Fic summaries of my Guardian wips

[likealeafonthewind]

Since I'm posting snippets of these on Sundays, I figured I'd go ahead and put up my working summaries for them. They're both still untitled because I have a really hard time with titles and usually leave those for the end.

Future fix-it fic: After the defeat of Ye Zun, Shen Wei enters the cycle of reincarnation while Zhao Yunlan remains anchored to the Guardian Lamp as its eternally burning wick. Peace reigns as he watches over all of Haixing for hundreds of years. But that peace is shattered one day by the arrival of spaceships carrying the descendants of the ancestors of the Dixingren and Yashou who had settled on Haixing thousands of years ago. These descendants aren’t looking to settle on the planet now, though; they’re here to conquer it.

Concubine!Shen Wei fic: Dixing is one of the last States standing against Emperor Zhao Xinci’s attempt to conquer and unite all the lands. The Crown Prince, Zhao Yunlan, has been fighting at the front lines of the war against Dixing for years when his mother gifts him with a concubine. Shen Wei is beautiful and magnetic and Zhao Yunlan falls in love with him instantly. But Shen Wei isn’t just a concubine; he’s a Dixing operative who’s being embedded in Zhao Yunlan’s household to gather intel and potentially assassinate the prince. He doesn't expect to fall in love with the prince.

Comments

[tinny]

Ooooh worldbuilding and enemies to lovers! Yay more fic!

[likealeafonthewind]

Tons of worldbuilding! (It's one of my favorite things to do.)

They're not overtly enemies...or, well, I guess I'll just say that it's Complicated. ;)

[extrapenguin]

OMG, aliens!!! I love the first idea and its worldbuilding and everything involved ahh.

[likealeafonthewind]

Yay! There's actually a good bit of angst before the fun begins, so it's kind of a slow-build. Well, for now anyway. I'm definitely going to have to get this thing beta'd once it's done and see if the pacing's okay.

[mecurtin]

I don't think I've told you before that the summary of your Future Fix-It Fic has made its way into my thinking about the drama's world-building. Partly because it chimes with a lot of ideas we have around Smallville, back in the day.

I was thinking of your summary, for example, when I wondered about what the spiders on Ye Zun's Pillar mean.

So it would be an understatement to say I'm looking forward to this.

[likealeafonthewind]

Oh, cool! I think it's definite canon-compliant possibility that when they first landed on Haixing, they were actually running away from something (which is how it plays out in my fic).

I had not paid much attention to those carvings on Ye Zun's pillar before! But looking at them now (and what the pillar seems to be made of), it looks like something that could have been in Stargate Atlantis. Like, it looks like a remnant from a long-ago very advanced civilization, with markings whose meanings have been lost.