text; un: weiwuxian

[resurging]

question: if you were, hypothetically, to trap a spirit in an inanimate object, how would you go about it?

[ this post was brought to you by: horror movie nights with the nephew! hooray! ]

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text; un: thejinling

[inheritedpain]

[ Technically, he and Wei Wuxian are in the same room. Technically, they are seated next to each other on the couch and there has been a little too much plum wine consumed between the two of them. So really, by all accounts, Jin Ling should be speaking this aloud, but instead he's texting because Wei Wuxian is the one who had to bring this conversation to the Masses. ]

this is the wrong question

enchant it like a spirit pouch obviously

the REAL question is WHAT inanimate object

un:xiaohan

[consignation]

DONT ENCOURAGE HIM

[inheritedpain]

thIS IS AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION

[consignation]

MORE IMPORTANT THAN MY BACKHAND??

[inheritedpain]

WE WENT MONTHS WITHOUT YOU THREATENING TO HIT ME

COME ON THEN
COME ON AND TRY IT

[ Jin Ling sure is brave over text... ]

[consignation]

[ OH??? OH????

THAT'S THE SOUND OF JIANG CHENG'S BEDROOM DOOR SLAMMING OPEN. ]

JIN RULAN⁠—

[inheritedpain]

[ FUCK SHIT FUCK

there is a crash as the cup jin ling was holding hits the ground, the seventeen year old suddenly scrambling up and over his uncle wei ying as if the man was a barricade

from three quarters cover: ]

I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG!!

[resurging]

[shoves jin ling under the bed]

JIN LING! WHERE'D YOU GOOO--

[consignation]

HOW STUPID DO YOU THINK I AM?!

[ the whip is out, the spirit of madam yu has descended upon him in full force, and⁠— jiang cheng snaps a warning strike to one side of wei wuxian, then just... fully tackles him to the ground. tries to get him in a headlock. ]

What!! Stupid!! VAPID..!! Ideas! Are you putting!! In our nephew's head!!!

[resurging]

[wei wuxian is yelping very loudly, and then he's not making much of any noise at all, because jiang cheng's headlocks are very very very effective! he would know, this method has been refined on him!]

It-- HAK-- fff---

[it's fine he's gonna reach back and pull on jiang cheng's ear IT'S FINE!!!]

[inheritedpain]

[ And then here comes Jin Ling like a bullet out of a gun, sliding right out from under the bed and then jumping on his uncle's back to cling to him tightly around the neck. ]

Stop it!! STOP IT!!

[ He's doesn't even fully register what he's doing, he's just reaching out to try to grab at his uncle's arm when suddenly the purple crackling whip that is Zidian is sliding up of of Jiang Cheng's arm and onto his wrist, turning back into the twirling silver snake bracelet.

It shocks him enough that he just falls off Jiang Cheng's back and hits the floor. ]

[resurging]

what about a stoppered jar? so you can just let the spirit out whenever you like. but they have to be tethered so they can be sealed again.

what if you trap the spirit in food, though?

[inheritedpain]

i'm not going to carry some jar around like a drunk

if

if you ate food with a spirit in it




do


do you become possessed???

[resurging]

okay okay not a jar, then. a mirror? what about a comb? how small can you make things before they're too small to be possessed?

what if you possess a grain of sand?




do you have to eat the entire thing to be possessed, or do you just end up with part of a spirit in you?

what if you have to relieve yourself

does the spirit just

leave???

[inheritedpain]

if you put it in a mirror could it make faces at you
are y

are you going to make a tiny miniature mirror

what about a ring

i think a grain of sand would be too easy to lose



i don't know I DON'T KNOW I'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE

i think it would stay with you though, wouldn't it?? like

you absorb the parts of the food that are good for you

release the rest

the spirit would want to stay with the good parts, right??

[resurging]

...we're going to find a spirit and eat it
we have to know
would you absorb their powers too?
would they take over your body too?
what if you killed a cultivator who's better than you and then ate their spirit?
would it be the same as eating their golden core?
can you even eat a golden core

help me steal one of jiang cheng's hairpieces

[consignation]

THIS IS A PUBLIC FORUM

[resurging]

fine fine fine

can i borrow one of your hairpieces

[consignation]

WHAT PART OF EVER HAVING KNOWN ME MAKES YOU THINK I'D SAY YES??
NO ONE IS EATING ANY SPIRITS
I WILL WHIP BOTH OF YOU WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIVES
YOU WILL BECOME THE SPIRITS!!!!

[resurging]

so you'll test the array?
jiang cheng, work with me here
this is for knowledge

[inheritedpain]

the only spirits here are like
people ones
i know i looked and i don't think we should eat them

i doN'T WANT TO BE POSSESSED
HOW DID WE START TALKING ABOUT THIS

what



what would a golden core even taste like if you could eat it



and i'm pretty sure uncle is already going to break my legs

1/2

[resurging]

we're cultivators i can heal you

[resurging]

alright i'm going to look for a spirit we can eat
i'm leaving the arrays to you

i trust you, jin ling!

--> action

[inheritedpain]

[ FORGOING TEXT ]

Don't you dare leave me here!!

Are you trying to get me killed??

[resurging]

I'm not leaving you behind! You're not gonna die, shhh, Wei Wuxian has got this.

Jiang Cheng won't go for your face, don't worry. I know this!