#stygian tiger amulet

[twistedappletree]

[urso-cute]

[lurkinginnernarrator]

Wei Wuxian dead for thirteen or sixteen years .... Soul can't be summoned... What if the stygian tiger amulet wasn't the only reason he lost control? What if... Mount Tonglu had opened? And what if the reason Wei Wuxian's spirit couldn't be contacted was because he was carried by the flood of resentful creatures to mount Tonglu, all this to say, ghost king!WWX.

[drivingmebonkas]

You know, the first time going into mdzs in any form you can't help but be just a bit judgey over how the cultivational society just sorta implodes when wwx brings demonic cultivation and the stygian tiger seal into play.

But then you work out that by our standards that was probably equivalent to introducing chemical warfare and an actual fucking nuke and you're like, Oh. OK. Yeah, that's fair. Makes sense.

[webawee]

I'm always so confused about yin iron

Wtf is yin iron??? I never watched The Untamed so whenever I'm reading mdzs fics I have zero clue what yin iron is??

Like why?

I googled it and I still don't get it tbh

[fakeikemen]

Wei Wuxian when he saw that sword inside the Xuanwu's shell:

[reilaspeace]

Untamed/MDZS thought of the day.

I just want to remind everyone that Wei Wuxian made the fucking Stygian Tiger Amulet, full power, with no golden core. Just using his regular spiritual energy, and some razzle dazzle, I guess.

But two powerful evil ass golden cores could only do half of one. Half! And that little half still wasn't up to par compared to half of the original amulet Wuxian made.

Anyways, this has been your reminder that our Yiling Laozu is and will always be, a fucking badass. Long Live Wei Wuxian.

[briarruler]

The Deadliest Hairpiece in the Cultivation World

So everyone in Mo Dao Zu Shi has long hair and some form of fancy headgear.

Imagine then Wei Wuxian, the Yiling Patriarch, wearing his most dangerous weapon, the Yin Tiger Tally, like a hair-pin, a crown, woven in and secured by thick strands of his long hair.

Originally I was contemplating how a woman could carry the Yin Tiger Tally/Stygian Tiger Amulet in a way that appeared non-threatening, would be difficult to remove from her person, could be seen as a symbol of authority and is utterly shocking. Decided this was impractical, too heavy and you wouldn’t keep both halves of the Yin Tiger Tally together, but the idea was too fun not to spread.

Kalus wears the Yin Tiger Tally like a crown.

Her brother weaves her hair around the metal of the Yin Tiger Tally, thick strands binding it in place. The Yin Tiger Tally is heavy but she holds her head high. This is the most deadly headpiece anyone has ever worn.

(Spawned from an idea where Kalus from Kameo: Elemental of Power is reincarnate as Wei Wuxian’s little sister and is incredibility unimpressed by the Cultivation world, which result in a major canon divergence after Wei Wuxian emerges from the Burial Mounds.)

So originally this was more about trust and intimacy, about a Wei Wuxian who has always loved doing his little sister’s hair, about a Kalus who is not a demonic cultivator but is good with artefacts and has learnt how to manipulate external resentful energy, about the centrepiece of a hairstyle that needs someone else to put it up being a super-weapon, what this says about the person wearing the super-weapon and the person who weaves it into their hair, what it says about their relationship.

This is I trust you more then I trust myself. This is I trust you with my life and your life, but also the lives of our allies, and the lives of our enemies, and the lives of every nearby uninvolved civilian. I trust you to protect yourself and I trust you to guard the most dangerous weapon I have ever seen and I trust you not to abuse it.

This is, I want to protect you so I gave you the most dangerous weapon in the world with which to defend yourself. This is, I have created a weapon to dangerous to exist but to deadly to destroy and I trust you to keep it safe.