HIStory3 - 圈套 | HIStory3: Trapped
There I was, wondering why I took to HIStory3: Trapped so quickly. And then of course, I realised: it all started from Tokyo Crazy Paradise. Police/gangster (or yakuza) pairings are definitely my kink. Aaand I'm a little embarrassed to admit that that probably came from A Better Tomorrow aka 英雄本色 aka that movie with Chow Yun Fat and Leslie Cheung. And Ti Lung; I always forget Ti Lung. There's no m/m or BL in the movie - though I've read (Western) critics who allude to the homosocial elements in it... whatever? - but encountering the tension between good and evil in a relatable setup (gangsters: bad, police: good - but what about righteous gangsters and corrupt cops?) was clearly a formative experience*.
*ALso explains my (lesser but still fervent) love of wuxia.
And it (ABT) totally explains my urge to make up terrible, melodramatic backstories for the Trap characters. Now, hm, Meng Shao Fei (half of the main pairing), who is impulsive but overall a good cop who has been investigating/stalking Tang Yi, erstwhile gang leader for a good FOUR years to find out how his mentor died, is totally the one whose dad was a cop who died in action and his mother worked two jobs to put on the table because apparently the police pension is peanuts, and she finally died of overwork while Shao Fei was in high school and Sister Lizhen (said mentor) stepped in as a big sister figure through a social work attachment via the police academy and ended up influencing Shao Fei to be a cop. And then she died, and the only link is Tang Yi...
And Tang Yi (other half of main pairing) was clearly from a broken family filled with domestic violence, so he bonded with the neighbour's kid Zuo Hong Ye, who was also from a terrible home situation, and who became his adopted sister. They ran away from home and tried to survive on the streets, clearly not very well, until the previous gang leader Tang Guo Dong adopted them and brought them home and Tang Yi took on his saviour's family name. Then his saviour/father figure died, and Tang Yi took over his mission to legitimise the gangster's businesses, attracting enemies from both sides of the law along the way.
And Jack (one half of the second pairing) was in the army when both parents died so he went abroad and became a mercenary...
Ok, I'll stop. My theories for Zhaozi (other half of the second pairing) are even wilder. But that's the fun in ficcing, I guess. I need to get to the end of the series before I put together any coherent narrative, I think.
But there's fic already:
Home, Tang Yi/Meng Shao Fei, by FlorBexter. Also by same author, With your touch, Tang Yi/Meng Shao Fei
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*ALso explains my (lesser but still fervent) love of wuxia.
And it (ABT) totally explains my urge to make up terrible, melodramatic backstories for the Trap characters. Now, hm, Meng Shao Fei (half of the main pairing), who is impulsive but overall a good cop who has been investigating/stalking Tang Yi, erstwhile gang leader for a good FOUR years to find out how his mentor died, is totally the one whose dad was a cop who died in action and his mother worked two jobs to put on the table because apparently the police pension is peanuts, and she finally died of overwork while Shao Fei was in high school and Sister Lizhen (said mentor) stepped in as a big sister figure through a social work attachment via the police academy and ended up influencing Shao Fei to be a cop. And then she died, and the only link is Tang Yi...
And Tang Yi (other half of main pairing) was clearly from a broken family filled with domestic violence, so he bonded with the neighbour's kid Zuo Hong Ye, who was also from a terrible home situation, and who became his adopted sister. They ran away from home and tried to survive on the streets, clearly not very well, until the previous gang leader Tang Guo Dong adopted them and brought them home and Tang Yi took on his saviour's family name. Then his saviour/father figure died, and Tang Yi took over his mission to legitimise the gangster's businesses, attracting enemies from both sides of the law along the way.
And Jack (one half of the second pairing) was in the army when both parents died so he went abroad and became a mercenary...
Ok, I'll stop. My theories for Zhaozi (other half of the second pairing) are even wilder. But that's the fun in ficcing, I guess. I need to get to the end of the series before I put together any coherent narrative, I think.
But there's fic already:
Home, Tang Yi/Meng Shao Fei, by FlorBexter. Also by same author, With your touch, Tang Yi/Meng Shao Fei
This entry was originally posted at https://issenllo.dreamwidth.org/81007.html. Comment either here or there.