afraid of everyone he meets. His memory is impeccable even as a young child, and he learns things very quickly.

Personality

[He's not a sociopath yet, hooray!]

Appearances

let the children come to me - in which multiple babies are given much better childhoods than they receive in canon. A-Yao (age 3) and his mother are rescues from the brothel and A-Yao is given a much more healthy and normative middle childhood than usual. [Wiki]

 

Yao (Template)

Meng Yao (willing-to-know)

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Other Names A-Yao, Jin Yao
Setting gay ancient magic china
Facecast Zhu Zanjin + faceapp

Meng Yao is a character in the Yao template [Wiki] written by argona.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Xichen (Template)

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Xichen (Template)

Lan Xichen (for-the-sky-to-decide)

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Nickname(s) Zewu-jun, Lan Huan, Er-ge
Setting The Untamed
Facecast Liu Haikuan

 

 

 

Lan Xichen is the Sect Leader of Gusu Lan and the older brother of Lan Wangji. Argona's version, derived from The Untamed canon.

[...]

History

[Child hood]

[Sect Leader]

[Burning of Cloud Recesses]

[Sunshot campaign]

Personality

[...]

Relationships

Appearances 

making room for new regrets - Lan Xichen is informed about the time travel by Lan Wangji and Jiang Cheng. They bring him different accounts of the future, focused around different concerns. He works to protect Cloud Recesses and as many other people as possible in anticipation of the coming war. [Wiki]

Trivia

 

Xichen (Template)

Akemi Haru

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Nickname(s)  
Setting PMMM
Facecast Liu Haikuan

Akemi Haru is Homura's older brother, an alt of argona's Lan Xichen.

Personality

Appearances

for each beloved hour - 

 

 

 

Xichen (Template)

Lan Xichen (how-generous-the-scene)

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Nickname(s) Lan Huan
Setting Gay Magic Alt-history China
Facecast Liu Haikuan

Xichen in a modern-with-magic AU.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chu Wanning (of-the-night-sky)

Nickname(s) Shizun, Chu-fei
Setting 2ha
Facecast Luo Yunxi

Chu Wanning is written by argona, modeled after his character in Dumb Husky and his White Cat Shizun (2ha). 

History

[...]

Personality

[cat]

Relationships

Appearances

fallen flowers lay scattered on the ground - Chu Wanning becomes miraculously pregnant, which motivates him to de-Flower Mo Ran. They attempt to fix as many things as possible. [Wiki]

it's a nightmare but it's one exciting ride - Beauty and the Beast AU. 

where angels fear to tread - Chu-fei drops on Wen Ruohan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shi Mei (Template)

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Shi Mei (Template)

Hua Binan (cold-scale-sacred-hand)

Other Names Shi Mei, Mysterious Doctor
Setting 2ha

Facecast

  

Hua Binan is an instance of the Shi Mei template [Wiki] written by argona, based on the character from Dumb Husky And His White Cat Shizun (2ha). 

History

Personality

Relationships

Appearances

fallen flowers lay scattered on the ground

Trivia

Shi Mei (Template)

Shi Mei (shoot-from-behind)

Other Names Shi Mingjing
Setting  

Facecast

  

Shi Mei is an instance of the Shi Mei template [Wiki] written by argona, based on the character from Dumb Husky And His White Cat Shizun (2ha). This Shi Mei (shoot-from-behind) is iterated into a Beauty and the Beast AU in the roles of both the Enchantress and Gaston.

History

[...]

Appearances

it's a nightmare but it's one exciting ride - a jealous Shi Mei enchants Mo Ran into a beast and traps him in an abandoned palace, telling everyone in the village that Mo Ran was killed by a monster. He looks after Chu Wanning through illness and grief, before courting him openly.

Wen Qing (Template)

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Wen Qing (Template)

Wen Qing (withinmyhome)

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Nickname(s)  
Setting The Untamed
Facecast Meng Ziyi

Wen Qing is a skilled doctor from the Wen Sect. She is the older sister of Wen Ning and the cousin of Wen Yuan/Lan Sizhui.

 

 

History

Wen Qing and her younger brother Wen Ning grow up on Dafan Mountain with other Dafan Wens. Their branch of the Wen Sect practices healing and medicine and are much more peacefully inclined than their cousins the Qishan Wen, instilling values that remain strong for Wen Qing even when she feels unable to act on them. When Wen Qing is seven, the demonic Goddess Statue in a temple up the mountain attack the Dafan Wens after Wen Ruohan steals her fragment of Yin Iron. Wen Qing's parents are killed and Wen Ning's qi is damaged when the Statue nearly consumes it. Before he dies protecting them, Wen Qing's father yells for her to run and to take care of her brother.

After this incident, Wen Ruohan takes Wen Qing and Wen Ning under his wing. Wen Qing becomes a powerful cultivator and a powerful asset to her Uncle, through feverishly intense study. Her Uncle dislikes and distrusts her compared to his sons, but she clearly demonstrates more competence than the both of them combined and is accordingly utilized. She is still certainly below Wen Chao and Wen Xu in status, but not so much that she can't tell them to fuck off.

When Wen Qing is seventeen and Wen Ning is fifteen, Wen Ruohan sends them on a spy mission to Cloud Recesses. Wen Qing is tasked with finding the Yin Iron fragment. (Wen Ning is only sent because Wen Qing demands he not be left behind without her.) While at the Lan summer lectures (neither of them actually attend any classes), she becomes acquainted with Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng, and Jiang Yanli.

[...]

Personality

Wen Qing doesn't have time for your shit, or anyone else's shit. She's a bitch and a boss and she shines like gloss.

Wen Qing is usually the person with a braincell in a given room, possessing both great skill as a doctor and more common sense than everyone around her. She sometimes comes off as strict or harsh, but cares very, very deeply about the people closest to her. Wen Qing cares about keeping her brother safe above everything and everyone else. This process often involves scolding Wen Ning, who doesn't seem to understand that they must prioritize their own survival. She can also be very soft with him, a side of her that hardly anyone outside her family ever sees. 

Though often sharp-tongued, Wen Qing has honed a quiet, diplomatic mode of acting over years of desperate need to keep her Uncle's approval. Diplomatic mode primarily involves impassivity; Wen Qing has a better poker face the more she feels unsafe. She speaks clearly, concisely, and subserviently to figures of authority like Wen Ruohan and Lan Xichen. 

Wen Qing has always valued human life in the abstract. She considers it her duty as a doctor and a Dafan Wen to heal the injured and preserve life when possible. Often, over the course of her life, this has not been possible. She is quite empathetic, but works hard to suppress this under Wen Ruohan's thumb. At seventeen, she has hardened herself to standing by while others suffer. Wen Qing hates that, but never wavers in determination to do whatever it takes to keep her brother alive.

Over the course of the war and after it, Wen Qing experiences helping other people without getting killed, helping people and getting hurt for it, and helping people and getting help in return for it. Making friends. This is new, for Wen Qing; making friends in Nightless City was always a bad idea. After these experiences (bonds of friendship, the joys of direct And indirect reciprocal altruism), despite being more terrified than ever, Wen Qing's outlook on survival vs. empathy has softened.

Relationships

Appearances

making room for new regrets - Wen Qing is very alarmed when peggy-sueing Wen Ning collapses beside her en route to the Lan lectures. At Cloud Recesses, she worries that proximity to a fragment of Yin Iron is responsible for Wen Ning's disorientation. When Jiang Cheng attacks her brother and confirms that time travel is afoot, revealing their tragic fates in the original timeline, Wen Qing becomes even more alarmed. She joins forces with Jiang Cheng and Lan Xichen to avert various catastrophic events. [Wiki]

i know how long the night is - Wei Wuxian peggy sues from his death to right before the Wen Indoctrination. Wen Qing first encounters him at Indoctrination in the dungeons after Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are punished for fighting the guards. She is sent to treat their wounds, which she does with great exasperation. Before she leaves, Wei Wuxian alarms her by warning her to take her brother and escape before the war. [Wiki]

talk less, smile more - Cloud Recesses reacts very differently to Wen Ying showing up with the Wen party than with the Jiang party. And then things escalate. [Wiki]

Trivia

 

 

Wen Qing (Template)

Wen Qing (wakeupdifferently)

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Nickname(s) Doctor Wen
Setting Gay Magic Alt-history China
Facecast Meng Ziyi

Wen Qing in a modern-with-magic AU. Wen Qing lives in an apartment with her brother, Wen Ning, and his boyfriends, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji. Together they are all raising A-Yuan. Wen Qing is a skilled doctor and the only member of her household working a regular, salaried job. 

Relationships

[...]

Appearances

in the garden a strange tree grows - wholesome domestic apartment times, featuring pet bunnies and ghostbusting shenanigans.

 

 

 

Wen Ning (pureheart)

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Other Names Wen Qionglin, A-Ning, Ghost General
Setting The Untamed
Facecast Yu Bin

Wen Ning is a very good boy. Sometimes he is also a fierce corpse. Younger brother of Wen Qing.

History

Wen Ning and his older sister Wen Qing grow up in a town on Dafan Mountain, with other Dafan Wens. Their branch of the Wen Sect practices healing and medicine, and are much more peacefully inclined than their cousins the Qishan Wen. A demonic Goddess Statue in a temple up the mountain attacked the Dafan Wens when Wen Ruohan stole her fragment of Yin Iron. Wen Ning's parents were killed and Wen Ning's qi is damaged when the Statue nearly consumes it. As a result, Wen Ning's cultivation is disabled as he grows older. He has a powerful base of spiritual energy, but easily overexerts himself and collapses when he uses it. His golden core is atypical and never cohered fully. The 'gap' in his qi makes him vulnerable to possession and sensitive to the presence of resentful energy or ghosts 

[...]

Wen Ying AU Instance

Due to the intervention of Wei Changze and Cangse-sanren during the Goddess Statue incident, Wen Ning is saved before the Goddess Statue can consume any of his spirit. Wen Ning is not disabled in this AU, nor is he more sensitive or susceptible to possession than any other cultivator. Wei Changze and Cangse-sanren die saving the Dafan Wens, and their surviving daughter Wei Ying is adopted as a sibling to Wen Qing and Wen Ning. Wen Ning calls Wen Qing "Qing-jie" or "Da-jie", and Wen Ying "Ying-jie" or "Er-jie."

Appearances

making room for new regrets - Wen Ning peggy sues back to the start of the Lan summer lectures (along with Nie Huaisang, Lan Wangji, and Jiang Cheng). He has a difficult time readjusting to a human body and is generally very confused. [Wiki]

talk less, smile more - Wen Ning follows his older sisters Wen Qing and Wen Ying on their spy mission to the Cloud Recesses and subsequent adventures. [Wiki]

in the garden a strange tree grows - modern-with-magic!Wen Ning lives in an apartment with his sister Wen Qing, his boyfriends Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, and their baby A-Yuan. Features pet bunnies and ghostbusting shenanigans.

 

Sun Lihua (grave-of-dreams)

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Nickname(s) Madam Lan
Setting The Untamed, gay ancient magic china
Facecast Ni Ni

Sun Lihua is the mother of Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji, married to Qingheng-jun. 

[...]

History

Sun Lihua travels for years as a rogue cultivator before she meets Qingheng-jun of the Gusu Lan Sect. They stay in the same town and begin running into each other on night hunts. Lihua finds him competent and a satisfactory night hunt companion. Qingheng-jun falls in love with her at first sight.

He is in town with several fellow Lan disciples and a teacher of his. Lihua discovers that the teacher has been leveraging the Lan's protection of the small town to coerce some townspeople. Soon after a confrontation wherein the teacher refuses to admit any wrongdoing, Lihua kills him. 

Gusu Lan wants her dead after this very badly, but QIngheng-jun does not, and Qingheng-jun is the most skilled of all of them. He gets to her first. Lihua is captured and dragged to Cloud Recesses and shoved through marriage rites with her wrists still bound. She is taken to an isolated house in the back hills and locked inside for the rest of her life.

A-Huan (Lan Xichen) is her firstborn, and A-Zhan (Lan Wangji) is born three years later. Lihua is not allowed to keep her own children. Because the Lan are concerned that her evil might contaminate their heirs, the boys are brought to her only once a month. Lihua is thoroughly miserable but loves her children more than anything.

She dies of illness when A-Zhan is six, at age twenty-nine.

Personality

[...]

Relationships

Appearances

let the little children come to me - in which Lihua is able to actually witness her children's childhoods. Time traveling Xichen arranges a prison break, which allows her to go outside, hold her babies, and bond with some very attractive women. [Wiki]

 

Meng Shi (willow-blossoms-weep)

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Nickname(s)  
Setting The Untamed, ancient gay magic china
Facecast Sun Anke

Meng Shi is Meng Yao's mother. She is a notoriously beautiful young woman who carries herself with precision and grace. She raises and educates her son well despite being trapped as a prostitute. Meng Shi dies of illness in the Yunping brothel years before The Untamed canon begins.

History (Original)

Meng Shi becomes widely known among prostitutes at a young age for both her beauty and her ability to read. This attracts the attention of Sect Leader Jin Guangshan, who visits the brothel specifically to woo her. He gives Meng Shi a pearl as a token of devotion, as he does for many of his conquests. When Meng Shi becomes pregnant with Jin Guangshan's child, she holds confidence that her love will return for her and their son; he will buy her freedom. He never does. She never loses hope in the pearl and his promises.

Meng Shi devotes herself to raising A-Yao properly, teaching him formal speech, poetry, calligraphy, manners and polite smiles. Though she knows nothing about cultivation herself, she buys books on meditation and sword forms to teach from. She is preparing her son for life as an esteemed cultivator of the Jin Sect.

She first becomes sick when Meng Yao is nine, a fever that recedes into mild illness which lingers and gradually worsens. Two years later, she consults a doctor, but cannot afford one skilled enough to identify her sickness. When Meng Yao is thirteen, a displeased brothel client beats and humiliates Meng Shi in public; she never fully recovers, physically. Meng Shi dies when her son is fourteen, still believing that Jin Guangshan meant to come back for them.

Instances

Light and Color

In by your clear light and color, Wei Ying accompanies Meng Yao to visit his mother's grave. When they are ambushed and the ground is disturbed by an explosion, Wei Ying stuffs a fragment of Yin Iron inside Meng Shi's withered corpse to hide it. This accidentally revives Meng Shi as a fierce corpse, who Wei Ying manages to calm and restore to consciousness. Being alive is shocking and requires some adjustment, particularly to her son being an adult and Jin Guangshan being a horrible person. [Wiki]

Let the Children Come

In let the children come to me, time traveling Lan Xichen rescues Meng Shi and Meng Yao from the brothel and drastically improves both of their futures. [Wiki]

 

 

Wei Wuxian (deaths-joy-and-grief)

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Other Names Wei Ying, Yiling Laozu, Yiling Patriarch
Setting gay ancient magic china
Facecast Xiao Zhan

Wei Wuxian is argona's adaptation of the character from the Untamed.

Appearances

making room for new mistakes

never too late to look back

I don't care if you'll hate me

 

 

 

Minor Untamed Characters (argona)

Characters from (or set in) The Untamed that don't have their own templates or very much screentime.

Minor Untamed Characters (argona)

Jin Zixuan (pompouspeonies)

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Nickname(s) Zixuan, peacock
Setting The Untamed
Facecast Cao Yuchen

 

 

 

Jin Zixuan's profile on the constellation bears the description: "ranges from Bitch to Good Egg." 

[...]

Appearances

i know how long the night is - Jin Zixuan hates evil summer camp. [Wiki]

making room for new regrets - Jin Zixuan attends the Lan summer lectures. [Wiki]

talk less, smile more - 

by your clear light and color -

 

Minor Untamed Characters (argona)

Mianmian (on-roads-far-away)

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Nickname(s) Luo Qingyang
Setting The Untamed
Facecast Wang Yifei

 

 

 

 

Luo Qingyang, called Mianmian, ...

[...]

Appearances

talk less, smile more - Mianmian befriends Wen Ying at the summer lectures and they remain friends throughout the thread.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minor Untamed Characters (argona)

Xue Yang

Minor Untamed Characters (argona)

Wen Zhuliu (corecrusher)

Minor Untamed Characters (argona)

Lan Qiren

Lan Qiren argona's adaptation of the character from The Untamed.

Handmaiden Characters

Templates/characters from Park Chanwook's The Handmaiden (2016)

Handmaiden Characters

About Hideko

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Template Attractors

Personality

Hidekos are cunning and in some ways quite hardened, but possess a genuine fragility and youthful quality due to their lack of experience in many ordinary areas. Despite weathering a large amount of childhood during and after childhood, Hidekos also usually grow up isolated or otherwise sheltered from things like animals, friendship, travel, music, any sense of affection or safety. The greater world is a source of wonderment and curiosity for her, but also something she finds frightening.

Hidekos are usually motivated by obtaining freedom, liberation. 

She likes silk and lace and fine gloves and is very accustomed to wealth, but will give up all of those more luxurious fashions if that is necessary for freedom.

[Poise, acting, coldness]

[Schemey, starts from a place of self interest]

[Sexuality: gay, switch, kinky alongside kink trauma]

[Phobias, trauma, men are bad]

Origin

Hideko is adopted from Park Chanwook's The Handmaiden (2016). 

Associated Characters

Sookhee
Gross Men

Threads

 

Handmaiden Characters

Izumi Hideko (if-you-were-with-me)

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Other Names 아가씨, Lady Hideko
Setting The Handmaiden
Facecast Kim Minhee

Izumi Hideko is argona's adaptation of the second protagonist from Park Chanwook's The Handmaiden.

Handmaiden Characters

Hideko (to-play-with-fate)

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Other Names Miya
Setting Ambiguous Cyberpunk Spacefuture
Facecast Kim Minhee

This Hideko is a space spy.

 

Handmaiden Characters

About Sookhee

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Template Attractors

Personality

She likes shiny things and shiny girls. She wants to travel the world and find even shinier things along her travels. She is very earnest, not very polished, relatively cheerful and optimistic. Street-smart, cynical in the big picture but naive interpersonally.

Origin

Sookhee is adopted from Park Chanwook's The Handmaiden (2016). 

Associated Characters

Hideko
Fujiwara

 

 

 

Handmaiden Characters

Nam Sookhee (beauty-leaves-me-breathless)

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Other Names Tamako
Setting The Handmaiden
Facecast Kim Taeri

Nam Sookhee is argona's adaptation of the protagonist from Park Chanwook's The Handmaiden.

Handmaiden Characters

Sookhee (illegal-to-be-naive)

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Nicknames space spy sookhee
Other names Tamako
Setting Ambiguous Cyberpunk Spacefuture
Facecast Kim Taeri

This Sookhee is a space spy.

History

[Childhood]

[Space spy career]

[Hideko]

Appearances

climbing up the walls - Sookhee is a space spy, gets up to space spying, has a space crush

Trivia

 

Mehtien (air-of-valor)

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Nickname(s) Space!Mehtien
Setting  
Facecast Chikaru Okunugi

Mehtien is a warrior prince of the semi-nomadic Space!Xiongnu.

 

History

In the midst of a space battle, Mehtien is ambushed and captured by the very fictional Space!Han empire. He is placed in the Emperor's harem, where he acquires a) a loving and traumabonded relationship with his roommate Li Mei, and b) intense PTSD. Mehtien is diagnosed with hysteria after injuring himself during a flashback.

Relationships

Appearances

boys in SPACE - [access list only] 

carve the cherry blossoms down - [visible to constellation users only]