okay but imagine. guardian (dramaverse), post-canon. everybody lives. weilan are married. ye zun is alive and he and shen wei have reconciled and are inseparable.
everything is just peachy until shen wei gets hit with an amnesia curse (or the non-magical equivalent, some kind of mega death ray that causes amnesia in dixingren or whatever lol) and he now can only remember up to his baby-faced general days, before he met kunlun. he wakes up and doesn’t recognize zhao yunlan, who claims to be his husband (he has a husband??!?!?). cue some adorably confused yet tentatively hopeful shen wei bambi eyes.
but THEN! zyl says his name! and he’s like oh HELL no, no WAY is this dude my husband. he mispronounced my name! wtf kinda rookie mistake!!!
so he figures someone on the enemy side with ~illusion powers~ has concocted this elaborate fantasy for him as a way of getting him to inadvertently reveal secret army intelligence. now he needs to 1) play along and pretend that he hasn’t cottoned on and 2) figure out a way to break the illusion all while 3) NOT revealing anything and 4) living with the knowledge that someone rummaged around in his soft squishy heart of hearts enough to understand that the ideal fantasy with which to ensnare him would be one in which he has found his family and is seen and loved and valued for who he is and not just what he can do, but that despite figuring out his deepest, most personal and sacred desires, whoever it is who’s behind all this didn’t even BOTHER to learn how to say his NAME
#i just think it’s so cute and sad and funny that this dude falls out of the sky saves his ass and says#i think your name is dumb. wouldn’t it be tight if THIS was your name instead? lol#and then shen wei’s like *starry eyes* whatever you say senpai#i don’t think we milk that for angst often enough#and what better way to do that#than wrapped up in shen wei’s canon longing for connection and intimacy#paired with what he believes is just further proof that no one can bother to actually get to know him?#:D :D :D#shen wei: wow i guess i’m so pathetic that everybody can tell i’m touch-starved and homesick for my little brother#and insecure about my own lovability#but actual personal details about me and what makes me *me* aren’t worth anybody’s time#that checks out! i am definitely in a highly detailed completely fabricated fake world for the purpose of using me for information.#there is no other likelier explanation. occam’s razor. qed.#guardian#shen wei#my posts (tags by @howdydowdy)
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