#lanling jin

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[otgo-brooklyn]

Give me a child with your stubborn heart...

I think that the fact that Jiang Cheng is essentially a carbon copy of his mother, looks wise and in demeanor (occasionally), is, imo, criminally under-discussed. In the live-action, the animation, the audio-drama, the manhua, etc- fanart even (including my own) they're nigh identical in physical features and emotional reactions. And I just think its not utilized enough;

Mme. Jin, after YZY's death who either cant look Jiang Cheng's face without feeling rage at how they killed her- a bone crushing sadness; or who does anything and everything to keep Jiang Cheng in Golden Carp Tower, to keep the last of HER in Jinlin Tai.

In political meetings where Sect Leaders either dismiss Jiang Cheng entirely due to a "pretty face" or "a temper unmatched by the devil" like his mother.

How sometimes interacting with Jiang Cheng is just wrong, at times looking like a Huli-jing, who stole Yu Ziyuans face, or even a Yaoguai at times. Its not so much a resemblance so much so as if Jiang Cheng stole the face of his own mother.

At Sect Confrences it makes people stop in their tracks at the slightest tilt of the head, the clench of a jaw, a sneer of the lips, even the twisting of Zidian. Because they have to remind themselves that Yu Ziyuan is dead, and not sitting infront of them.

Sometimes people(Jin Guangshan when hes particularly drunk, or Sect Leader Yao in his complaints) comment on how Jiang Cheng is too pretty for a man, how maybe hes more like his mother a woman, than they think.

How Jin Guangyao may not be the fondest of Jiang Wanyin, but refuses to leave him alone in a room with Jin Guangshan. He knows how men like that act when someone is pretty enough to not care who they are.

How sometimes saying Jiang Wanyin just feels wrong, when Jiang Fengmian shunned his own son to such an extent, how Yu Wanyin just flows easier off the tongue; how it just fits better.

How Sect Leader Yu REFUSES to let Jiang Cheng out without one of her disciples, her spiders accompanying him. She will not risk losing her Ziyuan Wanyin.

How when Meishan Yu makes the rare appearance how the Yu and Jiang disciples have a bit too much resemblance. How you have to wonder where one clan ends and the other begins. How when Sect Leader Yu, and Sect Leader Jiang sit next together- all they can see is Sect Leader Yu and The Violet Spider; side by side as they've always been.

How whenever Sect Leader Yu is around Sect Leader Jiang's Jiang Violet turns darker, more blue in it- eerily reminiscent of Meishan Yu's own colorings.

How its impossible to ignore this spark that appears in her eyes whenever Jiang Wanyin is arround. A spark of intrigue, spark of pride, spark of grief-longing-painpainpain

How its uncanny how hes even inherited her ticks, the way she'd sneer at certain sect leaders, how Zidian will spark in anger even if her face was set in stone, how she has a preference for the darker Yu colors- even now as a (tenchical) Jiang.

They gossip how Jiang Fengmian always favored WWX as a Jiang, over his own son- and how Yu Ziyuan always went to Meishan. Whats to say that Jiang Wanyin didnt go with her?

They question Jiang Wanyin's loyalty is he to the Yu or to the Jiang? Whose to say that this wasnt the goal of the Yu? It is not hard to play the long game, and the Yu have always had a touch of cruelty to them.

How he'll walk at night, with the young Jin Rulan, and they have to stop from reaching for their swords and remind themselves that its not Yu Ziyuans ghost haunting the halls, merely her son.

People say Jiang Wanyin got her face, but it’s more than that. He got her manner. The stillness before she struck, the perfectionism that made her unyielding. He inherited her impossible standards and her ghost’s silence, and now the household feels haunted—every time he enters a room, it’s as though Yu Ziyuan is back, but younger, smaller, untouchably composed.

When WWX sees JC again after his revival, it’s not recognition—it’s recoil. For a heartbeat he thinks Madame Yu has stepped out of her grave, jaw tense, eyes measuring. The same way she used to look at him before the shouting started.

And WWX doesnt mean to stare like that. He just looks. But WWX feels fourteen again, back under that glare that could strip the excuses off his tongue.

I just think theres so much POTENTIAL in this, its not highlighted enough, idk maybe im crazy but idk as someone who looks JUST like her mother theres so much in life that is a bit different for me than for other people; and JC and YZY have such a delightful prospect to their relationship and interactions especially when youre talking about how theyre so physically similar.

[fiftybbydolldress]

[airplanecrashingtowardstheground]

idk why some people think jin zixuan is boring. yeah we didnt get much time with him but I dont think hes boring at all and you get a pretty good idea of what hes like through the bits and pieces we see of him.

he doesn't stand down when wang lingjiao wants mianmian strung up as bait. when he realizes he has feelings for yanli, he tries to make up for how hes treated her. and hes really awkward and nervous about it and I think thats endearing. hes a mediator, and even though hes gotten his ass handed to him by wei wuxian he still tries to maintain a civil relationship with him for yanlis sake. he loves yanli and jin ling so much. and I bet you if he knew wei wuxian was going to be ambushed, he would have stopped that shit. none of this is boring to me.

[jujuism-studies]

yunmeng jiang would clearly be water benders, gusu lan are air benders and qinghe nie are earth benders while lanling jin are obviously metal (gold) benders. qishan wen were fire benders, even down to the imperialist bit. however, wei wuxian is NOT the avatar, that would imply that mastering the other elements is something you can learn, he just specializes in a sacrilegious sub type bending like blood-bending (though im not sure what reminiscent element corpses have that it would be enough to control them)

[obsidianstrawberrymilk]

you know it makes a lot of sense that jin ling has such hangups about being an orphan (beyond the fact ur parents dying sucks) because he's the only orphan in the cast who grows up in an environment like lanling. the jin didn't enter the war until very late in the game when the wen began to lose, so its very likely that unlike the jiang or lan or even nie, there aren't many war orphans amongst the top cultivators, and lanling seems to be somewhat similar to dynastic politics where the influence and protection of ur parents is deeply important to both ur basic safety and social standing. jl doesn't even have his grandparents for most of his life. it would suck even if people didn't keep rubbing it in his face and holding him to the legacy of his parents.

[todo-rororo]

if i had a nickel every time mxtx wrote a perverted sect leader with a golden palace and flower motifs, who is also the reason why everything went super shit for the protagonists, I'd have two nickels.

which isn't a lot, but isn't it weird that its happened twice??

[starzknight]

A happy family

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