#lux posts

Most people only have one primary spiritual weapon in their lives so most people are able to tell as soon as they meet them. This also affects the culture around spiritual weapons where they’re considered even more important and personal than canon (which is saying a lot), and people find Suibian even more ridiculous/disrespectful because of that.

This AU can go two ways though.

Option 1: LWJ never finds out that WWXs spiritual weapon is named Suibian. WWX doesn’t give the name out too much or LWJ just didn’t ask. Either way, in this AU the spiritual weapon that you have the name of is the other’s first spiritual weapon or current spiritual weapon. LWJ forms his golden core, looks for his soulmate mark and sees “whatever”. Everyone he knows has a beautiful name done in pretty, trained calligraphy (yeah let’s make this a handwriting soulmate AU too) while his is just “whatever” in chicken scratch like even the universe couldn’t care less about him.

He learns about Suibian in the Xuanwu of Slaughter cave at the Wen camp when WWX mentions that he “wishes he had Suibian with him” and by the time they’re both fully conscious again and in the same room, it’s in war meetings happening post-burial mounds and post-WC murder. Every time he gets him alone his first priority is his health and cultivation and there are less and less chances as the war goes on, and then, well, then WWX is dead and nothing matters for 13 years.

Meanwhile, Option 2: Soulmate spiritual weapon names can vary a lot, sometimes it’s the weapon they first use, sometimes it’s the weapon they last use, their most powerful one, their most true one, the one they’ll use the longest, etc. It can vary/no one knows the exact rule bc most ppl only keep one or two spiritual weapons throughout their entire lives and never lose/break them. WWX spends 3 months pestering his soulmate before he finds out that LWJ doesn’t have a “Suibian” on him (he doesn’t hear what name he does have but he knows it’s not his swords name) and was not in fact just shy, so his “Bichen” belongs to someone else and LWJ really just thought he was being annoying (he didn’t, he also had a huge gay crush for the first time in his life, he was just much worse about handling it as is canon lmao).

Either way, WWX is stuck with a crush on a guy who isn’t his soulmate and maybe his first baby broken heart too before it’s Wen indoctrination time and he has much bigger things to worry about, because the Jiang Sect is gone, JFM is dead, his brothers core is gone, and oh well now his core is gone while he’s stuck in the BM. Lovely.

Three months later he comes back with Chenqing on his hip and LWJ on his tail who’s suddenly desperate to speak to him and staring at him when he thinks WWX isn’t looking.