#rozarria

holy shit

so it WAS a very english language in us thing!! i'm pretty sure learning cursive for russian is basically a default mode of learning how to write at all

I like this best if Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng are not really on speaking terms. They’re sometimes in each other’s space because their kids are friends and Wei Wuxian’s boyfriend is technically Jiang Cheng’s coworker, so they see each other across banquet halls and unmarked graves and one time for Jin Ling’s birthday dinner.

If sometimes at these events Jiang Cheng disappears for a bit and then comes back looking like he’s been in a fight, whatever. Jiang Cheng can go missing for suspicious intervals of time, that’s not Wei Wuxian’s business. It could be any number of things that do not concern Wei Wuxian at all, anymore, because the time when if something was wrong with Jiang Cheng Wei Wuxian would have just known automatically and been entitled to that knowledge has long past and he has Let It Go.

That being said, is not anything and everything that happens in Wei Wuxian’s vicinity his business? If Wei Wuxian’s not sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong doesn’t it spontaneously cease to be his nose? What if this concerns Jin Ling? What if this is something haunted, or better yet, embarrassing? So apparently Jiang Cheng has been getting in fights, which, again, whatever. He must just really like dueling. All of these people are assholes, anyway, they probably had bad opinions about soup. There is a potential pattern, there, so in theory it could be a deeply Jiang Cheng gesture of affection, but most likely it’s the soup thing, right? Right? Jiang Cheng isn’t even making extended eye contact with him right now. Gotta be soupcourse. Jin Ling screams in the background.

lol, okay, a short round of tiny frog friend. based on this post.

--- He really should have expected this, Jiang Cheng thought as he settled into bed that night. Every human he knew had eventually left him, why shouldn’t he start driving other species away, too? It wasn’t like-

His thoughts cut off with a very audible yelp as something wet smacked into his face, covering his eyes. Cursing vividly, he reached up and grabbed the squirming body and held it away from him as he sat up.

A silver frog. 

Sandu’s silver frog.

“What the fuck?” he asked it eloquently and it just blinked back at him with its bright polished eyes before ribbiting at him. Frowning, he set it down on the bed covers to see what it would do, then cursed again when it took a flying leap into the neckline of his robe.

Then he realized.

“Oh. You... you want to stay?”

Another ribbit.

Well.

Okay, then. He could live with that.

--- “I’ve never seen a frog that color,” Wei Wuxian said as he leaned entirely too close to peer at Jiang Cheng’s new hanger-on. “Where did you get it?”

“I don’t see how it’s any of your business,” Jiang Cheng replied, barely keeping the acid out of his voice. 

Of course after all that bullshit about leaving things in the past and going their own way, his idiot shixiong would just drop in a week later with no warning or explanation.

Of course.

The frog ribbited from its now-customary spot snuggled between his neck and shoulder, and Wei Wuxian cooed at it.

“Aw, aren’t you just the- ow!”

Jiang Cheng had to bite his tongue to keep from snorting as the other man reeled back, the frog dangling from where it had a death grip on his finger with its tiny mouth.

It seemed Dunpai had been a good name choice.

“Your little buddy’s a little monster,” Wei Wuxian said petulantly as the frog let go and used his hand as a launch board to leap back to Jiang Cheng’s shoulder.

Jiang Cheng did snort at that.

--- Across the table, Nie Huaisang was poorly hiding his laughter with his fan. “It seems to love you very much, Jiang-xiong.”

“Clearly,” he muttered dryly, peeling the frog from his face for the third time in as many minutes. “Or perhaps it is merely bored.”

“Well, we can fix that. Here, see if it will like this,” Nie Huaisang said, offering a small bowl of tea leaves and fruit.

“Careful, it bi-”

Except it didn’t, happily burrowing itself into the bowl and even letting Nie Huaisang pet its head with a fingertip.

shgshs THANKS

How I feel about this character

A++ would be surprised and delighted again. Everything about him is fun. He’s from the Saber Jock clan, loves art and hates fighting. He turns Jiggy’s trick of being unnoticed and underestimated against him; he may well have learned it watching him, and I love that. I think his relationship with vengeance is really interesting, because he rejects so many of the conventional values of his society but they are big on vengeance and I don’t think anyone else, even Wei Wuxian, avenges a loved one so completely. I cannot decide if he did that for himself or if he thought his brother was owed the platinum plus vengeance package. I cry a lot over Nie Bros more generally.  I find it extremely satisfying that he took on basically the entire power structure of his world in a dumbass chaotic game of six dimensional chess and won. I’m partial to my friend’s theory that he had a vision board of bonus things he would ideally like to accomplish with Wei Wuxian’s resurrection that included “additional parenting for young master jin and closure for jiang cheng so cultivation conferences are slightly less terrible in the future” and “hooking up my high school bff with his crush so they’re too busy boning to get mad at me for manipulating them.”

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Most Characters! You’ve gotta convince me but I’m very convincible.

Jiang Cheng because I think they could be good together in a morally ambiguous power couple kind of way (good at hitting/good at knowing who to hit is a classic for a reason) and I like their complementary older brother complexes; they both grow up in shadow of a perfect older sibling who exemplifies their clan’s ideals, but they have very different feelings about it. I think Jiang Cheng would be extremely into Nie Huaisang’s ruthless vengeance crusade if he found out about it. They’re very fun as foils, both because of the big brother thing and because they also respond so differently to feeling complicit in their favourite person being killed by somebody else they loved and trusted. If they hooked up before Nie Huaisang and Wei Wuxian reestablish some kind of friendly relationship I’m pretty sure Wei Wuxian would think Nie Huaisang was nailing his brother as part of a nefarious scheme and be alarmed by that.  I would shamelessly enjoy the ensuing awkwardness.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Nie bros! I love his relationship with Nie Mingjue. I’m very into how well they compliment each other and want to protect each other. I am very predictable in my tastes.

My unpopular opinion about this character

I support his failure to prioritize Xichen’s feelings.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon

  i started reading the princess diaries books to...

lmao even in the movie it’s like…. i know you’re a teenager but also so fucking self-absorbed and a not great friend

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i started reading the princess diaries books to...

YET TOTALLY JUSTIFIED SOMEHOW IN THE ONE TIME SHE’S BLOWN OFF O K A Y