30 Days of Guardian

[extrapenguin]

(Sunday Six/general writing update coming up later today)

13. Favorite main villain
Ye Zun without question! He is unhinged and wants to make the whole world burn to make it pay for the suffering he's undergone. He was also subjected to inhumane conditions (10 000 years confined to a pillar? WTF, Hallows) and raised by an abusive xenophobe, so my personal inclination is to place him in a secure psychiatric facility so he can deal with his shit and reform.

I didn't appreciate him on the first watch (beyond critique of Dixing's prison system), but then I got to episode 40, where he reveals exactly why he hated his gege and – this is the important bit – when told the truth, accepts it, and doesn't try to argue against it or claim he wasn't wrong. (I would be more annoyed at the entire thing being solvable had they spoken to each other, but given that Shen Wei is terrible at communicating anything, Ye Zun's monologues weren't exactly informative, and misplaced revenge was an entire theme of the show, I can let it go.) That, plus the frankly terrible life, means I really want to see him realize he was wrong before he starts blowing up the world. (It would also be hilarious if the SID went on a heist to free Ye Zun from his pillar because Chief Zhao wanted his boyfriend the Envoy to be happy. Plotbunny free to good home!)

He's also very expressive! He keeps smiling, shows his (adorable) teeth, and pouts adorably. Someone give him a cuddle and headpats.


Behind the scenes GIFs that would well fit some reformed Ye Zun AU:



Please forgive the nonstandard aspect ratios, the rewatchalong screencaps haven't gotten to Ye Zun yet so these are just my icon caps:







...and the fanmix-perfect song is Halsey - Control.

I'm bigger than my body
I'm colder than this home
I'm meaner than my demons
I'm bigger than these bones

And all the kids cried out, "Please stop, you're scaring me"
I can't help this awful energy
Goddamn right, you should be scared of me
Who is in control?

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 piece of worldbuilding
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

[extrapenguin]

I actually first encountered it in the context of an amazeballs Monstress vid that I spent a few days enthralled by. I sort of want to make another Ye Zun playlist just for that song, but I promised myself I'd make solo playlists for Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan first. (I already have a Ye Zun playlist! Brain, please!)

[clevermanka]

I would like to go back to my other two playlists and separate them out into Shen Wei songs, Zhao Yunlan songs, and Weilan songs. Hm. I guess nobody's stopping me...