Fic: Sunflower (Guardian, Ye Zun)
Jun. 15th, 2020 06:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waterscrollAs 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.
I was readingextrapenguin's fics while thinking this through and I'm sure it shows, there are some borrowed headcanons and such. Much gratitude for the inspiration.
Eventually I may have to write Zhao Yunlan's POV on this. He's doing better than Ye Zun thinks and kind of getting a kick out of figuring out the different things he can do in Lantern form.
This was a very enjoyable story to write because my favorite part of writing is playing with structure and imagery. Ye Zun speaks in a way that is highly repetitive and imagistic, and also tends to move quickly and unpredictably between the past and the present, and I wanted to reflect that in my fic structure. Of course he also tends to speak somewhat incoherently, so the first three versions of this made approximately zero sense. I hope it makes more sense now.
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.
I was reading
extrapenguin's fics while thinking this through and I'm sure it shows, there are some borrowed headcanons and such. Much gratitude for the inspiration.Eventually I may have to write Zhao Yunlan's POV on this. He's doing better than Ye Zun thinks and kind of getting a kick out of figuring out the different things he can do in Lantern form.
This was a very enjoyable story to write because my favorite part of writing is playing with structure and imagery. Ye Zun speaks in a way that is highly repetitive and imagistic, and also tends to move quickly and unpredictably between the past and the present, and I wanted to reflect that in my fic structure. Of course he also tends to speak somewhat incoherently, so the first three versions of this made approximately zero sense. I hope it makes more sense now.
