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I cannot be him, but I can be me (is that enough?) by ira_writes
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
09 Jul 2025
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And despite that... Kaveh is… “Lovesick?”
Kaveh’s hands move to cover his face, palms muffling his words as he mutters, “It’s—not quite like that.”
“Well, the ‘sick’ aspect is accurate, at least.”
“No shit,” Kaveh snorts. “The ‘love’ component, though—it’s, uh—”
“You’re not in love?”
He coughs. “The greenhouse in my lungs begs to differ. I—it’s more that my body is mourning a love it knows can’t ever be requited.”
For all the negative feelings Alhaitham’s encountered over the past twelve hours, the sensation that creeps through him now is…
Unfamiliar.
Unknowable.
Despite all the languages he’s fluent in, Alhaitham is unable to conjure a word or phrase with which he can immediately label it. He just knows that whatever this feeling is, it’s unbelievably unpleasant. Like his body is stationary, yet his internal organs are plummeting into the Abyss.
“You love someone who doesn’t love you back?” he asks after a moment.
Kaveh has Hanahaki. That much is known. But who he loves, and whether Alhaitham will be able to save him, is up in the air.
(Haikavah vs. Hanahaki vs. A/B/O dynamics)
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29 Jun 2026
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They’ve had what Kaveh calls the ‘fungus conversation’ several times now. It started as a joke about the architect somehow devolving into a fungus, but Kaveh insisted on bringing it up again every so often, repeatedly claiming that at least he would be a fungus with empathy.
Meanwhile Alhaitham, presumably, would not.
Kaveh’s insistence on this point seems strange, not least of all because Alhaitham thought he knew him better than that.
When Alhaitham denies yet another funding proposal and pisses off a handful of researchers, he ends up turned into a fungus. Kaveh's presence inevitably makes things a bit better, even if the two of them can't - now, quite literally - communicate.
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19 May 2026