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魏婴 Wei Ying | 魏无羡 Wei Wuxian ([personal profile] laughitoff) wrote2022-09-03 09:23 pm
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[PALACE GAME - LAN WANGJI RUN]

Everything is red. You are dying, somewhere far beyond pain, the very essence of yourself going to pieces. You’re shattering so badly you don’t know if you’ll ever find all of yourself again, if you’ll ever put yourself back together. There are teeth on you, ripping, tearing, devouring. There are teeth inside you, carving their way out, and those are worse.

This is a memory, happening at a remove. It is not yours. This is not happening now.

Everything is grey. You wake up in a prison cell, eyes wide, the ceiling flat and blank and unfamiliar above you. For a moment you simply think, no. You think, Please, wasn’t it over? Wasn’t it enough? You consider closing your eyes again and refusing to get up, until oblivion reclaims you. Even if you’re no longer dying, everything hurts.

This is a memory, happening at a remove. It is not yours. This is not happening now.

What is happening, then?

You–

–sit up.
strikingchords: (tongues and quiet sighs.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
Ridiculous.

[he's going to push the notebook a little away and ignore it in disdain for now, then loop the bell around his wrist and turn his attention to the cage. is there a way to open it from the outside?]
strikingchords: (vinegar... becomes soap.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
[okay, so here's the situation as Lan Wangji sees it:

- there is a small bell that he knows, from Ritsuka in the conversation that made him conclude that he guesses he'll die for her now, is meant for calming animals.
- there's a cage that looks like it's meant for a small animal here. the cage is shitty.
- whatever is in the cage appears to be both badly taken care of and hiding from the world after being stuffed into a shitty leather bag. it is presumably not calm.
- the bell is not on the animal.
- Wei Wuxian is frankly bad at small animals and has probably been a dipshit about this one.

all of these facts together may explain why instead of doing anything else here, Lan Wangji frowns at the cage for sixty seconds

carefully draws an array immediately around the cage that will keep anything from fleeing into the rest of the cave or knocking the rest of the desk stuff over, temporarily, and

reaches for the cage with his right hand and uses Heresy to destroy first it, then the pouch, in quick succession.

his goal: to touch whatever small animal is inside with his right hand, use emotion share to go CALM DOWN YOU'RE SAFE at it, and hopefully grab it, all before it really has time to react to the fact that the cage and pouch have been vaporized from this earth.

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO]
strikingchords: (the hedgehog's dilemma.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
[NO

SHIT

JERKS BACK FAST ENOUGH TO NEARLY UNBALANCE THE CHAIR AND THEN HAS TO JUST, PAUSE

this is why you tested things Lan Wangji

vaporizing Wei Wuxian's control is what we don't want to do

please hold on he needs a minute]
strikingchords: (break the world's shell.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
[GLARES AT THE CAGE IN TOTAL OUTRAGE BECAUSE HE DEEPLY DOESN'T LIKE THE SYMBOLISM HERE STILL. FUCK THIS THOROUGHLY he is furious at this desktop. the mood after downloading too many things in a browsing session.

is there a key or a place a key could be hidden anywhere obvious]
strikingchords: (call it any name you need.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
[skdflsj fkgskfjsfjdkfjrjjrrrrr ggrrrrrrrrr. RUMBLES IN DEEP DISSATISFACTION AT EVERYTHING, considers and discards the urge to turn into a dragon and put himself into a sulky pile, and calms down by carefully touching everything else on the desk to see if anything ELSE has RANDOM FEELINGS DX DX DX]
strikingchords: (how to be brave?)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
[...

well, that calms his own moment of having a tiny internal baby tantrum pretty effectively, yeah. breathes out and sets it to the side, then spends some time carefully sorting through and organizing the notes while he thinks. he does check for any notes that are pertinent to All This Shit In Here, though.]
strikingchords: (Default)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
[...

it's stupid and selfish but he can't help but keep an eye out to see if there's anything in the cultivation stuff about working with Lan Wangji specifically, or if he's written out of plans unless he inserts himself...]
strikingchords: (never knew existed before.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
[oh :X



finishes putting them in extremely neat piles, organized by topic area and how long it's been since he's worked on each project to Lan Wangji's knowledge, and finally pulls the notebook over to look at]
strikingchords: (every day a gift.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
[...Lan Wangji's eyes soften a bit; he touches the baby rabbit's ear with a light finger]
strikingchords: (Default)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 08:50 am (UTC)(link)

[yanks his finger back and closes the book quietly.

right. he'll shift into a dragon, fly up to the ceiling, and get a Heresy use in by carving the stone into a loop he can tie some of the twine from the protective barrier through. he wants to create a sturdy system to suspend the lantern a comfortable distance above the desk, so it can't still be reached but can't be knocked over, with its light illuminating a larger circle below.]

strikingchords: bb (high emotion.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[he restores his hand to its status quo of Orthodoxy Hurt by putting it on the skin book and deeply wishing for it to be bound instead in something tough and protective and nice that Wei Wuxian would like that would still generally be considered to be less weird and morbid than human skin]

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