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• Eye of the storm by PoppyTrails

  Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)  

  • General Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M, Other
  • Complete Work

  05 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Skirk & Tartaglia | Childe (Genshin Impact)
  • Tartaglia | Childe/Zhongli (Genshin Impact)
  • Tartaglia | Childe (Genshin Impact)
  • Skirk (Genshin Impact)
  • Zhongli (Genshin Impact)
  • Mentioned Surtalogi (Genshin Impact)
  • Spoilers for skirk story quest
  • Post-Chapter 4: Fontaine (Genshin Impact)
  • The Zhongchi is only at the end
  • STRICTLY PLATONIC CHILDE AND SKIRK
  • So much Childe lore
  • Skirk and Childe’s time in the abyss
  • Protective Skirk AND protective Zhongli lowkey
  • author has never written before
  • Not Beta Read

  Summary

  One does not survive the abyss with a soft heart.

  Surtalogi had drilled that into her after all, ‘Any minute spent missing home is a minute wasted —’

  These fickle feelings do nothing but hinder a warrior’s growth. Yet Skirk cannot bring herself to teach Childe what Surtalogi taught her.

  Or

  Skirk and the child that fell in the abyss, the child she took under her wing and the child she definitely shouldn’t have grown fond of.

  Language:

  English

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