#cql au

[rhaenyraqueenred]

Jiang Cheng & Wen Qing as Master and Madam Jiang from Lotus Pier.

My AU.

#jiang cheng #wen qing #wen qing x jiang cheng #lady jiang #madam jiang #chengqing #mdzs #meng ziyi #wang zhoucheng #jiang cheng x wen qing #jc x wq #wq #jc #the untamed #cql #cql au #the untamed au

[theuntamedaus]

Music Band AU

So, whilst I wait for my writer's block to go away, I am delving properly into this AU.

@felinesomnambulist might appreciate this one in particular, but I hope y'all do <3

Under cur because it's longer than anticipated :')

So, let's start from the Lan clan.

The Lans are classically trained and their Gusu Lan music conservatory is famous for being the best one and also expensive af. You must have the money or, in alternative, several high level recommendations and talent.

The teachers, LQR, LXC and LWJ, are also the best ones and trained in both chinese traditional instruments like the xiao, the qin, the erhu etc, and western instruments like the piano, the strings, the clarinet etc.

The Lans also have a generations long friendship with the Nie family, whose last heirs, NMJ and NHS, inherited the music production studio from their father, dead in mysterious circumstances, probably linked to the boss of the underground Nightless City Wen Ruohan.

I will come back in a bit to Nightless city, hold onto this for a moment.

The friendship between the Nie and the Lan surprises everyone until you understand that the Nie production studio is for Power/Epic/Symphonic metal, a kind of metal that uses a LOT of classical instruments.

On top of this NMJ is also the founder of a metal band thus composed:

Vocals: Meng Yao

Guitars: Nie Zonghui

Bass: Nie Huaisang

Drums: Nie Mingjue

Spoken/poems: Nie Huaisang

Classical instruments: Lan Xichen

The Nie music studio is in a constant struggle not to be annexed by the famous Jin Studio, promoter of the AU equivalent of stuff like X-factor, The Voice and so and churning out pop talents out of capitalistic greed masked as "caring for the music".

Their most famous pop sensations are sweet cute and lively pop idol Jiang Yanli and alternative rap pop rage Wei Wuxian. They tried doing the same with Jiang Cheng, but Jiang Cheng really doesn't have the cheerful tones of a pop singer, in spite of having the best voice outof the three.

I did mention that JFM and YZY are one of those who are like “yeah, my child is so gifted and talented, let’s ruin their life forever by forcing them in the music industry” and the Jin studio just did help them achieve that exactly.

Spoiler: this will come back to bite their asses somehow. In fact, the original plan was to have only JYL and JC, but JFM HAD TO let in WWX, son of the legend of music Cangse Sanren, ho had been already the daughter of the myth, Baoshan Sanren.

And LWJ is an avid listener of WWX's music, he is propery enamoured, but neither shufu nor xiongzhang kno because god forbid the Lans listen toanything BUT classical music. This is another thing I will come back later on.

YZY is legitimately furious at the fact that her children's thunder has been stolen that way, but neither JFM nor YZY see that regardless the three do love each other dearly.

And then JGS decides to renew the contracts for JYL and WWX because they are his golden egg geese, but NOT JC's, because his pop album did not make as much money, as in, not being allowed to do anything but pop music, his voice suffered a bit and being the family disappointment did not really help.

Anyway, JFM and YZY fight, he decides to leave in the middle of lunch (a further sin in such a family), JYL and WWX try to convince him not to go without any success at all.

And so he roams the city, trying to find some motivation to go on.

In the meantime JGS has successfully poached out Meng Yao from the Nie, and the band is in need of a vocalist, but who would like to be the vocalist of a symphonic metal band tiedtoa studio barely making it at the end of the month?

NMJ is out of wits. And the amplificators just broke down so he has to finally admit that he needs new ones and so he goes to the Yao&Ouyang music shop to buy some new ones.

In the meantime JC has also reached the same music shop and Mr. Yao has convinced him to try a mic and when JC is asked what he would like to sing he's like "yeah I am angry enough for a cover of 'we're all to blame' by Sum41" and NMJ is casually there too and he listens to JC sing and he feels the doors of heavenly music open right in front of him, has 16 epiphanies and by the end of it he's like:

Anyway. NMJ approaches JC after the performance and he is like:

"nice one, my name is Mingjue, I loved your vibes. What do you say about joining my band?"

He hands out the business card, proves that he is not, in fact, just a creep but an actual person who actually enjoyed JC's voice and is actually trying to convince him to join a metal band.

JC is kind of taken aback, as in "someone just PRAISED me? ME? A RAT? for my VOICE? The same voice everyone I know thinks it's actual CRAP?"

JC my beloved, how about we work together on our self esteem issues?

*coffcoff* Anyway, NMJ makes sure to point out that there is no pressure, he is welcome to try out a session and then if it doesn't work out nothing happens, no one is going to hound him etc. Somehow JC feels better, like the choices he has been given make him feel free to decide for himself for the first time.

And he says yes, I want to come and do this music session with your band, it does sound great if the people there are all like you.

And NMJ is left wondering what kind of hellish situation this one has been living in.

Anyway JC comes back all happy and content, BUT makes the mistake of telling JYL and WWX what happened. They in turn let JFM and YZY know and they basically laugh in JC's face.

JFM: well, at least that lousy studio will finally get annexed to JGS's and disappear.

YZY: you are going to ruin everything,you don't understand anything! You'd better stay here, at least all you'll ruin is us.

*uuuhhhh just a sec, this hit home for me, the author, let me cry in a corner for 5 mins*

*coffcoff* JC, full of dismay and with an ego completely crushed once again, calls NMJ to tell him he is not coming, but NMJ KNOWS that tone. Has NMJ just sensed a shitty family and all of the parental disappointment? Has he just heard JC trying to hold a faint sob from behind the phone? This does NOT happen, not on NMJ's watch! And he is like, look, I am sending my brother, the least menacing person on earth so no one is scared to see me, a 6ft tall buff man with enough piercings and tattoos to scare even the strong of heart. You are going to go with him, let him buyyou a coffee and then decide.

And so it happens. Providence has made it so that the house is empty because JFM and YZY had to take JYL and WWX to the studio to register their new albums, so JC is alone.

And NHS arrives, JC lets him in, NHS assesses the situation, asks a few questions that hit right where it hurts and then he is like: JC, my newly acquired friend, I am not saying you should pack everything you own and come with me, but I am saying exactly that. You do NOT have an independent bank account, you do NOT have a space unless someone grants it from the gracefulness of their heart and you MUST sing crap just to be granted a sliver of sympathy from those who claim to love you. My brother has offered you an space in the band, but really, even if you do not join you are welcome to stay as much as you wish until you know what you want to do in life.

JC: are you offering me this out of pity?

NHS: not pity, I don't have enough of that. It's out of friendship.

And so JC is convinced once again. Maybe staying away from his family will make him assess things better.

NHS calls the whole family and they help JC pack everything. They help him set up his own bank account. He will withdraw some cash at the nearest ATM so that he can then put the funds in the newly opened bank account.

JC leaves a message as in "do NOT look for me atm, I am reassessing my priorities".

And with all of that done JC goes with the Nie and starts living under their roof. He does the first music session as a vocalist and - surprise - he actually has fun, he smiles,he finally can let his voice out freely and everyone now understands why NMJ wanted him as a vocalist.

And as a surprise for everyone NMJ manages to get a contract to be the opening band of a major symphonic metal band - spoiler: it is a success, NMJ's band and studio are launched into the stratosphere, everyone loves the band and especially the new vocalist JC.

But how are the Jiangs faring now? Well, JC's message has prompted the divorce between YZY and JFM, so not great in that sense. JGS has used that to force JYL into an arranged marriage with his son JZX - it's not that the two don't like each other, it's the opposite actually, but they would have loved to come together in different circumstances. In any case, they both do not want what their respective parents had so they work together to make the best out of the shitty situation. They will eventually get married, but on their own terms.

And where is WWX? Well. In his quest to find JC, because the message "do NOT look for me" for him was apparently just a guideline, he stumbles into Nightless City and its many wonders and horrors.

As mentioned, Nightless city is an underground city where crime reigns above everything. He lets himself get lost in the City, he gets tattoos, piercings and a penchant for alcoholism and hedonism.

In any case WWX disappears from the scene, the tabloids will talk about it like a meteor bound to fall. JC wants to look for him, JYL too, but no matter what WWX cannot be found.

This until LWJ, who is still the no. 1 fan of WWX, finds him loitering by a shop. And WWX has changed a lot. His eyes are swollen, he looks like he's not been eating properly and has a hand secured around a bottle of an unspecified alcoholic beverage.

It turns out he has been captured by Wen Chao who - surprise - was a great fan and then forced to sing for him. Which at the time catered to his willingness to have free everything, but then it turned out to be another cage and now that he was spent he had been thrown away like trash.

And now WWX finds himself with a whopping case of trauma and alcohol addiction.

In any case, LWJ cannot stand the fact that the person he has been enamoured with for the past few is now at that point. And so he offers him a meal, he offers him to stay at his house, asks xiongzhang if he could help him speak to shufu.

And shufu is not truly convinced until NMJ and band drops by, JC included, and JC launches himself towards WWX. "Where were you bro, a-jie and I were so worried!"

"I wanted to find you bro"

"I was fine, I wrote to mum and dad that I was fine a few days later, did they not let you know?"

"No?"

"Oh, for fuck's sake."

NMJ interjects: "That shows you ho shitty your parents are,my love"

Yes, in the meantime NMJ and JC got together, NMJ properly courted JC and are now very close to an official engagement.

Anyway, JC lets Yanli know and his prompts her decision to detach herself from JGS's brand. JZX has started his own with some help from MY, now called JGY, ho has in the meantime realized how much of a scumbag JGS actually is.

MY has in fact been exploited for his talent in composing songs and lyrics, he has even been called JGY in a vain promise of being finally recognized as a legitimate son, which has never happened and will never happen, but guess WHO has been treating him like proper family? JZX and JYL, hence his loyalties are all for them.

And so,to recap:

JC is now about to be engaged to NMJ and they both are in a famous studio and an equally famous band andeveryone loves them.

JYL and JZX are marrying and having a child, JZX has hsi own studio which is totally unaffiliated with his father's and everybody loves them for basically being the healthiest and most loving relationship in the whole industry.

LWJ is working with LXC to convince LQR to give WWX some support and maybe having him direct a singing/voice coaching workshop so he has something to lean onwhilst he recovers and decides what to do next

JFM and YZY are permanently divorced and not in speaking terms anymore. I am kind of leaning into YZY finding comfort in WZL's arms, hich will involve more drama when she finds out ho WZL actually is.

I wonder what could go wrong. JGS is not happy, he might even think to go to WRH and get involved in shad stuff to ruin everyone's life, but at this point my brain is failing and IDK, I kind oflike this open ending, but I feel something is missing.

Suggestions are more than welcome here.

For the moment I will peace out.

#the untamed #the untamed au #music bands au #mingcheng #nie mingjue #jiang cheng #yunmeng siblings #chen qing ling au #chen qing ling #cql au #fic concepts #mo dao zu shi #mdzs au #mo dao zu shi au

[starrywangxian]

just watched tangled and thinking hmm wangxian au with

lwj as rapzunel

wwx as eugene

lil' apple as max

wen ning as pascal

qingheng-jun as mother gothel

su she and jin guangyao as the stabbington brothers

the cloud recesses lot (jin zixuan, nie huaisang etc.) can be the thugs (like nhs as the big nose thug and stuff)

jiang cheng as captain of the guard

the junior quartet as the girls who braid rapzunel's hair

please i need this, i know it's probably been done before but i need this T_T

#send me links people #i have grown to realise that i can only enjoy romances if i imagine it as a wangxian au #so expect more of this in the future #starrywangxian #the untamed #cql #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #gdc #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #au #wangxian #wangxian au #mdzs au #cql au #mxtx

[lhaewiel]

GUYS (gn), MY FRIENDS!

THE SEQUEL IS HERE! I told you I would do that!

First part here:

Some beautiful art by @wwxadhd

#the untamed #mo dao zu shi #cql #mdzs #cql au #mdzs au #chen qing ling #alternative universe #modern au #art as a way to cultivate #wangxian #xuanli #chengqing #the nie adopt jc

[dodoissleeping]

The genderswap trope is very use in mdzs and I can see why (not enough woman in this story)

What I would love to see is a Jiang Cheng genderswap (I heard that Wanyin was more feminin than masculine and it seem that girls in this doesn't have a courtesy name so maybe in this universe it's just Jiang Wanyin). Like I feel so many possible story could be done with it.

Personnally my favorite would be kinda like in the untamed with JC falling in love with Wen Qing, and ever it's a happy ending or she still died but JC meet Qin Su who thinks her husband don't touch her anymore because he's in love with Lan Xichen and decide to have a romantic relationship with JC.

But at the same time I think about Madame Yu and what it would mean for her to not have a son than Wei Wuxian is brought back by Jiang Fengmian. Like does he want to marry them, a disciple with his daughter ? (like in Word Of Honor). Does Yu Ziyuan search another man to be her husband ? (I feel like JFM thing would be must historically acurate but I might be wrong).

In the Chengxian case, it could still happen like in canon. But does he marry her after the massacre of Lotus Pier so she doesn't have to marry another one who would stole her land.

(I don't want to think about her capture because of Wen Chao)

But JC is lesbian and she certainly not going to have kids while a war is happening.

Canon or not Wei Wuxian leave with Lan Wangji but JC either end up with WQ or in this universe her love stop QS from comitted sucide

So many possibilities but so hard to do and decide

#mdzs #au #genderswap #jiang cheng #chengqing #chengxian #cql au #wen qing #qin su #ramblings #bad english #and a stupid phone who correct everything i write

[purpleglassshoes]

Title: Falling (wangxian)

Wei Wuxian has always been falling alone that he got used to it─doesn't expect someone to catch him nor for someone to lend a hand to stop him from falling─so he perseveres for his own sake.

But now, Lan Wangji was there, standing with his arms outstretched in front of him, answering a firm "mn" when asked if he would catch Wei Wuxian and it made his heart clenched painfully in his chest, almost choking him with how sincere it was.

Once upon a time, during a cold summer night, there was someone who was willing to catch him but that person has long been outside his reach. Shijie had given him warmth but she brought it with her when she passed.

When he fell in the Burial Mounds, he felt the antagonizing pain of his bones breaking but despite that, he had deliriously imagined the feeling of someone wrapping their arms around him─foolishly hoping to feel that warmth and safety.

In the Nightless City, there had been someone who was willing to wrap their hands on him, trying to stop him from falling to his doom. Although he was deep in his grief, he had felt so cared for however fleeting it was. At least, there had been someone who tried.

Wei Wuxian got used to falling alone but the fear still lingers nevertheless. He was afraid to fall alone yet again, without someone's arms wrapping around him─to fall alone and wake up with nothing but darkness and suffocating resentment.

Years have passed by and yet this lingering fear didn't change a bit.

But Lan Wangji is good─so good and so righteous that people both respect and hate him. Lan Wangji who dared scold him when everyone praised him to the heavens, the same Lan Wangji that he claimed to be his soulmate in his past life. So, putting aside his fear, Wei Wuxian let himself fall─waiting for the moment when the impact to the ground would hurt him yet again but the pain never came.

When Wei Wuxian opened his eyes, Lan Wangji's golden eyes stared right back at him.

Lan Wangji caught him and Wei Wuxian finally let himself smile.

#lan wangji #lan zhan #wei wuxian #wei ying #wangxian #wangxian canon dynamic #burial mound fall #cql au #cql lwj #cql wwx #cql fic #the untamed #my take of wwx's complex feeling when he fell to his death #kinda lol #the untamed universe #wangxian fluff #fluff #feelings #lwj the husband of the century #hanguang jun #yiling laozu

[sandupommelfrog]

happy mermay!! i drew a little ref sheet for jiaoren!Jiang Cheng from my Twin Ghosts of Yunmeng fic. Yunmeng jiaoren no longer have tails, and they can switch between their water form (pictured here) and a human form at will, like howl’s bird form in howls movings castle.

#jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #mermay #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #cql #mdzs #mdzs au #cql au #mer au #mdzs mer au #mer!jiang cheng #jiaoren au #jc #twin ghosts of yunmeng

[icarus-suraki]

This is how it actually happened, right? 

(I can’t take credit for this edit, alas.)

#cql #the untamed #cql au #nobody dies au #seeking source

[darkandstormyart]

office au: casual friday edition (part one)

(yes, lwj is both toby and dwight in this au)

#mo dao zu shi #the untamed #mdzs #cql #jiang cheng #nie huaisang #lan xichen #wei wuxian #lan wangji #office au

[3cosmicfrogs]

"We are fashioned creatures, but half made up."

More of the franken-verse because i keep rotating the dog metaphors... previous art 1 and art 2. I am running out of quotes.

#frankenieyao #<- thats the tag for this btw #nieyao #artfromthefrogs #nmj #jgy #mdzs #the untamed #cql #mo dao zu shi #mdzs fanart #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #blood tw #i know you guys dont much care for this au but i do. so. #really fuckin happy with the inking and styling for this btw.

[rhaenyraqueenred]

The Untamed AU: Jiang Cheng & Wen Qing get married and had children. (This is what happened in the book and the tv shows. Canon i don't know her).

#jiang cheng #wen qing #wq #jc #jiang cheng x wen qing #wen qing x jiang cheng #jiang clan #lotus pier #mdzs #the untamed #cql #the untamed au #cql au #meng ziyi #wang zhoucheng #marius cheng #chengqing

[theuntamedaus]

School for Good and Evil AU (finally)

So, a little premise is due: I have only seen the movie, but the book is in my to-read list, so don't crucify me.

Also, I have seen the poll results and we really are a hivemind fandom lol

Love y'all who voted, I am sending hearts to you all!

So, AU under the cut!

As said, JC and WWX live in LP a quiet, boring life. Yanli is there as well as their elder sister and it's okay, except it's not. Somehow NHS, the local librarian (?), mentions the existence of the School for Good and Evil, because WWX spots one of the books marked with the school's logo and he is like "WHAT IS THAT?"

And NHS is more than happy to explain.

Now, because I want to keep the wuxia/xianxia elements, I will say that the School for Good is where all of the classic heroes/heroines in wuxia/xianxia are trained, with good cultivation and righteous paths and all, and the School for Evil is where the wuxia/xianxia villains, with like demonic cultivation, crooked path and all, are trained.

So, WWX is hellbent on going to this School for Good and Evil out of curiosity, boredom and all - "you mean, I will be able to invent stuff, fight villains, be someone everyone can be proud of, and also, ChengCheng, Aunt Yu will not be scolding me all the time! It's a win"

"Yeah, sure, but how do you think I-, I mean, a-jie will take it? Also, did you not promise me we'd be together as sworn brothers?"

"... Yeah, I did... You know, forget I said it, I'll go wherever you will go!"

And then WWX breaks his promise and JC goes to find him, just to discover that he is going to the School for Good and Evil leaving everyone behind and JC in particular behind and JC is not thrilled.

Their conversation is cut short by the humongous bird coming down and grabbing them both and then flying all the way to the school.

Now, WWX is really a tad too much arrogant, which is usually toned down by his massive caring heart, but it's there nonetheless and he is so sure he will be in the Good school.

JC, on the other side, really just wants to go back home dragging back WWX and wants to have nothing to do with any school.

And WWX sees the Good school, high in the sky, full of nice trees and all like

And then he sees the Evil School, all shrouded in darkness and smoke like

and WWX smiles until the aforementioned bird drops him off in the Evil school, much to WWX's disappointment and JC's distress.

JC gets dropped off at the Good School.

And both WWX and JC hate it.

They both raise hell, but it is useless. WWX gets draped in wuxia villain red and black robes and given the Red Eyeliner of Evilness, whilst JC gets draped in the fanciest wuxia hero robes and given the Righteous Sword to Smite Evilness.

Neither of them are thrilled.

Cue WWX angry-pouting and JC sarcastically frowning.

There is the whole parade thing and here we meet the Perfect Hero Lan Wangji, all draped in white and light blue, sword in one hand and guqin floating in front of him.

WWX sees him and he is smitten, completely fallen in love.

On the other hand, LWJ and JC immediately hate each other's guts.

Soon after we meet Rector LQR, followed by Good School's professor LXC and Evil School's professor WC.

Once again WWX and JC try to present their case, that there has been a mistake, but it seems that "the School has not made any mistakes".

End of part 1 - I will elaborate more in other posts.

#the untamed #the untamed au #school for good and evil #school for good and evil au #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #mo dao zu shi #mo dao zu shi au #chen qing ling #chen qing ling au #mdzs #mdzs au #cql #cql au

[nattyontherun]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28428027

#wei wuxian #cql #mdzs #mdzs au #writing stuff #angst #ao3 fanfic #cql au #jiang yanli #art #dead dove do not eat

[supertaliart]

Reunited at Last

Beginning - Previous

Hyrule Cultivators Masterlist

#Hyrule Cultivators #wei wuxian #lan wangji #the untamed #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #cql #legend of zelda botw #botw au #artists on tumblr #illustration #fanart #mdzs fanart #legend of zelda #MDZS botw au

[lhaewiel]

In an AU where Baxia is a cat, I imagine her as Princess Tigerbelle

#the untamed #baxia #Baxia as a cat #cql au #mdzs au

[rumble-bee-art]

So maybe they spend an endless summer in Lotus Pier and run away to the fields to talk for hours about everything in the world? And maybe they are in love already but don’t know it yet? And maybe Lan Zhan smiles more than he ever did?

#another one for my yunmeng summer au where there is no war and nothnig bad happens whatsoever #mdzs #mdzs fanart #lan wangji #wei ying #wangxian #wangxian fanart #lan wangji fanart #wei wuxian fanart #mo dao zu shi #yunmeng jiang #wei wuxian #lan wangji x wei wuxian #cql art #cql #my art #artist on tumblr