#the jiang chaoticsphere

[amedetoiles]

Hello! Your posts are a joy to read, and I was wondering: would you happen to have any more delightful thoughts/headcanons to share about the chaos that are the Yunmeng Jiang sect disciples and the grumpy jiujiu leading them?

THE JIANG CHAOTICSPHERE SHALL REIGN SUPREME FOR ALL OF TIME! Also, I'm so very glad that you enjoy my insanity. :D

But I love the Jiang disciples so much! I know we get perhaps all of 20 seconds combined worth of footage, but I will remain obsessed with those background scenes forever.

Do you see any other disciple fearlessly poking the Sandu Shengshou's chest wound? Or aggressively manhandling him away from a blood-soaked battlefield? Or picking up after his dramatically discarded capes as they traipse across country? How many disciples of other sects do you see happily proclaiming that their former head disciple hasn't forgotten them while his army of disquiet spirits casually murders everyone else around them?

Screams? What screams? Da-shixiong still loves us!

This chaotic behavior could only come from the Jiangs. Trained by Wei Wuxian, imbued with his spirit, and nurtured by Jiang Yanli's wondrous ability to look at her little brothers committing several scrolls of war crimes and going: Babies. MY babies.

I actually find their chaos incredibly heartwarming. For Jiang Cheng especially. While the rest of the cultivation world has spun stories about the fearsome leader of the Jiang sect, the one that you do not cross, it's so clear that his disciples give absolutely no shits about his reputation. He may be the world's Sandu Shengshou, but he's still just their hot, well-dressed, grumpy purple grape sect leader. This ancient Chinese spreadsheets-loving man who probably puts talisman trackers on all of them so that he knows where they are at all times, who spends hours lecturing them on the importance of sticking together, who trains and drills them into the ground because he wants them to be good, to be the best, so that they can be safe. So that when war comes knocking on their doorsteps again, this time, they'll win.

Even in just these short seconds of footage, you can tell their loyalty for Jiang Cheng is absolute. I love that. I love that for him. Jiang Cheng, who loses his entire family, who rebuilds his sect in the ashes of all that he has lost, who wraps himself in an armor of fury and bitterness and regret that is near impenetrable, but here is a group of disciples who peel those layers away as if they're not there at all. Who knows him, perhaps not as well as his siblings once did, but who love him in that same effortless way.

Because of course they do. Wei Wuxian's and Jiang Yanli's love for Jiang Cheng transcends through time and lives on in the Lotus Pier that he rebuilds in their memory. And it'll be ready when its last member finally comes home.

[amedetoiles]

in this place where we don’t have a prayer by @cerusee @mikkeneko ; wip. ensemble cast. canon-divergence au where wwx dies at qiongqi dao but also not really because wen qing exists, and jiang clan goes fucking feral. MY HEART IS SO FUCKING FULL I AM SO USED TO GIVING AND NOW I GET TO RECEIVE AJSKLJFL

The room briefly silenced, while everyone tried to absorb that, and his father’s face, which had darkened more and more over the course of this speech, flushed purple, and then he stood, kicked over the table in front of him, and rose, and strode over to where the Jiang’s First Disciple stood, proudly, chin raised, and hands folded behind his back. Father snarled, “Wei Wuxian was the jumped-up son of a servant. He was a heretic and a demon. His life cannot be compared to even one of the Jin.”

“That’s true,” Jiang Jianbi said, unflinching. “Wei-xiong was worth a thousand Jin.”

[amedetoiles]

It's custom for Jiang Cheng to be causing a ruckus with his brother in the Cloud Recesses!! This definitely means Wangxian at Lotus Pier visits, its the only sensible interpretation of the CANON TEXT

I can’t describe how utterly delighted I am that none of us care about the rest of that letter because JIANG CHENG! RUNNING AROUND CLOUD RECESSES! LOUDLY! WITH WWX!! ALL THE TIME!!!!

First steps: Jiang Cheng visits Cloud Recesses.

Next steps: Wangxian moves to Lotus Pier.

This is the only natural progression. I don’t make the rules.

[qilingxiong]

I'd like to think Jiang Cheng gets hugged a lot by his disciples. Like, that line of propriety was crossed when he was still a young sect leader, and the older disciples were all 'ok you may be our zongzhu now but I still watched you grow up and taught you to shoot and use a sword, you're not safe from getting (lovingly) ambushed by these gremlin hands'. Then the younger disciples to the sect started following by example, and now when Jiang Cheng is stressed or tired in Lotus Pier he can count on several disciples swarming him in some chaotic tangle of comforting cultivator limbs. When he got back from Guanyin Temple the first thing his disciples did was yell 'group hug', and he promptly got knocked to the ground by like twenty people with the enthusiasm of golden retrievers

[qilingxiong]

One Jiang Cheng headcanon I have a soft spot for is ‘grumpy aroace sect leader who is the honorary Jiujiu of every disciple in the sect younger than him’. He doesn’t need a spouse, his sect is all the family he needs, and he’s fine with that! And of course, all of his disciples are aware of this point of view, and actively work to ensure it stays that way at all cost. They can run interference enough to get Yao-zongzhu to shut up at meetings, this isn’t a problem.

All inquiring letters from matchmakers or sect leaders wanting to marry off their daughters (or sons) very mysteriously get lost. When hopeful suitors show up at Lotus Pier, oh dear, isn’t it unfortunate that Jiang-zongzhu suddenly has a completely packed schedule for the next two weeks? He’s a responsible and busy sect leader who doesn’t have time for spontaneous appointments, we’re very sorry, but in the meantime we can set you up in these guest rooms as far away from Jiang-zongzhu’s as possible.

Sect Leader Jiang has made it clear his loyalty is to his disciples first, so it’s without question that his disciples will be as chaotic as need be to prevent him from getting married! All the other clans gossip at conferences whenever Jiang Cheng shows up, very obviously not betrothed to anyone. The collective glare of fifty Jiang disciples behind him is enough to shut anyone up.