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wingfic au (with art!)
Feb. 16th, 2019 07:47 amOne of my friends created a lovely wingfic au for MDZS, winged humans living in the modern era, that sort of deal, and it was excellent, but I kept thinking about moving it to the canon setting. And a couple more ideas wouldn't leave me alone, either--the image of Wen Ruohan as a tyrannical angel, and the idea of Lan Sizhui having some feature that would openly reveal his Wen heritage. So here's a canon-setting wingfic au where it's mostly the Wens who are winged, crossposted from my tumblr/twitter.
After a magical adventure that’s lost to history, both Wen Mao and Baoshan Sanren grew wings (the official Wen account says he was blessed by a god, but that version doesn’t mention BSSR, so take it with a grain of salt). Since then, all of Wen Mao’s descendants have grown wings shortly after developing their golden core. It was assumed to be genetic, until BSSR’s disciples who descended the mountain had wings, too. Wei Wuxian inherited wings from his mother. ( (the rest under here) )
After I posted this, clockworkspider suggested the image of Jin Guangyao slowly unfurling his wings while playing guqin for Nie Mingjue, and it seems that wings are what it takes to get me to take up drawing again, so I drew this. I'm out of practice.
( picture )
I'm also finally getting started with my cosplay! I keep hearing about all these supposed "rules" for MDZS cosplay, but I'm ignoring them. It seems that the point of the rules is to get people to buy the official costumes, but for me, making a costume is the entire point of cosplay, so I was never a potential customer in the first place. Plus, the only Wen Qing costume I've seen for sale isn't even screen-accurate.
I'll be basing my costume on the donghua designs, except I hate using flat solid colors in cosplay (for me the goal is NOT to look like I stepped out of a cartoon) so I'm using some textured fabric. For about six years I've held onto a piece of red silky fabric with an abstract flame-like pattern woven into it, saving it for the "perfect" project. A year ago I decided that was an unhealthy attitude to take towards craft supplies and used it to line a pen case. But, it turns out I still have enough left for the flame motifs on Wen Qing's dress. I didn't have enough left of the darker shade of red that I wanted to use for the skirt, and found myself disappointed by the red fabric offerings at two different fabric stores. Everything was either too bright or too berry (result: for the skirt I'll be layering bright red chiffon over berry red chiffon).
Have not yet decided how to do the edging on the flame patterns. Machine-stitched applique edging is the easiest buuut it's REALLY not the right look. Thinking about how nice it would look beaded but I probably don't have the time. Maybe couched satin cord?
After a magical adventure that’s lost to history, both Wen Mao and Baoshan Sanren grew wings (the official Wen account says he was blessed by a god, but that version doesn’t mention BSSR, so take it with a grain of salt). Since then, all of Wen Mao’s descendants have grown wings shortly after developing their golden core. It was assumed to be genetic, until BSSR’s disciples who descended the mountain had wings, too. Wei Wuxian inherited wings from his mother. ( (the rest under here) )
After I posted this, clockworkspider suggested the image of Jin Guangyao slowly unfurling his wings while playing guqin for Nie Mingjue, and it seems that wings are what it takes to get me to take up drawing again, so I drew this. I'm out of practice.
( picture )
I'm also finally getting started with my cosplay! I keep hearing about all these supposed "rules" for MDZS cosplay, but I'm ignoring them. It seems that the point of the rules is to get people to buy the official costumes, but for me, making a costume is the entire point of cosplay, so I was never a potential customer in the first place. Plus, the only Wen Qing costume I've seen for sale isn't even screen-accurate.
I'll be basing my costume on the donghua designs, except I hate using flat solid colors in cosplay (for me the goal is NOT to look like I stepped out of a cartoon) so I'm using some textured fabric. For about six years I've held onto a piece of red silky fabric with an abstract flame-like pattern woven into it, saving it for the "perfect" project. A year ago I decided that was an unhealthy attitude to take towards craft supplies and used it to line a pen case. But, it turns out I still have enough left for the flame motifs on Wen Qing's dress. I didn't have enough left of the darker shade of red that I wanted to use for the skirt, and found myself disappointed by the red fabric offerings at two different fabric stores. Everything was either too bright or too berry (result: for the skirt I'll be layering bright red chiffon over berry red chiffon).
Have not yet decided how to do the edging on the flame patterns. Machine-stitched applique edging is the easiest buuut it's REALLY not the right look. Thinking about how nice it would look beaded but I probably don't have the time. Maybe couched satin cord?
