I had the thought of doing a thread of “mdzs characters as musician horror stories” but then I realized all the characters would just be Wei Wuxian. I guess it could still be a thread? Wei Wuxian as musician horror stories I’ve watched happen?

OKAY WE’RE DOING THIS

1/ the pianist who got the flu the week they were performing a concerto but insisted on powering through so just had the piano moved farther from the orchestra and put a bowl on the floor of the stage in case they had to throw up (they thankfully did not): Wei Wuxian

2/ the (jazz) pianist who sprained their thumb playing basketball before a big concert and had to play the entire thing without using their thumb (truly only possible because jazz): Wei Wuxian

3/ the pianist who thought they were playing a pops concert w/the local symphony but discovered at rehearsal that there was a mixup and they had to play the entire Grieg concerto, so they stayed up 3 nights in a row learning it until the orchestra managed to find someone else:wwx

4/ the musician who was on multiple occasions nearly kicked out of piano stores because they looked “sketchy” so they had to name drop themself and then watch the store workers fall over themselves with embarrassment trying to make it up to them: Wei Wuxian

5/ the musician who in the middle of a performance forgot an entire section of the sonata they were playing so they just...made it up, and somehow no one even noticed: Wei Wuxian

6/ the musician who was playing one of their own compositions in concert with an ensemble but forgot how the piece went and had to ask someone else for the sheet music: Wei Wuxian

7/ the musician who ran their first ever marathon a few days before a concert but hadn’t trained at all for the marathon so could barely even move afterwards and had to practice basically lying down: Wei Wuxian

8/ the musician who somehow managed to go 25 years on faculty of a university before someone realized they didn’t have a college degree (they had assumed everyone knew but apparently not??)(they didn’t lose the job or anything so I guess this isn’t rly a horror story): Wei Wuxian

9/ the musician who almost missed a rehearsal at a festival because they were out for a run and a bear started following them so they had to loop around an extra-long way to escape the bear: Wei Wuxian

10/ the musician who had to borrow dress clothes from someone else for an entire leg of an international tour because they had forgotten their suitcase at a hotel somewhere in Tokyo: Wei Wuxian

11/ the night owl musician who constantly forgot about morning students, only woke up when they knocked at the door, and so taught half their lessons in pajamas while also cooking breakfast for themself and for the students if they were hungry too: Wei Wuxian

brief pause for a confession: these stories are not actually from different musicians. literally all of these happened to my dad. yeah I KNOW I always say he’s a total lwj, but uhhh maybe not? anyway I’ll try to think of stories from other people as well, but so far it’s just him

12/ (not a horror story, just very wwx): the musician (yeah still him) who heard the background music on a YouTube video and said “huh that sounds familiar where have I heard that before” and then it turned out the music was an imovie jingle he had written and recorded for apple

some fun context about my dad:
- he is way cooler than me
- he looks closer to my age than his own, which is the worst for me, personally
- far too many of my friends have hit on him
- I truly believe he is an actual genius
- he HATES attention—this is why he isn’t actually wwx

the irl backstory for story number 12 https://twitter.com/ericaceam/status/1388278190884495368

UM I just asked for the story behind this again and it’s EVEN MORE WILD. short version: he was running p fast down a hill and came up on a statue of a bear but then. IT WAS NOT A STATUE. I said “this was at X festival right?” and he said “oh no, that was the mountain lion.” WHAT https://twitter.com/ericaceam/status/1388188107233800204

I had also assumed this was a black bear, but he says he doesn’t think so bc he’s seen black bears before and this was much bigger than any he’s seen. YIKES??? he managed to get away and called a friend to pick him up and drive him back for his gig at Leonard Nimoy’s old house

when I first moved to nyc I was so excited to have a social life completely separate from my family. then the very 1st date I went on was w/ someone who turned out to be a musician who was a big fan of my dad & kept talking about him. yes I feel like i’m sizhui in this situation

I keep going off on backstory tangents, so here’s number 11 https://twitter.com/ericaceam/status/1388514030306930694