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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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Prince Wei Wuxian almost drowns in the sea and is rescued by a mysterious person, of which he can only remember their voice and their song. Days later and still haunted by the melody, he meets a strange mute beauty in rags and wounded at the beach. He takes him in as his guest, intrigued and wanting to help him out. As they learn to communicate with each other and become closer, he quickly discovers the young man's not-so-hidden secret: he's a merman who exchanged his voice for humanity. But why? And how can Wei Wuxian stop Lan Zhan from becoming seafoam?
A Little Mermaid AU -or more like a Large Merman AU- with a couple of twists. This prince charming and this sea prince are far too clever and resourceful.
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Venti decided to give Xiao something more nutritious to eat than the usual almond tofu. Xiao never expected that Venti's specialty, a millennium-old recipe made of ordinary vegetables, would have such a strong effect on him and change him for the better.
Written belated for Xiaoven Week 2021.
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A perched hunter by taotrooper for laurus_nobilis
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
07 Nov 2020
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Everyone knows that Nie Huaisang likes birds quite a lot. What people don't know is that he wasn't the only Nie with a penchant for the aviary world. Chifeng-Zun liked them too, but he preferred a different, wilder kind. A kind he had inherited. Nie Mingjue's maternal family were falconers, and he taught his little brother how to raise a goshawk.
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After getting his happy ending and living blissfully next to Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian can't help but feel he's missing a purpose in life, especially after moving back to the Cloud Recesses. Helping junior disciples, either the ones he gets along with or complete strangers, makes him think that becoming a teacher should be the perfect job for him. Too bad they would never let him, with that pesky new rule on the Wall of Discipline... or would they?
This is the story of how the infamous Yiling Patriarch ended up as one of the teachers of the GusuLan sect.
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A stab in the dark by taotrooper for snomlet
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
23 Aug 2020
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In a reality where not all tragedies happen, A-Qing still travels with the two Daozhang. Song Lan decides to teach the girl how to defend herself, but he ends up learning too much about her.
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The underrated ability to smile by taotrooper
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
12 Apr 2020
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In a nicer world, the softer branch of the Wen Sect would be the main branch and events like the fires of Cloud Recesses, the massacre of Lotus Pier, and the Sunshot Campaign never happened. In this peaceful timeline, Wen Ning is sent to Gusu to attend Lan Qiren's classes in the same year Wei Wuxian and the others go as well. And despite his speech disability and his shyness, he manages to become friends with his classmates, from a lovable troublemaker to a lazy youth to a cold boy of jade.
An ongoing collection of short stories and scenes from his time in GusuLan.
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The king and the stable boy by taotrooper for maddy_hope
Fandoms: Akatsuki no Yona | Yona of the Dawn
02 Mar 2020
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Sometimes in his long life, Zeno would get involved with politics again from the shadows. This time, the new monarch of Kouka was young and needed a push... and some good hugs.
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- Part 3 of Legends of dragons
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Wen Qing died, but not as the official version says. She's taken to a prison by the Jins to get information out of her, and a couple of years later she's finally killed and experimented on. A void where only rage and sorrow filled her body.
A decade later, a female fierce corpse was found bound in a secret location. Her conscious wakes up a decade later after her body's death, and now she has to get used to her condition and decide what to do with her new existence. However, she has her younger brother by her side, and she has to catch up with two members of her family she thought lost.
Maybe tragedies don't have to remain so; maybe she can walk the darkest path with a lantern in her hand. Perhaps there's a place in this world for a Ghost Healer.
AU where WQ was turned into a fierce corpse too.
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“You want fast?”
“Obviously! At full speed!”
Lan Wangji stared at him but had nothing to complain about. He directed a higher flow of spiritual energy towards his blade. Bichen smoothly ran among the surf like a galloping horse in a field of seafoam and stars. Waves rose much larger and more powerfully, splashing the men’s legs up to their knees and even taking drops to their faces.
In which a fun sunset by the sea ended up with the Yiling Patriarch inventing a new flying sword technique... or so he says when he teaches it to the juniors in the near future. Written for MDZS Seasons Zine, "summer".
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A collection of prompt fics and one-shots posted on Tumblr. See first chapter for a list with characters for each of them.
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Five times people liked the Yiling Patriarch by taotrooper
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
31 Oct 2019
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A group of children playing, a girl who liked horror stories, an opportunist merchant, a woman from Yunmeng, a hopeful young cultivator. A collection of short stories where ordinary people feel appreciation for the Yiling Patriarch and showed Wei Wuxian that not everyone thought of him as a despicable demon. Written for WWX's birthday 2019, prompt "love".
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Geese are not allowed in the Cloud Recesses by taotrooper
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Untitled Goose Game (Video Game)
29 Sep 2019
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It was a lovely morning in the Cloud Recesses, and there was a horrible goose on the loose.
Crossover with Untitled Goose Game. More like Untitled GoosuLan Game.
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Wei Wuxian wants to make Lan Wangji's life more fun, so he decides to make kites just for them. An afternoon together teaching his husband how to fly a kite under the breeze of a perfect sky, smiles and song and words of love on their lips, proves to be truly special.
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Reasons to live and die for by taotrooper
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
07 Apr 2019
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After that long honeymoon and returning to the Cloud Recesses, Wei Wuxian decides to visit Wen Ning to see how he's faring, and what he wants from the future. It turns out that Wen Ning's conclusions about life and death and love weren't so different to his own.
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In which one of the Cloud Recesses bunnies makes an escape, and Wen Ning ends up getting a pet with Sizhui's help.
Written for MDZS Zine - With Love, and in an effort to give WN good things.