30 days of Guardian: Favourite SID member

[frith_in_thorns]

30 Days of Guardian Day 7: Favorite SID member

This one is the hardest to answer so far, I think, which is why I've had a blank post open in tabs for over a week while I try and decide!

Probably the boring cheaty answer is that I really do like them all as a background ensemble cast. My favourites I'm torn between, though, are Da Qing, Lin Jing, and Zhu Hong. (Zhu Hong when she's not pining ONLY because sorry people who liked that storyline but I hated it so much and it just went on and on.) Da Qing is a wonderful bratty cat (seriously, why is he second-in-command, though, other than seniority? He is not very good at it XD), Lin Jing is just great fun and enthusiastic, much as he pretends otherwise, and Zhu Hong has this whole complicated life and Yashou backstory and I really enjoy it. I was really happy with her ending, too.

Also I have a deep soft spot for Wang Zheng as the one who actually keeps the office running! In a conversation the other day naye mentioned that she's also definitely the one making sure everyone is up on their first aid training and fire marshal protocols and all the things like that while Zhao Yunlan is mostly oblivious.


1. Favorite episode
2. Favorite case
3. Favorite Hallows arc
4. How you started watching the show
5. Favorite set
6. Favorite character
7. Favorite SID member
8. Favorite guest character(s)
9. Favorite ship
10. Favorite worldbuilding detail
11. Missed opportunity
12. Favorite rarepair
13. Favorite Yashou tribe
14. Favorite villain
15. Villain you’d like redeemed or whose redemption you liked
16. Favorite conversation between Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei
17. Favorite Dixing power and/or power you want to have
18. Moment you'd like to take AU
19. Favourite headcanon
20. If /when do you think Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei get together?
21. Favorite character moment
22. Favorite badass moment
23. Favorite soft moment
24. Favorite team moment
25. Thoughts and feelings on the ending
26. Rec a fanfic
27. Rec a vid
28. Rec a fanart
29. Rec a meta post
30. Prompt for a fanwork

Comments

[jo_lasalle]

seriously, why is he second-in-command, though, other than seniority? He is not very good at it

My theory at the moment is that seniority made him a candidate and a good sell to the higher ups, and that the fact that he isn't actually doing any "deputy" work actively works for Zhao Yunlan. As does the fact that he probably trusts Da Qing the most, but I really have a strong gut feeling that Zhao Yunlan might not feel comfortable with a more engaged-in-deputy-duties deputy. He loves his team, but until Shen Wei came along, he didn't really have That One Standout Person. Is my not-entirely-finished-formulating theory!

[clevermanka]

Zhao Yunlan might not feel comfortable with a more engaged-in-deputy-duties deputy
That's an aspect I hadn't considered. Good observation, and highly likely, imo!

[frith_in_thorns]

Oooh, that's a really interesting take! And very plausible, too, that he likes that quite flat power structure (with him on the top XD).