Poll: Hallows and Antagonists (dramaverse)

[china_shop]

Define "best" however you like -- best for the story, best designed, the one you most want to get your hands on, whatever. :-)

Poll #32705 Hallows and antagonists

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21

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Best Hallow?

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Longevity Dial
9 (45.0%)

Mountain-River Awl
4 (20.0%)

Merit Brush
4 (20.0%)

Guardian Lamp
3 (15.0%)

Who would you most like to yeet into the sun? (pick up to three)

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Zhu Jiu
7 (33.3%)

The Regent
11 (52.4%)

The Regent's Deacon
9 (42.9%)

Ding Dun
5 (23.8%)

Minister Gao
1 (4.8%)

Zhao Xinci
1 (4.8%)

Zhang Shi
1 (4.8%)

the Rebel Chief in Ye Olde Haixing Era
12 (57.1%)

other
1 (4.8%)

Comments

[china_shop]

so I voted for the Mountain-River Awl because it basically makes you immortal and I wouldn't mind that, even if sometimes you need to hide in a sex doll. xD

*dies*

EFFICIENCY indeed! :D :D :D (I'm sure those fix-it fics exist!) (You fix nearly every problem, but you also eradicate the entire drama, possible the whole ancient war, and quite likely SW/ZYL, too! Oh no!) (I've just talked myself into wanting to change my vote, lol.)

[facethestrange]

I knooooow, I keep thinking 'but how do you keep Weilan intact in this situation??' (I don't need the rest of the drama. xD Like, I don't need it the way it is, I'll take any story, just keep at least some of the characters around. :D) But really you just need them to meet once, in any circumstances whatsoever, and you're good. :D So, idk, any kind of deus ex machina reasons that send ZYL to the past anyway, he meets Shen Wei who's not traumatized, PROFIT?? :D I have no idea where it could go from there plot-wise, but I'm down for the ride!

(Also you can just yeet the Rebel Chief into the sun later, after he already broke everything, just because he deserves it. xD)

[trobadora]

*high fives on your last paragraph*

(Personally I really don't want to lose the drama, and the time loop especially, but I would totally be here for reading that AU!)

[facethestrange]

Theoretically it could still be a time loop, especially if you already have time travel, but omg I FEEL YOU. Like, I want to fix everything for everyone, but letting go of the canon Weilan story is HARSH. But they'd still find each other and be happy and so much less traumatized. But I would miss so many things. DAMN. xD

[trobadora]

*clutches canon to chest* I can't, I just can't ... *g*

[facethestrange]

In an effort to have my cake and eat it too, I came up with: Weilan post-canon fix a different timeline for baby Shen Wei and Ye Zun by yeeting the Rebel Chief into the sun. Their alternate versions still find each other later because they always do. They live a totally different story, but it doesn't matter because the original Weilan already had theirs.

I have no more details and no intention to write it (this would be a behemoth of a story!), but at least I'm satisfied. xD

[trobadora]

A+, no complaints. :D

The only thing I can't decide is which would be more satisfying:

1) Shen Wei yeets him into the sun with extreme prejudice, or

2) Shen Wei gently leads Ye Zun there and lets Ye Zun yeet him into the sun with extreme prejudice. *g*

[facethestrange]

Ohhhh, yep, Ye Zun needs to do this for maximum emotional impact imo! ♡

[china_shop]

Weilan post-canon fix a different timeline for baby Shen Wei and Ye Zun by yeeting the Rebel Chief into the sun. Their alternate versions still find each other later because they always do. They live a totally different story, but it doesn't matter because the original Weilan already had theirs.

Ooh, now that sounds a) Excellent and b) Fascinating! I hope that original flavour Weilan get to watch and provide commentary on their AU selves' shenanigans, lol! :D

[facethestrange]

Asdfghfdjskjkh, YES PLEASE, I'd watch/read the hell out of this! :D :D It's like 95% crackfic with the commentary, and then sometimes they just cry, lol.

[china_shop]

Right? They could MST3K themselves, and hold hands during the sappy parts. :D :D :D]

[facethestrange]

D'AWWW. :D :D :D

... Just how many details can they see, HMMMM. :D :D I wasn't gonna go there but I'm totally going there, lmao, Zhao Yunlan would totally go there too. :D I adore this fic trope where ZYL is like 'you saw what we did in YOHE *ded*' and Shen Wei is like 'I didn't just see it, I remember it', and I feel like both of them watching (or, like, fast forwarding or looking away or doing something else or pretending that they're not watching) would be comedy gold. :D :D With sappy potential, always, lol.

[china_shop]

LOLOL!

(Have you read starandrea's The Way Home (Forever for a Miracle)</>? Towards the end, it has glorious YOHE with present day Shen Wei watching from the wormhole. :D)

[facethestrange]

Oooooh, this one I don't know! *grabby hands* :D Thanks for the rec! :D ♡

[china_shop]

(Yeah, I don't even want to de-traumatise everyone. Their histories are what make them who they are, you know?)

[trobadora]

110% agreed! Without the tragedies and hard choices and everything, they wouldn't really be the characters I love.

[china_shop]

Yes, this. And tbh, I kind of enjoy the angst. It feels earned and satisfying to me. :-)

[trobadora]

Ha, same. Angst-free stuff isn't for me, anyway.

[trobadora]

You fix nearly every problem, but you also eradicate the entire drama, possible the whole ancient war, and quite likely SW/ZYL, too! Oh no!

Oh no! You make a persuasive argument!

Though he still deserves a punitive yeeting, even if we have to let him exist for the sake of Weilan the timeline.

[china_shop]

Though he still deserves a punitive yeeting

Well, he does get punitive eaten-by-Ye-Zun, so that's something?

[trobadora]

I feel like the eating is mostly on reflex, since Ye Zun's powers have just activated, and that guy deserves something more deliberate. Grrrrr.

[china_shop]

LOL! *hearts you*

[facethestrange]

FACTS. Deliberate eating at least. xD

ETA: I might have spent the last minute just looking at your icon, damn, it's a good one. :D

[trobadora]

china_shop made the icon for me, back in the early days when almost no one was making Guardian icons yet. love him in that scene, so much.

[facethestrange]

FLAWLESS. ♡♡♡ This is my absolute favorite Ye Zun, hands down, no competition.