#sect leader jin

[pleasegivejinlingabreak]

Jin RuLan - MDZS novel russian edition illustrations

#THE WAVY HAIR WJDIDBS #why is he so cute #jin rulan #mdzs juniors #baby boy #Mdzs #mo dao zu shi #mdzs novel #russian illustration #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the grandmaster of diabolism #the untamed #Sect leader jin #jin sect #mdzs jin ling #jin ling

[your-mamas-joke-is-cancelled]

He looked up from the scroll he was holding and set it down on the table. "Sect leader Jin, what a pleasant surprise to see you here of all places."

Jin Guangyao approached with a serene pace and stopped in the middle of the grand room.

“Sect leader Jiang.” He bowed in a graceful move, cupping his hands and humbly lowering his eyes. “I thought I should inform you about the whereabout of our nephew.”

He straightened up and gave the other man one of his smiles.

“Jin Ling came to me and seems he did something that unfortunately upset you, again. I came to assure you he is safe in Lanling.”

His hands joined in his back as he stepped a bit closer to the table. “I don’t know what he did this time, but I beg you to be lenient with him. We both know this period is not an easy one for him. Or for you.” As he spoke, his eyes slid over the table, catching sight of what was leaning on it. The dark amber gaze then lasted over Jiang Cheng through the line of long lashes.

If it was a hard period for Jin Ling, it might be just as hard for Sect leader Jiang.

After all, it was Jiang Cheng’s sister's death anniversary.

#jin guangyao rp #meng yao rp #sect leader jin #meng yao #jin guangyao #mxtx #mdzs #mo dao zu shi rp #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #jiang cheng

[dimpledlianfang]

Looks like someone snuck into jgy's room

Minshan: Z...zongzhu. there you are. I almost got lost in Jinlintai 😵‍💫......again.

#dimpledlianfang #su minshan #su she #jin guangyao #jin sect #jinlintai #secret room #moling su #gotcha #mo dao su zhi #the untamed #cql #mdzs au #lianfang zun #sect leader jin

[thatswhatsushesaid]

psa that the day there are no jgy stans left on tumblr dot com is the day i am dead

but rest assured i'll go to my grave exactly as i lived: obnoxiously proclaiming to everyone within earshot how great lianfang-zun is. narratively, metaphorically, spiritually. sexually, too, like why limit myself. i like to keep my options open

#the spirit of su minshan possessed me for a minute there but like. i'm fine with it #jin guangyao #he did crimes??? good for him 😌 #editing this post to add that while the tone here is clearly joking #i really am fundamentally still engaged with this fandom #and with this book #almost exlcusively because of my enjoyment of jgy #even xiyao is secondary for me like i love it and i'm ride or die for it obvs #but jgy as a character is the main draw for me. and he would have me by the throat even if there was no zewu-jun #(tho i think jgy's life would be more depressing for his absence obviously) #but he is just. /clenches my fists!!! #THE most compelling character in the story and i cannot stop thinking about him!! cannot will not!! #who else in this book has his range? who else can be the doe-eyed idealist AND the spy with blood on his hands who ends a war? #who else is two different greek tragedies and at least two separate shakespearean tragedies rolled into one antagonist #an antagonist who but for the POV of the novel could very easily have been the protagonist #whose moral event horizon is so deeply entwined with his own trauma and abuse that there is no way to meaningfully separate #the violence he does to others from the systemic violence that was done to him for his whole life? #who else in this book manages to get five separate sect leaders utterly obsessed with him no matter how you choose #to interpret that obsession? #no one!!! that's who!! #ain't no one else in the jianghu doing it like lianfang-zun and that's just a goddamn fact

[b0dwr1ter]

#sect leader yao #jin guangyao #su she #Lan wangji #lan xichen #lan qiren #nie mingjue #Nie huaisang #Jiang cheng #Wen qing #jiang yanli #mdzs polls

[whimsicallywiddershins]

Jin Guangyao during the entire series: "I murdered my way into this mess, I will murder my way out of it."

#especially at the end #did he really think he could murder 3 sect leaders #and 2 sect heirs #and get away with it #everyone knew he killed jin guangshan #but no one cared #jin guangyao #meng yao #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan xichen #incorrect quotes

[lgbtlunaverse]

A slightly unhinged case for jin guangyao knowing about the core transfer while WWX was still alive

Ok. SO. In chapter 101, during guangyin temple, Jin Guangyao clearly knows about the golden core transfer. He uses it to bring Jiang Cheng off-kilter and stab him and simultaneously reveals to wwx that jc himself now knows about the golden core transfer.

I've always wondered exactly when he figured it out. The most obvious explanation is that he pieced it together after hearing about Jiang Cheng asking everyone to unsheathe suibian (also? jgy? how the fuck do you know that? You were already going to/at Guanyin temple at this point! Did you just have people listen in on rumours from Yunmeng and report back to you for that?? Did you tell your spy network where you were going? My whole kingdom for a retelling of this arc from the pov of these random jin disciples seeing their sect leader start spiralling. He's diggin up random tombs? Fleeing the country? And threatening the heir's life?? What was random Jin cultivator #6 thinking of this before Nie Mingjue turned him into minced meat?)

BUT.

The first time I read that line I was like "oh so he's known for a WHILE." I mean, the line "I've always found it peculiar [that wwx never took his sword anywhere]" does indicate he's been thinking about this for a while, but it doesn't have to mean he knew back then. So I absolutely can't say with certainty that my instinct was right. But I DO have some decent canon backing for how he might have potentially figured things out as early as before Wei Wuxian's death. Specifically, after the discussion scene that takens place when wei wuxian does his thing with the wens and dissapears.

Cause, see, Wen Chao would definitely have bragged about Wen Zhuliu crushing Jiang Cheng's core to his father. He killed the current sect leader, and then permanently disabled the only heir. He did it! the Jiang are gone! I bet he was very loud about it until, a few weeks later, Jiang Cheng suddenly strolls up to the battlefield, with Zidian on his finger, cultivation very much intact, looking for Wei Wuxian.

That must've been fucking baffling if you were Wen Chao and/or Wen Zhuliu and/or any other cultivator who was there and definitely saw Jiang Cheng's core get crushed. They must have assumed something went wrong, or he faked having his core destroyed, but we've never heard of something like that happening before, and they tortured him for hours! It wasn't a quick batle where Wen Zhuliu must have missed in haste, he would've noticed!

Now, by the time Meng yao arrives, wen zhuliu and wen chao are both long dead, but that kind of thing would at least still be a source of gossip among the other Wen. The only time the core melting hand ever failed!

It might be something that, say... a very careful spy with a perfect memory looking for information... might pick up on in his stay with the Wen, no?

So, Meng Yao has heard the rumour that sect leader Jiang got his core crushed but somehow managed to... still have a core.

Independantly of his, Wei Wuxian is being really weird and refusing to carry his sword. His primary concern there is wwx stirring shit up, he has no reason to believe these things are connected yet.

But then Wei Wuxian runs off with a bunch of Wen, and before he is cut off, Jiang Cheng tells everyone that after the siege on lotus pier, he and wei wuxian were helped by Wen Qing and Wen Ning! Jiang Cheng doesn't get to say how, which is good for jgy in this moment because he's trying to steer the conversation as such that no one gets mad at the Jin sect for all the war crimes, but even if his goal is for everyone else to forget Jiang Cheng said that, he'd remember it.

So... after the moment where jiang cheng, according to rumours that were contained to the wen, lost his core, he was helped by wen ning and wen qing, who is a really good doctor. And, in canon, had written theoretical proposals on core transfers before, just never experimented on them. Were these available for others among the Wen to read? Did jgy read them? We have no way of knowing. But if he did, he remembers them. Either way, he knows her reputation.

And Wei Wuxian disappeared right round that same moment, only to resurface with his demonic cultivation, at which point he never touched his sword again. Not even in the middle of a dangerous war. Not even when he was public enemy number one and it would do wonders for his reputation if he was seen cultivating the traditional path. When doing so would have made not just him but the 50 people he was shielding safer! if Jin guangyao was somehow in his position, he'd immediately do everything he could to counteract the narrative of beign a dangerous madman who'd left the straight path. Wei Wuxian has been in absolutely desperate situations and still refuses to pick up his sword...

The saying doesn't exist yet, but i'm sure someone like jgy, more competent than everyone around him, is intimately familair with at least the sentiment of "never ascribe to malice what is adequately explained by incompetence" He is helping spread the narrative of Wei Wuxian as a violent madman, sure, but does he believe it? If it makes no sense for wei wuxian, no longer a privileged young master but an outcast, to not pick up his sword again out of arrogancy, the most reliable explanation is that he... can't.

So Jiang Cheng, who got his core melted, got help from Wen Qing, an incredible doctor, after which he coud cultivate just fine but Wei Wuxian, no matter how desperate, never used traditional cultivation ever again...

Hm. interesting!

It's likely no one else in the jianghu outside of the wen even knew Jiang Cheng lost his core to begin with. And Jin Guangyao was never given wwx's excuse of Baoshan Sanren owing him a favor like Jiang Cheng was. He has all the puzzle pieces in front of him and... if anyone as gonna put them together, it'd be him.

And that's my unhinged case for why I believe Jin Guangyao knew Wei Wuxian didn't have a golden core anymore years before anyone else did. He just never told anyone, because why would he?

I think this adds a whole other level to his speech to Jiang Cheng about how everything could've worked out if he'd just trusted Wei Wuxian more and stood by his side. He saw it all play out in real time knowing there was more going on beneath the surface!

Now the really interesting question becomes: When did he figure out Jiang Cheng himself wasn't in on it? Did he piece it together immediately from remembering seeing jiang cheng berate wwx for not carrying a sword, a thing he should've known he couldn't do? Or was it not until later, maybe the fake yunmeng bros fallout, or the REAL fallout when Jiang Yanli died? Or was it still the news of Jiang Cheng going around and asking everyone to unsheathe subian that made him realize that oh my god this stupid bitch had no idea the whole time.

#mdzs #meng yao #jin guangyao #wei wuxian #wen qing #jiang cheng #mdzs headcanons #mdzs meta #<- tagging both cause it's like... in between #i don't think this is clear-cut canon i'm theorising but i'm also not just throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks #i am looking at the wall very carefully to see what places are the stickiest #the concept jgy thinking jc just. let wwx put his core in him and then didn't protect him from the fallout. #would really color their relationship like he would not show it but ohhhh there'd be resentment there! #yeah no sect leader jiang he's NOT letting jin ling go alone on a nighthunt with you he might not get back with all his organs intact! #i do think it's more likely he did at some point realize jc had no idea tho

[cubbyhole-for-flea-bee]

additional work doodles on stolen printer paper ft. Jiang Cheng meeting various dog breeds

cuz I feel like it would be a hoot watching this guy react to the ecclectic variety of pooches the world has to offer

#little dogs? yes plz #large dogs like REALLY large dogs? he loves them! #let jiang cheng have dogs #he'll end up loving even the ridiculous looking ones #and give them all matching ridiculous frufru names #he'll bring one of his dogs with him to conferences #if he likes the sect hosting he'll bring one of the smaller and polite ones #if he DOESN'T then he'll roll up accompanied by a massive drooling beastie the size of small horse #u know one of those dogs whose panting is audible across a room? imagine one of them in the fucking high-ceiling echo chambers the jin like #to host dinners in cuz it flaunts their wealth and then trying to hold a discussion #“now on the issue of chief cultivator-” *PANT PANT PANT SCHLORP PANT PANT PANT* #corgi #basset hound #great dane #daschund #(imagine explaining the phrase 'weiner dog' to the grumpiest sect leader xD) #sheepdog #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #mdzs #fan art #the untamed #sketches

[littlesmartart]

HANDS DIRTY | DELTA RAE

I've been thinking about this song + JGY for a long time ("I get my hands dirty, I show up so early, they show me no mercy, so I just keep working" hello???? hello??????), and I would like to personally thank ZZJ for his wonderful face and brilliant acting 🙏

#jin guangyao #making this video truly made me appreciate how much on-screen abuse and violence we see inflicted on JGY 😬 #also godddd!!! the scene with Madam Jin yelling at JGY at phoenix mountain!!! #JGY doing this quick little panicked look around when she's done talking to see if anyone is going to do anything #and the pan we get of Zixun + Zixuan + Yanli + freakin Sect Leader Yao #and even XICHEN. all just standing there like :T awkward. #then it cuts back to JGY's devastated little face as he tries his best to carry on. probably fucking mortified that this is public #and both relieved yet slightly upset that no one tried to defend him over something that everyone knew was not his fault #UUGHHHHH #sorry I'm done now #the untamed

[emmytheferret]

Thinking about making a new set of stickers in this style... the mdzs juniors perhaps...

#emmytheferret #emmy's art #mdzs #mdzs fanart #jin ling #idk hes older here this is sect leader jl to me

[fistfuloflightning]

“You look better without the hat.”

XianYao prompt from the lovely @limitbreaker23 (you’re enabling me so badly, I swear)

#mdzs #xianyao #wei wuxian #jin guangyao #meng yao #art prompt #mdzs art #my art #tol and smol #it’s all about the ✨height difference✨ #im already getting fic ideas that would unfortunately require me to actually reread the book (specifically the sunshot campaign) #something something after the war jgs still doesn’t acknowledge meng yao and he somehow ends up in lotus pier or somewhere adjacent #peaceful living doesn’t suit his tastes and he starts picking up dirty work from local sect leaders #assassinations—information theft—spying #he pretty much starts building a jianghu-wide spy network and hiring himself out to the highest bidder #not sure where I’m going with this #but either wwx is hunting him down on behalf of yunmeng jiang #or he becomes his information dealer #fic ideas

[tahto]

Headcanon that once Jin Ling hears about Lan Sizhui starving in the Burial Mounds as a child, he’s like fuck that you’re never going hungry again, and feeds him any opportunity he gets.

Like, if he knows the Lan disciples are coming, there is a lavish spread of food (all suspiciously Sizhui’s favourites) which the Lan juniors love, especially Jingyi, who constantly asks Sizhui if they can go back to Carp Tower soon.

Of course the unintended effect of this being that in a few years, Lan Sizhui has a late growth spurt, making him taller than Jin Ling. Which Jin Ling grumbles about but secretly doesn’t mind, especially when it makes him the perfect height to give forehead kisses to Jin Ling’s vermillion mark.

#zhuiling #jin ling #lan sizhui #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #mdzs headcanons #jin ling seething over those extra centimetres #but he cant deny the benefits #also headcanon that jin ling kind of pushes himself too hard in his sect leader role #he misses sleep and sometimes meals #so once sizhui knows he makes sure jin ling is cared for too

[lilapplesheadcannons]

Nie MingJue has a pet chicken. No, it's not a spiritual rooster. It's not his emotional support animal. It's not smart enough or loyal enough to be anything other than dinner. Which it was supposed to be. Except the cook is not as nimble as she was, and the chicken made a mighty escape from her arthritic fingers. Nie Mingjue came out of his study room to shout at whoever was causing the ruckus and was hit by what seemed like a moulting feather duster on his midriff. The kitchen staff were banished promptly to the kitchen by him. But in their hurry to get away, they left him holding the chicken.

Most people think the chicken is significant to him. Even Jin GuangShang made sure to ask Nie MingJue about his new pet and its extraordinary feats. Nie Mingjue will strangle HuaiSang the moment he gets his hands on the little rat because who else would spread the rumours that a chicken can count up to 10 and sing like an oriole? Who has ever heard of a chicken singing? Damn it, damn it, damn it!

But despite the headache caused by a chicken in his living quarter (spilt ink, upturned rice bowls, feather under his pillow), Nie MingJue doesn't order the kitchen to take away the chicken.

"What do you call him?" Lan Xichen brings out few grains of rice from his sleeve.

Nie MingJue runs a tired hand over his face. He wishes people wouldn't attempt to feed a chicken in his living quarter. Or assume he's actually raising that chicken.

"Nothing. I don't call it anything."

"Nonsense. You must give him an appropriate name. How about...."

"Her."

"Pardon?"

"It's a she." Surely Xichen knows the difference between a rooster and a hen? On the other hand, you can never tell with the Lans.

"Oh. How about Xiao Hua?"

"I am not naming it."

"Come on. You can't raise her without giving her a pretty name."

"I am not trying to raise her, I swear. For heaven's sake, it's a chicken!"

Xichen turns to meet his eyes. "Are you angry? I am sorry, it was presumptuous of me to try to name your chicken."

Nie MingJue growls before stomping away. Tonight, he'll order the kitchen to make stewed chicken.

Except the chicken doesn't really end up stewed. Or boiled or fried or anything else. It ends up with a golden ring on its ankle. Jin GuangYao only smiles apologetically when Nie MingJue asks him about it. People start referring to the chicken as Jingwei, much to MingJue's chagrin. He gets confronted by the sight of a bunch of Lan teen disciples intently staring at the chicken pecking at the ground and taking notes. On the next discussion conference, the Yiling Laozu himself plops down beside him and goes into a rant about headstrong pets and their antiques. Nie Mingjue is so exhausted, he nods along even though he's pretty sure he'd catch fire any moment from the glare Wangji is sending his way. Jiang Wanyin drags Wei Wuxian away after a while, and Nie MingJue sighs. But his relief is short-lived as Jin GuangYao carefully carries the chicken to him.

"She was beginning to get restless," he offers as an explanation.

Nie MingJue wants to scream. Instead, he takes the chicken and starts patting its bony spine.

Damn it, damn it, damn it!

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #mdzs crack #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #nie mingjue #nie huaisang #lan xichen #jin guangyao #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #lan wangji #Breaking news: Chicken saves sect leader from certain death! #and insanity

[b0dwr1ter]

#Sect leader yao #Lan wangji #wei wuxian #Jin guangyao #Jiang cheng #nie mingjue #Mdzs polls

[the-gayest-potato]

Bro the sect leaders in mdzs are so weird like, by the end of the story the four major sect leaders are:

•A depressed man who just lost his boyfriend

•A traumatized grape with anger issues

•A secret genius who played the entire cultivation world

•And a literal child

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #lan xichen #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #lan huan #nie huaisang #jin ling #jin rulan #These sect leaders are whack #Also that last one is the nephew of the former 3 #jin lings uncles #He has too many #xiyao

[acearohippo]

Don't mind me, just rambling

Sometimes, I see childhood!Wei Wuxian and think "wow, the untreated ADHD is really powerful with this one". And then I see him post ressurection as mo xuanyu and go "wow, he really be suffering from that lack of oxygenated brain" and then I pause and think.

"Wait. holy crap... Did mxtx purposely make him TBI (traumatic brain injury) -coded?? Did she understand that, as he wouldn't be in his original body, the ADHD wouldn't've followed him, but mxy being legally dead for who knows how many minutes (aka, no oxygen/blood flowing to the brain) before the soul of wwx completely merged, WOULD cause a whole load of similar symptoms but with less executive dysfunction??"

Because if that was on purpose, I am blown away at the attention to detail. And if it wasn't on purpose... I'm still blown away at the difference! Not to mention, the more stable he became with support from Lan Wangji the less debilitating his symptoms were to him.

And I was already shook by Lan Wangji, Jin Zixuan, and Jiang Cheng's autism-coded personality clashes. It's not often we see (accurate) portrayals of when two (or more) neurodivergent characters clash, usually there's more emphasis on solidarity vs neurotypicals. There's no "trauma-bonding", no "coming to a truce through marriage", no "I hate socialising, you hate socialising, let's avoid it together". And it's accurate, because when stuff goes down and they need to work together, there's no hesitation because the expectation is that- well, they need to handle the shit that hit the fan. And when all is over and done with? They don't fall under the societal pressure to bond with each other, there's no need. They did their jobs, they're good.

Mxtx is just really damn good at writing complex characters with complex neuroses. I ain't even touch how you can almost always tell who's the "coded" ones in her stories and they're not all the same character archetype. It's glorious.

#the hippo speaks #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wei wuxian #lan zhan #lan wangji #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #jin zixuan #not mentioned but a standing ovation for best jiejie jiang yanli for accommodating not one not two but THREE neurodivergent men #in their own individual ways?? #she would've been SUCH A GREAT SECT LEADER'S WIFE ˚‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )‧º·˚