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Let the only sound be the overflow by taotrooper
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
11 Feb 2024
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Written for Xiaoven Week 2024, day 5: poetry.
A missing scene during the event Waterborne Poetry. After they found Callirhoe's poem floating down the river, Xiao agreed to write a poem of his own for his brothers and sisters, on Traveler's suggestion. What he didn't expect was Venti coming to visit him that night. Will Xiao humor him to compose a pairing couplet together?
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In an alternative universe where Xiao and Venti didn't meet again after the latter saved the former and they didn't become close friends, Xiao still often dreamed of the music he heard that night to keep himself sane. The Traveler recruited the archons of Mondstadt and Liyue and they found a way to purge Liyue from the remains of the old gods for good together. Therefore, Xiao is now free from his perpetual burden and obligations, yet not completely of his karmic torment. As the yaksha is lost, not knowing what to do with this newfound freedom and haunted by old memories everywhere, Venti offers a suggestion: what if Xiao traveled back to Mondstadt with him as a tourist to heal his soul and find himself in a fresh place?
This is the story of how the Conqueror of Demons ends up roaming on green pastures in bloom caressed by the breeze, walking down the streets of a carefree city of humans, and even becoming a sporadic member of the Adventurers' Guild and helping . But mostly, this is a story about healing and growth and trust and love. About how he now can dance amid the sea of flowers at the sound of the flute of his beloved, like in his old dreams.
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Stars yearned for the fleeting clouds by taotrooper
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
17 Apr 2023
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Lantern Rite is the hardest time of the year for the Five Yakshas. But as they finish their fights and get together to spend the holiday as a family, they dare to dream about life in the mortal realm under the light of the xiao lanterns and the fireworks. Even slaughters have the right to be merry once in a while with good food and nice sights.
Written for Xiao's birthday 2023.
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Note: Written before 2.8 and 3.4's events therefore it's not canon anymore.
After the Rite of Passing, Venti decides it's time to go to Liyue again and see how Rex Lapis, now a man called Zhongli, was doing. After some serendipitous meetings filled with music and poetry, and new friends to be made, Barbatos and Morax get together at last. Will Venti survive or will he get hit on the head by a rock?
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One of the wind wisp's first memories was a bird song breaking through the roar of the storm. Tremble, weak, but beautiful and stunning. Perhaps, Barbatos would theorize to himself much later, the impact of that sound was what awoke a conscience in him among the other winds. Quite the romantic idea, whether it was true or not. The music trapped in the hurricane evolved and got a little stronger, until the beats turned into heartbeats and a soul was born.
He hungered for more of those sounds and he never stopped for the rest of his long life.
A study of Venti's relationship with music and humans.
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In Between by firstfairytale
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
31 Oct 2023
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Harry Dresden and Wei Wuxian see their respective birthday parties interrupted when an unknown force summons them, so now they have to team up and solve the mystery.
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02 Nov 2023
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Surprise by laurus_nobilis for taotrooper
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
19 Jun 2023
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A normal day at the Burial Mounds settlement. (Or: Wen Qing gets a present.)
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19 Jun 2023
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The More Things Change by laurus_nobilis for taotrooper
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
19 Jun 2021
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Just because they're busy with different things now, it doesn't mean they can't still be friends.
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19 Jun 2021
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see you yesterday by glyphic
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
13 Feb 2022
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On Halloween night, an exiled demonic cultivator and a Lan disciple get stuck in a time-loop, find each other, and try to figure it all out.
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11 Oct 2020
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Sacrifice by laurus_nobilis
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
30 Sep 2020
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Nie Huaisang barely remembered his mother. Her features had always been somewhat undefined, hard to pin down and even harder to recall. In retrospect, he supposed he hadn't had enough hate in him to give them form, back then.
(The one where Nie Huaisang is a son of Nemesis)
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30 Sep 2020