Mo Xuanyu (Reverance of the Gods)

## Mo Xuanyu

**Mo Cheng** (莫澄, *Mò Chéng*), courtesy name **Mo Xuanyu** (莫玄羽, *Mò Xuányǔ*) is the current leader of the Yiling Mo Clan, as well as being Mo Ziyi and Mo Sizhua's paternal half-uncle.

One of Jin Guangshan's illegitimate sons, Mo Xuanyu rose past the circumstances of his birth to become the clan adviser of his late cousin Mo Ziyuan and later on his successor as the Clan's current leader. Originally a disciple of the Lanling Jin, he was banished for improper conduct towards his older half-brother Jin Guangyao, though the relationship was not romantic due to Xuanyu's love for his later wife Yu Meihua of the Meishan Yu.

He is the only child born from the union between Jin Guangshan and the Second Lady Mo, making him the paternal half-brother of Jin Zixuan, Jin Guangyao, and Qin Su, Jiang Yanli's brother-in-law, as well as the uncle of Jin Ling and Jin Rusong. In addition he is the husband of Yu Meihua of the Meishan Yu. Through his daughter, Mo Xihua, he is the father-in-law of Jiang Cheng.

## Appearance

Mo Xuanyu is noted by Wei Wuxian to have an attractive, graceful face with upturned lips, though he stands a few centimeters shorter than Wei Wuxian did in his original body. Often painting his face white and rouging his cheeks, to give himself the appearance of a "hanged ghost" in order to terrify his cousin as a prank when they were younger, he would eventually grow out of this habit.

As the leader of the Yiling Wei, he is depicted carrying himself with graceful, elegant steps and a stern, yet forbidding manner. Dressing himself of robes of glacier-silver and white, with incantations stitched into the threads of the outer jacket to add speed and agility to the physical attributes of the user along with protecting them from low-level spiritual attacks. Additionally, he wears a guan inscribed with the symbol of the Yiling Mo, a Fleur-de-lis. He wields his sword Suhua that is adorned with a glacier-silver and white jade green-coloured tassel with the Yiling Mo's official Fleur-de-lis motif sewn onto it, from his left side while his whip Yunlai is wielded from his right side.

## Personality

Mo Xuanyu was once described as a lunatic by everyone who knew him, due to a combination of factors including his homosexuality and the eventual mental break he subsequently suffered at the hands of his abusive family following his expulsion from the Lanling Jin Clan. Despite this, Mo Xuanyu was noted to have been timid and cowardly, unable to resist his family's abuse.

This would change following the utimately death of his abusive aunt and uncle, as well as the subsequent events that would follow as a result of his cousin choosing to save Xuanyu instead of himself. His prespective on his abusive cousin entirely changed after Ziyuan got engaged to Yu Daiyu of the Meishan Yu and decided to make Xuanyu the successor to the newly created Yiling Mo Clan. After this point, Xuanyu although unable and unwilling to forgive his cousin for the prior abuse that he wrought on him, choose to tentatively place his trust in him.

In the present time, Mo Xuanyu is considered by the common people to be a gentle father and compassionate uncle, as well as a devout and faithful husband. His trust in his late cousin's decisions and that of his late sister-in-law's was so profound and strong that even in the present time, he despises those that speak ill of them instantly retaliating. Incredibly unyielding, Xuanyu has shown his utter lack of trust in the Lanling Jin and has allied himself with the Yunmeng Jiang and Qinghe Nie in the past to prevent the Jin Clan from attempting to seize Yiling Mo's territory from them. Any kind feelings that he affectionally once harbored towards his half-brothers were crushed after he was banished from the Lanling Jin, his hostility is so fercious that he even caused alarm by declaring that Lanling Jin will always remain an enemy of Yiling Mo for the actions taken against himself in the past.

Having long been without any kind of support system before his cousin earned his trust, he finds it hard to let other people in and is extremely reserved in public settings, calmly and stoically showing detachment to mortal cultivation affairs and even showing disdain towards clan leaders or simply people who waste his time.

## Trivia

* Even with his duties keeping him busy, Xuanyu has acquired a squad of juniors that he routinely takes Night Hunting and has trained one of the most proficent blind disciples, Bai Rong, who is part of the current generation of Junior cultivators.