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Magnus Chase ([personal profile] summerdude) wrote2024-01-19 08:09 pm

(Almost) Everything Is Comin' Up Chase [closed post]

Magnus, triumphant, has finally managed to make some old bamboo sprout. With Drosera fed recently enough that she's not complaining of hunger and resting in her new favorite perch (lounging on his shoulder tucked right against his neck, her beak tangled in hair that is once again getting long), he sneaks it into the Mansion, hides it in a large gift-bag a closet gives him, and hangs it on Claudius and Galahad's doorknob with a quickly-jotted note that reads Claudius, What next? - MAGNUS CHASE.

Then, since he's already inside, he figures, why not wander around until he finds someone to talk to?
lightbearinglord: (against the world)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-01-24 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Lan Wangji raises both eyebrows just a little. He looks down at himself at Magnus' indication. He cannot imagine what Magnus is attempting to convey, so he only glances back at him and waits to see if he will complete the sentence.
lightbearinglord: (hanguang-jun)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-01-25 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
The corner of Lan Wangji's mouth twitches. "I do not know," he tells Magnus, very seriously.
lightbearinglord: (ethereal)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-01-25 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
A little surprised, Lan Wangji looks at Magnus in silence for a beat. "Thank you," he says, utterly sincere, "but none of those qualities lend themselves to diplomacy. I am stubborn. I don't care to waste words. I try to avoid lying."
lightbearinglord: (against the world)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-01-25 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
That distinction does, actually, clarify the issue considerably for Lan Wangji. "Mn. I also do not care for politics." He says this a little bit dryly, as he considers it exceedingly obvious.
lightbearinglord: (interrupted)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-01-25 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"I have known such men." Magnus is warm at his side. Lan Wangji watches Drosera as she continues to play. "Those who want power are the least suited to wielding it."
lightbearinglord: (over the shoulder)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-01-26 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
Lan Wangji gives Magnus a sidelong glance. "Would you like to explain what that means?" He can accept it if Magnus does not, but he may as well give him the opportunity.
lightbearinglord: (against the world)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-01-26 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
Magnus has said the word police to him before, but specifics seemed unimportant at the time. "I don't," Lan Wangji admits.
lightbearinglord: (profile)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-01-26 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Again, Lan Wangji has known such men, even if they went by different names and titles. Cultivators who receive requests for help and laugh if the reward is insufficient or the monster unglamorous; the Lanling Jin soldiers who rounded up the remaining members of the Wen clan and kept them like animals as recompense for a war already over; surely Wen Chao alone would qualify as a police officer, based on this description. He turns a little, just so that he can see Magnus' face. "And these police officers believed you had destroyed your own home," he says.
lightbearinglord: (against the world)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-01-26 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Lan Wangji is also faintly surprised, but he keeps that out of his own expression. "Of course." He has tried his best to remember everything Magnus has said to him.
lightbearinglord: (intent)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-01-27 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Lan Wangji's jaw tightens as he considers this. He can too easily imagine these police officers being cruel to Magnus, giving him no chances to defend himself. Just as with seemingly every powerful figure in Magnus' life, they were meant to protect him and they hurt him instead. He is a little too overcome with anger about it to speak; instead, he reaches for Magnus' hand.
lightbearinglord: (profile)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-01-27 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Mn." Lan Wangji can agree with that sentiment easily. "I have witnessed impossible cruelty from those in power." Honestly, he is not exactly prone to holding hands with anyone but Wei Ying -- and, notably, Claudius, once. Still, after the translation spell's recalcitrance the other day, it comes to him more easily now as a way to communicate with Magnus when words are failing him.
lightbearinglord: (in blue)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-01-27 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Lan Wangji nods with understanding. He thinks, for a moment or two, about everything they have just discussed. "You are brave," he says again, slightly more steely and insistent about it. For what he has endured, for remaining Middle Ground Guy despite the buffeting forces of gods and fate and multiple realms, for committing to finding a new path here and now.

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