Focus on Guo Changcheng: especially ordinary

[china_shop]

Zhao Yunlan: If we weren't a little special, how could we be the Special Investigation Department? Being fit to be recruited here means you're also very special.
Guo Changcheng: No, no, I'm not special at all. I'm especially ordinary.

I love non-powered characters being brave in the face of super-powered situations. Guo Changcheng (24yo, human) is as non-powered as you can get, and from the very start, he gloms onto the SID as an institution/ideal, despite some questionable lollipop action from its chief, the team's going out of their way to Halloween-scare him, and being dangled perilously out of a crime-scene window for no obvious reason.

None of that deters him! In episode 1, after he escorts Li Qian's grandmother home, the shadow man comes looking for the Longevity Dial, and Guo Changcheng, although understandably terrified, hurls an apple at him. At the end of the episode, he questions the procedure for dealing with Dixing detainees in front of the awe-inspiring Black-Cloaked Envoy. And by episode 2, he's doing his utmost to protect Shen Wei and Li Qian at the hospital. Even the bad guy looks bemused and/or moved by his tenacity.

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For me, what I love most about Guo Changcheng is the idea that even if you're inexperienced, scared, klutzy, and prone to motion sickness, you can still be a hero!

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( Guo Changcheng fanworks )

So -- what do you think? Is xiao-Guo admirable, embarrassment-squick pinging, or both? What are your favourite/the most telling xiao-Guo moments or scenes? What do you like best about xiao-Guo and lao-Chu's relationship? How is Changcheng different in the novel?


Please share links to related meta, picspams and fanworks, new and old! Self-recs are whole-heartedly encouraged. :-)

Guardian novel English translation is complete!

[tassosss]

The Guardian novel English translation is complete!

Twitter announcement here: https://twitter.com/ineffablebfs/status/1238830786889109504
Translation credit goes to: yilngIaozu, ineffablebfs, and fandoestrans who did such an incredible service and act of love to bring the Guardian novel to the rest of us.

Compilation of all Guardian novel translations and excerpts by dtriad: https://dtriad.tumblr.com/post/179416163366/%E9%95%87%E9%AD%82-translations-etc-masterlist

Drive folder with RainbowSe7en's translation Ch 1-82 plus 82-90: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19f8E7n4fz9mClxdgRPPkNxkLwSBJmC1E

Google Doc of 86-106 + 4 extras: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10GlXy_WWT1HXa97Ti8XXRgv6FKjxS_1aZUa1P7EO0BU/edit

Epub of whole thing Ch 1-106 +4 extras (no Shen San extra): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RVs1ltJ210sNw2NA7yNyuD_9c6Vhp0v-/view

The Shen San extra is share by PM/DM only, so let me know, and I can send it to you.

Transcripts

[undeadrobins]

Has anyone put together transcripts (in English) for the episodes? I obviously have the subtitle files, which I can use for specific things, but the actual transcripts would be really useful....