30 Days of Guardian

[extrapenguin]

4. Favorite Holy Tools arc
The Sundial arc! Admittedly, the competition isn't that stiff, but it was a very nice microcosm of the entire show, and a very effective introduction to our leads. The Sundial was also nicely present in its arc. Li Qian is one of my favorite minor characters. (The way Shen Wei takes care of her is adorable, and I wish we'd have seen more of the professor-postgrad relationship. Also papa wolf Shen Wei defending her from that shadow man!) The one minus is Zhao Yunlan not having his hot hairstyle yet, but he won't get that until time for the Merit Brush arc, which sucked.

Also, we got a bunch of nice shots:











1. Favorite episode
2. Favorite case
3. Least favorite case
4. Favorite Holy Tools arc
5. Least favorite Holy Tools arc
6. Favorite character
7. Favorite SID member
8. Favorite guest character(s)
9. Favorite worldbuilding detail
10. Favorite rarepair
11. Favorite headcanon
12. Least favorite headcanon
13. Favorite main villain
14. Favorite case villain
15. Villain you’d like redeemed or whose redemption you liked
16. Favorite conversation between Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei
17. Favorite Dixing power and/or power you want to have
18. Least favorite villain
19. Least favorite character
20. Most appealing point for a canon divergence AU
21. Favorite character moment
22. Favorite badass moment
23. Favorite soft moment
24. Favorite team moment
25. Thoughts and feelings on the ending
26. Rec a fanfic
27. Rec a vid
28. Rec a fanart
29. Rec a meta post
30. Prompt for a fanwork

Comments

[phyrry]

1000% more actual professoring from Professor Shen yes good please. Does he even have a lab? What specific topics is he into in his field? I need to know these things! 😭

If the Awl arc is 9-21 (which is what the wiki says, anyway), then it does cover most of the reveal, as well as Zhao Yunlan's first field trip to Dixing. Mmm, Dixing.

[extrapenguin]

Does he even have a lab? What specific topics is he into in his field?
He did have research duties scheduled for one day, and he gave a public lecture on mutations in humans, and he's stated to be a prof of Bioengineering! This is the sum total of our knowledge. Probably genes and likely human genes, though I tend to make him work with bacteria a lot.

If the Awl arc is 9-21
Dafuq? The Hallows arcs end when the Hallow is at the SID! While the identity realization is still part of the Awl arc (as it happened in the mountains), all the mind control girl stuff isn't, and it's not part of any Hallows arc. I am ??? at the wiki.

[phyrry]

Yeah, that sounds about right for canon's elaboration on Professor Shen. I could have stood more showing and less telling - we get a lot more on Professor Ouyang, come on. (Although Shen Wei in the Haixing Bureau lab was a great moment.)

There's a couple different ways to look at the show by arc - the wiki basically broke the entire show up into four sections, so the Awl section stretches from the point where the Awl storyline begins (episode 8) to the point where the Merit brush storyline starts (episode 22). Which is not to say that every episode in that range focuses on the Awl, but if you have to cut the show up into rough quarters somehow...

(Also, that means Zhu Jiu dies at the end of the Awl section, and Dr. Cheng and Sha Ya show up at the beginning of the Merit Brush section.)