[fic: guardian] Above all shadows rides the sun

Title: Above all shadows rides the sun (7 Chapters, Complete)
Fandom: Guardian | 镇魂
Series: Part 3/3 of Beneath the sun
Word count: 29,900 words
Characters/Pairing: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, SID team, the Regent, An Bai
Content/Tags: Dixing politics, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Fixit, Plot, Hurt/Comfort, Cultists, Canon-Typical Metaphysical Bullshit

Summary: The pressures in Dixing and on Shen Wei are being stoked to a boiling point. It's getting harder to hold things together. Maybe impossible.

On AO3: First chapter | Last chapter

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Well, I finished the fic, and the series! Including re-writing a key scene just before I posted at 1am last night. If you count the three parts in the series together the story comes to 58k, which is the longest complete story I've yet written. It is my actual baby and I'm really proud of it.

I have... lots of thoughts about it, since it fully ate my brain for two months. Which I wanted to share, although feel free to skip because I'm not sure this is interesting to people who aren't me?

( Quite a lot of rambling about writing this series, including major spoilers )

A final final thought: I hate coming up with titles nearly as much as I hate coming up with summaries. (I know the summaries for these three fics are especially useless.) It was a great relief to realise that since I'd gone with In darkness buried deep for Part 1 I could just use other bits from the poem for all the rest! Definitely something to remember if I ever do another multi-part series like this!