polyamorous lxc growing up and learning to navigate life inside the almost idealistic “only your true one person can touch the ribbon” monogamous lan sect is actually something so juicy
Requested by anonymous: Hii, can I ask Jiang Cheng and Lan Xichen (separately) where they have a nightmare of the reader dying/ tortured, just a lot of angst, may or may not end in fluff, thanks
Warnings:gore, angst but do end in fluff
Jiang Cheng:
You stared at him, eyes wide and one hand reaching out to him. Jiang Cheng’s eyes lingered on your face before landing on the man behind you. Then the sword suddenly pierced through your abdomen, making your body lunge forward slightly. He watched it being pulled out, his body unable to move as he watched you get stabbed over and over again before your body collapsed to the ground.
Then Jiang Cheng woke up, a scream erupting from his chest. Sweat dripped down his forehead and his hands were clutching the sheets tightly. His head turned and his eyes landed on you, your eyes open slightly as you looked at him in worry. You pushed yourself up and cupped his face.
“Nightmare?” He didn’t answer and instead hugged you closer to his body. You just patted his back softly, trying to calm him down.
He did go to sleep again later on, but not without his arms tightly around your waist so that you couldn’t disappear like you had in his dream.
Lan Xichen:
After you had been kidnapped not so long ago, Xichen kept having dreams. Today however, was the worst in his opinion. He watched you strapped to a chair, your body completely destroyed. Muscles and bones were clearly visible to him, making his stomach twist uncomfortably as he watched you plead for your life as a man tried to get information out of you. Then you screamed loudly as a knife pierced through your body and Xichen shot awake.
His eyes darted around the room, landing on you. You sat on the ground, playing guqin although you had now stopped as you looked at him.
“You alright, darling?” You asked and he nodded, throwing the blanket off of him and standing up. He made his way up to you and sat behind you. His arms wrapped around your waist and his head landed on your shoulder, hiding his face in the crook of your neck. Your hand lifted and you softly placed it on his head, patting his hair softly. A few minutes past as you continued to pat his hair before he suddenly looked up again.
“The same as before?” “Yes, but this one was way worse.” He softly spoke and you nodded, turning around in his arms and basically putting yourself on his lap before you hugged him back.
“I wasn’t hurt badly. You saved me, remember?” You said and he looked down. “Nothing will happen, I’m safe now.” You said once again before placing a soft kiss on his lips before hugging him closer to you. And that’s what you stayed for awhile, just hugging each other until Xichen was calmed down some more. Then you both went to your bed, falling asleep in each others arms soundly.
It was such an absolute joy working with Sandrix on this fic and being able to squee and flail my way through it because Lan Xichen has to deal with a grumpy cat in seclusion! Please go give it a read and share the love <3
This was the first piece of paper-craft art that I’ve ever done and I’m so excited to be able to share it with you. Lan Xichen and the cat are done in layers of paper and are put on top of a watercolor background.
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Lan Xichen, drawn in loose, sketchy lines, sits with a teacup in his hands, his wide sleeves pooled around him. He glances at something off to the left of the frame with a small, amused smile.
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The Twin Jades sit quietly together, perched on a rooftop with their backs to the viewer. Lan Wangji leans into his brother’s side, head resting on his shoulder. Lan Xichen has a comforting arm around him, looking out at the full moon. Both wear their hair loosely tied back for sleep. The moon casts their shadow onto the tiles.
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Song Lan lies on his back, eyes closed, holding Xiao Xingchen’s spirit capture pouch. His head rests on Lan Xichen’s knee, hair spilling softly over his robes. Xichen’s face is not in frame, only his hands visible as he plays Liebing. The colours are a wash of pale, blueish-greens, contrasting the reddish shade of the spirit pouch.
drawn for the lanlan server exchange ’ w ’ they should just get to be lazy for a while… pls… let them rest
pls also ignore how skinny the forehead ribbon ended up gfdhkgfk
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Song Lan and Lan Xichen lie languidly side by side, arms linked. They wear loose inner robes, soft blue-grey bed covers tucked over them. Their faces are partly out of frame, so that the central focus is given to their hands. Song Lan is signing lazily to Lan Xichen, who looks at him with affection as he plays with the trailing ends of his forehead ribbon, which is wound loosely round Song Lan’s wrist. The colours have a faded, low-key look.
nothing makes me crazier than lan xichen being labeled “the softest”
he’s not soft! he’s polite! it’s different!!!!!!
not polite as in following the rules of etiquette, which is a separate thing. not that lxc doesn’t have excellent manners, but i don’t think anyone is misinterpreting that as soft. jgy follows all the rules of etiquette and he is absolutely not polite the way lxc is. a person can have perfect comportment and still make themselves into a giant pain in the ass.
polite means that when you are around things go smoothly. you don’t make a fuss, you don’t put your feelings above the needs of people around you, and you keep a lid on your own issues. the only time lan xichen is going to admit he’s having a problem is if he’d like you to help him solve it.
lan xichen works very hard to not be difficult.
people who are polite like lxc is aren’t just intrinsically soft and sweet down to their cores; lan xichen is making an effort! to be the way that he is around other people takes self-control and means you have to pay attention to everybody else! it also requires some mild skill at manipulating people – hm i wonder why i’m xiyao trash probably it’s this lmao
lan xichen is gentle, restrained, deliberative, tactful, empathetic, and also super good at killing people with his sword!!! he’s pretty good at sending his little brother out to kill stuff for him. he definitely watched with a calm face while his teenaged brother got hit with a stick for a lot of times.
i’m very fond of fandom but my god every time someone unironically calls zewu-jun a cinnamon bun i lose braincells
It was such an absolute joy working with Sandrix on this fic and being able to squee and flail my way through it because Lan Xichen has to deal with a grumpy cat in seclusion! Please go give it a read and share the love <3
This was the first piece of paper-craft art that I’ve ever done and I’m so excited to be able to share it with you. Lan Xichen and the cat are done in layers of paper and are put on top of a watercolor background.
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