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the once-people who live in old-mondstadt by gwendee
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
06 May 2021
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The ghost that Barbatos wears is of a face he can no longer remember - why is he holding on to something he can no longer remember?
The hilichurls trudge up a dirt road, fresh sunsettias tucked in the crook of their elbows. They stand still as a Ruin Guard (a hundred yards away) slowly passes. A seelie wanders, a blue glow in the distance. Why can’t it find its way home?
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Andrius picks the strange little boy up by the scruff of his collar, and deposits him at the edge of Wolvendom by a fir tree.
Barbatos nips a sharp scolding wind at him.
Andrius freezes the air. Vennessa squawks in irritation at the both of them.Kaeya arrives at Mondstadt, and he gets chased to Wolvendom.
Unofficial sequel(s) in my incomplete fic collection here and here!
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Sometimes Morax wonders if he and Barbatos should have switched their domains.
Here is the thing. Morax has written and rewritten and broken thousands and thousands of contracts in his life.
Barbatos has forged only three, and broken none.Morax has searched for freedom for six thousand years.
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Skyward (How to win a war against Mondstadt) by gwendee, Opalserpent
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
12 Jul 2021
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"The best strategy against Mondstadt," Kaeya says, "is to take her down before war even begins."
"Wouldn't that be the best way for any nation?" Diluc says. Then, "why am I still humoring you about this?"
"Well," Kaeya says, "you see, it's because Mondstadt's Archon is the only one of the seven that gets stronger in a war."Kaeya, the eighth nation, and the seven archons of teyvat.
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"So," Aether says, "the Eleventh Harbinger of the Fatui wants to ask you for love advice."
Venti says, "what?"
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Eula supposes she has to thank Kaeya
RagnvindrAlberich that she'd finally gotten into the Knights."But Kaeya's a really good fighter!" Diluc protested.
"You can't have depth perception with one eye," Inspector Eroch said.
"..." Diluc said. Eula hid a snicker.It’s only when Kaeya drops the Ragnvindr from his name and fully becomes into himself - Alberich, of foreign name and tongue and blood, proving to the people of Mondstadt that citizenry is not a marker of trust, do the invisible barriers on the doors of the Knights of Favonius come down.
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“B-but,” Gorou says, face flaming, “the point of the column was for me to give other people advice? Why would I have to talk about myself?”
Yae Miko smiles at him. “Miss Hina has been a popular columnist, it’s only natural that her readers would like to get to know her better, don’t you think? When you hand your next batch of replies in, give me a few lines, as well. Introduce yourself a little!"
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AU where everything is the same except Zhongli is Rex Lapis…'s son.
"Wait, what?!" Paimon shrieks. "Your father- wh- we thought YOU were Rex Lapis! It's you on the Statues of the Seven!"
"Ah," Realization dawns on Zhongli. He understands where they’re coming from now. "A simple misunderstanding. That is my father's form depicted on the Statues of the Seven in Liyue, but I happen to hear that we look remarkably alike, because I am related to him." -
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“Aha!” Barbatos snaps his fingers. “That’s it.”
“My sister?”
“Your dead sister.”
Ei flicks a hand and tightens her fingers around her Musou Isshin.
“Hey, hey, hey, wait!” Barbatos flailing. “Hear me out. All - well, most of anemo users have a dead friend. Or family member.”
Ei narrows her eyes. “Elaborate.”Crack AU where Morax and Ei, the ex Geo and Electro Archons, get...
...anemo visions.Morax rubs his temples. “In any case, I do not believe that I should have been a contender for an anemo vision.”
“Morax, sweetie,” Barbatos says. “You hatched an elaborate plan and almost destroyed your city because you wanted to retire. That’s the most anemo shit I can think of.”Addendum: Nahida, Furina
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“Kaveh is one of my juniors,” Dottore continues, and pulls Kaveh along. Scaramouche's eyes follow them from his perch. “He was just a little fledgling when I left the Akademiya, but I have always known he’d grow up to do great things. You’ve seen the Palace of Alcazarzaray on our way here, haven’t you?”
Scaramouche inclines his head with less vitriol and more of what Kaveh hopes is intrigue. “You built that?”
“I am its architect, yes,” Kaveh croaks, trying not to trip.
Dottore and Kaveh (and Scaramouche) sitting in a tree
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- Part 1 of The Architect, The Doctor, and the Dollmaker
- Part 5 of Gwen's Genshin Rarepair Collection
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The people of Sumeru do not dream, except for when they do. If his dreams are all strung together like this, Kaveh wants to cut the strings.
Dottore smiles. "Have you heard of the Aranara?”
Despite himself, a smile tugs at Kaveh. “You’re the last person I’d expect to believe in children’s stories.”
Dottore and Kaveh (and Scaramouche). Recommended reading part 1.
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Kaveh had asked Dottore when his interests had shifted from mechanical engineering to human physiology. The answer was apparently the shape of a boy bound together by electric rope and puppet strings.
Kaveh does not understand much about fragments of dreams or memories of mothers. But he will be a hypocrite if he calls it an obsession.
Kaveh and Scaramouche (and Dottore). Recommended readings part 1 and 2.
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“You need some food in you,” Tighnari declares. “Finish half your stew. We cannot keep asking Lesser Lord Kusanali to come and heal you.”
“Cannot keep asking- huh? What? Who?”
“When you are well, we will visit her instead. Cyno will come by tomorrow or the day after."
Kaveh is floored. “Tighnari, I - wait, no, backtrack, who healed me?”
“Kaveh, soup,” Al-Haitham nags, spoon lifted to his lips.Kaveh, and everyone else (minus Dottore). Recommended readings parts 1, 2 and 3.
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“I don’t understand why you hate Zandik so much.”
Al-Haitham’s sullen frown just deepens. “He’s bad news. I don’t like you hanging around him.”
Kaveh rolls his eyes. “People say your brooding face is bad news, too. Do I stop hanging out with you?”
Al-Haitham’s lips bow into an unhappy pout. “That’s different.”
“I know it is,” Kaveh cajoles, hand coming to pat his shoulder. “At least I’m not his first murder victim.”
Al-Haitham scowls at him. “That’s not funny, Senior Kaveh.”Kaveh, and everyone else. Recommended readings parts 1, 2, 3 and 4.
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Trainee forest wanderer reporting for duty! by gwendee
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
31 Oct 2022
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"There is so much to take care of in Sumeru City," Nahida says. "I don’t think I can take any time off.”
Wanderer rolls his eyes. “I’m sure you can. There’s no good that comes from a tyrannical archon that overpolices their people, you know.”
“Oh my!” Nahida yelps.Here is my pitch for the Scaramouche Forest Watcher agenda and also the Scaramouche-Collei BFFS agenda.
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“-and Gamma really hates it when I mess with his organizational system but I do it anyway because it’s funny to piss him off.” That’s Theta’s voice, from the other room. It sounds like he’s talking to someone new. Huh, Scaramouche can’t believe any one version of the Dottores is capable of making friends.
“Which one is Gamma again?” A new voice. Scaramouche pauses. There was something about it…Dottore makes a segment... of younger Scaramouche (circa pre-backstory cutscene).
"I am not your Mother!" Ei shrieks.
Kuni recoils. That… stings worse than the Musou no Hitotachi.
Then, the Tengu says, "Raiden Shogun!"
Wait, Shogun? Kuni whips back to stare at the image of his mother, reassessing her, and oh… It's easy to tell she's just like him now that he knows what he's looking for. Scaramouche was not lying about them being identical. How mortifying to have called your sister your mother.
Kuni winces. "Sorry."
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“Now I’m sure that we’ve never met,” Kaveh says. “I would have remembered you, I think.”
“It’s easy to forget,” Nahida says, and she looks a bit wistful for a moment. “But you’re right. We’ve never met properly yet.”
“Now I can’t tell if you’re agreeing with me because it’s the truth, or because it’s confirmation bias from my own mind.”
“Wouldn’t that mean the same thing, since we’re in your dream right now?” Nahida teases.
“Ah, to fall into a paradox of my own mind,” Kaveh laments.Kaveh, and Nahida. Recommended readings parts 1 through 5.
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“Zhongli doesn’t even have money!” Pantalone snaps. “All he has is the audacity to invite me for a day out and make me pay for all his meals!”
Yelan says, "what?"Pantalone, as the head of the Northland Bank, takes it upon himself to investigate why the Liyue Branch specifically has been losing money this past year.
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- Part 4 of Gwen's Genshin Rarepair Collection
- Part 1 of Pantalone's World Tour
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Zandik leans all the way up to the edges of the cage. "I'm supposed to catch an Aranara. I know they're real. Only children can see them, you know. That's why-"
He cuts himself off and shakes his head. Collei can only guess what he wanted to say.Why Il Dottore would possibly want to create a child segment given that he famously hates kids.
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“Al-Haitham, please meet my assistant, Hat Guy."
So that is his real name?
"Do you really find that funny?" Hat Guy groused.
So it isn't his real name.
Nahida giggles. "Don't you like it?"
Hat Guy mutters something under his breath that Al-Haitham could have caught if not for his ambient noise suppressing headphones. An oversight he shall consider rectifying if not for the cons of having to hear everyone else.Al-Haitham and Hat Guy reluctantly work together during the Interdarshan Championships.
"Yes, I will question even Lesser Lord Kusanali if I see something I do not find rational."
"Humans like you," Hat Guy mutters. Then, a little delighted, "oh, you should have been in Inazuma a year ago."
Al-Haitham furrows his brows. "You refer to the Vision Hunt Decree?"
"I would love to watch you debate Beelzebul, as you are." Hat Guy seems reminiscent. "I'd even keep you alive for it."Series
- Part 2 of Gwen's Genshin Rarepair Collection