XiaoAether Week 2021
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It is his birthday. Aether's birthday. Or at least, what they considered it to be.
For a brief moment, Xiao closes his eyes, and allows himself to believe that he is sitting on the roof of Wangshu Inn again.
Allows himself to pretend.
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- Part 1 of XiaoAether Week 2021
- Part 1 of Stars and Skies
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He exists to serve. He is a tool, a shield, a weapon to be used.
So when he wakes up one morning, the vague feel of trailing warmth running down his back, he dimly thinks ah, so this is my real birthday.
Then, like any warrior, weapon, tool, he stands up, and thinks nothing of it.
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- Part 2 of XiaoAether Week 2021
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He runs into Aether at the coffee shop across the office, because of fucking course Lumine is going to send him on a coffee run the exact moment she knows Xiao always heads over to get a pastry.
or in which Aether doesn't know what's happening, Lumine meddles, and Xiao hates everyone and everything (except one person, perhaps)
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- Part 2 of Stars and Skies
- Part 3 of XiaoAether Week 2021
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"Oh my Archons-" Paimon zips right up into his face. "Are you okay? You got whacked really hard right there."
Aether blinks. He stares at Paimon, then at Xiao, then back at Paimon.
"I'm sorry," He laughs shakily. "Do I know you?"
Time seems to freeze.
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- Part 4 of XiaoAether Week 2021
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Aether is an enigma. He is a bright traveler, powerful enough to stand a chance against Osial, significant enough that Morax allows him to treat him as an equal, even before Morax became Zhongli. The other adepti speak to him with respect, and he to them, even with his accent, and his evident struggle with their language.
One time, Xiao asks Zhongli where the Traveler is from. How he speaks in strange words and an accent completely foreign to his ears, even after two millennia of walking on Teyvat.
Zhongli merely hums, then responds with a simple, "Far, far away. Somewhere not even the gods of Celestia may have set foot in."
Xiao leaves it at that.
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- Part 5 of XiaoAether Week 2021
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Celestia falls, and with it, so do the stars.
Xiao watches as the abyss opens up. Monsters pour into the overworld, just as the gods descend with their own bout of destruction.
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- Part 6 of XiaoAether Week 2021