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[raveyardpatriarch]

Player Information:

Name: jazzy
Contact Information: raveyardpatriarch
Characters Currently Played In-Game: hopefully this one
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Basic Character Information:

Canon Name Chen Qing Ling/The Untamed
Name: Birth name Wei Ying, courtesy name Wei Wuxian, titled the Yiling Patriarch (i'm sorry, this canon's got NAMES)
Age: mid thirties, kind of (he was dead for ~16 years of that, so arguably he is also early 20s. timeline is kind of wonky in both drama and novel, so it's hard to be more exact even aside from the death thing)
Canon Point: Immediately pre-resurrection

Canon Information:
https://modao-zushi.fandom.com/wiki/Wei_Wuxian


The wiki is good for characterization but not very good for synopsis, focusing mostly on the novel canon rather than the live-action drama, but it does give the gist and the plot is overall the same with some modifications mostly based in censorship. I would link to the page for the drama itself, but the synopsis there is just flat out inaccurate?? Oh well.

Wei Wuxian's parents died while he was still very young, and he lived on the streets going hungry and being traumatized by feral dogs until he was taken in by the head of one of main cultivation clans, a good friend of his parents. His adoptive father is indulgent with him but more aloof with his own son, which puts Wei Wuxian in the bad graces of his adoptive mother, exacerbated by the fact he's legitimately very intelligent and talented at cultivation and that there are rumors her husband was in love with Wei Wuxian's mother, that he might even be an illegitimate son. His adoptive siblings have a less complicated relationship with him (to start...) with his older sister doting on him and his younger brother just kind of aggressively brothering him. All of this means he views himself very much in debt to his adoptive family, which blends messily with his responsibilities as head student of the sect and his non-debt related affection. He is smart but plays up the more flippant, cheerful and irresponsible aspects of his personality, joking to keep the peace in his dysfunctional family and avoid showing up his brother, the actual heir of the clan. That personality trend continues through the whole show, Wei Wuxian masking trauma with humor/exuberance while he takes detrimental levels of responsibility for things.

The show starts when he goes to cultivator school with his siblings and befriends Lan Wangji and other notable young cultivators, and is generally kind of a lovable scamp/class clown, constantly earning punishments both for his untamed behavior and his already unorthodox ideas about cultivation. Soon after, the ruling/evil clan holds their own school as a thinly veiled hostage/indoctrination exercise, and he earns their disfavor as tensions rise in advance of a big war with his irrepressible tendency towards mischief and sarcasm, now being applied in the service of his very strong sense of justice, as he draws negative attention to spare other students and openly antagonizes the clan heir.

He escapes evil school after helping save the rest of the clan heirs from a monster turtle they were being used as fodder/bait for, and then his home is destroyed and his adoptive family murdered in 'retaliation' but really as part of an attempted hostile takeover of all the other clans, which basically kicks off a big war. His brother is briefly captured and permanently stripped of his abilities, but friendship saves the day as Wei Wuxian and his siblings are taken in by two members of a healing-focused, non-murderous branch of the ruling clan he saved/befriended earlier. They agree to help Wei Wuxian transfer his cultivation ability to his brother (who is deceived about the source of these regained abilities) out of a misguided sense of responsibility for his family's death and their dying wishes for him to look after his brother at any cost, which he clearly took to heart.

Now stripped of his own power, Wei Wuxian is captured and thrown into a big mass grave mountain where he will presumably die. He decides not to, and takes up 'Demonic Cultivation' using basically ghosts and bad vibes instead, repurposing a nasty sword he found in the turtle monster to forge some new tools (a flute, a Yin Tiger Seal) since his sword is a no go without his original cultivation. Using these new and unorthodox abilities, he takes revenge on the people who destroyed his home and killed his adoptive parents, and becomes embroiled in the war that event kicked off, which he is instrumental (no pun intended) in winning. He does all this without revealing the loss of his non-necromancy cultivation, since that would give away the ruse re: his brother and the magic-swapping surgery. Lan Wangji, meanwhile, is very concerned about this new direction Wei Wuxian's cultivation has taken, since it is pretty clearly damaging and destabilizing him, but is assured by Wei Wuxian that he can handle it.

Unfortunately, another clan quickly steps in to fill the role of the one they just defeated, complete with abusing prisoners of war which include the nice healers who took Wei Wuxian and his siblings in, and their extended family of harmless senior citizens and non-cultivators. Wei Wuxian finds this unjust and frees the war prisoners from a labor camp, raising a dead friend as a fierce corpse in the process. This is received very poorly by the cultivation world.

He takes the refugees back to the mass grave mountain and establishes a settlement, as well as restoring consciousness to his friend the fierce corpse and inventing some useful magical tools, which makes him kind of the Steve Jobs of necromancy. This goes alright until he's invited to a party for his sister's new son, and is ambushed along the way by members of the new bad clan. Someone sabotages his control of his terrifying corpse friend, who kills his sister's husband who was just trying to calm everything down. Things spiral quickly downward from there, his new refugee family are all executed, and he snaps, crashing a huge gathering before they can go on the offensive against him. Once again his control of malevolent forces is sabotaged and the battle becomes even more chaotic, leading to his sister's death.

Believing himself fully responsible instead of just partially, he throws himself off a cliff, but is caught at the last moment by Lan Wangji, who has been trying to save him basically all this time. Lan Wangji, also injured in the chaotic battle, is unable to pull Wei Wuxian to safety, and then Wei Wuxian's brother arrives and fails to stab him, leaving Lan Wangji in danger of falling, so Wei Wuxian forces him to let go and falls to his death.

16 years later, he will be resurrected by a disgruntled bastard son of the new ruling clan, as part of a revenge plot based in a lot of goings on I didn't get into here, because Wei Wuxian would not have known about them at the time and honestly this drama has 50 episodes at like 40 minutes apiece. Anyway, it's immediately prior to that resurrection that I'll be taking him from.

Notables stuff--
Novel canon has him taking over the body of the resurrector, drama canon does not. Drama also censors or at least side-steps most things to do with walking corpses, undeath, grey morality or homosexuality--I will not be doing that. He does necromancy, he died for real, his relationship with his 'lifelong confidant Lan Wangji' is only ambiguous because he was busy doing bad magic and dying. not to say the drama isn't good! they did a very good job adapting a gay romance novel about a necromancer to not disturb any sensibilities and yet staying true to the source material.

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In-Game Information:

Familiar Choice: "spirit" magpie
Primary Magic Choice: Cognitive
Secondary Magic Choice: Necromancy
Inventory (5 personal items): https://modao-zushi.fandom.com/wiki/Suibian
https://modao-zushi.fandom.com/wiki/Chenqing

Play:
Thread Sample: https://avalaughs.dreamwidth.org/5643.html?thread=5461259#cmt5461259
https://avalaughs.dreamwidth.org/5643.html?thread=6074379#cmt6074379

Answer the following questions as your character. If your character would refuse to answer, have them respond how they would naturally, but include internal dialogue in either prose or brackets (your choice) with their thoughts on it.

Q1: You've been stranded on a desert island with only one standard-size travel suitcase. If you could only have 3 items in that suitcase, what would you want those items to be and why?

Hmm! I would bring my flute, and the biggest jar of liquor I could pack, and then the same amount of chili oil. The way I see it, I'd already be at an advantage that way-- the last time I was stranded it was in the Burial Mounds, and sadly I didn't get a chance to pack for the trip! I was left with no liquor, no food or seasoning, and I had to make the flute myself. A desert island sounds pretty good by comparison, I think. Probably more work than being dead, though. That's the one downside I can think of.

Q2: Tell us about a defining event in your life that you think influenced who you are today.

I think probably most of the events did that, so it's hard to pick. Maybe being taken in by the Jiang family? Having a family at all is pretty fundamental. Without that, I definitely wouldn't be who I am today because I'd have starved, or fed some very lucky and unappreciative dog. Probably both! No cultivation, orthodox or heretical, I can see that having some repercussions a decade or so down the line. I wouldn't have developed such a refined palate for alcohol and spice, either. Or gotten so good at swimming. [He's thinks that's a pretty fair point about it being probably the most distinct fork in his life's path, and if the question wasn't about repercussions for the world at large so much as for him personally, well, he has conveniently forgotten that focus. Would more people be alive otherwise? Arguable, and not for him to know. What he does know is, even his least appalling answer to this question still has the potential to be kind of a bummer, as does this one if he delves much deeper into it. So he Won't.] I'd also say the Jiang motto of 'attempt the impossible' has had a pretty big influence in who I am, even if I can't take credit for all the impossible things I've done.

Q3: What does family mean to you and who do you consider a part of your family?

Is the idea of choosing your own family supposed to still be profound, or is this like a trick question? All of my family is my family. My parents didn't cease to be my family when they died. Neither have any of the family I've lost since, which is most of it. I've had family that I attained the usual way, and family that I chose, but I think there's a third category that gets overlooked, which is family that chooses you. I'm still working on figuring that one out. I think, most of the time, I've chosen as well as I could. I'm less sure that I've always been a good choice.

Q4: Tell me about a time you were involved in a personal conflict (not a physical fight). What would you do differently to resolve it?

Can I say that I wish I had resolved some personal conflicts with less physical fighting, or maybe even none at all? Or does that not count? Hey, does it still count if the physical fighting doesn't involve me directly, just a lot of ghosts or corpses that I've summoned? I actually worked really hard on my solution to that one, avoiding direct participation in physical fights. [He sighs, but forces himself back on track.]

That's really it, though. Personal conflict is nothing! Especially once you've died, it can start to look pretty trivial, and I wasn't that much for grudges even before. But really, if I'd found more ways to stop conflict from turning physical in the first place, that could have made...well. That would have to have changed some things. Didn't seem like a real possibility most of the time, but then again, when do I let that stop me?

Q5: Do you have any regrets? If so, what are the biggest ones? If not, what is something you wish you had gotten to do back home?

A long time ago I did make a vow to, among other things, try to live with no regrets. Let me tell you, while I don't regret that, fate may have taken it as a challenge. I meant it as an intention for how to live, but it wound up more a lesson in the pointlessness of regret than anything else, and then I died. I certainly regret things that happened. Maybe, if I thought more about it, I'd see a different path I should have taken somewhere, maybe I was wrong about walking a single log bridge. But what good does that do anyone now? And life is so unpredictable, who's to say if anything I did differently would have ended better or worse?