for-the-flail:

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!”