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江晚吟 ([personal profile] qingxinling) wrote2023-12-13 10:59 am

bang! crash! the lightning flashed!! -- that's another story, nevermind, anyway!

Jiang Wanyin sweeps along the shores of the lake, glowering. This is not his beloved Lotus Pier. These waters are cold, foreign, uninviting. Clearly there's been some trap: he's been distracted by duty in this hunt, and when he followed the slight tug in his chest, he ended up getting pulled into unfamiliar territory.

No matter. He draws himself to full height, letting cool arrogance slip down his shoulders and suffuse him. Sandu is naked in one hand; Zidian crackles in the other. He can handle whatever monsters may arrive.
wickedwit: (mm really?)

[personal profile] wickedwit 2024-01-10 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
His fingers catch in Jiang Wanyin's collar and pull his face down, and he's not quite ungentlemanly enough to kiss Jiang Wanyin on the lips for a jest. But he comes very near to it, with a lingering kiss to his cheek.
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[personal profile] peaklordshen 2024-01-10 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Shen Yuan watches Jiang Cheng laugh with his chin on the heel of one hand, smiling lightly. Another thing CQL got wrong, clearly. "Oh, I don't know," he says. "Maybe I misunderstood something he said." He's too curious about this adaptation difference to leave it alone, though. "Who...is Chief Cultivator, then?"
wickedwit: (villainous smiling)

[personal profile] wickedwit 2024-01-10 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
An excellent reaction, and one Claudius smiles broadly at. “What, where is thy boldness?” he teases. “Art shy now?” He sighs and steps back, after patting Jiang Wanyin’s chest. “A shame, but it happens even to the best of us.”
peaklordshen: (smiling)

[personal profile] peaklordshen 2024-01-20 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Nie Huaisang? Shen Yuan doesn't know how to feel about that. It kind of muddies the waters on his revenge plot? Like, if he also gets political benefit out of it, then was he really motivated by pure love and rage on behalf of his brother??1 But he has to admit, now that he knows Lan Wangji, he has to agree he would be pretty bad at running the cultivation world. That kind of thing requires nuance, and the ability to talk to people for more than two sentences. "It would be a fucking nightmare," he agrees. "What do you think he'd be worst at?"

1 Once again this typist does not stand behind Shen Yuan's CQL opinions.
wickedwit: (mm really?)

[personal profile] wickedwit 2024-01-23 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, poor innocent!" Claudius lets his eyes grow wide. "Hast thou never had a kiss, Jiang Wanyin? My apologies. A gentleman should never trifle with maidenly hearts."
wickedwit: (villainous smiling)

[personal profile] wickedwit 2024-02-04 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
“No, in this analogy, thou art the maiden.” Claudius does, wisely, step a little further back when weapons are drawn, but his smile remains rather smug. “Unversed and unaccustomed to seduction. Wert thou saving thy first kiss? I’m glad I didn’t steal it entirely. I’ll leave thee to thy chaste idylls and daydreams.”
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[personal profile] peaklordshen 2024-02-05 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Shen Yuan nods emphatically. "Oh, he's terrible at arbitration. His friend Claudius had this whole fight with Luo Binghe,1 it's whatever, it's water under the bridge, but someone else arbitrated, and then after it had already been solved2 Lan Wangji bursts in and holds Luo Binghe at sword-point. Like," he adopts his iciest face, his best Lan Wangji impression. "If you don't do what you've already done, I'll—"

1 He's not avoiding telling Jiang Cheng he has a boyfriend. He's just being a little bit circumspect about it, because Jiang Cheng's experience with Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian has made him... well, a little homophobic? Everyone has flaws, it's fine.
2 ?

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