Poll: I Knew You Were Trouble When You Walked In (drama)

[china_shop]

Hi, I'm on a mini Taylor Swift kick, and yesterday I watched the OMV for "I Knew You Were Trouble When You Walked In". I know/suspect this song has already been vidded a lot, but for some reason, yesterday it immediately made me think of Guo Changcheng. So here is my "Guo Changcheng encounters trouble" poll, in the format of Cluedo (AKA Clue) guesses. :D

Poll #33147 Guo Changcheng's personal game of Clue/Cluedo

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 13

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Most traumatic, in the moment

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Zhao Yunlan in the SID with a lollipop (first meeting)
5 (41.7%)

Chu Shuzhi in Li Qian's house with a puppet
3 (25.0%)

Chu Shuzhi again in the fight club in a singlet
2 (16.7%)

Zhu Jiu in the zero-degree lab with cold air
2 (16.7%)

Zhu Jiu again in the bathroom with a fear baton
1 (8.3%)

Ya Qing in the graveyard with a threat
0 (0.0%)

Ye Zun in the bathroom with hypnosis
4 (33.3%)

Professor Ouyang in the lab with the serum
2 (16.7%)

Zhao Xinci in the park with a gun
2 (16.7%)

Ye Zun again in the palace with the Hallows
4 (33.3%)

other (I know I've skipped over so many!)
2 (16.7%)

The iguana at the SID is:

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Yashou and can leave its cage whenever it wants
3 (25.0%)

Yashou and is imprisoned
1 (8.3%)

the former chief of the SID, between Zhao Xinci and Zhao Yunlan, cursed by totally scientific means
5 (41.7%)

literally just an iguana
6 (50.0%)

other
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[trobadora]

Most traumatic:
(1) Zhao Yunlan in the SID with a lollipop (first meeting)
(2) other: Zhao Yunlan on the university grounds with a corpse :p

Because nothing is as traumatic for him as that first meeting, and that first case; he rallies very quickly and learns to adjust to the new normal!

(I am boring about the iguana. I want there to be a story about why the SID has a regular iguana!)

[china_shop]

Because nothing is as traumatic for him as that first meeting, and that first case; he rallies very quickly and learns to adjust to the new normal!

That's true. He still gets some scares after that, but he grows a spine pretty quickly, all things considered.

"Boring about the Iguana" would make a great band name. :D

[trobadora]

And I just realised that I was talking nonsense, because the corpse is the second case. /o\

[china_shop]

Oh, is it? Ha, I'd forgotten too. Doesn't ZYL use Changcheng's hand to check the marks on Lu Ruomei's neck?

[trobadora]

Oh, you're right, that is in episode 1 after all! I'm getting my cases mixed up, I think I need another rewatch ...

[china_shop]

Hee! Count me in. :-)

ETA: I think there might be two corpse cases: Lu Ruomei, and the Wang Yike murders. That might be where the confusion's coming from?

[trobadora]

Yes, I got them mixed up - I was thinking of the one in episode 1, except my brain had for some reason substituted the corpse from episode 3 for Lu Ruomei ... *headdesk*

[china_shop]

I just checked, and Changcheng throws up in ep 1 (obvious murder victim, strangle marks), and faints completely in ep 3 (19:24; life-drained old-looking victim). Poor kid!

[facethestrange]

*adds the other corpse scene to my 'other' vote too* I know it's meant to be funny that there are ~two bodies~ and then one of them is just GCC who passed out, but also poor kid indeed. D:

[facethestrange]

"(2) other: Zhao Yunlan on the university grounds with a corpse :p"

OH YEP, this just convinced me to add 'other' to my vote too!

"I want there to be a story about why the SID has a regular iguana!"

Same! :D (Does it have any fics?)

[trobadora]

*high fives*

I'm pretty sure there was something at some point, but I don't remember clearly enough to search for it.

[china_shop]

Does it have any fics?

Surely!! (I don't know any, though.)

[facethestrange]

When you just search for iguana, it turns up three fics. :D (But it's not the text of the fic, just the title/tags/summary/notes, so there's probably a lot more.) I skimmed, and two of them seem more adjacent to the iguana than actually about it, but still. :D

[china_shop]

I voted for:

Zhao Yunlan in the SID with a lollipop (first meeting) - because that was some inappropriate lollipop action, and what the hell has he got himself into?!

Ye Zun in the bathroom with hypnosis - because Ye Zun is so creepy and predatory.

Ye Zun again in the palace with the Hallows - because that's such a violation of who Changcheng is.

And I voted for the iguana being the mysterious former chief of the SID, because I think it's a fun idea (not because I believe it).

[facethestrange]

"because that was some inappropriate lollipop action"

Lololol. :D Ngl, that's the thing that would convince me to stay no matter how much weird stuff I would encounter immediately after. xD

We have nearly exactly the same votes for everything. :D Ye Zun should really stay away from Xiao Guo, dammit.

[china_shop]

Ngl, that's the thing that would convince me to stay no matter how much weird stuff I would encounter immediately after. xD

Haha, it was so much more intrusive than just sticking a lollipop in YOHE!SW's mouth. (I made a post about that scene, fwiw. (To absolutely no one's surprise) I had/have thoughts. :D)

Ye Zun should really stay away from Xiao Guo, dammit.

Yesss! So creepy and powerful. /o\

[salamandras]

I hadn't put together how traumatizing the whole show was for poor Guo Changcheng until reading all the options, each one pretty terrible. Poor kid!

[china_shop]

I know! *pets him* He handles it all amazingly well, really.

[salamandras]

He really does!

[facethestrange]

IKR, and he's doing so well! This poor terrified kiddo trying to hard to be so brave was one of the two reasons why I liked the show from the first episode (the other reason was Zhao Yunlan and his lollipops :D).

[facethestrange]

YAY POLL. :D :D ♡ (And the Cluedo format is delightful. :D)

Definitely the first meeting, and specifically when Da Qing started talking on top of everything that already happened to poor Xiao Guo. :D

I find the zero-degree lab and bathroom Ye Zun pretty damn terrifying too so I voted for them, but idk how they rank for GCC. Maybe he's used to this bullshit at that point. xD

And omg the iguana!! It's totally just an iguana imo, but I couldn't not vote for the former chief of the SID because that's such a cracktastic option. :D :D And now I developed an adjacent headcanon that it is the former chief of the SID who IS a Yashou and isn't cursed, just doesn't want to do this job anymore. xD

[trobadora]

And now I developed an adjacent headcanon that it is the former chief of the SID who IS a Yashou and isn't cursed, just doesn't want to do this job anymore. xD

LOLOLOL!

[china_shop]

and specifically when Da Qing started talking on top of everything that already happened to poor Xiao Guo. :D

Oh, yes! That's what makes him faint the second time. I should've included that. (Da Qing in the SID with the voicebox?)

Maybe he's used to this bullshit at that point. xD

Desensitisation therapy! :D

but I couldn't not vote for the former chief of the SID because that's such a cracktastic option.

I know. I don't believe it for a second, but I love the idea of it. Especially if they're watching everything going on and thinking, "This is not how you should run the SID! Everything's going to hell! Just let me out of this cage, and I'll show you..." ;-)

And now I developed an adjacent headcanon that it is the former chief of the SID who IS a Yashou and isn't cursed, just doesn't want to do this job anymore. xD

LOLOL!

[facethestrange]

"Da Qing in the SID with the voicebox?"

LOL! :D Perfect, and definitely my first choice. xD

"Especially if they're watching everything going on and thinking, "This is not how you should run the SID! Everything's going to hell! Just let me out of this cage, and I'll show you..." ;-)"

Hahah, this or the opposite - 'at least it's not my problem anymore, I'm just chilling here, can't help you, sorry not sorry' ;D :D

[china_shop]

or the opposite - 'at least it's not my problem anymore, I'm just chilling here, can't help you, sorry not sorry' ;D :D

*dies* (Literal LOL. :D)