xparrot | time for an h/c comment fest!

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

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That is bloody brilliant and I am captivated. The grit of this Zhao Yunlan is wonderful; he's a lot less polished but shines just as brightly. He's sneaking around solving crimes with no legal power, a trustful chunky cat, and the bare bones of his back! I love that in this AU, this first-second meeting is a reversal of their second-first one, where Shen Wei is cleaned-up in his full power and Zhao Yunlan is the slightly wild dangerous one. I also deeply appreciate how within Shen Wei's first instinct, "SOMEBODY FEED HIM" stands out.

Those glimpses of backstory hurt so good! The masks Yunlan hides behind are stark contrasts but in the end he wants the same thing as he's always wanted: to help people, and perhaps, unbeknownst to him yet, to meet Shen Wei.

Shen Wei will have to sweat buckets while hiding his identity, but I wonder about a Zhao Yunlan growing up even more alone, and without a team to rely on, but with his same charisma - is he even less trusting? Could he have a Creep Wall of his own about the Black Cloak Envoy and figure it out even faster? Does he still collect stray Dixingen and accidentally already adopted the whole boxing ring youth club, where he too sometimes gets paid for a few rounds? Everything about this AU sounds worth exploring!

This is very compact and hurtful and well done!! :D

Waaah so glad you enjoyed it! Your various mentions in comments about this Zhao Yunlan definitely put me down this path...

Shen Wei is not going to wait for a stomach ache or blindness to start cooking for this Zhao Yunlan, he's going to be bringing in extra lunches starting, like, tomorrow...!

but I wonder about a Zhao Yunlan growing up even more alone, and without a team to rely on, but with his same charisma - is he even less trusting? Could he have a Creep Wall of his own about the Black Cloak Envoy and figure it out even faster?

OOOH. I was already thinking that he might have figured out Shen Wei's identity (what exactly did he see on that rooftop?) But Zhao Yunlan actually having his own stalker wall, eheheh that's maybe too great an idea to pass up? And Yunlan with a boxing ring, well he would need a job...does he seek out Dixingren to get justice for them, or to save them? from the BCE???

--I really don't know if I'm going to be doing more with this yet, but oh, there's a lot there to explore...!

!!! This is all compelling and you and

yue_ix are just brilliant for conceiving of this versions of events, and what they would've made of Zhao Yunlan.

*grabby paws*

He can have both! A stalker wall of the BCE and then the first time he sees Shen Wei, a OH SNAP moment? Which could be before Shen Wei sees him on campus for the first time (ZYL helping a Dixingren enroll? Flirting? Looking at job ads for students?), and ZYL has stalked a little and found him morally okay, so has been reserving his judgement ever since. Collecting data. He's sloppy lately, but just because the case is harder, or because he's ready to meet SW, ooore because he hasn't eaten in days and is in fact getting woozy... Maybe he should refrain from coming that close to rooftops then...

You have got to tell me how this Shen Wei manages to make this Yunlan eat, tho! Does he cook wonderful meals and just leaves the bento boxes at ZYL's last seen location, like lurring a stray cat? Does he just "makes too much" and lurks in suspicious places so ZYL will come ask questions and SW can innocently offer him a bite? I am delighted by this whole concept.

ZYL has golden luck of a crow, the tenacity of a badger and the mind of a fox. I bet the Dixingren cases just flock and stumble in his way; and from their PoV, the BCE is like some special task force, so IDK how this ZYL would react to that kind of authority figure. If his relationship with his dad is Awkward in canon, this takes the cherry. He wasn't a great dad, but he tried, but he went mad, or did he, but he's dead, and he's gone and Yunlan is alone alone alone, but also, he wanted to stand for what was right and taught his son this if nothing else, (and also to shoot a gun, but ZYL prefers to use his fists and his head).... It's Complicated.

Hurt/Comfort wise, how do you think this Shen Wei would react to seeing Zhao Yunlan attempt to bandage himself, alone and half drunk in a dimly lit apartment?

Oh man, now you're making me really want to write some of this Yunlan's POV -- I'm so used to his usual POV but this one will be a ride...

I kind of love the idea of Yunlan running a boxing gym as kind of a halfway house for Dixingren -- that a lot of the "cases" he pursues aren't actually to capture Dixingren but to help and save them. Only when it's a real dangerous case does he drop a dime in the right places for the BCE to turn up. So from Yunlan's POV the BCE is a necessary evil -- but he's pretty sure of the evil.

And then, this Professor Shen -- he has some connection to the BCE, Yunlan is sure, may even be working with him...except the more he sees of Shen Wei, the more he can tell that this is a genuinely good guy, one of the few he's ever met. But he's keeping secrets too, pretty obviously. So Yunlan maybe starts believing that the BCE has some kind of hold on Shen Wei, is extorting his help (maybe it's got something to do with that "Kunlun" guy that Shen Wei is secretly so hung up on, maybe the BCE is using that as leverage against him...)

I think Shen Wei starts making extra food and shares it. And very quickly starts to note what gets eaten the fastest and with the least notice and makes more of that...

Oh man though, Shen Wei being the one who sees Yunlan bandaging himself through the window -- the episode 8 scenario is going to be SO much more fraught here!!

*chants*
do it
do it
do it

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