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just playing dollhouse by catboykitchen
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
05 Jul 2024
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This is probably his fault. There’s no other explanation for how it had all been very normal until a horrible high-pitched sound rang through the air with a blinding flash and he’d found himself sitting somewhere completely different once he’d blinked back to reality.
As it turns out, wishful thinking tends to make itself dangerous when you have a lucky streak.
Aventurine and Ratio get body swapped into Kaveh and Alhaitham's bodies. It takes some vulnerability to find a way out.
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- Part 1 of Ratiorine/Haikaveh Body Swap
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31 Jul 2024
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Of the two of them, it was Alhaitham that seemed the ideal alpha—tall, broad-shouldered, his scent one that could overpower a room.
But it was Kaveh—shorter, slimmer, and slighter—that was stronger.
Kaveh watched the up-and-down of Alhaitham's larynx as he swallowed, a flash of uncertainty in his sea-green eyes. Kaveh licked his lips. He stepped forward. Alhaitham stepped back. That retreat thrilled Kaveh, so he pushed forward until Alhaitham hit, with a slight stumble, a wall behind him—one of those damnable invisible walls in the desert.
Kaveh's eyes travelled slowly down, following the lines of his cape to his arm, where his gaze stopped, as if transfixed. "That scar," he said. "It's still there?"
"... Yes," Alhaitham said.
Kaveh's rutting. Alhaitham offers to help.
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22 Apr 2024
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Applicant Name: Kaveh
Darshan of Affiliation: Kshahrewar
Desired Salary: N/A
Attached CV: [Decoding the Runes and Architectural Philosophy of the Ruins of King Deshret’s Civilization]
Cover Letter (if applicable):
Kindly send this appropriately credited document to Akademiya staff so that someone may teach the belligerent Scribe that he cannot blindly pass along my existing work to some newcomer over a topic he destroyed almost a decade ago.
Delete this.
(or, Alhaitham posts a familiar job listing. Sumeru wishes he hadn’t.)
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06 Mar 2024
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I want you Here (I want you, Dear) by Intensely_Reading
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
30 Nov 2023
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“I’m in love with you. Isn’t that pathetic?” Kaveh murmurs into his ear. He is laughing—harsh and discordant and bitter.
“I’m in love with you, and I’m dying,” Kaveh rambles. “You’re killing me, Alhaitham.”
(Kaveh contracts hanahaki. He and Alhaitham deal with the consequences.)
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18 Jan 2024
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Just as Kaveh turns away from the orange tree, Alhaitham’s mother blooms into a heartfelt laugh, a soft and melodic sound like the distant ringing of wind chimes. And he realizes that Alhaitham inherited his mother’s laugh, too.
“You truly love him,” she says in between chuckles. “Deeply and devastatingly so.”
Kaveh can’t help but burst into laughter himself, “Am I really that obvious?”
She nods, “You want to marry my son.”
“I do.”
Before proposing, Kaveh decides to find a way to meet with Alhaitham's family in order to properly ask for Alhaitham's hand in marriage.
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12 Dec 2023
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With Kaveh nipping at his bruised skin and grinding his fingers against his prostate, Alhaitham finds it hard to formulate even one clear thought, let alone a comprehensive response. But eventually, he manages to produce a string of words he never would have dreamed to leave his mouth.
"I need you to fuck me."
Or: Kaveh introduces Alhaitham to his prostate.
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06 Dec 2023
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An immortal’s time is difficult to count on clocks. Neuvillette and Wriothesley do paperwork with each other, over the course of years. An empty tea cup, sitting on its saucer. Wriothesley’s heavy black coat, folded on the back of his chair. The Duke’s fast, long, straggly writing – left-handed – his hand angled just so to prevent the ink from smearing.
Keen brow. Sharp jaw. Dark lashes. The scar under his eye. The way the Duke absently runs a hand through his hair when thinking.
The tiny moments – nestled among quills scratching on paper, the sound of typewriter keys, and too-full schedules – when Monsieur Neuvillette feels something he may have long come to call love, if only he were human.
A human might have professed his love already. Neuvillette is not human and has not done so, but maybe that's more okay than he thinks.
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- Part 1 of the receding of the ocean
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25 Nov 2023
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And of course, to the one who is so dearly loved by the world, Alhaitham yields. He offers all of the vast expanse of his being in pursuit of that which he is not destined to be.
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23 Nov 2023
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When Kaveh announces that he’ll need to temporarily stop taking suppressants, Alhaitham assumes that he must be an omega. After all, that’s the only logical reason that Kaveh would have pretended to be a beta for all this time. It’s the only logical reason that Kaveh would ask Alhaitham, an alpha, to leave the house for two weeks.
Except Alhaitham has made a rare miscalculation—and helping Kaveh will be much more difficult than Alhaitham expected, when his own instincts keep pulling him in two different directions.
“To clarify,” Alhaitham says, “you’re saying you’ll feel safer if I’m not here. Do I have that correct?”
“That—that’s not exactly what I said.”
“You said that you don’t know if it’s safe. That implies a degree of uncertainty, which means that you’ll feel less uncertain—and therefore safer—if I’m not around.” When Kaveh doesn’t respond, Alhaitham adds, “I’m just making sure I understand the situation correctly.”
“To be honest,” Kaveh says, “I don’t think you understand the situation at all.”
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- Part 1 of fighting instinct
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23 Oct 2023
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“Simple set theory,” Alhaitham says, nodding. “Unless (A) equals (B), set (A+B) will always be smaller than sets (A) and (B) separately. I am aware of that, yes.”
Kaveh clicks his tongue. “Well, I hope you are also aware that with all these requirements, you don’t get a set (A+B), or even (A+B+C). Yours is a set comprised of the entire Sumerian alphabet!”
Kaveh has had enough of Alhaitham always loitering around the house. In an attempt to get Alhaitham to go out more often, he jokingly tells him to start dating someone. Much to Kaveh’s shock, Alhaitham agrees—and promptly assigns him as his personal matchmaker. And even though Alhaitham’s requirements for his ideal partner are annoyingly specific, Kaveh refuses to back down from a good challenge. He’s confident in his abilities—that is, until his own feelings start getting in the way...
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23 Oct 2023
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is that what I look like? by kurigohan_to_kamehameha
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
04 Jun 2023
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Alhaitham grows a beard. Why? Who knows.
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19 Oct 2023
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To Dream in Shades of Green by Intensely_Reading
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Oct 2023
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“There are three suitors who you can romance in this game. You must complete all your requirements with one of them."
“Who are the three potential suitors?” Kaveh asks warily.
“Your three suitors are Tighnari, the blunt Palace Chamberlain; Cyno, the standoffish Captain of the Royal Guard; and Al-Haitham, the acerbic Duke of Vultur Volans.”
There's a new invention from the Yae Publishing House that turns a user's dreams into light novel stories. Kaveh has the (un)fortunate pleasure of being one of its first users.
Too bad it dumped him in a romance game.
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09 Oct 2023
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every good intention (is interpolation) by TrashcanWithSprinkles
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
22 May 2023
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A month after Alhaitham has gone missing, Kaveh finds a journal when rumaging through his things. The journal is encrypted in an ancient script that few know, and the only reason Kaveh does,
is because Alhaitham had him learn it during their shared project in the Akademiya.Below are the transcripts.
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03 Oct 2023
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morning letters and other conversations by my_melody (annieinspace)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
18 Sep 2023
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Kaveh frowned. “Quite frankly, when you’re concerned with my affairs, it worries me.”
“And why is that?”
“Because nothing good ever comes from you being involved.”
That caused Alhaihtam to look up. It was a challenge, that look was. “I’d beg to differ. I’d say Sumeru as a whole has benefited greatly from my involvement.”
“I still don’t believe half of what you say about that situation for the record,” Kaveh said, but the fight had drained out of him when he remembered what Cyno said in the tavern. It was awful how his whole body softened, how years of instinct and fight or flight responses dimmed at the thought of memories about when things were different. Perhaps Alhaitham was a curse. That must be it. Kaveh glanced at his roommate in the corner of his eye. He sighed.
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(or; Kaveh is having a crisis, and Alhaitham is an unwilling participant)
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21 Sep 2023
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On a work trip on Inazuma, Kaveh finds himself working late.
Alhaitham gets drunk.
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- Part 1 of Soft Agonies
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05 Sep 2023
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Briars and Roses 'Round Your Heart by sonotfine
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
30 May 2023
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The short of it: Kaveh caught a very rare manifestation of the Withering that was not Eleazar after clearing out a remaining pocket of said Withering by himself. Alone. In the woods. Following directions the Traveler scribbled on a tree trunk somewhere, probably. This conclusion will eventually be drawn.
The long of it: Kaveh went home coughing up flower petals in a stroke of truly poetic misfortune, and if Alhaitham's presence exacerbated his mysterious new problem terribly, well, that was just one more way in which Kaveh would have to endure excruciating pain for fear of losing a man he could not have, did not deserve to have, but was too greedy to let go of.
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Two fools, the impasse, and the disease that punishes the unspoken thing between them. Love is as cruel as you choose to make it for yourself. Fortunately, it takes two to love, in this case. [Hanahaki Disease]
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“Can I try some?”
That’s rare. Kaveh didn’t think Alhaitham would be interested in Kaveh’s choice of breakfast food. “Uh, sure. Let me get you a spoon.”
Kaveh tries to get up, but before he can even push his chair back, Alhaitham’s hand reaches towards him. It happens so quickly Kaveh can do little more than gape and watch as Alhaitham snatches the spoon from Kaveh’s fingers, scoops some yogurt onto it and pops it right into his mouth. When it emerges again, it’s licked clean, not a drop left behind.
“Not bad,” Alhaitham says, offering Kaveh his spoon back. “A little sweet.”
Kaveh takes it, (almost drops it from how sweaty his fingers have become) and tries his hardest to get his vocal chords to start working again. “I… told you so…” he says weakly, staring at the spoon and then at the rest of his yogurt.
Five times Alhaitham unconsciously invades Kaveh’s personal space and one time they finally talk about it.
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16 Aug 2023
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Hate to see you go, love to watch you leave by Tyelperintal
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
15 Aug 2023
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Alhaitham rolls his eyes. “Did you have other motives for inviting the youngest son of Liyue’s wealthiest merchant family into my house?”
“I wanted to talk to someone who wouldn’t give me a headache,” Kaveh answers. “I’m sure you have no idea what that’s like.”
“True,” Alhaitham concedes, then reaches for his book to show that he considers the conversation concluded.
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In which Kaveh makes friends and Alhaitham is jealous, and neither of them communicates well.
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15 Aug 2023
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“It’s so hot,” Kaveh whines, her voice pitching into a high whine. Alhaitham rolls her eyes, swatting away at the vines in front of her with her sword. It is hot, and humid. She can feel sweat dripping down her neck, curving down her spine beneath her shirt, but complaining isn’t going to help anything.
“Wasting your breath complaining is counterproductive, you know,” Alhaitham shoots back over her shoulder, and she doesn’t miss the way Kaveh flips her off.
Kaveh and Alhaitham encounter a strange plant in the middle of the forest.
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- Part 4 of saff’s sapphic hkvh sexy times
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13 Aug 2023
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Kaveh moves out, at least for a short while.
“Oh, are you actually concerned about me?” Alhaitham scoffed. “I can assure you, the sages have no power to enact sanctions on me without any proof of misconduct. Of which there are none, obviously.”
“Obviously,” Kaveh mocked, then shook his head at his own juvenility. “Ugh, no. Will you just listen to me for once? I don’t need this guilt on top of everything else-”
“What a surprise," Alhaitham sneered. "For once you’re not leaping at the chance to take on more of it.”
Kaveh's lungs squeezed as if the air had been knocked out of them. He stared at Alhaitham and Alhaitham stared back.
“Alhaitham,” Kaveh said, after a taut silence. “I’m leaving.”
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07 Aug 2023