audio | un: yiling patriarch

[weifinder]

We've just heard from our friend Haltham about the fighting between Unhalad and Anurr forces nearby, so here's a question for everyone, brought up originally by our companions who got themselves drugged and fight-happy against the second living: what actions do you think we should or shouldn't take?

In Haltham's encouraging words, think wisely. Whatever we're doing or not doing has an effect by merit of choice. Also, a reminder that we still need to not end up in either's hands or revealing our location, given the reason we were summoned here has not changed, and our deaths can be a benefit to either side. Our lives benefit ourselves and our rescuers and the peoples here, by keeping us out of warlord hands.

( He's not opening up with his thoughts because he doesn't want it as a discussion against his take, but as people offering their thoughts after he asks the question. )

Comments

[consignation]

[ Hey, spoiler alert. What the fuck does Jin Ling's co-parent have to do with this? Of all the sect leaders, in Jiang Cheng's opinion Jin Guangyao is one of the few who doesn't have a problem shutting the fuck up when necessary.]

What do you mean 'not from anywhere anymore'? Ousted though you may be, you were still raised under our roof, in our rivers and lakes, on our food and drink. Caring is the most basic courtesy one could offer.

[ Better to make this about the sect. There is no Jiang Cheng, only the sect leader, only the whole of Yunmeng Jiang. ]

Caring for that which raised you is common decency. But it has been clear to me for some time now that your priorities are elsewhere.

You've promised me a lot of things, Wei Wuxian.

I can't remember one that you've kept.

[weifinder]

( Look that will be a conversation the day it happens but for now, oblique references! )

Not from any sect, and hey, are you saying I have permission to say I was from Yunmeng Jiang again?

( The whole promises thing... )

I'm sorry, Jiang Cheng. I wasn't able to stay by your side through everything. I thought it'd be easier for you that way, at the time... I didn't ask, and you didn't either, and I'm sorry about that, too.

[consignation]

[ This is definitely just sarcastic! He is using his sarcasm font! That's a thing, right? ]

Would you use it if you had permission?

[ jk.... unless? ]

[weifinder]

Yes. Of course. Absolutely!

[consignation]

Do as you like. It's not as though anyone even knows where Yunmeng Jiang is.

[ Is this casual enough? Please tell him it's casual enough. Oh, thank god. He's thought of something else to complain about— ]

But if you're going to do that, stop calling yourself Yiling Patriarch! What's wrong with you?! Do you think it's funny?? Pick one or the other!

i can't believe this 1/2

[weifinder]

Of course it's funny, there was only me an Lan Zhan here, it wasn't something anyone from outside would understand but anyone from home would, so I thought—

Anyway, wait! Wait!

un: xianxian of yunmeng jiang

[weifinder]

Better?

shrieking 1/2

[consignation]

That's DISGUSTING. 'Yiling Patriarch' is horrific, because of, you know. ALL THE WAR CRIMES. But this is DISGUSTING.

[consignation]

Yes, it's better.

I hate you.

[weifinder]

( What, the name he never gave himself being filled in with all the war crimes, including all the ones he never committed? Yeah. Hysterical, here. )

Love you too.

[downswing]

( Of Yunmeng Jiang, the sect that would not even raise this fool's remains an altar. The sect that renounced him. The sect that rose against him, every man tallied.

...gentian tastes sweeter. )

[weifinder]

( They still have his baby name, Lan Zhan, and it was not the Lans who stood with him, not at that time. They, too, decided to stand with the righteous world, just as the Nies, the Jiangs, and the Jins.

Change only came later, and later is when Jiang Cheng, of Yunmeng Jiang, returned Chenqing to Wei Wuxian. Intact.

He doesn't give him Wei Ying. Just the child, and not the name of Baby. )