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ExtraPenguin ([personal profile] extrapenguin) wrote2019-09-08 02:47 pm

30 Days of Guardian

7. Favorite SID member
Chu Shuzhi! (Wow, this fandom does share opinions a lot!) He's a loyal Envoy fanboy who dresses in all-black, he's a convicted murderer whose sense of humor is laughing when other people get thwacked on the head or electrocuted, he's genuinely loyal to Zhao Yunlan (even if it's more subtle and he isn't afraid to be a bit of an asshole about it), he's efficient and hard-working, he isn't dumb (he did literature review on the Hanga beliefs before going into the field!), and of all the SID people, he's the one I'd most like as my neighbor – quiet, low chance of explosions. He's at a nice spot of having subsurface complexity/hidden depths, and is not just a one-dimensional archetype. Other favorite Chu Shuzhi moments: him being the one to question Zhao Xinci when he took over a SID case and lambasted Zhao Yunlan (because it's not like Zhao Xinci can fire him); going all out so Bo Bi could avenge his brother; him being the one who asks Zhu Hong WTF happened to make Zhao Yunlan lose his sight. Oh, and he has a very cool Dixing power!








1. Favorite episode
2. Favorite case
3. Least favorite case
4. Favorite Holy Tools arc
5. Least favorite Holy Tools arc
6. Which character would you resurrect?
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
jo_lasalle: a sleeping panda (Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei)

[personal profile] jo_lasalle 2019-09-08 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
him being the one to question Zhao Xinci when he took over a SID case and lambasted Zhao Yunlan

I love that scene so much!!! I think that's the first time that we really see the loyalty to Zhao Yunlan this clearly, not hidden behind grumpiness or sarcasm. Such a good moment.
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[personal profile] clevermanka 2019-09-08 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
he's the one I'd most like as my neighbor – quiet, low chance of explosions
YES. And also maybe he would mow his lawn shirtless.
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[personal profile] jo_lasalle 2019-09-08 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
And also maybe he would mow his lawn shirtless.

Hnnf.
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[personal profile] solo 2019-09-08 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
YES. And also maybe he would mow his lawn shirtless.

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[personal profile] solo 2019-09-08 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Chu Shuzhi! (Wow, this fandom does share opinions a lot!)

He deserves it!

quiet, low chance of explosions

And if there are explosions he will handle the fallout with minimum fuss.

being the one to question Zhao Xinci when he took over a SID case and lambasted Zhao Yunlan

Yes! I love him there! Also when he wonders if Changcheng will cave.

so Bo Bi could avenge his brother

LOL I am so fail! I genuinely always heard this as 'Bobby'. Now I have to go check what atrocities I may have committed (or allowed to stand) in the subs... /o\
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[personal profile] phyrry 2019-09-08 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It's funny, he was my favorite on my first watch and I'm less and less interested in him as the rewatches go by. But he would be a good neighbor! We could quietly ignore each other for years, as it should be.

(Thinking about this some more, I wonder if it's just that he's linked to GCC in my brain now, and I definitely check out whenever GCC shows up on screen.)
Edited 2019-09-08 22:33 (UTC)
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[personal profile] tinny 2019-09-13 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
ha, lol, this is the first one where I am going to disagree with everyone. I simply do not like him. (Although his literature review of the Hanga people does speak for him, I'll grant him that. And his woobie tragic backstory is okay, too.)
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[personal profile] tinny 2019-09-13 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
I guess I'm just going to antagonize you if I tell you what I don't like about him, because it's pretty much everything...? :/

Parts of it can be explained by the "dresses in black" thing (which I don't like and I already know that is never a popular opinion) and the moronsexual thing, and of course the loyalty thing (which I also know is not a popular opinion, but it's compounded here by not getting enough background for where his loyalty for the BCE is coming from, tbh).

Sorry?

tinny: Bai Yu (or in fact Zhao Yunlan) wearing a flower crown and looking sweet and innocent (otome) (guardian_baiyu flower crown otome)

[personal profile] tinny 2019-09-13 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
Right! The weird thing is that I absolutely loathe Xiao Guo in the drama, because he really is annoying. But in the novel, where he is described as even more pathetic, I pity him - because the other characters treat him so badly. Every single scene is designed to maximize their abuse of Xiao Guo, and that's just terrible. (But I'm glad they made the other characters nicer in the drama, at least.)