Two new ficlets

[likealeafonthewind]

Writing Rainbow: Purple fics have been unveiled so I can post two ficlets that I wrote for it!


Purple (Like the Shadows in Your Heart) (3531 words) by anecdotalist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Zhào Xīncí/Shěn Xī, Zhào Xīncí & Zhāng Shí, Zhào Xīncí & Shěn Wēi
Characters: Zhào Xīncí, Zhāng Shí, Shěn Xī, Zhào Yúnlán, Shěn Wēi
Additional Tags: warning for bigotry (this fic is in Zhao Xinci's pov), Pre-Canon, Canon-Typical Violence, Canonical Character Death, Character Study
Series: Part 1 of Variegation
Summary:

"If someone were to ask Zhao Xinci later, he wouldn’t have been able to say when it was that things changed between him and his wife."

Purple (Like the Open Fields) (2401 words) by anecdotalist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Zhào Yúnlán, Dà Qìng, Chǔ Shùzhī, Zhào Xīncí, Zhāng Shí
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Character Study
Series: Part 2 of Variegation
Summary:

Zhao Yunlan's first day as Chief of the Special Investigations Department was definitely a memorable one.

This was my first flash exchange and it was...interesting. I think I liked it more because I was participating in it with friends and we got to scream at each other about it. It definitely got me writing, and without having time to agonize over my fics the way I usually do which may or may not have been a good thing.

I very much dislike Zhao Xinci so I never thought I'd write something from his pov but the plot bunny came and wouldn't leave so here we are. Then I wrote sort of a follow-up, and there's a third one that I'm planning on writing. I don't think you need to read the first one before you read the second, for those of you who would prefer to skip anything ZXC-related.