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Player Name:Green Rivers
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STATISTICS
Character Name: Lan Xichen
Character Canon: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel canon)
Character Age: 40ish (this is an approximation – MXTX has never met a strand of linear time that she cared for)
Canon Point: Post-canon
Link to History: Link
Skills: Martial arts including archery, swordsmanship, and riding
Sect leadership
Diplomacy
Painting
Musical instruments including the xiao and guqin
Abilities: (Superhuman, from canon — not including new monster form.)
Cultivation:This includes the ability to manipulate spiritual energy, superior strength and speed, use spiritual tools (spiritual swords in particular such as controlling them through telekinesis, throwing sword glares and even flying on them), magical arrays and talismans, and qinggong (basically magical parkour). The Lan sect specifically practices a school of musical cultivation which include instruments among their spiritual tools.
Spiritual Weapons: Most Cultivators carry spiritual swords which they can control without actually having to touch the weapon. Some (like Xichen) who have cultivated to a certain degree can even use their swords to fly on (it looks very silly in the drama therefore I love it).
Musical Cultivation: Adept at both the guqin (zither) and xiao (flute). The Gusu Lan Sect practices a sort of musical cultivation which employs instruments to make the magic happen. Some of these skills include:
Talismans/Arrays: Used for warding off ghosts, spirits, fierce corpses, and general Bad Vibes. They can also be used in reverse, to call or summon such things to a particular area.
Spells: The two noted spells used by the Lan Sect (usually to discipline misbehaving disciples) are Silence and Body Lock.
Prodigious Arm Strength: Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji were not allowed to skip arm day, and thus Lan Xichen is ripped enough to accidentally rip fabric while doing laundry. He gives great hugs though, allegedly.
Morning person: Members of the Lan Sect all wake up bright eyed and bushy-tailed at 5am. Yes, he is smiling and perky before the sun is even up. Yes, this counts as a superhuman ability imho. Please nerf immediately.
Curse Mark: Skala
Character Canon: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel canon)
Character Age: 40ish (this is an approximation – MXTX has never met a strand of linear time that she cared for)
Canon Point: Post-canon
Link to History: Link
Skills: Martial arts including archery, swordsmanship, and riding
Sect leadership
Diplomacy
Painting
Musical instruments including the xiao and guqin
Abilities: (Superhuman, from canon — not including new monster form.)
Curse Mark: Skala
CHARACTERIZATION
FORMATIVE EXPERIENCES:
PHILOSOPHY:
Classic Confucianism but with nuance. He practices restraint, modesty, and humility, and tries to be kind and fair to people, and impartial in times of conflict. He's well-intentioned, and very idealistic, but he is perfectly capable of tempering those ideals with cold, harsh realities.
DESIRES:
Xichen's greatest desire really is for everyone to Just Get Along. Given that he's lived through a massacre of his clan, fought in a bloody war, and watched his two dearest friends at each other's throats, it's no wonder he constantly tries to play peacekeeper.
Beyond that, Xichen desires the kind of freedom his younger brother has gained; Xichen has spent his life repressing and compromising his own wants for the sake of others. He desires to speak more freely, to pursue his passions, and to shed the mantle of leadership that has been placed on him since childhood.
He really just wants to cut loose a little.
FEARS:
Xichen's deepest and darkest fears is that he would come to repeat his father's errors.
...Well he didn't. It was so, so much worse!
Given that everything Xichen fears has come to pass, he is very much a man with little to lose and little can cow him. Though it probably won't be long before he forms attachments to people; he is painfully sentimental at times – and so fears of losing those he cares about will plague him.
WRONGS:
Xichen's greatest wrongs are his passivity. While playing the peacekeeper is a feasible coping mechanism in many instances of conflict, sometimes situations cannot be resolved without someone making a firm declaration. Unfortunately, Xichen was never the person to make one when it mattered. When the Wen remnants were imprisoned and sentenced to torture and hard labour by Jin Guangshan, he may have initially spoke out against that mistreatment, he was immediately silenced by Nie Mingjue and made no further attempts to argue. If he had any misgivings about the siege of the Burial Mounds, he did not voice them (though he didn't join that fight either). While he argued down his brother's punishment from death to a whipping, Lan Wangji was still whipped within an inch of his life. When Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao were fighting, he dismissed both their concerns about the other; as a result, Jin Guangyao was nearly killed by Nie Mingjue, and Nie Mingjue was killed by Jin Guangyao.
Xichen very rightly believes actions have consequences. But so does inaction, and in his efforts not to behave rashly and harm others, he failed the people who needed him most.
Oh, yeah, and he also killed his best friend and sworn brother of nearly twenty years. That kinda sucked.
- FIRST EVENT: Early Years Lan Xichen and his younger brother Lan Wangji were raised primarily by their strict uncle, Lan Qiren. Their parents were in seclusion; their mother had killed her teacher and in order to save her from execution, their father married and imprisoned her in the Gentian House before entering his own isolation out of guilt.
Xichen and Wangji were only permitted to visit their mother once a month. Just shy of Xichen's 9th year, she died. We are not told how. - SECOND EVENT: Sunshot Campaign Xichen was on the cusp of his twenties when the Wens invaded the Lan sect. Xichen's flight from the sacked Cloud Recesses effected him deeply with feelings of both fear for his loved ones and a sense of shame and survivor's guilt.
When he was rescued and sheltered by Meng Yao, this would form a bond of abiding affection between the young men that would last the remainder of Meng Yao's life - his trust further cemented in Meng Yao when he realized he was the one sending him letters about the Wen's movements.
Unfortunately, the Sunshot Campaign was also where a rift would form between his two dearest friends - one that even sworn brotherhood between the three of them could not mend. - THIRD EVENT: Interim Years Shortly after Wei Wuxian's death, Xichen was largely occupied with nursing his brother back to health while Mingjue further declined into madness. Xichen tried to repair their relationship by having Jin Guangyao play Purification Tone for Mingjue. It didn't help and Mingjue died of a qi deviation.
The next thirteen years were otherwise quite peaceful as he worked with Jin Guangyao on the watchtower projects. - FOURTH EVENT: Guanyin Temple Woops! Turns out Jin Guangyao did some atrocities because apparently the Lan, to a one, have A Type and Nie Mingjue's decline was accelerated by him mixing Torment with Purification Tone! And he also killed the fuck out Jin Guangshan. And married his half-sister? It's all one big oof and Xichen spent the majority of the clusterfuck that is Guanyin Temple trying to understand why Jin Guangyao did the things he did.
Eventually, he is tricked by the person who orchestrated Jin Guangyao's entire downfall into stabbing his friend, though it is the fierce corpse of Nie Mingjue that delivers the true final blow when Jin Guangyao pushes Xichen away to safety.
Afterwards, Xichen enters seclusion. The last we see of him in the novel is a man who has lost considerable weight, and his thoughts a thousand miles away.
PHILOSOPHY:
Classic Confucianism but with nuance. He practices restraint, modesty, and humility, and tries to be kind and fair to people, and impartial in times of conflict. He's well-intentioned, and very idealistic, but he is perfectly capable of tempering those ideals with cold, harsh realities.
DESIRES:
Xichen's greatest desire really is for everyone to Just Get Along. Given that he's lived through a massacre of his clan, fought in a bloody war, and watched his two dearest friends at each other's throats, it's no wonder he constantly tries to play peacekeeper.
Beyond that, Xichen desires the kind of freedom his younger brother has gained; Xichen has spent his life repressing and compromising his own wants for the sake of others. He desires to speak more freely, to pursue his passions, and to shed the mantle of leadership that has been placed on him since childhood.
He really just wants to cut loose a little.
FEARS:
Xichen's deepest and darkest fears is that he would come to repeat his father's errors.
...Well he didn't. It was so, so much worse!
Given that everything Xichen fears has come to pass, he is very much a man with little to lose and little can cow him. Though it probably won't be long before he forms attachments to people; he is painfully sentimental at times – and so fears of losing those he cares about will plague him.
WRONGS:
Xichen's greatest wrongs are his passivity. While playing the peacekeeper is a feasible coping mechanism in many instances of conflict, sometimes situations cannot be resolved without someone making a firm declaration. Unfortunately, Xichen was never the person to make one when it mattered. When the Wen remnants were imprisoned and sentenced to torture and hard labour by Jin Guangshan, he may have initially spoke out against that mistreatment, he was immediately silenced by Nie Mingjue and made no further attempts to argue. If he had any misgivings about the siege of the Burial Mounds, he did not voice them (though he didn't join that fight either). While he argued down his brother's punishment from death to a whipping, Lan Wangji was still whipped within an inch of his life. When Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao were fighting, he dismissed both their concerns about the other; as a result, Jin Guangyao was nearly killed by Nie Mingjue, and Nie Mingjue was killed by Jin Guangyao.
Xichen very rightly believes actions have consequences. But so does inaction, and in his efforts not to behave rashly and harm others, he failed the people who needed him most.
Oh, yeah, and he also killed his best friend and sworn brother of nearly twenty years. That kinda sucked.
GAMEPLAY
SUITABILITY:
This man is repressed. He is soooo fucking repressed. That can only end well.
Or maybe not well, but it should be entertaining at least.
Otherwise, Xichen is a talented fighter and politically quite astute; he's able to get a read on situations well, and not jump to conclusions, even if he could bear to be a bit more proactive. Rubi's more sexually free culture will clash with Xichen's values of modesty and monogamy, though he may actually start to explore his sexuality now. At like, age forty.
...I did mention he was really fucking repressed.
SAMPLE: June TDM/allusions to dismemberment and death
MONSTER:The Kirin/Qilin, but like, with a Petshop of Horrors kind of edge to it (iykyk).
The Qilin is a divine beast – a chimera of a deer and dragon. It often heralds the rise of a benevolent leader, and is considered so gentle in its disposition, even grass doesn't bend beneath its hooves.
This works well for Xichen; often the animals juxtaposed to him are either stags or dragons so the Qilin is that perfect mix. It's gentle nature mirrors his own; Xichen is not a violent man or one who seeks retribution when wronged and he was the only person who pushed for Jin Guangyao's rise to power.
As a Qilin, he'll be quick, light of foot, able to leap so far he almost seems to fly short distances. His horn, if taken, will have healing properties and render him helpless.
If caught, he will bestow a single wish upon his captor. Unfortunately that wish will have monkey's paw-esque consequences and, down the line, backfire spectacularly on the recipient.
This man is repressed. He is soooo fucking repressed. That can only end well.
Or maybe not well, but it should be entertaining at least.
Otherwise, Xichen is a talented fighter and politically quite astute; he's able to get a read on situations well, and not jump to conclusions, even if he could bear to be a bit more proactive. Rubi's more sexually free culture will clash with Xichen's values of modesty and monogamy, though he may actually start to explore his sexuality now. At like, age forty.
...I did mention he was really fucking repressed.
SAMPLE: June TDM/allusions to dismemberment and death
MONSTER:The Kirin/Qilin, but like, with a Petshop of Horrors kind of edge to it (iykyk).
The Qilin is a divine beast – a chimera of a deer and dragon. It often heralds the rise of a benevolent leader, and is considered so gentle in its disposition, even grass doesn't bend beneath its hooves.
This works well for Xichen; often the animals juxtaposed to him are either stags or dragons so the Qilin is that perfect mix. It's gentle nature mirrors his own; Xichen is not a violent man or one who seeks retribution when wronged and he was the only person who pushed for Jin Guangyao's rise to power.
As a Qilin, he'll be quick, light of foot, able to leap so far he almost seems to fly short distances. His horn, if taken, will have healing properties and render him helpless.
If caught, he will bestow a single wish upon his captor. Unfortunately that wish will have monkey's paw-esque consequences and, down the line, backfire spectacularly on the recipient.
Stage 1: Very little will be visibly different beyond Xichen's eyes taking an ungulate quality to them.
Stage 2: Scales in shades ranging from silvery white to deep blue will appear on his body. His ears will will be pointed.
Stage 3: The beginnings of a backwards antler will begin sprouting from his head and his legs will develope hooves. A tail might also be involved.
Stage 4: Xichen is a Qilin. He will be flighty and difficult to capture but not particularly dangerous unless you ask a boon of him.