sometimesophie:Some stories claim the Yiling Laozu has a fixed appearance, beyond a man with dark ro
sometimesophie:Some stories claim the Yiling Laozu has a fixed appearance, beyond a man with dark robes and a mask, but they do not agree. Handsome or hideous, stocky or svelte. [Lan Wangji] has seen image after image, most hulking and fearsome, a few oddly lovely. More often, the stories agree that the differences are a feature: the Yiling Laozu takes the face of someone you love.from @masala-and-thunderstorms‘s fic The Waters and the Wild, in which the Yiling Laozu is a Pied-Piper-like figure, myth made flesh, and absolutely chilling[ID: traditional drawing (ink, watercolor, and graphite) of Wei Wuxian as Yiling Laozu, leading an unnamed child by the hand. The child looks directly at the viewer with a curious expression; Yiling Laozu, meanwhile, has his back to the viewer and his face slightly turned to glare in the viewer’s direction. The set of his shoulders and body, dressed in swirling black robes, radiates protectiveness and danger. Both figures are surrounded by black, smoky swirls of resentful energy. The only flashes of color in the whole image are the red ribbon in Yiling Laozu’s hair and the red tassle on his ghost flute Chenqing, which he carries tucked into his belt. /end ID] -- source link
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