Trobadora's Wishlist

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Username: Trobadora
AO3 Username: Trobadora

Medium Likes: fic, art (including icons, graphics, gifsets ...), meta, resources, picspams (as prompted), recs, vids, fan crafts
Medium DNWs: audio-only media

General Likes: I love these canons, and particularly anything that looks at their details or jumps off from some detail.
For fic/art/etc. I prefer settings close to canon - canon-compliant or canon divergence. I love ensemble/team things as much as a focus on just two people.

types of fic/art/etc. content: missing scenes, codas, romance, porn (including porny plots/plotty porn), canon-related angst, canon divergence, action-adventure, canon-typical cases, post-canon settings, getting together, established relationship ...

favourite tropes: (should-be-)enemies to friends/lovers; found/chosen family; (mutual) protectiveness, (unexpected) gestures of loyalty; amnesia; time travel do-over; forced to work together/rely on each other; trapped together; hurt/comfort (especially if stoic characters remain stoic throughout); (unexpected) competence; BAMF characters; redemption ...

favourite themes: strange bedfellows; unlikely heroes; unlikely allies or friends or lovers; trust/friendship/alliances/relationships being tested; conflicting loyalties; making difficult choices; overcoming seemingly insurmountable differences or difficulties; willingness to sacrifice; against-all-odds relationships (particularly ones that shouldn't work out but somehow do) ...

for porn: I like improvised/unnegotiated/under-negotiated BDSM and explorations of power dynamics, but entirely vanilla is great, too. I'm generally looking for emotional intensity and a sense of connection, not particular sex acts.

for art: I love art that focuses on one tiny moment in canon and puts it in the spotlight, AU moments of what might have been, or missing scenes. Action or domestic, romantic or angsty or both. Characters touching, or looking at each other. I also love portraits, or for worldbuilding, depictions of scenery, objects, maps ... Or more symbolic artwork that doesn't depict any particular scene. Or art for my Guardian/adjacent fic!

for meta: I love anything that looks at canon details and their implications, or how various elements fit together, pointing out small overlooked elements, or possible points where things might have gone differently. Also anything involving cultural context/background that I might be missing, or translation meta.

General DNWs: permanent death of requested characters; partner betrayal; unrequested pairings for requested characters; humiliation; noncon; woobification; mundane AUs and other unrequested changes to the canon setting or premise; unrequited pining; fake dating; soulmates (except in the zhiji sense); mpreg; A/B/O; nonhuman characters becoming human; permanent separation of requested ships; unhappy endings (the Guardian ending isn't unhappy to me!); first or second person; in longer pieces, unmitigated fluff where all the characters' problems don't exist.


Fandom: Guardian (drama)

Fandom-specific DNWs: novel worldbuilding or characterisation; reincarnation; a focus on pining; Shen Wei being passive, naïve, submissive, shy and/or totally out of his depth (even in his youth); exclusive bottom Shen Wei; depowered Shen Wei.

Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan: I love how intense and weird these two are about each other, Shen Wei being BAMF, Zhao Yunlan being clever, both of them being competent and smart. Their time loop relationship and the way they both help shape the person they already met. Their mutual protectiveness.
Some ideas: UST early in canon; getting together late in canon or post canon; canon divergence with a different Envoy reveal; Shen Wei aggressively taking care of Zhao Yunlan; something post-finale where they find each other again; Shen Wei subtly trolling people. Case of the week, quiet moments in between, building a life (and a world) together. Early canon divergence where Zhao Yunlan finds proof that Shen Wei is Dixingren, with less time to first adjust his thinking about Dixing. Anything involving Shen Wei's Envoy robes or his dao or black energy; quiet domestic moments; anything that engages with the ending somehow - it's really meaningful to me; see my comments in this discussion.
For porn, if relevant I prefer Shen Wei topping or domming, and sex involving Dixing powers would be awesome. For h/c, I'd like to see Zhao Yunlan being hurt/injured. For angst, I'd love to see more Zhao Yunlan angst!

Shen Wei & others: Shen Wei interacting with people other than Zhao Yunlan - Ye Zun, Chu Shuzhi, Da Qing, Li Qian, Jiajia, OCs, anyone. Something about parts of his life that aren't about Zhao Yunlan. Chu Shuzhi and his immense loyalty to the Envoy and getting to know him as a person rather than a distant authority figure. Ye Zun's self-destructive quest of vengeance against entirely the wrong person and what might derail it, or the aftermath of their reconciliation. Da Qing and his missing/regained memories of his time with Kunlun and the young Envoy. Shen Wei's students and their perspective on what happens during and after canon.

Ya Qing, Ya Qing/Zhu Hong: I'd love more about Ya Qing and what drives her, what fuelled her bad decisions, her last-minute realisation that led to her changing sides, and its aftermath. And I'd love to see more of how her story converges with Zhu Hong's as Zhu Hong comes into her own as Yashou High Chief, and how these two deal with each other. Getting to know each other, learning to work with/listen/trust each other. Finding themselves attracted, making choices about giving in to attraction - whether they fully trust each other yet or not. Anything that throws them together would be great. Also, maybe something involving their Yashou abilities?
Here is a long meta discussion about Ya Qing, if you'd like even more of my thoughts!

Worldbuilding: Dixing worldbuilding, especially good things about Dixing! Dixing history or post-canon future, or parts we didn't see on screen. Maybe Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan spending personal time in Dixing, and/or Zhao Yunlan coming to discover things he likes about Dixing? Haixingren in Dixing, or ordinary Dixing life, or how black energy works (Dixing science would be great!) ... More about Dixing/Haixing relations pre-and post-canon, Something about the ancestors of Dixingren and Yashou and the spaceship they arrived in? I love the sci-fi aspect!

Other random Guardian things I would love:

• a list or picspam of canonical details about Dragon City
• a compilation or picspam of background details about Dixing
• recs for fic in Chinese
• fanart recs for Ya Qing
• a Ya Qing/Zhu Hong icon
• a Weilan power couple icon
• anything about what characters canonically call each other (any of them!)
• a timeline of the Kong Jing case
• meta/speculation about the SID clock wall

Fandom: Detective L

Fandom-specific DNWs: sub or exclusive bottom Huo Wensi, unrequited interest between Luo Fei/Huo Wensi

I'd particularly love some icons for this fandom! A group icon, or ones that can be used both as Detective L icons and in general to express moods or reactions. Textless or with text (including bilingual Chinese/English where it fits).

Luo Fei & Huo Wensi, Luo Fei/Huo Wensi: I love how weird Luo Fei is about Huo Wensi, and the reactions Huo Wensi brings out in him - and their dynamic doesn't even change after Dr Huo is in prison. Luo Fei is prickly and rude without apparent reason, distances himself during their interactions, but repeatedly puts considerable stock in Dr Huo's professional opinion. And Huo Wensi can't stop poking at Luo Fei. I'd love anything about them being weird and intense at and about each other. (My theory is that these two are exes who had a bad break-up.)
Working together, backstory, having a moment during canon, ill-advised sex ... Huo Wensi being manipulative but interested, Luo Fei wanting to not be interested but not quite managing. Something post-canon - a redemption story? further push-and-pull between them? working together against Captain? Anything, so long as there's some genuine mutual connection there.
(For even more of my thoughts on Detective L, I have detailed episode reactions up to episode 18.)

Luo Fei & Huo Wensi & Qin Xiaoman: Luo Fei and Huo Wensi are weird about each other, and Qin Xiaoman is stuck right in the middle. She's the one talking to Dr Huo when Luo Fei won't, and being almost-courted by Dr Huo. She trusts his good intentions, for the most part, but doesn't always accept his conclusions, and I'd love to see her perspective on everything, and how her presence affects any of the scenarios Luo Fei and Huo Wensi might find themselves in. Or what Dr Huo thinks about her! (Or how far he would have gone with the fake courting!)

Other random Detective L things I would love:

• links to BTS or promo videos/pics/interviews
• fanart recs
• recs for fic in Chinese
• a timeline, or a partial timeline, of events in the show, or Luo Fei's backstory, or Dr Huo's
• ANY characterisation or character relationship meta, for any of the main or side characters
• suggestions for references that might be useful for writing Detective L fic (such as '30s Shanghai, or '30s psychology)
• a picspam/screencaps of Huo Wensi

Fandom: L'Oreal Time Engraver commercials

Canon links: 2019 commercial | 2020 commercial
Fandom-specific DNWs: sub or exclusive bottom Time Engraver.

Anything about the Time Engraver, the people he encounters, about him interacting with the world - what powers does he have, what kind of being is he, why does he present himself as a craftsman? Has he ever talked to humans directly? What if one of his subjects wakes up? What if he develops an interest in a mortal? If you'd like to subvert the "O NOES NOT THE WRINKLES" aspect of the commercials somehow, that would be great too. :)
For sex scenes, if relevant I prefer the Time Engraver topping or domming.

Shipping: A mortal/immortal relationship would be awesome, whether with one of the women from the commercials (I'm particularly fond of the woman who doesn't show emotions in the 2020 commercial) or with a Bai Yu character (feel free to use any of them, or make up your own.) Someone who's leading an ordinary life, or someone who's already immersed in the non-mundane. Angsty is good, but I'd prefer something hopeful, or with a happy ending. And reincarnation tropes would be awesome, e.g. the Time Engraver waiting for his lover's reincarnation, or finding them again and again across time.

Other random Time Engraver things I would love:

• fanart recs
• recs for fic in Chinese
• speculation about why the Time Engraver's domain looks so different in the two commercials
• any kind of thought, meta, squee about these commercials

Fandom: Crossover - Time Engraver/Detective L, Time Engraver/Guardian, Time Engraver/The Long Night

Fandom-specific DNWs: sub or exclusive bottom Time Engraver; breaking up Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan

A mortal/immortal relationship would be great!

Time Engraver/Zhao Yunlan: I'm thinking in the context of a world where there is no Shen Wei, or where Shen Wei is the Time Engraver, rather than the Black-Cloaked Envoy. A Guardian fusion would be lovely! Here is an old thread playing with that concept, for possible inspiration. Or (with thanks to laireshi for the brilliant idea) how about incorporating Guardian's time loop - what if, a long time ago in the past, the Time Engraver encountered someone who, impossibly, recognised him? And then that person vanished - but here he is again, except he doesn't know him yet. Or importing Zhao Yunlan into the Time Engraver's world ...

Time Engraver/Jiang Yang: something that gives Jiang Yang some happiness? He deserves all the good things! But I also love Jiang Yang's canonical ending, and the way he uses his own death to finally succeed and achieve justice, so feel free to keep the canonical character death - I don't count that as an unhappy ending. (Also, I've written this pairing myself, and would totally be on board with anything that played with that fic's version of the ship.)

Time Engraver/Luo Fei: I adore Luo Fei - he's quick and smart; he's sometimes sweet, sometimes abrasive; he can be a total mess. He's always very confident of his own abilities, and when he can't solve something he keeps worrying away at it, sometimes for years. How about confronting him with something that can't be solved with real-world logic? What would he make of the Time Engraver? How might their respective worlds mesh?


Fandom: Crossover - Granting You a Dreamlike Life/Detective L, Granting You a Dreamlike Life/Memory Lost

Fandom-specific DNWs: sub or exclusive bottom Luo Fusheng

Luo Fusheng can be a terrible person, but also has a giant soft streak. He's a jerk, and he's cruel, and he's violent, but if he cares about someone he'll do anything for them. He's also incredibly good at what he does. I want more of him (and him being a BAMF).

I'm asking for two criminal/detective ships - feel free to lean into the associated tropes, and the tension and balance between the characters. Some ideas: mutual cat-and-mouse games; working together against a common enemy; undercover operations and divided loyalties; criminal turning consultant or informer; redemption stories; detective turned vigilante; figuring out each other's soft spots.

For sex scenes, I prefer Luo Fusheng to top (or dom) if relevant, but switching is also good.

Additional prompt for visual media: Luo Fusheng's smirk. Because I love it. :D

Luo Fusheng/Luo Fei: They both have that ability to be abrasive as hell while also being incredibly sweet at times. They both really need someone to be good to them. I'd love them to find that in the most unlikely of places! What would it take for Luo Fei to trust someone with Luo Fusheng's background? Luo Fusheng is the sort of person to go all-in and never look back - how would Luo Fei deal with that? How could Luo Fusheng fit into the world of Detective L, or vice versa? Plot-wise, I'd also love Luo Fei and Luo Fusheng both discovering Captain's network from two very different directions/approaches, and ending up working together against Captain.

Luo Fusheng/Han Chen: For these two, I'm very much here for undercover cop/crime boss tropes and associated loyalty tropes. What if Luo Fusheng finds out someone he trusted is actually undercover? What would it take for Luo Fusheng to decide that this is one of his people nonetheless? Or what if the police is massively corrupt itself?
For inspiration, if you'd like: this vid, and this artwork (bondage, NSFW).


Fandom: any

I would love a 加油 icon to cheer someone on, with a Zhu Yilong or Bai Yu character!



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