the naming of names

[bonibaru]

Readers and writers: I want to write a little bit in Guardian, but I'm struggling with naming convention. Fics themselves seem all over the place. I've scanned back through the group posts at least a few weeks and not found an obvious post so the faster thing to do is just ask here.

Is it correct to refer to the characters by surname only (Zhao, Shen, Guo, Chu, Zhu etc) or by first name only (Yunlan, Wei) or always by full name (Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei, Shu Hong) or a mix depending on context? I read that this can be context-dependent and I just want to be consistent without jarring the eyeballs of anyone trying to read.

For some reason I have no problem writing out Shen Wei every time but I keep wanting to default to just writing Yunlan (when he is POV character) and writing Zhao Yunlan *every* time feels like overkill, lol. And I want to call Guo and Chu just that but I keep writing out Lin Jing every time too. Is it because 2 syllables feels better? Augh. Halp me do better.

Flashfic: The nights we stole and made our own

[china_shop]

~5800 words, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, NC-17. First time, virginity. Spoilers up to ep 40 (I think?). Truckloads of thanks to trobadora for generous and awesome beta. <3 <3 <3 No warnings apply.


The nights we stole and made our own

Summary: In which Shen Wei throws himself at Kunlun, and there is talk of the Timeline and of war.

Art!

[mekare]

Preview:

In my journal

Fic: Lost Kittens

[rheasilvia]

Lost Kittens (2206 words) by Sylvia

Rating: Gen
Story Notes: Betaed by solo. Thank you again!

Summary: For such a rigid and inflexible man, Chief Zhao could be surprisingly capricious. Why would he send a distinguished cat like Da Qing to deal with his drunk, wayward and entirely objectionable offspring? Humans, seriously.

OR:

Da Qing and Zhao Yunlan's first meeting. (For a certain value of "first".)