I brought the guardian book!
It’s so pretty. I’m so excited, imma try to read it tonight
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Guardian fic - Old Norse Weilan AU
Skugge
Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
He knew a man was his destiny, from the time a raven devoured a god's eye.
"Is it a worthy sacrifice for you?"
"Yes," a quiet, pleased reply came from the entity's lips.
All around was misty, scent of dried herbs burning, white smoke dancing.
Respect was a requirement when submitting to the judgment of an ancient hand.
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“When the moon swallowed the sun and night swallowed the earth,” Shen Wei’s voice was a placid whisper, the path of his fingers tracing patterns, “when wolves became kings and men bowed down, there was a time of silence. 'Thought' murmurs to me that I am a wolf, 'memory' murmurs to me that I am night. But my spirit screams that I am a shadow.”
Additional tags: Alternate Universe, Old Norse, Implied Sexual Content, Non-Explicit Sex, Hair Braiding,Ritualistic Hair Braiding, Blood, References to Norse Religion & Lore, Implied Post-Ragnarok, There's no Dead Dove here but there's a Dead Raven
Cover by @sagittariusdarkarrow
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One of the most tropes EVER!
(Excuse the quality on the last two. I don't know how to make them pretty)
Kneel for Them
I gasped when I saw it the first time when Lucien told Klaus to kneel. Seeing it in Guardian was a happy surprise. On Love in the Air I was waiting, anticipating it to happen. GAP was unexpected and the softest execution EVER (the only time it's not the villain directly telling the protag to do so)
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Shows:
Guardian (Shen Wei)
The Originals (Klaus Mikaelson) (not romantic but still)
Love in the Air (Payu)
GAP the series (Sam)
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Type:
Angst. Whump.
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Features:
Strong, powerful, arrogant character brought to their knees
Usually forced by others into it
Kneeling is a sign of submission but they are not submitting to the bad guy pre se, they are doing it coz they love their person more than they hate the bad guy.
It hurts me but it's one of the best shows of devotion.
To Paraphrase Shahrukh Khan in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai -
A man bows his head to only three people. Mummy, God and....
(he never finishes the sentence. Lover is the word, Rahul. But that was India in 2004, so more likely wife.)
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My reaction to "No matter how long it takes, no matter where we go, there will be a day when we meet again." 😭❤️
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Shen Wei noncon for the WIP game? 👀👀👀
Forgive me for sitting on this one for a while, @flamingwell, but every time I had time to sit down and answer it, I was at work on my work computer and that was just weird. XD
[The WiP Title List, if anyone else would like to ask about one. ^_^]
And I'm going to put the rest of this behind a cut because sensitive topics...
OK, so for those of you who have known me for a hot second, you know I have a dub/noncon kink a mile wide. And if I'm in a fandom and love a character enough, I'm eventually going to want to write some for them.
Only I could never quite get there with Shen Wei.
This is for two reasons:
The Guardian fandom, on the whole, doesn't really seem that into noncon/dead dove fic. This isn't a complaint or a judgement, just an observation. But it was enough to put me off trying to write it for a fandom I wasn't sure would appreciate it.
Shen Wei is such a fucking POWERHOUSE, who on EARTH was going to be able to subdue him long enough for a noncon fic to even WORK? (Yes, I know, the obvious answer is Ye Zun, and I was absolutely willing to go there, but it felt like a cheat and it also introduced elements that were different than the ones I wanted to explore at that time.)
So, I'd been having conversations with a friend about the dilemma of how to write noncon for Shen Wei off and on for months. (The same friend who has been trying to tempt me back into writing Guardian again for some time now. And she got me halfway there with the Amnesia fic by dangling university found family ideas in my face.) He'd kind of become my white whale, so to speak. XD And one day it just... hit me. That there was a VERY obvious answer.
Something has to interfere with his powers.
And he has to be willing to allow it to happen to some extent, because even without his powers, he's an incredible fighter.
And then this fic happened. XD
The basic premise is that something is wonky with the Dixing gates post-canon, and periodically they warp the dark energy that gets through into Haixing in such a way that it causes all dark energy use to backlash on the caster. And during one such time, Shen Wei comes across a student about to be assaulted and gets involved, in spite of the obvious risk to himself.
The gang in question end up hurting him instead.
And from there it's a mess of Shen Wei being convinced that this type of injury is no worse than any other type of injury and therefore there's no reason to be overly distressed about it. And Zhao Yunlan and Da Qing easily seeing that something is Very Wrong, but not knowing what or being able to figure it out.
Until of course, Shen Wei eventually breaks and the truth comes out and he gets a chance to properly heal.
^_^
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Prompt from MmeTournai - (Chinese) Guardian. The Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei get together we were robbed of.
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