#dong'er

[artsy-alice]

☕ #AprilKofiRun25 Day 05 for @mortal-sarah! ✨

Besties Dong'er and A-Qing! 🌸🌸

[biwenqing]

[sunriseverse]

(modern) mostly fem* chssn lineup!

left to right: wang zhi // tang fan // sui zhou // dong'er // pei huai // tang yu

lore under the cut!

wang zhi: 20, gay, intersex (AIS). head of information at taiping, right hand to zhu jianshen; scouted tang fan and sui zhou; really likes fancy wines

tang fan: 28, lesbian, gnc; private investigator, often contracts with taiping to track down info; pretty visibly gnc, so the PI position started out as a necessity; met sui zhou while working and convinced her to let her and dong'er move into the apartment she inherited

sui zhou: 31, lesbian, gnc, PCOS; ex-military, passed as a man for over a decade, still confuses people; works a nondescript IT job now with taiping; worked as a line cook for a while, hence her skills in the kitchen

dong'er: 13, questioning; adopted by tang fan after her entire family died; knows what's going on with suitang, is watching with popcorn; scarily smart, wants to study as an engineer or physicist

pei huai: 29, bi; works as a pharmacist; college friends with tang fan; self-experiments :)

tang yu: 32, bi; formerly a stay at home wife, currently a secretary; pei huai was her bi awakening; practices and collects works of calligraphy

misc notes:

— taiping is actually 太平后勤公司/taiping logistics company, the name is very vague but they essentially deal in problem-solving for other corporations. the name is after the taiping princess because zhu jianshen has Aspirations (the fact that it's also the unfortunate name of the taiping rebellion is something no one dares to mention)

— the show ostensibly takes place in beijing but for fun and personal reasons i'm making it set in dongbei. tang fan and tang yu and sui zhou are all from taiwanese immigrant families though (because i have to justify the accent somehow)

[sairobee]

a random sleuth of ming dynasty sketch from 2020

[calling-me-merry]

TSOMD as The Onion headlines (part 1)

part 2 / 3 

[cuthalions]

Boil the kettle to prepare for tea. I brought osmanthus snacks.

[recapitulation]

The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty (2020)

[ID: gifs from the series “The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty.” They show: Tang Fan and Dong’er slowly rising to peek over a wall at the Iron Market, a crowd of Imperial Guards walking past Sui Zhou and leaving him standing alone, a small crowd with Tang Yu and her brother at the center welcoming everyone to a meal, Tang Fan raising a hand in front of his face to block a harsh ray of sunlight, Tang Fan writing calligraphy on a fan, Sui Zhou serving dishes onto plates from the wok, a silhouetted Sui Zhou stumbling to his feet in the middle of his nightmare, and a shot of the camera pulling back on a wall of names before Tang Fan and Dong’er. /end ID]

[lu-sn]

i'm sitting here thinking about my horde of fictional gremlin teenagers that i've collected and now i have a burning desire for someone to put dong'er and chengling in the same room. THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER FOR IT