Fic: Sunflower (Guardian, Ye Zun)

As promised, after finishing the Guardian drama and taking a few days to think about it I'm back with some Ye Zun thoughts. In two versions, fic and meta. Here's the fic one first.

Title: Sunflower
Characters/Pairings: Ye Zun centric with some (one-sided, sort of) Ye Zun/Shen Wei and Ye Zun/Zhao Yunlan.
Rating: Teen
Length: about 1600 words
Tags: major character death, post-canon, 5 things, character study, emotional/symbolic twincest, hopeful, nonlinear, unreliable narrator.

Summary: After his death with his brother, Ye Zun wakes up in Dixing alone. He thinks about four places where he found light and one where he found darkness.

( writing notes )

Meta: on writing Ye Zun

I’m feeling a little nervous to post my thoughts, since I’m still fairly new to the canon and Guardian fandom is full of excellent and thoughtful writers who have been thinking through the show for years, so I’m a little worried that anything I say at this point will be either obvious or wrong. But writing will help me process my feelings about the show and I figure it’s about time for me to get some thoughts out there and see if anyone in the fandom finds anything in them useful. So, here goes. Please be kind.

Content notes: canon-typical violence, murder and suicide. Intended to be creative (a possibly interesting reading) rather than definitive (what I think canon definitely means). Dramaverse, with a very brief mention of the novel.

( woobie villain thoughts be here )

Thank you for reading. If you found anything here useful I'd be glad to know.