#platonic kaeluc

[barely-coherent]

"Can I get an angel shot?"

A/N: I'm... not good at writing genshin characters but at least I tried. For those of you who don't know, asking for an angel shot means that you don't feel safe. In almost every bar, if you ask for an angel shot they know it means you are feeling unsafe/uncomfortable.

"C'mon let me get you another drink!" You force a smile and glance around to see if anyone was looking your way. Unfortunately, nothing.

"Uh, sure. I'm gonna use the bathroom really quick." You get up, trying to resist the urge to sprint your way to the counter.

"Oh, hey! I didn't-" Venti starts, drinking his own glass of wine while Diluc had his normal look of disdain on his face.

You cut Venti off with a quick "Diluc, I need an angel shot." And Diluc's face turns from disdain to surprise to anger. He allows Venti to guide you behind the bar, a rare occurrence, and Diluc slams down the glass he was cleaning along with the rag and marches to the table you were at previously.

"Sir, I'm going to need you to leave." Dilucs voice reaches your ears from the pure authority and you stay behind the bar, Venti forgetting his drink on the counter.

After some shouting, Diluc is dragging the guy out himself, shoving him out the door forcibly. He grabs the door handle, closing it and turning, sighing in disgust.

As he returns behind the bar, he glances at you. "Are you alright?" You nod, still rather shaken up and Diluc nods. Venti invites you to sit next to him at the bar.

You place your head on the counter and sigh, hiding your face in your arms. You feel Venti place a hand on your back and rub in comforting circles. "Hey, why don't I buy you a drink. Anything you want!"

You raise an eyebrow at him and remark "With what money?" Causing Venti to pause before giving his typical 'ehe' to write you off.

"Either way, it's on the house. He's been kicked out of here before. I intend for this to be the last time." Diluc throws the rag over his shoulder and leans with his arms on the bar. "What'll it be?" He asks and you shake your head.

"I think I'll just wait here until he leaves." You shrivel in on yourself until Diluc scoffs, causing you to look over at him.

"As much as I detest admitting it," The door slams open. "I had some assistance."

The well known calvary captain walks in with a exaggerated wave and sits down next to you. "And here I was thinking you wanted nothing to do with the knights of Favonious! Who could've guessed? Bard, snowflake." Kaeya greets Venti and you, using your respective terms of endearment. "Anyway, I doubt he'll be back. At least once he's not frozen in place anymore. I may have gone a bit over board by freezing his feet to the pavement."

Diluc let's out a humorless laugh and a small, yet rare, smile crosses his face. "I can't say it's not deserved."

[marskiiii]

just some pretty brothers being SO pretty

dont even THINK abt tagging kaeluc.

[blood-orange-juice]

@a-yarn-of-purple-prose occasionally points out how Chinese players see a lot of Genshin plots differently from us and I feel like it needs to be written down.

(I'm mostly the messenger/humble scribe for this post but you can shoot me anyway)

Hoyo love hinting at well-known tropes rather than spelling them out, so if you haven't watched enough silly martial arts fantasy movies you'll misinterpret them.

For example, Kaeya and Diluc's fight seems like a random outburst of emotion to us.

Meanwhile, Mondstadt is a bunch of wuxia tropes in a European setting. Kaeya being adopted into a family tied to the Knights of Favonius is treated closer to the trope of being accepted into a martial arts clan than to modern western adoption or even medieval tradition of taking a ward.

Because, well, knights.

In that type of story if a pupil disagrees with his elders and wants to leave they are supposed to fight a teacher or an older pupil. As I understand it, it's not a rule, more like a symbolic expression of personal truth and resolve.

They are free to leave if they win but if the battle ends up in a tie or a distraction appears it means something is wrong with their personal truth. This is usually followed by a journey or an investigation to uncover the missing piece of the puzzle.

(which was exactly what happened. and Diluc did find something, we just don't know what)

This means that Kaeya didn't get his Vision for self-defense or as an expression of an inner conflict between his past and his current attachments. The whole reason he needed a Vision was to say "you are wrong, we are fellow knights" (or perhaps even family, although he doesn't call Diluc his brother, so I doubt that).

Personally, I find it much deeper.

As a funny twist, as I understand it, it also makes him the older one. Doesn't matter what age he is, he has accepted the role of an older brother/knight. The responsible one.

This also means these two don't need to reconcile, they already have (when Diluc learned whatever it is that he's learned, came home and took back his Vision). It's just a different relationship now.

upd: Rereading Kaeya's Vision story and perhaps it's not exactly like that, the story does frame it as him finding personal truth.

It's like they both wanted to leave but that duel somehow freed and bound them both.

also no one is in the older role in this case.

[villain-byteniwoha]

People celebrating the fact that Dexter Soy isn't a "proshipper" as if that's the biggest issue with DC artists and/or writers (or any main creator role tbh) like girl chill 😭😭

I feel like even if I wasn't so jaydick pilled I'd still find this funny like wdym he tagged his art with #brothersinarms and you felt vindicated LMAO

I just wanna point out that... mind you... he said... IN ARMS...

Now, do I think he actually likes Dick and Jason's dynamic with a romantic or sexual tone? Maybe a little, because it's funny to think about. But I also know that in CERTAIN niches and media, "brothers in arms," carries a lot of subtext which does NOT fit these antis' perception of Dick and Jason (which is. painfully adjacent to nuclear/typical family brotherhood).

But hey, what do I know about subtext and these incest allegations and "brothers in arms" who go through massive fall outs ...

[r26yz]

even the rain is kinder

for @kaeluczinefmty

[kusimaru]

Hey guys!

This is the first page of my comics about Kaeya’s and Diluck’s childhood. I thought it was a good and interesting idea to create something about them cause Mihoyo don’t give us enough information about this sweet boys.

Please let me know if u like it, maybe someone wants to dream about their story with me ✨❤️

[rasirarei]

Husbands~

[erzarandomstuff]

Double date! ^.^

Lovely Monstadt thanks to 克里斯提亚娜

Models are MiHoyo

[jaycemeswain]

So Kaeya took his boo to a nice picnic spot at the beach. It didn't take much for them to start making out.

the rest of this story and images is on fediverse(specifically aethy) as it is nsfw

[jaycemeswain]

Love me some not so angsty Kaeluc

They grew up 🥹🫶

[axuanmii]

admit you ship incest dude. the cn/jp shippers say its incest. pick up a book and translate it, it says kaeya is adopted. .. and heres a long paragraph about how incest is only between biological families and more disrespect to people who are adopted...

no idea why my inbox didn't give me this notif until now, but now's a better time than any to talk more about this.

i'm chinese. i speak fluent mandarin chinese. i've consulted other native chinese speakers about this, both genshin players and unrelated. i play genshin with chinese audio and english subs specifically to catch and complain about inaccuracies. i'd reveal more information but then i think it'd be trivially easy to doxx me if one knew what they were looking for.

fundamentally, the issue of incest lies in physical reproduction, yet i find adoptive incestuous relationships discomforting all the same. it's why i didn't like or finish go ahead (以家人之名) because i felt that it laid too much into the siblings aspect for romantic relationships to be feasible, and it was super contradictory from the initial general message of the first bittersweet yet wholesome episode.

however, personally, i just don't think kaeya felt like a part of the family until crepus's death and he really reflected on crepus's actions towards him (hangout). and even after beginning to view crepus as a father figure, he wouldn't have so shallowly made the transition for diluc to be his brother by adoption and consequently changed his entire mind about the guy (which you can see with the way he chooses to refer to both men with different terms, one adoptive and familial, one very clearly 'sworn', very consistently throughout the whole game. if that ever changes in chinese, well, at least you can know that i'll make a post about it if i still care about genshin by then.)

the localization team does make plenty of serious mistakes, and it's of my opinion that as a result, it has very clearly skewed character relationships with those mistakes, (cynari and collei, eulamber, some npcs in liyue, sumeru) some from cultural differences, some just from lazy translation overall. there's layers of complexity in how chinese utilizes honorifics and affectionate terms, as well as contextual consideration between fiction and reality, and sometimes i feel like the english localization team just threw it all into google translate and called it a day.

i don't even ship kaeluc that much. i like to call it the secret third thing where they can't get off their asses to talk about anything ever so they exist in an undefined space and to have them return to any semblance of a healthy relationship, platonic, familial, or romantic, would require a novel's length worth of development that hoyoverse will probably never write, and so my brain has made up novels of all three kinds and more.

however, i also don't care about people who do ship kaeluc or treat any other fictional media in an incestuous or otherwise problematic manner, regardless of language or culture. this is because i operate on a "don't like, don't read, don't interact" mindset. it makes being in fandom more fun; you should try it.

my disappointment wasn't aimed at the fact that i think too little people ship kaeluc. it just sucks to see people claim that that's what's wrong with the fandom and spin this evil gross imagery around the ship over a misunderstanding, especially when that's not how i view it. it's also the only thing vehemently regularly repeated ('klcers dni') when there's so many other issues with the game and the fandom.

(off topic but what's the worst thing that'll happen if a kaeluc shipper likes your fan stuff. it's not like they come into your tumblr asks to bother you with an "oh btw you're wrong about how you enjoy this media and this is what's right"-- oh wait that's what's going on here right)

including the fact that people like you purposefully go around searching in the kaeluc tag (which you probably did, because nobody is scrolling that far back in my blog to find this one specific post to complain about) to police and pick fights with people over a stupid issue from 2020/2021. i guess tumblr isn't a safe place to talk about kaeluc either lmao.

and to think i left anon asks on in the hopes that it could be an inbox for anyone who wanted to ask me art questions or just leave something positive and not feel too awkward (where do i get the confidence in thinking anyone would ask my incompetent brain for help lol).

to be fair, it's going to be my fault for continuing to draw attention to this by responding to such an ask instead of just deleting it and moving on but fuck it we ball.

this ended up pretty long but i feel like it would've been too rude to just say "会说中文的干嘛要翻书 :P". probably would've been funnier though and saved me a lot of time. kudos to you if you actually read this and read through everything.

final note:

[villain-byteniwoha]

on one side of the war, we have the batfam platonic relationships only. on the other, we have batcest enthusiasts.

and im standing outside of the danger zone, neutral to this whole thing, while i wave a little flag with badly doodled jaydick kissing—in the sense that i like the bats' found family dynamic and harbor a more nuanced take on their relationships that isn't just encapsulated by "they're adopted brothers! they're family!" or "so what? let them make out!" and so on.

in other words, this is exactly like kaeluc all over again. why do i even bother at this point...

[hoyoconfessions]

I know Kaeluc is tame in a way, but I do honestly enjoy calling ragbros, platonic kaeluc and sometimes I throw Crepus in to make it a throuple(either as an alive sworn/bio dad or a ghost who enjoys being a watching them be with eachother).

[ifuckingloveshipping]

Random ship event !! XD

I'm bored so I decided to host a rarepair event :) anyone can participate !!

Rules:

Randomize number from 2 to 4* using any website (I'm personally gonna use this one), then use this website to randomize the amount of characters you've got and that's you ship ! (^^) Now write headcanons about them :D and run a poll if you want to (I reccomend running a 1 week poll) Also, tag your post as #randomrarepairs and mention me (the last one is optional) * it doesn't have to be 4 max, you can make the number more / less the only rule is that it has to be bigger than 2 :>

Additional rules:

characters with small / child model aren't allowed to be shipped with any other characters but the small / child model ones

if you get a medium height model / normally perceived as a minor character (f.ex. Bennter, Razor, Fischl ..) x a tall model / normally perceived as an adult character pls specify the age of the younger character (must be above 18) or skip the ship

no minor x adult unless it's platonic or familial (specify in the post)

no incest (kaeluc counts) unless it's platonic, familial or a polycule where those characters aren't dating each other (specify in the post)

if you think any of these rules are unresonable - pls contact me do the same if you think I should add anything

Time limit:

None, for now (20/05) This one will go on until:

I get bored of it

I start another event and it will be too much to manage

... forever because why not

Thank you to everyone who participates !! <3

[roleplay-finder-search]

🌅 20nb, multifandom, not replacing any of my current rps!!

hi!! i’ve recently been meaning to load up on more rps, so i figured that it was time to put out an ad!!

this rp will take place on either

- tumblr

- email

- google docs

- fb messenger

my timezone is PDT, and i work about 30 hours a week, but i will have availability! just be lenient with me :D and as for writing abilities, i’m more often than not lit to adv-lit! i also tend to mirror whoever i’m rping with!! nsfw for romantic pairings is alright with me, but never enforced!

also i’m not super fond of rapid fire, and i usually only do one or two replies a day (tempo slows down even more when i’m working)

i LOVE roleplaying aus, but i also don’t mind canon centric plots! i have a handful of au concepts (albeit cliche ones) but i’d love to expand on the concept to make it our own or even combine two or more pre-existing ones together!!

for ships i mostly lean towards mxm or mxnb!!

here are the fandoms and pairings i’m looking for! (/r for romantic, /p for platonic) (also! surrounded by parentheses means they’re my muse, and i’d prefer to play as them!!)

REGRETEVATOR:

(infected) / pest /r

(infected) / lampert /r

GENSHIN IMPACT:

(xiao) / kazuha /r

(kaeya) & (diluc) /p (ragbros!!!! kaeluc dni)

TOTAL DRAMA:

(noah) / alejandro (/r)

(noah) / cody (/r)

DANGANRONPA:

(korekiyo shinguji) / (rantaro amami) /r

(korekiyo shinguji) / shuichi saihara /r

(kaito momota) / shuichi saihara /r

(kaito momota) / kokichi oma /r

SCOTT PILGRIM:

(wallace wells) / scott pilgrim /r

(wallace wells) / todd ingram /r

(stephen stills) / young neil /r

PARKOUR CIVILIZATION:

(evbo) / emf /r OR /p

(evbo) / (seawatt) /r

parkour polycule /r

ps: i’m also open to OC x OC plots!! i DON’T do OC x CC however.

give this post a like and i’ll reach out!!!!

☀️

[di-lucss]

request status: open !! ❪ last updated 05.05.25 ❫

✸ general guidelines.

disclaimer 𝜗𝜚 i have no obligation to fulfill the requests sent to me. when and if they are fulfilled it will be in accordance with my own motivation and inspiration. that being said, if you want a better chance at your request being fulfilled quickly, be descriptive and specific when you send in your request!

pov 𝜗𝜚 i write mostly masc! ❪ he / him ❫ && gn! ❪ they / them ❫ reader. i don’t feel comfy writing fem!reader unless its an oc. pls specify what you’re looking for when you request or i will default to gn!reader.

relationships 𝜗𝜚 i love love love writing platonic / sibling relationships! i adore them and honestly they’re so underrated so feel free to request those along with the usual romantic relationships.

nsfw 𝜗𝜚 i am currently putting a hold on any / all nsfw requests. i’m thinking about making a separate 18+ blog for such requests and this will be updated when and if that goes up.

✸ what i will write.

male!reader && gn!reader. potentially dark / triggering content ❪ nothing too graphic or intense ❫. fluff. angst. suggestive content. platonic && sibling relationships. romantic relationships. oneshots. blurbs. headcanons. aus. x reader. x oc. polyamorous pairings. + more.

✸ what i will not write.

fem!reader. anything regarding self-harm or suicide of a character or reader. pedophilia. incest. kaeluc. abusive romantic relationships. pregnancy. fandoms not listed below.

❪ if something is not listed here but you’re unsure of if it’s okay to request, feel free to send it in. i’ll be sure to let you know one way or the other. ❫

✸ fandoms open for requests.

𝜗𝜚 stardew valley. dc. resident evil. genshin impact. honkai star rail. twin peaks. arcane. haikyuu. jujutsu kaisen. fire emblem: three houses. one piece. amc’s preacher. yellowjackets. invincible. the boys. the arcana. the last of us.