#marhikit

Calling out for justice

by marhikit

Not rated, WIP, 10k, Wangxian

Summary: Lan Xichen had been woken by the insomniac young man, he was surprised to see the younger man bowing low and asking to be punished for the disrespect he had done to Wangji and for breaking numerous rules and what alarmed the sect heir the most was that Wei Wuxian asked for the punishment to be done unto him. Wei Wuxian took each strike of the discipline paddle with little noise, his lips pressing together at each blow. Lan Xichen hated himself for having to order such a harsh price to pay for infractions he would have allowed provided his uncle was absent from the events that led to the infractions. But the pleas Wei Wuxian directed at him, the harsher tone he had used to push his case. Lan Xichen found himself unable to refute what Wei Wuxian had asked of him. Lan Xichen forced himself to watch each strike, count each blow and at one point, he held Wei Wuxian up to make sure he would not collapse from the pain. “Wei-gongzi, you do not need to-” Lan Xichen tried but Wei Wuxian shook his head. “You said one hundred strikes.” Wei Wuxian bit out. “I won’t complain.” Lan Xichen wished he could lie and claim he lost count. Or The Lans find out about WWX's abuse and protects him Kay's comments: This is a very indulgent read for me and I'll be the first to admit it. Very much Jiang Family bashing and with the Lans being much better and kinder than they were in canon and I'm so here for it. I just love to see people outraged on Wei Wuxian's behalf and about how he was treated. And a surprise Qingheng-Jun too! And Lan family drama with a spin on the Mama Lan story I haven't read elsewhere yet! Excerpt: “Peace, Wei-gongzi,” Lan Xichen assured him with a smile that was clear in its attempt to soothe him. “We simply wish to apologise to you for your treatment prior to this week, we had been too harsh on you.” “It’s nothing I’m not used to, Lan-gongzi.” Wei Wuxian was quick to assure Lan Xichen who looked one second away from kowtowing to him. “That is no excuse, Wei Wuxian,” Lan-xiansheng replied, his weariness etched into the frown on his face, “we had been unjust to you. Me, most of all. I let a grudge of years ago blind me from my duties as your teacher.” Wei Wuxian shook his head. “I’d been troublesome.” He reasoned with the two Lans. “You are being youthful,” Lan Xichen argued, his tone hardening into something firm and stubborn. “That is no crime in my eyes.” “You had been mistreated, Wei Wuxian,” Lan-xiansheng said without preamble. “No one should bear the scars you do,” Wei Wuxian’s smile froze on his lips and he began backing away slowly, hoping he could escape this situation.

pov alternating, canon divergence, cloud recesses study arc, jiang cheng bashing, jiang family bashing, implied/referenced child abuse, whipping, gusu lan punishment methods, lan family feels, qingheng-jun lives, supportive lan xichen, mental health issues, trauma, hurt/comfort

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Anoriel Fereniel of the Greenwood

So this is part of my little project where I make my own designs of Middle Earth and its characters including OCs and canon characters. My plan is to do one character per region for the time being until I figure out each style and each understanding I have for the characters I'm doing.

So here we have Anoriel's final design and I decided to lean into precolonial Tagalog fashion with some additions to cultural parts of their clothes.

The sashes are this wide long fabrics that the elves of the Greenwood would be able to use as a blanket, head covering, cloak or even bandages in times of emergency. This was suggested by Oropher's second son, Beriohtarion when the rot and darkness started infesting their lands.

Noblewomen have a clawed nail extension ring as an indicator that they are among the nobility. It's made of gold and inside the ring is a stamp of their House's emblem.

Ahh thank u for the ask Marh and sorry that it took me so long to answer!

Vy is my secondary DA2 protagonist, so I don’t have a lot prepared for her compared to Cirilla, but I’ll share what I have ^^

One of the things that I like to run with is that, instead of having my Hawkes be of the same personality archetype as their Malcolm, it’s the opposite. Cirilla’s dad is soft and gentle while she is grumpy and rebellious. As for Vy, her Malcolm was strict and demanding, so she grew up more insecure and meek in return. Vy was ultimately closer to Leandra than any other family member and internalized much of the same thought process & issues as her mother, for example: their struggles with love, individual freedom and responsibilities (and also their obsession with tidiness in my HC lol).

She loves her family to death and took care of them with dedication, as was expected of her, but there’s always a part of her - subconscious or not - that has always wanted Out. Her most common coping method is “after this I will be able to do whatever I want”: “after I made enough money and the twins grew up enough I will fuck off to Amaranthine and fish all day”, “after we get the house back for mother I and Beth will leave Kirkwall and maybe become pirates”, etc. Most of which she never managed to do because of canon events, so it’s just this circle of endless tasks and responsibilities and her party bucket list just grows and grows.

And that ties with her central rlts with the Kirkwall crew too! Beth is defo aware of her sister’s issues and I imagine that also factored in Beth’s own guilt complex (oof they have a lot to patch up). Then Vy’s closest with Isabela and Merrill bc to some extent they mirror 2 different aspects of Vy that she cant seem to reconcile, so she looks up to them a lot. For Isabela it’s her love for personal freedom, for the sea for sailing. And for Merrill it’s her passion and dedication toward restoring Dalish history. And then there’s Vy, so enamored with that freedom yet can’t reach for it, so deeply entangled with her duties yet cant commit to them wholeheartedly. So yes, compare contrast! Narrative foils that are just my jam! I’m not very sure if they would end up a romantic trio or queer platonic, I’ll have to restart her playthrough and decide later ^^

They were buried mid scream. Their teeth

Turned gray by gravel, shouting silenced by concrete.

- Film Center// Martial Law, Poems for the Dead by Arvin Abejo Mangohig

My first attempt at a sketch dump by making a random snooty human princess and her no nonsense elven knight

Wei Wuxian sketches for my designs and uhhh make it his three different eras ahahaha

Also mxy technically

Artfight for @pistachiozombie !

I wanted to try my hand at drawing Leanna properly in my style and I decided to make it BofurAnna just cause I have a lot of cute pose thoughts and this happened

She's such a cute oc and I hope you like her and Bofur!

I think I figured out Apolaki's design

(His glasses carried over from his v first design tho)