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”It’s a hazy afternoon on the tail end of summer when Zhongli looks at Childe and realises he never wants to look at anything else for the rest of his life.
The revelation comes with no fanfare. Nothing changes, nothing breaks. It’s simply a fact. The sky is blue. The sun is bright. Violetgrass wilts in the heat, and Zhongli is terribly, irreversibly in love.”
Or: in which Zhongli falls in love, falls out of the sky, falls from grace, and falls into bed with Liyue’s Public Enemy Number Eleven. In exactly that order.
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27 Mar 2026
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Almost two years after Diluc’s departure from Mondstadt, Kaeya gets drunk, mixes up his letters, and accidentally sends Diluc the first draft of his suicide note – but he doesn’t realise his mistake until Diluc appears on his doorstep less than a week later, as if he’d never left.
(Whumptober Day 12: “I’m up, I’m up.”)
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- Part 12 of whumptober 2023 - ragnvindr family edition
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15 Mar 2026
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"Childe," comes Zhongli's wonderfully sonorous voice. "I don't believe I tell you often enough just how grateful I am to have you here."
Childe had swallowed hard. What he would have given to hear those words from him. Even knowing how this would end, he cannot guarantee he will not go reckless lengths to hear such sentiments from the god's lips once more, even if he knows them to be but pretense.
His breath hitched as Zhongli shifted so that their sides were pressed to each other. His face was closer now when he turned towards Childe, eyes dazzling as they looked right into Childe's.
Now, Childe is standing much too far away to see if Zhongli's eyes truly had flitted down to his lips as he liked to imagine they had. He watches the scene with bated breath; if he concentrates hard enough, he can almost feel the warmth of Zhongli's breath on his lips once more, the burning of blood as it courses through his veins in anticipation. From the angle he's watching, it almost looks like it happened, with his own back to him and Zhongli looking at him with a gaze so adoring.
A heartbroken Childe goes to the past after the 1.1 fiasco to see if he and Zhongli really had anything. (They did).
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18 Feb 2026
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under the snow, spring by plot_hole_ventilation
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
16 Jun 2025
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The first taste of autumn is in the air when Xiao first receives the order.
Retirement, it says, written in the inexorable and utterly recognizable script of Rex Lapis, the rest of the contract written formally and his seal stamped over the dried ink. He had done enough, Xiao had done enough—it had said—and his duties were discharged now, to let him have a little of the hard-won peace, and some enjoyment of it. And maybe—the contract stated in the kindest possible terms—maybe Xiao could have a new life of his own, just like Rex Lapis, as though he was hatched anew.
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20 Jun 2025
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"He tastes salt in the air which stings his lips. He has always hated the sea. It is the place where gods go to die."
When Zhongli discovers he has Hanahaki disease he decides he is going to die.
It has been two months since he gave up his gnosis and, after his betrayal, Childe must hate him, so there's no way he will ever love him back. No, it's better to choke to death on petals than to be more of a burden to the Harbinger than he already is.Bookmarked by ancientmai
06 May 2025