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That feeling when your fandom is TINY compared to what you normally work with and you kinda want to write stuff that gets more engagement than this, but THESE SPECIFIC CHARACTERS HAUNT MY BRAIN.
Bai Shun has stretched out a little since being covered in that blanket, and he’s relaxed into his sleep. He’s sort of…pretty, actually. Now that Yao Luan is really looking at him, it’s hard not to notice; he’s long and lithe, well toned, built with strong lines and soft edges.
Ok but for real I’m posting this NOW (Jan 15, 2026) for posterity.
IF Nice and Lin Ling are 2 different guys, then I think Nice was groomed into the role from a young age. That’s fun to write fics about.
HOWEVER!
The theory I’ve been hanging onto SINCE SEEING EPISODE 1, seeing the fingergun death scene, and them looking EXACTLY alike - and knowing the show director also made Link Click…
I think Lin Ling has ALWAYS been Nice.
Lin Ling is the one who gave fingerguns and jumped.
Lin Ling is the one who scammed the elderly.
Lin Ling is caught in some time-travel fuckery, in which he went BACK IN TIME, became Nice, and has been working with Shang De while BELIEVING he knows the future, and knows that Nice is supposed to do all this stuff. Tries to change the future using what HE THINKS happens and fails at every turn.
Its how Lin Ling knew Moon gets shot.
It’s why Lin Ling sees himself looking at Nice and HIMSELF falling off the building in episode 2.
Lin Ling knows SMILE dies from Fear, and tries to stab it in Dragonboy instead.
Lin Ling at the ruins deliberately fights like shit /telegraphs huge punches so people can keep dodging until time runs out, because he knows Nice didn’t kill anyone here.
Lin Ling trying to be a HERO, as Nice.
After Shang De cuts him loose, Nice says “Fear made me weak. What am I even afraid of? NOT being a hero? Why did I even TRY (to be a hero).”
Then after screaming and a snap from X, he appears on the roof, to say: “What am I doing here? Who am I?”
With this in mind, it turns Nice’s smile and fingerguns & step off the edge from a “gesture to a stranger” into “I know exactly how this will end, I’m looking into my own eyes and setting the wheel in motion. You will become me. You will jump, too.”
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Lin Ling asks Miss J in episode one: “why did he jump?”
She says “it was his choice to make. Someday you’ll be in the same position, and have to choose, too” (paraphrasing, I don’t have the ep in front of me)
what’s something wreck/nice related you’d like to talk about but never can because the topic never arises?
That wreck/nice may have a lot of AO3 fics in THEORY, however-
In reality, a large number of AO3 fics tagged wreck/nice are actually PAST wreck/nice, where wreck is Presently Mourning because his ex-bf nice is dead, or BACKGROUND wreck/nice, where Niceling or Wreckling or some other ship is actually the main ship featured in the story, and wreck/nice is either broken up, or nice is dead, or it’s hand waved as happening in the bg but not prominently featured….
There’s relatively few ACTUAL Wreck/Nice fics, in which the story is about THEM, BEING IN A RELATIONSHIP in PRESENT TENSE.
(This number also shrinks dramatically if you sort by English language stories. Russian-writing fans out there CRANKING out Wrice fics and I respect them for it 🫡 thank goodness for translation software)
Niceling has waaayyyyyyyyyyyy more “actively in a relationship” fics, if you look by story content and not just tags.
💁 and that’s my onion~
I’ve seen a lot of people say “oh, wrice is basically canon-“ and “oh it’s the most popular ship-“ C’MON, people!
Write some more Wreck/Nice, where they’re both Alive and Together! ✌️😭💕
Yea just did the math. Went through all the English wrice fics on AO3
Less than 200 of them feature:
- wrice as a pairing that has significant screen time or emotional weight given (wrice-in-background, cheating fics and wrice-as-angry-exes included, if wrice is given screen time, or emotional significance to the plot, positive or negative!)
- where both wreck and nice are present in the fic (appearing in flashbacks, undead, or appearing as a ghost counts as present!)
- written in English (alas I cannot read Cyrillic or Hanzi, so doing analytics including them would likely be inaccurate)
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If I went by my original categories: “both alive, presently in a relationship” it would be a way smaller number.
The final person to enter doesn’t walk, so much as glide into the room. A flutter of cape brushes against the back of Yao Luan’s neck as he passes, and he has to fight a small shiver.
He carefully does not look up as white and gold slides into the chair beside him, pale hands folding neatly atop the table.
He launches into the presentation.
I have been yammering about Wreck working as one of TREEMAN’s architects as his ‘day job’ for a few…weeks? And as soon as I finished this drawing, was instantly gifted fic of it,,,, The fandom ecosystem is alive and well….
(read the fic - like nice’s thoughts, it is NSFW!)