instead of outlining a fic, im thinking about svsss and mdzs crossover where gongyi xiao dies and gets teleported to mdzs, where he's mistaken for a jin disciple, finds out about This corrupt sect, and finally reads the room and nopes out
on some level he reminds me of a proto lan xichen, but thinking about him in terms of being a replacement for su xiyan!! he is talented on his own but will always be overshadowed by a ghost!! he could be so infinitely complex and weird if you throw him into mdzs
and to make matters worse, in the svsss world, his biological father was another version of wei changze. so then you have his. Everything. wrapped up in someone who looks like wei wuxian.
throw him at jiang cheng i wanna see what happens