30 Days of Guardian

[extrapenguin]

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29. Favorite interpretation of why the Hallows do the things they do
They're sentient and operating on a different level of morality to us. We are ants to them, and why should they be bothered by sacrificing an ant? It's not like an ant could understand the big picture like them – or even experience emotions properly.

(Alternatively, Yashou and Dixingites' ancestors escaped to Earth, but their enemies sent an asteroid of nanomatter or whatever after them. Ma Gui and Fu You fashioned the Hallows from it, and the Hallows continue the mission of cutting off Dixing from the surrounding universe and killing them slowly, though hampered by their small mass.)

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. Sluttiest dresser award
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. Favorite point of characterization
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

[phyrry]

I like both of those plot bunnies! I've also played with 'meteor rock picks up intentions and has an equal and opposite reaction to strong emotional responses' and 'Ma Gui and Fu You fashioned them to defend against attacks by neutralizing the attacker without actually considering what that would mean'.

[extrapenguin]

'meteor rock picks up intentions and has an equal and opposite reaction to strong emotional responses'
Ooh, that's interesting! And finaglable to match canon events.

In general, the Hallows are very interesting and also not really explained in canon. Plus the fact that the more one looks at their actions, the worse they look.

[clevermanka]

Both of those are entirely reasonable and (imo) not mutually exclusive? Fuck the Hallows, for real.

[extrapenguin]

Fuck the Hallows, for real.
+1.

They're not necessarily mutually exclusive, but sort of imply different approaches in fic. I also have some other ideas for the Hallows (e.g. Dixingians are emissaries built by an alien race in the human form, and the Hallows are tools to turn humans into Dixingians that have awesome powers), and I think the Hallows are an excellent place for cosmic worldbuilding and vast plots.

[jo_lasalle]

Alternatively, Yashou and Dixingites' ancestors escaped to Earth, but their enemies sent an asteroid of nanomatter or whatever after them. Ma Gui and Fu You fashioned the Hallows from it, and the Hallows continue the mission of cutting off Dixing from the surrounding universe and killing them slowly, though hampered by their small mass.

Dark, but I like it.

With the ant version, I wonder what they make of people who are more like... mice-sized. You know, Envoys with a lot of power. Would they register more, etc.

I couldn't take you up on that question because the Hallows break my brain and seem to do ALL THE THINGS but incoherently, so I instinctively tend to reduce their ~magic~ by taking them very literally and limited to what the show says they do explicitly, but that doesn't lend itself to a good big picture view, or even a 'why'. (As in, the dial can exchange life force. Why? How? No idea.)

[extrapenguin]

With the ant version, I wonder what they make of people who are more like... mice-sized. You know, Envoys with a lot of power. Would they register more, etc.
I mean, the plot works only if the Envoy is an ant, too. An overpowered ant who should be preserved for a while for the Hallows' purposes, but an ant still, a pawn to be pushed around.

The Hallows are a bit brain-breaking, yes. The options are (IMO):
1. We are like ants to the Hallows and cannot comprehend them
2. We don't know what the Hallows are for and have incorrect ideas on their workings
3. The Hallows are hostile and intentionally hiding that
...all of which require some handwaving. I have ideas for 2 and 3, but 1 is a bit boring ficwise.

[tinny]

Evil!Hallows crack me up every time. :D

[extrapenguin]

What, do you think they must be benevolent fountains of goodness? :P