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“So…” Zhongli narrows his eyes. “What is it you do for a living, exactly?”
“Ah,” Venti says brightly, flipping his half-burnt pancake over the stove, “I’m a salesman.”
It becomes obvious that it’s a lie the first time Venti comes back to the apartment covered in blood.
AU: In which Zhongli is a century-old ghost living out a life of half-existence, forced to haunt the tiny apartment in which he died, unable to interact with anything or anyone in the living world. Until one day, in moves a loud-mouthed internationally wanted criminal with a flippant attitude towards death, who just so happens to have the unique ability to see and speak to ghosts.
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- Part 1 of zhongven ghostverse
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23 May 2025
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Death, Taxes, and Pining Fools by Cavalierious for moepuff
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
26 Jun 2024
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So Alhaitham thinks through all those reasons again. There are three things certain in his life; death, taxes, and that he’s in love with Kaveh.
“They are,” he eventually says. “Good enough reasons, I mean.”
He lets Kaveh think it’s for the taxes. Alhaitham marries him because it’s love.
Kaveh proposes marriage for tax benefits.
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- Part 1 of And They Were Roommates
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15 May 2025
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The Flowering Death in His Lungs by Maleficar for issei_shin
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
03 Jan 2025
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Neuvillette is not the fool Wriothesley must take him for. The shine on his lips. The exhaustion in his eyes. The shortness of breath when he talks too much, too fast. Wriothesley is in love, and it is killing him, as love on Teyvat is wont to do.
He thinks he should like to find this person who has so captured and poisoned Wriothesley’s heart. He should like to mete out judgement against them for destroying such a man, noble and true.
Perhaps Wriothesley knows that, too. Perhaps that is why Wriothesley will not speak of his tormentor.
Wriothesley makes the mistake of falling in love.
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28 Apr 2025
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It is not until one night, as they are resting in their shared room in the Serenitea Pot, that the trend of Aether's dreams changes slightly.
It is one of the rare nights that Xiao is allowing himself to sleep, dozing more than anything as he lays next to Aether, but his eyes snap open when he hears a whimper. Aether's brow is furrowed slightly, as is usual when he is having a nightmare, but he squirms a moment later, which is… less normal for him. Xiao watches him squirm a bit more and make several indecipherable murmurs, feeling more and more confused. His individual actions point towards a nightmare, but something's not quite adding up as it should. This is further emphasised when he hears a breathy "Xiao," from Aether.
Well, if he isn't in a nightmare, then what else could he be dreaming about? Xiao decides it wouldn't hurt to take a look just to be sure. He is not at all prepared for what he ends up intruding on.
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24 Apr 2025
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Venti would often trace the glowing lines on Zhongli’s arms distractedly until Zhongli would shiver from the faint touch, interlocking their fingers and laughing softly as Venti was dragged back to the present from his daydreams. “You truly prefer to spend our time like this?” Zhongli would ask, already knowing the answer.
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18 Apr 2025
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“I brought,” Zhongli begins offering the parchment to Venti, “this. If you’re unable to communicate verbally, perhaps this will work.”
The old man is smart. But, Venti wonders just how much writing his thoughts down will get him. He reaches for it, anyway. As Venti’s fingers brush along the paper, anemo magic sparks from his fingers. Beautiful cursive letters dance across the page and spell out:
Blockhead.
Venti looks deeply satisfied at the glare Zhongli shoots him.
“As immature as ever,” Zhongli mutters.
In which Venti loses his voice, Zhongli loses something, too, and they rediscover themselves and each other. Or, through shared vulnerability, they finally make that push.
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18 Apr 2025
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Venti has seen how Zhongli loves. It is not with him, but that's okay.
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17 Apr 2025
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the exquisite timelessness of falling by mysterymistakes
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
22 Jun 2021
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In all his years, Xiao has never been called upon for compassion or comfort. He is a deity of death. His purpose is the creation of carnage for the better good.
And yet, Aether is here on his balcony, sniffling sadly with his chin on his knees and staring into a flickering constellation.
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14 Apr 2025
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He's late, he realizes.
There's a lot of blood here, he realizes a moment later. Not the blackened stains of shades temporarily banished, but the dark-red and glistening of mortal blood, spattered in desperate arcs across the grass, staining the water where the River Lethe pools. Across the chamber, it shifts to a trail of blood, the imprint of bare footprints burned into the darkening liquid.
There. There, slumped with his back against a green-glowing infernal trove, an ethereal sword buried in his chest, a pool of blood slowly spreading beneath him—Zagreus, Prince of the Underworld, his warmth and light so faded that Thanatos didn't even realize he was still in the chamber.
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10 Apr 2025
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He can't remember the last time he cried. It was probably over something childish. It didn't hurt. It can't have hurt, not like this, or he wouldn't have forgotten.
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10 Apr 2025
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and they were roommates (oh my god they were roommates) by easy__peasy
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Mar 2022
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Venti pats the empty space between them. "C'mon I want to braid your hair," he says, deciding that a simple three-strand braid would be perfect, “you can still read your fancy-schmancy articles while I do ‘em.”
“They are far from fancy-schmancy,” is Zhongli’s dry reply. He still moves from his position and sits in the space Venti made.
Or: It begins with hair ties. Then it's little knick-knacks that Zhongli always, always says he bought because it reminded him of Venti.
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04 Apr 2025
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“Just think of all the Mora…” he whispers to himself, unbuttoning the ends of his sleeves.
Zhongli shows up not long after. Similar to yesterday, he’s dressed stupidly well: nice suit, hair combed back perfectly and eyeliner that slays. Venti admits, only to himself, that he isn’t hard on the eyes and is, relatively, unobtrusive.
Zhongli’s smile is beautiful, though.
“Are you ready to go?” Zhongli asks, voice smooth and slow but gentle.
Why did someone so flawless on paper need to hire someone to be their date?
In which Zhongli needs a fiancé for the holidays and Venti is broke enough to answer that online ad.
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09 Mar 2025
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Venti remembers the man in the alleyway, lit almost ablaze in the lamplight. The gold in his eyes. The meteor orbiting his shoulders. His hands had been as steady as the earth, and when he held Venti, he had called him—
—a name he hadn’t heard in a long, long time.
After hearing news of Morax’s death, Venti travels to Liyue to honor a tradition that the Original Seven had long held: each time one of them passed on, those that remained would gather to drink a toast and say their final goodbyes.
He figures Morax deserves this, at the least, even if it’s a party of one. He didn’t think it would be so hard to do it alone.
Drunk, lonely, and despairing, Venti takes to wandering the streets of Liyue and stumbles upon a well-dressed stranger by the name of Zhongli, who reminds him far too much of what he’s just lost.
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09 Mar 2025
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Alhaitham does not get drunk.
Kaveh has known him for a long, long time, and he has never seen the man drunk.
Has he slipped sideways into a parallel universe? Alhaitham can’t be drunk. Alhaitham doesn’t get drunk. Why is Alhaitham drunk in his arms?
Alhaitham doesn't get drunk, until he does, and Kaveh has to deal with the repercussions of Aether's impressive ability to put away drinks.- Language:
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08 Mar 2025
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“We don’t have time. Besides, my end is inevitable," Xiao says.
“Ah-ha! Not true. Time is the only thing we have.” Venti refuses to let Xiao meet his end so easily. He doesn’t know Xiao, not really. But it’s just so frustrating to see him with freedom right between his fingers and still refuse to hold on. He could if only he tried.
Venti will drag Xiao into tomorrow, even if he has to do it kicking and screaming.
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Stuck in a time loop where he succumbs to his karmic debt, Xiao struggles to see the point in moving forward. Venti struggles to save him.
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- Part 1 of to live beside you
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02 Jan 2025
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“Get nightmares often, huh?”
Xiao looks at him, startled. It takes a moment before something like sullen understanding crosses his face. It’s resigned in a way Venti never is. “Sorry. You should get earplugs. I can’t control it.”
Venti is no good with sadness. It sits in him like a dead weight. He does whatever he can to push it out. "I don’t think those will really help,” Venti says with a laugh.
“The roommate swap is next week. I wouldn’t hold it against you if you left. My roommate last year did the same thing.”
Oh, shit.
Now he can’t leave.
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30 Dec 2024
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“Whyever in the world would you be retiring? You’re barely thirty.”
“Extenuating circumstances,” Alhaitham says. “I wanted an opportunity to get my affairs in order.”
“Your affairs? What, are you—”
“I’m sick, Kaveh. Haven’t you noticed?”
“The coughing. Sure.” Kaveh swallows, then keeps talking like he didn’t just exhibit such an obvious nervous tell. “So, you’re sick. Is that any reason to upend your life? I understand needing to take the time to get better, but—”
“I am not going to get better. I am going to get worse, and then I am going to die,” Alhaitham says plainly.
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23 Dec 2024
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Kaveh wakes up at six AM to see his one-night stand sitting cross-legged on the floor, neatly folding his shirt and placing it onto a small stack of his clothes.
a modern love story.
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- Part 1 of love in the time of akademiya
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04 Dec 2024
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Prince Cyno is waiting for him at the entrance. Wordlessly, he takes Tighnari’s hand and kisses it stiffly, dutifully. He is strikingly handsome, but his expression is sharp and severe. Disinclined to laughter, to joy.
“Your Highness,” he says, and does not smile.
“Your Highness,” Tighnari says, and despairs.a tale of two princes.
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29 Nov 2024
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Neuvillette knows little of what it means to be a dragon; he has spent his entire life among the people of Fontaine. Everything he does know about dragons, he has uncovered himself through trial and error and the occasional bit of obscure research. But this, at least, he recognizes.
Mating instincts.
By protecting him, the duke is behaving like a dragon seeking a mate, and that has triggered Neuvillette’s own instincts to judge the duke’s adequacy.
When Wriothesley begins acting like a dragon courting his mate, Neuvillette finds himself torn between duty and desire.
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- Part 1 of The Care and Keeping of Dragons
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25 Nov 2024