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OOC INFO;
Player Name: Star
Contact Info: starlitsunset @ plurk
Current Character: -
IC INFO;
Character Name: Wen Qing
Canon: Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation / 魔道祖师 (mo dao zu shi)
Canon Information: there’s a... TvTropes Page? If you’d like something more specific, the history section for the protagonist/narrator covers most of the events.
Canon Point: Post-death, i.e. post- chapter 77
Age: About 26
God Houses:
1. Heimdall: Her loyalty is selective but very strong. She’s fiercely protective of her younger brother; but she’s also a physician, following the physician’s philosophy of not up and murdering people.
2. Tyr: While she’s not outwardly the most courageous or diplomatic, Tyr is also about a drive for self-improvement and Wen Qing wouldn’t have gotten where she is in life without that kind of drive.
3. Sigyn: The least preferred choice out of the above, but I just wanted to mention that Wen Qing has spent the last couple of months trying to farm on a hill full of rotting dead things. "Harvest" technically applies to her.
Personality:
Although her features were sweet, her expression was with utmost arrogance. The sun robe that she wore glowed red, its flames almost dancing around her sleeves and her collar.
This lady? She's kind of hot shit around these parts. Wen Qing is a high-ranking member of the Wen Sect, and by merit as well as by birth. When she's first introduced the protagonist comments on her reputation- mentioning that she's competent enough to advise her sect leader directly, and that people have wanted her to lead- and if that's not intimidating enough, she's a female doctor in a period where women generally didn't become anything. She's smart, she's competent, she knows what she wants and she's gotten it- and she certainly acts like it.
Wen Qing’s speech is brusque and to the point, and her actions similarly so- she decides on a course of action, and then she gets it done. Next to her timid brother she might seem domineering; in her first appearance she scolds her brother for harbouring the novel’s protagonists, tells him the medicine he made sucks, then chucks a new bundle of herbs at him. This take-no-bullshit attitude is what she shows to most people, particularly chaotic characters whose trickstering has no effect on her. Wen Qing is also shown constantly roasting the protagonist Wei Wuxian, despite the latter being a well-known and widely feared dark arts practitioner. Even after Wei Wuxian gets injured, she just tells him to stop pretending he’s dying when he’s clearly not- she’s a doctor, you can’t fool her.
But as much as she snaps, there’s no underlying malevolent intent to her actions. It’s quite significant that Wen Qing is a physician by profession; the rest of the Wen Sect are established as power-hungry tyrants, abusing their dominance in the pugilistic world to weaken and outright conquer the other martial arts sects. While she speaks with an almost vicious bluntness, her actions are generally consistent to a code of decency and fraternity. Wen Qing covers for her brother without question,even if his choices are very stupid, turns down power - allegedly people have wanted her to lead her sect, but she is only a section leader and only because she was ordered to- and has no murder record, which is very impressive in this kind of martial-arts canon where everyone is gunning for everyone else. While she has never faltered in her decisions, Wen Qing possesses a down-to-earth-ness that makes those decisions generally sensible.
“What the Wen Sect does doesn’t represent what we do. We don’t need to be responsible for the Wen Sect’s wrongdoing. Wei Ying, there’s no need to look at me like that. There’s a beginning to all debts.”
Even if she’s unusually decent for her sect, Wen Qing’s sense of morality is still very different from the more heroic characters of her series. Particularly, Wen Qing has a look-after-my-own mentality that makes her apathetic to things most people would care about. She’s barely troubled about the fact that her sect is waging war and killing people- sure, she doesn’t agree with it, but she herself has no blood on her hands and so it doesn’t stop her from sleeping at night. Wen Qing’s sense of self-assurance covers her morally dubious position as member of a warmongering sect. She faces the victims of her sect’s actions without remorse, and is more interested in pragmatic issues- like how likely they’ll be discovered and accused of harboring enemies- than the injustice of the runaways’ situation. It's not that she doesn't realise that her people are….bad. Wen Qing is intelligent enough to be very aware of how pugilistic politics work. She just seems to prefer not caring about it when she can. It’s likely that Wen Qing dislikes the concept of debts and moral obligations in general; after agreeing to shelter the protagonist, she nevertheless tells him to consider any debts between them closed. She also mentions detesting her cousin’s lover, suggesting that her loyalty to her extended family is lukewarm at best. Wen Qing respects skill above all- and is uninterested in doing favours out of obligation or moral righteousness.
So everything we've covered so far? That's how she deals with the rest of the world. Once she considers you 'family' or someone she cares about- first of all, congrats, because the one guy who worked his way up in canon had to literally raise the dead to get there- she will look out for you. Wen Qing has overturned all the policies listed above for people she cares about, the biggest example being Wen Ning, her brother. Despite all her lecturing she genuinely loves her brother and looks out for him. Wen Ning going missing in the aftermath of the Wen Sect's defeat is the first time we see Wen Qing abandoning her better-than-you persona -she travels all the way to the protagonist's sect to beg for his help, forgoing food and sleep to get there faster. When it's still not fast enough, finding her now-dead brother is the first time the reader sees Wen Qing crying. (Actually, all the times the reader sees Wen Qing crying is because of her brother.)
Her relationship with the protagonist Wei Wuxian is her other major CR, so to speak. Despite refusing to put any kind of favor or debt on their ledger while the Wen Sect was at the height of power, after her family and sect's downfall Wen Qing ends up forming deep loyalties to the series' protagonist. This bond functions very similarly to her relationship with Wen Ning; she is absolutely savage to him still (she told him to get radish seeds from the market, where are the radish seeds?? why did you suddenly drag a boyfriend back?? you're an imbecile???) but eventually Wen Qing sacrifices herself to protect both him and her surviving family members. Again, this kind of loyalty is hard-won: Wei Wuxian not only resurrected her dead brother, but gave up a comfortable life to advocate for her and the other Wen Sect remnants. But the point is that Wen Qing also has the capacity to be fiercely protective of her loved ones. While she's relatively apathetic during comfortable times, when the going gets tough she shows that she knows exactly who she cares about- and exactly how far she's willing to go to keep those people out of trouble.
(Not that it matters in the end, they end up in all sorts of trouble anyway.)
Very little is said about her being a physician- and certainly, Wen Qing's kind of self-interest sounds incompatible with the image of a doctor. From what we know, her high status suggests that her main patients would’ve been her own family or sect members. It’s likely that she dislikes the politics of the martial arts world, being close to all of that (and appearing very Done with it) as she is. I am headcanoning that helping civilians is what she prefers to do, but never really got to do thanks to the plot. But she’s not idealistic in the least, and so isn’t too fussed about this being her lot. Even at the end of her life Wen Qing admits, without much sentimentality, that she’s lived the past few months on borrowed time. Whatever capacity for love and loyalty she has is undergirded by a kind of rock-solid pragmatism- that this is Ancient China, everyone has a shit life, might as well suck it up. Her brother becomes like, a Buddha-damned zombie, but that’s just how it is on this bitch of an earth, you know?
Writing Sample: tdm toplevel!
Player Name: Star
Contact Info: starlitsunset @ plurk
Current Character: -
IC INFO;
Character Name: Wen Qing
Canon: Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation / 魔道祖师 (mo dao zu shi)
Canon Information: there’s a... TvTropes Page? If you’d like something more specific, the history section for the protagonist/narrator covers most of the events.
Canon Point: Post-death, i.e. post- chapter 77
Age: About 26
God Houses:
1. Heimdall: Her loyalty is selective but very strong. She’s fiercely protective of her younger brother; but she’s also a physician, following the physician’s philosophy of not up and murdering people.
2. Tyr: While she’s not outwardly the most courageous or diplomatic, Tyr is also about a drive for self-improvement and Wen Qing wouldn’t have gotten where she is in life without that kind of drive.
3. Sigyn: The least preferred choice out of the above, but I just wanted to mention that Wen Qing has spent the last couple of months trying to farm on a hill full of rotting dead things. "Harvest" technically applies to her.
Personality:
Although her features were sweet, her expression was with utmost arrogance. The sun robe that she wore glowed red, its flames almost dancing around her sleeves and her collar.
This lady? She's kind of hot shit around these parts. Wen Qing is a high-ranking member of the Wen Sect, and by merit as well as by birth. When she's first introduced the protagonist comments on her reputation- mentioning that she's competent enough to advise her sect leader directly, and that people have wanted her to lead- and if that's not intimidating enough, she's a female doctor in a period where women generally didn't become anything. She's smart, she's competent, she knows what she wants and she's gotten it- and she certainly acts like it.
Wen Qing’s speech is brusque and to the point, and her actions similarly so- she decides on a course of action, and then she gets it done. Next to her timid brother she might seem domineering; in her first appearance she scolds her brother for harbouring the novel’s protagonists, tells him the medicine he made sucks, then chucks a new bundle of herbs at him. This take-no-bullshit attitude is what she shows to most people, particularly chaotic characters whose trickstering has no effect on her. Wen Qing is also shown constantly roasting the protagonist Wei Wuxian, despite the latter being a well-known and widely feared dark arts practitioner. Even after Wei Wuxian gets injured, she just tells him to stop pretending he’s dying when he’s clearly not- she’s a doctor, you can’t fool her.
But as much as she snaps, there’s no underlying malevolent intent to her actions. It’s quite significant that Wen Qing is a physician by profession; the rest of the Wen Sect are established as power-hungry tyrants, abusing their dominance in the pugilistic world to weaken and outright conquer the other martial arts sects. While she speaks with an almost vicious bluntness, her actions are generally consistent to a code of decency and fraternity. Wen Qing covers for her brother without question,
“What the Wen Sect does doesn’t represent what we do. We don’t need to be responsible for the Wen Sect’s wrongdoing. Wei Ying, there’s no need to look at me like that. There’s a beginning to all debts.”
Even if she’s unusually decent for her sect, Wen Qing’s sense of morality is still very different from the more heroic characters of her series. Particularly, Wen Qing has a look-after-my-own mentality that makes her apathetic to things most people would care about. She’s barely troubled about the fact that her sect is waging war and killing people- sure, she doesn’t agree with it, but she herself has no blood on her hands and so it doesn’t stop her from sleeping at night. Wen Qing’s sense of self-assurance covers her morally dubious position as member of a warmongering sect. She faces the victims of her sect’s actions without remorse, and is more interested in pragmatic issues- like how likely they’ll be discovered and accused of harboring enemies- than the injustice of the runaways’ situation. It's not that she doesn't realise that her people are….bad. Wen Qing is intelligent enough to be very aware of how pugilistic politics work. She just seems to prefer not caring about it when she can. It’s likely that Wen Qing dislikes the concept of debts and moral obligations in general; after agreeing to shelter the protagonist, she nevertheless tells him to consider any debts between them closed. She also mentions detesting her cousin’s lover, suggesting that her loyalty to her extended family is lukewarm at best. Wen Qing respects skill above all- and is uninterested in doing favours out of obligation or moral righteousness.
So everything we've covered so far? That's how she deals with the rest of the world. Once she considers you 'family' or someone she cares about- first of all, congrats, because the one guy who worked his way up in canon had to literally raise the dead to get there- she will look out for you. Wen Qing has overturned all the policies listed above for people she cares about, the biggest example being Wen Ning, her brother. Despite all her lecturing she genuinely loves her brother and looks out for him. Wen Ning going missing in the aftermath of the Wen Sect's defeat is the first time we see Wen Qing abandoning her better-than-you persona -she travels all the way to the protagonist's sect to beg for his help, forgoing food and sleep to get there faster. When it's still not fast enough, finding her now-dead brother is the first time the reader sees Wen Qing crying. (Actually, all the times the reader sees Wen Qing crying is because of her brother.)
Her relationship with the protagonist Wei Wuxian is her other major CR, so to speak. Despite refusing to put any kind of favor or debt on their ledger while the Wen Sect was at the height of power, after her family and sect's downfall Wen Qing ends up forming deep loyalties to the series' protagonist. This bond functions very similarly to her relationship with Wen Ning; she is absolutely savage to him still (she told him to get radish seeds from the market, where are the radish seeds?? why did you suddenly drag a boyfriend back?? you're an imbecile???) but eventually Wen Qing sacrifices herself to protect both him and her surviving family members. Again, this kind of loyalty is hard-won: Wei Wuxian not only resurrected her dead brother, but gave up a comfortable life to advocate for her and the other Wen Sect remnants. But the point is that Wen Qing also has the capacity to be fiercely protective of her loved ones. While she's relatively apathetic during comfortable times, when the going gets tough she shows that she knows exactly who she cares about- and exactly how far she's willing to go to keep those people out of trouble.
(Not that it matters in the end, they end up in all sorts of trouble anyway.)
Very little is said about her being a physician- and certainly, Wen Qing's kind of self-interest sounds incompatible with the image of a doctor. From what we know, her high status suggests that her main patients would’ve been her own family or sect members. It’s likely that she dislikes the politics of the martial arts world, being close to all of that (and appearing very Done with it) as she is. I am headcanoning that helping civilians is what she prefers to do, but never really got to do thanks to the plot. But she’s not idealistic in the least, and so isn’t too fussed about this being her lot. Even at the end of her life Wen Qing admits, without much sentimentality, that she’s lived the past few months on borrowed time. Whatever capacity for love and loyalty she has is undergirded by a kind of rock-solid pragmatism- that this is Ancient China, everyone has a shit life, might as well suck it up. Her brother becomes like, a Buddha-damned zombie, but that’s just how it is on this bitch of an earth, you know?
Writing Sample: tdm toplevel!