time for an h/c comment fest!

[xparrot]

The last couple of days have been rough on my writing (for dumb annoying reasons, why don't we come installed with a "will not be bothered by this thing" button?)

So! In the hopes of getting me to write something, and because this is what I'm feeling most wobbly about: it's time for hurt/comfort comment-fic!

Leave me a prompt/request for h/c, any hurt or any comfort, short or long as you want -- if it's character-specific, Guardian WeiLan please, that's all I'm in the mood to write; if that's not your thing then please leave a more general prompt! I don't promise to write anything (nor do I promise to write an actual commentfic and not some 10K-word monster, knowing me) but I would love any inspiration.

And if one of the prompts happens to tickle your fancy, please post your own comment fic (art, etc!) here (any fandoms, any characters) -- the more h/c the merrier!


The fills! \o/
(as of Nov. 23)

The Sundial goes full Equivalent Exchange. by frith_in_thorns
aftermath of torture by xparrot
Shen Wei is having trouble focusing (and how!) by xparrot
Hypothermia and cuddling for warmth (or: Shen Wei Is The Least Reliable Narrator) by yue_ix
Shen Wei has a weird allergic reaction by frith_in_thorns
Nightmares (and knives) by xparrot
Shen Wei suddenly has the power to hear people's dreams by naye
Fanart: Scars by yue_ix
Comfort tea & hypothermia by marycrawford
Wings, the kind that stay inside until they tear their way out by frith_in_thorns
Scars (AU fic for yue_ix's art) by xparrot
Dragged away screaming by marycrawford
Shen Wei thinking he's minorly hurt, but it's actually a lot worse by wintersoldier77
Zhao Yunlan has a literal healing cock by xparrot
Shen Wei thinking he's only minorly hurt, take 2 by rlyqueer
winter has come by extrapenguin
Shen Wei accidentally (or not) ingests poison meant for Zhao Yunlan by xparrot
muffled screams by duckwhatduck
Like a snowglobe by frith_in_thorns

Comments

[frith_in_thorns]

(This is just a snippet I'm typing directly into the comment box, don't let this put anyone off actually digging into this prompt rather than being "ooh Shen Wei falling over!")

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Zhao Yunlan looks at Shen Wei, grinning, but Shen Wei has his head down and his eyes closed, a deep furrow of concentration between his brows. And, okay, Zhao Yunlan's not complaining because this gives him a long moment to just study Shen Wei, to drink in the sight of him after days in the dark -- the moment Shen Wei opens his eyes and realises then there's going to be fuss, from him and the rest of the team, and a lot of noise, and it will be a while before he has this opportunity again to just... see.

But then Shen Wei opens his eyes, and there's a moment where he blinks hard, and then he lifts his head and says, somewhat vaguely, "Did it work?" like Zhao Yunlan's expression doesn't tell him. But then, he's not looking quite at Zhao Yunlan. He's looking off to the side, very slightly.

"It worked," Zhao Yunlan says, and Shen Wei finally looks at him and smiles. "Good," he says. "I'm glad." There's something... a little unfocused about his expression.

Zhao Yunlan's smile falls a little. "Are you okay?" he asks.

Shen Wei reaches out a hand to his side, like he's searching for the support of the wall. Which is near him, but not quite in that direction. And he stumbles --

Zhao Yunlan is moving before his brain has quite caught up, but he isn't quite quick enough. Shen Wei takes a step like the floor's tilting underneath him and his knee folds, and then the rest of him. Zhao Yunlan is at least in time to catch his shoulder before his head can smack against the floor.

"Shen Wei!" he says, "What is it?"

Shen Wei shakes his head and then coughs. It clearly takes him by surprise, so that he doesn't get his forearm in front of his mouth in time to muffle the first one, and blood splatters against the floor.

"Shen Wei!" Zhao Yunlan has him by the shoulders, holding him up, leaning close. "Shen Wei, are you okay --" although he's not, of course he's not.

Shen Wei coughs, and coughs, and swallows heavily. When he lowers his sleeve it's stained with red where blood leaked between his lips. "I --" he tries. He looks up, but not at Zhao Yunlan.

"Shen Wei," Zhao Yunlan says, again, and it's again as he speaks that Shen Wei finally looks towards him, but his eyes are oddly unfocused.

"Zhao Yunlan," Shen Wei says, and pats his hand against Zhao Yunlan's arm a couple of times before gripping tightly.

Zhao Yunlan -- swallows, although his throat is suddenly locked tight. "Shen Wei," he says. Quietly, calmly, because there is no other option. "Can you see?"

"No," Shen Wei says. And his tone is just the same, calm and quiet and utterly, utterly brittle. "But it's -- it will be all right." And of all things, he tries to smile, and Zhao Yunlan instantly regrets every time over the last few days he'd smiled insincerely, hoping that it was enough of a sticking plaster to hide the gaping wound. If it had looked like this...

"No," Zhao Yunlan whispers. "No, no, no --"

Shen Wei, pale, blood on his lips, keeps on trying to smile. "But you can see?" he asks. "It worked?"

"Yes," Zhao Yunlan whispers. Although worked has become the last word he would use.

"Good," Shen Wei says, with a stubbornness that dares Zhao Yunlan to argue. He lists again, sinking further into Zhao Yunlan's arms.

It isn't. It isn't.

"We'll fix this," Zhao Yunlan says, desperately determined, and if he isn't allowed to argue than Shen Wei isn't, either.

[naye]

~~~flailing in glee~~~

AHHHHH THIS IS SO GOOD!!

And yes I honestly want ALL of this?? Zhao Yunlan's slow realization - and of course Shen Wei hearing "it worked" and SMILING because he's so, so happy that Zhao Yunlan is fine now! Nothing to see here where he's flopped on the floor coughing up blood (nothing to see because he can't see) Ahahaha OH SHEN WEI!! ♥

[frith_in_thorns]

Thanks! :D And it's an AWESOME prompt, one that definitely deserves a proper long-fic fill! (I'm not going to write it though :P)

Shen Wei has PRIORITIES ok. (They are terrible priorities)

[mynameis_nemo]

Wehhhhhhhhhhh.

*takes heart of chest and hands it to you*

You broke it, you bought it.

This is so good! The slow build to Yunlan realising that Shen Wei can't see. ;_;

The fact that Shen Wei smiles at Yunlan, even though he's hurt and blind and laying on the floor. ;__;

Yunlan regretting all his fake smiles when he was blind because of how much Shen Wei's smile is hurting him. ;___;

Thank you for sharing this.

[frith_in_thorns]

Awwww thank you so much! :D

Shen Wei just wants to be reassuring! After all, Zhao Yunlan is fine and that's the main thing, right?!

[glymr]

Oh, OW. OW OW OW. Zhao Yunlan's going to be so guilty, and Shen Wei WON'T let him use the sundial to try to give him his vision back, and...OWWWWW.

(This was lovely. Painful, but lovely.)

[frith_in_thorns]

Thank you! :D This was a prompt of such excellent knives! Yes, Shen Wei is not AT ALL going to want to trade off again, and Zhao Yunlan is not going to be okay with this at all... (I'm not going to write more but I really hope someone writes a full-length story for this prompt!)

[xparrot]

Waaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah and he just goes DOWN, and Zhao Yunlan regretting his own smiles while blind, and "it worked" and ahhhh!!!

(on the other hand if he's so obviously this bad off now then they'll know to fix it so he won't be going to blow up later!!)

[frith_in_thorns]

It's Make Shen Wei Fall Over Day! A new public holiday which I have just invented.

Shen Wei is focusing on the important things! It worked to fix Zhao Yunlan, and that's what matters! (Shen Wei why are you like this)

[xparrot]

The best holiday!! Though really with us though isn't every day MSWFOD? :D

[no_detective]

ahhhh the regret over his own smiles!!! i love, love, love the way you illustrate the equilibrium between them even as the scales tilt.

also, desperately determined is one of my favorite settings for zyl <3

[frith_in_thorns]

Aww, thanks! They are both so good at the super-painful smiling, poor boys ;_;

[marycrawford]

Aw that was so deliciously painful! I particularly love Zhao Yunlan realizing for the first time just how much the fake smiling doesn't work, not to hide pain and not to prevent it in others, either...

[frith_in_thorns]

Thank you! Prompt-memes are great for just getting to write the pain without the plot :P

(I actually watched Guardian at a point in my life where I'd recently been doing a lot of the fake smiling. It was a bit embarrassing seeing so bluntly that it Does Not Work, lol.)

[umadoshi]

*infinite sad noises* How is Shen Wei so utterly the worst and the best all at once?