#pushed through thru a slight burnout

[lnlywar-god]

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For someone who’s eyes don’t shine like the sun and are cold and empty like the dark, Childe is surprisingly the first to help you warm up to your new lifestyle in Teyvat. Kind of how like tea with jam drives away toska, Childe thinks with a grin.

As of late, you’d been secluding yourself, only few people at a time could see you and you never stood infront of crowds, he’d noticed.

Of course, everyone respected that. Who could defy you here in Teyvat anyways?

As much as everyone respected what you did, Childe couldn’t help but feel this isn’t something you’d just allow to happen. He especially expected more from the archons. Shouldn’t they be going around, showing you the hospitality and the culture they’ve built in order to please you?

He tsk-es at the thought and turns on his heel to find you, as he’s always done.

It’s no surprise when he finds you in your teapot, tablet and laptop open in the middle of candles. There’s even ornamental flowers strewn around it. You stand back, nodding at your work in approval as Childe catches your attention with a tap to the shoulder.

He wonders what it is you have yourself so occupied in, and as you reply (rather hesitantly), saying it’s a shrine, he gives you a confused look.

He’d question it, but certainly, you haven’t been in Teyvat for a long time, perhaps this is just something you picked up in your world, so what’s there to question? He concludes with a look of finality at the shrine you’ve made.

“That’s a very nice shrine you have there.” He pulls it off, thankfully, as he watches your face erupt into an expression of joy.

That simple compliment seemed to have done the trick as more often than not, Childe is summoned to your teapot, to his joy and amusement.

He learns about you through theantics you’ve asked him to watch you do and he begins to understand why you prefer to be so secluded away from large crowds. Suddenly, he finds a thrill in being able to help you get to feel comfortable in what you do now.

Even when it tends to leave him confused, such as how you react when he says a certain phrase or how you say slangs that would be normal for everyone in the modern world, but not in Teyvat.

“BRUH, THE HELL THEY THINK THEY’RE DOING?!” You exclaim and Childe sweatdrops, controller still grasped in his hands and in the exact same position they were in since you gave it to him.

Times like this where you invite Childe, he doesn’t feel the least bit ashamed to be doing such things people in Teyvat are practically alien to. Which is the exact opposite of how you feel right now, moving on with your day as you did in the modern world.

Despite how enigmatic it was to watch you tinker away at your devices and have some habits people considered normal back in your world, he did enjoy partaking in these new experiences, even if it wasn’t as thrilling as battle on the field with powerful and strong people.

At first it’d only been to cheer you up, make your face practically shine with happiness, but as you would probably say, “nah, it’s not just that anymore bro”. This little pastime he’d taken on out of his dedication to you as an inhabitant of Teyvat had become something he’d grown well attached to, he realizes.

Even as you’d grown out of secluding yourself, Childe’s constantly making plans with you to join in your hobbies and learn more about what you called “internet culture”.

He was worried there for a second though.

The few times you’d turned down his offers at first leaving him looking like a kicked puppy, he was worried that you didn’t want to do all those anymore. What’s with the change of heart?

He tries to push back the feeling of hurt. Finding out that the person who introduced you to something you get thrill out of, no longer feels the same thrill as you do, is often disappointing and saddening.

Who else could he do all those fun games with now?

He’s almost about to cancel everything he had planned out until he finds you in the same spot you always hid in your teapot, playing games like you’d done with him, alone. Oh boy, he reality was mistaken to think such a thing.

He’s about to walk into the room when he sees a glint in your eyes different from what he’d see when you two are together. It’s fond, it’s soft, and it’s somehow longing. It’s the look Teucer tells him he had when he visited during work.

A homesick look.

He staggers, luckily not bumping into anything, and thinks that he’s mistaken again. He’s mistaken that all his attempts to bring you comfort here might’ve failed, that it was all for naught.

Or perhaps he hadn’t just done enough, yes, that’s it!

Childe nearly dashes down the corridor again but not before hearing the melodic laugh from the room he’d just left you in. it stops him dead in his tracks, and he walks silently towards the open door to take a peek.

That look in your eyes was still there, that’s for sure. But you were grinning, you weren’t sad, you weren’t disappointed or anything. You were actually being happy, and it wasn’t because someone did something for you.

He decides to leave you be, and the next day he finds an invitation from you to hang out.

Say less! The walk to your teapot felt much closer than it actually is, and it barely felt like he walked and he merely just teleported over there (he ran).

Anytime, any day that you feel insecure, fear not! Childe’s here to save the day, cheer you up, and show you that whatever you’re doing, he’ll do it with you, every step of the way!