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Establishing Through Empirical Means the Identity of a Stranger by alexisoak
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
28 Jan 2024
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“The rumors suggested you were quite adept at sating even the most discerning appetites,” Alhaitham says.
Kaveh huffs. “It’s not like you to believe rumors. You prefer to verify the validity of them yourself.”
Two years after moving back to Sumeru City, Kaveh learns the identity of his mysterious benefactor.
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- Part 2 of Empirical Means
Bookmarked by stxrmango
12 Jun 2026
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i love nasty alhaitham, and even nastier kaveh.
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Kaveh is so, so beautiful. It’s a thought that rolls around his head like a marble, constantly circling the drain of his spine. He feels it as deeply as a wound. Alhaitham wants to sweep that soft hair out of his eyes, kiss a trail from his hip to his ankle, trace over the bridge of his nose. He wants to stay when they’re done, he wants to wake up and pull Kaveh to his chest, he wants, wants, wants.
It’s some sick kind of torture, being so greedy for something within reach, unable to keep it. To watch Kaveh’s eyelids flutter with a soft touch, just before steeling again. To watch him want something Alhaitham is desperate to give, and be refused every time.
Kaveh's life is on a downward spiral. In an attempt to drag himself out of this pit of romantic stress and creative flatline, Kaveh takes a commission to restore a dilapidated settlement in the desert. Just a little time to think, that's all.
Bookmarked by stxrmango
11 Jun 2026
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the way i had visceral painful physical reactions to this, and i still ended up smiling at it. so good. probably will end up reading again to feel pain. no words.
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“Welcome home.” Alhaitham stands in the foyer, arms uncrossing to help Kaveh bring his mother’s bag onto the floor.
She looks to her son, then back at Alhaitham, then back to Kaveh again, brows knit in confusion.
“I, er… I suppose I should explain. Mother, this is my—” He pauses, hiding the way he falters behind an awkward cough.
“Alhaitham.”
Due to an unexpected visit from his mother, Kaveh asks Alhaitham to pretend to be more than his roommate. The week ends up being more than either of them bargained for.
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- Part 1 of safe and stranded + epilogue
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Bookmarked by stxrmango
09 Jun 2026
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sooo good. such a soft fic. lots of great exploration here of their relationship, INCLUDING the parallels of their own parents versus now. i love.
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Birthdays and Holidays in the HaiKaveh household by LocalNarSinsAgain for stxrmango
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
24 Dec 2025
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Kaveh and Alhaitham celebrate each other's birthdays over the course of the year, hoping one day that their feelings will be reciprocated.
Bonus: Christmas spent together and a sneaky lil' Mehrak. -
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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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Bookmarked by stxrmango
22 Oct 2025