Omg finally, hurt-comfort fic!

[cashew]

【此夜长】【景恒】说你想我
Dan Heng cares for Jing Yuan after battle with Phantylia, comes to terms with himself.

Pros:

• Dan Heng emotional arc!

• Everyone deals with their issues like adults.

• Emotional torture of Dan Heng and Jing Yuan.

• Mutual pining.

• Did I mention adults being adults? Very refreshing.

• Acknowledgement of Jing Yuan's injury being serious. (Like, can gamers remember that in-game graphics suck at rendering wounds and stuff?)

• Dan Heng being jealous of Dan Feng. Not nearly enough fic deals with this.

• Dan Heng earns his happy ending.

Comments

[tanithryudo]

Reminds me of the recent PV comparing Jing Yuan's and Feixiao's morning routines...what with Jing Yuan favoring canton style dim sum for breakfast/brunch.

Extra spicy foods seems to be more of a Jiaoqiu meme thing.

The normal Luofu shop/consumables list doesn't seem to having a lot of spicy foods either.


Guessing this takes place before the Companion quests with Bailu to seal the Arbor, and the one with Jingliu.


Also, wrt to hurt-fics centered on serious injury and stuff... Unfortunately, the more we let MHY write Xianzhou stories, the harder it is to take that concept seriously. Like, we now have Jiaoqiu and his diagnosis that looks more like a forensic report, but he's up and walking pretty quickly. And that one random cloud knight from Yunli's companion quest, who got his head cut off, buried, then recovered and stitched back on, and survived to keep fighting.

(And not just Xianzhou, come to think of it. Aventurine got a face full of Nihility by an Emanator and came out of it by 2.3 perfectly sane and coherent.)

[cashew]

I take the comment regarding no spicy food as a relative thing. What constitutes "spicy" for locals probably is like "garlic shrimp". At least when it comes to 辛辣 in traditional Chinese medicine, that includes everything from chili peppers, black pepper, garlic, onions, spring onions, and ginger. And I know ginger is used a lot in Canton cooking. So when a Cantonese person says "bland" they mean "tastes like paper".

Re: injuries - well, that's why this particular fic made a point that the damage isn't just physical, the metaphysical damage from magic powers is interfering with the regular healing. Also the story had a penatrative hole in the chest seal up over night, which is ridiculous fast.

There are some parts of miHoyo canon that are just better ignored for the sake of a better story. I see no reason to respect parts of canon whose purpose serves only to defang any possible emotional stakes. Those decisions are cowardly business decisions, not artistic ones.

I feel like the purview of fanfic isn't to slavishly follow canon, rather it's to fix the bad writing canon delivers while respecting the general premise. If it makes more emotional sense to have life threatening injuries, then I see no reason to adhere to MiHoyo's dumb decision to remove any possible threat to their characters dying.