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Player Name: Bon
Contact: bonpuns @ plurk/discord
Invited by: i’ve not known freedom from you for thirteen years
Other Characters: Takame Kesi, Eunie, Diarmuid ua Duibhne, Ragna the Bloodedge
Character Name: Wei Wuxian
Canon: Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation
Canon History: Here!
Canon Personality: - Frivolous. I cannot stress this enough and it's used in the most derogatory way throughout the series. You look at Wei Wuxian on a surface level and you see a guy who looks like he doesn’t care about a damn thing. Strolling through life completely unseriously, poking fun at anyone he knows or people he just met, hitting on girls (and Lan Wangji) every chance he gets, mischievously pranking people, not having any goals to strive for and hating authority and being tied down by expectation. And while he’s constantly around Cultivators that take everything deathly seriously and being a generally agreed upon bad influence on those with bright futures by getting them to break the rules. He’ll never march to anything but his own beat.
- Never shuts up. Everyone will benefit from Wei Wuxian saying less. He is annoying and he is very aware that he’s annoying. By this point it’s entirely on purpose. He likes getting a rise out of people, he’s a real instigator. Granted, when it’s intentional the only things he instigates are minor conflicts but the way he is and how he affects so many people on purpose or otherwise usually creates a domino effect of spinning into major conflict. There are some rules to this, if Wei Wuxian won’t shut up he’s completely fine. If Wei Wuxian is not running his mouth, something is deeply wrong.
- Arrogant and Vengeful. This is where I need to address something important. In the time before and after Wei Wuxian dies and is resurrected he has some personality shifts. Wei Wuxian pre-death ("Yiling Patriarch" henceforth), absolutely has this arrogance and anger, brutally torturing the head of the Wen clan after emerging from the Burial Mounds. Feverishly insisting that he has full control over Demonic Cultivation, self indulging in using the power of Fierce Corpses and shattering when it’s proven that Lan Wangji was right in how much it actually began to decay him. Refusing to believe it, in fact right up until he’s ultimately killed. He was blinded by this arrogance while going on record as saying he hates arrogant people. Worth noting is that Wei Wuxian has canonically, verbatim, said that he would "charge up to his younger self and beat the hell out of him".
- Emotionally Self-Unaware and Self Sacrificing. Wei Wuxian can read a room, but he cannot read himself to save his life and he’s not the most fond of himself in many moments. He spends most of the series, most of his life, thinking Lan Wangji hates him when in fact the man is so deeply in love with him he faced lashings to protect the pariah that was the Yiling Patriarch. His memory was so damaged by everything that happened prior to his death that he realized he was stupid when he did remember. But before that, out of fear of taking advantage of unreciprocated feelings, he walked right into the belly of the beast the two were investigating at the time, springing a trap. And this is to say nothing of the fact that he endured almost three straight days of agony to give his Golden Core to his brother Jiang Cheng so the latter wouldn’t feel like his life was over after losing his and not saying a word of it. Effectively this kneecapped him for life, but he’d do it again.
- Intelligent and Academic. So Wei Wuxian is someone who only works on his terms, but when he works he displays incredible intellect and quick thinking. He developed the basis and advancement of Demonic Cultivation in three months and when he was a teenager proposed the theory that resentful energy can be utilized to maximize efficiency. He made records that are still used in standard Cultivation and kept in studies and libraries and while his practice is frowned upon it, its inventions are still utilized. He’s also observant of word choice and easily able to snuff out a liar or deliberate wording of the many manipulators he encounters.
- Charismatic and Empathetic. When you’re as annoying as Wei Wuxian, you get under people’s skin in bad and good ways sometimes. People tend to listen to you in the rare instance you’re serious. When he proves his observant nature, everyone realizes he’s correct despite not really wanting to listen to him. He acted as a de-facto leader to the remainder of the Wen clan full of civilians during his time in the Burial Mounds, he instructed the cultivation juniors in life or death situations but also advised them not to rely on him so much. People flock to him as much of a provoker as he is. He has a natural charm and sees everyone as people having spent a long time at the bottom rung himself.
- Loving and Protective. To be that vengeful, someone has to be passionate. Someone has to have deep and unshakable love and Wei Wuxian has that in spades. It was his love for Jiang Yanli that led to his ultimate breakdown, it was his love for Jiang Cheng that made him sacrifice his Golden Core, it was his love for the Wen stragglers that brought him to infamy in the Cultivation world, it was his love for Lan Wangji that carried him into his second life. Love is his driving force for better and worse.
- Open minded. Wei Wuxian has a unique perspective as a "hero" and a villain in the Cultivation world. He can zoom out his view and see many different perspectives. He sees at the end that the Jin Clan was going the same route as the Wens did before. He notices that gossip around restaurants and bars sound the same when speaking about Jin Guangyao after the fallout at Guanyin Temple as it did for the Yiling Patriarch. It’s not fully accurate to say he plays devil’s advocate, just that on both sides of black and white even when he agrees that someone is awful to the core and must die in his eyes there is almost always a reason behind them. He knows he did a lot of bad things, regrets a lot of what he did after facing the consequences, but he had his reasons just as every villain and hero does.
AU Name: N/A
AU Age: 35
AU Birthday: October 31 (Canon)
Faction: POKEGO (Researcher Lotus)
AU History: Wei Wuxian’s childhood was uneventful, growing up in Shanghai and at some point moving to the western United States. He had high expectations put on both him and his siblings, but while said siblings were more studious the middle child of three Wei Wuxian was naturally the problem and the least favorite.
Everything was too uneventful, too boring, and he didn’t want to do something just because his parents told him to. Wei Wuxian was something of a prodigy though and did well in just about every class despite skipping frequently to pursue something that did interest him. Supernatural occurrences. Local legends, signs of spirits, resentful ghosts, haunted locales and prisons and cemeteries. Wei Wuxian was different from most of his family in his extremely keen sense for the paranormal. Regularly he’d drag his siblings or friends in his schemes to trespass because he sensed something and followed where his whims took him.
When he was younger, it was reprimanded but ultimately dismissed as boys will be boys. As he entered college around 19 though, his interest became a lot more zealous. He would sacrifice his own health and livelihood to scope out any sign that what he saw was real to bring home, not even for the sake of proving himself but to study it on his own. It was macabre, and his family and friends got more and more concerned being unable to perceive what he was checking. Even the few that could thought he was going too far when one theory was brought up.
That theory was Possession. Wei Wuxian had an unhealthy interest in the thought that resentful spirits and gods and whatever else could possess someone should they come close to death. He didn’t want to die, just to come close enough to be inhabited by something. Anyone who tried to stop him would be snapped at with insistence that he had control and they should get lost and disappear from his life.
Wei Wuxian burned a lot of bridges in his young adulthood to this day has yet to contact his old friends or family to reconcile. He wanted no part in anything that wasn’t his interest or that didn’t validate his interests. He spent the next five years between his college work doing everything he could to get a spirit to possess him. But again, he did not want to die. And he came dangerously close one night walking through a neighborhood at night and nearly getting himself beaten to death in a mugging.
No resentful spirit came to him. He just woke up days later in a hospital bed taken by a college professor who was very aware of both the Supernatural and what Wei Wuxian was doing. Being so close without his control, Wei Wuxian spent his time healing from his many broken bones thinking about what he’s done after a brutal scolding from the professor and some flashes in his mind he couldn’t explain. Of people and places he didn’t know and dreary land that wouldn’t grow anything.
Eventually he began to compile his reports on the Supernatural, wondering what he could do for this side of reality and how it could be utilized for efficiency of all rather than him. During some point in this constant work, his summaries started to devolve and he started to unconsciously write down reports on what was called "Demonic Cultivation". And he realized these were his works as well. Or rather, another version of him. Sharing that he wrote these is what eventually led him to being suggested POKEGO, a good sign considering the Black Order also had hands in his University and extremely keen eyes on his invention. And knowing at least some of what his past was, he wanted such a shady bunch to have no part in that.
Throughout the past ten years since POKEGO recruited him he’s proven a well known researcher within the organization. For better and worse. One side will lament the time they needed to spend with him and another will speak of him in awe. He’s a tough one to nail down for the organization but ultimately has been loyal to them.
Wei Wuxian has spent the past decade back and forth between the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Japan and other places having his Undergraduate degree and multiple partial credits in various scientific and philosophic fields and still tampering with things he shouldn't on occasion like one instance early on where an explosion and inhalation of an experimental gas caused him to stop aging physically. He does have a focus of study and that is the Spirit Vein. The way it changes, the strengths in various locations on Earth, etc. Even in this study focus he made liberal time to indulge in his own hobbies like D&D, Music and picking up Archery since it was something in his muscle memory.
Since 2022, Wei Wuxian has been in Kaisou a handful of times but with the situation in Kaisou having escalated as far as it has, they’ve assigned him a permanent station as opposed to allowing him to travel anywhere. A bummer and he had a good long bitch and moan about it, but at least Kaisou has his kind of people in it.
AU Personality Differences: Wei Wuxian has a lot less sins on his back than his past self, namely he hasn't massacred anyone and did not come out as broken as he did in canon. He has more of his vengeful nature as the Yiling Patriarch having not outgrown it but thanks to the fact that he's a little older, he's more calm as a whole and wouldn't go on the path that he did for revenge again since it is something he remembers, if loosely. Make no mistake, though, he'd still fight both his past selves behind a Denny's parking lot.
He's picked up a bit more dark humor as one does and for the sake of my and everyone else's fucking sanity and second hand embarrassment he's been out of the closet since his 20's.
Element: Wind
Purchased Powers:
Immortality (Low, 1)
Magic Detection (Master, 4)
Regeneration (Low, 1)
Reduced Need for Sleep (3 hours, 2)
Musical Healing (Large, 3)
Soundproofing, (High, 3)
Wind Hearing (Medium, 2)
Wind Conjure (Medium, 3)
Starting Pokemon: Mudbray
Contact: bonpuns @ plurk/discord
Invited by: i’ve not known freedom from you for thirteen years
Other Characters: Takame Kesi, Eunie, Diarmuid ua Duibhne, Ragna the Bloodedge
Character Name: Wei Wuxian
Canon: Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation
Canon History: Here!
Canon Personality: - Frivolous. I cannot stress this enough and it's used in the most derogatory way throughout the series. You look at Wei Wuxian on a surface level and you see a guy who looks like he doesn’t care about a damn thing. Strolling through life completely unseriously, poking fun at anyone he knows or people he just met, hitting on girls (and Lan Wangji) every chance he gets, mischievously pranking people, not having any goals to strive for and hating authority and being tied down by expectation. And while he’s constantly around Cultivators that take everything deathly seriously and being a generally agreed upon bad influence on those with bright futures by getting them to break the rules. He’ll never march to anything but his own beat.
- Never shuts up. Everyone will benefit from Wei Wuxian saying less. He is annoying and he is very aware that he’s annoying. By this point it’s entirely on purpose. He likes getting a rise out of people, he’s a real instigator. Granted, when it’s intentional the only things he instigates are minor conflicts but the way he is and how he affects so many people on purpose or otherwise usually creates a domino effect of spinning into major conflict. There are some rules to this, if Wei Wuxian won’t shut up he’s completely fine. If Wei Wuxian is not running his mouth, something is deeply wrong.
- Arrogant and Vengeful. This is where I need to address something important. In the time before and after Wei Wuxian dies and is resurrected he has some personality shifts. Wei Wuxian pre-death ("Yiling Patriarch" henceforth), absolutely has this arrogance and anger, brutally torturing the head of the Wen clan after emerging from the Burial Mounds. Feverishly insisting that he has full control over Demonic Cultivation, self indulging in using the power of Fierce Corpses and shattering when it’s proven that Lan Wangji was right in how much it actually began to decay him. Refusing to believe it, in fact right up until he’s ultimately killed. He was blinded by this arrogance while going on record as saying he hates arrogant people. Worth noting is that Wei Wuxian has canonically, verbatim, said that he would "charge up to his younger self and beat the hell out of him".
- Emotionally Self-Unaware and Self Sacrificing. Wei Wuxian can read a room, but he cannot read himself to save his life and he’s not the most fond of himself in many moments. He spends most of the series, most of his life, thinking Lan Wangji hates him when in fact the man is so deeply in love with him he faced lashings to protect the pariah that was the Yiling Patriarch. His memory was so damaged by everything that happened prior to his death that he realized he was stupid when he did remember. But before that, out of fear of taking advantage of unreciprocated feelings, he walked right into the belly of the beast the two were investigating at the time, springing a trap. And this is to say nothing of the fact that he endured almost three straight days of agony to give his Golden Core to his brother Jiang Cheng so the latter wouldn’t feel like his life was over after losing his and not saying a word of it. Effectively this kneecapped him for life, but he’d do it again.
- Intelligent and Academic. So Wei Wuxian is someone who only works on his terms, but when he works he displays incredible intellect and quick thinking. He developed the basis and advancement of Demonic Cultivation in three months and when he was a teenager proposed the theory that resentful energy can be utilized to maximize efficiency. He made records that are still used in standard Cultivation and kept in studies and libraries and while his practice is frowned upon it, its inventions are still utilized. He’s also observant of word choice and easily able to snuff out a liar or deliberate wording of the many manipulators he encounters.
- Charismatic and Empathetic. When you’re as annoying as Wei Wuxian, you get under people’s skin in bad and good ways sometimes. People tend to listen to you in the rare instance you’re serious. When he proves his observant nature, everyone realizes he’s correct despite not really wanting to listen to him. He acted as a de-facto leader to the remainder of the Wen clan full of civilians during his time in the Burial Mounds, he instructed the cultivation juniors in life or death situations but also advised them not to rely on him so much. People flock to him as much of a provoker as he is. He has a natural charm and sees everyone as people having spent a long time at the bottom rung himself.
- Loving and Protective. To be that vengeful, someone has to be passionate. Someone has to have deep and unshakable love and Wei Wuxian has that in spades. It was his love for Jiang Yanli that led to his ultimate breakdown, it was his love for Jiang Cheng that made him sacrifice his Golden Core, it was his love for the Wen stragglers that brought him to infamy in the Cultivation world, it was his love for Lan Wangji that carried him into his second life. Love is his driving force for better and worse.
- Open minded. Wei Wuxian has a unique perspective as a "hero" and a villain in the Cultivation world. He can zoom out his view and see many different perspectives. He sees at the end that the Jin Clan was going the same route as the Wens did before. He notices that gossip around restaurants and bars sound the same when speaking about Jin Guangyao after the fallout at Guanyin Temple as it did for the Yiling Patriarch. It’s not fully accurate to say he plays devil’s advocate, just that on both sides of black and white even when he agrees that someone is awful to the core and must die in his eyes there is almost always a reason behind them. He knows he did a lot of bad things, regrets a lot of what he did after facing the consequences, but he had his reasons just as every villain and hero does.
AU Name: N/A
AU Age: 35
AU Birthday: October 31 (Canon)
Faction: POKEGO (Researcher Lotus)
AU History: Wei Wuxian’s childhood was uneventful, growing up in Shanghai and at some point moving to the western United States. He had high expectations put on both him and his siblings, but while said siblings were more studious the middle child of three Wei Wuxian was naturally the problem and the least favorite.
Everything was too uneventful, too boring, and he didn’t want to do something just because his parents told him to. Wei Wuxian was something of a prodigy though and did well in just about every class despite skipping frequently to pursue something that did interest him. Supernatural occurrences. Local legends, signs of spirits, resentful ghosts, haunted locales and prisons and cemeteries. Wei Wuxian was different from most of his family in his extremely keen sense for the paranormal. Regularly he’d drag his siblings or friends in his schemes to trespass because he sensed something and followed where his whims took him.
When he was younger, it was reprimanded but ultimately dismissed as boys will be boys. As he entered college around 19 though, his interest became a lot more zealous. He would sacrifice his own health and livelihood to scope out any sign that what he saw was real to bring home, not even for the sake of proving himself but to study it on his own. It was macabre, and his family and friends got more and more concerned being unable to perceive what he was checking. Even the few that could thought he was going too far when one theory was brought up.
That theory was Possession. Wei Wuxian had an unhealthy interest in the thought that resentful spirits and gods and whatever else could possess someone should they come close to death. He didn’t want to die, just to come close enough to be inhabited by something. Anyone who tried to stop him would be snapped at with insistence that he had control and they should get lost and disappear from his life.
Wei Wuxian burned a lot of bridges in his young adulthood to this day has yet to contact his old friends or family to reconcile. He wanted no part in anything that wasn’t his interest or that didn’t validate his interests. He spent the next five years between his college work doing everything he could to get a spirit to possess him. But again, he did not want to die. And he came dangerously close one night walking through a neighborhood at night and nearly getting himself beaten to death in a mugging.
No resentful spirit came to him. He just woke up days later in a hospital bed taken by a college professor who was very aware of both the Supernatural and what Wei Wuxian was doing. Being so close without his control, Wei Wuxian spent his time healing from his many broken bones thinking about what he’s done after a brutal scolding from the professor and some flashes in his mind he couldn’t explain. Of people and places he didn’t know and dreary land that wouldn’t grow anything.
Eventually he began to compile his reports on the Supernatural, wondering what he could do for this side of reality and how it could be utilized for efficiency of all rather than him. During some point in this constant work, his summaries started to devolve and he started to unconsciously write down reports on what was called "Demonic Cultivation". And he realized these were his works as well. Or rather, another version of him. Sharing that he wrote these is what eventually led him to being suggested POKEGO, a good sign considering the Black Order also had hands in his University and extremely keen eyes on his invention. And knowing at least some of what his past was, he wanted such a shady bunch to have no part in that.
Throughout the past ten years since POKEGO recruited him he’s proven a well known researcher within the organization. For better and worse. One side will lament the time they needed to spend with him and another will speak of him in awe. He’s a tough one to nail down for the organization but ultimately has been loyal to them.
Wei Wuxian has spent the past decade back and forth between the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Japan and other places having his Undergraduate degree and multiple partial credits in various scientific and philosophic fields and still tampering with things he shouldn't on occasion like one instance early on where an explosion and inhalation of an experimental gas caused him to stop aging physically. He does have a focus of study and that is the Spirit Vein. The way it changes, the strengths in various locations on Earth, etc. Even in this study focus he made liberal time to indulge in his own hobbies like D&D, Music and picking up Archery since it was something in his muscle memory.
Since 2022, Wei Wuxian has been in Kaisou a handful of times but with the situation in Kaisou having escalated as far as it has, they’ve assigned him a permanent station as opposed to allowing him to travel anywhere. A bummer and he had a good long bitch and moan about it, but at least Kaisou has his kind of people in it.
AU Personality Differences: Wei Wuxian has a lot less sins on his back than his past self, namely he hasn't massacred anyone and did not come out as broken as he did in canon. He has more of his vengeful nature as the Yiling Patriarch having not outgrown it but thanks to the fact that he's a little older, he's more calm as a whole and wouldn't go on the path that he did for revenge again since it is something he remembers, if loosely. Make no mistake, though, he'd still fight both his past selves behind a Denny's parking lot.
He's picked up a bit more dark humor as one does and for the sake of my and everyone else's fucking sanity and second hand embarrassment he's been out of the closet since his 20's.
Element: Wind
Purchased Powers:
Immortality (Low, 1)
Magic Detection (Master, 4)
Regeneration (Low, 1)
Reduced Need for Sleep (3 hours, 2)
Musical Healing (Large, 3)
Soundproofing, (High, 3)
Wind Hearing (Medium, 2)
Wind Conjure (Medium, 3)
Starting Pokemon: Mudbray