The Untamed - Nickname Edition

[rheasilvia]

It took a surprisingly long time, but solo and I finally finished watching The Untamed. I really enjoyed it! So of course, there is a pressing issue I must adress: NICKNAMES.

For the purposes of clever (?) commentary, solo and I came up with a number of nicknames while watching. We replaced some with actual names in due course, but others stuck around till the very end. ;-) (I should add that few of them are complimentary - but my surprise fave is among those with a really bad nickname, so...)

• Stoneface


• Jin Douche


• Canary Guy


• Sulkmeister


• Pretty Evil Guy, or PEG for short - also known as Cray Evil Guy by solo (who failed to appreciate his charms)


• Jin Douche.2, or JD2


• Slimeface, also Slimedude or Slimer


• Cute Baby Cultivator, or CBC


• Jim, also known as Golden Guy - named Jim because of solo's passionate non-spellchecked outbursts of "I really hate jim"


• Bonus nickname I came up with too late, but that I wish I had though of in time: Soup Girl

I now have a number of burning questions for all of you. Namely:

1. Can you tell who these people are?*

2. Do you have nicknames for The Untamed characters?

3. Why does nobody appreciate my darling properly?

So many qestions!


*If anyone guesses all of the nicknames, I will write a drabble for them. ;-)

ETA: Unsurprisingly, there are spoilers in the comments! Just in case anyone is even slower than I in watching this. ;-)

Comments

[solo]

The perfectionist in me wants to look up Jim's name just to finally know what it is, but the H8R in me stops me looking it up every time because it doesn't deserve to be known.

[marycrawford]

Okay I have watched the series ONCE and I still barely know half the names? And am too lazy to look them up? so, have a very uninformative list:

Stoneface - LWJ, who I call Potato (I'm sorry,I feel guilty about it, don't @ me, I know he suffers (like a potato in pain))

Jin Douche - the fancy arrogant guy Soup Girl is in love with and wants to marry? Whatever his name is?

Canary Guy - Nie Huaisang? Who is our Secret Mastermind pretending to be a failboat, and I love him

Sulkmeister - WWX's stepbrother who never met a sulk he didn't like

Pretty Evil Guy - the guy who just hangs around blinding and torturing people for no reason except LOLs

Jin Douche 2: ummm

Slimeface: ummm not my darling Meng Yao, I hope, he is no slimeface, he is an innocent little snacc

Cute Baby Cultivator: WWX and LWJ's son the turnip

Jim, the golden guy: not a clue

Soup Girl: WWX's stepsister the rib soup queen

How did I do? XD

[goss]

Aww. LOL! Why you gotta do poor stoneface Lan Wangji like that? :|

Huh. Let's see. For the rest, my guesses would be...

Jin Douche - Jin Zixuan

Canary Guy - I have NO IDEA. Wei Wuxian?

Sulkmeister - Maybe Jiang Cheng?

Pretty Evil Guy - Xue Yang (He *is* pretty)

Jin Douche.2, or JD2 - er...Zixuan's son, Jin Ling. (Or maybe the arrogant cousin)

Slimeface, also Slimedude or Slimer - Meng Yao

Cute Baby Cultivator, or CBC - Lan Yuan

Jim, also known as Golden Guy - Jin Guangshan

Soup Girl - Jiang Yanli

[lauand]

I just want to comment, really quickly... DID YOU ACTUALLY THINK THEM HAVING THREE FUCKING NAMES WASN'T REALLY ENOUGH??????!!!!

[abyss_valkyrie]

I'm gonna try before reading through the comments,lol,mind you,I haven't finished past episode 22!
-Obviously,Lan Wangji.
-Jin Zixuan
-Wei Wuxian(I don't know,probably wrong about this but his happy face makes me think of yellows=canary,lol!)
-Jiang Cheng
-Xue Yang,maybe,or Jin Guangyao(I'm guessing because I actually like him even though I know he's eeeviiiil)
-Jin's kid,forgot his name.
-The bad guy?!Wen Chao?
-The cute one,Lan Sizhui?!
-don't know
-last but not the least,JIANG YANLIIIII!LOVE HER!I need a shijie like her in my life!

[ariunderscore]

I've already read through the comments, but Stoneface, Canary Guy (*hearts*), Sulkmeister (*hearts*), PEG and CBC (and SoupGirl!) were clear. And poor Meng Yao. :)

I started watching the series knowing I'd be into LWJ/WWX, and was then COMPLETELY blindsided by tons of other pairings and characters I ended up liking (most pained yell at Li: "Why do I like SmirkGuy so much all tied up and enjoying being patted down by WWX, WHYYYY??").

I used FluteGuy for WWX in a very early attempt to pimp Li into the fandom via songvid, but I think my main nickname was SmirkGuy. And of course there was also Mördergrübchen who I imprinted on as soon as he and LXC looked deeply at each other. These two are exhibit A and exhibit B of "why the fuck to I like them, also please, where is fixit fanfic for them???" *headdesks*

This fandom totally killed me with how much I like so many of the characters and pairings, and also how much I just want stories of LWJ and WWX being cute and together and _happy_. Just fluff is not usually my thing in fanfic, but in Untamed, for these 2? Please someone bury me in it.

I dipped a toe into the fanfic early October and there was the first week where I was *really* unproductive at work and I'm only now starting to slightly surface from reading my way through AO3. Li just keeps laughing at me being all *squee*. *pouts*