Raising my cup, I beckon the bright moon: An Ode To Absent Friends

[aroberuka]

Title: An Ode To Absent Friends
Author: aroberuka
Word Count/Drabble Type: 100
Character(s)/Ship(s): Nie Huaisang & Wei Wuxian
Rating/Warnings: G; temporary character death (canon) & mentions of alcohol
Summary: It is a lovely night, and Wei Wuxian is dead.

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The moon looks lonely tonight; or maybe that’s just Huaisang. Wine these days lulls him into a maudlin state, a melancholic longing for the bygone days of childhood.

His brother had delivered the news with his customary bluntness. Wei Wuxian is dead. Jiang-zongzhu killed him. Such simple words, to cut so deep.

Wei-xiong always had a way with words, especially when it came to wine; Huaisang tries to imagine how he would have described this one, but the only words he can find are his own.

“Until we meet again, then,” he says, and leaves the rest to the poets.

Comments

[aroberuka]

Thank you!! I really like their early friendship bc it’s so *uncomplicated* when compared to Wei Wuxian’s other relationships; it’s not based on life debts / sect ties or anything, they just. get along. And yeah, between that friendship and his family’s unique cultivation style, I don't think Nie Huaisang would ever completely buy the Wei-Wuxian-has-declared-war-on-the-cultivation-world lie. If nothing else, he did still believe in Wei Wuxian’s sense of justice enough to entrust a big part of his revenge plan to him, albeit indirectly!