30 Days of Guardian

[extrapenguin]

But announcements banner first: 1. Once I'm done with the meme, I'll make an index masterpost with links to all the answers. 2. The Guardian icon battle pt 4 deadline went and there are pretty icons there!

20. Most appealing point for a canon divergence AU
Episode 20! (This is a very fittingly numbered question.) You can diverge so that Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei can stay at the SID and Zhu Jiu stays captive (Zhao Xinci comes to take a look in person?), diverge so that Zhu Jiu succeeds in his Hallows kidnapping, diverge so that Zhu Jiu stays alive, diverge so that Bai Suxia stays alive and we don't get any evil emo Wang Xiangyang, diverge so that Ye Zun and Zhao Yunlan's conversation goes differently and Ye Zun gets hit by the clue bat sooner, etc. So many options! And that was in under 5 minutes of thought.

It's a major gamechanger episode, so if you adjust the river bend a bit, the ship will sail downstream into a very different direction.

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. Which two characters who didn't meet should have, and how might that scene go?
24. The one thing you most wish they'd expanded on because it was a cool idea and needed more details
25. Sluttiest dresser award
26. What Dixing power do you wish would've existed in the show?
27. What minor plot arc should have gotten another episode, and why?
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)

Comments

[clevermanka]

Just gonna...sit here for a few minutes and think how wonderful some of those options would be.

[extrapenguin]

IKR? I mean, I acknowledge my instinct is more "and how can we make everyone live happily ever after with a minimum of fuss?" than "I have figured out a way to make the characters suffer some more!" but ... so many options! They'd have been interesting, too, and I'd have loved a pivot towards "maybe the Hallows were the true villains all along" or something.

[clevermanka]

The Hallows really are assholes.

[phyrry]

Yes, it's the midpoint where everything changes! I hope there are more flash exchanges after October because this spreadsheet isn't getting any shorter...

[extrapenguin]

I'm also going to request it for Yuletide if it's eligible, because more writing time and a strong letter + treat culture to get people to read my prompts, but, yes. Writing Rainbow will happen twice (October, December) and Space Race and I'm sure there'll be other flash exchanges, like that xeno one. All the canon divergences! (Let Zhu Jiu live to gaze upon Boss's face!)