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waterscrollSo that got real, hunh.
I wasn't so into the high school shenanigans, but wow they all grew up fast.
This seems to be the part of the show where they slowly and methodically break Jiang Cheng into the angry murdery mess that he is in the first few episodes. Spoilers tell me he doesn't get better in canon either. I can see why Wei Wuxian tricked him into accepting his golden core without telling him what was going on, but I can also see how one way or another it's going to wreck him, and after the way his family was killed he's pretty close to wrecked already. So before I go on and watch it happen, I need someone to hug him. Fortunately fandom is helping me there. Some favorites:
Jiang Cheng/Wei Wuxian:
Haunting Legacies, featuring Jiang Cheng as a drunk, angry, terrifyingly powerful middle-aged woman much like her mother. She was married to Wei Wuxian when they were younger and they both never completely got over it. Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji/Jiang Cheng endgame. I think this is my favorite thing I've read so far in the fandom.
Never Sleep Alone is a much more straightforward and sweet fixit, in which they never give up on each other.
Adopting love is another Jiang Cheng/Wei Wuxian young marriage AU, in which Wei Wuxian was brought into the Jiang family to be Jiang Cheng's concubine/secondary wife. I like the premise a lot but since the series isn't finished I have no idea if it's going to be a fixit or just hurt in a different way.
This pairing is overintense in a way that suits my tastes so I'll keep looking for it.
Jiang Cheng/Wen Qing
Snowberryrose has a *lot* of long, plotty, romantic Jiang Cheng/Wen Qing fixits, each of which takes off from a different point in canon and fixes things a different way. I particularly like Darkness, in which Wen Qing loses her brother and all her fucks and then bonds with Jiang Cheng over being bitter and angry.
I've been looking for Wen Qing fixits and have had some trouble finding them, since she is tagged in a lot of fics which aren't really about her. But these are good.
Jiang Cheng/Lan Jingyi
This seems to be a good pairing for Jiang Cheng moving on from his angst and woe rather than continuing to try to fix things that can't be fixed.
A Compromising Position is cute and funny.
Cloudy Eyes is slow-burn and romantic.
Do you have any fixits for Jiang Cheng that you like? What kind of happy ending would you like to see for him?
::deep breath:: Okay, time to go watch him be broken some more. Once I'm able to handle it.
I know Wei Wuxian is getting broken just as badly, but I'm less worried for him because of his protagonist plot armor. And I am SO grateful that I came across spoilers about Yu Ziyuan's arc before I met her, because that would have been very unpleasant to see unspoiled. Well, it was unpleasant to see anyway. But here's a fixit for her, and there seem to be a few others.
I'm also on episode 7 of the animated version and chapter 19 of the novel, because I like seeing multiple versions of things. I'm finding the novel difficult to read so it might take a while. The animated version is a lot of fun though.
In other fannishness, I'm slowly and haphazardly rewatching Guardian. I'm pretty sure I have more Guardian fics in me, so I hope I can keep my head in the canon.
I wasn't so into the high school shenanigans, but wow they all grew up fast.
This seems to be the part of the show where they slowly and methodically break Jiang Cheng into the angry murdery mess that he is in the first few episodes. Spoilers tell me he doesn't get better in canon either. I can see why Wei Wuxian tricked him into accepting his golden core without telling him what was going on, but I can also see how one way or another it's going to wreck him, and after the way his family was killed he's pretty close to wrecked already. So before I go on and watch it happen, I need someone to hug him. Fortunately fandom is helping me there. Some favorites:
Jiang Cheng/Wei Wuxian:
Haunting Legacies, featuring Jiang Cheng as a drunk, angry, terrifyingly powerful middle-aged woman much like her mother. She was married to Wei Wuxian when they were younger and they both never completely got over it. Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji/Jiang Cheng endgame. I think this is my favorite thing I've read so far in the fandom.
Never Sleep Alone is a much more straightforward and sweet fixit, in which they never give up on each other.
Adopting love is another Jiang Cheng/Wei Wuxian young marriage AU, in which Wei Wuxian was brought into the Jiang family to be Jiang Cheng's concubine/secondary wife. I like the premise a lot but since the series isn't finished I have no idea if it's going to be a fixit or just hurt in a different way.
This pairing is overintense in a way that suits my tastes so I'll keep looking for it.
Jiang Cheng/Wen Qing
Snowberryrose has a *lot* of long, plotty, romantic Jiang Cheng/Wen Qing fixits, each of which takes off from a different point in canon and fixes things a different way. I particularly like Darkness, in which Wen Qing loses her brother and all her fucks and then bonds with Jiang Cheng over being bitter and angry.
I've been looking for Wen Qing fixits and have had some trouble finding them, since she is tagged in a lot of fics which aren't really about her. But these are good.
Jiang Cheng/Lan Jingyi
This seems to be a good pairing for Jiang Cheng moving on from his angst and woe rather than continuing to try to fix things that can't be fixed.
A Compromising Position is cute and funny.
Cloudy Eyes is slow-burn and romantic.
Do you have any fixits for Jiang Cheng that you like? What kind of happy ending would you like to see for him?
::deep breath:: Okay, time to go watch him be broken some more. Once I'm able to handle it.
I know Wei Wuxian is getting broken just as badly, but I'm less worried for him because of his protagonist plot armor. And I am SO grateful that I came across spoilers about Yu Ziyuan's arc before I met her, because that would have been very unpleasant to see unspoiled. Well, it was unpleasant to see anyway. But here's a fixit for her, and there seem to be a few others.
I'm also on episode 7 of the animated version and chapter 19 of the novel, because I like seeing multiple versions of things. I'm finding the novel difficult to read so it might take a while. The animated version is a lot of fun though.
In other fannishness, I'm slowly and haphazardly rewatching Guardian. I'm pretty sure I have more Guardian fics in me, so I hope I can keep my head in the canon.
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Date: 2020-08-16 02:28 pm (UTC)Yeah, part of me wants to watch The Untamed for the extra Wen Qing but...it'll still end the same :(
Someone I follow on twitter is VERY INTO Jiang Cheng and his actor so I have seen many photos of him making various expressions and he does seem very versatile ( also much cuter without the wig, imo)