Meng Yao (not-a-single-sin)
| Nickname(s) | A- |
| Setting | The |
| Facecast | Zhu Zanjin |
Meng Yao is a character from The Untamed. He is the illegitimate son of Jin Guangshan and Meng Shi.
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History
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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 morals and 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.
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 h is way to protect. (These are his mother an Lan Xichen). The next tier contains a number of 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.
- Lan Xichen (Soulmate, sworn brother)
- Calls Zewu-jun > Er-ge (Second Brother), is called A-Yao
- Xichen is the only person who stays by Meng Yao's side consistently, the only person who ever stops Meng Yao from bowing to him. He is the person Meng Yao desires most to help and least to hurt.
- "In a grey world, he's like white moonlight." - Zhu Zanjin describing Xichen's significance to Meng Yao
- Nie Mingjue (Boyfriend/ex-boyfriend, liege, sworn brother)
- Calls Sect Leader Nie > Da-ge (Eldest Brother), is called Meng Yao
- Nie Mingjue was the first person to see worth in Meng Yao and elevate his status. They both respected and cared deeply about each other, though Meng Yao was always subordinate.
- Messy divorce after Wen Chao attacks the Unclean Realm and Meng Yao murders the Nie captain, painful on both sides.
- Even messier second divorce, after which Meng Yao decides that Nie Mingjue never loved him and always saw him as lesser and despicable, that no matter how hard Meng Yao works to ascend ranks, Nie Mingjue will never value him or see him as equal.
- Da-ge is the only murder he ever feels haunted by.
- Nie Huaisang
- Calls Huaisang, is called Meng Yao > San-ge (Third Brother)
- Jin Guangshan (Father)
- Calls Father
- Jin Guangshan is by far the person Meng Yao gives the most chances, but unfortunately also the worst person in the entire setting. Meng Yao is more desperate for his father's approval than he is for almost anything.
- Meng Shi (Mother)
- Calls Mama/Mother, is called A-Yao
- Meng Yao loves his mother fiercely and thinks better of her than most people in the world.
- Lan Wangji (Brother-in-law, approximately)
- Jin Zixuan (Half-brother)
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.
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.
Trivia
- The screen name "not-a-single-sin" is quoted from Meng Yao in the MDZS novel, speaking to Lan Xichen. Just like you said, there is not a single sin in this world that I haven't committed! But you, never have I ever thought about doing you harm.