resistance is fruitile (they're all fruity after all)
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A series of snapshots into Lumine and Amber looking after Klee so that the poor moms, Jean and Lisa, can take a break. Sometimes the little chaos child is more troublesome than they expect but Aunties Lumine and Amber are very capable. Even if Amber can be a little bit of a bad influence sometimes.
Or.
The three times that Amber tells Lumine "but you love me." and the one time Lumine gets to say it back. (Klee learns a new word.)
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stay (do not go where I cannot follow) by cafe_au_late
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
29 Nov 2021
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If there was anything that Yae Miko hated, it was things that were out of her control. And it wasn’t that she wanted to control Ei. What she wanted was for Ei to stop running. Ei had been avoiding her, she knew this much.
But Ei is a coward when it comes to things like this.
So Yae remains there, hand still outstretched for the ghost of someone who had just left and been long gone all at the same time.
Stay. She had wanted to say.
Do not go.
Stay.
But Ei had fled back to the Tenshukaku, back to the Plane of Euthymia, back to the very place that Yae could never go.
Do not go where I cannot follow.
(The conversations Ei and Yae have following Ei's return from the Plane of Euthymia)
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you deserve everything you want by cafe_au_late
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
02 Jun 2022
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“In light of the unwavering dedication and hard work of General Kujou Sara has shown for the Shogunate, Her Excellency, the Almighty Narukami Ogosho, God of Thunder, has decreed that General Kujou Sara will be awarded a gift, of her choosing, for her service.”
It wasn’t unheard of for the Raiden Shogun to reward those in her service. There would be a ceremony to honour the fallen and acknowledge the living. Usually, rewards were things like mora or jewels, weapons or rare tomes. On the even rarer occasion, she allowed those of great importance or honour to choose the reward, a choice that tradition dictated that she would not deny.
Given the honour of such a gift, Sara struggles with choosing an appropriate gift- the struggle is only made harder when she realizes that her choice would reflect not only on herself but on the Raiden Shogun as well. But how does she choose something when she has never wanted for anything?
(And the one thing she does want, she doesn't deserve.)
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whatever peace you are made of, I can have no peace of it by cafe_au_late
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
15 Jun 2022
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Ei is not meant for peace.
She thinks about that sometimes — more times than she’d like to admit. She has known this for as long as she can remember. There has been a blade in her hand, a weapon ready to swing since she was young. Even empty-handed, she is acutely aware of the power that she holds, how with the flick of a finger she could disintegrate anyone who stood before her. She is nothing more than a shadow — and who cared if a shadow was sullied by the stench of blood and death?
She doesn’t mind it though. There are things that she must do to protect the ones that she loves.
Ei is not meant for peace.
Kujou Sara is meant for peace.
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there's only one place I want to be (I don't know how to get us there) by cafe_au_late
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 Aug 2022
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As summer draws to a close, Amber and Lumine decide to go on one last road trip adventure together.
Amber has never been to Liyue before, so it's a grand opportunity to go see some of the sights and experience some of the wonders that her grandfather had spoken so fondly of. Not to mention Lumine would be moving to Liyue in the fall to start that fancy new job she got with the Qixing. She hasn't said anything about it yet, Amber understands it might be a difficult thing to bring up. So instead, she suggests going on this trip. It would be a final hurrah for the two of them, a celebration of sorts before they would inevitably have to part.
She would really miss Lumine.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, Lumine is not getting a new job in Liyue. There is no place else in this world that she would rather be than with Amber. Of course, with a romantic trip like this planned out, Lumine knows Amber has clearly made plans to propose — now if only Amber would stop dropping to one knee every where they went to pick things up that she dropped.
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let me be your hands (i want them to be yours) by cafe_au_late
Fandoms: 无期迷途 | Path to Nowhere (Video Game)
03 Feb 2023
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Art is a jealous mistress.
Lisa knows this.
Lisa knows this all too well.
Art is an envious mistress.
McQueen knows this.
McQueen knows this all too well.
Perhaps art knows both of them better than they think.
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head in the clouds, heart in your hands by cafe_au_late
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
19 Feb 2023
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It’s stupid, Yelan thinks.
It’s her fault that Shenhe is even in this situation. If only she hadn’t so casually asked the other woman to join her on her latest mission to round up some Treasure Hoarders who had been terrorizing some routes coming down from the mountains (something that she usually handled on her own anyway). If only Shenhe, her darling Shenhe, hadn’t so readily agreed to tag along. If only she hadn’t let the leader of the Treasure Hoarders escape as they were rounding up the dozens of goons that he seemingly kept appearing out of nowhere.
If only they hadn’t given chase. If only they hadn’t taken so long to round up the other Treasure Hunters, who had scattered like grains of rice from a broken sack. If only this hadn’t given their leader enough of a head start that they couldn’t stop the man from doing something foolish. If only this stupid man hadn’t dove headlong into the first cave that he came across after splashing through a creek, exhausted and weary. If only the two of them followed the man into the cave.
If only. If only. If only.
If only.
If only Shenhe hadn't gotten injured protecting her.
Yelan has to save her. She has to.
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with warmth on my face, a cool breeze at my back by cafe_au_late, Sephirron
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
26 Apr 2023
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Aruna and Ceres have always been at odds. Pyro and cryo clashing at every moment — whether it be about research, a spar, or who is the smarter prodigy.
Saying they’re friends would be too much, yet not enough all at once. They never speak on what that means — not when Ceres always leaves an open seat for Aruna at lunch and certainly not when they dance beneath the stars alongside the firelight.
When Aruna disappears without warning, everything changes, and bitter cold words meet a fiery pride.
They both wonder if it was better never to speak of love, after all.
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death's waiting in the wings (maybe she can wait a little longer) by cafe_au_late
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
12 May 2023
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Death is hard enough.
There’s no reason to make it any harder.
That’s why Yelan has her belongings and house already sorted out.
Just in case.
She doesn’t want anyone going through the additional trauma of handling her things.
Her house is perfectly put away; host to an invisible guest whenever she leaves on a mission. The silent figure of death settles into the wooden bones behind the walls. Lingering there in the corners of empty cupboards until she's forced to check out when fresh groceries arrive, heralding Yelan’s successful return from yet another mission.
Though it does make things more inconvenient on nights like tonight. She’s freshly returned from a long mission: tired, hungry, nothing to eat in her cupboards.
An unexpected knock on her door brings her food and so much more.
Or.
A person who's ready for death to take her at any moment meets someone learning to live
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hold me tighter so the marks left on my soul are yours by cafe_au_late
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
19 May 2023
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The Chasm is dark and incomprehensible, dangerous and mysterious.
All qualities that Yelan seeks.
Yelan has ventured into the Chasm more times than she can count. Aside from her home of Liyue Harbour, the Chasm is the place she visits the most. Most of the time, it’s for work, but sometimes when there isn’t much else to do and the peaceful tranquility of her home has grown boring, she wanders into the Chasm with no real purpose in mind — just to stand in the midst of it and stare at the vast enigma of the area.
But as the old adage goes, if one stares into the void long enough, the void stares back.
Left with scars of her trips into the Chasm — both seen and unseen, Yelan is haunted by nightmares. Worried about her deteriorating condition and every increasing injuries that Yelan returns with, Shenhe forces her to take a break. Hopefully, before she breaks.
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want a pizza your heart by cafe_au_late
Fandoms: 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 | Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (Anime)
29 Jun 2023
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“Pizza again?” Renee is standing in the kitchen, hands on her hips. There’s a tower of pizza boxes that are barely contained in a garbage bag. “That’s the third time this week, and it’s only Wednesday.”
Sabina regards her roommate stoically. She tosses the pizza box onto the counter, where it balances precariously on the edge. “So?”
“Just ask her out already,” Renee gripes, already opening the pizza box without permission.
"Ask who out?"
"Don't play dumb with me, Sabina. The pizza girl, duh."
“I can’t just ask her out.” Sabina tells her, stubbornly.
“Why not? You’ve asked girls out before without any problem. Why the sudden cold feet?”
“You don’t understand, Nika’s different.” She can’t just ask her out.
It’s not that simple.
So she orders another pizza instead.
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there's a hole in my chest (darling, its your heart, its your heart, your heart) by cafe_au_late
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
29 Aug 2023
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Hello, darling.
I’m not sure what I’m supposed to write here. Madam Ping suggested that I write letters to you as part of coping with everything that has happened. She told me that you never had to see these letters if I didn’t want to give them to you, it's more of a space for myself. She showed me her letters, ones that she wrote to her dearest when she departed. I was foolishly upset about it, because you’re not gone.
You’re not gone.
You’re still here. Just resting. You’ll need to rest. Lots of it.
And when you wake up. I'll be here.
I’ll be here.
Yelan
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When Shenhe finally wakes up from her months long coma and catastrophic injuries, she finds that the world has seemingly changed without her.
Yelan has changed without her.
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