PLAYER NAME: Em CONTACT: icicles@plurk HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: ruxi bullied me :c
CHARACTER: Lan Xichen CANON: The Untamed CANON POINT: Post-canon
BACKGROUND:Background. Aside from some minor differences between MDZS and The Untamed (such as the yin iron plot), this is accurate.
ABILITIES | POWERS:
Lan Xichen is a powerful cultivator of qi (who will probably live a very long life as much as he would rather not) and owns the crazy Lan arm strength, so he's strong both spiritually and physically. Aside from all that, he has some special abilities.
° Swordsmanship: Renowned, taught by his uncle Lan Qiren. ° Cleansing: Because of the purity inherent in his strong cultivation, Xichen is exceptionally good at cleansing spirits. He does this with his xiao, Liebing, and sometimes uses the guqin of which he is also a master musician. He can essentially send so many good vibes at a spirit that it calms tf down. ° Archery: Placed in the top four archers at a discussion conference in his youth. Not a shabby shot. ° Painting: Xichen's paintings are very accomplished, so much so that Jin Guangyao hung some in his private study.
PERSONALITY:
Lan Xichen is the older brother of your friend who is always handsome, friendly, and has a patient ear for your problems with some helpful advice. He is also always vaguely unattainable and praised for being handsome, but there is a lot more going on beneath the surface which he rarely shows to anyone except his brother.
Xichen was raised to be one of two perfect sons, known as the Twin Jades of Lan for their flawless looks and cultivation ideals. After losing his mother when he was young and witnessing how stricken Wangji was by the whole (poorly managed) affair, he became even more protective of him and grew entirely into the role of the responsible elder sibling. As a result, he is kind by nature to almost everyone, unwilling to make snap judgements on people based on their heritage or station ... which is how he came to be close to Meng Yao, a bastard son of a prostitute from another clan.
This friendship would ruin Xichen's life at a much later date.
Until then, they spent a great deal of time hanging out, gifting paintings, supposedly innocently teaching the newly renamed Jin Guangyao the guqin, and being besties. When Cloud Recesses was attacked and Lan Xichen had to go into hiding with some of the more rare library books, Jin Guangyao helped hide Xichen and even assisted in the major rebuilding of his home once the Sunshot Campaign was done. Because, as we have said, they were besties. Making decisions based on what appears to be the right thing to do is what led to Xichen joining the clans to turn on Wei Wuxian when he presented as the Yiling Patriarch, though he held no personal grudge against him and had even encouraged some honesty between Wei Wuxian and Wangji during a private shovel talk with the former. He is brave and independent-minded, for example, letting lots of juniors come on a hunt when they badgered him because he saw no harm in them learning, but his trust in people is what ultimately led to his mental breakdown.
Long story short, Jin Guangyao lied and manipulated his bestie/zhiji for years. Decades. While Xichen was always cared for and never hurt directly by a-Yao's machinations, people around him were (horrifically) and when he discovered the truth he went so far as to strike a-Yao and scream at him. He was strung along and only ever told or presented what a-Yao wanted him to see or hear, so he was never given the full picture but instead a tailored version that appealed to his good nature. This broke his faith, and heart, and unable to handle the full scale of how foolish/blind he has been, he at one point agreed to die with Jin Guangyao as penance. Saved by the same man, he went into seclusion from the traumatic experience of not knowing who to trust. Massive case of the Sads.
It is debatable whether Jin Guangyao genuinely cared for Xichen, which is entirely the problem: Xichen doesn't know anymore. Whereas once he was a confident and upstanding cultivator, he now feels a deep sense of shame for being tricked for so incredibly long and used as little better than a pawn. No matter which way he looks at it, he has only ever been placed where Jin Guangyao wanted him on the map. To say he is lost in his own grief would not be inaccurate.
It goes without saying, he has a much stronger aversion to liars these days.
Being played post-canon, Xichen is thinner after three months of seclusion, rarely eating or sleeping, existing mainly on his immense qi for support, and Wangji has been named chief cultivator of Cloud Recesses instead. There is something broken in Xichen that he doesn't know how to heal, and although he remains sect leader in title there is little will in him to exert his duties or tend to anything but the deep depression that he now suffers. He is still kind and gentle, but he suffers from stress around the subject of Jin Guangyao, and blames himself for not knowing him in the slightest: perhaps, he reasons, he could have stopped him if he hadn't been so naively trusting. People suffered because of his belief in that man, of which he is now well aware. I don't want to put labels on him but to say he suffers from some form of PTSD wouldn't be far off the mark.
° Shuoyue (朔月, Shuòyuè): Lan Xichen's sword. ° Liebing (裂冰, Lièbīng): Lan Xichen's xiao which he used to pacify hostile resentful spirits, including the Fierce Corpse of Nie Mingjue. ° Hanfu: Some blue/white/grey robes he was in when he arrived.
NOTES: Xichen is probably going to be helping other people with their problems before he addresses any of his own, so he will just be invested in being a supporting role for a while.
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO?
Xichen will go with the flow and see where it takes him, he's a bit too fragile to take the lead in anything as of yet.
Lan Xichen | The Untamed
PLAYER NAME: Em
CONTACT: icicles@plurk
HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: ruxi bullied me :c
CHARACTER: Lan Xichen
CANON: The Untamed
CANON POINT: Post-canon
BACKGROUND: Background. Aside from some minor differences between MDZS and The Untamed (such as the yin iron plot), this is accurate.
ABILITIES | POWERS:
Lan Xichen is a powerful cultivator of qi (who will probably live a very long life as much as he would rather not) and owns the crazy Lan arm strength, so he's strong both spiritually and physically. Aside from all that, he has some special abilities.
° Swordsmanship: Renowned, taught by his uncle Lan Qiren.
° Cleansing: Because of the purity inherent in his strong cultivation, Xichen is exceptionally good at cleansing spirits. He does this with his xiao, Liebing, and sometimes uses the guqin of which he is also a master musician. He can essentially send so many good vibes at a spirit that it calms tf down.
° Archery: Placed in the top four archers at a discussion conference in his youth. Not a shabby shot.
° Painting: Xichen's paintings are very accomplished, so much so that Jin Guangyao hung some in his private study.
PERSONALITY:
Lan Xichen is the older brother of your friend who is always handsome, friendly, and has a patient ear for your problems with some helpful advice. He is also always vaguely unattainable and praised for being handsome, but there is a lot more going on beneath the surface which he rarely shows to anyone except his brother.
Xichen was raised to be one of two perfect sons, known as the Twin Jades of Lan for their flawless looks and cultivation ideals. After losing his mother when he was young and witnessing how stricken Wangji was by the whole (poorly managed) affair, he became even more protective of him and grew entirely into the role of the responsible elder sibling. As a result, he is kind by nature to almost everyone, unwilling to make snap judgements on people based on their heritage or station ... which is how he came to be close to Meng Yao, a bastard son of a prostitute from another clan.
This friendship would ruin Xichen's life at a much later date.
Until then, they spent a great deal of time hanging out, gifting paintings, supposedly innocently teaching the newly renamed Jin Guangyao the guqin, and being besties. When Cloud Recesses was attacked and Lan Xichen had to go into hiding with some of the more rare library books, Jin Guangyao helped hide Xichen and even assisted in the major rebuilding of his home once the Sunshot Campaign was done. Because, as we have said, they were besties. Making decisions based on what appears to be the right thing to do is what led to Xichen joining the clans to turn on Wei Wuxian when he presented as the Yiling Patriarch, though he held no personal grudge against him and had even encouraged some honesty between Wei Wuxian and Wangji during a private
shoveltalk with the former. He is brave and independent-minded, for example, letting lots of juniors come on a hunt when they badgered him because he saw no harm in them learning, but his trust in people is what ultimately led to his mental breakdown.Long story short, Jin Guangyao lied and manipulated his bestie/zhiji for years. Decades. While Xichen was always cared for and never hurt directly by a-Yao's machinations, people around him were (horrifically) and when he discovered the truth he went so far as to strike a-Yao and scream at him. He was strung along and only ever told or presented what a-Yao wanted him to see or hear, so he was never given the full picture but instead a tailored version that appealed to his good nature. This broke his faith, and heart, and unable to handle the full scale of how foolish/blind he has been, he at one point agreed to die with Jin Guangyao as penance. Saved by the same man, he went into seclusion from the traumatic experience of not knowing who to trust. Massive case of the Sads.
It is debatable whether Jin Guangyao genuinely cared for Xichen, which is entirely the problem: Xichen doesn't know anymore. Whereas once he was a confident and upstanding cultivator, he now feels a deep sense of shame for being tricked for so incredibly long and used as little better than a pawn. No matter which way he looks at it, he has only ever been placed where Jin Guangyao wanted him on the map. To say he is lost in his own grief would not be inaccurate.
It goes without saying, he has a much stronger aversion to liars these days.
Being played post-canon, Xichen is thinner after three months of seclusion, rarely eating or sleeping, existing mainly on his immense qi for support, and Wangji has been named chief cultivator of Cloud Recesses instead. There is something broken in Xichen that he doesn't know how to heal, and although he remains sect leader in title there is little will in him to exert his duties or tend to anything but the deep depression that he now suffers. He is still kind and gentle, but he suffers from stress around the subject of Jin Guangyao, and blames himself for not knowing him in the slightest: perhaps, he reasons, he could have stopped him if he hadn't been so naively trusting. People suffered because of his belief in that man, of which he is now well aware. I don't want to put labels on him but to say he suffers from some form of PTSD wouldn't be far off the mark.
SAMPLE: TDM Thread #1: Wangji, TDM Thread #2: Hermione
INVENTORY:
° Shuoyue (朔月, Shuòyuè): Lan Xichen's sword.
° Liebing (裂冰, Lièbīng): Lan Xichen's xiao which he used to pacify hostile resentful spirits, including the Fierce Corpse of Nie Mingjue.
° Hanfu: Some blue/white/grey robes he was in when he arrived.
NOTES: Xichen is probably going to be helping other people with their problems before he addresses any of his own, so he will just be invested in being a supporting role for a while.
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO?
Xichen will go with the flow and see where it takes him, he's a bit too fragile to take the lead in anything as of yet.