[HE ATTAINS BUSH. HE IS NOW OFFICIALLY TOO CLOSE FOR SAFETY.
okay, so the background for what is happening is:
- when they previously worked together on the wards in Phoenix, they both used paint that had been mixed with both their blood, to set up their two separate kinds of wards. this was basically a rough hack to keep the energies from rejecting each other without needing to put in the time to figure out how to work around each other more elegantly. - at that time, they also decided to have Lan Wangji's wards innermost (to protect the people) and Wei Wuxian's outermost (to command creatures to go away). Wei Wuxian altered the direction his lines were drawn in to facilitate this, basically directing anything that tried to break his ward directly around it to keep the heat off of Lan Wangji's for longer. - these were all Wei Wuxian's ideas! he discussed the first part with Lan Wangji and did not discuss the second part; you would have just had to be watching what he drew.
when he did the blood wards, he did them the way he would if he wasn't working with anyone else -- in pure blood so they'd be as strong as possible, commanding creatures to stay at rest.
what he sees now, is:
- Lan Wangji was apparently paying attention to the logic for why the paint idea worked in the first place! he's using the rubbing to pick up enough blood and residual energy from Wei Wuxian's wards that after they've been laid over with the same charcoal as he's using for the other one, a little bit of that resonance is there. - Lan Wangji was apparently paying attention to what Wei Wuxian drew when he was reinforcing Lan Wangji's wards; he's making the same modifications now while drawing his own wards around the representations of Wei Wuxian's on the paper, only backwards, because the underlying logic here is "have Wei Wuxian's wards innermost (to command the creatures to stay) and Lan Wangji's outermost (to hold them in/keep others out)" instead. - he's then adding a drop of his own blood from the cut on his hand to the center to add the same continuity that allows for cooperation that Wei Wuxian had worked out before, but with the minimum amount of blood loss.
then he digs a hole, folds the paper around a chrysanthemum seed, drops it into the dirt, and covers the whole thing up. Wei Wuxian has no idea what that's about, except whatever he can guess. something about the roots/a living thing providing something extra? making it mirror the other using the fact that the one ward is on an unliving headstone and the other is on a living respectful tribute? this is wild, actually--
Lan Wangji presses his bandaged hand against the dirt and there's a jolt of spiritual energy that Wei Wuxian feels, catching but then solidifying against his blood ward instead of tearing it down, because he is as mentioned officially too close]
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okay, so the background for what is happening is:
- when they previously worked together on the wards in Phoenix, they both used paint that had been mixed with both their blood, to set up their two separate kinds of wards. this was basically a rough hack to keep the energies from rejecting each other without needing to put in the time to figure out how to work around each other more elegantly.
- at that time, they also decided to have Lan Wangji's wards innermost (to protect the people) and Wei Wuxian's outermost (to command creatures to go away). Wei Wuxian altered the direction his lines were drawn in to facilitate this, basically directing anything that tried to break his ward directly around it to keep the heat off of Lan Wangji's for longer.
- these were all Wei Wuxian's ideas! he discussed the first part with Lan Wangji and did not discuss the second part; you would have just had to be watching what he drew.
when he did the blood wards, he did them the way he would if he wasn't working with anyone else -- in pure blood so they'd be as strong as possible, commanding creatures to stay at rest.
what he sees now, is:
- Lan Wangji was apparently paying attention to the logic for why the paint idea worked in the first place! he's using the rubbing to pick up enough blood and residual energy from Wei Wuxian's wards that after they've been laid over with the same charcoal as he's using for the other one, a little bit of that resonance is there.
- Lan Wangji was apparently paying attention to what Wei Wuxian drew when he was reinforcing Lan Wangji's wards; he's making the same modifications now while drawing his own wards around the representations of Wei Wuxian's on the paper, only backwards, because the underlying logic here is "have Wei Wuxian's wards innermost (to command the creatures to stay) and Lan Wangji's outermost (to hold them in/keep others out)" instead.
- he's then adding a drop of his own blood from the cut on his hand to the center to add the same continuity that allows for cooperation that Wei Wuxian had worked out before, but with the minimum amount of blood loss.
then he digs a hole, folds the paper around a chrysanthemum seed, drops it into the dirt, and covers the whole thing up. Wei Wuxian has no idea what that's about, except whatever he can guess. something about the roots/a living thing providing something extra? making it mirror the other using the fact that the one ward is on an unliving headstone and the other is on a living respectful tribute? this is wild, actually--
Lan Wangji presses his bandaged hand against the dirt and there's a jolt of spiritual energy that Wei Wuxian feels, catching but then solidifying against his blood ward instead of tearing it down, because he is as mentioned officially too close]