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Fandom: Guardian (TV)
General notes:
1. I liked Guardian's ending! I am happy to see works that engage with it or consider what would happen post-canon in a canon-compliant manner. However, I am also completely fine with fix-its and canon-divergence and whatever other ways of averting the canon ending makes you happiest as a writer; I love the wild variety of ways people take things. :)
2. I do like weilan as a ship; I’m not asking specifically for it because it's so common and I am incurably here for rarepairs and team-centric gen. <3 Feel free to include weilan anyway, though!
Chu Shuzhi/Ye Huo
My favorite rarepair! I mostly am interested in them post-canon, because the way they're positioned to help rebuild after everything went down is super interesting. I think that they've got a lot of similarities in how they can approach the world (protective, combative, honestly quite sweet under the gruff/macho exterior) and I think that they both have an incredible amount of potential as mentors for young/disadvantaged people.
I would love something about them working together, whether that's on a case for the SID or on a personal project like rebuilding Yehuo's fighting gym. I think they're great for slow-burn and the kind of romance where you just sort of fall into a Thing without quite naming it, and then when someone else names it you're like "...oh shit, I guess you're right?" and the like. I think they'd be really interesting to see as roommates going about their lives and supporting each other.
Chu Shuzhi /& Shen Wei
I love Chu Shuzhi's relationship with Shen Wei/the Envoy! It's so complicated and mostly just gestured at in the show!
In many ways I'm more interested in the Envoy side of this than the Shen Wei side, because I'm just so very here for loyalty kink. Pre-canon stories about what Chu Shuzhi's relationship with the Envoy was (how/why the Envoy found him to so dramatically rescue him from prison, how/why CSZ was the one sent to the SID, what meetings between them were like, etc.) would be absolutely fantastic to me!
I'd also love something about CSZ's feelings about the reveal. How does he take it? How does it change things? (How doesn't it change things?)
I'm deeply fond of the idea of CSZ doing bondage things with his strings. I'm interested by that in both a non-sexual kink way and here for it if you want to go a more sexual route.
Ya Qing /& Ying Chun
Friends to enemies to friends with lovers sandwiched in and around all those things...? They just have so much history, and so much potential chemistry, and I'd love to know how their relationships have evolved over all the time they've known each other.
Ya Qing/Zhu Hong
Mostly post-canon, once Zhu Hong is the Yashou leader! :D Ya Qing's begrudging respect for Zhu Hong is very fun, and I think they'd clash and work together in really interesting ways. It's enemies to allies to friends to lovers, pretty much, and if you wanted to move lovers elsewhere that's cool too. :)
Special Investigation Division | SID Ensemble
I adore the whole group together! This is my casefic and shenanigans request, where I honestly just want anything that focuses on the team as a whole and the family atmosphere they have.
Pre-canon cases, unseen during-canon cases, post-canon cases—anything you'd like! Or stories about them integrating together; movie nights, food eaten together at 1am because that's when the case finished, dares and bets and in-jokes they have. Show me the team working together to clean up the SID and finding souveniers of old cases! Maybe a Rashoman story, where they all tell their own takes on one case/event? That'd be incredibly fun.
Shen Wei & Ye Zun
I'm sure Shen Wei's tried to talk to Ye Zun about all the shit that went down before. How did that go? How did that fail?
Ye Zun's obsessed with Shen Wei, and he channels all of that into loathing. What would reconciliation look like?
Chu Shuzhi
He is my favorite, and I love him, and I would love more about his pre-canon life! What was his childhood like? We're given occasional mentions that he's from a puppetmaster line; did all his family have similar powers? How did he learn his powers? Did he ang Chu Nianzhi trick people a lot? What were they planning on doing before Nianzhi died? What was prison like for Chu Shuzhi? What was it like, later, adapting to Haixing life?
Shen Wei
I'd love something about YOHE!Shen Wei becoming the Black-Cloaked Envoy! That sounds very interesting! Or more about what it was like to be unburied and wake up and see what Dixing is. How did he adapt? What role was he thrust into, and how much did he like it?
Or Shen Wei finding a place in Haixing! How did he get his degree? Why did he pick the field he did? How did he end up teaching? What are his favorite parts of being in Haixing? How often does he go between Dixing and Haixing?
Ye Huo
Literally anything about him! How did he end up in Haixing? What resulted in his scar? Why does he wear that mask? Why did he end up in an underground fighting ring, of all places? What does he do post-canon?
Worldbuilding and/or Meta: Dixingren Powers
Any headcanons about how they work! Are they lineage-related? What powers them? Who gets them, and how are they awakened? Are some kinds of powers more common than others?
Worldbuilding and/or Meta: The Hallows
Very weird objects. Please tell me about how you think they work, and why they react to some people but not others, and how/why they were created to begin with. Or show me people doing research on them and trying to figure out that kind of stuff!
Worldbuilding and/or Meta: Ye Olde Haixing Era
Very cool era! I'd love to know more about the politics of this era and how/why the whole war started! Or about how Dixing and Haixing split off from each other. I dunno! Anything about Dixingren and Yashou and Haixingren figuring out how to live with each other/adapt to the other groups being around…
Fandom: Detective L
General Prompts
- MORE CASEFIC! :D I love casefic and mysteries a lot! I am happy to see them in as much (or as little) detail as you're willing to write them!
- What do you think s2 would've been like? Please tell me what you think happens after the end of the show. I have many questions and no answers and am happy to hear your take on them.
Huo Wensi
- I love Huo Wensi. I loved him from his first introduction, when he was clever and competent and a match for Luo Fei, and I kept loving him all the way through the reveal of his true role. He's at his most beautiful when the violence and cruelty he conceals comes out to play.
- I love how smart he is, and how patient he is, and how good he is at seeming like a normal charming member of society.
- What are his plans? What is he doing? Why is he doing any of this? We get basically no answers about this in canon, beyond him also investigating Captain, but I’d love your theories!
- Especially the prison stuff! How did he come to this conclusion? What was it like for him in prison? How did he accomplish his goals in prison? Did he have any escape plans? Did he have any communication outside of the prison? Just, there's a lot left unexplored there, and I'm fascinated about all of it.
- How did he set up the explosives on the bridge? Did he get someone else to do it? How pre-planned was that whole thing, and what did he expect to happen?
- What’s he doing post-canon?
Huo Wensi + Luo Fei
(romantic, platonic, whatever—so long as they’re having emotions about each other, I’m here for it!)
- I have yet to figure out how to articulate my feelings about the tangle of obsession that binds these two together. Love and frustration and desire and respect all blended up; they can't let go of each other but that doesn't mean they necessarily like each other.
- I fully believe that they had a pre-canon relationship and an extremely messy break-up. I do not know anything beyond that. Please tell me anything you'd like about this.
- How did they meet for the first time? Was it on a case, or something else?
- How many cases did they solve together before things broke bad?
- They both have a Captain obsession, in their own ways; did they enable each other in this?
- I love how smart they both are, and how well they know each other.
- I would like them to tear each other apart (verbally, physically) but not be able to meaningfully harm each other because they need each other too much (to solve a case, for personal reasons)
- Post-canon cat-and-mouse as they chase each other around the city
- Post-canon team-up for any reason where they're exceptionally petty about it (bonus points if this team-up is accomplished by Huo Wensi letting Luo Fei catch him so that they can have a Conversation)
- My original moderately incoherent prompt I gave for rarepairs is also still true: "They are both very smart. I love them working together. I love casefic. I love seeing the specific weird trust Luo Fei has in Huo Wensi's abilities. I want to know more about WTF Huo Wensi is planning at any given point in time. I want them to have inadvisable sex and/or fake-date as part of cover for a case. I want them interacting and I don't know if I care if it's as rivals or as friends or what the emotion is so long as they're having Feelings at each other and maybe kissing about it (or pointedly not kissing about it)."
Ben Jieming & Luo Fei & Qin Xiaoman
- I love them! They're like siblings! It's so nice!
- Casefic, obviously, is great for them
- I'd love something in the time that got skipped over in the last arc: What was it like to have Wei Feng introduced into this dynamic? What do they think of him?
- I also love them just hanging out and being friends! Teasing each other, leaning on each other, playing games and making bets... anything like that is super fun!
- We don't see much of how Qin Xiaoman and Benjamin really become friends, and I'd especially love to see more of that. Quiet times in the morgue, mutual worrying over Luo Fei, other shared hobbies...?
- I'd have a lot of fun reading about any of them being forced to Take A Break for a while. Have a vacation. Something like that. (It probably wouldn't work, but I enjoy that kind of interaction!)
Fandom: Detective L/DMBJ Crossover
(probably mostly 老九门 | Old Nine Gates, due to that being the one set in the same time period as Detective L, but feel free to draw inspiration from any of the shows/lore)
I’d love to see something where Huo Wensi is a member of the Huo family of the Mystic Nine. How does that affect his business? Is that why he’s scheming the way he is? Does he get pulled into Mystic Nine politics and/or tomb nonsense?
Or something where Luo Fei gets called in to work a case that turns out to be about a Tomb Nonsense Item being stolen! I think it’d be interesting seeing Luo Fei deal with the minor supernatural shenanigans that show up all throughout DMBJ; he, like most Holmesian characters, works best when he understands the rules and limitations of the world that supernatural stuff sets aside.
I have no further prompts, just a lot of curiosity about what this might look like, and how tomb bullshit would integrate into Detective L’s much more mundane world.
Fandom: The Rebel
I love this show and how clever and competent people are, and how many things could be different if someone trusted a little more or a little less at any given point in time.
Meta is extremely welcome here! So are picspams/gifsets of extremely emotional moments! Or vids exploring any of these relationships! This is a small fandom and I’ll just be delighted to see your take on my prompts! <3
When I’m writing prompts with multiple characters, I’m generally open to any relationship interpretation that makes sense: &, /, rivals, etc. There are a few exceptions where I’ll ask for a specific kind of relationship by marking it in the section title, but otherwise I just want fic engaging with both of them, or their thoughts about each other, or otherwise focusing on the interplay between them. The specific type of relationship is immaterial, because these people rarely have simple emotions anyway.
Lin Nansheng + Chen Moqun
Ship them, mentorship them, write them as antagonists and foils… They spend the whole show circling each other, and I love every bit of it. Master/puppy, intense devotion, the inability to ever actually shoot each other no matter how many times they point guns at each other’s faces…
I don’t know that I have a coherent prompt for these two. I just want MORE, you know?
Lin Nansheng & Lan Xinjie
I love their platonic/intense-and-complicated-friendship relationship.
Among other things, Lan Xinjie deserved better. I’d love something about their life together, after they end up married for convenience. He teaches her to shoot. They play roles. They mostly leave each other alone, though, I get the impression. What’s that all like? What would it be like if they had a happier ending, where her son didn’t die but they ended up marrying to keep society from being shitty to them regardless?
Lin Nansheng + Zhu Yizhen
I love their pining and the quiet moments of Spy Romance they get. I don’t know if they’d be happy together. I hope they could be happy together. I wish they’d gotten a chance to find out.
Early-days relationship stuff is lovely, and I honestly would’ve enjoyed more about Lin Nansheng’s double life when he’s Xu Liwen. Does he ever want to stay in that identity? What would the next steps of his entry into communism have been like, if the situation had allowed him to continue progressing?
Later, each time they meet again, there’s this mutual desire and memory binding them together, but which they never get to act upon. What if they did? What would change? How could they justify that to themselves and each other, when their truest loves are Duty and Patriotism?
Lin Nansheng + Zuo Qiming
Military academy boyfriends! I’d love something about their friendship during the Nice Simple Days before they got recruited for Spy Shenanigans.
They didn’t quite get to be double-agents together, but what if they did? I’d love more about the period of time where Lin Nansheng is slowly falling for communism and Zuo Qiming is quietly not-exactly-recruiting him.
Lin Nansheng & Ji Zhongyuan
Lao-Ji had his eye on Lin Nansheng from the beginning. As mentioned in the LNS+ZYZ section, I’d be absolutely fascinated by an AU where Lin Nansheng joined the communists earlier (as a spy/double agent for the nationalists) and how that would’ve affected things.
I also just really love every interaction they have once Lin Nansheng chooses to join the communists. I’d love more about their relationship, and the shadow of Gu Shenyan within it.
Lin Nansheng & Gu Shenyan
The complicated vibes of mentorship, suspicion, and comradeship! Everything they do is fascinating. I enjoy their relationship! I don’t have specific prompts; I just like how they interact and how intensely loyal Lin Nansheng becomes to Gu Shenyan by the end.
Ji Zhongyuan + Gu Shenyan
I ship these two old spy men (though I’m also happy to see them as friends) and I want everything about their history and relationship through the years. They’re both also much more dangerous than they pretend to be, and intensely intelligent and secretive.
Gu Shenyan + Chen Moqun
My favorite parts of their relationship are the complicated early bits where Chen Moqun is like “I must be suspicious of him but he’s been my friend for so long!” and Gu Shenyan sneaks around being genial and framing other people for work he absolutely did do.
I also like the way the show plays with loyalty to the country, since they’re both absolutely people who say they want the best for China but show it in different ways and prize different secondary elements. Chen Moqun will always choose survival. Gu Shenyan, offered a chance to survive, dies to give his cause a better chance.
Wang Shi’an + Chen Moqun
I love their relationship and how it’s always about power and who has control. They both want to be in control, and the periods of time when they’re struggling over it (and blackmailing each other) are absolutely fascinating. This is another one where I’m like “IDK, more?” because I think them attempting to gain the upper hand and using each other as tools is really fun to watch.
Chen Moqun
The slow breakdown of Chen Moqun through the show is glorious to see. I’d especially love more about his time with the Japanese, because he absolutely hated working for them but wanted to live too much to let himself die for his country. Something about his inner turmoil there would be great. (Is this solo request essentially: MAKE HIM SUFFER? maybe. a little bit. He can be in better positions during the requests that involve other people too…)
Meng An’nan
I would love to see more of Meng An’nan’s POV! His perspective on Being A Double Agent in general is fascinating and not something the show really has space for (since it’s about Lin Nansheng) but which I’d love to see a fanfic take on! Or a meta analysis of!
- Joining the communists to begin with
- His fake marriage with Zhu Yizhen
- Meetings with Chen Moqun
- The stretches of time when Chen Moqun couldn’t contact him and what he did
- Did he ever think about betraying Chen Moqun?
- He’s the dark mirror to Lin Nansheng (down to their relationships with Chen Moqun), succeeding where Lin Nansheng failed and failing where Lin Nansheng succeeded. Anything exploring that would be absolutely fantastic!
A Note Because I Looked It Up: He’s recruited by Chen Moqun in ep19 in a scene that lasts from ~5:00 until ~9:00. (Surprisingly close to the minute marks on both ends! Wild.)
His name was, at one point, Kuang Huidong. It was probably his real name, since Chen Moqun says he used it for 29 years (before he got fake-killed and sent to study in Berlin). He only studied at the military academy because Chen Moqun sponsored him. He disappears from the narrative for quite a while after this establishing scene. I’m absolutely fascinated by him.
(Me, quietly, as I write this section: Oh no I have an unexpected minor character fave now…)
Fandom: Zhu Yilong Gifsets/Vids
I just really love watching Zhu Yilong do martial arts and otherwise act in combat situations! I love how he looks when he does that! It’s great!
I am happy to see him either in a role (and don’t worry about spoilers) or just being himself! So long as he’s doing lovely athletic things, I’ll be happy. :)
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Does your account accept gifts? Yes
Medium Likes: Fic, Art, Meta, Gifsets, Vids
Medium DNWs: Audio-only (audio+transcript is fine!)
General Likes:
- Characters who are part of communities
- Established relationships
- Complicated relationships
- People taking care of each other
- Compassion and kindness, especially when it’s unexpected
- Dancing, art, music, etc.
- Battle couples/fight scenes
- Physicality (a focus on scars/muscles/fat/movement/the body)
- Highly skilled characters doing things they’re good at
- Spycraft, secret codes, double-agents, and hidden identities
- Casefic/Missionfic/Solving mysteries
- Loyalty, fealty, devotion
- Wingfic/wingkink
- Kink for kink's sake (no need for sex/romance)
- Dom/sub dynamics
- Sensation play
- Impact play
- Knifeplay
- Gunplay
- Danger/Adrenaline kink
- Alternate erogenous zones
- Clothing kink/clothed sex
- Mouths/kissing/biting/oral
- Rough/violent sex
- Magic being integrated into daily life
- Polyamory, aromantic relationships, asexual relationships, queerplatonic relationships, kink relationships
- Descriptions of nature (as metaphor or just because it's pretty)
- 1st person, 2nd person, epistolary, poetry, nonlinear storytelling
Art Likes:
- Draw my faves with wings and I will love you
- Tarot, symbology, dream imagery, illuminated manuscripts, and related things
- A character surrounded by items they carry/often interact with
- In-universe art! Formal portraiture, social media posts, anything of that sort.
- Characters being relaxed, happy, snuggling with their partner/friends, or otherwise having a good time.
- Characters interacting with animals
- Characters doing what they do best (crafting, fighting, working, etc.)
- I’m very happy to see art focusing on the scene at large and allowing the character/ship to be a smaller aspect of the whole
- Light! (dramatic B&W shadow-work, subtle dappled sunlight, a magical/mystical light-source...)
- Color! (jewel tones, neon, pastel, monochrome, highlights... I like it all)
- Black and white/Grayscale art! (making art read clearly when you aren't using color is awesome!)
- Lineless art awes me (it's hard for me!)
- Beautiful lineart delights me (but obviously isn't necessary)
DNWs:
- Unrequested non-canonical death of requested characters
- Teacher/student relationships being sexual and/or romantic
- Suicide/self-harm (if canonical: mentions are fine, but please don't focus on it!)
- Characters not being able to breathe (mild breathplay/holding breath is fine)
- Mind Control (this is about supernatural/magical control; stuff like Huo Wensi’s hypnotism tricks is fine)
- Incest
- Teenagers (~under 18) having sex with adults (~over 21)
- Underage sex (younger than 16)
- Ageplay
- Spanking
- Rimming
- Vomit, scat, piss (mentions in nonsexual contexts are fine)
- Fixed top/bottom roles (you don't need to show switching; just don't state that anyone's only one or the other)
- Flashing Gifs/Strobe Effects in visual media
Fandom: Guardian (TV)
General notes:
1. I liked Guardian's ending! I am happy to see works that engage with it or consider what would happen post-canon in a canon-compliant manner. However, I am also completely fine with fix-its and canon-divergence and whatever other ways of averting the canon ending makes you happiest as a writer; I love the wild variety of ways people take things. :)
2. I do like weilan as a ship; I’m not asking specifically for it because it's so common and I am incurably here for rarepairs and team-centric gen. <3 Feel free to include weilan anyway, though!
Chu Shuzhi/Ye Huo
My favorite rarepair! I mostly am interested in them post-canon, because the way they're positioned to help rebuild after everything went down is super interesting. I think that they've got a lot of similarities in how they can approach the world (protective, combative, honestly quite sweet under the gruff/macho exterior) and I think that they both have an incredible amount of potential as mentors for young/disadvantaged people.
I would love something about them working together, whether that's on a case for the SID or on a personal project like rebuilding Yehuo's fighting gym. I think they're great for slow-burn and the kind of romance where you just sort of fall into a Thing without quite naming it, and then when someone else names it you're like "...oh shit, I guess you're right?" and the like. I think they'd be really interesting to see as roommates going about their lives and supporting each other.
Chu Shuzhi /& Shen Wei
I love Chu Shuzhi's relationship with Shen Wei/the Envoy! It's so complicated and mostly just gestured at in the show!
In many ways I'm more interested in the Envoy side of this than the Shen Wei side, because I'm just so very here for loyalty kink. Pre-canon stories about what Chu Shuzhi's relationship with the Envoy was (how/why the Envoy found him to so dramatically rescue him from prison, how/why CSZ was the one sent to the SID, what meetings between them were like, etc.) would be absolutely fantastic to me!
I'd also love something about CSZ's feelings about the reveal. How does he take it? How does it change things? (How doesn't it change things?)
I'm deeply fond of the idea of CSZ doing bondage things with his strings. I'm interested by that in both a non-sexual kink way and here for it if you want to go a more sexual route.
Ya Qing /& Ying Chun
Friends to enemies to friends with lovers sandwiched in and around all those things...? They just have so much history, and so much potential chemistry, and I'd love to know how their relationships have evolved over all the time they've known each other.
Ya Qing/Zhu Hong
Mostly post-canon, once Zhu Hong is the Yashou leader! :D Ya Qing's begrudging respect for Zhu Hong is very fun, and I think they'd clash and work together in really interesting ways. It's enemies to allies to friends to lovers, pretty much, and if you wanted to move lovers elsewhere that's cool too. :)
Special Investigation Division | SID Ensemble
I adore the whole group together! This is my casefic and shenanigans request, where I honestly just want anything that focuses on the team as a whole and the family atmosphere they have.
Pre-canon cases, unseen during-canon cases, post-canon cases—anything you'd like! Or stories about them integrating together; movie nights, food eaten together at 1am because that's when the case finished, dares and bets and in-jokes they have. Show me the team working together to clean up the SID and finding souveniers of old cases! Maybe a Rashoman story, where they all tell their own takes on one case/event? That'd be incredibly fun.
Shen Wei & Ye Zun
I'm sure Shen Wei's tried to talk to Ye Zun about all the shit that went down before. How did that go? How did that fail?
Ye Zun's obsessed with Shen Wei, and he channels all of that into loathing. What would reconciliation look like?
Chu Shuzhi
He is my favorite, and I love him, and I would love more about his pre-canon life! What was his childhood like? We're given occasional mentions that he's from a puppetmaster line; did all his family have similar powers? How did he learn his powers? Did he ang Chu Nianzhi trick people a lot? What were they planning on doing before Nianzhi died? What was prison like for Chu Shuzhi? What was it like, later, adapting to Haixing life?
Shen Wei
I'd love something about YOHE!Shen Wei becoming the Black-Cloaked Envoy! That sounds very interesting! Or more about what it was like to be unburied and wake up and see what Dixing is. How did he adapt? What role was he thrust into, and how much did he like it?
Or Shen Wei finding a place in Haixing! How did he get his degree? Why did he pick the field he did? How did he end up teaching? What are his favorite parts of being in Haixing? How often does he go between Dixing and Haixing?
Ye Huo
Literally anything about him! How did he end up in Haixing? What resulted in his scar? Why does he wear that mask? Why did he end up in an underground fighting ring, of all places? What does he do post-canon?
Worldbuilding and/or Meta: Dixingren Powers
Any headcanons about how they work! Are they lineage-related? What powers them? Who gets them, and how are they awakened? Are some kinds of powers more common than others?
Worldbuilding and/or Meta: The Hallows
Very weird objects. Please tell me about how you think they work, and why they react to some people but not others, and how/why they were created to begin with. Or show me people doing research on them and trying to figure out that kind of stuff!
Worldbuilding and/or Meta: Ye Olde Haixing Era
Very cool era! I'd love to know more about the politics of this era and how/why the whole war started! Or about how Dixing and Haixing split off from each other. I dunno! Anything about Dixingren and Yashou and Haixingren figuring out how to live with each other/adapt to the other groups being around…
Fandom: Detective L
General Prompts
- MORE CASEFIC! :D I love casefic and mysteries a lot! I am happy to see them in as much (or as little) detail as you're willing to write them!
- What do you think s2 would've been like? Please tell me what you think happens after the end of the show. I have many questions and no answers and am happy to hear your take on them.
Huo Wensi
- I love Huo Wensi. I loved him from his first introduction, when he was clever and competent and a match for Luo Fei, and I kept loving him all the way through the reveal of his true role. He's at his most beautiful when the violence and cruelty he conceals comes out to play.
- I love how smart he is, and how patient he is, and how good he is at seeming like a normal charming member of society.
- What are his plans? What is he doing? Why is he doing any of this? We get basically no answers about this in canon, beyond him also investigating Captain, but I’d love your theories!
- Especially the prison stuff! How did he come to this conclusion? What was it like for him in prison? How did he accomplish his goals in prison? Did he have any escape plans? Did he have any communication outside of the prison? Just, there's a lot left unexplored there, and I'm fascinated about all of it.
- How did he set up the explosives on the bridge? Did he get someone else to do it? How pre-planned was that whole thing, and what did he expect to happen?
- What’s he doing post-canon?
Huo Wensi + Luo Fei
(romantic, platonic, whatever—so long as they’re having emotions about each other, I’m here for it!)
- I have yet to figure out how to articulate my feelings about the tangle of obsession that binds these two together. Love and frustration and desire and respect all blended up; they can't let go of each other but that doesn't mean they necessarily like each other.
- I fully believe that they had a pre-canon relationship and an extremely messy break-up. I do not know anything beyond that. Please tell me anything you'd like about this.
- How did they meet for the first time? Was it on a case, or something else?
- How many cases did they solve together before things broke bad?
- They both have a Captain obsession, in their own ways; did they enable each other in this?
- I love how smart they both are, and how well they know each other.
- I would like them to tear each other apart (verbally, physically) but not be able to meaningfully harm each other because they need each other too much (to solve a case, for personal reasons)
- Post-canon cat-and-mouse as they chase each other around the city
- Post-canon team-up for any reason where they're exceptionally petty about it (bonus points if this team-up is accomplished by Huo Wensi letting Luo Fei catch him so that they can have a Conversation)
- My original moderately incoherent prompt I gave for rarepairs is also still true: "They are both very smart. I love them working together. I love casefic. I love seeing the specific weird trust Luo Fei has in Huo Wensi's abilities. I want to know more about WTF Huo Wensi is planning at any given point in time. I want them to have inadvisable sex and/or fake-date as part of cover for a case. I want them interacting and I don't know if I care if it's as rivals or as friends or what the emotion is so long as they're having Feelings at each other and maybe kissing about it (or pointedly not kissing about it)."
Ben Jieming & Luo Fei & Qin Xiaoman
- I love them! They're like siblings! It's so nice!
- Casefic, obviously, is great for them
- I'd love something in the time that got skipped over in the last arc: What was it like to have Wei Feng introduced into this dynamic? What do they think of him?
- I also love them just hanging out and being friends! Teasing each other, leaning on each other, playing games and making bets... anything like that is super fun!
- We don't see much of how Qin Xiaoman and Benjamin really become friends, and I'd especially love to see more of that. Quiet times in the morgue, mutual worrying over Luo Fei, other shared hobbies...?
- I'd have a lot of fun reading about any of them being forced to Take A Break for a while. Have a vacation. Something like that. (It probably wouldn't work, but I enjoy that kind of interaction!)
Fandom: Detective L/DMBJ Crossover
(probably mostly 老九门 | Old Nine Gates, due to that being the one set in the same time period as Detective L, but feel free to draw inspiration from any of the shows/lore)
I’d love to see something where Huo Wensi is a member of the Huo family of the Mystic Nine. How does that affect his business? Is that why he’s scheming the way he is? Does he get pulled into Mystic Nine politics and/or tomb nonsense?
Or something where Luo Fei gets called in to work a case that turns out to be about a Tomb Nonsense Item being stolen! I think it’d be interesting seeing Luo Fei deal with the minor supernatural shenanigans that show up all throughout DMBJ; he, like most Holmesian characters, works best when he understands the rules and limitations of the world that supernatural stuff sets aside.
I have no further prompts, just a lot of curiosity about what this might look like, and how tomb bullshit would integrate into Detective L’s much more mundane world.
Fandom: The Rebel
I love this show and how clever and competent people are, and how many things could be different if someone trusted a little more or a little less at any given point in time.
Meta is extremely welcome here! So are picspams/gifsets of extremely emotional moments! Or vids exploring any of these relationships! This is a small fandom and I’ll just be delighted to see your take on my prompts! <3
When I’m writing prompts with multiple characters, I’m generally open to any relationship interpretation that makes sense: &, /, rivals, etc. There are a few exceptions where I’ll ask for a specific kind of relationship by marking it in the section title, but otherwise I just want fic engaging with both of them, or their thoughts about each other, or otherwise focusing on the interplay between them. The specific type of relationship is immaterial, because these people rarely have simple emotions anyway.
Lin Nansheng + Chen Moqun
Ship them, mentorship them, write them as antagonists and foils… They spend the whole show circling each other, and I love every bit of it. Master/puppy, intense devotion, the inability to ever actually shoot each other no matter how many times they point guns at each other’s faces…
I don’t know that I have a coherent prompt for these two. I just want MORE, you know?
Lin Nansheng & Lan Xinjie
I love their platonic/intense-and-complicated-friendship relationship.
Among other things, Lan Xinjie deserved better. I’d love something about their life together, after they end up married for convenience. He teaches her to shoot. They play roles. They mostly leave each other alone, though, I get the impression. What’s that all like? What would it be like if they had a happier ending, where her son didn’t die but they ended up marrying to keep society from being shitty to them regardless?
Lin Nansheng + Zhu Yizhen
I love their pining and the quiet moments of Spy Romance they get. I don’t know if they’d be happy together. I hope they could be happy together. I wish they’d gotten a chance to find out.
Early-days relationship stuff is lovely, and I honestly would’ve enjoyed more about Lin Nansheng’s double life when he’s Xu Liwen. Does he ever want to stay in that identity? What would the next steps of his entry into communism have been like, if the situation had allowed him to continue progressing?
Later, each time they meet again, there’s this mutual desire and memory binding them together, but which they never get to act upon. What if they did? What would change? How could they justify that to themselves and each other, when their truest loves are Duty and Patriotism?
Lin Nansheng + Zuo Qiming
Military academy boyfriends! I’d love something about their friendship during the Nice Simple Days before they got recruited for Spy Shenanigans.
They didn’t quite get to be double-agents together, but what if they did? I’d love more about the period of time where Lin Nansheng is slowly falling for communism and Zuo Qiming is quietly not-exactly-recruiting him.
Lin Nansheng & Ji Zhongyuan
Lao-Ji had his eye on Lin Nansheng from the beginning. As mentioned in the LNS+ZYZ section, I’d be absolutely fascinated by an AU where Lin Nansheng joined the communists earlier (as a spy/double agent for the nationalists) and how that would’ve affected things.
I also just really love every interaction they have once Lin Nansheng chooses to join the communists. I’d love more about their relationship, and the shadow of Gu Shenyan within it.
Lin Nansheng & Gu Shenyan
The complicated vibes of mentorship, suspicion, and comradeship! Everything they do is fascinating. I enjoy their relationship! I don’t have specific prompts; I just like how they interact and how intensely loyal Lin Nansheng becomes to Gu Shenyan by the end.
Ji Zhongyuan + Gu Shenyan
I ship these two old spy men (though I’m also happy to see them as friends) and I want everything about their history and relationship through the years. They’re both also much more dangerous than they pretend to be, and intensely intelligent and secretive.
Gu Shenyan + Chen Moqun
My favorite parts of their relationship are the complicated early bits where Chen Moqun is like “I must be suspicious of him but he’s been my friend for so long!” and Gu Shenyan sneaks around being genial and framing other people for work he absolutely did do.
I also like the way the show plays with loyalty to the country, since they’re both absolutely people who say they want the best for China but show it in different ways and prize different secondary elements. Chen Moqun will always choose survival. Gu Shenyan, offered a chance to survive, dies to give his cause a better chance.
Wang Shi’an + Chen Moqun
I love their relationship and how it’s always about power and who has control. They both want to be in control, and the periods of time when they’re struggling over it (and blackmailing each other) are absolutely fascinating. This is another one where I’m like “IDK, more?” because I think them attempting to gain the upper hand and using each other as tools is really fun to watch.
Chen Moqun
The slow breakdown of Chen Moqun through the show is glorious to see. I’d especially love more about his time with the Japanese, because he absolutely hated working for them but wanted to live too much to let himself die for his country. Something about his inner turmoil there would be great. (Is this solo request essentially: MAKE HIM SUFFER? maybe. a little bit. He can be in better positions during the requests that involve other people too…)
Meng An’nan
I would love to see more of Meng An’nan’s POV! His perspective on Being A Double Agent in general is fascinating and not something the show really has space for (since it’s about Lin Nansheng) but which I’d love to see a fanfic take on! Or a meta analysis of!
- Joining the communists to begin with
- His fake marriage with Zhu Yizhen
- Meetings with Chen Moqun
- The stretches of time when Chen Moqun couldn’t contact him and what he did
- Did he ever think about betraying Chen Moqun?
- He’s the dark mirror to Lin Nansheng (down to their relationships with Chen Moqun), succeeding where Lin Nansheng failed and failing where Lin Nansheng succeeded. Anything exploring that would be absolutely fantastic!
A Note Because I Looked It Up: He’s recruited by Chen Moqun in ep19 in a scene that lasts from ~5:00 until ~9:00. (Surprisingly close to the minute marks on both ends! Wild.)
His name was, at one point, Kuang Huidong. It was probably his real name, since Chen Moqun says he used it for 29 years (before he got fake-killed and sent to study in Berlin). He only studied at the military academy because Chen Moqun sponsored him. He disappears from the narrative for quite a while after this establishing scene. I’m absolutely fascinated by him.
(Me, quietly, as I write this section: Oh no I have an unexpected minor character fave now…)
Fandom: Zhu Yilong Gifsets/Vids
I just really love watching Zhu Yilong do martial arts and otherwise act in combat situations! I love how he looks when he does that! It’s great!
I am happy to see him either in a role (and don’t worry about spoilers) or just being himself! So long as he’s doing lovely athletic things, I’ll be happy. :)
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