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1. Lines Drawn In Darkness by wing_shadow_feline (alate_feline)

   Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Border Guards (1995) - Greg Egan  

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   16 Apr 2022

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   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Wen Ning & Wen Sect
   • Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn & Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín
   • Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín & Wēn Qíng
   • Wēn Cháo & Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín
   • Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín
   • Background & Cameo Characters
   • Wēn Qíng (Módào Zǔshī)
   • Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
   • Wēn Cháo (Módào Zǔshī)
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Canon Major Character Death
   • canon major character undeath
   • Murder
   • Self-Defense
   • hard choices
   • No Right Choices
   • Moral injury
   • Concentration Camps
   • References to Torture
   • POV character forced into being an accessory to torture
   • Betrayal
   • Self-Hatred
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • Poison
   • Ten Unforgivable Abominations
   • Injustice
   • Human Weapon
   • Philosophy
   • Survival
   • Oathbreaking
   • Aftermath of Betrayal
   • You Just Go On
   • Mass Graves
   • References to Suicide
   • Medical Torture
   • denial of medical care
   • Euthanasia
   • Digging graves
   • attempted genocide
   • Trauma
   • Dark
   • Traumatized Wen Ning
   • what you are in the dark
   • What Remains
   • when you have nothing
   • Hope
   • things worth dying for
   • Tragedy
   • tragic heroism
   • Choice
   • Canon-Typical descriptions of injuries
   • works with epigraph/epilog
   • dubious medical ethics
   • Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín-centric
   • Background Deaths of Children
   • Traumatized Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín
   • Doctor Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín
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   • Rated For Violence
   • song: chi zi | Newborn (CQL)
   • Red String of Fate
   • Free Will
   • Ambiguous Relationships
   • Birth
   • Mortality
   • Non-Linear Narrative
   • A bit meta
   • ghosts as a concept and a metaphor
   • Navel-Gazing Both Literal and Figurative
   • a bit inspired by Terry Pratchett
   • a bit inspired by BUJOLD Lois McMaster - Works
   • a bit inspired by Border Guards - Greg Egan

   Summary

   This is Wen Ning backstory. Chapter One explores some ambiguous family and other relationships. Chapter Two, which was originally the entire fic, is intentionally grim as hell. MIND THE TAGS.

   Feel free to comment with a question for clarification before reading.

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   "Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.” –Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion

   Series

   • Part 17 of Shadows (TEO-verse darkfic)
   • Part 87 of Through Each Other (TEO-verse)

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