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sid_guardian2025-05-01 05:32 pm
Poll: Your favourite self-sacrifice (drama)
Best attempted/successful self-sacrifice
Wu Tian'en taking the poison dart/bolt/whatever meant for his son
1 (4.5%)
Shen Wei snatching Zhao Yunlan's drink and gulping it down, in the Hanga arc
4 (18.2%)
Tan Xiao letting himself be deported in Zheng Yi's place
3 (13.6%)
Shen Wei's "take me instead" in the sonic lab, trying to rescue Zhao Yunlan from Zhu Jiu
2 (9.1%)
Guo Changcheng agreeing to forfeit his life to give Ye Huo first aid, in the zero-degree lab
3 (13.6%)
Ye Huo exhausting his powers to warm the others, ibid
2 (9.1%)
Chu Shuzhi giving Changcheng his coat and scarf, ibid
7 (31.8%)
Zhao Yunlan returning the energy that healed his eyes the first time
4 (18.2%)
Dr. Feng giving his life force to the people he'd inadvertently harmed
1 (4.5%)
An Bai giving up his freedom for his friends
2 (9.1%)
Shen Wei trying to portal away with the hospital bomb
2 (9.1%)
Da Qing blocking Da Ji's attack on Lao Li
2 (9.1%)
Zhao Yunlan's "take me instead" on the rooftop, trying to rescue his father
2 (9.1%)
Wang Zheng and Sang Zan taking the brunt of Ye Zun's attack on Zhao Yunlan in the SID lab
2 (9.1%)
Shen Wei jumping in front of Ye Zun's energy bolt
9 (40.9%)
Shen Wei's energy bomb gambit
3 (13.6%)
The apartment across the hall is vacant because...
Zhao Yunlan is a terrible neighbour and drove the last occupants away
4 (16.7%)
Da Qing is a terrible neighbour and drove the last occupants away
7 (29.2%)
the previous occupants experienced mysterious, sudden-onset "plumbing" and/or "ghost" problems (*koff*Shen Wei*Koff*)
4 (16.7%)
the previous occupants inherited another dwelling from an unknown "long-lost relative" (*koff*Shen Wei*Koff*)
6 (25.0%)
the Hallows willed it so, as part of their cosmic matchmaking
5 (20.8%)
other (please specify in comments)
2 (8.3%)
Note: I didn't include the Sundial exchange itself in question 1 because I don't think that was done in the spirit of sacrifice. Feel free to @ me!! ;-)
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I was thinking relative to ZYL and the SID generally, who seem to subsist entirely on packaged snacks and street food (with the occasional orange to stave off scurvy).
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Maybe a tiny bit. Xiao Guo seems to adapt pretty well. :D
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Oh yes, absolutely, but in terms of nutrition, I expect his intake has taken a nosedive. (Otoh, he's getting lots of exercise and sunshine, training the park, so that will make up the difference.) ;D
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I have a bad habit of importing cultural norms from Kdramas, as if a) Kdramas bear any relation to reality, and b) the East Asian cultural sphere is more homogeneous than it probably is, so I always assume that in the absence of parents, Changcheng lives with his uncle and aunt, since there's no reason for him not to.
I read a fic where he went 'omg this is so not okay' at the SID eating habits and started cooking for CSZ. :D
Awwwwwww! :D
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Oh, huh, suddenly I have no idea if it's canon or not. The dinner with ZYL and SW is in a restaurant, and even if he's flatting, going home for the Reunion Festival would be very normal... Do we see any more of Changcheng's homelife than that? I've just been assuming (and may have been incepted by fic).
but if they don't even know enough about his work, they may not be all that interested in what he's eating?
Maybe. Or maybe they talk about other things at family dinner, and Changcheng doesn't mention the SID because someone impressed on him how secret the work there is (and also he's a bit embarrassed about his klutziness) (and also, when dangerous things happen, he doesn't want them to worry)?
But I'm equally in favor of both headcanons - this one, and the opposite one where he eats great nutricious meals at home and is horrified to see how much it's not the case at work. :D
Aww, yes. Or option c), he imprints so hard on the SID that everything they do it good and right, even when it's objectively scurvy-inducing. :D :D :D
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"Or maybe they talk about other things at family dinner, and Changcheng doesn't mention the SID because someone impressed on him how secret the work there is (and also he's a bit embarrassed about his klutziness) (and also, when dangerous things happen, he doesn't want them to worry)?"
I'm so amused that this topic came up here and in the current readalong post at the same time. :D :D I can totally see all of these reasons, definitely, along with the novel canon where he just says "I'm doing well" and leaves it at that (for pretty much all of these reasons).
"Or option c), he imprints so hard on the SID that everything they do it good and right, even when it's objectively scurvy-inducing. :D :D :D"
:D :D And this one too! ♡ Lol, GCC buying weird-ass convenience store snacks for himself instead of making dinner because that's how the cool kids eat. xD The options are all so good, and somehow 100% in character. :D
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Lol, GCC buying weird-ass convenience store snacks for himself instead of making dinner because that's how the cool kids eat. xD
Haha, I think that might raise eyebrows. Maybe he code-switches in terms of food, like people do with language. :D
/coming back to this a week and a half later, oops
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Hee, that was under the assumption that he lives/eats alone - I can totally see him coming home with a handful of snacks one day and just eating that for dinner because it's a whole new world for him. :D (And then his stomach would probably be pissed at him because he's not used to it, and he'd never do it again outside of work. :D)
"/coming back to this a week and a half later, oops"
That's like literally nothing in dreamwidth time. :D :D
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And then his stomach would probably be pissed at him because he's not used to it, and he'd never do it again outside of work. :D
Aww! *pets him* (Changcheng, do not give yourself chronic gastritis from bad diet!! You don't have to emulate Chief Zhao to that extent!!) (I know, that's not how gastritis works. Still!)
That's like literally nothing in dreamwidth time. :D :D
Ha, that's true. <3
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Bwahhhh. ♡ Some balance in emulating his new favorite people is definitely recommended (and Xiao Guo is reasonable enough to figure that out). :D
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I assumed, too, but suddenly I don't know any more!
But what I really can't imagine is him living with them but not eating with them. *g*
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Or all wrapped up in politics and busy discussing that all the time, when they are around.
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That works for me. He's old enough to be independent, so the relationship has segued into more flatmates than parent-child.
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