So obviously I spend a lot of time thinking about lan wangji hearing wangxian and knowing that wei wuxian is back.
BUT! imagine how he must have felt when jiang cheng hit wei wuxian with zidian. imagine! you’ve spent 13 years mourning the love of your life. raising his son as your own. scars on your chest and back that will forever remind you of what you’ve lost. and then he comes back. it’s an unfamiliar body but you know that it’s him. you can keep him safe this time.
and then his asshole brother who you HATE hits your love with the exorcism whip and for a second, you think you’ve lost him again. your second chance, vanished as soon as you found it.
and then he’s fine! your lost love is still there, being his annoying self, flirting with you. probably just to piss his brother off but he says you’re his type. this all happens within like five minutes. emotional rollercoaster of all time.
Considering the fact he’s set up to be like an antagonist force in the Heavens for Xie Lian Pei Ming is such a wild side character like:
He’s probably aromantic
He’s older than Xie Lian by maybe 5 years maybe 100s it’s really vague
He is constantly following his dick into places I wouldn’t go with a gun
He isn’t actually antagonistic to Xie Lian at all despite all the behind the scenes manipulation trying to make that happen
Him and Xie Lian share custody of a 250 year old war criminal
He’s the text book example of why “I was just following orders” is really fucking bad
He has an incredibly strong sense of justice
He’s best friends with the most evil woman and second most evil man in heaven for most of the novel
He’s genuinely a good person
He’s so charismatic his best friend/situation-ship tried to make him king without asking him
He’s so distraught about what happened with The Rain Master he runs away from her for +800 years of existence
He’s a slut
He’s a Hualian shipper
Despite being probably the third strongest Martial God in the series he spends all of Mount Tonglu with a broken elbow and being comic relief
He genuinely believes he and Hua Cheng are buds
He somehow didn’t have any children so instead he tries to trust fund kid his 17 times great grand nephew who was raised by the most humble man ever and can’t work out why the kid won’t let him buy his way out of jail
He wants to talk to Xie Lian about his sex life
He spends most of the last book being depressed that one of his best friends is dead and another is on the run
People pray to him for long lasting relationships
A yandre ghost is trying to kill him
Jun Wu was actively running a smear campaign against him the entire time
He was part of the magical girl sword
He’s the slut of the heavens
He is both so tried and living by the motto fuck it we ball
He’s the only other man Xie Lian finds handsome
He was the first person to realise E’Ming was a boner metaphor
He’s scared of the bull man who hates him
He is probably going to be the next heavenly emperor since Xie Lian doesn’t want that shit
He’s the only martial god who genuinely likes and respects Ling Wen until Xie Lian shows up
Unpopular opinion, but it’s criminal to me how the fandom often reduces Hua Cheng to his drawings by making him an art major or a painter or yada yada… When this man’s only interest beside Xie Lian has been canonically archeology.
Like his art is an extension of his interest on Xie Lian. But archeology? “Yeah I got bored so I excavated an entire city smothered in ashes, studied their culture and learned to read their language even though I couldn’t hear anyone speak it.” You’re gonna tell me he doesn’t like doing anything else beside art with this? Heck, I’d even argue that the fact he mostly does religious imagery of Xie Lian is part of his true calling which is archeology.
Also please how funny would it be in modern AUs when he has to go on trips for his job and he’s just sad because he wants to bring Xie Lian with him, but Xie Lian has a fencing competition to come and his association voluntary work. Or if he tries to complain about work and Xie Lian is like “Oh it’s that antique thing right?” and Hua Cheng has tears in his eyes trying to stay sane like “It’s actually early Han dynasty which is…” and then monologue for an hour.
Also it explains why he survives Xie Lian’s food. “You’re an archeologist? Ha! I bet you’ve eaten a mummy once.” “I haven’t but I did eat a piece of cheese and some preserved pastries from the Qin dynasty once.” “What.” “What?”
Like you’re really telling me this man right here would draw anything else beside Xie Lian? And make money out of only drawing Xie Lian that he would sell?? I mean maybe he could but he wouldn’t. Meanwhile archeology is just as unstable of a job and a lot more funnier.
all the photos of him are like this, I love that this guy understood he had been born with the face of a wizard or axe murderer and just leaned fully into it
sorry this was going to be a tags addition because I only get to use my coated pantone swatchbook like 6 times a year when i have a new enamel pin to design, but…
I’ve been browsing through too much speculative evolution memes but what if domestic cats could sail like gliders. Every day you get home you’re greeted by
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