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CHARACTER
- CHARACTER — Wei Wuxian
CANON — The Untamed (or CQL, from the Chinese title Chen Qing Ling)
CANONPOINT — post-death (ep33) + Vestige CRAU
AGE — (roughly) 22
BACKGROUND
- CANON — his wiki.
( note: This wiki covers the original novel, which CQL frequently diverges from. What little attention is paid to that divergence on the wiki can be found in the sections labeled 'Web Series'.)
CRAU — Wei Wuxian spent ~8 months (July 2020 - Jan 2021) in the horror jamjar Vestige. Based on Cabin In The Woods, Vestige placed characters within a multi-mile enclosure in and around an abandoned rural lake town, at the mercy of the 'Technicians' who brought them there to induce various forms of suffering/death in order to bribe the ancient subterranean god(s) not to unleash a full blown apocalypse. In between horror events, characters were afforded chill periods to rest, recuperate, make friends, work on long-term projects (like fixing up their lakeside cabins), and generally kind of live a semi-normal backwoods life.
Though some may need contextualized by the personality section itself, the key developments from Wei Wuxian's CRAU include:
— ( See the drop-downs for better explanations of each! )
A PERCEIVED CHANCE TO PREVENT HIS FUTURE HARMS.
Canonmates from a later canonpoint gave him clues about his own dark future, dragging him from his resignation and back into a Wei Wuxian with the perceived agency and drive to (as the Yunmeng Jiang motto goes) "attempt the impossible".
- About three months into his stay in the the containment zone, Wei Wuxian canon-updated from a point just before the whirlwind of events leading to his canon death to a point just after his death - but the build-up to that death was paced very differently for him within the context of Vestige. At his first canonpoint, he had been living an isolated farming life up a demonic mountain to protect a handful of refugees who lived there, and he was estranged from (but not at direct odds with) his family back in his former sect of Yunmeng Jiang. Arriving in Vestige, however, he was met with a martial brother Jiang Cheng who was full of pain and seething fury at some unspeakable, unforgivable thing which Wei Wuxian (from his own canonpoint) has yet to do.
In canon, the events preceding his death basically blindside him, pieces of his life falling to hell after another in the span of just a couple of days. In Vestige, however, he had warning. And though he had no idea what it was that he'd do (or had already done, from Jiang Cheng's perspective), this galvanized him to search desperately for some sort of solution, to fix things before he has a chance to break them.
This put a spark in Wei Wuxian that he hadn't felt in quite a while. At his initial canonpoint, after so many months as the guardian of the Burial Mounds refugees, he had fallen into a sort of listless resignation - full of duty but very little of the vibrant spirit others once saw in him. In Vestige, he was once again galvanized to try, by his refusal to accept his future harms as set in stone.
A HUMBLING REVELATION.
He canon-updated to just after his own death, forcing him to work through his own devastation and learn how to face rather than hide from his mistakes and those whom he's harmed.
- Unfortunately, his efforts to prevent his future harms were cut short by a canonupdate to just after his death. He woke up again with the acute knowledge that nothing he had done in Vestige had prevented even an ounce of what was to come - and so his brother-in-law had died, then his beloved sister had died as well, all because of him. Worse yet, the refugees from the Burial Mounds (the ones whom he'd thrown his entire life away to protect) had been executed regardless, meaning that literally all of his sacrifices and his desperate miserable attempts to do the right thing were for nothing.
In canon, he awakens from his own death 16 years later into a world that has moved on without him. In Vestige, however, he woke in a deathless enclosure with the very sister he'd gotten killed, among so very many other people he'd failed. There were like six castmates and at least four of them had been devastated in some way by the events he'd just returned from - and here, he couldn't even properly give up like he had in canon, with the impermanence of death and whatnot. This led to Wei Wuxian having to actually look his loved ones (and his own sins) in the eye and face what he had done, something he never really has to directly address in canon due to how long he was dead.
On that note, last key difference here is that in canon, his revival felt almost like a new life in itself - he never had to figure out how to pick up the pieces of his old one. In Vestige, he had to come to terms with everything and then figure out what to do and who to be in the wake of it. This led to a Wei Wuxian with a bit more experience in facing his wrongs head-on than he received in canon.
A SECOND CHANCE.
He was given the chance to rebuild the most devastating bridge that he'd burnt - but the (falsely) perceived fragility of it has sparked a pretty unhealthy and self-destructive intolerance of even the slightest failure to protect/support those he loves.
- Even by the time of his first canonpoint, he had already functionally burned every bridge in his life in the name of doing what seemed right and just: Protecting innocent refugees from being hunted down and executed. In fact, he had burned those bridges nearly a year prior, and had been living with what had become of his life ever since. He missed his sister Yanli's wedding. He broke his lifelong promise to Jiang Cheng, the one in which he'd promised that one day Jiang Cheng would be sect leader and Wei Wuxian would serve as his loyal right-hand man - and in fact, he forced Jiang Cheng to renounce him as a member of the sect at all. Not to mention pissing off (and terrifying) half of the cultivation* world.
But in Vestige, once he worked through the initial horrors of his own death and the circumstances thereof, he was left with a situation in which most of the key people he had harmed were present and there were no extenuating circumstances (i.e. innocent lives at stake) to force them to stay apart. And on top of that, through some unfathomable miracle, even Jiang Cheng in all of his pain and devastation was willing to give him the another chance. To allow Wei Wuxian to try to make up for all that he had done, rather than condemning him as 'unforgivable'.
This left Wei Wuxian with a desperate sort of hope, one which he could hardly believe stood a chance of coming true but he threw himself into making it so. But at the same time, it all felt so fragile - as though this was his one chance to do better, and any given mistake ran the very real risk of proving that he was incorrigible after all. Because of this, Wei Wuxian grew even more hypervigilant of his loved ones and their safety than ever before, even more prepared to allow any part of himself to be collateral damage to preserve that one last chance he'd received. He used to be fairly easygoing as a whole - a mistake is a mistake, they can deal with what comes if a mistake is made, since everyone makes them - but in this matter, he can't stand to let himself make a single one.
At his current (Songerein) CRAU-canonpoint, he has only had this second chance for about ~2.5 months, and he's still internally in that 'must sponge/shield literally all harm from these specific people or everything will break and I'll lose them' reactive fear-based mindset - and working through that to a more healthy place was part of the character arc I had planned for him in Vestige + now have planned for him in Song.
* ( 'cultivation' refers to their innate powers/magic, with 'cultivation world' being the umbrella term for all of the sects of cultivators )
DEMONIC CULTIVATION DETOX.
In light of its role in his death and the deaths of too many others, he basically quit his necromancy cold-turkey.
- The turning point in his initial canon story arc - the point at which everything began to go downhill for Wei Wuxian - was when he made the decision to give up his golden core (personal source of cultivation) to replace the one which had been brutally taken from Jiang Cheng. Circumstances surrounding and following that choice all but cornered him into the choice between dying and and taking up demonic cultivation. Demonic cultivation is basically necromancy - it requires no golden core and utilizes the resentful energy provided (in large part, anyway) by the restless spirits lingering in the mortal realm. He basically made a pact with the angry dead legion, and was given the ability to channel them to his purposes as a result.
Upon returning from the Burial Mounds (the above-mentioned 'demonic mountain') the first time, long before taking the refugees up to hide there, he used that demonic cultivation to slaughter his way through the men who massacred the entirety of the Yunmeng Jiang sect save for himself and the two Jiang siblings, then proceeded to use it to win the overarching war against what amounts to the cultivation world's evil overlord of the time. They literally would have lost the war without it, and he doesn't have a single regret about teaching himself how to do it. However, it's also the precise thing which alienated him from everyone he had ever known. Wei Wuxian was once known to be bright and disarmingly charismatic, but all of a sudden his presence itself could put acquaintances on edge - and even those who knew and loved him were increasingly bewildered as they encountered darker pieces of him which they didn't recognize, hidden a moment later by a well-faked smile. And then, in the end, it was demonic cultivation which led to those wrongful deaths that he caused (most critically his sister's new husband, and then his sister herself). Though that was revealed to him by another castmate in Vestige as a frame-job, as someone looking to make him a scapegoat by making it seem like he'd lost control of his evil spirits, he still felt largely responsible for it.
So, while demonic cultivation was undoubtedly an asset, the way that his death played out left him positive that it's just as much a poison. He pitched his flute (through which he channeled the resentment) off into the woods even before he realized he had the opportunity to fix anything, let alone in that tentative ray of hope afterward, and for the last few Vestige months he made the general choice to swallow his pride and be powerless and weak rather than taking up demonic cultivation again. Ultimately, he's theoretically going to calm the fuck down about it all and reconcile enough with the fact that he was framed to ease back toward that cultivation style - which he really did have entirely under control the vast majority of the time, and did a lot of incredibly innovative things with it. The fact that he's coreless again in Songerein may be a push in that direction a little sooner than I anticipated, even.
TENTATIVELY ACCEPTING THE NECESSITY OF TRUST.
Circumstances left him with no choice but to set aside his chronic needs to keep executive control of all critical decisions and to hide/deflect all pain or distress he may feel. As a result, he started to learn to trust others' ability to handle the truth.
- Though we'll dig deeper into this in the 'personality' section, Wei Wuxian is chronically a person who carefully keeps control of a dangerous or uncomfortable situation in his own hands and subject to his own judgment. He's shown to make huge decisions that impact others without consulting them on the matter because he has already decided what's best for them - for example, in his choice to give Jiang Cheng his golden core, which was falsely represented to Jiang Cheng as the legendary cultivator Baoshan Sanren 'forming a new one' for him and only almost two decades later in episode 48 out of 50 did Jiang Cheng find out the truth about where it came from. If Wei Wuxian had told the truth about it, Jiang Cheng wouldn't have taken it - but Jiang Cheng needed it, so Wei Wuxian did and said what he felt that he needed to in order to get it to him. He's also frequently shown to fail to give anyone warning before he does something which massively endangers his own life... And in the same vein, he basically wouldn't be caught dead admitting to upset or injury, going so far as to hide getting stabbed from a literal doctor.
But Vestige was pretty much having none of that. On far too many occasions, the horrors of the game made it impossible for him to hide his pain/distress/injury from others, forcing him to confess to this weakness and accept whatever help or comfort might come. On top of that, he quickly learned that it would be impossible to protect those he loved in the way he was used to (presenting a version of things in which everything's okay while he privately dealt with any danger or unpleasantness behind the scenes). The danger would find them, and he needed to come to terms with that. Ultimately, this led to him making an unprecedented bargain with Jiang Yanli: That if she (a fellow problem-hider, and an incredibly skilled one at that) would come to him and tell him if something isn't right, he would do the same. Similar compromises were made with others to a lesser degree, though they're still a struggle to uphold in moments of crisis when both worry for him and dissenting ideas would slow him down.
A BUDDING SENSE OF GENUINE BELONGING.
After a life lived in denial of his value to others, the development of something alarmingly close to a family forced him to learn how to maybe sometimes care about his own wellbeing, and also how to handle being personally valued at all.
- A sense of belonging is never something he truly had. He has always been a bit of an outsider in his life for one reason or another, and those whom he had were (by his perception) never guaranteed to stay. This has solidified Wei Wuxian's picture of himself as someone who doesn't really 'have people', even when he's surrounded in them.
But he's not built for that. Almost all that he does is motivated by other people, by passionately caring about someone or another, and the moments in canon when he seems to thrive are the ones in which he's side by side with someone he cares about. In fact, early in canon, there's rarely a moment when he and Jiang Cheng are together when his arm isn't slung around Jiang Cheng's shoulder in comfortable familiarity, one of the many bits of evidence that he's fueled in large part by connection.
As a child, any time he seemed to get too close to Jiang Cheng or Yanli, their mother Madam Yu rained verbal hell down upon all three - but in Vestige, the three of them had the unprecedented opportunity to care about one another without that danger hanging like a storm cloud overhead. Even more unexpected was the discovery that Lan Sizhui, a boy whom he'd met in Vestige, was actually someone he'd met before: He was A-Yuan, the little bitty refugee boy whom Wei Wuxian had taken to, and whom he'd sincerely thought had been executed with the rest of the refugees just before his death. Though he'd been raised by Lan Wangji (Wei Wuxian's confidant, who took A-Yuan in after Wei Wuxian's death) and had spent far more years with Lan Wangji and uncle Lan Xichen as his primary elder family figures, he still had a dad-shaped spot in his heart for his long-lost Wei Wuxian. And thus Wei Wuxian came into possession of a son, as well.
This and the rest of his little makeshift family gave him the beginnings of the feeling of belonging he'd never really known... Which he honestly had no idea what to do with. He didn't know how to accept that kind of sentiment or value. It was far easier for Wei Wuxian to solve problems under the prevailing understanding that others would largely be better off without him - but all of a sudden, he had no choice but to put some sort of value in his own life and limb because they mattered to someone. Multiple someones. People whose lives might genuinely be better with him in them. What a novel concept.
(Yes, this is currently in massive contradiction with his 'second chance' drive to be horrifically self-sacrificing. For the most part, he tends to remember to try to value his own life and limb in non-crises but defaults to being a physical and emotional damage-sponge when shit gets real.)
A NUMBER OF THINGS GAINED AND LOST.
He gained the fear of losing his loved ones again, but is working on his fear of dogs. He gained a golden core and some emotionally-impactful scars, and has since lost both. He's also familiar with the practical applications of the term 'yeet'.
- This is a bit of a mish-mash section of various important things, so forgive me on that, but! Wei Wuxian went through a few other changes, both voluntary and otherwise, during his time in Vestige.
For one, he gained a brand new fear. An amalgamation of some of the points above have led to him having never truly been afraid of losing anyone. Afraid of allowing them to die, perhaps, but the notion of someone choosing to exit his life has never really been a fear so much as a near-inevitability. Even when he lost his only home with Yunmeng Jiang sect, lost his martial brother Jiang Cheng to his duty and his anger, and lost his sister Yanli to the sheer circumstance of her marrying into the sect which disliked him the most, he simply resigned himself to the perpetual ache of it. But then he died in canon and reawakened in Vestige, and at this critical moment when all seemed lost, he was given that one last chance to rebuild... And all of a sudden, for the first time in his life, Wei Wuxian finds himself scared to lose them a second time. Scared to make the misstep which would lead Jiang Cheng to choose to give up on him once and for all. So that's new.
On the flip side, he has actually been slowly chipping away at his most deeply-grained fear. Since fighting them for scraps on the street as an orphaned child, Wei Wuxian has been utterly terrified of dogs, to the point that Jiang Cheng's dad (the sect leader at the time) made him get rid of his three beloved dogs when Wei Wuxian was invited to live in Lotus Pier - but one stormy Vestige day, he managed to swallow that down long enough to rescue an injured puppy and get it to Jiang Cheng to tend to it. Inevitably he kept it, and what's worse, the dog fondly recalls Wei Wuxian as its rescuer and is dead set on terrifying him with its utmost affection... And with his status as a sort of lifelong thumb to Jiang Cheng's dog-shaped bruise, Wei Wuxian kind of latched onto this as an actionable thing he could fix to prove himself to Jiang Cheng. So, entirely in secret, he has begun the perilous initial stages of trying to figure out how to be around dogs without panic gripping the entirety of his being.
Additionally, there are a few physical changes he gained in Vestige and subsequently lost in the transfer to Songerein. Most notable is his brand new golden core, received as a Hail Mary Christmas wish to the Technicians. The core was tiny and uncultivated, barely fit for a child, but the day he woke up with it was the first time in years in which he felt more alive than dead. It was also the first time in years in which he'd had any other choice apart from demonic cultivation. It didn't matter that the core was weak and useless right then - he knew how to train it, how to nourish it into a proper golden core bearing high cultivation, and he was more than prepared to do all of the horrifically boring work that would take. Also notable were a pair of matching scars up the inside of each forearm, self-inflicted at a time in which blood would save Jiang Cheng from a hellscape of nightmarish delusion. Henceforth after he got those scars, Wei Wuxian tended toward longer sleeves even in the hottest of weather in order to keep them from public view... Not on his own behalf, but on Jiang Cheng's. Allowing them to be seen felt very much like flippantly showing them the physical evidence of Jiang Cheng's moment of utmost vulnerability - vulnerability which he'd grudgingly entrusted to Wei Wuxian despite how much pain still lay between them, so who would he be to betray that?
In Songerein, both the golden core and the pair of scars are gone, and each loss wounds him in a different way. With the scars, he's lost the mark left behind by a time when he successfully protected Jiang Cheng regardless of how certain the both of them were at the time that Jiang Cheng hated him. Wei Wuxian nearly bled out for him that day and expected no forgiveness or gratitude or anything else, only for Jiang Cheng to find some blessed relief. And it worked. And for months he had those scars as proof that it is possible to protect them, and also proof that he never stopped trying. As for the golden core being taken again, well. I pretty much explained what that meant to him, the future that opened up for him, and now it's down the drain. Combined, it's unfortunatly going to be pretty difficult not to take these losses as evidence that he isn't allowed to ever be a person who puts good into the world so he might as well stop trying.
Lastly (and far less importantly), his time in Vestige familiarized him with the modern world in a variety of ways. He has a basic understanding of modern technology (smartphones, appliances, vehicles), an appreciation for modern dress (please give him his hoodie back, he begs of you), and a tentative working knowledge of modern slang. He also now has an understanding the overarching concept of multiple worlds of varying degrees of similarity, as one does when tossed into a DWRP.
In summary, he's arguably much closer to mentally/emotionally healthy than he was at either of his Vestige canonpoints, but that journey has left him with a new set of hurdles to jump and neuroses to work through before he's through.
PERSONALITY
— ( This is his canon personality at his post-death canonpoint, not reflecting CRAU changes! Also - the links contained within are optional visuals, e.g. gifs. )
- In simpler times, the first thing others tended to notice was his innate magnetic charisma. He was always smiling, joking, being the life of a given party. Others found it difficult to be angry with him, or to assume malign intent.
- Very good at connecting - making others feel heard, interesting, and talented, engaging with their stories and giving deserved compliments. He does occasionally charm deliberately, but with banter in mind, not flirtation.
- Tends to default toward faux-antagonistic friendships, filled with teasing, bickering, and competition.
- Would bend rules and push buttons wherever seemed most entertaining, especially with those in authority. These mischievous tendencies often led others to write him off as a fool, incapable of handling serious tasks.
- Lives his life untethered by the trappings and rules of their society, doing so boldly and largely without shame or fear of consequence.
- Treats everyone with the same engaging informality and lack of deference, be it peasant or sect leader.
- The dangerous flip-side: He speaks his mind without hesitation, regardless of who he's addressing or how severe the accusation.
- Often called 'arrogant' because he's unrepentantly good at most of what he does, while social convention suggests that he modestly deflect.
- Isn't quite the discourteous bulldozer that most assume - he will apologize or clarify intent if he oversteps by mistake.
- Described as “born with a smiling face”, he can withstand an incredible amount of physical, mental, and emotional adversity in order to fight for what he believes in.
- Complains at times to amuse or deflect, yet in truth will accept most anything that comes. After losing his cultivation, he simply turned his sights on a new goal and mastered the techniques he had access to. In relationships, you see him become a slightly different version of himself based on others’ wants or needs.
- Growing up under Madam Yu's sharp eye taught him that some will always find fault in him. He grew even more used to it once he took up demonic cultivation, with supposed 'allies' latching onto any excuse to skew even his most genuine actions negatively. At this point, he mostly just lets this roll off of his shoulders.
- It's unfathomable how much we watch him deal with before he finally breaks. He doesn't get to rest between episodes 18-33 (3 years), only starting to break when the refugees he was protecting are executed and all that he sacrificed turns out to be for nothing.
- "I, Wei Wuxian, wish that I can always stand with justice and live with no regrets." Harming the weak or the innocent incites genuine fury, especially once he hosts resentment energy which also rages against cruelty/injustice. He has no respect for societal rules and norms which perpetuate injustice, even if viewed as 'right'. He'll call injustice like this out openly but repay sincere kindness and favors in kind, whatever that may take.
- 'Stand with justice' soon becomes 'do what's right', then 'protect those he cares about, whatever that takes', even though it burns the rest of his life to the ground and digs him deep into shades of ethical grey.
- In the months before the devastating end, he seems more a captive to his sense of right and wrong than a passionate believer in it.
- Both his softest and most terrifying moments stem from the intensity of his love. He is fiercely protective of his loved ones - to whom he is Wei Ying, soft and sweet, who feels their joy and pain and can't stand to upset them.
- Difficult to anger, but when the right buttons are pushed he angers quickly and dramatically, often inciting a physical altercation.
- Deeply loyal, though others take his outwardly capricious nature and frequent boredom as tells of character, ascribing what he does out of loyalty to selfish/self-seeking motives.
- An inventor at heart, he carries an undeniable certainty that he can craft solutions to every no-win scenario.
- Coming up with an idea he didn’t have first earns his respect, yet he tends to reject unsolicited advice, assuming in his selective conceit that others couldn't know better than him.
- Burning curiosity often leads him to roll with any given situation out of sheer intrigue - confident that he can think his way out of any potential consequences.
- Takes a very 'knowledge is power' approach and tends to weaponize his intellect, repeatedly shown to argue with others using their own rules/principles as ammo (though he rarely lets on to having paid attention to those rules prior to weaponizing them.)
- Once he gets into demonic cultivation, he goes a little bit 'mad scientist' about it - digging deeper into it than their survival requires, deeper than anyone should, in pure academic/innovative passion, but with little thought to the consequences of putting that research into the world.
- High self-esteem but abysmal self-worth, likely rooted in his complicated upbringing with the Jiangs. At his best, he's deflecting heartfelt compliments he doesn't feel that he deserves. At his worst, he's (figuratively or literally) cutting himself to pieces for those he loves - secretly if possible, to spare them the guilt.
- Tends to treat himself like a chess pawn if there’s a monster or blame to draw onto himself - disposable, to be placed in the path of danger with any resulting harm deemed negligible. He could come up with solutions that do less harm to him but sacrifice is his first instinct, not last resort.
- Plays his cards close to his chest in order to maintain some sense of control over his life and circumstances, and having things revealed about him against his will is one thing that will put him quickly on the defensive.
- It starts harmlessly, persuading others to open up to him without opening up in return.. But as circumstances worsen, he takes to hiding things which he doesn't want to answer for - most notably physical or mental/emotional vulnerabilities and controversial decisions.
- Tends to do things alone when possible, preferring only to work with others when they're on board with (and can keep up with) his plan. An exception is Lan Wangji, whom he never felt responsible for protecting.
- His desperate pursuit of 'doing what's right' and protecting his people can lead down a less objectively righteous path - but he can’t be swayed from it. He went so far as to lie to his martial-brother and ignore his bodily autonomy to save him, part of a larger pattern of self-sacrificing whether it is wanted or not.
- While he denied that he would be affected by the resentment energy, he was ultimately proven wrong. He's far quicker to anger now, especially in the face of injustice - at times seeming to physically war with the vengeful demands of the resentment energy within him.
- Developed the sharp wariness of a hunted man, most visible in tense situations.
- The loss of his core and time in the Burial Mounds left him feeling more dead than alive, as though living on borrowed time until he's no longer needed, his former vitality absent. When he isn't careful, he slips away from the flow of humanity altogether.
- CHARISMATIC & MISCHIEVOUS —
UNTAMED —
RESILIENT —
RIGHTEOUS(-ISH) —
PASSIONATE —
BRILLIANT —
SELF-SACRIFICING —
PRIVATE —
DEMONIC CULTIVATOR —
ABILITIES
- WIKI — His wiki actually covers it pretty thoroughly. (The 'Web Series exclusive' section is included, as it refers to The Untamed!)
NERFS — I'll need to hit up the FAQ for specifics like how his demonic cultivation would work in Songerein and how nightmare energy does/does interact with it, etc. - but there's nothing that seems to need outright nerfed by my understanding. If y'all spot something, I'm cool with whatever nerfs work best!
INVENTORY
- ROBES — as shown, but slightly bloody
- CHENQING — his spiritual flute, also slightly bloody
- TALISMAN PAPERS — a pocket full of them. some blank, some used on one side (it definitely looks like blood).
SONGEREIN
- SUITABILITY — While I initially latched onto the game because it fit my technical needs (CRAU + not severely capped) and echoed some previous games I enjoyed (most notably Somarium), reading through all of the information inspired idea after idea in a way that I rarely experience. Wei Wuxian will be interesting to play here, I think, because it's one more place in which his life is a mess of contradiction: In certain ways, he'll thrive here. His siblings are (theoretically) here with him rather than in the hellhole they CRAU'd from, which is always a great step - but even beyond that, he is an individual with strong force of will and a vivid imagination (for both nonsense and practical problem-solving), and that seems to be exactly what he needs to feel like he has some sort of agency and security here instead of the cyclical futility of the Containment Zone in Vestige.
On the flip side, based on the infopages, it seems like some of the dreams have a tendency to reveal characters' secrets or memories, and like I mentioned in his personality section, he is very much not going to be cool with that. His life is a mess and he's finally starting to pull it together and the last thing he feels like he needs right now is for that dumpster fire to get publicly aired in any way.
Ultimately, I'm excited for this not-abjectly-horror opportunity for him to reach a healthier place within himself and his family + learn how to connect to other people in a healthier way. Let Wei Wuxian Rest And Be Cared About 2k21.
PLANS — All of my plans are nebulous so far, but! Wei Wuxian would almost definitely get very academically/experimentally curious about how dreams work, how they're influenced, dreamotion, etc - so he'd probably be running whatever tests strike his fancy, possibly trying to find new utility uses for the magic of it. All the while he'll definitely be trying to work through the big mental-emotional mess he was left with post-death, which he started to work on in Vestige but is probably going to lose a lot of that progress in losing his CRAU developments (most notably his brand new golden core), so that's... a thing.
He'll also, I feel like, be throwing himself into creating something that feels like home for Jiang Cheng and Yanli (assuming they both get in), because the three of them have nearly as much to work through as he does alone and Wei Wuxian will definitely be trying much too hard on that front for a while. Beyond that, he's a guy who takes initiative based on whatever problem seems to be at hand, so I'll kind of have to wait to see what problems are at hand in-game (e.g. what events occur) to plan further.
TEST DRIVE SAMPLE — Sample, will provide more if needed!
QUESTIONS — None offhand. c: