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  1. Rec *

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    Every year, Tighnari disappears for two weeks. He doesn't tell anyone where he is going, or why, and whoever dares to ask him about it is silenced with a pointed glare. This year, Cyno runs into him by accident.

    Even from the distance Cyno can see the dilation of Tighnari’s pupils, the flush creeping all the way down Tighnari’s neck. Vaguely he registers that Tighnari is not wearing his usual ranger outfit but loose-fitting white robes instead, bound around his waist but slipping off his shoulders, showing more skin than they’re hiding. Tighnari’s hair is matted with sweat, sticking to his skin.

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    15 Jan 2026

  2. Rec 98

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    Just be yourself, show him you’re not guilty and it’ll be fine. A small voice in Tighnari’s head whispered.

    It was just one week.

    One week with General Mahamatra passing as a fellow student.

    He would be fine.

    Wouldn’t he?

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    14 Jan 2026

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    "Let me get this straight. You want Kaveh, a man known for being about as subtle as a stampede of sumpter beasts -"

    "Hey! Come on! I'm right here, you know!"

    "--to act as your spy? For the good of the nation?" Alhaitham snorted. "Kaveh can't even remember his keys, Cyno. And you're expecting him to engage in advanced statecraft?"

    "Ok, rude."

    When a certain ginger-haired Snezhnayan buys a slice of barren desert property in Sumeru, it's up to Kaveh to figure out whether this strange foreigner is actually the Eleventh Fatui Harbinger, and more importantly, what he's plotting out there in the middle of no man's land. Kaveh can do this. Probably.

    But it would sure be a lot easier if Alhaitham hadn't invited himself along as the world's most distracting fake husband.

    Chapter 9: The Ultimate Question Answered!, Chapter 10: What are Men to Rocks and Mountains?, Chapter 11: Perfectly Imperfect (posted!)

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    14 Jan 2026

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    Kaveh is living through his lowest of lows, which leads him to drink far too much all too often, struggling to find a reason to keep fighting. A chance at some respite comes in the unlikeliest of forms, as his best-friend-turned-distant-acquaintance-whom-he-hates-but-not-really offers him a place to stay.

    The story of how two idiots learn to forgive past hurt and fall in love. Or, perhaps, it was love from the start.

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    15 Jan 2026

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    "The world moved on, but not for Alhaitham.

    It got to the point where it wasn't like he was purposefully waiting, but the years passed and buried him along with his feelings. It was more like he couldn't grasp the idea that the world could go on without Kaveh, and everything just stopped making any sense until the day they would meet again."

    Where Kaveh falls into some ruins for a few days, and returns to find out that years have passed.

    Or,

    Wangxian-inspired Alhaitham/Kaveh.

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    15 Jan 2026