30 Days of Guardian
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extrapenguin30. Favorite unanswered question (and what you want the answer to be)
I spent a few days pondering this on the backburner, as I sort of went up against some unanswered questions ("What is the Hallows' deal?") earlier in this meme. I actually had a bit of trouble coming up with an unanswered question! *g*
That said: the expedition to the surface that Wu Tian'en was part of and was led by mirror girl's dad. Why did almost all of them die immediately? Why did the expedition leader go all evil (and later kill Shen Xi)? How did Wu Xiaojun and mirror girl end up on the surface, and what happened to their mothers?
...as for what I want the answers to be, well, um. The wives sneaked out to Haixing to find out WTF was going on, had to bring the kids because there was no childcare available for them, found out what happened and split ways to find their respective husbands. Wu Tian'en's wife found him but came to some tragic end (idk, traffic accident? something that wouldn't get on Zhao Xinci's radar) so he became a single dad; the expedition leader's wife found him, but he'd gone evil and they spent a few years raising their daughter together before the pressure rose too much. Expedition leader's wife stashes the kid in a mirror and gets shot by Zhao Xinci, who may or may not realize the connection to expedition leader, and then expedition leader retaliates by taking Shen Xi hostage and poofing them both out of existence when Zhao Xinci's willing to sacrifice his wife for the sake of taking down one guy from Dixing. And the expedition leader went evil because he saw Haixing's plethora of everything compared to Dixing's squalor, found the Guardian Lantern, and was corrupted by the Hallows. This would also explain why the SID has the Lantern!
This is the end of my 30 Days of Guardian. I hope you've enjoyed it! The regular more irregular content will resume soonish, though a bunch of stuff has been dumped on my plate for the rest of October.
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)
I spent a few days pondering this on the backburner, as I sort of went up against some unanswered questions ("What is the Hallows' deal?") earlier in this meme. I actually had a bit of trouble coming up with an unanswered question! *g*
That said: the expedition to the surface that Wu Tian'en was part of and was led by mirror girl's dad. Why did almost all of them die immediately? Why did the expedition leader go all evil (and later kill Shen Xi)? How did Wu Xiaojun and mirror girl end up on the surface, and what happened to their mothers?
...as for what I want the answers to be, well, um. The wives sneaked out to Haixing to find out WTF was going on, had to bring the kids because there was no childcare available for them, found out what happened and split ways to find their respective husbands. Wu Tian'en's wife found him but came to some tragic end (idk, traffic accident? something that wouldn't get on Zhao Xinci's radar) so he became a single dad; the expedition leader's wife found him, but he'd gone evil and they spent a few years raising their daughter together before the pressure rose too much. Expedition leader's wife stashes the kid in a mirror and gets shot by Zhao Xinci, who may or may not realize the connection to expedition leader, and then expedition leader retaliates by taking Shen Xi hostage and poofing them both out of existence when Zhao Xinci's willing to sacrifice his wife for the sake of taking down one guy from Dixing. And the expedition leader went evil because he saw Haixing's plethora of everything compared to Dixing's squalor, found the Guardian Lantern, and was corrupted by the Hallows. This would also explain why the SID has the Lantern!
This is the end of my 30 Days of Guardian. I hope you've enjoyed it! The regular more irregular content will resume soonish, though a bunch of stuff has been dumped on my plate for the rest of October.
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)
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Date: 2019-10-12 16:57 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-10-13 08:47 (UTC)My big unanswered question would be "When were the Hallows stolen? (Please present a detailed timeline. :)" because between the Hanga having the Awl for at least a century, the Hallows leaving Dixing less than twenty years ago when SID was founded and the exhibition to find them setting out thirty years ago (because Wu Tian'en and Wu Xiaojun were separated twenty years ago), it is a mess.
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Date: 2019-10-13 09:29 (UTC)Wu Tian'en tells Shen Wei that the expedition leader's wife was pregnant when they set out, so Mirror Girl at least must be fully from Dixing. Or the expedition leader had a secret marriage with a Haixing woman and volunteered to lead the expedition so they could meet.
LOL, yes. My personal theory is that Dixing has an interesting concept of "time" and the Hallows encourage it by e.g. making Dixing's time run in fits and starts compared to Haixing's so that it's not an 1:1 correspondence. And that the Awl was stolen first/ended up on the surface first.
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Date: 2019-10-13 09:49 (UTC)Aha, useful, thank you!
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Date: 2019-10-13 13:22 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-10-13 18:56 (UTC)