Ooh, an h/c fic where Zhao Yunlan is the one being comforted, what a rare gem! And definitely more my speed than the opposite (caretaker!Shen Wei is one of my favourite SW's, second only to BAMF!Shen Wei), so thank you for writing this!
...it was a long time ago, I was quite young. Making sounds in the night...it could be dangerous. I didn't know how to keep myself from crying out in nightmares, so...
What a beautiful, heartbreaking glimpse into Shen Wei's childhood and what he surely had to go through, being a kid (even if he was an unusually powerful kid) making it all on his own on a hostile planet, among a species not his own, likely as a child soldier! I feel that this part of SW's life doesn't get nearly enough focus in fic or even meta, so it's lovely to see it being acknowledged, however briefly!
"If ever--if ever I left you, Zhao Yunlan--I would look back, if I had any way to. I would want your face to be the last thing I saw of this world; I would want your voice to be the last thing I heard."
And now I'll have a new layer of heartache when I rewatch/think back on that scene in the drama! Knives, indeed... But, really, the composition of this line is perfect!
...he had no power to stop dreams, it was true, but as far as walking in them went...
And now I want a fic where SW uses dreamwalking powers! (But, let's face it, I just want fics featuring any and all abilities SW might have picked up over the years that we didn't get to see in the show.)
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...it was a long time ago, I was quite young. Making sounds in the night...it could be dangerous. I didn't know how to keep myself from crying out in nightmares, so...
What a beautiful, heartbreaking glimpse into Shen Wei's childhood and what he surely had to go through, being a kid (even if he was an unusually powerful kid) making it all on his own on a hostile planet, among a species not his own, likely as a child soldier! I feel that this part of SW's life doesn't get nearly enough focus in fic or even meta, so it's lovely to see it being acknowledged, however briefly!
"If ever--if ever I left you, Zhao Yunlan--I would look back, if I had any way to. I would want your face to be the last thing I saw of this world; I would want your voice to be the last thing I heard."
And now I'll have a new layer of heartache when I rewatch/think back on that scene in the drama! Knives, indeed... But, really, the composition of this line is perfect!
...he had no power to stop dreams, it was true, but as far as walking in them went...
And now I want a fic where SW uses dreamwalking powers! (But, let's face it, I just want fics featuring any and all abilities SW might have picked up over the years that we didn't get to see in the show.)
This was such a lovely read, thanks for sharing!