Wen Qing (withinmyhome)

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.

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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

• Wen Ning (Brother)
  • Calls him A-Ning, is called Jie, Jiejie
• Wei Wuxian (Friend/crush)
• Wen Yuan (Cousin, quasi-adopted child)
  • Calls him A-Yuan, is called...

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

• The screen name "withinmyhome" is taken from the lyric of a Wen Qing tribute song: 命断故园中 / Life and death within my home