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the winds awaken, the leaves whirl round by sugarysunshine
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
16 Nov 2025
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“Would you come home with me, Kyryll?”
Varka's voice is soft in the quiet murmurs of the lighthouse. Their limbs are tangled in a mess of intertwined legs and blankets, and Varka looks serene underneath the moon's embrace.
“Home?” Flins whispers, as though the word is foreign in his mouth.
Varka reaches out to roll a strand of dark hair between his fingers, “Yes, to Mondstadt.”
Flins hums, closing his eyes.
“Very well then,” Flins nods, “Bring me home, Grand Master.”
Flins follows Varka back home to Mondstadt and relearns how to live as an ordinary human.
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you dance around my mind (a damn acute philosophy) by lucky_orange
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
01 Jan 2026
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Flins says nothing. He just keeps looking at him, a faint glimmer of something in his eyes, so Varka leans over, raising a hand as he calls for Demyan.
The bartender comes over within minutes, wiping his hands on a rag as he does. “Yes, yes, right here. What can I get you two esteemed gentlemen?”
“Your finest bottle of wine, if you’d please. Put on my tab and make it quick,” he reaches over, clasping Flins by the shoulder. “My pal and I have dinner to get to!”
And if Flins happens to twitch at the words, Varka pays it no mind, too busy discussing the unfortunate state of his tab.
Or: Six loosely interconnected snapshots of Varka and Flins' relationship as it grows from quiet pining to getting together and more.
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09 Jan 2026
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“Any challenge is a worthwhile endeavor,” Varka replies. “But if you’re worried about being fair or giving me a handicap…” Flins certainly hadn’t said that, but now he’s curious, and he grows more curious as Varka withdraws a scrap of fabric from one pocket. “Play blindfolded.”
The challenge whets Flins’s appetite. He isn’t the kind of fae who exults in games of chance but rather ones of wit and strategy, and he was fond of collecting intelligent men like glittering baubles at the Belyi Tsar’s court. “If I am to handicap myself, then I should receive a greater reward if I win, don’t you think?” he asks, the words out of his mouth before he can help them, for he, like all fae, loves a bargain.
When a bad storm strands Varka at Flins's lighthouse, the two play chess to pass the time. After beating Varka twice, Flins agrees to play with a blindfold, provided the loser owe the winner a boon.
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08 Jan 2026
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“So you two… are boyfriends?”
“Absolutely!” Varka beams.
“No, we are not,” Flins shakes his head with a light smile.
When Varka proudly declares Flins as his boyfriend, he doesn’t expect his lover to disagree– and Flins definitely doesn’t expect it to send Varka away but bring half the town to help and chaos instead.
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08 Jan 2026
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“I did not expect to see you work as the Starshyna’s messenger boy,” Varka said with a relaxed, almost all-knowing smile. “What happened to Illuga?”
“Nothing,” Flins said. “The Starshyna you might try to steal him away from the Ratniki. It is more appropriate if I come instead.”
Varka had to find something funny in Flins’s half-truth, laughing first and then tapping his chin pensively. “Is he not afraid of me trying to steal you away? I’ll say, it seems like his judgment isn’t as sharp as he’d want it to be.”
Varka was a very touch-oriented person. Always clapping shoulders, patting backs, or holding onto his friends’ arms when he laughed too hard. Flins wanted to feel that for himself.
But when he had it, it felt shallow. He missed the lingering touches, their feet playing under the table, their hands gravitating towards one another. He wanted Varka to hold him and never let go.
It was a lot to ask because Varka did not belong to the graveyard or to Nod-Krai. He belonged to his family back in Mondstadt, whom he had never spoken to Flins about.
Because for the first time, it was Flins who was temporary—not the other way around.
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04 Jan 2026