#sibling feels
Some Sort of Risk
by Silvarbelle
M, 37k, wangxian
Summary:Someone tried to set up Jiang Wanyin. Wei Wuxian took the fall - and key players took the chance to send him to prison to get too-smart-for-his-own-good Wei Ying out of the way. Thirteen years into his sentence, he’s released from prison and disappears. Three years after that: Lan Wangji finds him by chance. Unfortunately, he’s brought a fresh round of trouble with him. The two of them have to fix their friendship, fix a sabotaged airplane, and then fix everything else as it happens.
My comments: Starts with a bang, wwx running away and lwj tackling him into an undignified fight that goes all over the yard. There is A Past - a reason why wwx has been away for so long and is no longer a part of the aerial firefighting community, but rather a struggling mechanic and paroled felon.
While wangxian figure themselves out, sabotage and a continuation of a 20-year-old plot come to light. The climax moves fast and involves lqr being a dick, another plot, wwx being stupidly sacrificial, a wildfire and an aerial attack. Exciting stuff!
modern au, pilot au, aerial firefighters, angst, caretaking, doting lan wangji, self-worth issues, communication, sabotage, myster, case fic, affection, non-sexual intimacy, first kiss, love confessions, ouyang zizhen being a duckling, jiang sibling feels, xuanli lives, protective lan wangji, protective wei wuxian, attempted murder, supportive lan wangji, happy ending, @silvarbelle
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Older sibling response is weird like i want to make sure you’ve eaten, i DO want to bully you, i want to protect you, i want to fireman carry and body slam u on the couch and tell u to go to bed, i want to make up bullshit lies about how things work and see how long u believe it, i would kill for you, ur gross, u will forever be an infant to me, stop touching my stuff, chill out ur like 10, im proud of you, etc etc im sorry that even tho i was the test run the adults found New and Interesting ways to fuck up with you
i love that even after all those years have passed, wei wuxian and jiang cheng automatically revert back to “that’s my brother and i’m gonna be a little shit!!” like no matter what has happened, the “hatred” that’s supposedly there…their default mode is pretty much to revert back to “HA! i’m not touching you i’m not touching you i’m not touching you” pretty much from the go.
like when jiang cheng is like 99.9% sure that’s wei wuxian under that stupid half-mask, and even if he wasn’t totally convinced, fucking hanguang-jun swooping in out of nowhere to defend him like his life depended on it pretty much has sealed the deal, and demands wei wuxian to take the mask off and he immediately says “NO!” in that bratty brother tone. that “you can’t make me!!” tone.
like he’s standing in front of the man who has sworn all these years that if he ever finds him, he’s going to kill him. zidian sparking on his wrist. and wei wuxian’s instinict is to pretty much stick his tongue out at him and stomp his foot??
and then there’s the whole exchange at koi tower where jiang cheng is still supposedly grappling with his Very Complicated feelings and still trying to make himself hate wei wuxian but still automatically reverts back into “i’m gonna be a little shit just because you’re my brother and i can”
like all this combined with the whole “let’s be brothers in our next life.”
like you can’t convince me for one second that they moment jiang cheng knew wei wuxian was back and the moment wei wuxian first saw jiang cheng, despite all the Big Complicated Feelings™, that they both didn’t have at the very least a small part of them go “brother!!!! that’s my brother!!!!!! there you are!!! i’ve missed you!!!”
