#the untamed

evilhasnever

Do you ever think about how Lan Xichen, molded to be a sect leader and model cultivator since he was a baby, ultimately went “yeah my life and soul belong to the sect but I shall do what I want with my heart” (gives it to a very sus little man who will change the world)

cerusee

I’ve been thinking it over, and I have decided it really makes a lot of sense if Jiang Cheng is the only cultivator of his generation who manages to cultivate to immortality. Here are my reasons:

• Too stubborn to die, especially of anything as stupid as old age.
• The terrible tragedy of outliving all your loved ones, you say? Living each day knowing you’ll never see them again outside your dreams? Enduring unendurable loneliness, and somehow going on anyway? That’s not some kind of ‘what-if’ thought experiment, to Jiang Cheng—that’s Tuesday.
• Allows him to put off the question of succession indefinitely, or at least until Jin Ling is old enough to have produced a spare heir or two that Jiang Cheng can cadge off of him.
• It’s gonna take him at least a thousand years before he’s over that thing Wen Ning said to him about Wei Wuxian’s core. Ten thousand if Wen Ning opens his mouth at year five hundred and thirty-four to remark that Jiang Wanyin can probably chalk up his immortality to Wei-gongzi’s core, too.

lilnasxvevo

wei wuxian has one (1) fucking adventure with someone who isn't jiang cheng that he won't tell jiang cheng about and jiang cheng goes into a SNIT about it and literally goes "oh well if you're so CLOSE with LAN WANGJI now why don't you just MOVE here and become part of the LAN clan? surely cloud recesses is sooooo much better than lotus pier huh????" and wei ying is like from the bottom of my heart what the hell are you talking about GOD no lotus pier is still #1 you little goof

fantasyrizzo

jiang cheng: you REPLACE the shidi? you replace him with the second jade? oh! oh! jail for shige! (@lilnasxvevo)

lilnasxvevo

@fantasyrizzo YES

ardentlytess

userdramasevent 01: favorite —  a favorite character from a favorite drama 
↳ wei wuxian from the untamed
( x )

blackteaaddict

xue yang has this iconic moment when he’s captured and tied up at chang’s manor and says ‘I didn’t steal, I just murdered’ and it’s subversive and such a funny thing to say when you’re captured red handed at a crime scene, the fact that he would object at being accused of some petty crime while happily addmiting to mass murder. 

but this time my thoughts actually went past the usual ‘hehe he’s such a good boy your honour he’s no thief excuse you he has standards’ and I thought some more about it (honestly I’m surprised I haven’t microwaved this moment in my head ever before)

the way he so happily admitted to all that murder, the thing is he doesn’t need to defend himself, he doesn’t need to deny his culpability, he knows he has a powerful sect to back him up. he doesn’t care if someone knows it was him because he knows he can get away with it now, just like chang cian got away with abusing him. (and he put so much work and effort here, he did such a good carnage, why would he deny his authorship? he knows he deserves a good grade in mass murder and revenge which is both normal to want and possible to achieve and he’s proud of his work as he should be because he fucking aced that assignment)

but it also made me think about how as a homeless poor street kid he was possibly forced to steal to survive. and sometimes got caught and beaten for it. and other people could hurt him and get away with it. but now he’s grown and leveled up on the ladder of power and he doesn’t need to steal anymore. actually he’s on that other side now, he has the power to hurt others and get away with it. 

and we like to laugh that this statement is a sign that he has some morals after all, but when thinking about it more seriously I think we can assume that xue yang doesn’t care about morality, definitely not at this point in his life. I don’t think he sees theft as more or less immoral or whatever, he just wants to emphasize he didn’t do it for money, he doesn’t need to do this anymore. he has a nice fulltime job as a young genius demonic expert in one of the main clans and he can do what he wants with no consequences (at least for now and he’s gonna have fun until he can). he doesn’t care that much about social position except for the safety and protection that comes with it. he doesn’t care for titles, he despises the gentry, he is and always will be the boy from kuizhou but he’s not weak, small and helpless anymore and that’s what counts.