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* OutWithABang: As in canon, Jin Guangshan is a victim of this. ''Unlike'' in canon, it was completely consensual.
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* OutWithABang: As in canon, Jin Guangshan is a victim of this. ''Unlike'' in canon, it was completely consensual.during consensual sex with a prostitute.
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* {{Patricide}}: Jin Guangyao, egged on by his co-conspirator Huaisang, ends up committing this, poisoning his father and causing him to die of an overexertion-induced heart attack.
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It can be found [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23156497?view_full_work=true here]].
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It can be found read on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23156497?view_full_work=true here]].
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Huaisang and Guangyao openly wonder at one point just what Yanli sees in Jin Zixuan.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Huaisang and Guangyao openly wonder at one point just what Yanli sees in Jin Zixuan.Zixuan.
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--> '''Nie Huaisang''': (To Jin Guangyao) He thought the war would make me take things seriously, but I’m afraid I’m just a lost cause.
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--> '''Nie Huaisang''': (To Jin Guangyao) He [Nie Mingjue] thought the war would make me take things seriously, but I’m afraid I’m just a lost cause.
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* TitleDrop: In chapter 2:
--> '''Nie Huaisang''': (To Jin Guangyao) He thought the war would make me take things seriously, but I’m afraid I’m just a lost cause.
--> '''Nie Huaisang''': (To Jin Guangyao) He thought the war would make me take things seriously, but I’m afraid I’m just a lost cause.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Huaisang. See the page quote. It's part of a longer rant about how he'd love to just catch birds and paint fans, but 'can't' given the fact that Jin Guangshan is a danger to his brother.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Huaisang. See the page quote. It's part of a longer rant about how he'd love to just catch birds and paint fans, but 'can't' can't given the fact that Jin Guangshan is a danger to his brother.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Inverted. Huaisang has ''little'' brother instinct, and is fiercely protective of Nie Mingjue. One of the few times he drops his mask around Mingjue is when Mingjue went to Nightless City without him.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Inverted. Huaisang has ''little'' brother instinct, and is fiercely protective of Nie Mingjue. One of the few times he drops his mask around Mingjue is when Mingjue went goes to Nightless City without him.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Huaisang. See the page quote. It's part of a longer rant about how he'd love to just catch birds and paint fans, but cant given the fact that Jin Guangshan is a danger to his brother.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Huaisang. See the page quote. It's part of a longer rant about how he'd love to just catch birds and paint fans, but cant 'can't' given the fact that Jin Guangshan is a danger to his brother.
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* PartingFromConsciousnessWords: Nie Huaisang and Jin Guangyao have a short back-and-forth right after the latter drugs the former.
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* PartingFromConsciousnessWords: Nie Huaisang and Jin Guangyao have a short back-and-forth right after the latter former drugs the former.latter.
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* PartingFromConsciousnessWords: Nie Huaisang and Jin Guangyao have a short back-and-forth right after the latter drugs the former.
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** Jin Zixun also does himself no favors, to the point that one really doesn't feel sorry for him even ''if'' he's the fall guy for the plot against Guangshan.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: What Huaisang talks Guangyao into being, reasoning that it ''sucks'' to actually be sect leader. In successfully doing so, he saves Jin Zixuan's life.
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* NeverGetsDrunk: Downplayed. Huaisang has a higher alcohol tolerance than average, which he uses to his advantage. However, he gets at least tipsy in the fic after consuming a pretty copious amount with Guangyao.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Xichen, who is usually very even-tempered, is ''furious'' when he hears that Jin Guangyao has been used as a poison tester for his own father in the Jin Clan.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Xichen, who is usually very even-tempered, is ''furious'' when he hears that Jin Guangyao has been used as a poison tester for his own father in the Jin Clan.
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* PottyMouth: Huaisang is considerably more swear-y around Guangyao than he is around everyone else.
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* SirSwearsalot: Huaisang is considerably more swear-y around Guangyao than he is around everyone else.
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''The Lost Cause'' is an ''[[Series/TheUntamed Untamed]]'' fanfic by [[=KouriArashi=]]. It focuses on the character Nie Huaisang as he follows the progress of Meng Yao, later known as Jin Guangyao, up to the events soon after the Sunshot Campaign.
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''The Lost Cause'' is an ''[[Series/TheUntamed Untamed]]'' fanfic by [[=KouriArashi=]].[=KouriArashi=]. It focuses on the character Nie Huaisang as he follows the progress of Meng Yao, later known as Jin Guangyao, up to the events soon after the Sunshot Campaign.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Of a sort. Nie Huaisang grows into his manipulator role earlier than in canon, and plays a major role in the Sunshot Campaign as a scout.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Jin Guangyao's descent into villainy is arrested, leaving him a much less evil person.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Jin Guangyao's descent into villainy is arrested, leaving him a much less evil person.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: Platonic example with Huaisang and Jin Guangyao, who are both brilliant manipulators and who slowly but surely develop a genuine bond over the course of the fic.
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* FrameUp: The plan features one of these,
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* SpitTake: Jin Guangyao's reaction when Huaisang suggests he's got a praise kink while they're drinking together. [[https://littlesmartart.tumblr.com/image/632881106797133824 It has an illustration]].
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''The Lost Cause'' is an ''[[Series/TheUntamed Untamed]]'' fanfic by {{=KouriArashi=}}. It focuses on the character Nie Huaisang as he follows the progress of Meng Yao, later known as Jin Guangyao, up to the events soon after the Sunshot Campaign.
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''The Lost Cause'' is an ''[[Series/TheUntamed Untamed]]'' fanfic by {{=KouriArashi=}}.[[=KouriArashi=]]. It focuses on the character Nie Huaisang as he follows the progress of Meng Yao, later known as Jin Guangyao, up to the events soon after the Sunshot Campaign.
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''The Lost Cause'' is an ''[[Series/TheUntamed Untamed]]'' fanfic by {{KouriArashi}}. It focuses on the character Nie Huai
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''The Lost Cause'' is an ''[[Series/TheUntamed Untamed]]'' fanfic by {{KouriArashi}}. {{=KouriArashi=}}. It focuses on the character Nie Huai
Huaisang as he follows the progress of Meng Yao, later known as Jin Guangyao, up to the events soon after the Sunshot Campaign.
[[ForWantOfANail Then he overhears the Jins plotting]].
Fearful for his brother's life, Huaisang decides to team up with Jin Guangyao to get rid of the bigger threat, Jin Guangshan. Being [[ManipulativeBastard who they both are]], it's not that difficult.
It can be found [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23156497?view_full_work=true here]].
[[ForWantOfANail Then he overhears the Jins plotting]].
Fearful for his brother's life, Huaisang decides to team up with Jin Guangyao to get rid of the bigger threat, Jin Guangshan. Being [[ManipulativeBastard who they both are]], it's not that difficult.
It can be found [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23156497?view_full_work=true here]].
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--> Listen. I never lied about who I was until everything went to hell. I’m soft and lazy and I’m ''fine'' with being that way. But at some point you’ve got to take a stand, you know? -- '''Nie Huaisang'''
''The Lost Cause'' is an ''[[Series/TheUntamed Untamed]]'' fanfic by {{KouriArashi}}. It focuses on the character Nie Huai
!! ''The Lost Cause'' provides the following tropes:
* AssholeVictim: At least two: Jin Yan, who made Jin Guangyao eat a whole hot pepper when he made her food too spicy, and the Nie Master of swords, as in canon. There are references to the Jin Clan's dwindling ranks, suggesting there are a lot more of these. And, of course, Jin Guangshan.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Inverted. Huaisang has ''little'' brother instinct, and is fiercely protective of Nie Mingjue. One of the few times he drops his mask around Mingjue is when Mingjue went to Nightless City without him.
* BrilliantButLazy: Huaisang. See the page quote. It's part of a longer rant about how he'd love to just catch birds and paint fans, but cant given the fact that Jin Guangshan is a danger to his brother.
* FireForgedFriends: Huaisang and Guangyao end up actually befriending one another in the wake of the fic.
* MythologyGag: [[spoiler: Huaisang's method of getting rid of Jin Zixun in the fic is the ''exact'' same method he uses to get rid of Jin Guangyao in ''The Untamed'']].
* OutWithABang: As in canon, Jin Guangshan is a victim of this. ''Unlike'' in canon, it was completely consensual.
* PottyMouth: Huaisang is considerably more swear-y around Guangyao than he is around everyone else.
* ShipperOnDeck: Huaisang likes the idea of Xichen and Guangyao together.
* SlippingAMickey: Huaisang does this to Jin Guangyao, in part to prove it to him that he is a force to be reckoned with.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Huaisang and Guangyao openly wonder at one point just what Yanli sees in Jin Zixuan.
''The Lost Cause'' is an ''[[Series/TheUntamed Untamed]]'' fanfic by {{KouriArashi}}. It focuses on the character Nie Huai
!! ''The Lost Cause'' provides the following tropes:
* AssholeVictim: At least two: Jin Yan, who made Jin Guangyao eat a whole hot pepper when he made her food too spicy, and the Nie Master of swords, as in canon. There are references to the Jin Clan's dwindling ranks, suggesting there are a lot more of these. And, of course, Jin Guangshan.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Inverted. Huaisang has ''little'' brother instinct, and is fiercely protective of Nie Mingjue. One of the few times he drops his mask around Mingjue is when Mingjue went to Nightless City without him.
* BrilliantButLazy: Huaisang. See the page quote. It's part of a longer rant about how he'd love to just catch birds and paint fans, but cant given the fact that Jin Guangshan is a danger to his brother.
* FireForgedFriends: Huaisang and Guangyao end up actually befriending one another in the wake of the fic.
* MythologyGag: [[spoiler: Huaisang's method of getting rid of Jin Zixun in the fic is the ''exact'' same method he uses to get rid of Jin Guangyao in ''The Untamed'']].
* OutWithABang: As in canon, Jin Guangshan is a victim of this. ''Unlike'' in canon, it was completely consensual.
* PottyMouth: Huaisang is considerably more swear-y around Guangyao than he is around everyone else.
* ShipperOnDeck: Huaisang likes the idea of Xichen and Guangyao together.
* SlippingAMickey: Huaisang does this to Jin Guangyao, in part to prove it to him that he is a force to be reckoned with.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Huaisang and Guangyao openly wonder at one point just what Yanli sees in Jin Zixuan.
