fic - The Heart of a Mindship

[likealeafonthewind]

The Heart of a Mindship (5046 words) by anecdotalist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shěn Wēi & Yè Zūn & Zhào Yúnlán
Characters: Shěn Wēi, Zhào Yúnlán, Yè Zūn, Zhào Xīncí, Shěn Xī
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Space, sentient spaceships, specifically - spaceship Shen Wei and Ye Zun
Summary:

Thousands of years ago, a collaborative team from Haixing and Dixing created mindships from Dixing technology and Haixing magic. Zhao Yunlan is a new graduate of the Haixing Air and Space Program and he’s not expecting to get picked to be a third, but he does. By Shen Wei and Ye Zun, the pair of Dixingren who had become the first mindship.

Comments

[demitas]

This was a really fun AU, I loved it!

I can't believe your houseplant is 5k words lolol

[likealeafonthewind]

I was trying to get it down to under 5k but I only managed to cut ~100 words over 3 editing passes and then I gave up. It's just...a houseplant that has been planted in the yard.

[phyrry]

It's an adorable houseplant, Ally. Even if it did eat the front steps.

[likealeafonthewind]

It might...possibly...be, uh, growing. Or perhaps it's another seedling from the same tree...

[phyrry]

You're going to have a lovely house in the forest, and I will enjoy every kudzu-covered plant there. ♥️🚀🌠🔭

[likealeafonthewind]

The problem (saving grace?) is that I'm having trouble settling on a consistent worldbuilding schema and I can't write anymore in this universe until I've got that figured out.

This happened with my SW Pacific Rim AU too, which is how it has stayed a one-shot.

[phyrry]

Ahhhh, the omnipresent quandry of worldbuilding... it eats so many WIPs and bunnies with, "But is this really worth the work?" 😭