#falconrings

[oimoitalaina]

I feel like the fact that Danny Ramirez is younger than Simu Liu but Joaquin is most likely older than Shang-Chi is really funny and should get referenced in fic. Like Joaquin calls Shang-Chi and old soul, or Shang-Chi goes “wait you’re in your 30s?! I thought you were younger than me what the hell!”

[kweru-too]

Shang-chi rescuing his healing boyfriend Joaquín who is overexerting himself (again) while trying to get back in his wings

[dino-dancer]

imagine like after Shangqi and Joaquin have been dating for a bit and someone asks them about how they met or something and Joaquin makes some sort of joke along the lines of “oh you know how birds like shiny things”

[oimoitalaina]

I've been thinking of all the ways Shangquin can parallel Sambucky, just in terms of the characters that comprise the two ships.

On the surface, Shang-Chi seems most similar to Bucky. They're both powerful fighters who were turned into living weapons, which has left both with a lot of trauma.

But Shang-Chi is also very much like Sam; they're both personable and charming while only having a small number of people they trust enough to be truly vulnerable around. Each of their stories features a lot of grief, and both seem to have reacted to their own personal losses by running away (to different extents) from their problems for at least some period of time. They even both have a younger sister who they unwillingly left behind.

Joaquin is obviously very much like Sam, given how he's the new Falcon. They both got into the superhero business out of a sincere desire to help people, and sort of fell into the role of being Captain America's right hand man. And of course both of them enjoy taking the opportunity to be a little bit cheeky when given the chance.

But Joaquin is also very much like Bucky, especially the Bucky we saw in CATFA, who started to re-emerge in TFATWS. They're both nerds, especially about cool tech or gathering information. Each of them saw Sam and decided to latch onto him as much as possible. And now each of them has had a pretty traumatizing near-death experience.

I'm sure there's even more that could be teased out, which is why I love the potential of these two ships coexisting. Imagine all the ways these characters could see themselves and also their relationships in one another.

[oimoitalaina]

Shang-Chi: So anyway that’s how my immortal dad used his magic rings to run a secret organization that influenced the course of history for hundreds of years.

Joaquin, the terminally online conspiracy theorist: *vibrating* I fucking knew it.

[oimoitalaina]

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And with that, the Brave New World canon compliant Shangquin fic is done! Thank you to everyone who has been supporting me every week with your thoughtful comments and even posts here on tumblr, it has all meant so much to me! I hope you all enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it!

[oimoitalaina]

Hate writing fanfiction why am I having to calculate a timeline with a pencil and paper I just wanted to write for my rare pair.

[oimoitalaina]

Everyone I need to be open about a mistake in my fic, in chapter three of Don't Leave me in the Dark, Shangqi describes Joaquin as tall. I finally actually looked up their respective heights and it turns out Danny Ramirez is probably a couple of inches shorter than Simu Liu, so that comment doesn't make that much sense. My bad!

In my defense, I'm five foot two so I think anyone over five foot five is tall lmao