#Whooperflower Albedo

[dkniade]

Hey, you know the two imposter Albedos from version 2.3 Shadows Amidst Snowstorms? The real Albedo and the prototype Albedo are synthetic humans alchemically created by “Gold” Rhinedottir as part of her Primordial Human Project. The Fellflower Albedo is a mutated Cryo Whooperflower made by the prototype Albedo during the event.

Between the real Albedo (the Kreideprinz), the primordial/prototype Albedo (the failure that was left in Durin’s stomach), and the Fellflower/corrupted Whooperflower Albedo (the Cryo one that attacked the team)—

[yestrnight]

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ 3BEDO SANDWICH !  

FROM: albedo, rubedo, fellbedo / reader

SUBJECT: you’re back home in mondstadt, and your three very identical, yet so different, lovers have come to welcome you back. in their own special way, of course ♡

(4some, selfcest, reader is referred to as they/them but has a cóck, overstimulation, overuse of heart lmao, made this sound like a doujinshi, rimming, nipple play, anál séx, humping, anál fingering, 3way kiss, you fuck all three of em) 

You don’t know how normal it is for having a relationship with three boys who look exactly the same. 

You’d like to add that they’re also essentially the same, especially the first two, but you think Rubedo wouldn’t like that. Given his past and the inferiority complex he still displays towards the ‘perfect’ copy, it’d be best for you not to say anything like that at all. And, well, they’re really only the same in genetic makeup and looks… not so much in personality at all.

“I’m back!” You call into the cavern, slinging your backpack onto a nearby chair. It’s the same old books and shelves, potions boiling on the alchemy kit, and the half-done painting on the canvas. A familiar face pops from behind the makeshift bed you set up before, his teal eyes blinking widely at you.

You smile, immediately knowing who else could be behind that sweet and naive look. “Hello, Fell,” you coo, opening your arms wide to invite him. He springs right into them, nuzzling his face into your chest and wrapping his arm around your torso. You laugh slightly, combing his fluff hair.

“[Your Name],” he almost whines. “You were gone for so long… Didn’t think you’d come back at all.”

Ah. Fell’s pout pulls at your heartstrings, and a silent apology is given in the form of a tighter hug. To think you’re now this affectionate towards the Cryo Whooperflower that had posed as Albedo and attacked you and the Traveler before. He did try to kill the two of you and some others, but now that you know better, as he was just fulfilling the orders given to him by his creator. 

“Oh? Look who came back,” a biting voice snarks from behind you. You turn to look and see the other two enter the camp, as well as the glare from the red-tinted one as he crosses his arms at you. Speaking of creators, Rubedo’s eyes hold you in disdain as his scowl deepens. “You think you can just leave one moment and come back just like that, no consequences whatsoever? Who do you think you are?”

“Ru,” you sigh. “I’ve been sending letters to you guys while I was in Liyue. It’s not like I forgot about you guys.” Fell seems to hug you even tighter, so you soothe his pale blonde locks once again.

“Is that so? Then why haven’t I gotten any of them?” 

“Albedo?” You look at the last remaining homunculus, furrowing your brow in confusion. “Did you not give Ru or Fell any of my letters?”

“So you mail him but not me or Fell? This is blatant favoritism.”

“You’re not even a citizen of Mondstadt,” you pointedly state. “You don’t have an address to mail to.”

“I didn’t,” Albedo finally answers your question. He picks up the mentioned letters from his bag and waves it in the air as if nothing happened. “They never asked. You never told me.”

You sigh deeply, already feeling tired even on your first day back in Mondstadt. You know that’s not the case, if the sly smile he hides behind the mail is anything to go by. Calm and collected the Chief Alchemist may always seem, he had always been a tad possessive and jealous. The others are too, but Albedo’s position in life gives him advantages like the one right now.

Rubedo clicks his tongue at his copy. “Fell, let’s go. It’s clear these two don’t want anything to do with us.”

“H-Huh?” Fell cocks his head in confusion. “But I don’t wanna…”

“C’mon now, Ru.” You stretch a hand towards him, inviting him ito your arms too. “What if I make this up to you, hm? All of you.”

He huffs. “You’re sorely mistaken if you think you can just seduce me like that.”

“Ngh— Ah, f-fuck ♡”

The rhythmic slap of skin against skin echoes throughout the cavern as you plunge your thick length into Ru’s warm ass over and over again. Muffled moans flutter from his mouth as he grips onto the sheets for some sort of stability, but it’s hard when you keep pushing his head down so you can fuck even deeper into him.

“Heh,” you snicker, seeing Ru’s dazed eyes while he helplessly moans like a slut. “How’s this for an apology, hm?”

Your words seem to snap him out from his mindless state, as his eyes suddenly focus and narrow back at you. “Y-you think that just ‘cause you’re good at s-sEX” —his voice cracks when you grind ito the part you know he loves so much— “that warrants forgiveness from me?”

“Well, Albedo and Fell seem to think so.”

Behind you, Fell humps his cock on your ass, mindlessly panting as he plays with his nipples. With no thoughts other than sex, he’s heedless of the drool coming from his lips. He flicks the tiny little nubs, puffy from the sessions you would endlessly torture them. Every flick and twist sends electricity through his body, spurting more precum on your ass until you’re absolutely dripping with it. Is this even pre anymore? you think, but your thoughts are cut off when the tip teases your entrance.

“F-Fell…” Your legs stutter, accidentally pushing deep into Ru. Surprised by the sudden change of rhythm, his legs kick the air, his back arching as he tries to welcome every inch you’re giving. “Y-You wanna… heh, you wanna come inside?”

Fell whines, a positively beautiful sound. He embraces you, nodding into your skin and looking up at you with teary eyes. “Wanna fuck you… wanna come inside…”

“Hngh, [Your Name]~ ♡“ The needy little one who’s currently bucking his hips as you finger his ass hasn’t stopped begging and whining for you ever since this fucking session started. “Deeper ♡ Fasterrr ♡ O-Oooh~♡” Albedo shudders when you curl your fingers into that spot and pump them harder. “Th-That’s it, haah, more of that, please!” 

You grin. “Poor thing, you’re absolutely debauched. Missed me that much?” 

Albedo nods while he continues to match the rhythm of your fingers. “Missed you, ah, so, so much ♡ Touched myself while I read your letters… Didn’t want the others to find out, so I hid it from them.” At this revelation, you pull your fingers out, and his eyes go wide at the emptiness. “Wh- What are you doing…? Don’t pull away, please. Need it, need it, need it…”

You slap his ass, the sound so sudden and hard it makes the others flinch. Albedo bites back his sob by stuffing his mouth with his fist. You massage the reddening flesh, looking at him disappointedly. “Bad boy… So you mean to say that you came all over my letters? Letters that I wrote for all three of you? The ones that don’t even have a trace of sex in them? Is sex really all that you can think of?” 

Albedo nods again, teary eyes silently pleading you for mercy. The slap that comes next burns even more, but a trickle of cum spurts from his hard cock anyway, and a muffled squeal comes from behind his fist.

Rubedo pins the huffing mess beside him with a judging look. “Did you really come all over their letters?” He pathetically nods, and Ru sighs. “Well, then I guess it’s a good thing you never showed it to Fell and I, then.” 

Fell peeks out from over your shoulder, pouting a bit. “I… I still would’ve liked to have read [Your Name]’s letters.”

“Don’t worry.” You kiss Fell on the cheek. “You’ve got plenty of time to read it later. For now,” you smile innocently at Albedo and Ru, but the dark look sends shivers up their spine. “I think you’re talking too coherently for my liking. Fell,” you look over and bend, opening up your slick entrance for him. “Would you like to fuck me?” 

“Y-Yes! Haha, m-more, fucK! Give it to me!” Fell, obedient and docile as ever, follows your request thrusting faster and deeper into you. Albedo rides on your dick, his cock wagging back and forth as he desperately plunges himself over and over again on your length. Ru’s asshole puckers temptingly over your head while you lazily finger him. 

You swirl a tongue over his dick, kissing and only sucking only the tip while he licks and kisses yours everytime Albedo raises his ass. Your cum oozes out of Albedo’s hungry hole, giving him more to feed on as his lips hungrily search your cock for more.

“Haah…” Albedo looks down at his lookalike, blush all over his face. He can see the bulge protruding from his belly at this angle, as well as the erotic expression Rubedo has as he laps up your cum. “I–I can see your tongue… ♡” 

“What about it?” Ru raises a brow, looking up at him. “Want it on yours too?” 

Thoughts rush through Albedo’s mind, but he can barely process any of them as his mind only screams for more of that sweet, sinful sex. He nods, biting his lip as he stretches his asshole even wider. He leans back and looks at his ‘older brother’ pleadingly.

“Fuuck,” Ru groans. He licks a stripe up your dick and then dives right into the fluttering asshole. The blood rushes to his head as he tongue fucks Albedo together with your cock. He grips Albedo’s thighs tightly, spreading them out even more so he can have better access, and hungrily slurps everything right up.

“[Your Name]...” Cute little Fell whines from beneath you, his hands groping your chest as he continues to thrust right into you. Attention-seeking and needy, he guides your face to look at him. He plants a sweet kiss, one that doesn’t quite fix the messy sex you’re having now, and looks up at you lovingly. “M-Mail me too on your next trip, okay? You– You can mail it to the Dragonspine camp below… I’ll pick it up. Please?”

You giggle, kissing and moaning into his mouth as his length continues to pound away. “I’ll do that next time. Promise.”

His small smile makes your heart flutter, less in the hot and passionate way, but more of the innocent love type of way. “I’ll hold you to that. Ru was really anxious when you were gone… He tried to keep it down so that he wouldn’t worry me, but… but I could tell.”

“Sounds like him.” You plant a kiss, sweeter than the one before, and pull away. “I’ll make it up to you guys while I’m back in town.”

Fell sobs into Ru’s lap, his mind in overdrive as you overstimulate him with his fourth round of orgasm. His toes curl as you press harder into his ass, lost in the stimulation yourself. You know the limits of your lovers, so you press onward anyway. You’re too mindless right now to even care.

“R-Ru!” Fell sobs, staring pleadingly up at his creator. “T-Too much! [Your Name]’s too much! Tell them to slow d-dOWN!” He yelps when Albedo twists his nipples, and he grips Ru’s thighs even harder. “Ngh, ah, s-stop…! C-Can’t think anymore… Mm, ah ♡”

Ru only chuckles, stroking his counterpart’s hair soothingly. Most of the huffiness from you being away is now gone, having been thoroughly fucked by you, and he’s back to his calmer self. Ru usually matched Albedo’s temperament, though he had always been more prone to irritation. Now Ru was back to his calmer self. “You’re gonna be fine,” Ru coos. “It’s not like you need to think much, anyway. Now that [Your Name]’s back in town, we all know that all you’ll be thinking about is hogging their ass to yourself, right?”

“That’s not– ah!– That’s not t-true! I share [Your Name] with you guys too!”

“If I may intrude,” Albedo’s breath whispers on Fell’s sensitive ear, making him jolt in shock. “Last they were back from Sumeru, we had to keep your mouth in a muzzle so you can stop waking [Your Name] up on your tongue every day.”

Fell whines pathetically, blush covering his cheeks in shame. “I couldn’t help myself… I just missed them so much!” He throws a pitiful look at you, begging for your saving. “Y–You understand, right, [Your Name]? I love you that much, that’s why!”

“Mm, I don’t know,” you chuckle, giving your lovers a sly smile. “Don’t remember much of that at all. Care for a reminder?”

Ru shakes his head, but the fond if not mischievous smile is present on his face. “So insatiable,” he tuts, but he nevertheless reaches for your face and pulls you in for a kiss. “Maybe Fell will take you on that offer.”

“Oh, he will. Maybe even more,” Albedo chimes in, joining the mess of tongues as he clutches at your ass. The three of you suck and fuck each other’s tongues, the excess drool and spit dripping onto the red and throbbing cock down below. 

Gosh, he didn’t know that a three-way kiss could make him this turned on. He tacks that on to the list of the things he wants to do with you while you’re still here. 

[worriedvision]

So here req about Albedo, Kazuha and Ningguang with a reader, that was turned into a seelie/whooperflower and would have to stay that way for a while?If not thats fine. 💕

So I am really looking forward to writing this request! Gender neutral reader, this is gonna be bullet point form. For some reason, the bullet point format is refusing to apply, disappearing when I go to put it on lmao!

--

Albedo:

-You were a whopperflower, Albedo looking for a flower to experiment on. You wake up that morning feeling odd, like you were stuck in the ground.

-When you feel someone pulling at what felt like something in your head, you spring up, meeting eyes with Albedo.

-He initially pulls out his sword, anticipating your next move, and you don't attack him.

-You look down, processing the fact you were stuck in this form, and you let out a cry that translates into a very light mist, not harming Albedo.

-Albedo approaches you, putting his sword away as he starts to inspect you. He feels a pulse, something he didn't observe with other whopperflowers, and he figures you were worthy of being tested on.

-You land up acting almost like a pet of his, waddling next to him as people wonder what Albedo had done. It becomes a running joke of you being Albedo's dog.

-Albedo asked around for you quite often, looking dejected before thanking people when they replied negatively to this question.

-When you turn back the next morning, you better hope he has a cover over you.

-After all, Whopperflowers don't wear shirts and trousers.

Kazuha:

-You become a Seelie. At this point, you didn't know Kazuha, and he didn't know you similarly.

-You looked for someone to help you, you feeling like you were hovering as you moved, and Kazuha was there to help.

-His initial confusion over you not gravitating towards a holder for yourself, Kazuha figures he was as well leaving you. He wishes you luck in finding your place, and for some reason a part of you screams to go and follow him.

-He hears you whine out, and he turns around to see you floating towards him.

-You land up accompanying him on his travels, and as much as you missed your previous life before turning to a seelie, you felt like you belonged with Kazuha.

-Kazuha feels the same way about you. He found the comfort of a seelie to be reassuring, and he mentioned a past friend who unfortunately died. He still mourned for him, but he felt less lonely now that you were there.

-You stopped being a seelie about a week after, and Kazuha would not have believed the seelie was you if he hadn't been sleepless that night.

Ningguang:

-You were a scientist working on a formula that involved whopper flower nectar. Ningguang found promise in your potions, and she reached out to request an audience with you. As surprised as you were, you were also excited.

-You accidentally spill the potion on yourself right before she arrives, and you turn to a whopperflower. You thought nobody was around, but you hear a pair of heels stop.

-Your head turns, you seeing Ningguang. She laughs a little at this, the way you just transformed into a whopperflower before sitting across from you, you still deciding to take a seat.

-Ningguang makes sure she has someone watching over you as the potion wears off, and she looks forward to when you turn back to being human.

-After all, that potion still did sound interesting.

[albedosarmpit]

Albedos Monsterfuckery rant

TW/ monsterfucking (Hillichurls, whopperflowers, slimes mentioned)

mostly just me ranting about Albedo i am kind of ashamed but yeah

Albedo 100% has tried something to whatever he can find, hes dangerously curious to the point he wants to know just how many rounds a hillichurl can take before its too much for them, he lures things and keeps them as experiments, seeing what does it for them

Albedo first experimented with Slimes by using them as fuck toys but that got old for him pretty quickly as he needed more and the first thought was luring a hillichurl and experimenting on it but that didnt go to plan and he got fucked and used, left to lay, covered in their cum right by the frostbearing tree, barely able to move back to his camp due to the pain, he couldnt help but be turned on by it either way, sure it didnt go as planned but he still learnt about their bodies.

Albedo keeps a secret drawer with a lock that is filled to the brim of notebooks about how Hillichurls, Slimes, Whooperflowers all breed and react to his body, he has also noted down how his own body reacts to their simulation (Mostly how his skin looks, how much he can take before he cant move, how long all of them last and ect) he keeps it locked because he doesnt dare let sucrose see these.

(wrote this because bored and stuff im sorry)

[sons-of-rhine]

Aliceson, huh? Why would you cover your birthmark with a choker, Albedo? Imperfection’s a part of being human, no?

Nigredo, Albedo, you two are scientists. You understand Rhine was just pursuing knowledge, right? Things like this all come with a little sacrifice, huh?

Rubedo, ever think about if your Master had discarded failed Whooperflower specimen before you came into being? That monstrous form… How do you like your human form now?

(ooc: just trying to provoke them and see how they’d react haha)

✨I cover it because I now see it as a brand tethering me to her… I was unaware of the things she had done before my creation, but even aside from that, I understand now that the way she treated me wasn’t normal for a mother and son, and that I deserved better…

❄️I don’t care what her reasons were! There are lines that need to be drawn, even in research! There’s no excuse to abuse and murder your own children! Now stop talking if you value your life. Why don’t you come out of hiding, anon, so we can all see who you are, you coward?

🌺[puts a hand on Nigredo’s shoulder]

🌺I know that my Papa only made me to be disposable at first. The difference is that he was in a really bad place at the time, and he’s making an effort be better now. This Rhinedottir lady disappeared without a trace and without ever apologizing for anything she did. I really, really like my human form and my new consciousness!

[bluemoonfantasiesiii]

Lily was giggling at how the Angel was protecting her before her happy smile turned to a sacred yelp when she suddenly fell from Rubedo's arms, but luckily Saad was there to catch her in time.

Saad let Lily on her feet. She ran to hug Ruby in such a protective manner. "Please don't hurt my friend~!" She begged then added with tears in her own eyes for seeing Ruby scared like this, "Rubedu is the mountain's angel~ he is a sweet Cryo Whooperflower who saved me from death and helped my dad, too. He is so kind, and he always helps others and plays with me, too~" Lily tried to explain to Dehya what Rubedo was.

Saad was kind of stunned for a few seconds after hearing all that, but then he went to their side as well, asking with worry in his eyes. "Are you alright, Ruby?! You fell hard on the ground just now. " The boy was concerned about his new friend, but he did not really seem to be terrified or anything.

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Vincent stayed quiet as he watched with a tiny smile.

Rosa was a bit startled by the loud cough. She turned to see what happened only to be met with such a strange flower to her eyes. She listened to the man's words quietly. It seemed genuine to her. She looked at her lover, who just smiled kindly at her as if to encourage her 'you should take it'.

The lady moved her hand slowly to take the flower that was offered to her. "You-... thank you for the flower~" she said with a shy and quiet voice. Not wishing to meet his eyes yet, she moved to stand behind Vincent's back once more. She held the flower closer to her as if she started to wonder more in her thoughts about the flower's properties.

Vincent smiled at her shy reaction and slowly moved in a direction, leading the others inside of the building with Rosa holding to his hand again, but her eyes were still set on the flower with a small smile could be seen on her lips.

Rubedo took deep breaths and tried to calm himself with both of the other children and Candace defending him. The village leader spoke up before Dehya could ask another slew of questions.

“I didn’t grasp a lot of it, but Rubedo’s shapeshifting abilities were enhanced by an alchemist from Mondstadt, allowing him to look and act like a human. He’s essentially a child. Besides, if he meant to harm anyone here, don’t you think he would have done so by now?”

Dehya’s eyes shifted between Candace and Rubedo before she extinguished her flames and calmly walked over to the flower.

“Sorry about that, kiddo,” she said gently. “I do a lot of bodyguard work, so I’ve had to learn to act without thinking when it looks like there might be danger. It must’ve been especially scary for you since I use Pyro…”

Rubedo nodded. “I-I don’t want to hurt anyone, Miss…”

Dehya raised her non-armored hand to pat his head. “I believe you. I’m really sorry for scaring you. I’ll make it up to ya somehow. Promise.”

“Thank you, Miss Dehya.”

The brunette grinned. “Just Dehya is fine.”

———

Nigredo decided to cut his losses and assumed that Rosa was just timid like Albedo. At least she seemed interested in the starlight cecelia.

Cyno and Albedo stayed close to the front, the former keeping his staff out just in case they ran into any more trouble inside the ruins. The latter gazed at the massive temple in awe.

“It’s incredible to think that a civilization thousands of years ago could build structures like this…”

“All the technology is so well-preserved, too,” Nigredo commented. “I bet most of it still works.”

[starryrock]

Petition to rename “Susbedo/The Subject” “Nigredo” and the Whooperflower one “Rubedo.”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_opus_(alchemy)

[snackcraving]

Manifesting evil twink Elsa Albedo in 2.3

[jeyaam]

us albedo simps used to have barely any crumbs but now, we’re having a whole feast

[dkniade]

Contrast and Unity in the White/Black Imagery of Genshin Impact Quest Titles

Dragonspine 1.2 & 2.3 Events, Fontaine Act I

Game: Genshin Impact

Developer: HoYoverse

Fan Localization: Dusk

An aside from when I tried to explain the meaning of Kreideprinz’s Chinese term—

In Chinese, 白垩 is used to refer to Albedo with varying meanings but in the English version the term is even less consistent: 

Concealed Talon item description 白垩层 (baie ceng) = “Cretaceous Layer” (of soil) localized as “Cretaceous”

Albedo’s Story Quest Chapter title 白垩之章 (baie zhi zhang) = “Cretaceous Chapter” localized as “Princeps Cretaceous Chapter”

Albedo’s second Ascension voiceline, 白垩 (baie) = “chalk”/“Cretaceous”, localized as “albedo”, the second stage of the alchemical magnum opus

(even though in the context of alchemy, the albedo (Latin: “whitening”) stage should be 白化 (baihua, whitening) in Chinese because the albedo stage does not refer to chalk/limestone)

Albedo’s title 白垩之子 (baie zhi zi) = possibly varies slightly depending on context that it appears in, localized as “Kreideprinz”

Xingqiu’s “About Albedo” voiceline, 白垩老师 (baie laoshi) = (teacher) “Mr. Cretaceous” (Latin) or “Mr. Chalk” (English) or “Mr. Kreide” (German) localized as “Mr. Kreideprinz”

Version 1.2’s name 白垩与黑龙 (baie yu heilong) = “The White Chalk and the Black Dragon” or “Cretaceous and the Black Dragon”

or one can localize it in German like how they did the 4.0 Chapter IV Act I “Prelude of Blancheur and Noirceur” (French: “Prelude of Whiteness and Blackness” or ”Prelude of Innocence and Darkness”)

though, officially, Version 1.2’s name 白垩与黑龙 is localized as “The Chalk Prince and the Dragon”

Speaking of black and white in titles, another aside—

Don’t you know that HoYoverse loves juxtaposing white/black or light/shadow in its quest titles

1.2 Dragonspine event

Chinese: 白垩与黑龙 (Baie yu Heilong) = “The White Chalk and the Black Dragon” 

Official English: “The Chalk Prince and the Dragon”

2.3 Dragonspine event

Chinese: 皑尘与雪影 (Aichen yu Xueying) = “White Dust and Snowy Shadows” 

Official English: “Shadows Amidst Snowstorms”

皑 from 白雪皑皑 (baixue aiai) usually refers the whiteness of snow specifically, so 皑尘 as “(snowy) white dust” is just their over-the-top way to say “snow”.

“Snowy Dust and Snowy Shadows” sounds too humorous though.

I’VE BEEN WANTING TO SAY THIS FOR A LONG TIME NOW: of course symbolism-wise it’s likely that “white dust” refers to Albedo, “snow” refers to the Cryo Whooperflower Albedo, and “shadow” refers to Primordial Albedo, with Durin encompassing all three as the shadow dragon that lies dead—like dust—in the snowy mountain.

HoYoverse being HoYoverse has found a way to say white and black without even using the hanzi for white (白) and black (黑) back in 2.3.

4.0 Fontaine Act I

Chinese: 白露与黑潮的序诗 (Bailu yu Heichao de Xushi) = Prelude of White Dew and Black Tides

Official English: “Prelude of Blancheur and Noirceur” 

with French terms translated: “Prelude of Whiteness and Blackness” or “Prelude of Innocence and Darkness”

Given the information in 4.0, I would assume that “white dew” refers to Furina and “black tides” refers to Neuvillette seeing how Furina’s always at the front of key visuals and Neuvillette’s always looming ominously over the background, but you can also think of it as innocence vs guilt, I suppose.

POETIC ALLUSION UPDATE: 白露 alludes to the Chinese poem “蒹葭”(Jianjia) = “Reed”

from the ancient collection of poems, 诗经 (Shijing)

The poem is basically the narrator talking about not being able to reach their lover, who’s on the other side of the water (lake?)

The act’s Chinese title is already over-the-top—since most people would look at it and think “ah white and black and something about water, got it”—so localization’s aim is to match the fancy feel and not the accuracy ‘cause honestly if you localize all that into French it’d be too long. This makes sense…

Though, the implication that French holds such a high prestige that its mere presence is enough to balance out some loss of meaning from the Chinese title is… strange, now that I think of it.

白露与黑潮的序诗 (Prelude of White Dew and Black Tides) in French would be “Prélude de la rosée blanche et des marées noires”… I think. (Please correct me if I’m wrong.)

This time HoYoverse found another way to say white and black while using the hanzi characters AND STILL BE EXTRA BECAUSE THEY ALLUDED TO A CHINESE POEM OF COURSE THEY DID. ARCHONS, man…

New drinking game: take a shot whenever black/white or dark/light is juxtaposed in a Genshin title/name of any language, take another shot if they don’t actually use the word/character for black/white in the target language, take another if they alluded to a Chinese poem or literature in the original LOL

[i-put-the-yan-in-polyandry]

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You obviously couldn’t just take the main road and walk into the camp, not with everyone chasing you down.

Then again, it’d be far more suspicious if anyone caught you trying to take an alternate route, since a river cut off any other routes. You’d have to swim through and ask Ember to dry you off the best it could.

Unless you icebridged across.

If all monsters treated you as they had, then you could easily request a cryo slime, Whooperflower, hilichurl or samachurl to freeze a path across—you’d just have to carry Ember. Or maybe Eos could harness some elemental energy and create a cryo-infused swirl, then you’d not even need to ask.

You slammed a fist into your hand. Maybe you were the protagonist of a ghibli movie. Step aside Snow White, a new Disney Princess is in town.

Eos and Ember looked a little confused at your sudden brightness but excitedly chirped anyway, happy you were in a better mood.

…

You managed to slip past the main road and back into the sparse treeline on the other side, where you hoped to be mistaken for a simple traveler or hunter and left alone. Surely security wouldn’t be so tight that they’d flag down every single person they couldn’t see the face of—actually, maybe you shouldn’t jinx it.

From the game, you remembered there being a researcher and some knights in the area. You scanned the area as you moved to a more secluded area. You just needed to get somewhere between the camp and the knights and quickly across, act confident and nobody should trouble you.

With the cliffs to your back, the path curved from the camp’s sight and the river at its thinnest, you turned to you faithful companions. “Eos, do you think you could make a path across?”

Eos chirped and bounced around your feet in response, ready and eager. It settled in a spot in front of you and began to pull anemo and cryo toward itself, before surging forward with it, as far into the water as it could. All at once, the energy released, creating a giant swirl that put the Kazuha Slash to shame.

“…What the fuck” was all you could say.

More than a small patch or thin path, the entire section of the river in front of you had frozen near solid. And in the center, Eos looked up at you, practically shining in pride and—you couldn’t help it—you burst out laughing.

Fuck, you were probably drawing as much attention as Eos did, but you couldn’t help it. Quickly scooping up Ember and squishing it to your chest, which it was happy for, you hurried across the path, grinning down at Eos, who chirped in confusion.

“Wonderfully done, Eos!” You grinned down at it, mask thankfully showing your bright smile. Eos chirped in response, bouncing along, easily keeping up with your hurried steps as you all rushed to escape the scene before anyone came to investigate.

A figure hummed to themself as they watched you leave.

…

From your spot, it wasn’t exactly easy to figure out a path to Albedo’s lab. But! You had a big brain and knew one piece of information you could take advantage of: Albedo spent much of his time investigating Dragonspine and its mysteries.

And what had you, well, Eos, just done? Caused a large and abnormal elemental reaction that surely caught the alchemist’s attention (and perhaps his imposter’s).

Though you probably couldn’t approach him openly, especially since the other side were probably already checking out the area, Albedo surely would be able to track you down in his home turf, which hopefully wouldn’t spell your end.

Albedo would listen, you told yourself, Albedo will explain. He had to, you had no other hope.

Push come to shove, you could take back his Cinnabar Spindle and artifacts until he behaved. Clearly you’d had some kind of effect on this world, you could leverage Albedo’s curiosity and offer yourself as a research subject if you had to, like the Traveler had.

“Now what do we have here?” Oh god, you knew that voice. That wasn’t Albedo. “And to think the Acting Grand Master had been so sure the Hypostasis had killed you.”

Memories of those kind winds flashed past your eyes, a once unknown rage consumed your thoughts. “How dare you. Beth would never—” You quickly cut yourself off, realizing who you were dealing with; Cavalry Captain Kaeya, one person you’d counted your blessings not to encounter.

You knew he was far more dangerous than he seemed.

“Beth?” He hummed, seemingly more to himself than anything. “It seems you care for it quite a bit.”

Be careful, you reminded yourself, this is Kaeya’s element.

“Well, at least Beth didn’t try to kill me for breathing,” you snarked. Don’t give him anything he doesn’t already know. “Can’t say the same about Mondstadt.” You crossed your arms with a huff. “Donna should just go back to talking about Diluc all the time.”

“To be fair, she talks about the Darknight Hero as well.”

“You know damn well that’s the same—” Ah, shit— “...thing.”

You’d given him what he wanted and you both knew it, though Kaeya’s smug expression certainly would have covered that if you didn’t.

Kaeya shifted his weight onto one leg, waving a hand in the air. “For someone who claims to not know anything about their crime, you certainly know a lot about Mondstadt.” He leaned in. “So how about you give me the real story.”

Before you could say anything, your slimes reacted for you, unable to take your discomfort any longer. While Ember curled up closer to your chest, Eos lunged at Kaeya—a leveled dps with a maxed weapon and good artifacts.

Time slowed down.

Kaeya summoned his blade, his vision lit up.

Eos closed in, releasing a war chirp.

You wrenched your eyes shut, squeezing Ember closer, whimpering in fear.

Something heavy hit the snow.

Silence.

One moment passed, then another. And finally…

A chirp.

You hesitantly peaked an eye open, then, you blinked, wide and owlish.

Eos cheerfully bounced atop Kaeya’s prone body, looking to you for approval.

You opened your mouth, closed it, and opened it again.

Once more, what the actual fuck?

[cnderyne]

The Conclusion

Summary: Albedo discovers how he truly felt about you. Unfortunately, he was too late.

Part 2 of The True Experiment

Warnings: Angst

Word count: 726

A/N: @ukoru14 requested part two so I wrote it. I hate the name "The True Experiment" but in my defence, I wrote the story on a whim and it was like 2am.  

The story is from Albedos POV and I tried keeping it as gender neutral as possible. Also sorry if the tenses are a bit skewed. 

Love, hate, happiness, sadness. He thought he couldn't feel strong emotions. He told himself as much. If he couldn't, then why does he miss them so much?

Albedo thought that letting them find out that he was experimenting on them was for the best. I mean, now he doesn't have to listen to them talk about how much they hated climbing the mountain to see him. He doesn't have to put on an act in front of them. He could now be left alone to his experiments and drawings. He should feel glad that his experiment was a success and he should be relieved that he doesn't have to be around that person that is as annoying as a whooperflower. 

But… whenever he sees them in Mondstadt, laughing at a idiotic joke Kaeya made, he feels a heavy drop inside of him. Something in his chest has been tightening and has only been getting worse. He makes frequent visits to Mondstadt. For work. For them. He never did that when he was with them. Now that he goes to Mondstadt, he sees them a lot more. There are small glances passed between them. Despite Albedo's research into human emotions, he can never figure out whether it's resentment or sadness that is held in their eyes. When they have to converse, it's normally filled with awkwardness and a bit of spite from them. However, he understands. He hurt them and he feels bad that he did.  

It's hard to explain how he feels, not even he knows how he feels. However, he knows it hurts when he sees them. Frequent visits to Barbara and tests he has done on himself has confirmed that he is not indeed hurt physically but when he looks at past drawings he made of them, Albedo wants to tear it apart. It irritates him that the drawings do not capture their beauty or perfectly reflect them, which makes his heart ache more. Even now, he can't stop drawing them in fear that he may lose his idealistic image of them he can no longer see, although he hates that he can't stop thinking about them. It is incomprehensible as to where this pain and frustration is coming from. So naturally, he visits Lisa. 

"It seems that you truly love them and regret the pain you have caused them," Lisa says in response to him telling her how he feels after berating Albedo for hurting them. "I'm also assuming you feel jealous due to how close they've gotten to Kaeya. Am I correct?"

No response comes from Albedo. After a while of silence, Lisa goes back to organising the returned books as she lets him evaluate his feelings. 

Albedo leaves the library shortly after to go back to his office and through the window, he sees them. He sees them with Kaeya. They are looking at Kaeya the way they used to look at him. Oh how he loved when they looked at him like that. They looked so angelic with their red cheeks and nose. Even when they hate the cold, they still came to see him. He misses the way their eyes would light up when they saw him with a big smile plastered on their face. He misses the moments where they sat on his lap waiting for him to be finished with paperwork. They were so patient with him.

He misses you. He wishes he never let you find out about the experiment. He moved the report to his office at Mondstadt a while back. He somehow got emotional whenever he saw it. But at the worst moment, when he realises that he feels guilty for hurting you, it's there. The pages haunt him. He wants to burn them along with his sketchbook with breathtaking drawings of you but they hold memories of the relationship. Memories he would have forgotten if he didn't have them. He wants to help you feel better but the people who hurt you can't heal you. It's not the way it works and he knows that.

Perhaps he can feel emotions. He just didn't know what they were. The love he held and will always hold for you was figured out a report too late. Albedo may only look back at the experiment and think about what could have been but never can be.

[dourpeep]

Okay but look at how small and scared the lil flower is I want to hold it and raise it with Rubedo pls

Co-parenting little tiny fellflower with Rubedo so true-

Rue would call it something that he knows would irk Albedo just for the fun of it too. But--anyway back to the soft cute

Little fellflower always always being by Rubedo's or your side because it feels safe and comfy with you both. It takes quite a bit for it to forgive Albedo for what happened, but luckily it warms up out of the blue when Albedo entertains the little sprout with some alchemical wonder--maybe a little show of geo crystals or something pretty and sparkly.

Perhaps even resigning to his fate of having the little fellflower be scared of him and just deciding to watch from a comfortable distance while sketching and painting it but then it becomes curious about what he's doing and very very very carefully approaches.

Little fellflower seeing itself (wow!) on the page in the form of careful strokes of charcoal and a dash of starsilver paint and perking up.

Rubedo seldom dabbles in art, unlike Albedo, since he's more content to experience things as they come and live in the moment, so seeing these sketches are rather new to fellflower. Wait omg

If Rubedo were to mess around and accidentally give fellflower an actual form but instead of being met with fellflower Bedo it's like...a baby version of them (ignoring the fact that whooperflowers don't actually have any distinct life stages apart from whooperflower or regisvine). Fellflower looking like his actual son >> ofc Rubedo goes and fixes this quickly, but it's kinda cute seeing a little child behind Rubedo like a little duckling + a fistfull of Rubedo's coat in their hand.

Tiny...

Ah!! But fellflower would like to be held in your arms nodnod

It's nice to be able to travel around outside of Dragonspine without having to worry about the potential dangers of hilichurls or a stray adventurer and daily walks are a must! It likes to see everything that it can--much like Rubedo

[nightchild18]

siblings in genshin prior to 2.0:

> Biological siblings: Barbara & Jean

> Adoptive siblings: Diluc & Kaeya

siblings in genshin after 2.0

> Mechanical Artificial: Scara and Raiden (who is basically a virtual copy of Ei)

> Alchemic Artificial: Albedo, his dragon bro, his whooperflower bro and his evil clone bro

[chaaase69]

DUDE BRO GUYS JEJFJSJXJ ACT 2 OF THR EVENT IS SO COOL

first of all, need i say more anout travellers painting of paimon. had my fucking dying at like 6 in the morning. picking the choices i was like, oh its gonna be funny. it was pleasently surprised

NEXT THIS THING KAKFWKDJSJZJ sadly didn't take any screenshots of the actual albedo copy cutscene bc i was so transfixed on it but i had tocget some screenshots of the whooperflower. i love the color pallet of it

finally this end of act 2 zoom out on the mountain was so pretty. I needed to get a screenshot

i will have more snowmen screenshots in two days. todays snow man was so cute with the other 3, they're like a family :3

[fanfic-mania]

Spoilers for the dragonspine event 2.3.

We see at the end Albedo going to fight a fake one. What I think the possibilities are.

1. The dragons energy has affected multiple whooperflowers. This is just another one. The possibility of an army of fake Albedos and original Albedo going on a masacre.

2. That's Albedo's prototype, that's why he wanted the notes and got all weird about rejection. Downside he doesn't have a mark that is the sign of an artificial being (maybe he has it in another place? Can someone check the models?)

3. That was a flashback of Albedo trying to get rid of his clone when he first realised there was an impostor.

4. Albedo was based on a real human (or something like an adeptus) and they have been waiting and stalking Albedo. Who doesn't know his shape was inspired by someone else.