Archive of Our Own

This is my personal series which adds into the lore of The Meg. I aim to combine elements of the books and movies to make my own vision of the franchise. My series will start with a few one-shots and then I will eventually rewrite the second movie with added elements of the books.

The Meg: A New Dynasty is a re-write/fix-it fic series I created after watching The Meg 2: The Trench. My series aims to expand on Jonas and Suyin’s relationship as well as show how Jonas learns to navigate his newfound responsibilities as a single father after Suyin’s death. The entire series is titled under The Meg: A New Dynasty because it has multiple parts which leads to my rewrite of The Trench (which will keep its name). It starts out with the one-shot series So Scarlet, It Was… which is a direct sequel to the 2018 movie, in which Jonas and Suyin grow their romantic relationship. Never Grow Up is a one-shot that takes place two years later, in 2020, in which Jonas works at the Los Angeles aquarium and is stuck in a place of grieving a dead Suyin and adjusting to his newfound life as a single step-father to Meiying. The Pup is a direct continuation of Never Grow Up, picking up where it leaves off, in which Jonas meets Jiuming Zhang and is conflicted on whether or not he should aid in the raising of the newly captured meg pup.

I wrote Never Grow Up back in May of 2022. It was meant to be a stand-alone one-shot and a mini continuation of the 2018 movie. Since the actress for Suyin was not returning in The Trench, I theorized that she would be killed off-screen in the sequel. I turned out to be right, and so I immediately wrote a one-shot called Never Grow Up. Then I started a one-shot later turned prequel fic in which Jonas meets Jiuming, called The Pup. I later wrote So Scarlet, It Was… a few days later, since I was full of inspiration and a little sad that almost no content for Suyin and Jonas was around. It also followed canon, and so because it fit right in with the other two one-shots, I decided to make them all into one series. However, a few days after seeing The Trench and while I was writing The Pup and So Scarlet, It Was… I got the idea of completely rewriting the second movie. I was also planning on re-reading the book series, so what I decided to do was add in elements of the books into my rewrite. This led me to organizing all three of my one-shots into my series. I have just now made So Scarlet, It Was… the first part of the series since it chronologically takes place first. It used to be third since it was the last one-shot I had written.

This series is divided into two one-shots of chronological order.

1. So Scarlet, It Was... is a flashback work of when Suyin was alive and she and Jonas had a budding romantic relationship.

2. Never Grow Up is the first post-canon one-shot in which Jonas is an employee of the Los Angeles aquarium and is adjusting to being a single father to Meiying.

3. The Pup is a direct continuation of New Grow Up in which Jonas meets Jiuming Zhang and proper construction of the institute begins.