I need more demonic cultivator Sizhui I need more dark Sizhui I need more Sizhui in Wen reds and Wei blacks I need Sizhui who never had amnesia and always remembered his family and quietly festered with resentment for years I need Sizhui raised by Wen Ning or Wei Ying I need Sizhui raised by a Lan Wangji who has been quietly plotting revenge all this time I need a Sizhui who is still good and true and genuine and struggles between his love and his rage I need a Sizhui who went back to the burial mounds following some half-remembered impulse and ended up finding all of Wei Ying’s old notes and research where it had been tucked away so thoroughly hidden that only someone who knew where it was already would ever discover it I need a Sizhui who at first only brought the research back to Cloud Recesses because he wanted to remember his Xiang-gege better but then one day the Junior Quartet gets dragged into more bullshit clan politics because the cycle of violence and bloodshed just never seems to fucking stop and Sizhui looks at his friends huddled together trying to be brave for each other even though they’re just kids, they’re just fucking KIDS and none of them deserve this and he remembers when his family was slaughtered while he was too young and weak to do anything and he decides “no, not again. Not ever again.” I need a Sizhui who promises them it’s going to be okay, he’s going to buy them a chance to escape, and as soon as the path is clear they need to run as far away from this place as they can, okay? Run, and don’t look back. I need a Sizhui who pulls an old, worn black flute, covered in little baby tooth marks, out of his sleeve, and decides to show these people just how much like his father he can be.
I saw this post going around about baby Yuan biting ChengQing and I ran with it. Baby pictures didn’t exist yet back then, so you got to embarrass your son junior in front of his friends in other ways.
I really love the costumes in CQL and by drawing them I start appreciating all the tiny details.
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