#wing fanchu

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This is so them lol.

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hello friends, romans, countrymen. The Laura-Wing dynamic fascinates me, especially in the period between the ending of bloodline and the epilogue, so let me share why.

THERE ARE TWO DYNAMICS GOING ON.

Wing has accidentally, unconsciously, put Laura on his shit list. Wing doesn’t know this. Laura’s not too sure either, but she can infer some sort of energy.

Down to the roots of her soul, Laura is wildly jealous of Wing. She hates that this is happening. Unfortunately, being self aware does not make the problem go away. Wing has no idea.

Now that Otto can no longer be a buffer, this makes everything so much more interesting. Let’s expand.

At the base of his morality, Wing sees things in very black and white aspects. It gets a couple more shades by the end of the series, but that’s because he’s consciously choosing to interpret things that way. Not because he doesn’t believe in the ideas of good and evil anymore. I don’t really think he ever truly forgives her for the Glasshouse, esp given his pretty concrete views on murder. It also led to Otto getting expelled, possibly removing him from his life forever. Not great. In Bloodline, she’s also the one that goes with Otto to try and stop Anna from breaking in digitally. That doesn’t really work out, and it’s not her fault, but it makes another sort of unconscious link to what eventually leads to Otto’s death. Also in Rogue, she’s the one to shoot Otto which is for his own good, but can’t have created too many positive associations with Wing either. Probably a couple more things too, but also her rather looser moral compass. Anyway, ‘Laura, my friend’ and ‘Laura, not a good person’ are two thoughts that are kind of incongruent to Wing, so he’s trying his damndest to not think the second one.

Good lord, where to even begin about Laura being jealous of Wing. His consistent and stable relationship with Otto: they are bros and dudes, Wing consistently has the agency and exercises it to help him (eg, Wing sneaking off the island in Rogue), the open-ness and honesty (at least from Wing’s end). Even though Laura and Otto eventually become romantic partners, she doesn’t really have that with her starting off jealous of Otto’s nerd skills, then the Lucy stuff which she also couldn’t talk to him about, and then the Glasshouse stuff that she also lied to him about, and then her trauma with Zero. And then more on the agency, Wing and Otto are not competing at the same game at all, and they are both completely fine with that. But Otto and Laura are, and it’s set in stone that she can never be better than him at the one thing she’s supposed to be best at, and therefore she can never help him.

Also Wing is jacked as hell and I think deep down Laura kind of believes she could’ve brute forced her way out of the Glasshouse situation if she had Wing’s abilities. Which ain’t true.

Laura can never say this to anyone, but there has to be something said about their family situations. Wing is always out there making the ‘right’ decisions, and finding ‘third’ solutions. He always believes in the best possible outcome, which Laura can’t (eg, in Deadlock she doesn’t believe that the HIVE team will rescue her, only the other students), and made the ‘right’ choice about his family. Yes, his dad is a supervillain, but that’s still his dad and he made a no killing vow with his mom. But he kills his dad anyway, for the greater good. However, as Laura views it, equivocating unfairly, that she is sacrificing the ‘greater good’ (possibly the lives of everyone around her) for her family, and given this, jealous of his circumstance and that he had the guts to make the ‘right’ choice.

Wing and Shelby are doing good together. They’ve been doing good for a while, and they basically have kids now. Laura had about one year of things going good with Otto. Now he is dead.

Wing, as Otto’s best friend is carrying on his legacy, applying his HIVE education by beating the shit out of Local Bad Guys and probably committing tax fraud or something, and the result of his grieving process is really fucking good with the Malpense orphanage. Laura, however, isn’t involved, and doesn’t visit. From the epilogue, it seems that she’s really trying to uproot and start over, re-doing her education being one of the steps.

okay the end thank you for coming to my ted talk. I don’t know that I could put this in a fic as comprehensively because they are both unreliable narrators. However, that’s how I think the interlude era of Wing and Laura go.

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wing!!!! oh and overlord ig

i love wing i miss him

i dont miss overlord im glad he's gone 🤤

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Realizing it's been a hot minute since I've posted any HIVE art (or. Human art for that matter) so!!!!!! Here's doodles of an oc I made who sucks and should explode

His name is Tian Yang Zhang and he's a bastard son of Cypher. He hadn't seen his father since he was like 2-3 and all he has is a photo of him.

Important details about this loser

He's about 3/4 years older than Wing. Would've been about... 4th year when Wing arrives at HIVE I think? He would've graduated way before Wing obviously but I've decided he like... interns at HIVE or something? Idk I need a way for him to stick around

He's in the Henchmen stream yayyyyy. Tho he takes classes focused more on "right hand man" work rather than the common villian lackey stuff we see in canon.

He's shorter than Wing and not as bulky, but autism be damned my boy sure can whoop his little brothers ass.

He hates his brother. From the second he found out they were related he's felt nothing but bitterness towards Wing. Tho, they do eventually get along... After Rogue

His mom sucks. All you really gotta know about her. It's part of the reason he's so dedicated to knowing his father. SURELY this parent is better, right? (LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER)

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been reading H.I.V.E. recently, just finished Rogue and decided that the internet does not have enough animus!otto art. tsk tsk

click for full pic on the last one. i digitized it bc i got bored. i wanna throw him in a blender. also another is under the cut but tw for computer goop vomit

hes suffering ^w^

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Post Rogue Wing Fanchu moodboard

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H.I.V.E. Birthday Bundle-

Wing Fanchu

Picrew used:

https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/51747

Headcanons

Pre-H.I.V.E. series

In book one, Otto notices both that Wing is inexpressive and that he has a lot of scars. It is also in book one that we see the first of the whole sleeping-Wing-swats-a-hand-away-before-it-touches-him thing. In Overlord Protocol, Cypher reveals to Nero that Xiu Mei had been assassinated during a "burglary." I believe he also says that it would have been more standard for him and Wing to have been killed alongside her.

Now, Xiu Mei discovering pieces of Overlord's code is a major risk for G.L.O.V.E. Thus, I imagine that multiple operatives were sent to kill her. Equally, I imagine it would have occurred during the night to give the operatives optimum cover. Speaking of cover, they must have used knives since guns are illegal in Japan, and so using them would have brought more unwelcome inquiries regarding the break-in.

So, they enter the Fanchu household, and they split up with the intent of finding Mei. One of them stumbles across young Wing, asleep. Working on standard procedure, he goes to stab him, but he's stopped- say, for example, by one of his teammates walking past the room and reminding him that their mission is Mei alone. At some point during the incident, Wing had woken up to his stomach having a small portion of knife in it.

Following this, he struggles with sleep disturbances, and his relationships with his tutors suffer greatly for it, with him having the bare minimum energy for his studies and to be generally polite, but not enough to hide the side effects of irritability/mood swings. At the same time, his father is also becoming ever more of a recluse, making Wing ever more lonely. He's rational, yes, but anyone in this kind of situation would inevitably overthink and spiral. He becomes hyper aware of how he's expressing himself and how it seems to be driving everybody away. Therefore, he crafts himself the inexpressive mask that we all know him for. But, hey, he got his ninja reflexes in his sleep, right?

In-series (is this a term?? Well, it is now)

Wing and Nigel are the only kids in the group who have significant G.L.O.V.E. family members (sorry, Franz). Thus, when Franz begins his act of threatening kids with Nigel's father, Wing is the one to challenge Franz, whereas the others- despite feeling sorry for Nigel- primarily found it amusing. During this period, Wing ends up joining Nigel routinely in his lab, tending to something normal like peonies while Nigel invents more sinister species. Every time he does, Wing is sure to request that some nerve clusters be placed in an easily accessible location.

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He's undisputably the best at drawing in the group (much to Shelby's dismay).

Post-series

After Otto's death, he meets someone who introduces themselves as "[surname... forename, surname]". Intrigued as it resembles his and Otto's first meeting, he asks this new person why he introduced himself as he did. The response is that he's a fan of the James Bond franchise. Assuming that Otto had once been a fan, he watches the series to commemorate his friend. When he reunites with Otto, he makes various references to James Bond, which go completely unnoticed until Shelby catches on to what he's doing. Then Otto rips Wing apart for his fan behaviour.

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When setting up the orphanage, Wing was mildly conflicted. He could do everything the legal way: purchase materials, build everything himself, pay bills properly, etc. Or he could do it as Otto would have wanted: steal materials, convince another labourer to work for free, evade all bills, etc. In the interest of keeping the children safe and just general morals, he, of course, opted to go down the legal route, but that didn't stop him from stealing some cans of paint and a pack of screwdrivers. He denies the act to this day.

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Initially, Wing struggled immensely with the kids. It wasn't that he disliked them or that they were poorly behaved, but when he was around them, it was like they were speaking in riddles. He felt that he was a bad role model for them in terms of surface social skills (in that he takes things literally and it's hard for them to tell when they've crossed a line because he doesn't sound mad when he speaks, but nor does he wish to shout at them, etc). He even offered to become a full-time groundskeeper rather than any form of teacher, but this never became the case.

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Related to the above, he actively tries to become more expressive for the sake of the younger kids' development. He also makes an effort to learn various idioms and (to a far lesser extent) understand pop culture references from various different countries

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He doubts that it would ever happen, but he knows that if he and Shelby were to be married, he would take her name and get rid of Fanchu because it was a) fake and b) his father's (and also not his mother's), and he had more of a family in Shelby than in his dad

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However, it's not that he wants to forget his family, for he remembers fondly the time before Overlord crept back into their lives and ruined them for good. And it's not that Wing is materialistic. But when he sees a small, complete yin yang on a basic brown string, he picks it up, and it never leaves his neck.

Art

Fanfic

Rating: G, No warnings apply. However, it is very much unfinished, so this is subject to change.

From Wing's perspective, a final mission when three familiar faces pop back into his life.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58545772

(Just know that I will be hurting him somehow further down the line).

Playlist

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Prompts For You

Final Note

Now, I know what you're thinking. It's something along the lines of: "Hey, what the fuck? There's entire categories missing, and what I've been given has all the substance of celery soup and all the appeal of expired fish guts. Who convinced me to come to this shit-ass restaurant?"

And to that, I say yeah, you're right. There's a longer post explaining myself in the drafts that just needs to be proofread. But if you're not interested in that:

A. I am sorry

B. I will aim to get this version of it finished in the next couple of weeks (so, more headcanons (probably posted seperately), the playlist, and the "prompts for you" section). The only thing exempted from this is the fanfiction, for it cannot be completed within this timeframe, but I will try my best for longer, better, and consistant updates.

C. I will not add them to this bundle, but I did have other projects intended for this planned, discarded or in the early stages of execution. I will finish them to the best of my admittedly limited ability and post them separately. I also plan to redo each element of my art showcased here and post them once they are decent enough to show in their non-minaturised form.