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A Story in the Shape of the World and You by ringtheory
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
14 Sep 2024
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What looks like a straight path to Alhaitham is to Kaveh a dreadful rotation.
Kaveh is trapped in an enclosed space with a strange creature who seems to know all the same words as him, yet with whom he cannot communicate. He has placed his life in the hands of this being and now sits in a frantic stillness, attempting to rationalize ex-post a decision that he is already committed to seeing through.
He reaches out in an attempt to break the silence. His hand is promptly smacked away from its destination.
“I don’t feel like listening to anything right now,” Alhaitham says.
Weakly, Kaveh replies, “It’s not normal to drive for so long in complete silence.”
“It’s not silent to me,” Alhaitham says. “I’m thinking.”
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14 Sep 2024
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The difference between a labyrinth and a maze is that a labyrinth has one path but a maze has many.
Alhaitham is lying in front of him, breathing shallowly. Kaveh cannot tell if he is asleep or unconscious, but it probably doesn’t matter. He is lying in their bed or he is sinking into a pond filled with lotuses or he is on display like a statue on a bed of marble or he is trapped in the roots of Irminsul – or he is in all of these places at once because this is in Kaveh’s mind, and his head is bursting with the ways that Alhaitham could be lying before him.
Kaveh touches Alhaitham, not with his hands but with his eyes. He takes in the shape of Alhaitham’s body piece by piece, from the tips of his fingers up the slope of his arm towards the curve of his face. “Vision happens in the brain, not in the eyes,” he remembers Alhaitham telling him at some point in the past. It feels like the words are echoing around him, whispers layering over each other.
The wire that attaches to Alhaitham’s earpiece is pulsating; something fluorescent is flowing out of it. Kaveh is strangely convinced that Alhaitham’s mind is coming out of his head and that substance is full of temptation.
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30 Jun 2023
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"So, what great building did our master architect work on this time?"
Nothing. Four days ago, Kaveh thought he would never work on anything again.
"Where were you when Sumeru needed you most?"
Dying.
(Or: the one where Kaveh was born with Eleazar)
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10 Feb 2023
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Kaveh gets lost in the desert, goes into heat, and gets found by the one person who can't know what he is, or: Kaveh's No Good Very Bad Day.
“You’re not carrying me,” he says with a weak kick.
Alhaitham stops and lets his own legs take his full weight again; Kaveh’s ankle does something terrible for his self esteem and then he crumples almost to the sand before Alhaitham’s arm catches him again. One arm, because that’s all he needs to take Kaveh’s weight. He’s such a show off for a man whose ass never grew in. “Fuck’s sake,” Kaveh mutters to himself.
“You were saying?”
“Just—go.”
Alhaitham snorts. “Am I your servant now?”
“Yes,” Kaveh snarls.
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28 Jan 2023
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“Because it can be better.” Zhongli says it like a challenge.
A look at how other people can see Childe. Some violence/mild mentions of gore, a bit of feral. A bit of a 'and then they've been married for a while but only now are discussing their relationship' at the end.
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06 Dec 2020