DragoBlade007

Wonderously Random World

[xielianlover2]

I want to talk about unconditional forgiveness and how crucial it is for Xie Lian to have someone who offers it to him with no strings attached.

Throughout Xie Lian's life, he experiences numerous falls from grace, each one more devastating than the last. He goes from being a beloved crown prince and a renowned god to a figure of scorn and bad luck. The weight of his past and the suffering he has endured often make him question his own worthiness and ability to protect others.

Which is why, for Xie Lian, Hua Cheng's forgiveness is a lifeline. Knowing that there is someone who believes in him, no matter what, allows Xie Lian to forgive himself and move forward. In a world where divine beings are often portrayed as infallible, we see by the end, that pretty much every god has their own flaws and that even those with immense power are not immune to making grievous errors in judgment.

I think Hua Cheng’s forgiveness also symbolizes a deeper, transformative love. It’s a love that goes beyond mere acceptance; it’s a commitment, a promise, a vow to stand by Xie Lian no matter what, and that's what makes his love so rare and beautiful. It's such a stark contrast to the judgment Xie Lian has faced from his people and other gods. While his own friends basically turned their backs on him, Hua Cheng remained his most loyal and devoted believer. His cheerleader, for a lack of better words. Hua Cheng embodies the truest form of compassion– understanding and embracing someone wholly.

Hua Cheng's love and acceptance allow Xie Lian to feel seen and understood in a way that no one else has ever provided. This kind of forgiveness is not about overlooking mistakes or pretending they didn't happen; rather, it's about recognizing the entirety of a person's journey and choosing to embrace them regardless.

Hua Cheng's acceptance allows Xie Lian to be vulnerable about his deepest fears and struggles. It also gives him the ability to ask for something he needs for himself:

"All right... don't say any more. I get it... but... but don't be like this, all right? San Lang? I... I've borrowed so much spiritual power from you that I haven't repaid. And I'm not done telling you all the things that I wanted to say; there's still so much. It's been so long since anyone listened to me talk. Won't you stay? Don't.. don't do this. I won't be able to take it. Twice, it's happened twice already-I really don't want there to be a third time!"

In this moment, Xie Lian’s plea reveals how extremely isolating his life has been. He has been perpetually misunderstood, and I believe that even before his first ascension, he has always felt profoundly alone. Throughout his life, Xie Lian has been surrounded by people who either see him through the lens of his past or view him as a mere symbol; a divine god, so therefore flawless and someone beyond approach. It strips away his humanity and the complexities of his true self, unable to be seen as a person with real feelings and imperfections. Even his Feng Xin and Mu Qing put him up in a pedestal, and no matter what happened, no matter how understandable it was, everyone still left him in the end.

Then, to have someone say they understand his everything, from his wisdom to his foolishness, and then also wholeheartedly support him and unconditionally love him? That they never, ever left him, that they've always been there, constant and unchanging in their love, in their devotion? That must have felt life-changing to him. Something groundbreaking and pivotal.

He is essentially begging for the one person who understands him completely—and who accepts him unconditionally despite everything—not to leave him. When Xie Lian begs Hua Cheng to stay, it is not just a request for physical presence but a desperate need for emotional reassurance and acceptance. For Hua Cheng is Xie Lian's safe haven where he can express his deepest fears and unspoken desires, a place of solace and affirmation that he has long been missing from everyone else.

[heartinhyacinth]

Sometime post-canon after his shackles are gone, I’m imagining Xie Lian accidentally getting nicked when polishing some things in the armory or something and just…having so many Feelings when he looks down two weeks later and notices the tiniest of scars for the first time in eight centuries

One detail that always gets to me so bad when I think of the calamity arc and the temple scene is that little part about it leaving no scars and no evidence it ever happened whatsoever. This little detail and Xie Lian’s relationship with pain and trauma is just…

[emotionaldisaster909]

Xie Lian is a God of Good Luck

He’s a God of Fixing Things

Taking the bad and abandoned, and making it good, giving it new life

He’s of turning the fortunes

Saving unfortunate children. Taking the fall and the tumbling for them.

Saving a country and innocent citizens from great misfortune. Taking it all onto himself.

Just one person.

Flowing through the world, righting it as much as he could. As much as one person could

Which just can’t be enough to save everything and everyone.

But he never gave up.

He is Always Rising Up.

As tides of good luck always fight against the bad, he fought against the cruelty of the world.

Against the cruelty of the one who succumbed to his misfortune and chose to take everyone down with him

And who tried to pass it all down onto Xie Lian

making him out to be a God of Bad Luck.

Yet Xie Lian’s good luck

Luck that he himself fully gave up

For the most unfortunate boy in a most fortunate country

Abandoned, broken thing

Who’s heart he healed, who’s life he gave new meaning

And who went on to become the luckiest person in the world

His San Lang

Always followed his footsteps.

Just to give it all back to him.

To his God of Good Luck.

[j-minusthesmut]

i’m not crazy okay, listen, keys jingling noise, LOOK at those lines in the word ‘for’. they’re overlapping like that because the knife slipped which is normal when scratching into metal.

but look at how all the lines in ‘johnny’ line up without overlapping, especially the ‘o’ compared to the one in ‘for’. and the spacing of the letters.

he put more time and care into it because it’s johnny’s name.

and no, i’m not obsessive, why?

[kirimachi]

Happy Birthday, Silver Vanrouge👏🏻💞

[official-miroah-page]

Observation and Theory

During the movie Rise of The Beasts one think that everyone could all remember about is Mirage and Noah giving each other fist bumps.

The first time, Mirage is offering his fist as a way to show he is not threatening and that Noah can feel safe around him. In that moment he felt like he needed to comfort Noah because obviously Noah is freaked out by the revelation that aliens exist. Now this is notable because for the fact that Mirage offers and initiates it first.

Now the second time is when they are out about to storm the bridge to destroy the transwarp key's connection to let Unicron in through. Now we see that it is in reverse where despite the brave expression on Mirage's face I couldn't help but notice that he still sounded a wee bit nervous, he knows he can't defeat Scourge by himself. He knows he is going into a losing battle with the cost being his life if all goes to plan. Noah noticed this and he offers a fist bump like how Mirage did earlier to calm the autobot's nerves. There is that moment where you can tell that both find comfort within each other.

Mirage initiates the first fist bump and now that the two created a strong enough bond Noah initiates the next fist bump.

My theory for the next movie (hopefully if it has the two both in it)

For the next movie I think it will expand more on the two's relationship of mutual trust and how they will comfort each other.

[official-miroah-page]

Observation

Mirage has completed conjunx ritus with Noah and same way vice versa

Mirage;

Act of Intimacy: Now the first scene that wouldn't really seem as intimacy but I feel like it is was the car chase scene, it was playful and then it follows up to the garage scene where they have their first fist bump. The fist bump in this movie is the key scene of intimacy that a lot of people could over look and call it not intimate but I see it as baby steps.

Act of Disclosure: The whole scene with Mirage opening up about how they crashed on Earth and he opens up on how he knows Optimus guilt. He talks about his worries for his teammates and helps Noah show that Optimus is not trying to be entirely mean.

Act of Profferance: The wrist gauntlet, he gives up a piece of himself as a gift and has Noah keep it.

Act of Devotion: This is a no brainer but the whole scene where he throws himself over Noah and sacrafices himself. He is terrified of dying but he would rather die than break his promise with Kris and see Noah die. Even when he is severely injured he makes himself into a suit to protect Noah on top of that. Mirage didn't even know if he would even come back, he did this selflessly.

Noah;

Act of Intimacy: Unintentionally but the whole scene when he is feeling up Mirage's insides in the garage. But on a serious note, the second time they do the fist bump he isn't scared of Mirage anymore and he initiated the contact.

Act of Disclosure: This was hard to figure out which scene meant the most but then I remembered the final battle. Noah knew that Mirage couldn't go up against Scourge alone, he subtly voices his concerns. He could have let Mirage go but in that moment it seemed like he wanted there to be another way for Mirage to be useful because going up against Scourge meant a death sentence.

Act of Profferance: Gathering up pieces and fixing Mirage, each new piece being a gift. His gift to Mirage was gathering pieces and giving time to fix him. He put blood, sweat and tears into giving Mirage back his body.

Act of Devotion: Him fighting with Mirage against Scourge, spending time with Mirage, and rebuilding Mirage even when at the beginning when he was terrified but it wasn't till the end when he realises that Mirage dying terrified him. Mirage was on the brink of death and Noah rolled up his sleeves and began rebuilding the bot.

[animeaddict578]

THEY BASICALLY WORE BOYFRIEND TSHIRTS OHHHH THEY MAKE ME ILL 😭😭😭

[mintaikkcorpse]

I DIDN'T FULLY NOTICE OR APPRECIATE THIS POST UNTIL I WATCHED THE MOVIE AGAIN FOR LIKE THE 4TH TIME AND OMG IT'S LITERALLY SO CUTE I HATE THEM/POS

It's even cuter for Mirage bcuz it takes so long to paint a car. You think he told Noah he wanted to match his jacket? YOU THINK NOAH HEARD THAT AND THAT'S WHAT MADE HIM GET A JACKET THAT RESEMBLES MIRAGE'S OLD PAINT JOB?

HE EVEN GOT THE BACKWARD BASEBALL CAP TO MATCH MIRAGE'S HELM, THATS SO FUCKING ADORABLE

[redcallisto]

Noticeably gentle/soft with TB

"My Lady/Lord"

Wanted TB to stand beside him instead of against him

Didn't want to battle (hence imprisonment)

Wanted to experiment on them

Made him nostalgic of the happy moments of his past

"And now, my Deliverer has come..."

1000 year wait for TB to unshackle him

Still tried persuading TB to join him until the end

Mutually assured destruction (boss battle)

Seemingly implied he made the golden scapegoat puzzles for TB

"You're a diamond in the rough. Don't lose that malleability, for it is your greatest excellence."

[olspirt]

[kiraandfriendss]

[zevpheles]

Sunday

[shellytheleo]

step on me

[qiandenguan]

ik it's been discussed already, and i feel slightly annoying for not shutting up but my mind keeps circling back to it so idc, we really need to go over it once more. it’s so fucking WILD (and hilarious) how xie lian's instincts are never off the mark, iirc, even when he can’t quite put his finger on what’s wrong. beyond his combat prowess as a martial god, i think it's fair to say that his true strength lies in his hyper-awareness of human nature and his keen sensitivity to it.

whether it's seeing through ling wen or he xuan, he has this... terrifyingly uncanny, accurate way of catching people off guard? by leaning into the fact that everyone underestimates him (and by pulling absolute bullshit out of thin air to bait people lmao)!! it's a really good way of never letting your opponent know your next move. and obviously, atp, we've figured out he'd have developed that skill by now, seeing as he spent over 800 years navigating the mortal realm and surviving some of its worst moments. he has a knack for observing every arbitrary, nonsensical detail and passing comment (it's definitely giving c-ptsd but anywayyy), which helps him pick up on patterns that others often overlook. from early on we understand this character has already seen just about every trick there is in the book. tl;dr, yeah i know i'm always calling him a MENACE and stuff, but in all seriousness, i cannot stress enough. how. HARDCORE. that IS. to use his reputation as a "harmless" scrap immortal to see people exactly as they are and aaaaaa this guy like wow.

[en-d-d]

Obsessed with characters that honestly just try their best. That give and give until they're unable to. That sincerely think they are doing good. That are doing good. And still, it ends in damnation. As hard as they try, as much as they fight, the ending is already set in stone. And it's their fault. They didn't mean to. Oh gods, they did everything in their power to save everyone, to stand with what's right. But at the end, the only they can do is watch as everything crumbles around them, as the end is coming nearer.

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

I know Xie Lian is famous for wearing white on the battlefield and not getting bloody, but FengQing, with their combo of a 9ft long insane overcompensating blade, and Mr I can shoot arrows (plural) with my mouth, are probably pretty clean too.

Like Xianles beauty standards were extremely unrealistic anyway because Xie Lian’s exists, but you know, part of that reputation also had to do with this trio just going around with their insane weapons aura farming everywhere with the cleanest and most expensive armors on the battlefield.

[twentifourhours]

That really is his son HAHAHAHA