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1. Cross My Heart and Hope to Die by Iriszebracorn for The_Cinderninja

   Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M, Other
   • Work in Progress

   26 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Dahlia/Venti (Genshin Impact)
   • Venti (Genshin Impact)/Venti's Friend (Genshin Impact: Carmen Dei)
   • Venti (Genshin Impact) & Venti's Friend (Genshin Impact: Carmen Dei)
   • Venti (Genshin Impact)
   • Dahlia (Genshin Impact)
   • Venti's Friend (Genshin Impact: Carmen Dei)
   • there's a major character death but I think you can guess who
   • also it's not really that major
   • Dahlia (Genshin Impact) is Venti's Friend (Genshin Impact: Carmen Dei)
   • Dahlia is Nameless Bard
   • Vampirism
   • Blood Drinking
   • Angst
   • So much Lore
   • Old Mondstadt (Genshin Impact)
   • Mondstadt Lore (Genshin Impact)
   • Inhuman Venti
   • Venti as Barbatos (Genshin Impact)
   • Venti wants to be human
   • It/Its Pronouns for Venti
   • they/them pronouns for venti
   • He/Him Pronouns for Venti
   • NB has an amazingly bad time
   • Dahlia has an INCREDIBLY bad time
   • Venti lives in suffering
   • everyone is just not well
   • there's fluff and a happy ending though
   • Wind Wisps - Freeform
   • Venti's 999 siblings - Freeform
   • Reincarnation
   • many characters mentioned also
   • btw venti and dahlia are happily in love even though not much else is happy
   • 6.4 leaks mentioned
   • Identity Reveal
   • in a way and eventually
   • Badass Venti (Genshin Impact)
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • this is also straight up an AU pls bear that in mind

   Summary

   To think that the most resilient flower—h̴i̵s̵ namesake—would wilt away under the peaceful, clear blue sky…
   "I didn't want this." They bristled, eyes burning but dry. "I didn't want the titles, the recognition, any of it."
   It should have been you.
   The wind picked up, the few remaining flowers dancing in eulogy. They swallowed. "But I'll do this. For you—I'd gladly do anything. Become a gardener if I must, shape this fragile life to my whims just as I moulded my image after yours."

   ♱

   Two souls, intertwined, dancing through the ages while teetering on the edge of broken promises, and threatening the wrath of the divine.

   [Or, in which Venti already let go of his friend’s soul once, and isn’t going to make the same mistake again]

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