xie lian
01 January 2033 @ 11:14 pm
canon: tgcf / heaven official's blessing
medium: novel compliant. any canon-point works. let me know if you want some point specifically (to avoid spoilers or whatever.) also ok with aus.



quick view: immortal but not invulnerable, 800+ years old but ascended to godhood at 17 the first time around and looks young, there are cursed shackles — one around his neck and one around his right ankle, but typically they aren't visible (throat wrapped in white bandages, and his robes covering long enough to obscure the ankle. they aren't physical irons, more like black markings/tattoos or another interpretation: white scarring, take your pick.) he has a little rundown shrine he's been renovating (san lang has been renovating lbr) and is known nowadays amongst peers (?) as a scrap collecting god. overall amiable, easygoing, kind. high pain tolerance/endurance that can be problematic (think: "i'm fine" and they are Not). also: the worst luck of anyone else you'll ever meet. 



shipping: hua cheng for that unparalleled OTP. in aus somehow void of hua cheng or before their story (xie lian and hua cheng's) becomes a reciprocal one, open to exploring something else still m/m. 18+ fine with smut, fade to black, or as is canon for basically 800 years, avoiding it entirely!

unrequited works too (with xie lian as the recipient) and can be interesting — for example, not opposed to exploring it with jun wu,  feng xin, and mu qing.



cr: positive and negative and gray all invited. in a "normal" au whatever goes probably. any riff off of canon, well he's primed for any long-lived entities given he's 800+. assumed cr is welcome. canon is obviously welcome but also cross-canon, and ocs.



warnings: won't necessarily come up but xie lian's history has a lot of ptsd including death, suicidal ideation, depression, violence to an extreme degree, self-harm and or willingness to do so. in a typical / ordinary thread it really won't come up. xie lian is an expert at being "fine" and also at genuinely just trying to live his humble life. if it's a meme that's darker in theme, you can assume some of it might come up though. please don't tag him in those specific memes if any of these would trigger you.



4th wall: if it makes sense
threadjacking: if it makes sense
multiple threads at once: go for it, some threads are faster than others
trigger/subjects to avoid: none
format: parentheses lapslock but i don't mind if yours is different
speed: varies. as a result, i am very backtag friendly