Sunday Six: Guardian + plotbunny farm

[xparrot]

The Guardian Plot Bunny Farm has officially moved to brush_and_lantern so check it out if you're in need of inspiration (or want to throw some out there!)

There's also a new monthly theme up: Aliens, Demons, Superpowers

Meanwhile, being blocked on my other fic, I started a new one, in the grand old tradition of tossing the characters into a cliche and hoping they'll figure it out. I'm still sulky with my writing atm but I'm having fun with the story, so I'll take it...

The figure started to step forward, and Zhao Yunlan cocked the pistol, the metallic click loud enough to be heard over the kids' whimpering. "You get one more warning," he said. "Stay back."

The figure didn't move closer, but it brought down its hand in a sharp gesture--Zhao Yunlan braced, but it wasn't calling back its weapon. Instead the black cloak and mask dissolved around it, to reveal a man--a man in glasses and a neatly tailored blue suit. And yeah, of course Dixingren could look as human as anyone if they tried, and most of them did; but still, this guy didn't look like he'd crawled up from any hellish underworld. More like he'd stepped out of an accounting office, or a university classroom.

"Zhao Yunlan, are you all right?" the man asked.

Zhao Yunlan didn't lower the gun, kept his elbows locked so his arms wouldn't shake too hard and his eyes narrowed against the vise of pain closed around his skull. "I'm just dandy," he said. "So who the fuck are you?"

Comments

[clevermanka]

Bummer about being blocked but oh yes please bring me allllll the angsty amnesia fic!

[xparrot]

Haaah yeah angsty amnesia is where I live, it's like coming home~~~

[frith_in_thorns]

Exciting! I see clevermanka already guessed the setup, I'd been thinking AU but angsty amnesia is much better :D :D

[xparrot]

:D Now if these guys can just figure out what's going on, because I hardly know ^^;;;;

[ranalore]

Amnesia! I love it. It's an angst pile-on, plus a chance to learn to trust and love again, which is always delicious. Though poor Shen Wei is doubtless experiencing a very unwelcome sense of deja vu.

[umadoshi]

the grand old tradition of tossing the characters into a cliche and hoping they'll figure it out.

Hey, whatever works! ^_^

[xparrot]

Haah I actually have been actively avoiding amnesia plots, even though it's a go-to trope of mine, because the canon already has those elements and I wasn't sure what more I could do with them... And now I'm just going forget it, new ideas are overrated anyway 😝 sorry, Shen Wei!

[xparrot]

Zhao Yunlan likes to do his own thing anyway, so it's really his fault for being like this!

[winter_blossom]

Your Sunday Sixes are so damn evil! Cos now I'm gonna pine away for this fic as well, on top of all the others I'm waiting on... (Is not-so-secretly pleased about this)

[xparrot]

Hee, well, hopefully it won't be too long a wait! (I think this is going to be a single-part story...we'll see, I guess...!)

[unrelaxing]

XPARROT, everything you have ever written has always GOTTEN ME, and I think this will not be the exception. I LOVE THIS SO MUCH ALREADY.

[yantantether]

Owwww, this is so tantalising!