SilverMoonPhantom

a wreck… a wrice, even:

“Shang Chao checked on them, first thing in the morning. He found them sleeping together, separated only by the bars of their two cages.”

(Thanks for the tag @corundumquartz im Working on some Wrice mice storytelling :3)

“I have a towel,” Bai Shun blurts, brain too busy imagining that beautiful face relaxed under the spray of a shower head to control his damn mouth.

“Dude, you’re amazing! So prepared. Do you mind? I’ll bring it back washed next week.”

Bai Shun nods and tosses it to him, still being a very normal, perfectly respectful-looking person.

He very normally watches Yao Luan duck forward to throw his hair into the towel and scrub at it. Watches the muscles of his back flex.

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Before The Storms Grow Loud

Years before they became Nice and Wreck, they met in the summer.

This is how they fell in love.

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.

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! ✌️😭💕

Pleaaaaase, I’m dyin’ here!

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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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….