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    A familiar stranger comes to Aether after he nurses a bird back to health. But Xiao has more secrets than he's willing to give, and Aether is quickly running out of time.

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    18 Jul 2021

  2. Public Bookmark 58

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    While traveling through Liyue with his sister, Aether somehow gets sucked into the realm of the dead and is saved by the Conqueror of Demons. And for some reason, Xiao already knows Aether's name even though neither of them remember meeting the other at first.

    Or, a Spirited Away inspired AU where Aether gets a job at the spirit realm version of Wangshu Inn as he tries to reunite with his sister, and slowly grows closer with the solitary adeptus Xiao.

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    07 May 2021

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    Absolutely beautiful spirited away Xiaoather fic open ended made me sob :)

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       Xiao didn’t make him angry… did he? Did he do something wrong? Snapped at the wrong time, brushed him off, something? Was all of this Xiao’s fault? Maybe—just maybe—if Xiao had been more accepting, more cordial, accepted the smiles more often, this wouldn’t have happened. If he had only given Aether a little more attention, if he’d accepted the Lanturn Right date outright like he wanted to… This was his fault, all his fault, and because of Xiao, Aether might be severely hurt. That was the only explanation. It was his fault it was his fault it was his fa—

        “Xiao?”

        He looked to Ganyu, who was carefully observing in the doorway. His breath was quick and heavy, his throat was dry, and his hands were shaking. Xiao was sure he looked like a caged animal with how he had snapped to attention. He needed to find them, and quick, but a self induced panic attack wasn’t going to get him anywhere.

        “Where’s Paimon?” he snarled.

        “With Lady Ningguang. I can take you to—”

        In a burst of teal blue and black smoke, Xiao was gone from the middle of the room.
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    Aether's been kidnapped, and Xiao is forced to look at the traumatic waves of his past.

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    29 Mar 2021

  4. Public Bookmark 37

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    aether loses his light.

     

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    five hundred years later, they reunite.

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    29 Mar 2021

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    Wide gold eyes, wet with tears, look at him like he is Aether's last hope. “I can’t fly.” The wings shifted under the tethers that bound them and Xiao was reminded of a bird with clipped wings, trapped on the ground with all its predators.

    A star that fell from the sky to a place corrupted by shadows that would feast on its light.

    “You don’t need to, you’ll be fine,” Xiao replied. Because he’s caught Aether before, swears he will do so however many times he falls.

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    Aether asks Xiao to eat his nightmares and Xiao learns a secret hidden in the skies.

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    24 Feb 2021