#ratingmature
disaster zone | trauma | prisoner
31st entry for @whumptober2021
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Title: It’s always darkest before the dawn
Pairing: Lan Xichen/Jiang Cheng
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Choose not to warn
Excerpt:
The rain is still pelting down, harsh winds pressing it against the window shutters and concerned Lán Huàn looks at them. It’s been raining for a few days, not atypical for the season but the amount is troubling. Yesterday, word came back from Cǎiyī Zhèn that the lake has started to swell up but that for the moment the protective arrays have been holding the water at bay.
He looks down at the letters on his desk, searching for the familiar seal of the Yúnmèng Jiāng Sect. He cannot find it. It might have an obvious explanation, such as the messengers not getting through because of the rain. In his heart, he fears it’s for a different reason.
Words: 3.690
major character death | left for dead|ghosts
30th entry for @whumptober2021
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Title: The Cost of Catastrophe
Pairing: 3zun (could be romantic or friendship) - focus is on Lan Xichen
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Choose not to warn
Excerpt:
There are days where not even the morning light drives away the darkness that has settled over Lán Huàn’s thoughts.
Words: 1.244
“Good. You’re finally awake.” | nightmares | panic
28th entry for @whumptober2021
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Title: From the nightmare we’ve created I want to be awakened
Pairing: 3zun
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Graphic Violence
Excerpt:
It should hurt, Lán Huàn thinks distantly. Right now, it really doesn’t. Most likely because the spike is so sharp. Blood is pooling from the wound, beginning to colour his light robes in red. They will probably need washing after this-
A strange burning sensation starts to spread, running along his meridians, towards his heart and head. Distantly, he realises that that starts to hurt.
Words: 2.626
passing out | vertigo | collapse
27th entry for @whumptober2021
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Title: Hold me in your beating heart
Pairing: 3zun
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Choose not to warn
Excerpt:
Lán Huàn feels the first spark in his chest when Niè Míngjué lowers his weapon, still glaring at Mèng Yáo, still clearly hurt by whatever has transpired between them, and Mèng Yáo looks at him, emotions flickering across his face, regret, grief and fear intermingled, his hands tightening in Lán Huàn’s robes.
Both of them are exhausted, Lán Huàn thinks. They will need some rest and, in time, Niè Míngjué will see reason and Mèng Yáo will have time to explain himself in a calmer atmosphere. And then, his two friends — no, not friends, they mean so much more to him — will be beside him.
Lán Huàn smiles at them and he doesn’t even realise the hope settling deeply into his chest. Instead, relief floods him when he tells them both softly, ‘Let us get you both to a healer, shall we?’
Words: 20.544 (no, that’s not a mistake)
self-induced injuries to escape | flashback| revenge (slightly)
24th entry for @whumptober2021
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Title: This world is not made for you
Pairing:Jin Ling/Ouyang Zizhen/Lan Sizhui/Lan Jingyi
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Choose not to warn
Excerpt:
Ōuyáng Zǐzhēn glances up to his shackled wrists with a swallow. He tugs at them but they hold firm, not budging. Well, it would have surprised him if he had been able to simply slip free of his restraints. But maybe if he tries harder? He pulls again at the shackles before grimacing at the sharp edges of metal digging into the skin of his wrists.
Words: 3.653
bleeding through the bandages | pressure| blood-matted hair
21st entry for @whumptober2021
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Title: Just know that I tried
Pairing: 3zun
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Choose not to warn
Excerpt:
They find him in the deepest, darkest prison chamber of the Fire Palace.
Words: 1.942
