In search of secondary character meta (drama)

[bonibaru]

I've been scanning through the comm and through my reading list looking for meta discussions of Guardian characters in the drama who are not Shen Wei, Ye Zun, or Zhao Yunlan.

As you might expect, the Big Three tend to dominate fannish conversation so I'm coming up fairly empty handed about Lin Jing, Zhu Hong, Chu Shuzhi, GCC, and even though Da Qing has a small but vocal following I'm staring at a fairly barren landscape on the cat tribe meta front.

Might I ask that if you have posted, or read, or participated in, meta analysis/discussion of other Guardian characters excluding SW/YZ/ZYL that you post a link in comments? I am longing for robust discussion about all the found family that I love so much. Even talk about the characters-of-the-week is welcome.

Comments

[extrapenguin]

branchandroot has some about Zhao Xinci (and Zhao Xinci vis-a-vis Shen Wei); I don't think I've come across other meta proper that'd fit your specifications, but a bunch of people talked about secondary characters in the 30 Days of Guardian things.

[naye]

unrelaxing had some lovely thoughts about Zhu Hong for the "favorite episode" question of the 30 Days of Guardian.

[nnozomi]

I would be interested in reading this too! Maybe we could have a side-character-of-the-week discussion post on the comm here for a while? The discussions of Zhao Xinci and Zhu Hong cited above are great, but I bet there's still more to say, and so many other good characters too...

[mekare]

I know that at some point (a couple of months back there were some people talking about Ya Qing and her motivations but I have never seen anything about the cat tribe. I recently had the same thought, there really should be something, especially because the information is so scarce. What a great opportunity to make fanon!