The Untamed and the novel it’s based upon, Mo Dao Zu Shi, give us glimpses of many interesting female characters, but the story never centers them and most of them die (or are dead before the story starts). So I've looked to fanfic to fill some of the gaps, expand upon the lives of these women and sometimes give them better lives. While fanfic communities have a tendency to focus on stories about men, fic can be a place to explore un- or under-developed characters, and with such a large fandom if even only a small fraction of the fic centers female characters it adds up to a lot of fic.
As I started working on a rec list focusing on the female characters of the drama, I realized that there was so much that I would need to break it down into several lists.
For this first list, I choose to focus on the older generation, the mothers of the main characters and older. Most of these characters have small roles. Fictional mothers are often absent or dead, and these characters are not exceptions, so I love fic that explores their lives! Although the details of these women's stories are sketchy in the source material (or perhaps because of it) fic writers have created wonderful stories about them.
There's fic that I love that explores the impact of these women on their descendants, but for this list I wanted to focus on fic that centered the women themselves.
The list is divided into sections based on groups of characters, to make things easier to find.
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