#that aether and lumine have been dying for.

[incensuous]

aelumi update

For context (spoilers ahead):

In a recent quest, the Traveler (and new playable character, Xianyun) is helping a young girl, Shuyu, and her aging grandmother, Yuandai, who appears to have a strange case of dementia. Yuandai is the only family Shuyu has left, given her parents had passed away. Through visiting places of importance to her, her memories return to her. It turns out, Yuandai was once a crane who gained sentience, and is now paying the price for not having returned to her true form for too long. She must return to her original form, as a wild crane with no memories, but there is a possibility she may one day regain sentience and return to be with Shuyu.

The Traveler is pretty upset, watching Yuandai and Shuyu be separated. It's a recurring theme how much they hate to see families apart. After all that happened, everyone decides to take a short nap.

During their nap, they end up dreaming an absolutely lovely reunion sequence with their sibling. When they awake, they have tears in their eyes. Xianyun asks if they had a nightmare, but realizes instead, they simply had a dream they didn't wish to end.

I love to see their cutscenes side by side. The small differences in each Aether and Lumine's "version". Some have pointed out the dream is virtually the same, and theorize perhaps the both of them may have really shared a dream (cute wishful thinking haha). PLEASE watch and enjoy!!!

[abyssruler]

would they choose you over the world?

aether (traveler), dainsleif, scaramouche, raiden ei, lumine (abyss), venti, xiao x gn!reader

AETHER thinks he can save both, no, he knows he can. The powers of this world rests at the tips of his fingers. He’s faced monsters and gods and come out alive and better than he was before. There’s no reason to hesitate, none whatsoever to consider his decision but—but. He has never been made to choose before. There was always another way, another choice, another something he could rely on. It’s a moral dilemma, like the situation with the train where you either save five people and kill one person, or kill five people to save one person. It’s easy enough to answer when it was simply that—a moral dilemma created to confuse him, not a world ending decision that lies on his shoulders. To choose one is to doom the other. Most people would choose the world, but while Aether is called a hero and the savior of nations, he is also a person. He looks at your resigned smile, like you already know which one he’ll choose, and he decides to prove you wrong.

DAINSLEIF clings to loss like a dying man does to the edge of a cliff. The inevitability of death and your mortality rests on his shoulders much like weight of his entire nation’s death. He wonders what it says about him that he’d rather have you safe and sound than have the world be saved. Five hundred years of aimless wandering, fighting against the remnants of his fallen nation and watching the world move on while he remains untouched by time, the ghost of a past that can never be returned to. Dainsleif isn’t a hero, he’s tired. All that’s left of him are fading memories of a time gone by and moments with you that he clings to like a lifeline. What has this world ever done for him except cause him pain and needless grief? What has it done to deserve his sacrifice? Nothing. And so he rests, hand in hand with you on withering grass and waits for the world to end. At least, this time, he won’t be alone in watching the heavens descend.

SCARAMOUCHE laughs, and laughs, and laughs until he’s sure even the gods that reside in Celestia has heard the scorn and mockery in his voice. It is so laughably easy to choose you and denounce the world. Let it be turned to ash and dust, let his body dance on top of a desolate world, let him pull you in an embrace and delight in the fact that no sun and no light (for none of these exist anymore) would ever outmatch the brightness in your eyes, the smile on your face, the tinkling sound of your laughter amidst the remains of a world that once threatened to snuff your life like a candle left in the dark. He is like a flame and you, the spark. There’s a tsunami gathering on the horizon, threatening to drown everything in its wake, but instead of preventing it, he revels in the ruin it will bring. It is either your death alone or yours and everyone else, and if you have to die either way, then he will die with you and drag the rest of the world along in his self-appointed destruction. You taught him what it felt to no longer be alone, so he will make sure you’re never lonely, even in death.

EI feels weightless, like a leaf adrift in the wind. It feels like she is back to that moment five hundred (a thousand) years ago, a dilemma, a decision, a choice—follow Makoto to Khaenri’ah, or defend her people from the monsters ravaging the lands? There was uncertainty there, a small seedling of hope that she would arrive not far from Makoto and see her sister alive and waiting, and so she had made the decision to stay—but this? Faced with an ultimatum, the world or your death, Ei finds that the decision is much more difficult, much more devastating but no less heartbreaking. Had it been before, in her lonesome at the Plane of Euthymia, the choice would have been easy, barely a thought in her mind, but everything has changed and Ei wants, in a way she has never wanted before, to be with you. You with your smiles and your laughs and the warmth you induce in her frigid heart—and she finds that she cannot make a choice… so you do it for her. For the greater good.

LUMINE doesn’t hesitate, doesn’t even flinch before she turns her back to the world and takes your hand. What good is the world if you’re not there in it? She won’t just stand by and watch as everything she holds dear is destroyed in front of her—not anymore. There is you, there is her, and there is the world burning, and Lumine finds that she can hardly care. Her heart has no place for faceless people, no love left for a world that has done nothing but spurn and trample on everything she had offered. Let it burn if it means having one more second, one more minute, one more lifetime with you. A choice isn’t truly a choice if the other option was never considered, and she will never consider a world without you. There are millions, billions, countless other worlds out there she could take you to. Damn this place, damn the heavens, and damn the consequences. Her brother would understand, he always has, and when Lumine meets him again in a new world, she’ll make sure to introduce you to him.

VENTI wants, like Icarus yearning for the Sun, but Venti is Venti, and Barbatos is Barbatos. Right now, he cannot afford to be that carefree bard who spun tales of your lovely hair and lovelier still lips (cannot be Icarus who flew too close to the sun and fell). Venti wants—but Barbatos knows the best option, the best choice, the least devastating one but the most heart-wrenching one. The situation is funny, laughable, hilarious, really, the kind that makes his stomach ache and brings tears to his eyes that drip down his cheeks and onto the ground and—oh, he’s crying. He’s crying and holding you close and apologizing, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, and he doesn’t deserve your forgiveness, doesn’t deserve the hand carding through his hair and the soft press of your lips on his forehead as you murmur, don’t cry, it’s alright, you’re doing the best you can. But the best means not doing this at all, the best means not having to make a choice at all, the best means not having to say goodbye. It’s okay, you tell him, I forgive you. But he never forgives himself.

XIAO thinks there must be another way, there has to be another way. He won’t accept this, won’t allow himself to choose between losing you or losing everything, because he knows, deep down, that the choice has already been made and it is not the one he wants. But he knows better than most that doing what he wants isn’t always what is needed, that certain sacrifices must be made despite his unwillingness, despite his entire body protesting against it. Rex Lapis once told him that being a god means making difficult decisions. If this is what it means to be a god, then he will accept a life of service, a life of war and fighting and breathing like every second is his last—because pain and suffering are infinitely better than having to wake everyday without your voice by his ear, giggling about how you finally caught him asleep. A world without your light, without your presence, without you is a desolate one. There must be another way, another sacrifice to be made that doesn’t involve you. Just—anything, anyone but you. Even if it has to be him.

[genderfluid-insomniac]

GENSHIN S/Os WHEN THEIR LOVER TURNS INTO AN ANIMAL

Characters: Aether, Albedo, Al Haitham, Amber, Ayaka, Ayato, Beidou, Candace, Cyno, Dainsleif, Diluc, Dehya, Gorou, Heizou, Itto, Kaeya, Kazuha, Lisa, Lumine, Layla, Nahida, Ningguang, Raiden Shogun, Scaramouche, Shenhe, Tartaglia, Thoma, Tighnari, Venti, Xiao, Yae Miko, Yelan, Zhongli

A/N: I've been working on this for a while and it got backed up thanks to finals but I hope you all like it!!

Aether (golden retriever)

It’s quite a fun morning when you wake up to a flurry of cries and laughter along with a big furry retriever pouncing on you as you just woke up.

You happily cried out for help and Paimon came to your rescue asking where Aether is, still cuddling and petting the cream colored fur as the dog's head rested on your lap.

On the dog's ear was aethers earring and you took a guess, asking the dog if he was your lover to which you got a pretty excited bark and more “kisses”.

The day is pretty much one of the best days ever as Aether gets to fawn over with cuddles and free food while you get to skip your responsibilities, running through the lands and laughing at the playful games you all played.

It’s decided that it was the result of a side effect of a domain your boyfriend recently cleared and it wore off after 24 hours but to say you were glad that it was over would be a lie.

Albedo (snow leopard)

He is a menace especially since snow leopards thrive in colder climates and naturally blend in with snow means a full day of hide and seek on Dragonspine, chasing him around and watching him observe the dancing hillichurls.

‘Bedo is of course going to let Klee pet him and cuddle near a fire if it’s cold (you get priority too), pawing at the knee for attention or to continue combing through his soft thick fur and wiggling around to show his stomach for pets.

You’re going to have to keep an eye on him as the now cat alchemist is going to try to perform experiments on himself to figure how he got in this position and with his large paws he’ll give you his best cute eyes for your help, please say no his fur almost got dyed neon pink.

Kaeya is no doubt going to catch wind of the situation and tease him about gaining a new fur coat to replace his usual white one, casually speaking about how you’re suddenly available since your boyfriend is an oversized house cat.

The cavalry captain gets a snarl and small but fierce roar as he sees Albedo get in front of you and slowly move towards him, both of you don’t see kaeya for the rest of the day and your furry alchemist lover demands rubs.

By the end of the day there will be two sheets of papers with a charcoal paw print on it and a messily done heart, paper slightly shredded but you and Klee love his gift anyway.

Alhaitham (Madagascar day gecko)

Like Albedo is a menace and uses his new form to hide from you and play games but most importantly get info that he normally wouldn’t be able to get as he’s now an ordinary seeming gecko.

Most likely he’ll find you before you find him, climbing up your back with his padded toes and smirking (you think) at your confused scattered self.

Alhaitham can’t just go about his day as normal so he does have to rely on your help much to his disagreement, wandering through the stalls and purchasing fruits for you both.

All in all a very relaxing day for the scholar compared to what he’s used to and did have fun being able to be pretty much inconspicuous, playing “catch me if you can” with his significant other.

Amber (french lop bunny)

Probably has to do with Albedo or something she ran into while being an outrider but nonetheless loves it, finally she’s like her baron bunny and adorably fluffy.

Jean gives her the day off because there really isn’t anything Amber can do in her current state and she could get hurt, you end up having a fun day to yourselves and walking through Mondstadt in with bunny amber cuddled in your arms.

You can’t help but prepare a satisfying salad for her and you, sitting just outside the city and enjoying the wind brushing through Amber’s whiskers.

The way her cotton tail twitches when she’s excited or her high hops in tall grass chasing after you, every soft small part of her is too cute.

Ayaka (persian teacup kitty)

Thoma’s going to come up to you with a mixed expression of worry and awkwardness, his hands hiding a furry pale blue moving ball that unfurled to be a kitten and according to Thoma…your girlfriend.

You’re too busy cooing over her cute cat form to listen to what Thoma was saying besides her not being able to take care of her duties, entrusting you to take care of her and watch over Miss Kamisato.

Most of the day is in her room watching her struggle to walk and fall whenever she tries to stand on two legs, not only not being able to reach items because she’s a cat but she’s a teacup cat.

She does have to admit that you’re adorable from her point of view and you give the best scratches behind her ear while she’s laying on soft blankets and weaving between your legs.

Ayato (peacock)

This is one of the best and worst days for him because he gets a day off of work for a valid reason and he gets to show off how pretty is to you. Thoma and his sister cannot stop doubling over with laughter.

The lord is almost always puffed up and displaying his feathers for you to enjoy, following you around like it’s the only possible option and occasionally cawing to get your attention.

Several times Inazumans came up to you while you were running errands and warned you that there was a very large color bird “stalking” you, turning around to see your lover trying to impress you

It was very clear that this magnificent bird was Ayato Kamisato based on its attitude and coloring but how it happened….. who knows?

Beidou (Treeing walker Coonhound)

It’s quite a shock to see the captain of the Crux fleet basking and swimming in liyue harbor under the hot sun, perking up when her nose caught your scent and shook the water off her much to the crews displeasure.

There are a couple pros when you inevitably go to Ningguang to inform her of the situation and Beidou goes right to tackling the leader with tons of wet kisses and barks, looking back at you with what you swear is a smirk or cocky expression.

As a hound she gets so many snuggles from the children and elders but her enhanced hearing and smell allow her to find more illegal deals or goods being stolen and smuggled by treasurer hoarders (they can’t hardly believe that this dogs is somehow on Captain Beidou’s size till they see you and they bolt without the goods).

At the end of the day you and her are at the front of the ship, overlooking the lanterns decorating Liyue Harbor and having your girlfriend on your lap cuddled up close to you with her head nuzzled into your stomach.

Baizhu (ball python snake)

Since he’s already used to Changsheng being on him 24/7 Baizhu going to know what to do in order to keep himself alive until whatever this is wears off but until then you and Qiqi will have to help run Bubu Pharmacy, your lover coiled around your neck to help you like his own snake as Chengsheng is around Qiqi’s hat.

It isn’t a surprise that Baizhu is playful in his serpent form, racking his brain for when or how this could have happened when he’s normally so aware of his situations but chose to ignore the reason and press light kisses again.

You take breaks for both yourself and your new snake partner who Zhongli immediately recognises but chooses not to comment on while you order food from Wanmin restaurant, going just out of the city to find some some rodents for Baizhu to snack on and holding back a gag reflex when you saw the bulge in his coils.

Whenever it’s hot out his cold bloodedness comes in handy for both of you and trailing down your body to get herbs when you cannot find them, coming back to your arms before coiling around your wrist and dropping the herbs on the counter but not without giving you a nuzzle which gets a funny comment from the customer.

Candace (coyote)

It's unusual to wake up to a coyote instead of your girlfriend but weirder things have happened before strangely enough and both of you have work to do so you couldn’t just laze about and cuddle your new canine companions.

Although now being a coyote, she can cover the area surrounding Aaru village better and fast with four legs, using her intimidation as a fierce wild dog to scare away potential threats with her bared fangs and chasing them off.

You went to work and notified people that yes Candace is okay but she was called away by the Akademiya on a mission in the desert and to come to you with concerns until she was back.

Tiredly smiling when the sun hit the horizon and you saw her slip into the village, playing around with some children before heading to you and encouraging you to brush the grit out of her fur while sunbathing.

Neither of you knew what caused this but it ended the next morning and you both chalked it up to some strange harmless magic, laughing about the fun memories while you woke up and went about your day.

Cyno (death stalker scorpion)

He’s not going to even try come up with a logical reason for how this happened but does find it ironic and is happy that he’s now the most venomous scorpion in all of Teyvat but is now terrified that he’ll accidently sting you hence why when you wake up he’s on the opposite side of the room with a book on your desk open to his species.

Immediately going to find Alhaitham with your help and bug him, pure amusement filling his heart when his colleague glared at him and skittering closer with his tail threatening to sting him. An unspoken threat hangs in the air, the Mahamatra daring the Scribe to mock his jokes without consequence.

Cyno grows to enjoy his new form as he’s just as threatening as he was when he was human and even gets more confessions as he points his stinger at the criminals neck with another Matra coldly asking him to just confess already (you’d informed the Akademiya that Cyno had been turned into a scorpion which Nahida got a kick out of but did confirm the truth).

Late in the afternoon both of you were laying on a rock in Gandharva Ville with the sun warming up your boyfriend, Tighnari had just finished examining your lover and gaining some venom from the scorpion in order to work out an anti-venom just in case but left to two of you sleeping.

Dainsleif (fruit bat)

You rarely see Dainseif because of his constant traveling but he always seems to be there when you need him and stays for as long as he can before he slips away to take care of his personal issues.

Although through everything you’ve seen with Dainsleif this has to take cake, opening your window around midnight when you heard some taps and yelping when a bat flew into your bedroom.

Clinging to your shirt and looking up at you, key details being a half mask-like mark across his face and your boyfriend's signature star eyes stopping all words coming out of your mouth. Was this your lover? It couldn’t be- but who else looked like that. It couldn’t be a coincidence.

Welp now that all your plans were cancelled since your lover unexpectedly is here and now turned into a bat for some reason but nonetheless you sat with Dain hanging from your shoulder eating a juicy fruit you’d given him and looking at you with love filled eyes.

Dehya (Bengal Tiger)

Personally thinks this is an upgrade and takes advantage of it for as long as it lasts, giving you “puppy dog eyes” to explain to Rahman what’s happened but to let her continue her jobs with you as her translator (no way she’d allow any harm to come to you) and begrudgingly agreeing to let her go.

You make sure to pack up some water and snacks (having to go out and buy some food for your tiger girlfriend) so you are nourished during the journey, setting out with a happy oversized cat purring and rubbing against you with no care of the onlookers concerned or confused faces.

All of her work goes smoothly with you having to occasionally step in to explain what’s happened and her enemies not willing to fight an overgrown pyro infused tiger with only a simple weapon.

Evening is one of the best, both of you laying down in front of the fire and stroking the big cat that’s smothering you with wet kisses, chuffing while nudging her head against your hand as you take another piece of fruit for yourself and some grilled meat for her.

Diluc (red tailed hawk)

Usually you woke up to your fire haired lover’s tight grip on your waist before he’d kiss your head and sneak off to get ready for his busy day but today you awoke to a soft chirp and light nips to your cheek by a red tailed hawk. Strangely it wasn’t freaking out externally but tried to get more comfortable next to you as you just froze in shock and looked around the room for your lover or some explanation of what’s going on.

Your feathery friend flew over to a pile of Diluc’s uniform and dropped his glove and vision in your lap, picking up the edge of the glove with its beak and trying to slip the glove over its talon. Its scarlet eyes desperately looking at you with some sort of desire only known to it and causing your thoughts to wander to how similar the bird and him were.

Eventually accepting that your boyfriend was now a bird for an unspecified period of time and calling in Adelinde to explain the situation in order to cancel or reschedule any business meetings. You carded your fingers through Diluc’s red feathers who was now on your shoulder observing the view from outside the Winery and flew out to one of the rows of grapes, picking off one with his talons and eating it with a content coo.

Both of you did have to go into Mondstat to take care of Angel’s Share where Venti cackled upon seeing the famous intimidating bartender and Kaeya was a bit more snarky fully aware of the damage the hawk could inflict. But the aerial view of the city when he would fly around the cathedral was breathtaking to say the least and he wished more than anything to share this view with you, swooping down to you as you came to the base of Barbatos’s statue with to chicken skewers smiling up at him and offering him some dinner from Good Hunter.

Il Dottore (blue ringed octopus)

As far as you know this was probably his doing because frankly it seems like it was something he’d do just for kicks and it was another new accomplishment he could brag about but apparently something went awry when the fatui agent directly under his command came running to get you.

You were about to be handed an octopus but ripped your hands away when you realized the species of cephalopod to be the highly venomous blue ringed octopus which your lover often raved about and nearly yelled at the agent for attempting to kill you before the tiny sea creature pointed an arm towards a note on the doctor’s table.

After reading the note that basically said Dottore maybe fucked up by adding a chemical he wasn’t supposed to into his recent already unstable concoction and that you had to take care of him until the effects wore off in about 24 hours.

The rest of the day was pretty relaxing given you had to carry around a full container of water that your lover resided in. It was eventful with you occasionally slipping him bits of fish and having him climb up your arm to your shoulder to watch the world from your view compared to his small one.

Gorou (Shiba)

General Gorou personally doesn’t like this new development because some people (Yae Miko) already saw him as part dog despite various attempts of him doing everything he could to just get others to ignore his canine features.

So when he woke up one morning feeling a bit smaller than usual and went to rub his face but saw paws instead of his hand, freaking out and immediately turning over to wake you up but only getting out scared barks or whines.

After almost an hour of calming Gorou down with the help of Kokomi who agreed that until your boyfriend was back to normal he wouldn't be allowed to do any work as general.

Well Gorou wasn’t happy with the situation but he came around to liking it when he realized that he get’s to spend all of his time with you it clicked and eagerly asked for more cuddles now that you could both sleep in until lunch.

Heizou (ferret)

Chaos. I don’t feel like I need to say anything else if you know what ferrets are generally like and if you don’t then please look it up it’s hilarious (also fits Heizou’s personality to a T), but better pray for the Tenryou Commission when he wakes up and get ASAP before Sara breaks her “No killing Heizou under any circumstances” rule.

This boy is so slippery even when he’s human but loves to run around you while climbing you up and down as he gives playful kisses on your face, not to mention his coat is gorgeous with bits of tanish brown mixed with stripes of vibrant red and gold along his fur.

It’s going to take more than one person if they want to get him off of you, trying not to touch you in the wrong places as the guard attempts to get Heizou out from your clothes and even if they’re successful the detective is going to nip at them so he can further secure himself around your neck.

You do love it when he’s peaceful, eating bits of fruits or grilled meat from your hand and nuzzling her soft cute face into your cheek (Heizou is going to make it up to you for all the trouble he caused later with cuddles).

Itto (bull)

Please help this man or bull who woke up so frightened that he wasn’t an Oni anymore that he crashed through a wall of your house and it took the entire gang, including both shinobu and you with the threat of Kujou Sara to get him to stop rampaging.

Also in this I imagine that he’s not Ushi sized but full on bull sized but with his signature red horns and red marking colored in his black/grey fur.

It’s going to take more than a couple minutes to tell him what’s going on (Sara already has Heizou trying to figure out what happened) but afterwards finds it pretty cool and naturally offers local Inazuman kids a ride.

You ensure them it’s safe with you going on him as well and the entire day is filled with the laughs of kids thanking their favorite Oni for bull rides, whispering comments to you about your lover’s protectiveness whenever another person gets a bit too close for comfort (like anyone would want to face off against an angry bull).

Kaeya (peacock)

This man is already cocky but now as he’s a bird know for being gorgeous and pretty, will not stop preening himself or looking for some way to impress you.

Each of his feathers has his signature star eye instead of it’s normal colors on his plumage which doesn’t take long to put two and two together, calming yourself down and laughing at your lover’s attempt to console you by perching himself on your lap (encouraging you to use his soft feather to distract yourself).

Both of you silently agree that it’d cause way more of an issue if you went out with an unusually colored peacock of all things (something not native to Mondstadt) and stayed home, sneaking out to walk among the gardens at twilight and admire the luminescent moon lighting up the path.

Kazuha (yellow ragdoll cat)

Such a good kitty he is, doesn’t panic upon realizing his new form but does have some concerns and atm he can’t do anything so he might as well relax with you until you start your day which doesn’t take long.

He’s so adorably cute and you cannot help yourself when you sweep him up in your arms, your lover is happily purring and swiping his paw over the signature red streak to hopefully clue you in. Luckily you took it well with minor panic but ultimately hoped it’d wear off after a day or so and scratched his head as you strolled through Inazuma City.

Many people flock to you and ask to pet your “cat”, commenting on his red streak and cooing at him whenever he walks around on your shoulders purring.

The samurai naturally attracts cats, so expect to be followed by a herd of cats which isn’t bad because they’re all so fluffy and Kazuha would rather nap on you when you’re basking in the sun which leads to a cuddle pile.

Kokomi (full moon betta fish)

Honestly how either of you got into this scenario is a mystery but needless to say it involved a very worried and concerned general Gorou cradling a small glass bowl with a beautiful pink and purple white full moon betta fish.

Most of the day was spent carefully resting in Kokomi’s room in order to avoid any soldiers in case they came looking when Gorou informed the resistance that her excellency wasn’t feeling well which wasn’t technically a lie although your girlfriend tried to convey that she wanted to go outside and swim in some shallow pools.

The happiness you could feel coming off her in waves as she excitedly swam among the shores of Watatsumi Island and fluttered about in between your legs when you walked in the water beside her.

Soon or later you ran with her in her bowl trying to escape Gorou for yelling at you for “endangering” Kokomi and understanding you’re her significant other but that doesn’t mean you get to steal her away (your girlfriend begged to differ).

Layla (sloth)

It fits her very well mostly due to how cute she is and her clinginess whenever she’s asleep, waking up one morning to feel a tight grasp on your waist and being a bit frightened to see a small icy blue sloth peacefully sleeping on your stomach.

You looked around to see your girlfriend’s signature star head accessory sitting atop their head, having heard to the Akademiya’s recent mess you’d believe pretty much anything and your Layla being an adorable sloth was not your life until the foreseeable future.

After locking the door so she couldn’t do any of her work (not like she could anyway), you went out to the nearby markets to get some breakfast and kept her close to you, her arms now wrapped around your neck and happily stared at your focused expressions.

Upon her request (really just her pointing at the House of Daena repeatedly) you went into the library and checked out some books in a small corner to her joy, cooing at her cute form and running your hands through her fur which she seemed to like).

Lisa (fine haired Persian cat)

You were in the library petting a gorgeous Persian lavender cat when the Acting Grandmaster bust into the room frantically asking if you knew where Lisa was and yelling that someone went wrong when the librarian as helping Albedo out with a recent experiment only to see you with the cat happily purring on your lap. “Oh good you found her.”

Obviously after the explanation that your lover had been accidently turned into a cat you couldn’t help but coo at her more than you did before you knew and cozy up in a faraway section of the library with some pillows and take a nap among the many books lining the shelves.

Napping away when the sun warmed both of you up and groaning when she pawed your face with her little fuzzy mittens, yawning as you got up to get food for both of you at good hunter and brought her back to your little pillow nest.

Lumine (cream tabby cat)

Just like Aether you woke up to a sound you hadn’t heard in a while which was a very friendly pale yellow tabby cat sleeping on your chest whose eyes fluttered as you began to fully wake up and nudged your cheek affectionately.

It didn’t take a genius to realize somehow that the traveler had somehow turned into a cat and until further knowledge so you had no choice but to care for your girlfriend, who was happily getting a lot of attention from you.

Your companions found this very amusing and Paimon did occasionally laugh at the way the traveler plays with the leaf being tossed about in the wind but quickly shuts up when she tries to take a swipe at Paimon.

There isn’t an hour where you and her aren’t connected in some way and Lumine often naps on top of your shoulders as you go about your day doing your chores, chuckling to yourself at the content purring kitty sleeping on around your neck.

Nahida (butterfly)

A/N: this can be read as either platonic or familial love

It’s not going to be easy to find her but she’ll let you know very easily via a dream and she archon magic, flapping her gorgeous green and white wings all around you while dropping small flowers on you.

Nahida is definitely going to need some help when it comes to eating and you can definitely hear phantom giggles as you cut into a slide of zaytun peach, biting into one yourself and lifting it to your shoulder where the dendro archon is perched.

There is no doubt that she’s going to lead to to the Aranara Village, introducing you to all her friends who without a doubt both know it’s her and adore you (many flower crowns were made for you that day and you brought all of them home).

You can tell just by how Nahida acts (even if it’s just flying about) that she’s happy to have another form of freedom where she doesn’t have to be Sumeru’s archon and just have fun, gliding from flower to flower that just seem to reach towards her every time she passes them.

Pantalone (arabian horse)

All you woke up to really loud noises and a bunch of whining which scared you awake and nearly screamed when you saw a fully grown black stallion worriedly pacing around the room, quickly backing yourself against the headboard and rapidly looking around for your lover but calling out his name.

To your surprise the horse looks your way and something in his eyes softens before stopping to a halt, nudging something towards you that was knocked onto the floor and picking it up to see it was Pantalone’s slightly cracked glasses.

No explanation could be given but you did have a very amusing time trying to get him out of the house without damaging or breaking anything, but the harbinger got back at you by sweeping you up on his back and galloping across the snowy fields.

You could vaguely hear happy winnies whenever you yelped or shrieked from the fast pace he was setting and would use his head to nudge you back onto his back. Anyone could tell that this horse was very prideful about its handsome appearance and you couldn’t deny it.

Raiden Shogun (Jaguar)

Needless to say walking back into your shared room only to see a violet patterned jaguar was enough to get you to call out to nearby guards and your breath fell short when you got the big cats attention, freezing in place as you slowly backed up and dropped the desserts had bought for you both.

You didn’t even have to run because it easily smelled the sweets and laid down to munch of them, nudging one toward you and watching you keenly with her tail swishing idly behind her; of course that’s when the guards came in and pushed you behind them in order to stop you from being harmed.

After a long accident involving the cat hissing at the guards and keeping you behind her, lifting her chest to show an exact copy of the symbol the archon had and sparks of lightning emanating from her paws marking up the matted floors. The message was clear that this was somehow their archon and didn't touch what’s important to her, without hesitation Yae Miko was called.

Ei was so much more calm when they left, you could feel that she was overall done with everyone and just wanted to relax with you (which you both did), escaping away to the secret garden where you hid among some flowers and napped with your lover now a jaguar purring quite happily.

Kunikuzushi/Wanderer (black ragdoll cat)

Nahida called urgently called you to the Sanctuary of Surasthana because something worrisome had happened involving the wanderer and to not panic because it wasn’t too bad, the situation you got only increased your anxiety when you ran in through the doors only to hear the archon’s voice yelling to “Close the door before he gets out!” and briefly seeing a black puff ball scurrying towards you while hissing.

The obsidian ragdoll cat uses you as a shield as he angrily hisses and takes swipes at Kusanali who is clearly having a lot of fun although it seems very stressful, thanking you and scolding the cat who she calls “Wanderer” for trying to escape when someone was trying to help him (you do a double take at that).

She explains that she doesn’t have an explanation but roughly knows what happened and most likely angered some Aranara who specialized in illusion magic to which you try and pay attention to her however your eyes haven’t left your lover’s pale indigo ones.

You go to pick him up (he strangely gave you a onceover before jumping onto your chest without warning) and nearly fell while glaring at him annoyed with his actions, the anemo user only squirmed in your arms to get more comfortable and blinked up at you once settled with false innocent eyes that you were all too familiar with.

Thankfully it was raining so even if he did get out he wouldn’t get far, so begrudgingly agreed to stay at the Sanctuary until he changed back and (much to his embarrassment) started purring when you pet him right behind the ears, looking around to double check if the damned archon was around before allowing himself to relax and wind his tail around your hand lovingly.

Shenhe (red crowned crane)

For sure is going to wake up confused and curious, pecking you awake as softly as she can and nudging you with her head to try to get you up.

At first you thought that she was Cloud Retainer and freaked out, scrambling out of bed and brushing the invisible dirt off your clothes to greet her correctly.

Upon noticing that it was your girlfriend, you chose to ask Cloud Retainer herself who also didn’t know what was going on but assured you it was temporary.

Shenhe flew across the lakes, freezing the water in spiral patterns and landing gracefully on the ice to invite you over to skate.

Tartaglia (red fox)

Him and Heizou have something in common and it’s still being able to cause mass amounts of chaos despite being non human, the entire day will be spent chasing him around while you try to clean up the messes he “accidently” causes.

No doubt one of his antics is going to be finding Zhongli and being playful but just tolerable enough to not be thrown into Liyue harbor, squealing and gekkering when Hu Tao came up to ruffle his tangled fur.

By mid afternoon you’d given up searching for your boyfriend and gone to sit by the harbor, swinging your legs off the dock and feeling a certain soft fox cuddle his way under your arms as an apology.

Thoma (Shiba)

You’re called over by the Kamisato siblings who were trying their best to keep it together and hold in their laughter while they led you to a room containing a dog that looked suspiciously like Taroumaru, noticing that he wore your lover's black metal headband and similar happy go lucky smile.

The two explained that somehow Thoma had been transformed into a shiba when they came to check in on him when he hadn’t said good morning and the only idea they had was to get you so no one else found out, asking you to watch over him until either of them found out a way to turn him back.

Thoma who’d been contently laying in your lap and snuggling against the hand petting him perked up at that sentences, barely able to contain his barks of excitement and running circles around you.

It was rare that the housekeeper got a day off and this was a strange incident but he’d take it, leaving you to chase after him through the city and coming back with some food a chef had given him because of his cuteness.

Tighnari (fennec fox)

There’s really nothing different except for the lack of control, short height, people cooing over him- yeah he officially hates it and scampers off into the Avidya forest to continue his duties. Even if he’s now an actual fennec fox instead of just being a hybrid like he was previously, a small hiccup isn’t going to stop him no matter how much Collei pleaded.

He is shocked that you instantly know who he is based on his various shades of green and blue coat coloring (not missing the hint of pink on his ears and nose) and hazel curious eyes, looking around before jumping into your arms and silently pleading for you to hide him.

You do manage to convince him to take a walk through the forest towards a small river runs and sweet Zaytun Peaches, mint, and Harra fruit grow; biting into one of them and savoring its sweet flavor before offering the other to Tighnari who happily took it.

He gives you the best privilege you could ever have and it’s cuddling him as a fox, it isn’t surprising you fall asleep with your boyfriend in your arms who is slowly falling victim to fatigue as well (he didn’t notice Collei peaked through the door and took a picture for later).

Venti (Mocking Bird)

Like Tighnari, the archon is already like a bird so it doesn’t affect him so much until you and Diluc tell him that he can’t drink any alcohol cause it might kill him in this form and he’s not going to chance leaving you behind in this world (although the face the red head made after you were finally able to convince him the bird was Venti was pure gold).

Your boyfriend never leaves your side and is able to hear all the songs that he can make as a mocking bird, including anything he overhears from anyone else and being able to mimic it completely.

He spends most of his time nested in your hair and showing off his beautiful feather pattern to his beloved, green and blue swirls painted on his brown and white wings (a small Anemo symbol placed on his chest).

Windrise’s massive oak tree provides lots of shade and roots for sitting on as you sit against the bark as Venti flutters about in the air joyously, occasionally stopping and giving you a love peck while he picks up some diced apple with his beak to nice.

Xiao (Blue-backed Manakin)

Takes the whole “fierce harsh warrior” and turns it on its head as he tries to figure out if this new form is because of his karma or just the world laughing at him, overall is very grumpy and does his best to avoid you knowing you’ll coo over his new bird form.

Light but harsh repeated pecking against glass gets your attention and you see a small bluish black manakin bird perched on the window sill trying to get out but freezing when they lock eyes with you.

You recognise the purple triangle that your lover has tattooed on his forehead and remember something he had mentioned about his previous form being a bird, putting the two together and scooping him into your hands; five minutes later both you are on the same page and will later see Zhongli for help but for now you’re okay with some snuggles after some puppy eyes (which Xiao knows he can’t stand strong against).

When the time finally arrives to find the ex-geo archon, Xiao finds a comfy stop nestled on top of your head (bonus point that he can also keep in contact with you and lookout) and does unconsciously let out small chirps when you nuzzle his chest or mention how beautiful his feathers are (which you wish could keep one and luckily enough are gifted one by him as your arrive in Liyue).

Yae Miko (arctic fox)

The Guiji does change into her fox form on occasion and when you’re at your lowest in need of comfort but never out in public where others can see her but something must have gone wrong because now she can’t transform back into her human form which alarms both her and you.

Doesn’t let anyone see her and curls up in her room as she tries to figure out what happened however you manage to sneak into her room, using your puppy dog eyes to your advantage.

Yelan (Black widow spider)

Something was scattering across your face and opening your eyes to see a larger than normal black widow spider to which your reaction was to scream in fear, throwing the spider to the other side of your room and desperately checking your face for bites while grabbing a big book on the shelf next to you.

When you turned back the arachnid was busy using it’s webbing to write something on the floor, quirking your head so didn’t have to move but you could see and becoming genuinely shocked at the sight of your lovers name being written in blue glowing silk (it’s artist looking up at you with all 8 eyes).

It took a lot of patience but you came to accept the fact that your fiersome girlfriend was now one of the most venomous spiders in all of Teyvat until you could change Yelan back but you’d make the most of it and she’d weave complex designs out of her webbing for you.

Another perk was that the hydro user could now gather intel more easily because of her new form and much to your dismay she crept out of the house to continue on her recent mission but just before midnight you felt a soft cloth brush against your face (Yelan had made herself a little bed on the headboard).

Zhongli (standard bearded dragon)

Generally alright with his new form but isn’t happy that he can’t drink tea anymore whenever he tries which only ends in your holding all of his tea hostage for fear of what it’d do based to his reptile body and Zhongli with his now obsidian black beard rather than the normal beige.

He does enjoy basking in the Liyue sun that beats down on a roof he’s taken a liking to after giving you a slip and flattens himself out into (as you like to call it) “pancake mode” to best enjoy the sun’s heat.

Hu Tao upon hearing why he can’t come to work cannot stop laughing and taking photos via her Kamera but lets you both off until a solution appears.

The day consists of you with your lover on your shoulder and walking around the plains of Liyue, more than once does he speed off to investigate a commotion and finds out he is very fast on all fours.

[tangyangie]

𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 °❆⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

desc. their favorite winter activities.

notes. i wanted to wait to post this when it was snowy outside for me but that never came because it never snows anymore sobbing !!!1!11!!1!

anyways this is like a modern-ish au... i guess??

snowball pelters. as soon as you step outside, you're getting a load of freshly balled up snow—the powder having been turned into an extremely dense sphere—straight to your face. if that's not enough, you'll get some down your back, too. oh, how they just love to see your face cringe out of frigidity, squeezing your eyes shut and mouth so eager to speak, yet being unable to get a single word out. they'll laugh with no shame and taunt you, so your only choice is to take a snow shovel and bury them. see how confident they are then, being completely submerged in the white powder. they'll curse you under their breath (lovingly) and follow you around all day, refusing to not torment you by tossing messily made snowballs at you.

yelan, HU TAO, yae miko, WANDERER, heizou, cyno, TARTAGLIA, faruzan, eula, beidou, xinyan

snowman makers. they are the most adorable beings you'll ever see. so concentrated on getting the proportions of the snowmen right, even if they're not the best at it. they look at others' snowmen and get concerned that their own may be a little... unsteady. meaning, the head was too large for the body and was constantly falling over and destroying itself. with a frown, they'd be determined to get it back up on their own, (politely) refusing help. once they get the snowman to hold up long enough for them to go find some sticks, you'd fix it up for them. taking a little bit of snow off the top, adding it to the lower half, and reinforcing the bottom with some rocks covered in snow. once they come back with arms for the snowman, you innocently smile, sitting down in the snow as they eye you suspiciously, but smile and pat you on the head. do they know? ...you can't be sure.

XIAO, gorou, furina, kazuha, KOKOMI, albedo, collei, shenhe, ayaka, TIGHNARI, nilou, ganyu

hot chocolate drinkers. they cozily sit inside, watching their favorite re-runs as they sit on the couch. they watch the people freezing outside with a smug look, lazing around and doing absolutely nothing, wrapped in the largest blankets they could find. this is their... fourth? fifth cup of cocoa, and the bag of mini marshmallows they take from is quickly shrinking. honestly, they feel like a teddy bear with how warm they are. you've got no clue how they're not sweating and dying from the heat. their smirk makes you want to toss them out into the snow and watch them suffer, but they suffer enough when they accidentally spill burning hot cocoa on themselves.

lumine, LYNETTE, venti, kaveh, KIRARA, yoimiya, aether, ayato, MONA, xingqiu, lisa, yanfei

driveway shovelers. they are stuck outside all day, working on clearing the asphalt of snow. it's almost hopeless—the snow doesn't stop, so any of the driveway that gets cleared is covered again in only minutes (it's so tired...) and all that you're left with is someone who's extremely close to face-planting in the snow. honestly, they're probably hoping to get hypothermia—at least it'll put them out of their misery. but them, being the hard workers that they are, miraculously manage to finish shoveling, and join the hot chocolate drinkers after their time in hell, collapsing on the couch (and probably falling asleep).

DILUC, wriothseley, neuvillette, dehya, JEAN, keqing, CANDACE, zhongli, thoma, shinobu, noelle, mika

hill sledders. they'll bust through the door at the first speck of light, holding anything that they could safely use as a sled. honestly, they would sled on a shoveled pile of snow if there wasn't a hill, but they're determined to find a good place to sled. so, they'll drag you along, running around until you can spot some type of slope that'll get you faster than 1 inch per second. once you do, they're so excited they'd probably forget the sled on the way up. so, you're stranded at the top while they carefully slide back down to retrieve the sled. by the time they get back to the top, you're already unimpressed, but they manage to cheer you up. they sit you on the sled and push you down, hopping behind you and holding you tight. cause if they weren't, you probably would've been found sticking out of the nearby heaps of snow.

amber, NAVIA, lyney, fischl, ITTO, charlotte, xiangling, bennett (crashes into a tree), kaeya

sleepers. exactly what is sounds like. they will be BURIED in bed all day. not even a fire alarm will be loud enough to wake them up—they are completely knocked out. honestly, they wouldn't even realize it. they were just so cold when they woke up in the morning, so they didn't even bother to leave. they instantly fall back asleep, so the only way to wake them up is leaving them until they thaw in the snow.

ei, baizhu, chongyun, ROSARIA, alhaitham, ningguang, sucrose, LAYLA, freminet

notes. ngl winter would be the best season if it wasn't so damn cold 🤗🤗 it's soooo pretty IF IT SNOWS

also listened to beabadoobee's cover of winter wonderland at least 30 times today so go do that please

and i have never gone sledding before actually so if it sounds like that "𝖘𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖊𝖟𝖊 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖑𝖊𝖌𝖘 𝖙𝖔 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖗𝖍𝖞𝖙𝖍𝖒 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖘𝖊" thing i'm so so so sorry

[life-is-unreal]

Stranger Danger~ {Genshin Impact x reader} Chapter 1-5 (non teyvat chapters)

0.5- Note from the Author

*Hiiii :))) <3. This is my first fanfic so please don't judge it. Some bits are a bit cringe (SRRY!!!), you will be referred as Y/N and You. The MC will be a female so if you're not, just read it as a he/his. Btw, this story is a bit of a chat fic (Idk the proper name) but don't worry as it's mainly normal. (My grammar sucks so sorry in advance).

*this is my work from wattpad :D I'm not gonna post the OC descript or any images. Skip directly to Teyvat chapters if you wish :D

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Chapter 1 - The Crimson Witch

Italic- thoughts

No! Please. Please wake up! Barbatos...please save him. I beg you...

"Rostam... Look at me, open your eyes. Please, it's over..."

You twiddled your fingers as you stared at Rosalyne strangely from a distance. It's such a pity that she died in Inazuma. Everything wants to kill you in that place, how the hell do people survive there? "Barbatos, I beg you." The woman sobbed, crumbling beside her lover.

"Miss Rosalyne, we've already checked his pulse. It's not there." Wrong move mister, wrong move. Her tear-filled eyes met with the knight's eyes. "Where is Barbatos? Surely he can save him?" She was met by the cold silence. You marveled at her from a random knocked-down barrel, the breeze mixed with blood and swayed her hair as she kneeled amongst the battlefield beside her lover. Her scholar uniform was stained with blood from interactions with dead bodies.

"Where is Arundolyn? Bring me to him!" She screamed. "Miss Rosalyne, he's severely wounded-" Rosalyne screamed even louder, clutching her head. She's deranged in a beautiful way. "No. Why? Why!" She whispered brokenly. You shifted your spot slightly, you could already feel small heat waves coming off from her. "She's going to go crazy soon." You muttered, checking your phone. Ah, Shit. No battery "When the hell is that portal going to pop out again?" you grumbled. It's been quite a few days since you've been in Teyvat. You literally had to save up your battery and camp outside. "I literally didn't finish my homework." After she gets batshit crazy, she's gonna ruin Monstadt, set it on flames, and get recruited by Pierro. I wonder if Khaenri'ahn's descendants are still chilling around. I mean some of them definitely survived. Meeting them would be cool, like imagine if I met Rhinedottir. And imagine if Lumine or Aether has already become the Abyss prince or princess.

"Who are you?" You yelped from shock as you felt some hair touching your skin. "Uh, Hi?" You gulped as you looked down to your feet. The knights were all tidying up the bodies and cleaning up so nobody noticed Rosalyne moving to you. Rosalyne's eyes narrowed, looking you up and down.

"Um, my name's Y/N." you giggled awkwardly. Her aura was still unbearing, "Rosalyne. Girl, chill. It's not exactly Ven- I mean Barbatos's fault since he was like, asleep during the cataclysm. As for the knights of Favonius and Arundolyn, well Rostam and the Grandmaster lead the war so you can't blame Arundolyn, and I mean a lot of knights died. Plus, I'm pretty damn sure that your lover wouldn't be really happy if you went batshit crazy due to him dying. And like if you wanna have your vengeance or something like that to the knights or citizens- well, I mean he died protecting them so uh yea."

Rosalyne opened her mouth confused. You took notice of this and babbled random things out, "And um, if you see random suspicious people coming up to you to join their cult refuse 'kay? They might like use you or something. Oh, and um, have some candy." You quickly shoved a bag of candy into her hands. My favourite lollipops. You sniffled slightly.

The woman's eyes shot open wide as she stared at you alarmed. "Bro you good? Oh wait, damn I'm disappearing. Wait that's fucking cool." Yup, you were dissipating right in front of your very own eyes.

Long after you disappeared, the platinum blonde finally reacted, "Y/N?" she muttered. Weird name. "I...didn't tell you my name. Barbatos? Asleep? He's indeed unqualified as an archon then, and those warnings...they're oddly specific but of course. Why would I listen to a random stranger who's been stalking me?"

The first thing that you did was to charge your phone. That random ass boar almost stomped on it. And fuck, I'm starving. You were literally living off the kindness of Monstadt citizens like you can fight but a visionless person in Teyvat can't really survive in the wild like you're pretty damn sure some random slime could kill you if it wanted to. They're so damn cute thooo.

A small noise captured your attention as your phone gained one single percentage of power. "Holy shit, it's only been a minute." You gaped at the widgets in amazement. I was there for a week or longer and damn.

After lying down and procrastinating for a long long time on your bed you decided to do your homework. Wtf is this. The hell am I going to do a 60-question paper. Oh, wait, I've got friends.

"Yooooo guys." You were met with two very disgruntled teens. Yvonne sighed, "Girl, it's bloody 12:35, what do you want? Credit card number? Cheque?"

"That's very tempting but I need the answers for the math assignment."

"Wait what." "What."

Yeleris raised a brow. How tf do you raise a brow? "You're supposed to be the smart one here. I was depending on you to do your homework so I could copy it. But then, I don't see why you and I should care since we're still going to get at least an A with our grades so far."

Yvonne gaped, "WDYM THERE'S A MATH ASSIGNMENT?!"

You sighed, "We're fucked if we don't do this, it's like 20% of our grades and I'm pretty sure Yvonne's gonna fail since she skipped like 20 classes alone this term. AND Yeleris, we all know that you're a genius at Science and that includes Physics which is literally Math but with weird ass words."

"Okay, I actually agree with that."

"I DON'T WANNA FAIL!"

"Weeeeell, you wouldn't have to worry 'bout this if you spent less time on shopping sprees and skipping class to do random stuff."

"YELERIS! That's mean."

"Achoo! Damn it, who's cursing me at 12 am in the morning jeez."

Chapter 2 - Wow, a pretty lady

Hello, my name is Skirk.

The rain was absolutely deafening, a black rain signal had already been issued the day before. You loved rainy days, there's no school when the black rain signal is issued. But then, here you are, under a tree for absolutely no reason.

"Where the hell am I?" You gaped at the grassy fields and scorching sun.

You quickly took notice of a teleport waypoint next to you. "Isn't only the traveler able to use this?" Yup. The waypoint was blue even though you definitely did not touch it.

After scanning the area multiple times to make sure that there weren't slimes or hilichurls you finally sat down. You almost got suffocated to death by a hydro slime, if you were a character, you're definitely going to be a level 1 character with the worst stats possible. 

It's literally so unfair, like a slime could kill you and they're like the most harmless and cute things ever in the game. Except for the geo slimes, they're hard to kill.

"Holy motherf- ARGH." A fucking boar was charging at full speed and the target was you. "WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU COME FROM?"

After climbing up a tree and killing the boar by throwing random stuff that you could find, you decided to stay exactly where you were. Why? Simple, you could literally see two pyro whopperflowers and a horde of geo hatchlings. Like hell you're coming down the tree.

Why the fuck are they coming closer?! Oh wait shit, they want the fucking boar. Don't look up. Dontlookup. Dontlookup. Oh fuck. As if on cue, one of the whopper flowers noticed you. "Oh hell no."

"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!" You clung desperately to the tree as it started to shake. The whopperflowers were literally burning the tree down and the wretched geo hatchlings were pummelling at the tree.

To your horror, the relentless attacks finally made the tree give out as it fell down, crushing you under it. Immediately, you screamed in pain. "What the hell did I do to y'all?"

Something that you didn't notice was that their attacks stopped the moment you fell to the ground. Suddenly, a shriek interrupted the silence. You whipped your head around, just to see the cryo whopperflower absolutely obliterating the pyro whopperflower. I thought the pyro whopperflowers were the strongest. You looked to your left after hearing screeches and it was chaos. 

The hatchlings were killing each other, you saw one of them tearing the other's scale and pulling its eyeballs out brutally. A few minutes ago, they were cooperating to destroy the tree and now they're committing amicicide.

"Holy shit." Although you usually refrain from swearing, this scene made you quite disgusted. They're literally tearing limbs and organs down. You attempted to get the branches off you. "How is a tiny thin tree so bloody heavy?" You sighed, throwing your head up. Holy- "WHEN DID YOU GET HERE?"

 Above you, inches away from your forehead was the cryo whopperflower. Seeing that it made no move to attack you, you decided to do the dumbest thing in your life. 

You cleared your voice and decided to ask in the babiest, honey covered words that disgusted you that such a sickenly sweet voice could come out of you. "Whopperflower dearie, will you pretty please help me to lift this tree?"

Why the fuck did I just say that. You closed your eyes in dread. I dug my own grave, Yvonne would literally laugh her ass off if she was here.

"Krrr. Krrr." Huh? You hesitantly opened your eyes and to your surprise, the whopperflower was subdividing the tree and it looked quite happy. You stood up slowly, noticing how something slimy stuck onto your shoe. That whopperflower -. 

Under your shoe was a dead geo hatchling with icicles imbedded so deep into his impenetrable skin that its scales were cracked and on the verge of peeling, and a few meters away were more geo hatchlings stacked up on each other, some disfigured, some with their organs spilling out and some with their bodies frozen or charred. Next to it was a pyro whopperflower, unlike the others, it was still alive.

It slowly hopped to it's feet- roots weakly. "Krr." The cryo whopperflower's eyes narrowed, shooting icicles towards it. The pyro whopperflower ignored it's half frozen petals and continued to nudge forward until it finally reached you.

"Uh, hi." The cryo whopperflower blocked your view as it growled menacingly at it.

"Yo chill. It's not trying to attack me." You seemed to finally accept the actions of the weird whopperflower as it slowly snuggled into your arms. To your amazement, the whopperflower began to heal almost immediately after touching your arms, only leaving a few minor injuries.OMG.IT'S SO CUTE AND WARM. Oh wait, it's still injured. 

You glanced at the cryo whopperflower. "Help me take out the bandage in my bag please." Begrudgingly, the creature fumbled with the zippers and took out the white bandages, slowly wrapping it around the head of the whopperflower.

Suddenly, both whopperflowers got into a defensive stance as they blocked your view once again.

"How interesting."

A girl slowly approached you. "They seem pretty protective don't you think so?" She giving me HSR vibes.

She grinned, her smile not matching her youthful face and lifeless eyes. "Sorry for not introducing myself. Let's start from the beginning. Hello, my name is Skirk."

You gently nudged the whopperflowers away. "Nice to meet you, my name's Y/N."

The name was weirdly familiar and you were pretty sure you've seen her before. "So you saw everything?" You asked, bending down and tearing a jagged scale from the ground. The girl giggled at your horrible choice of weapon. A sword materialized in her hand as she played with it. "You mean... The scene where you're clinging on the tree for dear life and screaming incoherent, inappropriate words? And then falling down from the tree?" She snickered, walking closer and leaning down to your face, watching your ears turn pink. "Then yes, I saw all of that."

She began to shoo the whopperflowers away. "I'm not going to kill some random stranger. So let me talk with her." Skirk then reached out to pull your body up to a standing position. Damn, she's taller than me. "You don't seem to look like someone from Liyue."

You inspected your clothes. Uh-huh, a hoodie and a skirt. To them, I'm wearing stuff even weirder than the traveler. "I'm an adventurer." She probably knows I'm already lying but I've got two whopperflowers that killed a horde of geo hatchlings.

"I'm just an apprentice that's in Liyue in search of some geohatchlings and I was about to take these until the cryo whopperflower killed all of them." She sighed, "You wouldn't mind if I took these would you? Don't fret, I'll exchange something in return." So basically, I'm getting something for free. "Do you have any uh, weapons?" You bit your lip. Yes, you couldn't fight anything to save your life but having a weapon was still better then fighting with absolutely nothing.

Skirk looked taken aback. "You don't know how to fight?" She asked incredously. "Yeah? Is it not normal." She blinked, "Everyone is taught to fight, some people even start from as young as four!" So, I'm weaker than a toddler. Damn. "I- You know what, I'll give you a catalyst completely free of charge since you absolutely have zero fighting skills. Now pick something else before I make up my mind."

Sugarmommy vibes.

In the end, you got a catalyst, an electro crystal and a bag that had infinite capacity.

Skirk left a few minutes ago to go aboard a ship to snezhnaya, saying something about meeting her apprentice. So now you were all alone with two very worried whopperflowers. 

"Krrrrr. Krr." The two of them circled around you, lifting your arms to see if Skirk had harmed you. I wanna keep them so bad. "I have to leave anytime soon man." They deflated almost immediately, their petals drooping down. I'm feeling so bad now. Please don't do this to me man. 

You cleared your throat. "Okay, listen up. I don't know when I'll come back and where. It could be hundreds of years or tomorrow but if you see me, ya'll can have my hairbands so tie them around your petal or something and I'll know that it's you ok? I'm pretty sure you guys respawn every now and then so it'll be ok." They perked up and began to tie their petals with your smiley face hairbands. Why they look so cute with it.

"Now come and watch the sunset with me."

Chapter 3 - Text Buddies

(very short chapter)

Approximately 13 minutes ago, you decided to do the Fontaine Archon quest since you completely forgot about it until you remembered that Skirk seemed to have her debut somewhere in there.

Picture your shocked face when you saw the way that Skirk casually yeeted Childe into some random portal.

Considering that she mentioned that Childe's her apprentice, she went to Snezhnaya to visit Childe, and considering that she looked like she was in her early teens when you met her, it's definitely been at least 3-4 years after she met you that she's met the traveler.

I take it back. She could've killed me the second she met me and stole the hatchlings. She wouldn't even need to trade the inventory bag and the catalyst. You checked the catalyst on the web and it was the "Lost Prayer To The Sacred Winds", it was a goddamned 5-star weapon. You were confused at why Skirk would even give you such a precious weapon but you decided that she just thought that you were interesting.

The moment that you touched the catalyst, your phone lit up and opened Genshin. As a firm nonbeliever of ghosts and spirits, you decided it had to be a "you" problem. Seeing that the phone automatically got into the inventory icon, you finally saw your catalyst and electro-crystal in a new category that wasn't named yet.

Purely out of curiosity, you placed the catalyst into the bag that Skirk gave you, and the catalyst's equipped tag disappeared. Oh wait, does that mean that I get to level it up? You immediately leveled it up to lv90. Oh hell no, I'm in the character menu. Right above your team was you, however, it was just a blank circle with your name on it. Clicking into it led to your stats, talents, artifacts, etc.

To your relief, your face wasn't on the screen but when you read the stats, you decided that you were truly weaker than a lv5 slime. Okay, Name: Y/N, Max HP: 1000. Okay, better than the traveler, Attack...20?! What?! Defence: 72. Not bad but Idk why I need that. EM: 0, Stamina.. WHAT?! 31?!

You threw a pillow across the room, "WHAT THE HELL? HOW IS THE TRAVELER STRONGER AT LVL1 ?! AND I'M AT LVL 3?!" Something that Genshin has gladly bestowed on you was that your starting point was at lvl 3 whilst everyone else was at lvl 1 but you were still weaker than everyone who's at lvl 1.

"STAMINA 20? I MIGHT DIE FROM LOW STAMINA BY CLIMBING A ROCK OR SMTH?"

"Ooooooh." Holy moly, 1608 attack and 33.1% Crit Rate. Damn. Ilysm Skirk

Ding. 3 Unread messages.

You raised a brow, lol, who uses that app anymore, only old ass people use it, like Zhongli would use it if he had a phone.

The sky has darkened and the bustling city slowly lit up with billboards decorating the skyline. You stretched in front of the brightness, the darkness of your room disappearing as the humongous screens started changing. Mihoyo, that billboard advertisement is expensive asf and you decided to put hsr and not Get Shit Impact?

Ding. 102 Unread messages. Wtf.

                                                                                                                                                                                Yo.

You finally picked up your phone.

                                                                                                                                                                       Srry bt dat.

Can you please speak English?

???

I don't understand what you're saying.

Oh I said "Sorry about that"

Lol, sorry.

Anyways, is there anything that you need me for?

From your description, it says "Teyvat here I come"

Oh, that was last year when me and my friends still used this app.

It's quite outdated now, I just update my description whenever I feel like it.

Can you tell me about Teyvat?

I don't understand the things online.

... wtf, this guy is creepy, theyve got no pfp and they don't understand text T-T, Pls don't be my mom...Act cool, act cool

Hm?

You want to start Genshin?

Genshin?

Bro's asking abt Genshin without knowing what it is, did bro just get his/her phone?

Genshin Impact?

Teyvat is the world that exists in the game??

Game?

My bafflement jeeeeez

Yea, Genshin.

Teyvat has 7 nations.

They have like 2 mcs (maincharacters) and the player chooses them and boom, their sibling disappears and they need to find them so they just travel around Teyvat whilst helping random people for no reason

Poor Lumine has traveled half of the world and the gods won't tell her shit. Just leave Aether and his abyss shit and go marry someone or smth. Bro's a prince and you're a traveler, he's living his life in the abyss.

Main characters...

Oh wait, is this some old person who just downloaded this app to find people chat? Oh wait shit, my bad, lemme channel my nonexistent inner angel.

Oh, sorry, I should've explained more clearly. :)

You see, the two main characters are called Lumine and Aether, they're travelers who go in and out of worlds, but they were trapped in Teyvat because of the Heavenly Principles.

If you're like me and choose Lumine, Aether will become the Abyss prince and wake up a few hundred years earlier than Lumine and go around the world. Then after Lumine wakes up, she fishes out Paimon and begins her journey around Teyvat searching for her brother who she found quickly enough but for some reason Aether wants her to find him after she visits every nation.

That...

Is a nice plot.

You know a lot.

I may have started it just a year ago but I know a lot of lore :D

Thank you.

?

For chatting with me, nobody answered me and only you replied

OMG. I feel bad for this old person,

:D my pleasure XD

I think you need to sleep now.

Good night.

You too!!! Good luck with the game XD

Chapter 4 - Lockdown

The rain poured and the sirens blared, the rain outside had already flooded the first floor of the dormitory.

"I know my luck sucks like hell but come on, we literally just came." Moniqa scowled as she lifted the satin curtains. "They even locked the gates, what, after two days are the winter holidays, they expect us to stay in here?" The strawberry-haired girl tossed her phone onto her bed. "I literally only came here to take my stuff back." Yeleris rolled her eyes, "I don't even have stuff here, like literally. I went to the mall and met Y/N and I brought her back to our dorms since it's cold as fuck out there," she flopped onto your bed sighing, "none of us even live here, it's just registered because of projects."

You peered through the window, the water had almost completely flooded the university and two floors beneath you, you could see several students blocking the doors with sandbags.

"My housekeeper said that only our area is raining." Moniqa's eyes narrowed, "quite weird wouldn't you say? This rain is quite- sudden, wouldn't you say Miss President?"

Your brows furrowed a bit, " Yea, I checked the school group chat, everybody's talking about the weird weather." You turned around, noticing Yeleris in the corner, staring emotionlessly at her laptop. "You're that annoyed? Princessssy?" Moniqa snickered, noticing her expression.

Yeleris stared at Moniqa blandly through her luscious eyelashes. "We're in a lockdown."

Silence. "WHATTTTTTT THEEEE FUUUU- " Yeleris thwacked her head with her laptop. That laptop is hella expensive, its case is limited edition and she bonked Moniqa with that?!

"Hey," you scrolled through your phone, noticing how everything was loading slower and slower. "Is it just me or does the WiFi suck and mobile data ain't doing what it's supposed to be doing?"

Moniqa gazed quietly at you, "I know who might be able to tell us some stuff." 

You hurriedly followed her out of the building, hissing as the ankle-length water splattered against your bare thighs. It was freezing cold, the three of you waddled into a nearby dorm building, it was one of the newly renovated ones that had stairs to it and didn't have any sandbags around.

"Who the hell are you- oh, it's Moniqa." you raised you brows at the man that towered over you. "Oh, hello Miss President." you scowled, being the president of several clubs are pretty nice but having everyone call you that even your friends could be a little annoying. 

"Is Lorelei here or did she go back home?" He rolled his eyes at the question, "She was planning to leave but the rain got a tad to bit large and she didn't want her eXpeNsive sHoes wet, but yeah, she's in her room, 109 I believe, one floor up."

Thud. Thud. Thud. "Lorelei, it's Moniqa." "..." "Lorelei?" "..." "I'll buy you boba." "...ugh...coming."

A short strawberry-blonde girl greeted you by the door. "You guys are lucky that my roommates aren't here. Get in before I change my mind," She tossed Moniqa a small booklet. 

"No snacks?" Lorelei squinted at her, "that's only for new customers."

She turned to you, "Oh, you're new, there's some snacks on your right." You smiled lightly at the short girl, not because of her kindness but because she has that one type of candy you love that the school doesn't sell. 

"Ahem, since you're a new customer, I will gladly give you an introduction to my services," she tossed a small bottle of peach juice to you, "I am Lorelei Stirling, sophomore, I basically give people info that they want on people on campus, test results or rankings of everyone, not the normal ones that the school gives you of course, and a ton of other stuff, in or outside school. Ummm, that's pretty much it, I'm the head of my dorm and pretty much everyone in this building helps me in gathering info, so we're like an association that tells you everything the school doesn't tell you and some news outside of school that the public doesn't know."

She smiled sweetly at you, "Of course, things come at a price but for you, Miss President, I'll give you a discount. If you want any info in school, the price range will be $10-250, and outside of school will be $10-400. Anything special? The price will be decided by me. Now how does that sound?"

"WhAt? You told me it was $20-600 for in-school and up to 800 outside?" Moniqa snarled. Lorelei rolled her eyes, "First of all, your cousin pissed me off when I was in freshman and you're loaded which means you don't really care about the price of stuff. And anyways, the quality of my info never changes. If I hated you, I would've given you double the price. You'd like that?"

She turned back to you, smiling, "My phone number is on the bottom of your drink, you can call me when you need my services. But considering that you guys literally waddle here like ducks meant that something went wrong with the wi-fi and the data at the same time right? So please tell me what you want before it reaches the point where you have to swim back to your dorm room." 

-...-...- Unknown's pov Somebody's gotten it. It's someone in y/s, the after-effects are growing, I need to find the host. Many things have already been infected with RH-o1, the amount of things that have been leaked will soon make Earth change drastically.

I need to find the diary, quickly, #%^*><\$&%* It has all the leaks, it materialized the moment this world was tainted.

I've been trapped here. We all belong on different paths, one is reality, one is $&@/"-, hopefully, I'll survive, I asked $&":$!(& to help me change how the time flows.

I've just gotten here but every minute feels like decades. My sister is out there somewhere, perhaps the paper that she took gave her a better fate than mine. We don't belong here, before I die, I will send her out. I swore to &&"-).

The sheer amount of rules in this place is driving me insane, if only I was like &&"-), she's insane but her type of insanity doesn't affect her logic and abilities. Why did I have to get the hardest one? Why me?

Chapter 5 - Fish blasting

"Are you sure that she can fix the Wifi?"

Yeleris nodded, eyes glued onto her book.

Moniqa giggled, "Lorelei may be annoying and bratty but she does have the skills that made her the head of her lil association in her sophomore year, my friend told me that two years ago, there was also an association like that one but it was taken down quickly because they dug a bit too deep and the high ranked members were all kicked out of the school. I'm pretty sure one of the high-ranking members who wasn't kicked out was her older sister. I heard that she had some blackmail on the school and she threatened to leak them if they kicked her out."

Ding.

All eyes swiveled onto the pile of devices that were charging in the corner.

Ding,dingdingidndinidgndingd- "SHE DID IT!"Moniqa lunged towards her phone, "FINALLY, I WAS DYING FROM BOREDOM-" Thwack. Yeleris towered over her, "Can you shut up."

You typed a few letters down,

.-.-.-.

Totallynotlazy

Is this Lorelei

Loreleisnotgrumpy

???? Who you?

Totallynotlazy

Y/N, you gave me your number in your room.

Loreleisnotgrumpy

? I wasn't there tho? Do you mean my twin Lorelie?

Loreleisnotgrumpy has added you as your friend

Totallynotlazy's name has been changed to Y/N

Loreliesnotgrumpy's name has been changed to Lorelei

Y/N

Can you give me some info on the rain?

It's not normal, in fact, it's kinda acidic?

Lorelei

WhAt?

I mean sureee but I need some time since, yk it literally just rained. Btw, I'll give you the price after I get the info because I'm actually nice and Lorelie told me to give u a discount so just wait for my messages.

Btw, how'd you know it's acidic?

Y/N

Me, Yeleris, and Moniqa had to go to your dorm because of the Wifi not working to ask you to get it fixed but as you said your twin was there and she fixed it for us.

Lorelei

Huh, Yeleris and Moniqa? They only came to me once and I never told them my dorm number and Anthony wouldn't tell random people my dorm number. Ig that your roommates had deals with my twinny rather than me.

Y/N

Prob. Anyways, when we got back, our skin was red and some bits were bleeding and I tested the PH.

Lorelei

Hmmm. I'll get you some info by the end of this week, I'll give Lorelie your number. Don't tell random people about Lorelie though, she's a bit bratty and hates a lot of people, and she likes acting like me. She'd get angry if people knew that she was pretending to be me

Y/N

Ok, tysm

Lorelei

Have fun XD

.-.-.-.

The lovely violet sky was soon covered in a sheen of eerie red, after effects of the blood rain. The WiFi had stopped multiple times in the last few hours, only recovering due to the twin's perseverance of fixing the WiFi for the enormous amount of money they were given by hundreds of people.

The power outs were so frequent that the night became very dark, only a few gleams from torches and phones, and soon you drifted into a deep sleep, unaware of your surroundings.

Patter. Patter. A silhouette was outlined by the faint moonlight. "Y/N...The time isn't right yet. You weren't supposed to have visions yet. Why did I have to be the only one in the dorm that's reincarnated? The apocalypse is in a year but since you've gotten your powers so early, does that mean that the timeline has been messed up? Lorelie wasn't supposed to be there too. Has she reincarnated? Perhaps transmigration? A time traveler?" The girl muttered.

"The rain, it's supposed to be acidic in a few days, the acidity is also stronger. What's happened? The future is changing. Butterfly effects, if I can come back, others can come back too. My sister is still finding the records of the apocalypse, we would all die without the records..." The figure opened your phone, "Genshin...maybe the world of Teyvat has something to do with all of this as you were in Teyvat for a year or two, but- who's this?"

-.-.-.

"Y/N WAKE UP." Moniqa shrieked as she woke you up. I finally wasn't in Teyvat, Moniqa scared the shit out of mee. "What?"You stretched happily, "Bro! It's raining fucking blood!" WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKKKKKK You rushed to open the window. You cautiously placed a small cup outside the window. "Hey." Yeleris beckoned the two of you to the TV. '

"It's global." "No shit, Sherlock." You took the cup out and closed the window once again. "The rain here seems a lot darker than the TV." You turned to Moniqa, "Moni, you have a lot of small seedlings you got from the gardening club right? Add some of the rainwater in one, I want to see something."

~time skip~ (2days)

"Pretty sister! Pretty sister! Are you ok?" You rubbed your bleary eyes. The loli smiled down at you, "Pretty sister, are you ok? Klee was soooo worried about you." she smiled innocently at you, cherry pink eyes glinting under the morning rays.

"Hello Klee, I'm fine." You sat up, "Sweetie, where are we?" The girl laughed, clapping her hands together, "Is pretty sister a visitor? This is Cider Lake!" She grabbed your hand and pulled you towards the water.

She's unbelievably strong... "Since pretty sister is a visitor, Klee will show you around Mondstadt and we can go fish blasting with Dodoco!!!"

"Klee?" You poked her weakly, "Is something wrong pretty sister?" You pointed behind you, "You sure you want to do it in front of the city?"

You've woken up after you and Klee blasted the majority of the fish population of Mondstadt. At first, it was only Cider Lake, but she soon decided that it wasn't enough and she started putting bombs all over the nation, one on some poor lad's roof in Springvale, one besides the anemo hyptostatis, one near the statue of seven and a lot of other places that you couldn't remember. It was only until a knight of Favonius saw Klee putting bombs in a merchant's stall did you leave.  You did not want to be brought to Jean, so you hid on top of a tree as Klee was dragged away. She made a heart in the end which quite literally melted your heart and soul into a puddle.

The next few days passed like a flow, the rain never stopped but day by day, the water had slowly turned back to it's usual colour, in fact, the small samples of rainwater collected before slowly turned transparent just like the rain.

It wasn't until eight days later did you notice something was too eerie with the rain.

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[rouecentric]

sixth genshin brainrot??? how am i able to think thoughts

IMAGINE being the new anemo archon, made automatically into one the moment venti lost his gnosis, and you may or may not have been isekai'd..

so now you have some randomass teen who became GOD, trying to master and control their powers while learning how to manage mondstadt on your own.

for your learning arc, you went ahead disguising yourself as another companion of the traveler, a wandering musician, with her/him complying, as you hopefully knew more than both him/her and paimon.

your meeting with zhongli in liyue went pretty much the same as in the game.

zhongli knows an archon when he sees one, so seeing you made him think about venti, wondering if he's dead or if his gnosis has been taken by the fatui.

of course, with you getting closer to anyone and everyone, zhongli took it upon himself to teach you the ins and outs of being an archon, as he is a retired god and ex-archon himself.

unfortunately, your stay in liyue didn't last as much as zhongli hoped, as you left with the outsider to board beidou's ship to inazuma, you informing him the day before.

your time in inazuma was really anything but pleasant, even more so as not being able to stop teppei from dying and meeting scaramouche.

the least thing you liked was your first meeting with the shogun, covering lumine's/aether's back as the two of you entered her domain, the euthimiya realm.

you just hope no one except for zhongli know that you're the new anemo archon.

[synthleeius]

hiii~ 💕 if requests are still open, could I possibly request lee!lyney with ler!traveler? I think lyney deserves a good gettin' ehehe

Magic tricks

hello!! ⭐️

this was SOO fun to write ive been dying to write for Lyney UGH

i hope it was okay i wrote Aether instead of Lumine, i just find him easier to write. enjoyyy🫶

Lyney flared out the stack of playing cards, smiling smugly at the traveler standing in-front of him.

"Traveler~ Be a dear and pick a card for me, will you?" He asked, holding said cards out to him.

Aether simply tilted his head after being stopped in his tracks, shrugging before sliding out a card from the middle. "Hello to you to, I guess."

"Ah, my apologies.. Hello, Aether. Remember that card, yes?" He corrected himself, confirming Aether had a memory of his pick before taking the card back.

"Now, prepare to be amazed, dear traveler!" Lyney exclaimed, shuffling the cards in a way that told Aether he had done this many times before. "Was.. this your card?"

As he spoke, he pulled a card from the top of the deck and flipped it to Aether's view dramatically. The black diamond card glistened slightly, and the shorter just chuckled. "It might've been."

"Ta-da~" Lyney hummed, sliding his cards into a pocket.

"You know, ive been practicing my own magic lately, Lyney." Aether replied, huffing a laugh at the excited expression the other showed.

"You have?" He gasped, "Well, I've obviously taken a toll on you! Who else would you get inspiration from, hm?"

"Lynette." The traveler cut him off slightly, watching the magician's face drop. "Pfft, relax.. I was just kidding, it was you."

"You tease.." Lyney crossed his arms over his chest, before his smile returned. "Though, you'll have to do a trick for me. And maybe if your lucky, I can teach you a thing or two~"

"Isn't that against the magicians code?" Aether joked, laughing softly before taking a few steps closer to him. "I can show you a trick. You'll have to close your eyes though."

"Well, how could I ever say no to a offer like that?" Lyney smirked, letting his arms fall to his sides and closing his eyes.

"Thats good," The shorter praised, moving to stand behind him. "Prepare to be amazed, Lyney~"

With that, he dug his fingers into the backs of Lyney's ribs and wiggled his nails gently into the skin. The taller gasped loudly, falling back into Aether's chest on reflex as he laughed.

"Aether!" is the only word he managed to get out before he was cut off by his own giggles. "stohohop thahat! Thahats uhunfair!"

"Well, I think its pretty fair." He replied in a unbothered tone, like he was completely oblivious to his hands that were now spidering down to his hips.

"Wehell Ihi- don't!" He yelped when he felt Aether's hand linger towards the side of his thigh, barely grazing over the fabric of his tights. He tried to move forward out of his grasp, but the traveler held a firm arm around his waist to keep him as still as he could. "Ihi'll fall!.."

"Huh.." Aether pretended to be deep in thought, before scribbling his fingers into the squishy surface. "Not gonna lie.. that kind of sounds like a you problem. I'd be happy to help though, if you'd do something for me."

The squeal the magician let out earned a few strange looks from the passerby's, his knees buckling slightly before he pushed them back straight. "Whahat do yohou wahant?"

"Well, thats no way to ask is it?" He asked rhetorically, sensing that Lyney might actually fall if he continued in that particular spot for any longer.. So with that logic, he moved up to squish pouch of skin at his sides.

"people ahare staharing! I hahave a reputation yohou know!" He argued, squirming back into the figure behind him like that would make the sensation any less unbearable. "Juhust tehell me!"

"Well.. its simple really, all you have to do is.." Aether paused, moving to whisper in the other's ear. "-admit that you like this."

Lyney gasped and moved his head away, squeezing his already shut eyes. "Wihill- will yohou stohop?"

"Probably not." The traveller shrugged, laughing at the whine that tore from Lyney's throat. "Okay, okay! I will.."

"Yohou behetter.." His laugh turned to soft breathy giggles as aether switched his squeezing to soft in poking and prodding.

"Ihi guess.. I guess its not horrible?" He whispered, his cheeks flushing up in embarrassment. "Now.. let me go! I have a show soon y'know, I'm a magician, not a toy.."

"Alright, alright~ I had my fun." Aether sighed happily, releasing him from his grasp. "And before you ask, yes, I'll come to your show."

"You know me too well, dear Traveler.." Lyney turned around, a genuine smile on his face. "Now, I'll be taking my leave. I'll be searching for you in the audience~"

So he left as soon as he came.. Aether had half the mind to tell him to fix his hair up, but he was more looking forward to hearing the way Lynette questioned him about it.

[xkseii]

⎮Final Arc⎮

⏤ Character: Aether

⏤ Including: Angst

⏤ Summary: His wish was granted, but at what cost

You got transported to the Genshin world along with Aether and his sister. Since then, you have been travelling around this world, discovering every nation, searching for any clues about where was Lumine. Days became weeks and then months quickly, but you never lost hope.

At some point, you could feel that you were close, after meeting Dainsleif, you were sure you would find her. And you did, but she disappeared before Aether or you could do anything. So you were forced to start all over again, running after someone that wasn't looking back.

It was getting more difficult physically, you got hurt many times, and you refused to count how many scars you received during the last three months. But even by ignoring your injuries, your mental was down, you were tired, irritated about anything and everything, and you were breaking down. You just wanted to find Lumine and leave.

Despite being as destroyed physically and mentally as Aether, you were holding up for him, you couldn't let him give up, even if it means driving yourself mad. You were sleeping less, since you were looking over Aether's bed most of the time, ready to shake him awake if he was having a nightmare. Paimon would do it for you sometimes, but you could see that the anxiety was growing on her, and you started feeling bad.

You were pushing yourself to another extent, the thought of finding Lumine and helping Aether to be happy with his sister again was motivating you. And finally, again, you managed to find her, you were all happy to be reunited, but not everything could end up well. And in order to leave this world, you had to fight until you were able to fly away together.

During the fight, you got hurt multiple times, and you were all tired, the sleepless nights and days without a break drew you to this mistake. Aether had no strength left either and Lumine wasn't physically able to fight, and in the last hope of not dying together, you pushed the two away. Paimon watched with wide eyes as the portal closed in front of your eyes, and you were left alone here, with her.

She didn't have the time to say her goodbyes to the twins and was going to witness the death of her friend some minutes later. She wanted to help you, save you, but you pushed her away, saying to save herself first. She floated away under your words, crying as she knew the adventure was over, she lost her three friends and none of them could come back.

She could still hear the sounds of fighting as she leaves, until it stopped suddenly, with no grunting or sounds of swords and shields clashing anymore. Everything went silent for a second. Paimon turned back, watching as the monsters were leaving in groups, going back to their camp as if they had nothing to do here anymore, crushing her dying hope.

They won the fight, but it was bringing them no joy or sadness, they just did what they were created for, and her heart broke as nothing was remaining except the burned grass and some drops of blood. You disappeared, without Aether here, there was no coming back, you just became a ghost that nobody would remember. Even Paimon knew, that she will disappear soon, she had no purpose anymore, and she would take with her the remaining of those memories created within those months with you.

As for Aether, he could only watch in shock as the portal close and disappear in front of his face, only leaving an empty void behind. Even after months of fighting to rejoin his sister, he couldn't find the heart to celebrate, he couldn't feel this oh-so-much-needed joy as he held Lumine closer.

He had his sister, she was here with him, Aether could hug her again but, in exchange, he lost his two closest friends. He lost this world he grew to love, the acquaintances he made, the memories, gifts, the time spent together.

He lost them, he lost you.

The only thing remaining, was his sword, which he fought with, along with you for months. And this seelie, which he chooses only because it was your favourite colour, that was still floating beside him, reminding him of Paimon too. The seelie moved closer, stilling on his shoulder as Aether cried. His twin was here, but he lost everything, and would never find it again.

He had another occasion to find his sister, it could have taken another two months, but she would still be here. But he was so focused on finding her by doing anything, that he forgot what he was putting in danger, something he could bring back. In his last hope, he tried to open another portal, but the only thing he saw, was the back of the monsters, leaving the area.

Nothing was left, and his last hope died at this moment. He wasn't happy to have his sister, he was devastated and broken. Maybe he should have confessed before, before this, before everything.

His wish was granted, but at what cost.

⏤ Thank you for reading! I wish you a great day.

⏤ here is my masterlist & ko-fi ⏤

[mybelde]

19: just act normal ♤

Your POV

6 February, Sunday 4.29pm

Location: Windrise park

The day seemed to be perfect. The weather was nice, it wasn't too hot, and it wasn't that windy. But that wasn't important. The important thing was that you were going to go to a carnival with your best friend and her brother.

But for some reason, you found yourself putting in more effort into your look than usual that day.

Why?

Was it to impress a certain blond?

Your mind was saying no, but deep down your heart was saying yes.

Now, you were hand in hand with Lumine and were heading to windrise park.

Once you guys reached windrise park, your eyes widened in shock. You could barely recognise the place. The park was adorned with red, white, and pink decorations, signifying the fact that valentine's day was coming. The park was also now packed with lots of people who had come there for the booths and carnival.

Amongst the crowd, you searched for Aether, whom you finally spotted hanging around the side entrance of the park with a dark-haired dude. You squinted your eyes to get a better look.

Oh. It was Xiao, Aether's best friend. You didn't expect him to show up.

"To be fair though, I did say he could invite anyone else to come with us," You thought to yourself.

You dragged Lumine, who was dying to enter the park, over to the side of the entrance towards the two guys.

In almost an instance, her expression changed vividly, from excitement to irk.

"Why are these two here? Don't tell me you invited them."

"Oh come on Lumine! Wouldn't it be more fun to have more people join us?" You said as you squeezed her arm.

"But you didn't think to tell me because...?"

"Well, he is your brother. But I didn't know he was going to invite Xiao though," You replied, your eyes glancing towards the dark haired boy.

"Xiao LOVES to go to places like these, that's why I invited him!" Aether said, as he put an arm around Xiao's shoulder.

"H-Hey wait what do you me-"

"Right, Xiao?" (Please help me out here Xiao 🤲)

".......yeah yeah. (Fine, you owe me one.)

You and Lumine just stared in confusion over the weird conversation between the guys.

What was that all about?

You cleared your throat before you spoke up again.

"Well, now that we're all here, can we finally go in?? I've been dying to check this place out!"

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6 February, Sunday 5.04pm

Maybe coming to the carnival was a mistake. Because all you saw were couples walking hand in hand, acting all lovey-dovey with each other. There were some groups of friends and family at the carnival as well, which made coming to the park a little more tolerable, but nontheless it made you cringe at the sight of couples pda-ing. They reminded you of how single you were.

The four of you had already visited some booths and got some goodies and were now just walking around to see if there are anymore interesting booths. Lumine was walking beside you on your right, while Aether was on your left, and Xiao was on his left. But for some reason, there was an odd tension between you guys. Lumine was being oddly quiet while Aether and Xiao seemed distant.

"Shit, why is everyone so awkward? Is Lumine mad because I invited Aether and Xiao without informing her first? I hope not," you thought.

While you guys continued walking in silence, a certain booth caught your attention. It was a shooting game booth. And it turns out that one of the prizes was a huge sanrio doll.

"Oh my god, guys let's try out that booth! I want to try winning the sanrio plush!" You said, and ran towards the booth, the other three following you behind. The four of you reached the booth to see an old man running it.

"Young lady, would you like to try out to win the big prize?" he pointed out to the sanrio doll sitting at the back of the booth, waiting to find an owner. You nodded vigorously. You made up your mind to win the doll no matter what.

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"Tough luck, young lady. Looks like you couldn't shoot out all the targets down in time again. Feel free to try again if you'd like!"

It was your eleventh try and you still weren't able to shoot all of the targets in the stipulated time.

"Damn it, why was it so hard to shoot off all the targets in time??" You thought to yourself.

You rummaged through your pockets to see if you had any more cash to spare to try again, but it looks like you ran out.

"Damn it! I really wanted the plushie but oh well. Let's just go guys." You said, as you got ready to leave, but Aether spoke up.

"Wait! YN, if you really want the plushie, I'll try to win it for you." You turned around at his statement, your eyes widening in shock.

"Wait, really?? Aether you don't have to do that-"

"But I want to, since it seems like you really want it a lot."

You were touched by the blond boy's words and was about to thank him. But someone decided to say something first.

"Sorry brother, but if anyone were to get yn a plushie she wanted, it would be ME. Her BESTEST, most WONDERFUL, most AMAZING best friend of them ALL. Not someone like YOU."

"WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN??"

"I mean, I always beat you in shooting games like these. What makes you think you can beat me this time?"

"So, what? You want to challenge me to see who can win the plushie first?"

"Exactly."

"Fine, you're on!"

The twins then grabbed the fake guns from the old man running the booth and started battling against each other to see who would win the plushie for you. Meanwhile, you and Xiao stood at the side of the booth, watching the twins battle it out.

Seriously? You didn't expect this to happen at all .

As you watched the twins shooting one target after another, the dark haired guy next to you asked you something you never thought he would ask.

"So...... are you interested in anybody at the moment?"

You turned to face him and gave him a confused look.

"What a way to start a conversation..." You replied with a sarcastic tone.

"Ok my bad, I didn't know what else to say."

"......"

"......"

"Why'd you ask that anyways? Don't tell me you're interested in me or something."

"First of all, absolutely not."

"Ouch."

"Second of all, it's for.... a friend."

You quirked an eyebrow at the statement.

"Shockers, I didn't know you had friends."

"Just shut up for once will you?" You chuckled at his response.

"Ok fine, but to answer your question, no i'm not interested in anyone at the moment. Tell that to your precious friend"

Xiao gave you an unamused look before continuing.

"Okay...... then what do you think about Aether?"

"What about him?"

"Do you like him?"

What? Why was Xiao asking questions like this all of a sudden?

"I mean, yeah I like him. He's a nice guy to be friends with."

Xiao sighed exasperately at your answer and you gave him a questioning look.

"What??"

"Well, what do you like about him?"

You paused for a while after hearing his question.

What you like about Aether?

"......."

"Well?" Xiao gave you a knowing look as he waited for your answer.

".... Well.... He's nice and friendly. He always seems ready to help anyone whenever he can. He's also really thoughtful for some reason. Like, really really thoughtful. It's scary how he always seems to know whenever I want my coffee, and he manages to bring me them in the moments I least expect it, ahahah..."

"Oh."

"Oh? What do you mean by 'Oh.' What else were you expecting me to say??"

"Nothing, nothing at all."

You were about to retaliate when you realised the twins were finally done, and were walking to the both of you, surprise surprise, with the sanrio plushie in their arms.

"LOOK AT WHAT I GOT FOR YOU YN!" Lumine exclaimed as she rushed to you with the plushie in her arms.

"You mean what WE got for her. Don't take all of the credit sis."

"Ya da ya da ya da, who cares, as long as yn finally got the plushie she spent so much money to get."

You glared at Lumine at the comment she made but shrugged it off a few seconds later.

"Anyways, thanks you guys! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to get it."

Even though you were giving your thanks to the both of them, your eyes were just locked with Aether's, and he looked back at you, not breaking any eye contact.

Lumine, who was oblivious to the moment happening bwtween the both of you, grabbed your arm and said, "Enough of standing around here, let's go explore more before it's late. We have classes tomorrow remember."

"Right, let's go explore the rest of the carnival."

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6 February, Monday, 5.49pm

How did this happen? One minute, you were arm in arm with Lumine while walking around the park with Aether and Xiao, and the next thing you know, she's gone? Xiao was gone as well, so now it was just you and Aether. You tried calling Lumine but she wasn't picking up her phone.

"Shit, I can't believe I lost her in the crowd, she's not even answering her phone!" You said, worried that something might have happened to the blond girl. You sat down on a bench nearby, still clutching onto the plushie. You exhausted from walking around the whole time, and now, your best friend was somewhere in the crowd, lost and not answering her phone. (and Xiao, we can't forget him of course)

"I just texted Xiao, he said he's with Lumine and that they lost us in the crowd. He told us to just continue exploring the carnival and that they'll meet us at the entrance at 6.45." Aether said, taking a seat next to you.

"Oh, so it's us two now?"

"Yeah I suppose it is.."

Oh.

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Sorry for not updating in a while 😭 I will get back to my daily updates once my trip is over (internet connection sucks here 💀) but for now, i hope you like this update

Anyways, we love to see Xiao being a wingman 🤭 lololol I'm excited for what's gonna happen in the next chapter

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[bamdelune]

In Hindsight 📹 Ch. 05: "tinsels around the tree"

[December 14, 2022] 7:08 PM

You huff an exasperated sigh from the lack of reply from Aether and Lumine. You could excuse Xinyan, mainly because she was training at her dorm. You toss your phone onto the soft cushions of the couch, draping a hand over your head after as if it was to relieve the stress you were experiencing.

One of the things you wanted to experience before dying was decorating a simple Christmas tree but from the looks of the living room's mess, you might as well die from frustration. The pearly white tinsel ribbon you were supposed to wrap loosely around the spikes of the tree laid forgotten on the carpet while ornaments were left untouched in opened boxes.

Just then, you hear the lock to your front door open with a click. You assume it was the twins coming in based on the muffled petty argument they were having outside. When you heard their footsteps, you hear Aether gasp.

"Oh my god, it looks like the living room just went through 5 situationships..."

You roll your eyes at his words, sitting up on the couch. "You guys wouldn't answer my messages so I tried doing it on my own."

Shortly after the door closed behind them, the sound of the apartment's intercom' doorbell rang. Lumine heads to the tiny screen near the door to see who it was.

"There's some guy outside," she declares with confusion. "Do you guys have any deliveries?"

You and Aether shake your heads. Your phone vibrates on the couch to see a message on your screen.

"Wait, I'll get the door." You rush to the front in panic, nudging Lumine away before. opening the door awkwardly to reveal Kunikuzushi, with his phone in one hand. His head looks up at you as you greet him with a sheepish smile.

"Uh, hey. Sorry to keep you waiting. Were you standing here long?" If you had eyes at the back of your head, you would've seen the shit-eating grins the twins were giving behind you as you talked to him.

Kunikuzushi shakes his head. "It's fine, I just got here anyway." You let him inside, asking him to take off his shoes at the door. As he does so, you turn your head at the blonde pair, glaring at their smug faces. Your face was screaming at them to act normal around a new person and to avoid assuming things. But it works to no avail as Aether sends a wink while Lumine tries to stifle a laugh.

You turn back to Kunikuzushi stiffly. "Ah, yeah. Kunikuzushi, this is Aether and Lumine. Twins, this is Kunikuzushi from the hospital." The indigo-haired intern nods at them politely as Aether waves at him a bit too eagerly. "I hope I didn't come in at a bad time?" He asks.

"No! Of course not! You're our Y/N's friend after all, right?" Aether walks over and slings an arm around Kunikuzushi's shoulders—to which he flinches slightly. You catch the slightly different tone the blonde male had when he said friend and glare him down. "Say, do you know how to decorate a Christmas tree, Kunikuzushi?"

Kunikuzushi's eyes catch the mess in the living room. "I suppose I can help out a bit."

You feel embarrassment bloom all over your face at his response. This was going to be a long night and unfortunately, the twins will make sure of that.

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[dutifullyshamelessearthquake]

I pulled Lyney in Genshin and he's been occupying my thoughts since ahhh. I can't bring myself to think about the last two remaining Novemetober one shots that I have left to write (one Cynonari, one Kazugoru) because my mind keeps going back to Lyney and Lumine. It doesn't help that I had sooo much fun working on my most recent sickfic for them!

I've also now officially written my first Lumine sickfic and despite how intimidating it was, I loved it?? Caretaker Lyney has my whole heart, he tries so hard. And my attachment to Lumine is really growing (what happened to Aether being my golden child of the travelers??) so I actually really enjoyed putting her on the receiving end of things.

I'm still not officially opening requests until after I finish all the last Novemetober one shots, but if anybody has anything specific in mind for Lyneylumi, feel free to toss it my way and it might just end up being a short one shot because I am dying to write them right now hehehe

I have one Lyney idea I'm going to scream about but I'll do that tomorrow since it is late for me and I have work tomorrow so. bad earthquake. go to bed.

[cor-lapis-candy]

I'm having big thoughts about an isekai reader joining aether on his journey, him looking for lumine and you just wanting to get the fuck out of dodge.

This is a repost from my old blog that was shadow banned.

Like your mainly there to help him do paperwork and manage his funds/keep the teapot running and functional, like no way that man is planning commisons, requisitions weapons and dose all his other shit at the same time. Your like an assistant or servant without the power imbalance, a non combatant and the face for the pair of you when aether needs to rest or he can't do something.

But let's make it spicy, say after the inazuma arc, the two of you hang about the city actually enjoying it, maybe taking some work here and there, even sitting in on some meetings about the merging/peace talks with rebels. Just taking notes and helping aether keep track of it all before heading back to the rooms you had been lent at the teahouse to unwind.

But aether is in a noble guest room and you have to bunk up with Thoma as you are "serventry" as well, your rooms are connected to aethers room and to the currently used as an office/temp bedroom of ayato. The sleeping mats are pleasant and the sheets warmish but what is really keeping you warm is the heated press of Thomas hands in your hair tugging and messing it up as you lave away at his cock.

Having teased him into sharing a small bottle of rice wine to celebrate none of you dying, and now here you are spit slicked lips pressing wet kisses across his thighs, drinking in every sigh, whine and breathy call of your name as you move to drag your tongue up his shaft. Flicking your eyes up to watch as his headband slowly slips down his forehead sliding to his neck as he throws his head back almost whimpering as you swallow as much of him as you can.

Green eyes lidded and flicking left and right as they watch the two doors either side for any movement, he is close but the absolute humiliation that would come with ayato or aether seeing him like this would be too much to bare.

Only when his eyes close and his head smacks loudly against the thin wall do you open your eyes, catching a glimpse of amber watching from one side and the full view of a certain pale commisoner leaning against one of the sliding doors one hand braced against the frame and the other perfectly placed to show off his own cock pressing against the sleep robe he had been dressed in not an hour earlier.

[sveanaxxremis]

Get to Know Me

Demographics

Name: Svea Vieboux ‘Naxxremis’, Svea wir Galvus (Former), Svea Atronius (Former)

Nicknames:

Vivi (Friends)

Veevs (Close Friends)

Bunny (Aatos)

Flower (Family)

Lady (Caspian)

Terra (Zenos calls her the garlean word for earth. Both due to color of her skin and hair but also the grounding effect she has on him)

Monikers:

Briar Queen: Because of Aatos’ spells often taking the form of dried, briar whips, Svea has earned this moniker.

The Beast of Ishagrd: A cruel rumor started after a man broke into Svea’s room. She attacked him in self defense but spread a rumor the a terrible beast lurked within the city walls of Ishgard.

Blackblood: When Svea entered into contract with Aatos, his aether turned her blood black. This name was dubbed my several adventurer’s.

The Savage Princess: Because of her race, many Garleans often referred to Svea as the savage princess or savage bride.

Age: 35 Autumns (as of 6.55)

Sex/Gender: Cis Female, Heterosexual

Ethnicity: Rava Viera

Occupation: Adventurer, Noble, Princess/Empress (Former)

Combat Class: Sword Mage

In-game Combat Classes: Red Mage, Viper, Reaper, Astrologian, Dancer, Samurai

Weapons:

*Grigori: Grigori is the original weapon used by Persephone, who is the unsundered soul of Svea. Grigori can take what ever form she needs at any time and can switch to a different weapon as she needs.

*Bourreau: A pair of twin rapiers created by Abreaux before her adventures.

Socioeconomic status: Well off, should she choose to use her parents’ funds

Education: Educated as a Garlean princess. Also completed courses from St. Endalim’s Scholasticate

Other notes: Svea is also a highly trained courtesan, where her talents lie in dancing and singing. She was also educated and trained as a strategist under the tutelage of Zenos.

Physical Appearance

Eye color:

Jade Green: Svea was born with very pale, jade green eyes that had an odd luminosity to them as they appeared to glow, giving her an unsettling and piercing stare.

Ruby red: Aside from the tattoo on her inner wrist, her eyes will change to a deep ruby red which is the biggest mark of her contract with Aatos. This is only seen when entering into her enshrouded form.

Luminous Gold (Temporary): During her time on the First, as she absorbed the light based aether of the lightwardens, Svea’s eyes quickly changed to an unsettling pale gold color. Her eyes returned to their red coloring after her soul merged with Ardbert.

Skin color: Despite coming from a tribe of ebony skinned viera, Svea has a fawn colored complexion speckled with dark freckles.

Hair color:

Chocolate Brown: Svea was born with beautiful locks of dark earthy brown. Her hair returns to this color after the defeat of the Endsinger.

Black: At the time Svea created her contract with Aatos, her hair became tainted by his void magicks turning her hair jet black. Svea’s hair returns to its dark chocolate coloring after learning to control the void magicks within her. Her hair does change to black when invoking said magicks.

Silver: During the events on the First, the over absorption of light turned Svea’s hair into a stark white. This color has been unable to be dyed.

Height: 5 fulms, 9 ilms

Weight: 172 ponze

Body type: Hourglass – Svea has a very defined waist with larger hips and rear and well-endowed breasts.

Fitness level: Svea trains regularly as per her profession as an adventurer and the Warrior of Light, but if she is given the option to train or entertain another hobby, she would choose the latter.

Tattoos: Svea would not necessarily consider them to be tattoos, but she has a mark on the upper part of her back which appeared after the Battle of Carteneau. She also has a tattoo like mark on her inner, left wrist that is shaped like a sinuous butterfly. This mark is her contract mark with her voidsent.

Scars/Birthmarks: Over the years, Svea’s scars have grown faint, but there are noticeable scars around her neck, wrists, and ankles. She also bears scars on the inner portion of her thighs. From her adventures, she has a massive burn scar over her left hip from ifrit, a large scar from Nidhogg that spans from shoulder to thigh and a massive pair of scars that run down the length of her back from her partial transformation into a lightwarden. Svea always bears a scar vertically down her midsection where Garlean surgeons removed her son from her body. An act that saved both their lives.

Other distinguishing features: Svea has a ruby crystal embedded in her forehead, which was placed on her from a young age. This is the only traditional piece of her viera heritage that she keeps. Svea also has freckles that span across her face, neck, and shoulders. Her ears are rather short for her race, and she keeps the fur trimmed short. She also has a very distinct rabbit like tail.

Disabilities: Svea has a hard time seeing close and so she wears glasses to read. She also suffers from insomnia due to extreme nightmares. After the events of Endwalker, she develops a form of PTSD.

Fashion style: a) Combat: When as the Warrior of Light or adventuring, Svea prefers he attire to be dark in color, preferably black. Which are both the family colors for the Vieboux household and the family color of her and Zenos. Being that she is a swordswoman, she prefers mobility and flexibility over protection. Her main outfit consists of a long black robe with tight pants and boots, giving her a witch like appearance. b) Casual: When in a more casual setting, Svea prefers to wear more looser clothes, but has been known to often sport tight fitting pants and cropped shirts. She will also wear her hair loose or in a messy bun or in large braids. She often leans towards lighter colors in shades of green, purples, and tans.

Accessories: After the events of Endwalker, Svea meets a young adventurer to who she gifts a yellow chrysanthemum hair pin. In turn, Aatos created an identical one, although black in color, that she is often seen wearing. She also wears a necklace with a white sweet pea that has a small, blue tear shaped gem beneath it. When not adventuring, she is often seen wearing multiple golden bangles on her wrists and ankles. She also wears a delicate gold ring on her left 4th toe.

Cleanliness/Grooming: When adventuring Svea makes it a point to always find a source of water to clean herself. While she would prefer an inn room, she will take to a stream or river just the same. When home, she is known to bathe often and prefers warm bathes. It takes about 45 minutes to properly clean and care for the velvety fur on her ears.

Posture/Gait: Being raised and trained as a courtesan, and then later as a princess, she has a straight posture. Her steps are swift yet elegant and confident and give her a regal air, though with her sure steps, there is also an unintentional allure that follows the sway of her hips.

Coordination (or lack thereof): Svea is very well coordinated, except when it rains.

Weaknesses: Despite her extensive training with a large scythe and swords, she has weak wrists.

History

Birth date: Fifth Astral Moon in the year 1540 of the Sixth Astral Era

Place of birth: Akuvik Village, Dalmasca

Key family members:

Atronius Family:

Marcellus quo Atronius (Original Adoptive Father)

Villiana jen Atronius (Original Adoptive Mother, Deceased)

Caeli dus Atronius (Original Adoptive Sister)

Drusus eir Atronius (Original Adoptive Brother, Deceased)

Armenia dus Atronius (Original Adoptive Sister, Exiled)

Caesetia jen Atronius-Tsurugi (Original Adoptive Sister)

Faenia dus Atronius (Original Adoptive Sister, Deceased)

Tadia cen Atronius (Original Adoptive Sister, Deceased)

Vieboux Family:

Abreaux Vieboux (Adoptive Father)

Elvinne Vieboux (Adoptive Mother)

Galvus Family:

Solus zos Galvus (Master, Great-Grandfather-in-Law, Deceased)

Varis zos Galvus (Father-in-Law, Deceased)

Carosa zos Galvus (Mother-in-Law, Deceased)

Zenos yae Galvus (Husband, Deceased)

Caelum wir Galvus (Son, Deceased)

Other:

Aatos Vieboux (Voidsent/Husband)

Caspian ‘Naxxremis’ Vieboux (Student/Retainer)

Notable events/milestones:

Age 0: Born to an illusive clan of viera from deep within the Golemore Jungle, Svea was cast out shortly after her birth due to her jade eyes. She was placed in an imperial caravan and was found by Marcellus.

Age 0-13: Svea was raised under the close and watchful eye of Marcellus quo Atronius, a reputable commander station in the capital city of Dalmasca Inferior, Valnain. Originally having been a royal tutor in the imperial palace, he taught Svea much the same way that all imperial royals were raised. The name Svea is of old vieran meaning “Winter’s Death” in the Veena dialect or “Shadow Queen” in the Rava dialect. A fact unknown to Marcellus at the time.

Age 13-16: Svea was kidnapped by her adoptive sister Armenia, who sold her off in Kugane. Svea would be purchased by the Tatsuta Teahouse, where she would be trained to become a courtesan. Having an already elegant air about her alongside her exotic and rare appearance, she quickly became the most sought after and most expensive courtesan in Kugane to date. i. Void Contract: While held in a dark and dilapidated room full of cells beneath Kugane, she would be approached by a Blackguard, a voidsent of the fourth rung, who would grow obsessed with the warmth that followed her aether. In her loneliness, she would create a pact with the Blackguard, who would take the form of a tall, dark skinned viera man with golden eyes. Svea would give him the name Aatos, a rare viera name meaning “Exectioner.”

Age 16-23: At the age of sixteen, during her height as a courtesan, the late emperor Solus zos Galvus, would travel to Kugane to see the famed woman known for her cold and haughty expression but also for her nearly prodigious talent as a dancer and singer. Emperor Solus, a man known for his love of the arts, would purchase Svea and take her back to Garlemald. i. Prince Zenos: Svea would grow surprisingly close to the young Prince Zenos who was 5 years her junior. When he was 16, he would bed Svea who fell pregnant immediately following that night. They would marry four months later in order to hide the growing scandal between the pair. ii. Prince Caelum: The pair would birth a son, who they named Caelum Caspian wir Galvus. Though the pregnancy was extremely hard, Svea would lose her uterus, which would prevent her from having any more children. The child would ultimately be born with an incurable aether disease as his Garlean blood fought against the overabundance of aether within his tiny body. Caelum would fall into a deathlike coma and was pronounced dead, just days before his 2nd nameday. This would cause a strain between Svea and Zenos, in which Svea avoided him, convinced that he blamed her for the death of their son. There was never any basis in this thought, but Zenos, to allow his wife to grieve, gave her the space he thought she needed. Zenos was unaware that this was the reason for her distance. iii. Night of the Blood Moon: Six months following the passing of their son, Svea would wake convinced she heard her son crying for her. Her mind broken after the trauma of losing her only son, had hallucinated the sound. Despite the attempts to take control of her body, Aatos was unable to keep her from moving and she would not listen to his words. She would find her son mutilated and misshaped as the medici lied to her and Zenos, so as to experiment on their son. Svea would be possessed by a second voidsent that resided within the aether of Aatos. This would cause Svea to be caught by Valens Varro, though Zenos would see him take her body in which he had knocked her unconscious and bleeding leaving Zenos to think his wife was dead.

Age 23-25: In the cruel capture of Valens Varro, he would prove his nature and would abuse Svea. After catching a glimpse, he became obsessed and desperate to claim her for himself. He wished for the affection he had seen her bestow upon Zenos yet he was met with heavy resistance on her part. He would eventually break her and she would retreat into her own mind finding solace in the comforting warmth of Aatos.

Age 25-30: When the red moon Dalamud began its descent from the heavens, Valens who had grown tired of his now ‘broken toy’, sent Svea to the front lines of Carteneau where she would fight on the side of the Garlean Empire. When Bahamut broke free from his prison within the red moon, the subsequent blast would knock Svea unconscious, who was then crushed beneath a magitek reaper. She would have lost her life had Aatos, in his weakened state not shielded her beneath a spell of shadows and brambles. When the dust had settled, she was found alive and picked up by scrappers employed by the Mirage Trust Syndicate. i. Mirage Trust: Due to her exotic appearance, Svea would become the Mirage Trust’s plaything and was often used to entertain Teledji Adeledji and his guests. ii. Vieboux Manor: During one of her frequent attempts to escape, after her capture she would be forced into a room with Abreaux Vieboux, a prominent Ishgardian weaver who catered to the requests of the Mirage Trust. Under the assumption that she was no more than 16 years old, he would pretend to use her under the guise of buying her out. Abreaux would ultimately win over Teledji, paying over almost all of his personal life’s savings and using some of the reserves from his business to pay for her costs. After her purchase, Abreaux would give Svea her freedom with one condition. That he, and his wife Elvinne could become her parents, and that she be the child they were never able to have. She would live within the Vieboux manor until her 30th name day where she would be granted permission to become an adventurer. She would make for Limsa Lominsa, where she would begin her journey.

Criminal record: Despite being hailed a hero across many nations, Svea has been branded a murderer in Garlemald following the deaths of the medici that had experimented on her son.

Affiliations: a) The Adventurer’s Guild (Limsa Lominsan Branch) b) Scions of the Seventh Dawn c) The Maelstrom d) The Ironworks e) Silver Moon Tailoring and Co. f) The Weaver’s Guild g) The Alchemist Guild h) The Harbor Herald

Skeletons in the closet: Svea’s skeletons in the closet are just her past which is revealed to the Scion’s during the Bloody Banquet.

Psychological Traits

Personality type: INFJ – The Advocate

Personality traits: Passionate, Compassionate, Empathetic

Temperament: Svea has a mild temperament and is not quick to anger.

Introvert/Extrovert: Svea is heavily introverted and considered to be extremely shy.

Mannerisms: Svea’s mannerisms reflect her time as a princess and courtesan. She is soft spoken and her gestures are kept delicate and close to her.

Intelligence: Svea is highly intelligent and is on a similar level as Zenos. She is considered nearly equal to him in intelligence and tactical skills.

Self-esteem: Despite all of her accomplishments, Svea has a lower self-esteem than one would initially assume. While she is comfortable in her own skin and her appearance, she dislikes being recognized solely for her appearance alone. She dislikes being complimented but has slowly learned that not all compliments are bad.

Hobbies: Svea loves to read, garden, and study and practice alchemy. She also loves to dance and try new foods and cook.

Skills/talents: Svea is a very talented singer and dancer. She is also very good at strategy games. Svea has a hidden talent of playing instruments and is a highly skilled pianist. She can also tie cherry stems with her tongue.

Loves: Cute things, plants, sweets

Morals/Virtues: Svea has strong sense of justices and values people who also have a strong sense of justice and honor.

Phobias/Fears: Thunder, lightning, Valens van Varro

Angered by: Unjust behavior, lies, hypocrites

Pet peeves: People chewing with their mouth’s open, people tugging in her ears or touching her nose/tail.

Obsessed with: Moogles, flowers, fashion

Routines: Non-Adventurer Routine (Home Life)

7:00 am – Wake up and do some stretches

7:30 am – Take a shower or bath

8:20 am – Wake up Aatos, make breakfast

9:00 am – Train

10:00 am – Shower

10:15 am – Go into town to get groceries, do some shopping

12:30 pm – Lunch time

1:30 pm – Go through missives, submit requests for jobs

2:00 pm – Snack time

3:45 pm – Work on a hobby

5:00 pm – Start dinner

6:00 pm – Eat Dinner

8:45pm – Evening stretches, shower

10:00 pm – Read

10:45pm – Bed time

Bad habits: Svea has a bad habit of biting her lip when she is nervous or lost in thought. She also mumbles quite a bit.

Desires: A world where she could have lived with her husband in peace

Flaws:

She bottles her emotions up.

She is emotionally distant or detached.

She is mysterious and keeps all of her cards close to her chest.

Quirks: Often described as having a rather haughty expression at any given time, that is just the natural look of her face when she is relaxed. She can also be rather spacey at times, especially if Aatos is out. Her face is also unreadable even to the best, allowing her thoughts to be hidden from those around her.

Favorite sayings: Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.

Secrets: Even after the reveal of her past during the bloody banquet, the truth and full extent of her relationship with Zenos is a mystery. It is not until after the Battle for Ala Mhigo that the scions learn the full extent. Her contract with Aatos is also a secret that is kept from most of the general public, due to the overwhelming concerns surrounding void magics.

Regrets: Never telling or apologizing to Zenos for thinking he blamed her for the death of their son.

Accomplishments: Ending the Dragonson War, Liberating Ala Mhigo and Doma from Garlean rule, Restoring night to the 1st, Stopping the Telephori and ending the Final Days, Stopping Golbez from invading the source and saving Azdaja.

Memories: Svea has many memories, but she often recalls times past with Zenos and their son.

Communication

Languages known: Garlean, Dalmascan, Hingashi, Ishgardian, Common

Preferred communication methods: Speaking

Accent: Due to being raised in various areas, her accent sounds similar to the vieran accent but depending on what she is saying her pronunciations can be misconstrued. When she speaks high Garlean, she often struggles with the letter ‘z’ and her vieran accent comes out more strongly.

Style and pacing of speech: Svea has an elegant speech. She is calm and can be expressive but without fumbling over her words. She speaks plainly and can be considered blunt.

Pitch: Despite her gentle voice, it does often come across as lower, almost breathy. Unless startled, she does not have a high pitched or squeaky voice.

Laughter: Her laugh, even when in a fit of it, is considered sexy as it often rings with a breathy ending much like her natural voice.

Smile: According to Urianger, he has said that her smile is always genuine, reaching her eyes giving way to delicate dimples, that would make even the stars jealous. Svea rarely shows her teeth when she smiles.

Use of gestures: All body gestures are kept slow and deliberate and close to her body.

Facial expressions: Svea is not very expressive except in ways of disgust, frustration, or annoyance in which she crinkles her nose.

Verbal expressions: Svea rarely expresses things through her voice.

Strengths, Weaknesses, and Abilities

Physical strengths: Svea is rather strong physically and can outrun most people, even most soldiers before tiring.

Physical weaknesses: Her wrists don’t allow for her to wield heavy weapons and her scythe can cause complications at times.

Intellectual strengths: She is highly intelligent and can solve most problems.

Intellectual weaknesses: Svea is terrible with street smarts and forms of sarcasm and comedy taking many things literally.

Interpersonal strengths: Svea can easily defuse a situation and deescalate most situations before bringing violence in or even raising her voice.

Interpersonal weaknesses: Her aloofness and naturally haughty expression makes her appear unapproachable.

Physical abilities: Svea is very talented with rapiers, short swords, chakrams and scythes.

Magical abilities: Svea is highly gifted in both black and white magic but chooses to combine them instead of pursing them separately. She can also use shadow and void magics thanks to Aatos.

Physical illnesses/conditions: Svea has a degenerative disease in her eyes and so they are slowly going bad.

Mental illnesses/conditions: Svea’s mental state has significantly improved over the years, but suffers from PTSD and Insomnia.

Relationships

Partner(s)/Significant other(s): a) Zenos yae Galvus – Husband (Deceased) b) Aatos Vieboux - Voidesent, Husband c) Emet-Selch (Hades) – Husband to Persephone (Deceased)

Lover(s): Emet-Selch (Hades), Aatos

Parents/Guardians: a) Marcellus quo Atronius: Despite not having seen his daughter in years, when they reconnect in Garlemald, he moves to Shirogane and regularly visits her. b) Abreaux Vieboux: Abreaux dotes on his daughter intensely and is constantly sending her money and clothes for fear she does not have enough. While he is proud of her and supports her adventuring, he feels that she is not paid enough. Abreaux alongside his wife, joins the Garlean Contingency and aides in attempting to save the war-torn country. c) Elvinne Vieboux: Elvinne dotes on her daughter as much as her husband and takes to finding out the latest whispers circling around nobles and shares the information with her. Elvinne alongside her husband, joins the Garlean Contingency and aides in attempting to save the war-torn country. d) Edmont de Fortemps: Despite being aware of her adoption into the Vieboux home, Edmont dotes on Svea like a daughter.

Children: a) Caelum wir Galvus: Son (Deceased): Son of Svea and Zenos who died two days before his second birthday. b) Alphinaud & Alisaie Levilleur: Due to Svea’s soft spot for children, she took over the role of the twins mother despite knowing they have parents.

Other: Caspian ‘Naxxremis’ Vieboux: An orphaned boy who Svea took under her wing. While he is bother student and retainer, she dotes on him like her son but is vehement in letting people know that she does not see him as a son.

Grandparents: Solus zos Galvus

Grandchildren: NA

Family: Vieboux Family, Galvus Family, Atronius Family

Pets: Tillie (Chocobo), Turnip (Fat Orange Cat)

Best friends: Aatos, Kadenza Amadea-Leonis, Estinien

Friends: Alisaie, Alphinaud, G’raha Tia, Tataru, Krille

Rivals: Thancred

Enemies: Valens van Varro, Asahi sas Brutus

Colleagues: To many to count

Mentors/Teachers: Drusilla, X’rhun Tia, Hydaelyn

Idols/Role models: Herself

Followers: Alisaie, Alphinaud, G’raha Tia, Caspian

Social media presence: Svea is a prominent boudoir model, which is how she made her money at the beginning of becoming an adventurer.

Public perception of them: Hero, Model

Character Growth

Character archetype: The Maiden

Character arc: a) The Bloody Banquet b) The Death of Haurchefant de Fortemps c) The Battle of Ala Mhigo/Ghimlyt Dark d) The battle against Hades/Elidibus e) The Sorrow of Werlyt f) The Garlean Contingency g) The Return from the World Unsundered h) Ultima Thule

Core values: Svea values justice, loyalty and honesty and strength above all else.

Internal conflicts: Svea struggles against her role during the Ala Mhigan resistance and fighting against Zenos. Her whole purpose for becoming an adventurer was to find him again.

External conflicts: The entire star trying to kill her

Goals: Finding Zenos, Creating a world where anyone can love anyone regardless of their origins

Motivations: Finding Zenos, being strong for those who cannot be strong for themselves

Epiphanies: If Hydaelyn asks her to be strong for her people, then Hydaelyn will be strong for her.

Significant events/plot points: These quests are the major events/plot points to Svea a) The Parting Glass b) An End to the Song c) Louisoix’s Finest Student d) The Far Edge of Fate e) In Crimson it Began f) Stormblood g) Parley on the Front Lines h) The Face of War i) The Burden of Knowledge j) Shadowbringers k) Reflections in Crystal l) Duty in the Sky with Diamond m) In From the Cold n) Warm Hearts, Rekindled Hopes o) Hope Upon a Flower p) Thou Must Live, Die, and Know q) Friends Gathered r) You Are Not Alone s) Endwalker

*Grigori uses the appearance of the Edenmorn weapons dyed in Metallic Silver.

*Bourreau uses the Ruthenium Tuck model dyed double dyed in Gunmetal Black.

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CHILUMI: # a chasmic mistake.

CHAPTER VI: defense.

chapter summary. in which the truth is discovered and a fierce duel commences.

wc. 2.9k. genre. enemies to lovers, action/adventure.

warnings. lowkey psychological manipulation!! dddne!!

— table of contents

“Hurry up and kill me, Ajax! Don’t hold back!” 

Lumine would not be very easy to kill, slashing and dodging wildly as she was now, had her opponent been any other than Tartaglia, No.11 of the Fatui Harbingers. He blocked her attacks easily—far too easily for someone who had been acting all weakened for the last two days, Lumine realized—and shot at her in sprinting thrusts. His attack patterns were like those at the Golden House the first time they had dueled, and during times again afterwards when she had ambushed him. Times she had tried to stop him from coming this far. These attacks now seemed like subdued versions, but were still enough to get her blood pumping and her legs moving.

“I wish you would at least tell me what this is about!” he complained. He paused in the middle of the pool, drawing energy so that he could unleash a blast upon her. Lumine braced herself. She managed to dodge most of it, only its final wave causing her to stumble as she charged at him with her sword raised.

“You already know what it’s about, Childe.” She spat a reversion to his Fatui codename. She knew it might bother him and hoped it would. 

Lumine managed to break his defenses for a split second, assailing him with a slash to the neck to match her own painful lacerations from the Abyss Herald’s talons just a few minutes before. She had not fought that beast as hard as she was fighting him. She hadn’t fought anything this hard for a very long time.

And that was for a simple reason. 

Lumine had not been this pissed off in ages.

“You’re putting up a pretty good game, here,” he praised her. “How becoming.”

She only scoffed, and rolled out of the way to avoid a counter. Her mind was swimming and only knew that it was an unfair fight; that she would not take victory as an end, but he would. And yet there was nothing that would stop her.

This was the Chasm curse. She wasn’t sure whether it was fueling the infatuation or the detestation, but she was so overpowered by it now that she was sure she knew why he’d led her this far. Her only escape would have to start with his death. Then the rest of the Harbingers, if they crossed her.

Her dream had been a warning that she was taking the wrong side with Tartaglia. Perhaps, she thought, heart clenching, it had been a message directly from Aether who had somehow known.

Lumine felt a pressure to her shoulder and she fell back onto the edge of the pool with an inelegant splash. Childe loomed over her. One of his Electro blades pressed through the fabric of her—his—jacket. She couldn’t move or pull herself out from under it. He leaned further, supporting his posture with the tips of both blades pressed into the ground.

“Look at you,” he cooed. His eyes were crazed with vigor as they always were in battle. “The price of a single slip. You still have much to learn.”

She struggled, straining a hand for her sword.

“It was fun!” he declared.

He traced one of her wounds ever-so-lightly with the electrified point of his other sword. It hurt like hell. She screamed.

“Now, won’t you tell me what’s the matter? I’m dying to know.”

He sure was.

Lumine managed to reach for and grasp the hilt of her blade. She swung it at the weapon touching her neck, successfully knocking it away. But he stopped her from swinging it a second time. It then became clear that he had grabbed her sword by the blade.

Still unprepared to give up, she propelled her foot at him, managing to knock his knee in just the right way that caused him to stumble. “This only ends when you’re dead,” she insisted, pushing herself and the jacket out from under the other weapon’s pressure. Her hand curled around it as she went, pulling it right out of his grasp.

He could have killed her right there, she realized. He’d seen an opening and driven the blade right through the jacket a centimeter above. But now she bore one of his weapons, and he bore hers.

Lumine had not up until this point wielded any Electro infusion or ability. She found it to be exhilarating. It seemed to act with a mind of its own, with a haste to kill. Even as a creation of Childe’s, it seemed to want him dead just as badly as she did.

She did not waste time. Against the combination of environmental Hydro, his Electro, and Lumine’s Anemo, the Harbinger stood no chance. She soared at him, propelled by focus and loathing. And Childe, still recovering from the kick, was at her mercy.

Lumine could not help but relish in the feeling properly pinning him down, blade at his neck.

Finally.

“This isn’t you, Lumine,” came a remark from the winded Childe. This was the first true protest he had given, and she wanted to hear more.

The only issue she found was the mask, which he had pulled over his face in the beginning of the fight. She needed to see fear in his eyes. Lumine reached for the top of the mask, dragging it off his face harshly.

“Any last words, Harbinger?” Her voice was deep—hoarse—breaking. Desperate.

Finally seeing his flushed, spirited visage, she felt a twinge of something that was not hatred.

“None today,” he replied, reaching an arm to his chest. “I’ll save you from this.”

It wasn’t blind infatuation, either.

Lumine pressed the Electro blade to his pale neck, drawing beads of crimson. “One more move and you’re dead.”

Childe ignored this, grasping something at his collar and wrenching it out of place.

A new feeling came over her as if her very mind was being ripped out of her skull. Shattering her spine, clouding her sight, plugging her senses. Her strength faltered immediately. Her ears rang. It was like standing in that Abyss mud, only worse and much faster. The hatred, the infatuation, the passion—all were gone.

It was only the remaining feeling—worry. She felt worry, only worry. Pure, pristine concern for the protest in Childe’s eyes which—which she saw no more, her vision going dark as her posture fell limp and she collapsed on top of the Harbinger.

After a few seconds of feeling as if she was made of stone, Lumine panickedly regained consciousness of her senses—humiliatingly comforted by Childe’s warmth as she tried to regain her mental balance. Were those his hands holding her back?

Her sight and strength returned to normal and she pushed herself off of Childe.

She could not remember why she wanted to kill him, or that she did. But something was wrong, or had been changed. And it had to do with whatever Childe had ripped from his neck. She looked over at him.

He was sitting up. The chain necklace she had noticed earlier dangled now from his fingers, swinging gently. The charm was as irresistibly beautiful and eye-catching as it had been earlier. There wasn’t anything particular she could tell she liked about it, only that she liked the looks of it. She liked them very much.

“Pretty, isn’t it?” Childe asked, rousing her to his presence. She’d almost forgotten about him in a moment.

She nodded. The sweat and enervation of an abruptly terminated duel still held her mind in a fuzz, but something else seemed to be causing a thicker fog. She did not want to look away from the necklace.

To her disappointment, he pressed it and its chain into his palm, watching her reaction. She finally looked him in the eye.

“What was that?”

He laughed coldly. “You… don’t know?”

She glanced down at his closed palm again, shaking her head no.

He put his hand behind his back, and her gaze followed it.

“Lumine,” he said softly. “Would you back up so that I can explain? Please?”

She noticed then that she was leaning towards him rather intimately. She must have moved unconsciously to get a closer look at the charm. Lumine checked herself and did as he said. 

With the charm fully out of sight, she found that she was able to recall the exact context of the situation. They’d defeated an Abyss Herald who had beckoned Childe to kill her. She had been referred to as his target. The bounty he’d been hunting. The prey he’d been luring.

It was still a terrible thing to be aware of—but she wanted him to explain himself.

“You know, Lumine,” he said as if reading her mind, “I’m shocked, really. It took you quite a while to catch on.”

She did not know what to say or think. Was he confirming it?

“You know exactly what I am,” he continued, “and you’ve known it the whole time. I never hid my mission from you. Not really.”

“You said it was… that it was world domination,” she said, stumbling over her words. 

He looked like a different person right now. A dear friend, but not a villain, and not a warrior. Just a friend, apologizing and explaining.

Childe shook his head. “That’s my end goal. There are a lot of steps to that, you know. It’s no easy process.”

“What are you saying?” She selfishly hoped that he would be able to justify everything that he’d done.

“I’m saying that one of those steps is serving the Tsaritsa. And, in the least offensive way possible, you were in the way of that.”

“That was on purpose.”

He laughed again. “And that’s what made you so damn easy. Once I had your attention, distracting you—which was, of course, my mission—was simple as sight-seeing the nation, acting like I was after some rare animal.” He paused and the silence was louder than the screaming in her mind. “I’m hardly proud of it, but my goodness have you ever made it a pleasure, Lumine.”

Lumine’s mouth was dry as she stuttered, “But…”

Childe looked apologetic—and, after all these days she had spent by his side, she was fully inclined to believe it was sincere. He reached his hand to her face, gently rubbing a thumb on her cheek. “I’m sorry. I really am. I will admit that I was forced to use… alternative methods to grab your attention.”

She understood before he showed her. The necklace in his palm drew her focus almost immediately, despite her semi-frantic emotional reaction to the tenderness of his touch on her cheek.

“It’s a Snezhnayan Charm of Mild Entrancement. Nothing fancy, but works like a…”

Lumine had snatched the charm from his hand, cradling it in her palms. It felt like it was drawing in her thoughts, her emotions, her will. “Can you destroy it?”

“I—” 

She tore her gaze away from it with great effort. Tears pooled in her eyes as she forcibly latched them onto Childe’s face. “I thought I was falling in love with you. Then I wanted you dead. Please destroy it, Ajax. I hate it.”

He didn’t wait another moment, taking it from her grasp. He hurled it onto the rock floor and lifted her sword from where it lay at his side. “May I—”

“Do what you have to.”

He stood and brought the edge of her blade down upon it heavily. A shing came from the impact, as both the charm and the blade shattered. The sound echoed down the cavern, and the charm was no more.

Lumine was flooded with insurmountable relief. Her unnatural edge had been destroyed with the charm and she knew it had been the cause of her madness, not the curse of the Chasm. Her wits returned, finally, and she understood. 

She got to her feet, looking to Childe. “It only amplified interest, right?”

He nodded. “That sums it up. It was tuned specifically to affect you. And since I wore it, well…”

“I really did want to kill you just now, with or without that Charm.”

“I know.”

“And I really think…” She paused, noticing a moment too late that she was about to say something humiliating. “... That I…”

“Lumine, please don’t.”

She didn’t.

The cool glow from the cavern highlighted how Childe’s eyebrows were gathered, how his teeth were gritted, and how his head was tilted solemnly. “What you’re feeling right now… it may be an effect of the charm.”

Lumine’s eyes fell on the chain on which the Charm of Mild Entrancement had been. In the Charm’s place, all that remained was shattered glass-like material and substance resembling clear blood. The gold shimmer was gone.

She looked around the cave. The pool of the small cavern opened up into a larger area. In the center was something that could only be described as an immense mushroom. It had a long, thick, white stem and a cap shooting out from a thing that resembled branches. From the higher, largest cap dangled blue strings of lights. It was a beautiful, strange sight, one that she definitely would have seen before if she hadn’t been under an Entrancement spell.

And yet, looking back at Childe, she still found him as dazzling—as enticing—as he had been before… if not more than ever.

Childe’s gaze softened. “I really am sorry. And I’m sorry for how much I enjoyed it.”

She took a step closer to him, gauging her capacity to say what was on her mind. “It was scummy of you,” she declared, “and I want to hate you for it.”

He nodded again, sighing.

“How long were you supposed to be distracting me for?”

Childe took a sharp breath and clicked his tongue. “Until further notice.”

“Seems like a bothersome mission for you.”

He laughed, running his hand through his tousled hair. “As if you care about what bothers me, girlie.” 

Lumine fidgeted with the sleeves of his jacket, which she still wore. She knew it had been ripped and scuffed in a few places from that fight—the same would have happened if he had been wearing it, of course. And her hair felt like it had been pulled out of place. Her neck stung, still. She put a hand to the scarf and saw her blood on it.

Childe, on the other hand, looked like he ought to be cold. They had been splashing about in the pool in the cavern, dousing each other in cave water. His hair and clothes were damp and his skin was glistening. But he looked right at home in the cool water, smiling at her like that.

“What if I do?”

The words came out of her mouth before she could think. They kept coming at the same rate.

“What if I was really falling in love with you? What if the Charm was only playing on feelings that already existed? What if the infatuation wasn’t entirely false?”

“You don’t even like me,” he said. He looked a little hopeful, but as if he was repressing. “I’m kind of a bad guy. I’m a Harbinger. We have different lives, you and I, and you don’t exactly favour mine. You know, almost killed an entire city—”

“ —Almost.”

“Yes, but I’ve murdered many others without hesitation. That’s who I am.” His voice fell to a whisper. “You know I’m not quite of this world, Lumine.”

She was becoming more confident, now that she was in her right mind. It was only becoming clear to her how it had possessed and manipulated her attention. But now that her will was her own again, she wasn’t particularly motivated to look away. 

She shrugged at him, voice breaking. “Neither am I, Ajax.”

Lumine felt fingers grab her chin. She felt pressure from a hand on the back of her neck. She felt soft lips against hers; she felt warmth in her cheeks as she caught onto the situation. Childe didn’t kiss her hesitantly; it was frantic and heated. He kissed her like he had wanted to do so for a very long time. An excruciatingly long time, evidently.

She wrapped her arms around his neck, letting one hand dive into his curls. He pulled her closer.

The two paused. Lumine watched Childe slowly open his eyes and smile at her. He looked absolutely starstruck, eyes hooded and sparkling—but his hand had settled on her jaw, the other snaking firmly around her waist. It was like he wanted badly to hold her, but he could not believe that he had the opportunity to do so.

Lumine had something occur to her then. She grabbed his wrist and held it up so that she could look at the palm. Sure enough, the glove was blood-stained and cut through to his lacerated skin.

“Why the hell did you grab my blade like that?” she scolded, inspecting the injury.

“Ah—Lumine, that hurts!”

“Idiot.”

“Come on, now. You gave me no choice. You were trying to kill me.”

Lumine gazed up at him. “And you were having too much fun, Harbinger.”

He pouted.

“Fine… Ajax.”

“Lumine,” he mimicked her, tilting his head with a grin.

She finally, finally smiled at him. And in the darkness of the Chasm, in the pool swirling with a bit of each of their blood, she had one more question left in her mind.

“So. What the hell are we gonna do now, Ajax?”

fin.

author’s note. so. there we have it. i am without words because i'm just excited about the fact that i've finished posting it now, but i really must say that it has been wonderful receiving feedback on this fic over the last five weeks and i see all of you that kept up and read the whole thing. thanks for being patient and reading through to the end. i am always sincerely grateful when people take the time to read my works.

without further ado, this has been A CHASMIC MISTAKE.

comments are valued and appreciated.

➳ GENSHIN MASTERLIST

[kii-nami]

Teyvat has its own laws and the godless lands of Khaenri'ah had never abided by them. Stuck in a constant cycle of cataclysmic tragedies and poisoned by the Abyssal secrets, the Irminsul gives up on seeking help from Teyvat's Gods and calls for its Caretakers back. However, once they hear its cries, the world cannot ever be the same again. Only The Second Throne of Heavens is cruel, and does not take lightly to disobedience. Luckily so are the humans who had been wronged by their unjust actions. May this Samsara be their last.

OR ALTERNATIVELY, A CANON COMPLIANT ITERATION OF IRMINSUL'S MEMORIES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF KHAENRI'AH, WRITTEN BY ME AND @sewersaga

cw: female reader; khaenri'ahn mcs; reverse harem; two separate fics with two different mcs, both interconnected; written before 3.3 but with some bits of it included; teyvat lore based on my personal theories, which may be incorrect later down the line; khaenri'ah lore based on theory; any lore beyond what is canon is based on my theories; abyss princess lumine; traveler aether; villain celestia; villain rhinedottir; wanderer has been given a name; the fatui harbingers have been given names and lore; any other tw are specific to each fic; discord for discussions

IMPERIUM SINE FINE @kii-nami

Khaenri'ah is waning. The Eclipse Dynasty is nothing but a deathbed for the once great nation. Disenchanted by the life of misery in the land of starless sky, Khaenri'ah's Princess takes it upon herself to restore the former glory of her home, and so she does. Those are also her very hands that destroy Khaenri'ah for good in the process of bringing it up to the stars. Yet Irminsul holds all the knowledge of the world, and it is never wrong with its decisions. [Name] Einherjar will do whatever it takes to atone for the mistakes she has made, even if it means sacrificing everything in the process. She will also drag anyone down the path of damnation along with her, as long as it means curing her people of the curse thrown upon them by The Second Throne. One thing at a time, however. For now, the Queen is dead, long live the Queen.

SIR ITUR AD ASTRA @sewersaga

[Name] Trygg was born to serve the Crown. There is no other purpose to her life but to give up herself to the Eclipse Dynasty's dying light. With the looks of a child and a soul of a grown woman, The Handmaiden's existence moves at a snail's pace. There is nothing remarkable about a life of a servant. Or at the very least, there should not be anything. Yet Irminsul has a mind of its own and fate works in mysterious ways. What was supposed to be a harmless request in hopes of greater good, turned out to be the first stone in the path to revolution. And then the greatest fall one could ever imagine. Now all that is left for her, is to find herself amongst these ruins and not lose anything else in the process. The road to Abyss is paved with good intentions, after all.

[iruiji]

I'm Isekai'd as a Fungus but at least I'm a Kick-ass Healer

BAHAHAHHAHAHAA-

Guys, I HAD TO DO IT. After the Fungi Event I can’t just sit here and not write this. Also, this is pretty similar to the Seelie AU someone already did before so.. ‘m sorry this is not an update to the impostor AU but huehue i’ll get back to it. 

For reference, the events on this story are placed right before the Fabulous Fungus Frenzy, and like in the event, they can heal, but just a little. Like they can heal minor bruises or cuts but that’s about it.

Not beta-ed, just minor edits. Don't mind if I keep switching tenses I've always had that problem T.T

So here you are, minding your own business, trying to go home as usual. Earlier during the day, your boss was in a good mood, so your team got to eat outside, which is rare, so it was greatly appreciated. The whole day was as peaceful as it can get, with everyone in high spirits as the new product your company introduce was overwhelmingly well-received by the customers.

With a bit of hop in your steps, you stopped in front of a pedestrian crossing, humming to yourself as you listen to a jovial song from your earphones.

“Watch out!”

The voice, a man you thought, was just full of panic that you immediately look up from your phone to see what was wrong-

A kid was running towards you, seemingly clueless about the danger he was in.

Looking back, you can’t help but think that your normally strict Supervisor who always insists to add an hour of overtime everyday, may have been wrong to send you and your teammates on time at this day.

But then again, you thought as you lay down the cold hard ground and a kid crying his heart out, fate does work in mysterious ways.

You wanted to comfort the kid, truly, but you can’t move any muscle and it feels like everything is so heavy. At least the kid seems okay.. yeah.. oh no.. he’s crying.. with what little energy you could muster at this point, you tried and pat the child’s head, staring a little bit at your bloodied hands.

Oh shit, you thought, almost hysterically. I’m dying..

The next time you open your eyes, it was dark.

...

But wait, aren’t you dead?!

You sprung up from the ground.. only to realize you’re floating. Huh? Huhhh???

Looking down at your arms, you almost had a a panic attack when you saw.. holy shit what are those?! Those aren’t human hands!!It looks familiar though.. wait.. something clicked at the back of your head.No way.

You frantically look around, and came across a wet puddle several meters away. Yeah, nope. Definitely not thinking how weird it is to move. Why am I so slow?!

And then you look at your reflection on the water and shrieked.

Aether/Lumine

The Traveler was doing their Daily Commissions, jumping up and down the mushrooms when a loud shriek broke out from somewhere and made them lose balance. Paimon, predictably, shrieks louder at the noise.

“Waaa!! What was that?! Paimon was surprised!!!”

With a little annoyed huff, the Traveler decided they’d just go back to this commission later, feet already bringing them towards the sound.

“Oi, where are you going?!” Paimon shrieks as she hurriedly hides herself at their back. “What if it’s a really scary monster?? Traveler, wait!!!”

They groaned as the pixie pulled their scarf back. Sighing, they tried to calm down their companion, explaining that they’re strong and better face it first than some random, unarmed civilian. Paimon reluctantly agrees and enters the more dense part of the Avidya Forest.

A whimper was the Traveler heard last before something barrels to their stomach, sending them sprawling down the ground.

Paimon’s scream could probably be heard back at Mondstadt.

“T-traveler! Are you okay? Aaa! I-it’s attacking you!!! Get up!!!!!!!”

Groaning, they look up to see a.. crying Fungus????

“Wait, Paimon, calm down.” they said as they try and cradle the little thing.

It was a Floating Hydro Fungus. But why is it.. crying? Wait, fungus can cry???

“Um.. you okay, little bud?” they ask hesitantly. Not knowing if the creature would be able to understand, they started patting its head to comfort them. Paimon was silent at the side, probably dumbfounded by the scene as well.

The fungus seemed to cry harder at the touch, and the Traveler exchanged a panicked glance at his companion. The pixie stared right back, before clearing her throat and stars patting the creature as well. “There, there.”

If you told the Traveler and Paimon that they’d be comforting a crying fungus during their adventure, they’d probably look at you blankly and then walk away. Sigh, but I guess Teyvat has its own laws, huh?

It took a few more minutes for the fungus to calm down, sniffling as it rest on the Travelers lap.

Paimon flew next to the creature and asks, "Um. Why are you crying?"

As if understanding the question, the fungus pointed to itself, before flapping it's arms as if annoyed - the small body floating up a little bit each flap. Soon it was almost past the Traveler's head while it continues grumbling and huffing.

The Traveler exchanged another side glance with Paimon, and they know they have the same thought: Cute.

Of all the places, of course fate just had to drop you into Teyvat.

It was scary, realizing not only you lost the ability to communicate properly, but also the fact that if some adventurer sees you, they might attack and kill you either out of boredom or necessity. Both outcomes would probably be death.

So you wailed, and then you heard footsteps after a bit and you panicked-

But oh, it's the Traveler!!!

Your body was moving before you can even think, barreling towards them without so much as a pathetic sob. Dammit, why does the Traveler feel so warm- and then you cried even louder because there's hope! You can distantly hear Paimon losing her mind from the sidelines, but really, all you can feel is immense relief. It took another few minutes before they were able to relax completely around you, and the gratefulness and excitement because holy macaroni with cheese flaming balls, you're going to adventure with the Traveler! And Paimon!!!

Hence the start of your friendship with the two. At first, other people were vary of you. You understand, of course, for its not normal for a wild.. monster, as they call you, to act so friendly with people. But every time, you prove to be a loyal companion, and your friends cannot be more proud as eventually you became the infamous 'Healer Fungus' from the derogatory 'Traveler's Pet'.

Hell, even Tighnari recognized you as the 'cutest, pretty little helper'! And Cyno pet your head once! Alhaitham looked like he wants to slice you open though.. man that guy was scary.. he's lucky he's handsome.

Tighnari

The Traveler likes holding you in their arms once on a while, cooing how you're so cute and squishy. Paimon pinches your cheeks sometimes, too.

When in battle, Paimon always pulls you to the side with her because you're still not used to walking or floating fast. Damn this light body, you thought one time when you blocked an arrow for the Traveler, resulting a deep gash and a bawling Paimon.

You guys thought Tighnari's lecture was bad? You haven't heard the Traveler yet. That night you all slept together with the two hugging you tightly.

Speaking of, Tighnari's first meeting with you was.. interesting, to say the least.

He and Collei were patrolling around Ardravi Valley when they both stumbled upon you and the Traveler training. As you dodge to the side, your back hit something soft and you turned around to fluff.

The surprised look on Tighnari's face was laughable.

And then the jerk proceeded to snatch your feet and hold you upside down-

Umm?? Sir?

"Hm.."

Sir, don't.

Predictably, he starts shaking you, making you dizzy. You recall Traveler and Paimon panicking at the side, before you were put down the ground, face plopping first towards the dirt.

"Hiee!! Traveler, Fluffy's dead!!!"

Geez, calm down, Drama Queen.

Later on at Gandharva Ville, Traveler explained all about you to the fennec fox, while you and Collei mostly you try and bully Paimon into playing games.

He was very intrigued. A Fungus that isn't outright hostile? And can heal???

Hoo boy, was there a lot of experimentation.

Tighnari made you try everything - from healing a paper cut holy shit man don't hurt yourself like that! to curing fevers, poison again, STOP HURTING YOURSELF! to abrasions, burns, deep gashes and wounds.

The only thing he haven't made you try is probably reviving a dead person - but even that he knew you can't deal with, especially as various result show that you're good mostly for First-Aid.

Also, you can withstand the Withering, so sometimes he borrows you from the Traveler when taking a bigger one down.

As words spread about the Floating Hydro Fungus who can heal people, of course people were now like hounds trying to kidnap you or buy you from the Traveler - which was always met with a drawn sword and a yelling pixie.

Tighnari sets up a new rule to others to always escort you whenever you're in the forest, as desperate people do desperate measure not like he leaves you alone whenever you visit him and Collei in the first place.

He is F L U F F Y. As someone he believes to not abuse the privilege, he grants you permission most of the time to hug his tail or touch his ears NGH! and in turn he always gives you head pats and snacks. Sometimes he picks you up too!

Cue the panic when you almost melt at the gesture.

Collei really took a shining to you though, and now whenever she feels sick you come to her aid as much as you can. One time she was really sick, you cuddled the whole day and then you woke up with a brand new satchel containing loads of Pita Pocket specifically made for you, since you can't eat normal stuff.

Overall life in Gandharva Ville was peaceful.

Until one day someone successfully kidnapped you - and then you met the General Mahamatra.

Holy fuck I just vomited 1.4k words. You can bet your ass I already have Cyno and Alhaitham written in my head. BYE I'M USING MY WORK COMPUTER i don't own one LET'S HOPE I WON'T BE DEAD NEXT WEEK