30 Days of Guardian

[extrapenguin]

14. Favorite case villain
I actually had a debate on who counted as a villain, since I don't really count e.g. Wang Yike as the villain for that case (the true villains are the three rapist dudes). In fact, every suggestion I came up with was met with "but that person's not the real villain, the real villain is this other person you dislike!" (Wang Yike, Zheng Yi, Wu Xiaojun, etc) So I asked for what people would like as a replacement question.

14. Favorite minor character relationship
Oh no, how do I choose?! Restricting my analysis to platonic relationships, as I already talked about rarepairs, I'll say that I love Shen Wei & Li Qian. Shen Wei is very invested in this mentorship thing, and wants the very best for his student (their relationship is very very close and he fusses over her a lot in eps 1-2), and Li Qian keeps sending stuff to Professor Shen via anonymous e-mails, like the blindness cure and the plea for help after Sha Ya electrocutes her.

If it's favorite relationship between two minor characters, then it's either Zhu Hong & Lin Jing for secondary characters, as they have a subtle yet hilarious friendship where Zhu Hong gets to thwap him upside the head, or Professor Zhou & Professor Ouyang, solely for the hilarity of Professor Zhou constantly wishing Shen Wei were there and Professor Ouyang wishing Zhou would STFU about his prize cabbage.

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 minor character relationship
15. Villain you’d like redeemed or whose redemption you liked
16. Favorite conversation between Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei
17. Favorite bit missed on first watch but picked up on rewatch
18. Least favorite villain
19. Least favorite character
20. Most appealing point for a canon divergence AU
21. Favorite point of characterization
22. Favorite science moment
23. Prompt for a fanwork
24. The one thing you most wish they'd expanded on because it was a cool idea and needed more details
25. Favorite fashion moment
26. Rec a fanfic
27. Rec a vid
28. Thoughts and feelings on the ending
29. Favorite interpretation of why the Hallows do the things they do
30. Favorite unanswered question (and what you want the answer to be)

(I have retooled the list almost completely from 20 onwards. I expect I'll change the rest of the original questions, as recs are not how I engage with fandom and this one's small enough one can just go to archiveofdixing and read through all the summaries. I also prompt plenty of stuff in exchanges. I'll probably rearrange a few questions, though. Thanks to phyrry for help coming up with questions!)

Comments

[extrapenguin]

I think I need to write or request Professor Zhou and Professor Ouyang fic now, because oh, to be a fly on that wall. How much would Professor Ouyang twitch when Professor Zhou starts bragging about his prize cabbage? Or would he just start yelling?
We actually see one conversation in to 20s where they're standing about in their labcoats, the experiment didn't work, Zhou says "If only Shen Wei were here!" and Ouyang goes "stfu". It was hilarious.

Zhu Hong and Lin Jing bodyswap sounds hilarious, but the brain is the brain and the brain has preferences, I understand. (...now I have the cracky bunny of Zhao Yunlan and Ye Zun swapping bodies, so Ye Zun is trying to murder gege with a body with no Dixing powers and Zhao Yunlan is baffled at this stuck in a pillar thing. Oh no.) I very much support all Lin Jing & Zhu Hong platonic interactions showcase, though!

[phyrry]

Yes, congratulations, YZ/ZYL swapping crack is the scenario I am thinking about hard, possibly Hallows related just before the wormhole opens in 34 and then breaking the timeline wiiiiide open when they both get dragged in. The other point I was thinking about was 20 in the park which is very similar to your bunny.

(I should probably do more minor character stuff with SID as I've found I'm not confident writing their PoVs. I'll think about it some more, I might be able to manage Lin Jing.)