#luolin fanfiction

[the-marron]

Rating:Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Category: M/M

Fandoms: 叛逆者 | The Rebel (TV 2021), 绅探 | Detective L (TV)

Relationship: Lin Nansheng/Luo Fei (Detective L)

Wordcount: 108,821 words

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, Canonical Character Death, Historical Inaccuracy, Family, 1940s, Slow Burn, Co-Parenting, Survivor Guilt, Post-War Bai Yu/Zhu Yilong Character Combinations, Pining, Lin Nansheng yearns like it's a national sport, 1950s, Haircuts as metaphor for allowing someone to get close, slice of life in 1940-1950s, married behaviour without being married, Fade to Black, Happy ending.

Summary:

“Well, hello,” the man said, his lips tugging up in a smile.

Not prepared for that, all Lin Nansheng could do in reply was to cough shallowly, the exertion of the chase getting to him.

“You can let go, comrade, I won’t run.” Despite the lightness in his words, the voice was hushed, as if trying not to attract more attention. And yet, Lin Nansheng found himself letting go. The stranger used his free hand to support the bundle pressed against his chest.

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A bitter and disillusioned Lin Nansheng gets pulled into much more excitement than he bargained for.

YES IT'S DONE!!! 🎉🎉🎉 My longest fic up to date is finished, beta-read and it even has a happy ending! Rejoice with me, for I am very proud. Luolin agenda lives!!!! 🎊

Link here

[the-marron]

All-Forgotten Fics of Yours Truly

You know who constantly forgets to post stuff on Tumblr? Me.

And so now when I tried to find a link to one of my fics I couldn't because it's physically not there 🙃 I am a pro at social media. So now I decided to do a round up of all the Guardian stuff I haven't posted before, just for archival purposes 😅

Guardian

1. To wild uncharted waters

Summary:

Tonight, Shen Wei is abandoning all of Aoguang’s laws and heading towards the shore, for the second time in his entire life. All for Kunlun.

Also known as mermaid!au, written for @birdbird-blog ❤

2. What happens to the heart

Summary:

“I bring an offering,” he starts, feeling the oddness of the words on his tongue. This is not an offering, not exactly. It’s not incense and gold worthy of a god, it’s not a string of worshipful words either, and yet with who they are, The Ghost King has no other word for it.

There is nothing else a ghost can offer to a god.

Novel-verse, an attempt at happy moment between Kunlun and Shen Wei

3. Spellbound

Summary:

Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei Vs Ancient Couples Counseling

Also known as duck!SW fic

4. The Way of the Househusband

Summary:

Zhao Yunlan vs household chores feat Shen Wei's existential crisis

Technically this one appeared on my self-rec post at some point and it was added to the art that inspired it but I technically didn't publish it here myself, so here it is. Domesticity, dear people, what else can I say.

5. hold every memory as you go

Summary:

Wang Zheng was her first girl friend. It sounds sad when she thinks about it, that the first woman she felt true connection with was a dead girl found by her boss and Da Qing in the woods, but that's still a fact. She didn't have true friends before, not like that.

Also known as: not a fix it people, just Zhu Hong post-canon, thinking about everything she's lost and learning to move on with hope

6. I've got a dream

Summary:

“I swear, if it turns out you have no idea where we are going, I will murder you and leave your body for the crows to find,” Chu Shuzhi said conversationally, stomping through the mud with the air of a man condemned to an unjust punishment. The object of his anger, Zhao Yunlan the Adventurer, just shrugged without turning back. Chu Nianzhi was certain that he had heard worse threats in his life, he used to work at the court after all. Though, in what capacity, Zhao Yunlan had never disclosed – ever since Nianzhi and Shuzhi met him at the inn, winning a strange map from a crowd of very suspicious looking men, all that they managed to get out of him was that he was on an adventure.

Written for an event, it has Chu brothers having The Time of Their Lives (Not) thanks to Zhao Yunlan who Apparently Has A Wife

7. Wish You Were Here

Summary:

Instead of falling asleep, Shen Wei gets to experience the millennia of longing, year after a lonely year.

Written for a friend, featuring, well, lots of loneliness

And I think that's all from Guardian? The rest was here because of the Guardian Bingo, I am pretty sure

And now, as my treat from me to me, the forgotten Luolins:

Luolin [WEILAN DERIVATIVES]

1. Unscathed [WIP]

Summary:

“Well, hello,” the man said, his lips tugging up in a smile. Not prepared for that, all Lin Nansheng could do in reply was to cough shallowly, the exertion of the chase getting to him. “You can let go, comrade, I won’t run.” Despite the lightness in his words, the voice was hushed, as if trying not to attract more attention. And yet, Lin Nansheng found himself letting go. The stranger used his free hand to support the bundle pressed against his chest.

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A bitter and disillusioned Lin Nansheng gets pulled into much more excitement than he bargained for.

Post-canon longfic that I am still trying to write despite the lack of time. Totally not known as Godzilla AU, not at all good sir.

2. A Practical Arrangement

Summary:

It was a pure accident that Luo Fei and Lan Xinjie knew each other, and that the lady came to Cen Zimo with questions about a possible accommodation for her friend was a sign from the heavens. Luo Fei wasn’t convinced of course, but the argument of 'practical arrangement' swayed him in the end.

Technically it's not Luolin for it features an outsider POV of another deriv that has romantic plans re: LF, but let's be real here, I wouldn't break up Luolin for anyone so it's Luolin through and through. Sorry, Cen Zimo. (I am not)

3. we devour, like a falcon in the dive

Summary:

A quiet moment of trust that morphs into something much more.

Based on art, first attempt to give these two an actual happy ending and not an ambigious one

4. only a touch of dust remains

Summary:

He knows what he will find when he opens the door. He's known for a while, he's been preparing for it but still, the moment his hand touches the handle, he hesitates. He never hesitates, there is no reason for him to do so – there is nothing that can surprise him.

Angst. Outsider's POV. Did I mention angst?

5. All in the Scheme of Things

Summary:

And then Wu-laoshi brought in Luo Fei – a tall, handsome man in a well-tailored suit whose words were outpaced only by his thoughts. It was with relief that Lin Nansheng realized that they didn’t manage to discuss anything and would have to meet again – he had a good excuse to see Luo Fei again.

Modern Teacher!au, a prequel to one of my fics from Weilan Derivs week 2022.

6. Unmoored Academicals [CROSSOVER]

Summary:

A foreboding sense of familiarity washed over Zhao Yunlan. His mind had one, final thought of’ not again’, before the vortex of time opened for good and swallowed everything around him. -- The 'DCU moonlights as Shanghai University' crack that wouldn't leave my brain, with a dash of academia humour

Yeah, I wrote it mostly for crack reasons, but also to appreciate that while there are some similarities between them, SW and LNS are very different, as are LF and ZYL - it is a bit of a love letter to BY and Z1L's acting abilities, dressed up as a crack about a university jumping dimensions, just like Pratchett would have wanted

7. The man you seek is long gone

Summary:

After returning from Hong Kong, Lin Nansheng tries to find out what happened to Luo Fei. -- Mostly canon compliant with some fix-ity changes added

Presumed dead fic, because everyone needs one 🤗

8. It's falsehood's flame, it's a crying shame

Summary:

There is a man at the door, dressed in a rather expensive-looking suit, looking around with a faint air of distaste. He has a cane in his hand and a certain confidence around him – Lin Nansheng notices all of that, but it is dulled by the realization that the man is really handsome. * In an alternate universe, Chen Moqun becomes a crime boss instead of the Station Chief. Lin Nansheng follows him either way, until he encounters an unexpected complication in the form of Luo Fei.

Not-really (and yet) mafia!au which is also my first Luolin ever, written for @babischlong-six 😌❤

and now I am off to live that cryptid life because there are still at least a dozen weilan derivs fics that I haven't posted here either but I don't have the energy to do it today. Better to do something than nothing and all that ~

[the-marron]

Last line tag meme

rules: share the last line you wrote, tag some people and have fun

Hi, @forerussake , thank you for the tag ~❤️ I don't have many works to publish these days, but I have one that you know already 😌

Unscathed, chapter 17 (Luolin, my beloved ✨)

Throughout his career, Lin Nansheng had done many things meant to highlight his importance and status: he bought alcohol from the highest shelves, decorated the walls of his house with paintings he paid for much more than they were worth, he gave gifts meant to make the recipients cower; all to appear as rotten and self-serving as the rest of the Station. He had never, however, taken breakfast in the hotel room in a bathrobe. Not until today.

I am now vacationing (finally!!!) so it's not much, but I was afraid I will forget about it if I put it off for too long 😅

Tagging: @babischlong-six , @chaosgene , @tinypinkmouse, if you all feel like sharing ❤️

[the-marron]

WIP Wednesday

I am not making any progress lately, too busy, but at least I have something - chapter 6 of the Luolin fic, now in the process of being checked 😄 Featuring: LNS being a teacher ✨

[the-marron]

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandoms: 绅探 | Detective L (TV), 叛逆者 | The Rebel (TV 2021)

Relationship: Lin Nansheng/Luo Fei (Detective L)

Characters: Lin Nansheng, Luo Fei (Detective L)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, although it is canon compliant if we assume LF was always part of the canon, Longing, Nostalgia, Undercover, Vignette

Summary:

On the gallery on the first floor, engrossed in a rather spirited talk with another Westerner, there is a man Lin Nansheng thought he will never see again. No one returned to Shanghai after being taken away by the triad, Nansheng knew that. Everyone knew that. The man was taken in 1937, years ago. Lin Nansheng had mourned him.

[the-marron]

Historical Guardian Fic Recs

This list is shorter than I thought it would be, that’s why it mixes Guardian and Weilan derivs.

Guardian AUs:

wait for it, wait  by sarahyyy

Angst, unspecified period. A tragic romance between a courtier and a general.

The Crimson Lotus  by bonibaru

Longfic, inspired by The Scarlet Pimpernel, with espionage, double identities, etc. One of fandom classics.

Luolin (Luo Fei/Lin Nansheng Detective L x The Rebel crossover)

We Both Know How This Ends  by  MoDaoZuHolyShit

China in 1950s, the fallout after the Rebel canon featuring an old love and the grey reality of the beginning era. Angst, Politics, amazing writing  

Kiss Away Your Tears by xiermifen

Long fic, which takes a few liberties with Detective L and the Rebel canon but delivers some of my favourite Luolin scenes to date and introduced me to the ship in the first place 🥺.

Warning for Chen Moqun/Lin Nansheng at the beginning.

No shame in having loved by ForErusSake                

Follows the story of the Rebel, with added Luo Fei into the mix, observing LNS through a series of meetings. Atmospheric, sad, but with an optimistic ending.

Warning for CMQ/LNS      

Weilan derivatives:

An official’s position is one of an emaciated steed: On a high stage, where icy tears are difficult to shed | 一任宫长骁瘦 台高冰泪难流   by  MoDaoZuHolyShit, Qi Heng/Bo Li, Ancient China   

A short story about two childhood sweethearts meeting on two opposite sides of the war.            

Bai Qi's gamble by  mici_micelle, Ying Ji/Bai Qi, unspecified               

It’s not very specific in terms of when exactly it takes place, but the fic makes a nice use of Bai Qi being an actual general during Ying Ji’s rule, and the idea behind the fic is great. Angst, politics

the pair of lovebirds that Loneliness painted by djjdkim.  Feng Yong/Chi Rui, WWII

Arranged marriage, jealousy and the war in the background: I enjoy this story a lot (though it’s not entirely accurate, being on the more optimistic side.)

Clockworks and Cold Steel  by  MoDaoZuHolyShit, Lin Nansheng/Yang Xiuxian,  Shanghai 1930s and onwards, WIP

Following the canon of the Rebel, adding YXX for more intrigue, mystery and romance - it’s amazing, even though still in progress. Includes art and it so well-written ❤

[the-marron]

Rating: Mature

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Category: M/M

Fandoms: 叛逆者 | The Rebel (TV 2021), 绅探 | Detective L (TV), 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)

Relationship: Lin Nansheng/Luo Fei

Characters: Zhao Jinglong, Lin Nansheng, Luo Fei (Detective L)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, POV Outsider, references to accidental vouyerism, Loyalty, Historical References, spoilers for the Rebel canon,  Ambiguous/Open Ending, Bai Yu/Zhu Yilong Character Combinations

Summary:

A story of Lin Nansheng's love affair told in three flavours

--- 'Lollipops' for @guardianbingo

[the-marron]

Rating:Mature

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Category:M/M

Fandoms: L'Oréal "Time Engraver" Commercials, 叛逆者 | The Rebel (TV 2021), 绅探 | Detective L (TV), 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)

Relationships: Lin Nansheng/Luo Fei (Detective L), The Time Engraver/Luo Fei

Characters:Luo Fei (Detective L), Lin Nansheng, Time Engraver (L'Oreal "Time Engraver" Commercials)

Additional Tags:Angst, One-Sided Attraction, Introspection, Death, Time Freeze, Bai Yu/Zhu Yilong Character Combinations

Language:English

Summary:

He knows what he will find when he opens the door. He's known for a while, he's been preparing for it but still, the moment his hand touches the handle, he hesitates. He never hesitates, there is no reason for him to do so – there is nothing that can surprise him. 

Written for RedPocketPromptFest2023, inspired by Elenothar’s Entrapping Time

[the-marron]

ooooh im so intrigued by "Godzilla au chapter 12" 👀👀👀 will you say a little more and/or post a snippet?

Hi~❤ I am glad you asked, now I can subject you to the ✨Luolin agenda✨ Thank you~

It's a Weilan Derivatives ship that puts Lin Nansheng (the Rebel) and Luo Fei (Detective L) together and I for one am absolutely normal about this ship, thank you very much. The possibilities! They are both in Shanghai in 1930s, they are smart, devoted to their ideas but also so, so different at their cores that this seems like a match made in heaven, in this essay I will [ad break, Marron is removed from the stage off-screen]

Anyways, Godzilla au sadly doesn't feature any actual Godzillas 😒 But the plot of this story is heavily inspired by Godzilla Minus One, which is a great movie about war trauma, survivour's guilt and family of choice (or more like circumstance) that makes life worth living for, and considering well, everything that happens to LNS, he fits in this story very well. At this point, the fic is already very far away from the movie plot, but since the main points are taken from it, it still wears the name of 'Godzilla au' in my files 😅 It's currently being published on Ao3 as Unscathed.

And here's a snippet of the upcoming chapter 12 that I do not have the time to finish:

“Luo Fei is a private detective, as I’ve told you. He’s been on a trail of the same criminal for years, throughout the wars and even now, even though… Said criminal now has more power to silence him than before.” He tried to put it as vaguely as possible, but from the look on her face, he could see that Madame Qin understood him - her eyes widened slightly, her lips opening slightly in silent shock. 

[the-marron]

Godzilla au chapter 12?? :O

Thanks for asking 😁❤

Hah, yeah, I know. See, me and my weilan derivatives loving heart watched Godzilla Minus One, saw 'sad soldier with survivors guilt gets a surprise family and has to deal with trauma' and decided that it sounds like a Luolin scenario. What's Luolin? Well, it's a ship consisting of Lin Nansheng (from The Rebel) and Luo Fei (from Detective L) and as they both canonicaly live in Shanghai in 1930s/1940s... Yeah, my brain was thrilled at the idea. Thrilled enough to have more than 50k about it and going.

Sadly, no actual Godzilla appears, it's all just inspired by it 😞 but the ongoing longfic is available here: Unscathed

a short look into chapter 12 (still unpublished):

“It would be better for him if you left your cousin where he is,” she said, crossing her arms in front of her chest. Lin Nansheng was grateful for the care and affection she had for Dayu, but now that she’d voiced the conclusion Nansheng had himself reached and hated, it was hard to truly appreciate the lady’s concern. Even though his mind agreed with her statement, Lin Nansheng couldn’t accept it. The hand around the mug started to tremble slightly as Nansheng replied calmly:

“Luo Fei is not my cousin.”

“I know.”

“He is not my friend either.”

Madame Qin’s gaze turned sharp. Some part of Lin Nansheng wanted to tell her. Wanted to explain everything to voice the truth, but this vague statement was all he could force himself to utter. 

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I think I made a lovely mess out of posting this, someone take away my internet rights please. I saw people posting their gifts on tumblr as well, so idk, for archiving purposes here we go?

Gift for @omaenanimonoda for Guardian Wishlist 2023 

Fandoms: The Rebel, Detective L

Pairings: Lin Nansheng/Luo Fei,

Characters: Lin Nansheng, Luo Fei, Qin Xiaoman, Wang Susu

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Winter, Falling in Love, Lin Nansheng’s Canon-typical internal angst, Neighbours-to-Lovers, Happy Ending, Fluff

[the-marron]

Rating: Mature

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Category: M/M

Fandoms: 叛逆者 | The Rebel (TV 2021), 绅探 | Detective L (TV)

Relationship: Lin Nansheng/Luo Fei (Detective L)

Characters: Lin Nansheng, Luo Fei (Detective L)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Cyberpunk, Angst, Sad, Cyberpunk 2077 - inspired, Kinda

Summary:

“He is the best mind the Station ever managed to acquire,” Chen Moqun had told him when handing Nansheng his field agent license. “Only one of our very best can work with him and many before you have failed already. Do not disappoint me, Xiao Lin.” That was six months ago. Luo Fei still hasn’t asked for a change of partner, so maybe he is not disappointed in Lin Nansheng just yet.

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I’m still not done with Cyberpunk and definitely not done with Luolin, oh well. Moodboard by @verochkasnightmarecorner​ ❤❤❤

[the-marron]

Shipper Tag Game

Tagged by @forerussake , thank you 🥰

1. What ship were you completely obsessed with when you were a teenager, but now you don't care about anymore?

Hmmm, a hard question right off the bat, because even if I am no longer actively seeking the ship content out anymore, usually I retain a lot of fondness for it, so there are precious few ships I used to be into and that I am simply meh about now, but I think it would be ShikaIno, from Naruto. Canon came at me hard, so while I have some fondness for it, it is what it is, and I am not that much into Naruto anymore either way, so it doesn't hurt much.

2. Which ship would you consider your first one?

Simba/Nala? Lol 😂 but in all seriousness, I think it would be BatCat. Or Aragon/Arwen, I am very hazy on the details when exactly I imprinted on those, the timeline is not clear

3. Your first fanfic was about which couple?

Read or written? Read: no idea, I think it might have been some self-insert into Inuyasha universe? Written: Sirius/Remus

4. Do you remember the first couple you saw fanart of?

Nope. When I discovered the internet I discovered all of it at an alarming pace, but my bet would be on either Sirius/Remus or some couple from W.I.T.C.H

5. Have you ever gotten into ship discourse?

I try not to. I have opinions, yes, and I like discussing them with friends, but I try not to make it anyone's problem - everyone will ship what they want to ship and find different dynamics compelling, so I don't think it necessary to crusade one way or another because one ship is superior to another. It's all very subjective.

6. Did you use to have any NOTP or have one currently?

I have quite a bit! Funnily enough I have some canon ships I absolutely dislike and can go off about whenever I catch a poor, innocent victim to listen to my rant.

But my general rule is that I don't like OT3s. In any fandom, in any form, it's just not for me at all. To make matters worse, I am a monoshipper at heart, which usually means that I have a dynamic/ship that I like with characters A and B, and it makes me lose interest in all the other configurations with them. So maybe not an active NoTP but very unlikely for me to read A/C if I committed myself to A/B.

Special shout out to Weilanzun, because this is my most recently acquired NOTP.

And to Batman/Talia Al Ghul which is my longest reigning one.

7. Who were the couple in the last fanfic you read?

Zhou Ying/Bai Ling from Tai Sui 🥺 my poor white half-demon, hopelessly devoted to his prince... And so few fics with them ;_;

8. Currently, do you have any OTPs?

Plenty. I don't abandon old ones, I just collect them together in my jar of ships and rattle it from time to time, to see how they sparkle together.

But from my most recent and long-term commitments: Weilan, Luolin, Heixie, Luo Qingeng/Jiang Yang (do they have a name???) and BatCat, forever and ever

9. Is there any couple that, to this day, you are extremely mad about not getting together?

Well, the story is a story, so as long as it makes sense that these characters do not end up together, then I am okay with it, that's what we have fanfiction for, right?

BUT

I am still not over that wedding stunt DC Comics pulled with BatCat. Months of teasing, of promising the wedding, the freaking wedding albums being released and then the WEDDING DIDN'T HAPPEN. They broke up instead because Batman has to be the dark, sad, lonely something something and you can't be a hero if you have a wife. 50 years and DC Comics is going backwards in this regard :/

10. Is there any ship you used to dislike but now you think they are kind of interesting?

Not sure? Nothing comes to mind. But I am very open to being pulled into/converted into ships as long as they are not on my black list, and even then I try to keep an open mind, in case something clicks.

11. Do you have any ship that, in the past, would've been considered normal but now you would be cancelled over?

Hah, a lot, because I got into shipping as a teenager. So reading romances about other teenagers felt normal and all but now I don't feel the need to revisit them.

12. What is your favorite crack ship?

Ha. Not today, Satan. One moment I am joking about a crack ship and the next I have 10k words written about it and like 3 sad headcanons and a shipping chart ready.

13. What is the couple you read the most fanfics about?

Oh wow, good question. If I like a ship, then I tend to read through the entire Ao3 tag of theirs, sometimes more than once because what if I missed some gem in the first go? So it would come down to the sheer numbers of fics, I think. So that would be either Sterek, Stucky or Eames/Arthur (fun fact: this is also the first fandom that introduced to me the concept of derivs)

14. What do most of your ships usually have in common?

Devotion. Very often the conflict between their feelings and their duties/ loyalty towards something they cared about before they met the other.

I like both sides of the ship to be competent at their respective fields and torn apart by their own choices and priorities. The 'I love you but do I love you enough to abandon everything I am'?. I like both answers more or less equally: both the 'yes, it's us against the world now' and 'I hope we won't meet on the battlefield' are set ups I enjoy immensely. But I also like smart-asses annoying each other into marriage one witty comeback at a time.

15. What you absolutely hate in a ship?

Imbalance of attachment. If the ship seems terribly one-sided, like one character is putting in all of the work and tries and tries, and tries while the other mercifully sometimes acknowledges them, then it's a no for me.

Same with the 'if you patiently wait for this person to like you, even though they told you 10 times they won't, then they eventually will' trope, like someone's love is what you earn through steadiness and hard-work.

I like both parts to be equally unwell about their partner, one way or another. They can be sickeningly domestic and gushing, or they can be crazy in that 'no one defeats him, but me!' kind of way, but they have to be in balance on the insanity scale. I like when characters grow into their relationship and both affect one another, falling more and more in love with each other as they go, but not when one person is a prize the other has to win/outwait/earn.

Thanks again for the tag, that was a nice bit of soul-searching there, very fun 👌😌

Tagging: @baiyubai , @babischlong-six , @mjsakurea, @mejomonster, @elenothar

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/43056873

I have no self-control, why 😑😑😑

do you sometimes imprint on a ship and decide to make it everyone else’s problem?

I do