Guardian Fic, Chapter 1/?
With a Twist of the Kaleidoscope by Naye
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences (for now…)
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shěn Wēi/Zhào Yúnlán
Characters: Shěn Wēi, Zhào Yúnlán, Dà Qìng, Yè Zūn, The SID Team
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Angst with a Happy Ending, Mutual Pining, Slow Burn, (…yeah the established relationship comes before the pining and slow burn), Mind Manipulation, Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe – Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Overthinking Guardian canon, Good thing fic has an unlimited f/x budget, word count: 50k-100k
Summary:
Ye Zun tries a different tactic to defeat his brother, that may tear apart everything Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan have worked to build between them.
“Trust me,” Zhao Yunlan says.
Shen Wei actually huffs at him, as if he is being so patently ridiculous that fear-tinged fury would be too dignified an answer. “How can I trust you?”
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And so it begins… The final line here was the third #fictober18 prompt, and quite derailed my participation in that particular project. Because apparently you can’t just write a nice angsty scene with no explanation or resolution and leave it at that?
“But @xparrot ,” I tried to argue. “If I do that I’m going to end up writing a fix-it for the entire show!”
Somehow that wasn’t a persuasive enough argument not to write, and here I am, over 60k words deep
and ready to drag everyone down with me. And how is it going? Well, good enough to win such praise as “you managed to make this at least 80% less stupid than it is in the show!”
Tag: guardian fic
[Guardian ficlet] On the superiority of cats
A thing that is now happening: arguing tiny points of characterization – actually, not even that, just a random background details? – by ficlet. Here’s my contribution, and @xparrot had better post hers soon because it is adorable and breaks my heart. (I am maybe even willing to concede the point because it’s so good!)
“Hey Da Qing, it says here that cats can’t see color,” Yunlan says, frowning.
“They can’t.”
“But you can!”
“Yashou see color.”
“Oh. Okay. Well – do you know why cats like to knead things with their paws? It says that perhaps, um. Yeah, they don’t really know?”
“It feels good,” Da Qing says with a sniff. “Why else would you do it?”
“Mm, I don’t know. It says cats rub their faces on things to make them smell like them…?”
“And it feels good when things smell like you. Right?”
Yunlan giggles. “Da Qing. Humans can’t smell stuff like that!”
“Really?! But I thought that’s why you kept stealing my blanket! Because you wanted it to smell more like you.”
“Da Qing. We only have one blanket. It’s not your blanket.”
“I put my smell on it the night we got it from Mrs Wang!”
“How was I supposed to know?!”
Da Qing huffs. “Your sense of smell really is pathetic.”
“That’s because I only have… Let’s see. What did they say? Oh yeah. Five million smell-things. Um. Those.”
“And cats?” Da Qing asks, smug.
“Up to – 80 million?! Wow. That’s a lot.”
Da Qing preens. “Cats really are superior in every way,” he says.
“You sleep on average sixteen hours a day,” Yunlan retorts.
“See,” Da Qing says. “Superior.”
Lady Karasu 