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"Am I a robot or a doll?
Am I anything at all?
Maybe a soul like me
Doesn't even need to know.
Am I big or am I small?
Hunching over,
Standing tall?
I lost my identity
Oh, so very long ago"He was 10 years old when it happened. The little boy, overly trusting and naive, disobeyed his parents and gave his name to a wicked woman, signing his sentence as her slave, forever.
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A take on Xiao's life. His past and his present, inspired by the song "Language of the Lost" by Riproducer.
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20 Oct 2025
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A Study of Xiao's World (In a Place where it Still Exists) by IlnaHers
Fandom: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
16 Oct 2025
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Unrelated unless specified. Xiao angst, and Xiao care.
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14 Oct 2025
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with all the funeral honors that befit him by oliveden
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
11 Sep 2025
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he wants to lament their foolishness. their naivety, if it even can be called such. but he is naive, too, for hoping that anything will come of this conversation.
who can deflect the gods’ wrath? who can defy fate?
(before the heavenly principles come down to teyvat, xiao is sent to carry a message.)
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- Part 2 of stillborn
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14 Oct 2025
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Up in the mountains of Liyue, a creature hides.
A Demon.
Monster.
Beast.It had been described as many things.
But never was it called by an actual name.All the demon knew was it’s insatiable hunger, until it decides to settle in the nation of Liyue and learns of the god that rules there.
Faith for a god that would probably kill the demon as soon as he saw it was a strange thing to have, yet more filling than any flesh or blood, warming its body…
What will happen when the nameless demon is discovered? Will the yakshas slay it? Or will Rex lapis show mercy on its cursed, pitiful soul?Bookmarked by Ruby_Z
14 Oct 2025
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It is not Bosacius trapped at the bottom of The Chasm, and it is not a lingering memory they find there.
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(A role reversal AU for our favourite yaksha (a little happier than canon))
*note: discontinued
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- Part 1 of Into Darkness and Howling
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- English
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- 57,360
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- 16/?
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13 Oct 2025
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Those of a Cursed Bloodline by stardust_falling
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
16 Oct 2025
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When General Feixiao was invited to visit a planet that the Yaoqing's forces had once liberated, it seemed like it was going to be a good experience and a nice change of pace for her and her companions-- a rare chance to actually experience the fruits of their never-ending labor. But it would not be long before their relaxing vacation was turned into yet another crisis. When Jiaoqiu is kidnapped and subjected to cruel experimentation, the deeply-rooted discontent among the planet's inhabitants is brought to light as the three visitors are thrust into the center of the conflict.
Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025
- Day Seven: Starvation, Foodborne illness, "They put something in my system, I can't think straight."
- Day Sixteen: Leashed, Painful shapeshifting, "Hold them down."
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- Part 8 of Zhuixing's Whumptober 2025
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- English
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- 7,059
- Chapters:
- 2/?
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12 Oct 2025
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One day, Zhongli disappears from Liyue Harbor. The next day, a note is left on his desk for Hu Tao, requesting a temporary, indefinite period of leave. Then, after three months without a single sight or sound from him, he finally returns-- pale, haunted, and still injured. Hu Tao tries at first to give him his privacy, but when he collapses at his desk, she and Xiao are left with no choice but to intervene.
Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025
- Day Six: Self-inflicted injury, Rocky recovery, "If I tell you what they made me do, you won't be able to look at me the same."
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- Part 7 of Zhuixing's Whumptober 2025
- Language:
- English
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- 3,195
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Collections:
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12 Oct 2025
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It Lingers on the Edges by stardust_falling
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
03 Oct 2025
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After the crisis on the Xianzhou Luofu, General Feixiao and her retainers return to the Yaoqing to recover and prepare for the inevitable war to come. Jiaoqiu realizes, over time, that it's much less easy to come back from the dead than he expected or wished to believe.
Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025
- Alternate Prompts: Chronic Condition, Blinded
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- Part 4 of Zhuixing's Whumptober 2025
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,569
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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12 Oct 2025
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Acceptable Casualties by stardust_falling
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
02 Oct 2025
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The healer and strategist of the Yaoqing's Arbiter-General can be reckless at times when it comes to his own safety. When their war camp is attacked in the middle of the night, Jiaoqiu goes back to the general's tent to retrieve the medicines he'd made for Feixiao-- but on the way back, he is hit by a sniper's shot, receiving a wound that could easily prove fatal if not dealt with quickly.
Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025
- Day Two: Amputation, Gunshot, "It's not worth your life!"
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- Part 2 of Zhuixing's Whumptober 2025
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11 Oct 2025
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A strange virus sweeps across Liyue, one which targets the Adepti and slowly reduces them to their original, unenlightened forms. Even Zhongli himself, despite having set aside his divinity in name, is not spared. Their consciousness suppressed, he and his former companions become the subjects of a Fatui Harbinger's heretical experiments. Though Zhongli himself is ultimately able to suppress the virus, leading to the possibility of a cure, there is no guarantee that the Doctor would have any desire to cure them in the first place-- after all, even if he doesn't continue the experiment, he happens to have an associate who would be rather pleased to receive an exotic beast as a gift.
Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025
- Alternate Prompts: Nonhuman/Pet Whumpee, Mutation
- Day Eighteen: Captivity, Loss of powers, "Do you even know how to use that?"
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- Part 11 of Zhuixing's Whumptober 2025
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11 Oct 2025
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let me stay tenderhearted, despite despite despite by eons
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
12 Oct 2023
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curious is the day when a steaming bowl of almond tofu is left at one of alatus’ alters.
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02 Oct 2025
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you don't have to be a ghost (here amongst the living) by lilysweetdreams
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
03 Mar 2023
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A trapped child takes a chance on a stranger, in the hopes of setting himself free. But one god is only traded for another, and the boy knows that nothing will change.
Right?
or, as i told my housemate, i turn xiao in to a feral wet kitten of a child for zhongli to adopt
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- 21,187
- Chapters:
- 6/?
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16 Sep 2025
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12 Sep 2025
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you will live forever in my guilt by yun (bflfism) for Zaphyrus (wolfhunter777)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Aug 2023
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“You knew I was fated to kill you.” And you let me in. You let me into the temple, into your heart. You kept letting me in.
“I did,” Cyno admits, “but know this, Xiao. I was not fated to love you, yet I loved you all the same.”
One day, you will see the spring flowers bloom.
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10 Sep 2025
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Everyone pays (just not zhongli and venti) by orphan_account for birdsofpassage
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
31 Oct 2020
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"Childe...no... no..Open your eyes Childe, d-dont leave me.. Childe? Childe?!" Zhongli whispered- descending into hysterics. Childe's slack face held a small smile - peaceful, as if it was mocking him from the beyond. As if he had the last laugh as usual. It couldn't be true - it couldn't. This. This was all just a bad dream wasn't it? It had to be. It. It couldn't be real. It was just red paint running from his mouth and his head and his body and everywhere and all over him. Why was it on him - why was he here, why was he gone whywhywhywwhywwhwywh-
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.FORMELY NAMED ' THE HIGHER GODS WILL PAY (JUST NOT ZHONGLI AND VENTI)
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- Part 1 of Chili Stories
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07 Sep 2025
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Having just gotten his body and completed his business in Mondstadt, Venti sets off on a journey. He will be drawn into the political affairs of the Guili Assembly, meet other Gods and possibly play a decisive role in the ongoing war.
Meanwhile, the Guili Assembly is trying to find the missing Gnosis...
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- Part 1 of Intangibles
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07 Sep 2025
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dream /drēm/ (n) :a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep.
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07 Sep 2025
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between taint and divinity — a home; by rizale
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
16 Jun 2025
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To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked.
Xiao and the mortifying ordeal of being known — where Xiao believes he's unlovable, and Venti who loves him easier than breathing.
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Xiao falls in love with Venti, post-Archon war. Then he continues to fall again and again and again, and Venti catches him, time and time again, from the beginning to the end- and then again.Bookmarked by Ruby_Z
26 Aug 2025
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“Poetic, isn’t it? A blade adorned by a bloom. You wear it so easily, yet treat it like a burden. Do you not like beautiful things, Xiao?”
A shift was caught in Xiao’s eyes, and he knew Barbatos had him just where he had wanted. The flower, so light, but felt so heavy on Xiao’s shoulders. Subtle, slow though it was, the arrow dug deep into the mark, slicing it open.
“Beauty distracts. It fades. It blinds,” he replied.
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- English
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- 9,781
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25 Aug 2025
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The Archon War was no “every-man-for-himself massacre of the gods” like all of the historical books say. Yeah. The Akademiya got it wrong. Take that, Al Haitham.
(Or, Madam Ping Tells a Story)
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- Part 1 of The Chaos Chronicles
Bookmarked by Ruby_Z
25 Aug 2025