#mod analysis

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N.B.#1: This analysis is based on @sortinghatchats's aMAZEBALLS system so if you have any confusion, please reference their site! (Please note that as far as actual house segregation goes, a character would usually be sorted into their Primary house, though being sorted into their Secondary house is not impossible if those traits are particularly prominent.)

N.B.#2: This is EXCLUSIVELY based on characterization from The Untamed/CQL series, as I am still in the process of reading the novel and not in the original language anyway.

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(EDIT: this got really long so I'm going to do it in installments. I'll tag it under "mod analysis" if anyone wants to track the posts!)

Part One: The Protagonists

Wei Wuxian: Gryffindor Primary, Slytherin Secondary with Gryffindor Performance

WWX's Gryffindor primary is one of the most distinctive aspects of his personality-- the willingness to walk the single plank bridge if it's what he has determined is the correct path, and damn anyone else's opinion. His internal morality's GPS is entirely self-calibrated, thereby enabling him to shrug off external rule systems, whether it be the Lan's banning of alcohol or society's rules about blood debts.

His secondary house is a little murkier. He definitely has the Gryffindor tendency to charge in where angels fear to tread, but I think his more natural state of being is more Slytherin-ish, adapting and thinking laterally to solve a problem, with no problem embracing unorthodox courses of action.

Lan Wangji: Ravenclaw Primary, Gryffindor Secondary with Ravenclaw Performance

LWJ is a fascinating example of a Ravenclaw primary's ability to shift and adapt new morality structures as they grow. His first morality structure is a somewhat limited facsimile of a Gryffindor's black-and-white thinking, lacking nuance and mostly dictated by the Lan sect rules. Once WWX enters his life, though, LWY begins to adapt his moral structure to imitate the former's natural Gryffindor which, while still somewhat absolute in its judgements, is nevertheless a more nuanced and complex system allowing for flaws and doubts. When WWX dies, LWJ fully embraces his beloved's Gryffindor morality structure, traveling around the jianghu like a egalitarian paragon aiding those in need without thought of his own ego or reputation. HOWEVER. When he gets his beloved back from the dead? Hoo boy. Our boy goes full-on Slytherin mode, with his entire moral compass featuring two settings: Good For/Indulging/Protecting Wei Ying, and Bad For/Depriving/Endangering Wei Ying. He is hell bent on keeping his beloved chaos gremlin alive and happy and free from harm, and frankly, does not give a single, solitary shit what the rest of the world has to say about that.

His secondary, though, is totally a Gryffindor. His Ravenclaw performance is due to his Lan habits, providing a sort of comfort zone where he can research and gather skills and tools to use later. But a man who has to be restrained from throwing hands with a thirteen year old? A man who attacks a miscreant visiting disciple for smuggling booze into Cloud Recesses? A man who leaps off a cliff after Wen Chao throws his crush off a ledge into a murder turtle's lair? This boy is a true damn-the-torpedos-full-speed-ahead Gryffindor secondary.

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N.B.#1: This analysis is based on @sortinghatchats’s aMAZEBALLS system so if you have any confusion, please reference their site! (Please note that as far as actual house segregation goes, a character would usually be sorted into their Primary house, though being sorted into their Secondary house is not impossible if those traits are particularly prominent.)

N.B.#2: This is EXCLUSIVELY based on characterization from The Untamed/CQL series, as I am still in the process of reading the novel and not in the original language anyway.

Part Two: The Jiangs

Jiang Cheng: Ah, my favorite meow meow. My most precious wet paper towel man. Love of my life human disaster. This boy is a TEXTBOOK Slytherin Primary. His moral compass is firmly calibrated around those dear to him-- namely, his family and his sect. If it endangers these people (either physically or via damaged reputation) then it is Bad. Whatever is deemed Good for these people is pursued with grim determination. And if the matter doesn’t involve these people whatsoever? Not his circus, not his monkeys; he can’t be bothered to care.

And as for his Secondary? I’ll be honest, for a while, I was distracted by his anger issues and thought he was the heedlessly-charging Gryffindor secondary. I was hella wrong. Jiang Cheng is a very solid Hufflepuff secondary: toiling, hard-working, and even community-building... albeit only directed to building his sect’s community.

Jiang Yanli: I’ll be honest, I find her a pretty even split between Hufflepuff and Slytherin for her Primary house, so she’s either a Hufflepuff with a strong Slytherin Model, or a Slytherin with a strong Hufflepuff Model. Both are Loyalist houses focused on people and their wellbeing, with the Hufflepuff’s attention directed to humanity in general and the Slytherin’s more focused on a smaller group of “their” people. The issue is, Yanli definitely does have “HER” people, whose importance is paramount... but does she have the same disinterest in those not directly important to her that her brother does? She is so very sweet and loving that I legitimately don’t know. My gut says that she’s a Slytherin Primary with an abnormally sincere Hufflepuff Model, but it really truly could be vice versa.

I found myself wrestling with the same dilemma regarding her Secondary house, but that one is a little more clear, I think. While I firmly believe that Yanli is capably of being subtle and canny in her approach, I think it is in the more shallow framework of a Performance than a Secondary. While too frail to physically toil, she is nevertheless tireless in her attempts to build loving infrastructure and encourage harmony in those around her.

Jiang Fengmian: His character/characterization is a little nebulous, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that he is a mirror image of his daughter-- namely, a Hufflepuff Primary with a Slytherin Model. The thing is, Jiang Fengmian, for all his faults, truly is very egalitarian and welcoming (or at lease tolerant) towards those on lower societal rungs in the way of true Hufflepuffs. However, his personality is so wholly phlegmatic that it manifests in sort of lackluster Slytherin patterns; if he isn’t specifically interested, then he doesn’t bother exerting himself to engage. Interestingly, this means that his Model isn’t a mode of living that he has deliberately chosen or decided was worth emulating, but rather a result of his extreme passivity.

This same passivity makes it difficult to determine his Secondary house, as that house involves how you react to external stimuli. The two obvious contenders are evade-your-problems Slytherin or analysis-paralysis Ravenclaw, but as he does not seem to particularly exert himself to try new paths when the old ones don’t work OR amass skills or knowledge for later use, neither is a precise fit. I’ll pick Slytherin because they also have a “neutral” mode that is perhaps the best fit, but I could easily be wrong.

Yu Ziyuan: Buckle up, my dudes, because the Violet Spider is one of the nastiest examples of a double Gryffindor in the series. Both Slytherin and Gryffindor Primaries have moral frameworks that are internally-calibrated. But whereas a Slytherin knows that their morality is based on their people and therefore knows their own sense of right-and-wrong is subjective (not that they care), a Gryffindor’s morality is based on their instinctual inner-gut sense of right-and-wrong and is perceived to be objectively moral. If Madame Yu was a Slytherin Primary, she would know that she and her children were her most important people and, while still mistreating Wei Wuxian, would not be as emotionally invested in crushing him beneath her heel. But. She is a Gryffindor, and her inner gut’s calibration is not egalitarian, it is hierarchical and a no-name orphan being raised above her children is WRONG and her children’s father doting on said orphan over his own children is WRONG and since those things are WRONG then she is RIGHT-- nay, morally justified-- in doing whatever she can to fight against this interloper.