My Genderbend Villainous Quartet!

My genderbend villainous quartet!

Dilraba Dilmurat - Jin Guangyao

Ju Jingyi - Xue Yang

Ni ni - Su Minshan

Xing fei - Mo Xuanyu

Modern Setting:

Mo Xuanyu: I read zodiac blogs that stated that the sign most likely to be a serial killer is a Pisces.

Jin Zixuan: That can't be true. I'm a pisces and I don't act like a serial killer.

Xue Yang: Don't you keep files of every asshole who insulted your little brothers so that you knew when and where to find them when they cross a line?

Jin Zixuan: That doesn't make me a serial killer. I'm just being a doting and loving older brother figure who'll make sure anyone who makes my little brothers sad will pay for it.

Su Minshan: Now that you mention it, I haven't seen that asshole Zixun or your dad in awhile.

Meng Yao: *BURST IN* Check the news! The police found father and Zixun's dismembered remains at a pig farm!

Jin Zixuan: *Feigning shock* I can't believe that happened.

rip zewu jun but im different

Headcanons for Su She

(I post way too much Su She content - it’s barely 10, but that’s a lot for me - but I have so much to say, and I can’t do that in the fanfiction I’m writing so I need to just throw it all out to calm down.)

He’s dyslexic. It’s a stretch because he’s in the Lan sect of all sects, but like how many children in our own modern time are left under the radar for certain disabilities, I think Su She may have been one of them in his own small family of scholars. He would have been regarded as simply slow for his inability to read or write correctly, chucking it up as forgetfulness or lack of attention when at truth, his brain literally can’t connect words to meaning, especially with how intricate and complicated the Chinese writing system is. So his family threw him at the Lan sect to improve it (but really just threw him in there so it wasn’t their problem anymore and they had something to say when their shameful family member is called uneducated.)

He has a trained echoic memory. Unable to read or write, Su She relies heavily on listening, so that he doesn’t fall behind on his education. He knows all 3,000 rules by heart, being able to recite any number thrown at him. He can also play any song by listening to it only once since he’s trained himself to listen intently, but the reason he plays them wrongly after building a sect is because of the trauma. He remembers how his deceased friends who died at the Burning would play it incorrectly during practice, and he unconsciously plays the notes that way. Sometimes, it’s simply because playing the music is too painful, where Su She would suffer ghostly stings as if the strings had burnt him. Unable to read music sheets, he can’t correct himself unless someone better trained does it. But even the other former lan sect disciples aren’t experts, so to make up for their mistakes, they do remixes of the tunes, or try to create new music. Modernizing classical music basically.

He is a natural hand-to-hand fighter, which is two-for-two in the Lan sect who do not engage in hand-to-hand combat. Their muscles mostly coming from insane disciplinary training like writing while hand standing. Su She excels in the little bit of physical portions in their lesson, being able to hand stand for hours and do acrobatic tricks with no problem but they don’t actually mean much to the Lan sect. Su She would’ve excelled if he had been sent to the Nie sect or Jiang sect, so he’s not untalented. He’s just incorrectly placed.

Su Minshan never intended to be like Lan Wangji. He did admire him for being an example, but Su Minshan was simply following the rules and doing his best to follow them. I also like to think he held more nuance for the rules than the actual Lan members. Where the Lan sect was fixed and rigid with their rules and Lan Xichen’s certain liberties would be considered ‘bending them’, Su Minshan was more flexible with them, which isn’t a hot take. He is an outsider after all so he had free reign to properly question these rules and come to his own conclusions. Like the rule “promiscuity is prohibited”. To Lan Qiren and his nephews, that means to not act sexual or flirtatious at all like the traditional monk. But for Su Minshan, it means to not weaponize your sex-appeal, but harmless flirting and consensual promiscuous behavior is fine. 

He was bullied for his slowness (dyslexia), being abandoned by his family, and trying to be like Lan Wangji (忘机), which gave him the nickname Su Wangji (忘记). As you can see, they have the same “Wan” character (忘) but they have different “Ji” character (机/记). They are different both phonetically and in definition where “机” has a more graceful tone and means “machine/opportunity/quick-witted” while  “记” is more direct making it easier to sound harsher and it means “to remember”, so the kids would go “JIJIJIJIJI!” which is also the chirping of insects, so while also calling Su Minshan someone forgetful, forgotten, without an identity, they also call him an insect. And in China, calling someone an insect means calling them “aimless”, so in conclusion, these children are calling Su Minshan “a nobody with no path” while mocking him to remember stuff. He doesn’t blame Lan Wangji because he didn’t spur this bullying, but after the war, Lan Wangji’s own unfair judgement against him brings forth this childish resentment for his bullying. 

His gripe with the Lan sect isn’t out of pride but because of Lan Qiren’s choice to save the books and the elite disciples instead of preserving the Lan sect as a whole. He doesn’t blame Lan Xichen or Lan Zhan because he understands that they have to listen to their elders. His hatred for the Lan sect is directly at Lan Qiren for sacrificing the lives of his friends and his teachers, the only family he knew, for his legacy and books. And it doesn’t get any easier when the reality of making such a selfish hypocritical decision that had led to the search for Lan Xichen which resulted in the burnings of cities and towns within the Jiangsu Province just for this one man who only survived by luck.

Su Minshan didn’t push Mianmian out of fear, but out of anger against Lan Wangji. Yes, he doesn’t blame Lan Wangji for Lan Qiren’s choice, but that was when he was able to calm down. But at that time, he was angered that Lan Wangji was once again willing to risk everyone’s life just for one, but afterwards, he does become ashamed of himself, and tries to right his wrong with helping, but messed up. Su Minshan then kicked himself out of the Lan sect right afterwards because he was deeply ashamed of his actions in the cave, and he never forgave himself even though Mianmian did forgive him. 

He became a sect leader because he was encouraged to by others. Like yeah, what the general crowd believes is that Su She made his sect out of feelings of inferiority, and he does have feelings of inferiority, but to become a sect leader isn’t an easy thing to do. You first of all need money, and then resources and lastly followers. He lacked the first two categories, but he must’ve gained followers during the war when he went off on his own to do what little he could to help with the war. But why would they follow Su Minshan who wasn’t that great of a cultivator? Well, cultivators and people were literally scattered after the Wens took everything of theirs, and yes, other sects were accepting disciples, but it takes confidence in thinking they will be accepted when a whole flood of other more talented cultivators were joining. Su Minshan was the more promising and safer option, and I think he proved to have leadership skills during the war now that he wasn’t clouded by the Lans, especially around the Western side of the Jiangsu province, so people gravitated towards him. 

Su Minshan doesn’t only idolize Jin Guangyao because he remembers his name, but because Jin Guangyao saving Lan Xichen and ending the war, made everyone’s death and sacrifices not meaningless. Which I think plays a bigger part of why Su Minshan tolerates Jin Guangyao’s relationship with Lan Xichen. Honestly, I think Su Minshan holds absolutely zero resentment against Lan Xichen because of the reasons I already stated, and unlike Lan Wangji, Lan Xichen doesn’t judge him negatively either. Not because he doesn’t like judging, but because he is actually aware of what Su Minshan’s genuine issue is because he’s aware of the tragedies his action caused, and it lands harder now that they are both Sect leaders, but he leaves him alone because he doesn’t want to drudge up any unnecessary pain. The damage is too great. 

I feel it in my bones that Su Minshan is the master of smack talking. It’s the reason him and Xue Yang would be able to get along. I think it’s the reason Jin Guangyao and him would be able to be as close comrades as they are. I mean devotion is good and all, but like Meng Yao and Xue Yang grew up in the streets and not the good kind, so I don’t think their casual talk is not at all what “Villainous Friends” would be. Like yeah, Jin Guangyao is trying to be all gentleman like and is constantly on edge, but I think in the privacy of his mirror room, he would speak in the strong accent that the Jiang disciples have been written to have, but ten times more harsher. Like think from a pompous British accent to the Italian expressive one. And when Jin Guangyao does have those days and Su Minshan is around, he always have the most clever, below the belt comment to make, which always gets either a jaw drop or a laugh out of the other two. Xue Yang would even do a mock bow when Su Minshan makes extremely clever ones that would’ve gone over other people’s heads.

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