Guardian fandom friending meme!!!

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Our lovely fandom continues to grow beyond our wildest expectations! Comm membership has just hit 100 98 (and we got impatient)! *shameless champagne and ballooooons*

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And now, without further ado...

Since some of us are new to Dreamwidth, and some of us are new to Guardian, it seems like a good time for a Dreamwidth friending meme. Come and meet new people! (Re)Populate your DW circle!

To participate, just copy the text below, paste it into a new comment and tell us about yourself. (All information is optional.) Then read through other people's comments and say hi / follow them as desired.

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Comments

[trobadora]

I was thinking of it as a fantasy AU where Dixing isn't a thing, yeah. So Shen Wei is the Time Engraver, instead of the Black-Cloaked Envoy. And ZYL is still an ordinary human.

[firestar]

Hm, okay. So, something like ZYL and the SID still investigate the weird crimes ordinary police can't, only it's magic instead of Dixing. And someone/something is sucking the life out of people kind of like Wang Yike, only not her because that girl deserves better, and ZYL stumbles across SW's lab while he's trying to solve the case. And for some reason I'm feeling like SW is something along the lines of Discworld's ANTHROPOMORPHIC PERSONIFICATIONS with general time manipulation powers as opposed to erasing wrinkles omg l'oreal.

(Also, maybe he has Li Qian for an assistant? Or something? >.>)

[trobadora]

Yes! ZYL should definitely still be an investigator/detective of some kind. I'm really loving this idea.

And for some reason I'm feeling like SW is something along the lines of Discworld's ANTHROPOMORPHIC PERSONIFICATIONS with general time manipulation powers as opposed to erasing wrinkles omg l'oreal.

LOL! I mean, he is in essence an anthropomorphic personification of time itself in the commercial? Putting wrinkles on people and all. (Until L'Oreal thwarts him, or something.) But yeah, the whole judgmental "O NOES WRINKLES!!!!!!" thing absolutely needs to go. Ugh, L'Oreal.

Also, YES on including Li Qian as his assistant!

[firestar]

And yet here in the UK L'Oreal's running ads - at least in the papers - about how they're ~promoting self-worth instead of self-doubt~ and my eyes almost rolled out my head when I saw that, I swear.

Hm, maybe Li Qian has Quicksilver-esque powers? So, similar to SW but different enough.

[trobadora]

Ugh, that's some hypocrisy there.

For Justice, then: the villain should be some anti-aging cosmetic that says it'll ~defeat time~, but in reality it works like the miracle doctor on Guardian - with people rapidly aging and all. *grumbles*

Hmm, Li Qian is a scientist first, so would some mental power work better?

[firestar]

Tell me about it. 'Here's how to fix yourself, but we're totally promoting self-worth and not self-doubt'. >.<

Ooooh, I like this idea. <3

Hm, that's true. Something like telekinesis then? Or something else?

[trobadora]

Hmmm. Li Qian could be stuck with Shen Wei the way Albert is stuck with Death in Discworld, so she'd still be a normal human being. I guess it depends on what kind of powers there are in this 'verse? But telekinesis would work.

(Damn, why hasn't someone written me a 100k epic about this yet?!)

[firestar]

That works too! Maybe a combination of Albert and Mort. She's still stuck there but she gets to learn cool stuff - and occasionally give SW a gentle kick in the rear end because he's Thinking Too Much - so it's okay. (And also, if there's some version of the History Monks, they probably both get irritated by all these people running around and meddling with time. Amateurs)

(I knoooow. I needs it, Precious.)

[trobadora]

Hee! The History Monks! Yeah, that fits perfectly into that world. :D

[firestar]

And Li Qian's mortal, there's nothing in the Rules that says one mortal can't throw a spanner in the works of a mortal organisation. *innocent eyes* Also, do they really count as a mortal organisation? Do they really? Some of them are hundreds of years old, Professor!

[trobadora]

Hee! ♥ ♥ ♥

[firestar]

And Shen Wei wants to say yes! He wants to so, so badly because the History Monks are meddling with everything, but he has to be responsible and say no. Sadly.

And then he has to fight temptation, because Zhao Yunlan is mortal, and unlike Li Qian he would never be content to stay in the lab where time doesn't touch them. There has to be another way. And so on.

(Question. Is Ye Zun around somewhere? Causing havoc or not, as the case may be.)

[trobadora]

YES! Shen Wei putting duty first! Zhao Yunlan not putting up with the restrictions of their situation! I love all of that. ♥

And yes, there has to be another way ...

(Question. Is Ye Zun around somewhere? Causing havoc or not, as the case may be.)

Hmmm. Ye Zun would fit in very well - Time the Devourer, in contrast to Shen Wei as the Time Engraver?

And if we want that part of canon, they got separated when they were young, and he blamed Shen Wei and went out of control, and had to be imprisoned.

[firestar]

Time the Devourer, in contrast to Shen Wei as the Time Engraver? Oooh, yes. You can't have creation without destruction and all that.

And Ye Zun being the eventual source of the life-sucking cosmetic, perhaps?

[trobadora]

Yes, of course! Because of course he's trying to break free.

(For full drama parallel, Shen Wei would have to sacrifice himself to stop him in the end. And I can't decide if I want to go full parallel, or make a happy ending. Maybe sacrifice plus happy ending? Where they die, but because time can't die, the twins are brought back to life shortly after? Before Zhao Yunlan can do something stupid out of grief?)

[firestar]

Sacrifice plus happy ending!

Perhaps... perhaps while ZYL is *about to do*/ is in the process *of*, doing something stupid out of grief? >.>

(totally non-related but I'm reading a bunch of animal transformation fic and now I need Shen Wei as a cat. Neeeeed.)

[trobadora]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

(Personally I'd prefer Zhao Yunlan as a cat. He has the manners already! *g*)

[firestar]

XD

(Oh, he totally does. And I would love that too, I just need a seemingly sleeping kitty Shen Wei exploding into murder mode the moment Danger Approaches and clawing the shit out of the poor unfortunate being who dared. >.>)

[trobadora]

(Hee! that would be pretty cool, too. :D)

[firestar]

Just because he's in cat form doesn't mean he can't go all Envoy on the deserving. XD And at least this way ZYL can pet him and look after him? >.>

[firestar]

Oh, or! Li Qian still uses something like the Dial to barter for her nan's life after the stroke and that's how she ends up working with Shen Wei?

[trobadora]

YES! That is perfect. ♥

[firestar]

Gotta love when canon provides so nicely for AUs as well. XD

[trobadora]

Those are the best AUs, where everything is some reflection on canon! And it makes the characters feel so much more themselves.

[firestar]

*nodnodnod*