guardian_wishlist | Shadaras's 2024 Wishlist

Fandom: Guardian (TV)
Characters: Chu Shuzhi, Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei, Zhu Hong, Ya Qing, Ye Huo, SID Ensemble
Pairings: Any gen version of the following (or any gen involving the above listed characters), any femslash, Chu Shuzhi/Shen Wei, Chu Shuzhi/Zhao Yunlan, Zhu Hong/Ya Qing, Chu Shuzhi/Ye Huo, Chu Shuzhi/Ye Huo/Guo Changcheng

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!
3. I have read the novel! If you want to create something which blends the novel into the show, I'm curious to see what you choose to do. I like the mythology and magic of the novel quite a lot!

AU Prompts:
- An alien invasion forces everyone to ally together sooner/differently than in canon. Is it the same people who became the Yashou and Dixingren, but here later/for a different purpose? Did a new alien people find Haixing?
- Zhao Yunlan’s Guardian position/powers involve being literally connected to Dragon City (city witch, land magic, or anything else playing with this concept that you’d like!)
- Dragon City is named Dragon City because there was literally a dragon in this area at one point. Maybe one of its children’s skulls is the skull in the secret lab? Maybe Ye Zun’s big scheme wakes it up? Maybe something else? I just think there being a dragon (and other high fantasy nonsense, if you’d like!) would be super fun.

Relationship/Character Prompts

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 think they'd be really interesting to see as roommates going about their lives and supporting each other.

Chu Shuzhi /& Shen Wei
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? (Also, 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/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 souvenirs of old cases! Maybe a Rashomon story, where they all tell their own takes on one case/event? That'd be incredibly fun.

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 Prompts
Please feel free to make OCs freely for these! I love OCs in general, but I am absolutely into you using them even more heavily for worldbuilding prompts!

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…

Worldbuilding: The Dixingren-Yashou Spaceship
Please tell me about the spaceship that brought the people who became Dixingren and Yashou to Haixing to begin with! What was life like aboard that spaceship? Why did they land on Haixing? What happened to the spaceship? (Is it in Dixing? Is it in orbit? Do our main characters find it?)

Fandom: Detective L
Characters: Huo Wensi, Luo Fei, Qin Xiaoman
Ships: Gen or Huo Wensi/Luo Fei

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 Lost Tomb Reboot
Characters: Wu Xie, Pangzi, Xiaoge, Piaopiao, Bai Haotian, xiao-Hua
Ships: Iron Triangle (any form), Pangzi/Piaopiao & xiao-Mei, Wu Xie/xiao-Hua, Bai Haotian & the Iron Triangle, Pangzi/Xiaoge, Wu Xie/Pangzi, Pangzi &/ xiao-Hua, Bai Haotian &/ Li Cu

Or give me any woman-centric/femslash you want! The women never get enough love and I am open to seeing what you wanna tell me about your faves! <3

General Prompts:

Tomb Stuff!
- I love the way tombs lean into low fantasy magic and general spiritualism/mysticism. It's great. Tomb bugs (and snakes) in all their forms are fantastic, I love ridiculous traps and rooms with unnecessary amounts of chains, the monstrous flora and fauna of tombs make me very happy, and I am just generally excited about the way the tombs blend history and mythology and local legend together.
- Plus, immortality gimmicks are always fun to see (and find interesting failure modes for).

Sci-fi/space AUs! (abandoned spaceships/stations as tombs?)
Lean into the fantasy elements! (xianxia magic, immortality gimmicks, etc.)
I love political shenanigans and people scheming and figuring out how to hold power.
Competence porn! I love competence porn!

Daemon AU!
- I'd love to see how daemons interact with canon plots.
- Snake venom changing your daemon?
- Xiaoge with a witch's range?
- Or any kind of daemon-related intimacy!

Wingfic!
- Any Zhang having wings is fantastic, especially if they usually have them hidden (in their tattoos?) and dramatically reveal them to save the day somehow.
- I'm also extremely fond of Xie Yuchen | xiao-Hua, and think that the daredevil/freeclimber stuff he was shown doing would be even more fun if he could fly and that's part of why he's so confident hanging around tall cliffs.
- Wing grooming/preening! Especially with all the mud/blood/water these characters tend to need to deal with.
- Using wings to protect other people/draw them close/shelter them.

Pangzi &/ Xiaoge
- I love their friendship and would adore a story that focuses on the two of them learning how to interact and understand each other.
- Does Xiaoge ever randomly appear at Pangzi's shop to give him stuff to sell? (Is Pangzi able to get those stories out of him to any degree?)
- Various times they've sat around and bonded while worrying about Wu Xie?
- Maybe Pangzi's on a solo tomb delve (acquiring stuff for his store) and Xiaoge shows up to rescue him unexpectedly.
- I don't know! I'm just interested in this relationship and want to see more of it!

Pangzi &/ Xie Yuchen | xiao-Hua
- (I fell in love with these two during the spa/sauna scenes in Sha Hai)
- Domesticity, tomb shenanigans, and arguing about the provenance/price tags on artifacts
- I want them to snuggle and relax, but I'd also be so here for them being a battle couple
- no-romo chill fuckbuddies and friends
- trans man Xie Yuchen and nonbinary/genderfluid Pangzi? please?

Piaopiao(/Pangzi) (& xiao-Mei)
Piaopiao as a character, once her backstory was revealed, is amazing and I desperately want more exploration of her family's artifact-restoration business and how she both learned that business and tried to put it behind her (yet ended up entangled in it again anyway). I wish she could've lived and been able to choose how involved to stay with it, once Pangzi finally came clean about what he did and how he'd been helping behind the scenes and all that. I also really love domestic Piaopiao/Pangzi & xiao-Mei! Would be delighted to see that!

Bai Haotian /& Li Cu
- What if Li Cu does some work for Warehouse 11?
- They experience such different sides of Wu Xie and his world.
- I'd just love seeing them team up and/or trade "two truths and a lie"-style stories.

Solo: Xiaoge
- AU where he’s a shapeshifter (Zhang tattoos have magic powers!)
- AU where he’s an alien
- Explorations/explanations of how he always knows when Wu Xie’s in trouble and needs to be rescued
- I like Xiaoge and Hei Xiazi’s interactions as two quasi-immortal warriors working in similar areas but in very different ways; more about them is always interesting!

Fandom: The Rebel
Characters: Lin Nansheng, Chen Moqun, Lan Xinjie, Gu Shenyan, Ji Zhongyuan
Ships: Any gen, any femslash, Lin Nansheng/Chen Moqun, Chen Moqun/Gu Shenyan, Gu Shenyan/Ji Zhongyuan, Lin Nansheng/Zhu Yizhen, Chen Moqun/Wang Shi’an

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 & 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…)

Parallel World | West Out of Yumen

sorry not sorry for how long this is...

Ye Liuxi (Ye Qingzhi)

I love everything about her, from her prickly exterior to the heart hidden beneath that (understandably strong) armor. I fell in love with her from the first shot and continued adoring her through the entire show. I love how powerful and driven she is. She commands every scene she's in. She knows what she wants and she'll take it, whether that's a couple hours of work for money, Chang Dong's heart, or the entirety of Yumen Pass. She's unstoppable and I love her.

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I'd love to explore her early life. How did Ye Qingzhi end up being captured and enslaved? What was her relationship with Jiang Zhan like? Did she have any other friends? How did she become certain that she was indeed Ye Liuxi? How did she prove that to others?

Or tell me about what it was like for her to wake up after being hanged and have no idea where she was or what she was doing! How did she create her life anew? How did she track down Chang Dong? Is there anything about that life that she misses?

I am so very into the Ye Liuxi/Chang Dong relationship. It's so good, they've wonderful for each other, and I could watch them interact all day. More of their romance! Or their sex! Or anything canon-typical with the two of them, really; they're really cute! From Ye Liuxi's side, what drew her to Chang Dong? She didn't seem to have any interest in sex/romance before him, so why Chang Dong? What changed? Was it just the removal of memories leading to the removal of some trauma-based blocks surrounding relationships? Or is she just extremely demi and Chang Dong was the first person to get her to realise she could feel genuine attraction like that? How does that settle out as they continue being together across time?

That said, I'm also extremely here for some non-canon ships! Ye Liuxi's chemistry with Ding Liu was incredible; I'd adore something focused on their relationship, because Ding Liu absolutely had a crush on her (and Chang Dong; a threesome would also be good, and was absolutely teased). Ye Liuxi's relationship with A-He during the nine-month timeskip would also be fun to make shippy! And, of course, there's also good enemies-to-lovers potential with Long Zhi—Ye Liuxi left her alive, for some reason, and maybe that could go somewhere?

Chang Dong

I love Chang Dong's quiet strength. He's more easy-going than Ye Liuxi, but he's also a wonderful leader in his own right. He's clever, thoughtful, and highly skilled! I love how subtle he is in comparison, and how many tricks he can pull off. He takes so much of the "I guess there's magic now!" stuff in stride and integrates it into his worldview with surprising ease, and I love that about him.

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There's so much to explore about his pre-canon life! How did he become a desert guide? How did he become the leader of the Camellia Group? How did he meet Kong Yang, his girlfriend, if she wasn't into the desert the way he was? How did he learn how to make shadow puppets? I'd love something exploring that period of his life, whether by being set back then or by referencing it as context for something set during the period of the show.

I am so very into the Ye Liuxi/Chang Dong relationship. It's so good, they've wonderful for each other, and I could watch them interact all day. More of their romance! Or their sex! Or anything canon-typical with the two of them, really; they're really cute! From Chang Dong's side, what was it like committing to a new relationship after grieving Kong Yang for so long? He says he only does relationships for the long-haul; why did he choose Ye Liuxi after only knowing her for like a month max? What compelled him so fiercely about her? How does that change and grow as they stay together and learn more about each other?

I have less interest in non-canon romantic/sexual ships with Chang Dong. Threesomes/triads/poly arrangements that include Ye Liuxi are great, though, and Chang Dong/Ye Liuxi/Ding Liu would be a particular delight. Something that included both Kong Yang and Ye Liuxi being alive and interested in Chang Dong at the same time would also intrigue me greatly. I think that Chang Dong/Ye Liuxi/Jiang Zhan/Long Zhi would be a terrible poly thing (or sedoretu!) but also interesting because of how bad it could be. I'd be open to something about Chang Dong, Ding Liu, and Fei Tang getting together during the nine month timeskip as a coping mechanism to keep Yumen Pass feeling closer when it's shut for them. Feel free to play with any of those ideas! Or draw out any of his platonic relationships!

Jiang Zhan

Man, he gets dealt a rotten hand by the plot. How did he end up a child laborer in the mines? Did he have any dreams of his own before he got caught up in Ye Liuxi's? When did he fall in love with her, and when did he realise she'd never love him back like that?

He's the public leader of Scorpion Eye throughout most of its history. Ye Liuxi might be the driving force, but she's also, well, the one driving outside the Pass while Jiang Zhan stays behind and builds the social connections necessary to lead. How did he develop into a leader? How did he help shape what Scorpion Eye became?

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His relationship with Long Zhi is fascinating. She had her eye on him since the start, to the point where it kind of feels like half her motivations are about finally having what she wanted since she was like 15. How did she seduce Jiang Zhan? Did she ever mean to catch real feelings for him? What was their relationship, really? And, honestly, how did Jiang Zhan and Long Zhi rebuild Scorpion Eye into a force that was at once not a huge worry for the Feather Guards but still dangerous enough to be a viable threat to use against Ye Liuxi once she returned?

I'd love an AU where the Golden Snake saves and heals Jiang Zhan (by turning him into a human snake hybrid, ignoring the thing where theoretically that means they'd lose their mind) instead of Long Zhi kidnapping him. What would he do at that point? Would he make a new life? Would he work to free all the slaves in the mountain from within? Something else? How long would it take for Long Zhi and Ye Liuxi to realise he's still alive?

Or focus on the kidnapping and imprisonment! We see so little of it. How much time did Long Zhi spend attempting to convince him to talk to her? Did she ever offer him bargains, and, if so, what were they? What did he do for those long months? Did he have any human interaction or entertainment in that cell? Did he ever attempt to escape or kill himself while in the prison?

I also find it frustrating that he just killed himself at the end. He survived almost a year in jail and then killed himself ten minutes away from true freedom? Let him (and everyone else!) suffer through Jiang Zhan being forced to live despite everything that happened. What is his relationship with Ye Liuxi like after they both lost their arms and regained their memories? Did Ye Liuxi ever contemplate trying to free him before the end? What kind of relationship, if any, would Jiang Zhan want with her (or Long Zhi!) after all that? What would he want to do with his life once he could actually do anything he wanted and not just be a rebel leader?

Worldbuilding

I would adore anything digging into the world of Yumen Pass. There's so much to think about, from the founding/creation of Yumen Pass to how the exotic beasts work to sorcery and shadow puppets to the social structures themselves. Explore and expand upon literally any of it! Slightly more focused prompts below:

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The Creation of Yumen Pass

We're told that it was created to seal away demons and sorcerors. It's also said that Yumen Pass has a spirit of its own. We're told legends about this period of time, and I'd love to see something that takes those legends and turns them into a full-fledged story!

Sorcery

What is sorcery, really? During the time of this show, it seems to have waned; most fantastical things are done with the help of exotic beasts! But Long Zhi does summon a dragon of fire, and it's implied that not just anyone can make dangerous exotic beasts listen to them, so perhaps there's some truth to sorcery. What are the differences between the Long family's sorcerors and the Li family's sorcerers? Obviously there are family secrets, and differences in focus. Were there other sorcerer families, once? How did they fall? What's the connection between sorcery and exotic beasts?

Exotic Beasts

aka, the monsters! Holy shit there are so many and they're all so interesting! They're foundational to a lot of Yumen Pass' society (the glowing snakes, the water eyes, the shadow puppet gnats, the substitute tongues, the dragon-like beasts guarding Black Stone City, Thiefless, etc) and yet they've managed to lock up most of the most dangerous ones in the Demon Museum. So basically, the exotic beasts are the wildlife of Yumen Pass, and humans have domesticated/tamed the ones useful to them? Some of the ones that are annoying but not inherently dangerous are just allowed to wander (geminus, for example)? It's interesting! I'd love to read anything that focuses on the exotic beasts and their relationships with humans! Or about how they managed to make the demon museum to begin with (was that related to the creation of Yumen Pass?).

Golden Animals

I love this trope. Golden Serpent and Golden Scorpion are just giant representatives of their kind, but they're absolutely very special and respected as a result! The idea that there's one of these for every "normal" animal species in Yumen Pass amuses me. Like, what if Valley Guardian and Ocean Guardian met Golden Chicken/Rooster? Or just dig into how Ye Liuxi befriended Golden Scorpion, why Golden Serpent puts up with slavers mining in its lair, and the ways in which the Golden Animals have special powers!

Snake People and Other Blended Human/Exotic Beast Shenanigans

(I know the show said that becoming a human snake means Gao Shen would lose his mind eventually but I choose to ignore that because it's way less interesting to me than him just having mutated into a hybrid with angst about being inhuman/monstrous and not being able to leave the pass.) Anyway, this is also about parasitism and symbiosis between humans and exotic beasts! Why are so many exotic beasts so specifically helpful to humans? The substitute tongue is particularly noteworthy, due to its plot relevance, but even the symbiotic replacement hand Ye Liuxi gets is in this realm. The geminus mimicks anything, but sure is human-related, and humans can become shadow puppets while retaining their consciousness. It's wild. Please, anything about the ways humans and exotic beasts can combine and hybridise and be symbiotic with each other is fascinating! Please explore it!

Soul of Wangdong, Bone of Liuxi

I'm so curious about this Chosen One deal! Stories about the prophecy, the curse/blessing, how it relates to shadow puppets not working, and previous times the Chosen One has led a (failed?) uprising would be awesome!

The Creation of Scorpion Eye

Why did Ye Liuxi (Ye Qingzhi) and Jiang Zhan create this? How did they get followers? Why is it named Scorpion Eye? How inspired were they by the Beast Heads? Honestly, anything exploring that period of history is interesting to me!

Trade/Smuggling Between Yumen Pass and the Mundane World

What does Yumen Pass produce? Is it just gold? Is that why the slave mines are such a big deal? Or are there other products that the Shadow Puppets (or the Chosen One) trade with the mundane world? Also, how was this trade/smuggling line set up? Like, were the trade caravans led by shadow puppets who were once dying people (like Gao Shen) and thus had distinct personhood and agency of their own? But even with that, how did they find people to bargain with who wouldn't run screaming from a shadow puppet or otherwise deny their existence? How did those trade lines change when they were being run by Ye Liuxi on her own? What products are most desirable in Yumen Pass? How do they get fuel for all their cars? Honestly, anything about the economy of Yumen Pass (even the parts not related to the mundane world, though they seem super intertwined) would be interesting!

The Demon Museum

I spent the ENTIRE SHOW expecting that it would get opened. Like, come on, if you need two to open it and the first episode shows Ye Liuxi contemplating her Rams Horn vs the one in the musuem, you've gotta have a heist to steal that one and then open the Demon Museum, right?

More generally, I am fascinated by this place! How did everything get locked up in there? How do things escape? Do they ever escape into the mundane world? Why don't they attack the Chosen One? (Is the Chosen One actually a special kind of exotic beast?) How do all the creatures in there interact? How do people know what's in there, anyway, if they avoid it?

The Nine-Month Time Skip

What happened during that period of time? How did Scorpion Eye gain so much momentum? How did Ye Liuxi cope with cutting off her own hand and regaining her memories? What was it like for A-He and Li Jin'ao to become trusted advisors and rebellion leaders? How did Chang Dong, Ding Liu, and Fei Tang handle being stuck in the mundane world? What did they tell Ding Liu's dad about the whole adventure? What did they do for work? How did Jiang Zhan and Gao Shen deal with being imprisoned? What was Zhao Guanshou up to? What was Long Zhi thinking and doing? It's a fairly long period of time! Explore this lovely little narrative gap!

Crossover Prompt: Parallel World/Sha Hai

There's a lot of neat potential here! Throw Wu Xie and Su Nan at Chang Dong and Ye Liuxi! Gutongjing and Yumen Pass being Related Weird Spaces! Monsters escape from Yumen Pass and Wu Xie runs into Ye Liuxi while hunting them down! Wu Xie and Chang Dong meet because of desert expedition stuff! Ye Liuxi and Su Nan clock each other as suspicious and circle each other until they end up fighting alongside each other! Li Cu and his friends meet Ding Liu and her gang! IDK, have fun!

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Have some winged Yucun Xiaoge:

Winged Zhang Qiling getting some eggs in the rain, holding out a wing to protect a chicken with 3 chicks

Edited 2024-09-12 20:13 (UTC)

Aw, cute! :D I love how he's protecting the chickens from the rain with his wings. <3

Thank you!

Now also on AO3! Glad you like it.

I love your wishlists always. <3 Please accept this humble Parallel World offering, in which Jiang Zhan survives the car ride and now has to deal with that.

» wind, tell her lightly, Jiang Zhan gen, a bit of gentle pining and some trauma recovery, rated G, 2000 words

ahhh THANK YOU! <333

It's taken me a while to have the time to read this, but I'm so thrilled I could inspire you to create something so beautiful. <3

Hi, you! You had so many amazing prompts, I would have written you half a dozen things if I’d had time. ♥ ♥ ♥ As it is, I managed two:

1. Spaceships!

2. Pre-canon Chu Shuzhi/Zhao Yunlan! :D :D :D

Enjoy! <3

Ahhhh thank you! :D I love them both! <333

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