#ACOLYTE <3333

[djarinova]

literally the prettiest star wars tv villain

[euphorickaeya]

hello ! for the drabble event, can i request kaveh with the prompt: “this was the last time, okay ? i got you. i'm here. i'm not leaving anymore." the reader can be gender neutral (they/them pronouns). thanks, have a great day <3333

Hi! Thanks for requesting! Please enjoy!

“You have to understand, we need a god to rule us.” Al Haitham looked at you with furrowed eyebrows, his voice laced with frustration. “And you need to understand that I’m not the god you want ruling you!” You fought back, just as fierce as the acolytes who sat in the room.

“Your Grace, it’s your sworn duty, it’s not to be argued—“ Ei tried to explain their side, to convince you that it won’t be that cruel, that you won’t suffer under their repetitive pleas for unnecessary help.

“I don’t give a fuck if it’s my duty! You’re all hypocrites for telling me so! You all left your nations under wreck, if anything this was your doing!” You screamed, slamming your fist onto your throne of marble, angered, tired and almost hateful.

“Enough!” Zhongli stood from his spot. His eyes glowing a distasteful yellow. He looked over to you, tired of your tantrums, tired of your stubbornness. The brunette felt like he was taking care of a child, rather than a god.

You looked at zhongli with a perplexed look. Wondering what’s gotten the Geo archon so annoyed.

“You are going to have a ceremony, and you will be introduced as Teyvat’s divine being. You are going to accept it, it is a contract you made, being our god, to this world.” Zhongli spat, before finally pulling his chair out to leave, his footsteps heavy with tiredness and lack of care for the meeting.

“…meeting dismissed.” Ei stated after a few minutes of silence, following towards her fellow archon’s footsteps. As if it was a sign, the rest of the archon and important figures seem to trickle out as you’re left there appalled by what Zhongli had forced onto you.

You were so shocked that you felt around for your throne, feeling your legs wobble uncomfortably before losing all feeling in them.

It was like your whole body had collapsed, but you were still conscious, you paralyzed to the core and your stomach twisted in ways it shouldn’t. A hitched breath left your lips as you tried to calm yourself through some fresh air.

A wheezing feeling was bubbling in your chest as you grabbed onto it, your free hand hitting the marble chair you sat on, as if desperate to breath.

You were having a panic attack.

“Your Grace?.. I-“ Kaveh seemed to enter at the right time though, seeing you hunched over as tears started to stain your royal robes, you cried and cried silently into your lap as your hands beat against your chest as if to tell your body to stop it, stop the embarrassment you were about to gain by crying like a baby.

“Your grace?! What’s wrong? What happened?!” Kaveh was instantly to your side like a moth drawn to a flame. His face was full of worry, raising your head to his eye view to really look at you. Tears and snot followed the shape of your face, making your cheeks feel sticky, your eyes felt dry and wet at the same time, and a sad symphony of hiccups left your frowning lips.

“I can’t do this. I can’t, Kaveh. These people, they’re bringing me to my downfall. If that ceremony is successful, I will never get to go home. I will be stuck here forever.” You sobbed out, tired and scared, doubtful of any way of getting home to your life once again.

You feared the thoughts and events that could happen in this cruel world. This universe where you had no idea who you were or who to trust as true acolytes, you were scared to the bone.

Kaveh looked at you in pain and thought about his stupid worship to you. What if you truly were their god, but you wanted to be human? You wanted to experience what they do, what they make, everything.

Kaveh thought long and hard, his heart breaking with every cry he hears leaving your mouth. Why should you continue to suffer when teyvat’s archons are able to give up their spots as gods? Why must you be the only one to stay as a god?

“This is the last time, okay? I’ve got you.” Kaveh pulled you into his arms, engulfing you in a cozy warmth as you gasped in shock, feeling him so close to you was scary at most. Unable to take those who scratch at you to get a chance to just touch a square of your skin.

“I’m here. I won’t leave you. You can confide in me.” Kaveh whispered into your ears as you hugged him tighter, somehow finding comfort and hope in his words. Kaveh could only cradle you into his chest as his mind raced a million miles a minute.

Kaveh doesn’t want to be like the rest of your acolytes, always begging and skittering around your feet asking daily for what they wanted and not what you wanted. He wanted to be your confidant, your person, your everything. He convinced himself that he did not want anything, not like your other acolytes.

You only squeezed him a little tighter, maybe Kaveh was different, maybe he actually wanted you to be happy. You cling onto the unrealistic hope that maybe Kaveh was your ticket out of Teyvat.

Although, Kaveh grew weary. His grip subtly tightened on you as his eyebrows furrowed, even if Kaveh wanted you happy, his desire to benefit from you was secretly harder. He knew he shouldn’t, but he knows like any other acolyte, this is not to take a chance.

How much longer would it be for Kaveh before he’d turn just like the so called acolytes you have gained?

[casinodove]

✧ COULD BUY ANYTHING . sagau headcanons

✧ SUMMARYzz.. 1111

Sagau except the reader has yet to descend, and is filthy rich. They already have the entire world at their fingertips, their family has wealth unspeakable and an insane amount of connections. To put it simply, reader is a stereotypical filthy rich person.

✧ PAIRINGzz.. 2222

Sagau x GN!reader

✧ WARNINGzz.. 3333

Religious themes , cult au , privacy deprivation , mentions of blood n human + animal sacrifices , helplessness , some characters get desperate .

✧ SIDE NOTESzz.. 4444

Idk why I got the motivation to write but hey, not complaining

THE acolytes found you rather interesting actually, beyond the fact that you were obviously their creator, they still happened to find the way you seemingly could buy about everything interesting.

Your mora seemed to never run out, almost as if you had an infinite amount of it. And, your device never lagged somehow.

You were always on new devices, they were sure. Each and every able to run the game faster than the last. And, well, once they got access to your camera and were able to see even a glimpse of you, they understood why.

They were barely able to see half of your room, it was well lit and actually,, seemed rather luxurious. Now, the acolytes weren't stupid. Surely, they now knew that you weren't anywhere near poor, instead they assumed your wealth was above average, if not, insanely high.

Panics, since your wealth is beyond average, that means your used to luxuries. Whatever will they do if you dislike their offerings or deem them as too cheap for your liking once you descend?? Oh, this is a disaster!

Xiao , Zhongli , Thoma , Traveler , Barbara , Kokomi , Gorou ++ any non filthy rich character basically

Someone with taste, at last! A challenge is always nice, but don't you worry for they will sacrifice treasures from all over teyvat for you. Handmade trinkets you can't ever find anywhere outside of teyvat, pretty hidden gems that sparkle and shine brighter than the sun itself.

Kamisato siblings , Pantalone , Ningguang , Beidou , Childe .

Well,,,, they'll try their best! Surely, they will find something that you'll like, no? It can't be that hard..or so they hope.

Wanderer , Traveler , Kazuha , Albedo , Zhongli , Thoma , Venti , Gorou , Kokomi

Please, their taste is beyond lavish. They'll find you the best of the best, price tags are mere numbers to them. Doesn't matter how many millions of mora they'll have to spend on merely a coat, a necklace or a pair of silk gloves for you, it isn't a waste if its for the divine creator!

Pantalone , Tsaritsa , Ningguang , Kamisato siblings .

Honestly,, they'll just continue making sacrifices per usual. And if you don't like them, that's too bad! They tried okay? You can't expect everyone to be filthy rich! That doesn't make them a sinner, it simply makes them logical person! And in the end, their wealth shouldn't matter so much that it shows their level of faith. Some people just, don't want to be spending millions of mora for a small piece of jewelry.

Rosaria , Dottore , Wanderer .

They try buying nice things that they think you'd like, it's expensive surely you must like it! Right? Right?? It's even in the favorite shade of your favorite color! Please don't be disappointed in them, they'll try get something more lavish next time they swear!

Diluc , Gorou , Kokomi , Jean .

They're the one who has built many many manyyy altars, churches and statues in your honor, still gives you things twice as expensive as like all of your organs combined.

Tsaritsa , Ningguang , Kamisato siblings

More of a corpse sacrificing person. Kills and goes to wars in your very honor, will bring multiple gallons of human or animal blood to your altars if you even imply you'd want it.

Capitano , Childe , Arlecchino

Offers you their own creations! It's free servants, and they'll never dare to disobey you! Wayy better than a normal human servant no? They're custom made, include multiple insane features and are guaranteed to help you out in your day to day life once you descend! How can you not accept that??

Dottore , Sandrone

✧ ENDING NOTEzz.. 5555

Christmas is sooo close! I may do a Christmas n New years special but that's a maybe.

✧ casinodove , 22/12/22 .

[im-yotsu]

Okok sorry technically this isn't an ask but the post you made about the queer starwars ships made me so unequivocally happy, i'd been feeling suuuper down recently about ugh I don't know. The lack of canon queerness (especially in sci-fi!) And the kind of incensere 'happy pride months' from companies/studios (overlords). Ah i'm rambling sorryyy but your art is vvvv cool :3333 canon is what we make it, and like you said, fuck the overlords.

Awww thank you 💕.

Yeah, it's the attitude of not taking seriously relationships like stormpilot and kalluzeb as real posibilities when even the actors themselves are cool with the idea. It's treating it like a joke in ROS and putting an easy to miss lesbian kiss they want us to be grateful for.

I do like the latest additions of canon queer characters we're getting in Andor and The Acolyte (plus in books) tho. Let's hope they make this a habit and not a bug.

[crowsncorvids]

What a surprise the song acolyte reminds me of curse words and max :(( I miss him sm he was my fav <3333

[chocoenvy]

the engraving statue thing but with a reader who wishes for death

i crave angst and comfort simultaneously

cuddles <3333

tw: self-depricating language

Something minor happens and you just "i feel empty :(" "If i were to disappear no one would care." "They'd be happier without me" "There's no point in living." "i'm so useless" "I should just kms"

the acolytes see this and immediately go to your location to make sure you're okay. You’ll have the whole of Teyvat wanting to know your location because nothing is scarier than the thought of you abandoning them.

Once they find you, you're put on high security. Someone is always with you, no matter what. Because if they can't protect you and keep you happy and safe then there's no point to them in their eyes.

Of course, if there's anything you're lacking they'll readily provide it. You feel unimportant? You're not! You have the entirety of Teyvat at your feet! They'll hold you tightly and keep you safe. It's hard being so strong all the time, it's hard to fell unloved all the time even by yourself.

No matter the means, you’ll never leave them. Whether it’s involuntary or not, or if it’s more self-deprecating or not. You’ll not escape them. You're home after all.

[missamyrisa2]

Welcome back! Good to see a purple legend returning!~

Aweee you big flatterer. <3333 So glad to be seen <333 And...flattery just gets you tickles, I hope you know. Specifically, purpley tickles as your sweet word will summon my witchy tendrils for sure. A torrent of eldritch tickles, springing forth from the feathery pockets of void, my giggles preceding my arrival as I bloom from nothingness. "What a sweet ticklish acolyte~ and here's your reward." I cackle, waving motions as ultra soft tentacles flutter forth and tease at your body, relieving you of your clothing before centering in on your sensitive spots. They hover at your toes, your belly, sides, underarms, neck, and hips. "Struggle all you like. They won't be deterred" I float about, humming a tickly melody as the tips go to work, extracting all those giggles just for me. They massage at your deep ticklish spots, they skim your skin for the surface tickles. Incessant purple tickle demons, they'll take all your giggles and return for more. "Now, now. Just relax and let them do their work. You'll just make yourself tired and I'll have to perk you up with some extra attention" I snicker, planting a purpley kiss on your cheek. My tendrils slide and slither along your thighs, playfully gliding up and down, digging behind your knees, over your belly, deep into your underarms. The tentacles at your feet split and divide between your toes, their soft sensual surfaces endlessly rubbing those crevices of sensitivity. With your ticklish levels rising, I finally take my purpley nails to your sides, drawing around in elegant patterns, working towards your belly. "Only the best for such a loyal tickly subject" I murmur, enveloping you with my purpley spells, nuzzling your neck before floating back and wiggling my fingers at you to really start the tickles~

[bringmoreknives]

oooh u play dnd? what’s ur character like?

HELL YEAH I DO!!!!!

okay so i’m in two different campaigns rn:

one meets every week and my character for this one is a half-elf bard named faegwynn (fae). she’s chaotic good and bi and very snarky and kind of cynical, but she still values her friendships and will protect her friends. she has a folk hero background and inspired an uprising against unjust practices in her hometown with her best friend at the time. the lord of the town caught them and threatened their families unless fae agreed to leave town and never come back, so until joining up with the current party she was pretty nomadic.

the other one meets less frequently but my character for that one is a lawful good aasimar cleric named lildri who was an acolyte and worked in the temple for the sun god before falling in with our current party as a way to help the city. so she’s way more serious and sheltered than fae, it’s a very fun contradiction

THANK YOU for asking,, i LOVE dnd sm <3333

[casinodove]

✧ DIVINE ADULATION . sagau headcanons

✧ SUMMARYzz.. 1111

So, divine creator descends and the acolytes are ofcourse beyond pleased, yet there's a problem. Divine creator had a significant other back in their original reality, whom they weren't able to say goodbye to before descending since it was so sudden. Don't even worry though, significant other also descended! So, one day the creator and their lover get reunited, what would the acolytes reactions be?

✧ PAIRINGzz.. 2222

Sagau x GN!Reader (no pronouns mentioned)

Reader x GN!S/O

✧ WARNINGSzz.. 3333

Slight yandere if you squint , cult au , religious themes , stalking , privacy deprivation , relationship sabotaging .

✧ SIDE NOTESzz.. 4444

Merry Christmas to whoever celebrates it <3

THE divine creator was thought to be a being ancient, not exactly incapable of feeling love but unwanting to waste their time on such matters. So, seeing you be so sad, devasted even, when you descended because of a certain someone surely caught the acolytes off guard.

A few weeks passed, you seemingly calmed down yet your opinion on getting a spouse within teyvat was always negative. Something about loyalty you said, something about unwavering faith and about missing someone you said.

At first the acolytes weren't sure what to think about it, yet during a seemingly normal day you were spotted running toward an unknown person. Time once again passed, and within the following days the acolytes were able to see you walking around with the same person, hell, you even invited them to spend the night in your room, the two of you requested for snacks to be brought during the late hours of the night multiple times, seemingly enjoying each others company so much that you were barely able to stop talking about things all night.

Yet once every acolyte got the news, and once they spread throughout teyvat, was when the real chaos began.

Surely, everyone wanted to know who this mysterious person who would spend every night and every day with the creator was, they were beyond certain said person couldn't just be a regular person to be able to receive such adulation from you.

Probably refuses to believe that you could have a lover, teyvat is full of rumours, especially surrounding the important people. It isn't a surprise they'd spread rumours about the divine creator. Surely their just a bunch of lies, right? Nobody is worth of even standing one stair below you, let alone stand by your side, especially not some random mortal!

Zhongli , Ei , Tsaritsa , Kamisato Ayato , Pantalone , Ningguang , Arlecchino .

Interesting, interesting. Probably doesn't care all that much, not like they were planning onto turning into a potential love interest for you, they'll continue their duties as worshippers and all. If the rumours are true though, they believe you're fully able of picking out a significant other, so for aslong as you're fine and happy in the relationship, it isn't their place to say anything.

Rosaria , Capitano .

Probably throws a secret tantrum if they see anything romantic happening between you and said person. I mean come on now! You want them? Seriously now?? Easily the most likely to start plotting on how they can sabotage the relationship. Oh, and don't get me started on what would happen if the two of you got engaged..

Wanderer , Childe , Venti , Kaeya .

The first to know about the relationship, they watched every single thing the two of you did within your private chambers. Unless the two of you were covered up with the sheets that is, obviously. Their just making sure you're safe! How can they trust you to be alone with a stranger hm? (This came out as sexual even though I had no intentions of making it sound anywhere near sexual, forgive me shhxjsks)

Xiao , Wanderer , Ganyu .

Regrets not making a move before you found someone, won't try to interfere with your relationship for now, respects your relationship, for now.

Albedo , Jean , Xiao , Ganyu , Kamisato Ayaka

Destroys the relationship after careful planning, either makes you seem disloyal either makes them, doesn't matter for aslong as the two of you aren't together anymore. Comforts you if you allow them to.

Wanderer , Childe , Venti , Kaeya , Ei , Zhongli , Kamisato Ayato , Albedo , Jean .

In conclusion, don't let the acolytes know of your relationship. Or do, we do not care.

[As]

✧ ENDING NOTESzz.. 5555

Rushed and bad but I got caught up in family stuff today so ykyk,, may remake but probably won't. Anyways, goodnight 🫶🏻

✧ casinodove , 25/12/22 .

[chocoenvy]

Okay okay phew I finally got to sit down and order something up for your event haha!!!

I would like to order one Choco Bar, one that is freezing cold envy in flavor, with a custom syrup* involving my beloved Playing God/Tongueless Reader;; "it feels like we are all hostages"

*the flavor would be taking place in that same AU but has the concept as End of All. You decide whether reader chooses teyvat or earth or they compromise!

Happy 900 (or you're probably already half way to 1000 so happy early 1000! I hope I did this right snfnkrkng)

An order for the 900+ Follower event

Coming right up!

You want a Choco Bar (Standard short story) with a cold envy flavor (fatui au), a custom syrup. Involving Tongueless reader, you want "it feels like we're all hostages." Got it!

*~Synopsis: Carnage was not a new concept to you, but it wasn't comforting as the weight of destruction and salvation lay on your shoulders.

*~Notes: I GOT SO CARRIED AWAY I FORGOT ABOUT THE "It feels like we're all hostages" I DIDN'T FOCUS ON THAT AT ALL IF YOU'D LIKE ME TO REDO IT FEEL FREE TO JUST ASK AND I'LL DO SO AND THANK YOU FOR THE ORDER I REALLY LOVED WRITING THIS <3333 (also i originally didn't want to choose a path, so I included a cut for where I do choose a path for the reader.)

*~Warnings: Mentions of trauma, cult behaviors, end-of-world(s) scenario, villain/fatui au (reader is a villain)

Gods were not known for benevolence. The whole of Teyvat knew of your cries and you remembered the nights where all you wanted was to go back home

home.

The home that lay in tattered remains before you, you screamed out with a hoarse voice, the inside of your mouth and mind laid to ruins just as these lands you once knew. The streets were desolate and barren though you still knew the name to each one. Where was your family now?

Dead. The reports said.

You broke down crying in the arms of your boss. Like a father you no longer had, he patted your back. He didn't question why you were suddenly so quiet. Shock he assumed.

"Come with me," He gently urged, "We must follow the monsters that laid waste to our land."

You accepted, a sense of normalcy taking over back at your boss' side even with the archons of Teyvat following you. And a sense of clawing anger burying deep in your throat. Your boss did not know of the newfound power you'd found in your chest. The bubbling rage and crushing fist of godhood that laid waste to archons of past and present.

Revenge, was your sweet reward and nectar, the archons knew this oh-so well. You'd achieved it before, and now you wanted more.

The rift opened and you were back to square one, the imposing lands of Teyvat spread before you. The opposite of home, the opposite of love, the place you grew to resent so, the place where your tongue still laid to waste somewhere in the beautiful lands.

The abominations that had so cruelly torn your home from your cold hands were now here. Doing your job of destroying the land you'd presided over for the past two and a half years.

You couldn't help the small twitch upwards of your mouth, content with knowing that the archons beside you were silently writhing in pain and grief. Knowing that

you could stop it.

The exact way you'd felt on the concrete of Liyue with countless people jeering and holding you down as your voice was taken from you. You'd died that day in heart but not body. You carried yourself on for countless months on Tsurumi Island and then Snezhnaya and then the whole Teyvat.

You were not known for benevolence.

They knew they deserved this, the archons didn't even whimper as they watched the amalgamations stretch their disgusting limbs outwards to the carefully crafted lands. Lands that you and your acolytes had so delicately crafted from your own palms.

You were playing god again, choosing between two worlds to save and destroy.

The choice should've been obvious but...

Your eyes flickered over to the Tsaritsa. She was emotionless as always to the rest of the world but to you, you could see the hopelessness starting to creep into her expression. And your Ajax with the ever-growing fighting spirit. If you were to ever see his hopelessness in the heat of battle your plywood heart would catch fire and eat you from the inside out.

The cries of children were loud in your ears. No doubt that you were god as they screamed for you to save them. The children of this world that you thought was a fake. Would they even suffer, after all, if it was just a game?

But real touches and real pain was a bit and bridle to your excuse. Teyvat was as real as it gets, your empty mouth was proof enough of that.

Either way, you are god today. Today, you'd destroy a world. You'd destroy a home.

Because despite everything that you'd endured in Teyvat, you loved it. Two years of living in Teyvat through a screen, loving each and every character you got as though they were your own child. Loving touches, gifts, hours upon hours of grinding, and tears shed with your love for the world you considered a digital home.

All of it would be wiped away by those creatures.

Despite your love for your home, the one you'd spent your childhood in, you felt more love for Teyvat than anything you'd ever felt before. Everything and everyone, every aspect of the god-forsaken gacha game, was heaven to you. Even after you died in mind and spirit, the little rifthounds, hilichurls, abyss mages, lectors, all those that took care of you and loved you even when you were broken. You were more in Teyvat, more important, more happy, more, more, more than you'd ever been in the now wasteland.

The Tsaritsa and harbingers that helped you reclaim your throne that you sat upon even now as the forsaken god. All-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent, omnipotent, so many titles and names enough for you to be sick of it all. Worshippers groveling at your feet, with slow and light footsteps as you stared upon the wreckages of your homes.

You couldn't go back anymore, you never could. No more dipping your toes into one world while living in the other. Now, you'd have to choose, and choose you would after all

you are not a benevolent god.

You crafted Teyvat with your hands and pieces of stars, and even if it meant what was once your home would lay dead in the cosmos; you'd destroy Teyvat with your own two dirty palms that had indirectly crushed a world you'd said you loved.

Let no one make the mistake of calling you benevolent. You granted Teyvat your presence and watched the archons grovel in gratitude not because of some no name creature from the depths of darker abyss but for your own sick and twisted pleasure of watching the world burn. No, this world was yours. You wove the sky with thread and needle of golden ichor, and you'd be the one to undo your work.

Carefully crafted love torn meticulously apart. Cradling the world in your arms, you cracked the crust and core of the Earth into pieces. Your darling Teyvat laid to waste by your godly wrath and love.

Playing God once more as you loved and hated this world with such brightly burning fervor. So bright you could see what was once one of your homes burning from your throne in the cold arms of the Snezhnaya breeze.

[chocoenvy]

CHOCO COMRADE COMRADE CONGRATS ON THE FOLLOWERS IM SO HAPPY FOR YOU BDJDBDJDJ <3333

for the event I'll take a chocolate milk with sweet envy flavor, with sweet honeyed syrup. I'd like to give Darling, "yes yes, this is your fate after all." From regular reader. I hope i did this right—

Hope you have a wonderful night/day choco comrade!! <3

An order for the 900+ Follower event

Coming right up!

A chocolate milk (headcannons) with sweet envy flavor (Darling au), added sweet honeyed syrup (Disney Princess tag). You want to send Darling, "Yes yes, this is your fate after all." From regular reader.

you did it right :D also ;LSKAKDJFASLD;KFJSADF THANK YOU SM <333 i wrote a whole spiel about how much it means to me that I'm at flipping 900 followers but I got really sappy and a;lsdfkjsdlkf- It's just amazing I'm having a system malfunction at such a high number- I also had Darling au in mind whenever I added "yes yes, this is your fate after all." to the list so im vibrating with excitement rn.

I hope you have a good day/night as well boney comrade!!!! <3

Warnings: Angst, dependency, toxic relationships, mentions of blood, power imbalance

They love me, love me not,

Darling loved you. All of Teyvat knew it. You were their special piece of jewelry that no one was to touch lest they desired divine punishment. Their acolytes and the land itself was aware of this fact.

Monsters that you had once killed for mats, while they did not treat you with the same excited love they did Darling, still didn't attack you on sight. It honestly caused you some relief. The monsters in this world were actually very cute (and you were painfully human and wouldn't stand a chance against them.)

Still, exploring Dragonspine with a pyro slime comfortably held in your arms was a lovely experience.

Even if they didn't care for you, just as the people of this world didn't, at least they didn't give you obviously looks or spit in your face. Or at least they didn't do it when you were around which was more than you expected from them.

Getting comfortable with the monsters was a mistake on your part.

Wandering around without Darling was a mistake on your part.

Watatsumi Island was beautiful, ethereal in the rising sun as you sat on the edge of a cliff, your legs dangling off the edge. You breathed in the fresh air, crisp with morning dew. The rising sun bathed the island in a warm glow, warming your heart with the beautiful scenery no longer trapped behind a screen.

In the corner of your mind, a whisper invaded your ear Darling is probably worried about me right now.

You mulled the thought over, lingering on the scenery for just a moment before making the movement to get up.

Just as you had moved, a pyro infused sword slashed where you were previously at, nicking your shoulder. Bright red bled from the wound and you screamed at the pain. You delved to the side, away from the red sword that had sliced you, and looked up to see a Kairagi looming above you.

You scrambled to your feet to escape but got nowhere as the Kairagi brought down it's sword again but this time it hit your legs.

You fell to the ground in a pathetic head, your legs screaming in pain and bleeding furiously.

The rest was a blur of adrenaline and pain but one moment you were clawing at the ground in a desperate attempt to escape and the next you were bundled into Darling's arms. Their soft silks encasing your form as you dirtied them with your red blood.

"Oh dear," Darling said sympathetically, holding onto your cheeks.

There was no panic or fear in their voice as you bled out.

You whimpered pathetically, leaning against them helplessly as their hands, cold and uncaring, healed your wounds. Still, they smiled. It feigned sympathy, mocked human emotion, pretending there was still a kind soul in the shell that was their vessel.

"I was so worried about you," Their expression and tone didn't change from their normal condescending smile and uncaring eyes. Yet a stab of guilt still buried itself deep into your heart, "I woke up and you were gone. You hadn't told me or informed any of my acolytes." They frowned, "Why did you do that?"

You huffed a breath, their cold hands healing you were soothing and eased your aching wounds and heart, "I wanted... to see Watatsumi Island... alone..." You muttered.

The corner of their lips tugged down even more, a genuine reaction as their eyebrows scrunched together for the briefest moment, "Why would you want to go alone? Do you not want to be around me?"

You were shaking your head even before they had finished. You opened your mouth to retaliate, but they didn't let you.

"You know if you want to go anywhere you should bring me with you. I always go everywhere with you. After all, you're mine aren't you? So why do you act as though you don't love me?"

Your throat closed up, your lungs screaming as they tightened around your heart. Your entire chest felt like it was being crushed and was caving in on itself.

You shook your head wildly, "No, that's not-" You choked out, "That's not it-"

Their hands left your wounds, which were fully healed now, and grabbed your head. Forcing your eyes to meet theirs, so full of life and yet so cold. You could practically feel your form freeze with the cold of space as you gazed into their eyes.

They continued to smile but it was empty and as cold as their eyes, "Shh," They poked your nose with their finger, there was no love behind it. Only maliciously teasing you in the fact you had no power here, "Don't waste your breath. You know better than this. This is your fate after all. The stars say so."

That was bullshit. The stars were a blanket crafted by their hand to fit their vision of what the world should be like. It doesn't matter what the stars say, they'll just change it if they don't like it. You've seen them do it before.

But that made their words sting even more, because they're right. The stars are theirs to craft, to cut and stitch apart and together however they wish. The same went for you, who was not a part of this world that heeded to Darling's every beck and call.

As tears pricked your eyes, Darling tended to you. Wiping them away and hugging you. The very thing you wanted to run from, the very thing you hated was comforting you.

Playing Genshin was a mistake on your part.

Getting attached to Darling was a mistake. Because even despite everything, you leaned into their addicting touch.

You never forgot that you weren't Darling. You weren't god. You weren't invincible. The animals didn't love you, they loved Darling. The people didn't love you, they loved Darling.

Darling didn't love you, they loved the thought of you, their anomaly.

[chocoenvy]

SAGAU but Reader just happens to be a huge ABBA stan who sings ABBA songs to themselves whenever they’re alone.

The acolytes who just happen to pass by assume ABBA’s the God of the Arts in reader’s world and Reader doesn’t have the heart to set the truth straight because ABBA really *are* Gods of the arts.

Omfg convincing the acolytes that stuff you like is mini-gods

Like that one fic from @/karmawonders where the acolytes thought shakira was a mini god ALDSKFJSADFDSA-

Taking your favorite character from a different game/movie show or whatever and telling them that this is a mini god and they are amazing and perfect and <3333

[chocoenvy]

listen all i'm saying is if the villain au reader studied execution methods through history while they were still in their world the acolytes are fuuuuuuuuucked

very lovely thought <3333

there are so many brutal torture methods, much too graphic for me to want to write them out...

but one that's non-brutal that I never forgot was where they constantly drip a single drop of water on someone's forehead (like where the third eye is?)

just thinking about it makes me feel crazy, it'd drive someone (reader's acolytes) insane <3

[chocoenvy]

My signature is me literally begging for spare cor lapis. These liyue acolytes are so expensive! Why do three of you need 50 cor lapis each to ascend?!

Imagine seeing that under one of the statues and those specific three knowing it's about them lol.

ALKFJASDLFK THAT'S FAIR- I only leveled up Chonk who needed cor lapis so I haven't needed it for a long while-

they see it and they're like 0 - 0 they feel kinda bad for just... existing... and needing stuff. But once you ascend them they'll feel so special because you went through so much just to get them so strong and they've never felt so special before it's just <3333