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• A Flower Unlike Any Other by WanderingStars (StardustMermaid)

  Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  19 Oct 2025

  Tags

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  • Cyno/Tighnari (Genshin Impact)
  • Tighnari (Genshin Impact)
  • Cyno (Genshin Impact)
  • Background & Cameo Characters
  • First Meetings
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Fluff
  • Pining Cyno (Genshin Impact)
  • Not Actually Unrequited Love
  • Slow Burn
  • Pre-Canon
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Not Beta Read
  • Hurt Cyno (Genshin Impact)
  • Protective Cyno (Genshin Impact)
  • Flirting
  • Sumeru Akademiya (Genshin Impact)
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Written before Cyno's second storyquest
  • First Kiss
  • Getting Together
  • First Time
  • Cyno and Tighnari Acting as Collei's Parental Figures (Genshin Impact)

  Summary

  Cyno goes into this thinking it will be an open and shut case of yet another scholar with a god complex. Little does he know this encounter will change the course of his life for the better.
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  Little glimpses of Cyno and Tighnari's relationship throughout the years, from their very first meeting to their lives after the Sumeru Archon quest.

  Language:

  English

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  57,813

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