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Xiao isn't a person. He hasn't been since he was five years old. He's a weapon of war, a killing machine. So even if he is that boy in the mural, the one with the mother god and the dragon, what does it matter. He'll never be that boy again. It's as accurate a reflection as a gravestone.
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12 Dec 2024
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Or: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
In which Venti harbors a suspicion that the neighboring Geo Archon hates his guts and is actively trying to unseat him from the Seven, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.
“He just casually sharpens his spear while talking to me. All the time! I mean, who does that? How am I supposed to not perceive that as a threat?”
“To be fair, we are talking about a god of martial arts, here,” the Pyro Archon suggested. “That seems pretty par for the course.”
“Okay, you are all being way too calm about this!” Venti snapped. “You guys realize he only does this to me? I mean,” he started, counting on his fingers, “does he randomly visit any of you unannounced? Does he threateningly show off his spears when talking to any of you? Did he buy any of you a bunch of fancy wine right before the winter gala so you’d get super drunk and make an ass of yourselves? No! It’s only me! It’s always me! Because he’s trying to get rid of me at any cost!”
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07 Oct 2024
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“Just think of all the Mora…” he whispers to himself, unbuttoning the ends of his sleeves.
Zhongli shows up not long after. Similar to yesterday, he’s dressed stupidly well: nice suit, hair combed back perfectly and eyeliner that slays. Venti admits, only to himself, that he isn’t hard on the eyes and is, relatively, unobtrusive.
Zhongli’s smile is beautiful, though.
“Are you ready to go?” Zhongli asks, voice smooth and slow but gentle.
Why did someone so flawless on paper need to hire someone to be their date?
In which Zhongli needs a fiancé for the holidays and Venti is broke enough to answer that online ad.
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26 Sep 2024
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the wind (and the rock it returns to) by beldou
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
20 Dec 2020
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Had I known the new anemo archon would be so infuriating, I would have banned every gust of wind from the nation.
My dearest god of contracts, you ought to know better than to make promises like that!
Morax takes the wine like it is poison. Surrender is apparent in his voice. A contract in full, then. I drink from this bottle, and you leave me be for the next fifty years.
Be sure to enjoy it in its entirety.
Morax looks at him with thinly-veiled disgust. The fifty years begins now.
(Or: the conversations they have over the years.)
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06 Sep 2024
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Venti remembers the man in the alleyway, lit almost ablaze in the lamplight. The gold in his eyes. The meteor orbiting his shoulders. His hands had been as steady as the earth, and when he held Venti, he had called him—
—a name he hadn’t heard in a long, long time.
After hearing news of Morax’s death, Venti travels to Liyue to honor a tradition that the Original Seven had long held: each time one of them passed on, those that remained would gather to drink a toast and say their final goodbyes.
He figures Morax deserves this, at the least, even if it’s a party of one. He didn’t think it would be so hard to do it alone.
Drunk, lonely, and despairing, Venti takes to wandering the streets of Liyue and stumbles upon a well-dressed stranger by the name of Zhongli, who reminds him far too much of what he’s just lost.
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06 Sep 2024
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It’s a quarter to one in the morning, and Hosea is doing his best not to cry.
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08 Aug 2023