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    For their whole journey, he’d been trying to pay Yoo Joonghyuk back. Trying to make sure that he got to the happy ending he deserved, that they all deserved, but not once had he ever considered himself in that equation.

    So of course, such a fool could not come back with them that easily.

    Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Dokja, and moving on.

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    07 Mar 2025

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    Yoo Joonghyuk’s head tilts, and he looks at Kim Dokja almost curiously, like a house cat watching a flock of doves beyond a glass window pane.

    “I used to think that you made me behave in a way that is unlike myself, but lately I’ve begun to think that what you do to me is exactly how I’m meant to be.”

    another post-epilogue fic, wherein kim dokja may or may not need a bigger hospital bed

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    06 Mar 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 88

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    Kaveh’s father always takes his left hand and his mother his right. It’s no surprise to any of them when Kaveh’s paradisaea spreads its wings in their palms, but Kaveh still traces the design in their hands anyway, eyes wide with reverence and joy. The lines are as crimson as the sky at the most fiery part of sunset, and the dots as gold as mora.

    His parents bear his constellation, and Kaveh carries theirs, and he is loved.

    - - -

    In Teyvat, the constellations of those whose lives intertwine with yours find their home on your skin.

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    11 Jul 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 60

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    Abstract: While recent studies have demonstrated the emotional feedback of food, this study examines the correlation between memories and emotions as related to food. While the experience examined is subjective and varied to change between individuals, the study has concluded a.) food triggers emotional responses outside of the biological experience and b.) the meaning behind those emotional responses can be directly tied to the people involved.

    Keywords: Food, Cooking, Love, Kaveh

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    06 Jul 2024

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    “Hmph.” Kaveh steps closer. "So why choose to listen to my voice even when I’m complaining about you?”

    Alhaitham shuts his eyes. “Just because.”

    “Being a little vague there, Scribe Alhaitham.”

    “I just…” Alhaitham sighs. “I just really like your voice.”

    Or, Kaveh learns sign language because he fears that Alhaitham is growing tired of his voice. He doesn't understand that Alhaitham actually... loves it.

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    28 Jun 2024

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    His glass of water clinks against the clay coaster he keeps on the side table, and red ink stares angrily up at him from the book resting on his knee:

    ‘Thoughts?’ he asks, like it’s out of innocent curiosity. Really, Al-Haitham? You want to know my thoughts?

    Fine. You asked for it. Here’s a thought:

    Fuck you.

    Al-Haitham feels his lips pull up into a smile.

    In retrospect, starting a philosophical argument in the margins of an ancient poetry book might be one of the best ideas Al-Haitham has ever had.

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    20 May 2024

  7. Public Bookmark 86

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    “Kaveh,” Tighnari said, very seriously. “Are you finally admitting that you like him?”

    “I do not like him. I tolerate him, remember?”

    Tighnari put his head in his hands and groaned. “I should’ve thrown you in the river.”

    Kaveh (very) slowly comes to terms with his feelings towards Al-Haitham...of moderate amiability, obviously. Anything more than that is hearsay.

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    29 Apr 2024

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    The toddler began to cry, and then he started to cough from trying to cry too hard, snot dripping down his face. Another adult came hurrying over to help him to his feet before they went inside to head, presumably, to the nurse’s office.

    Loud, chaotic, dirty. Everything that went against Al-Haitham’s standards.

    “Working here as what?” Kaveh blinked. “Like admin or something? That’s probably quiet and far enough from kids for you. Though—”

    “No,” interrupted Al-Haitham. “I don’t.”

    After getting fired from a prestigious architecture firm, Kaveh moves back to his hometown to raise his five-year-old brother only to find that an old college "acquaintance" is his little brother's kindergarten teacher.

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    27 Apr 2024

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    People enter Al-Haitham’s life, and then they leave. That is just the way it is: first it was his parents, and then it was his grandmother, and soon enough, it will be Kaveh. He's already set to have a future that other people could only dream of brushing with their fingers.

    There are much greater things than Al-Haitham in Kaveh's destiny.

    Sometimes all it takes is ten years.

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    22 Apr 2024

  10. Public Bookmark 28

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    Kaveh usually doesn't get sick until he's finished a project. Maybe his body can recognise when it needs to keep itself together until it's safe enough to fall apart. But after an attack from some Treasure Hoarders leaves him injured, he catches an incredibly annoying cold. This leaves him recovering on Alhaitham's couch and easy pickings for Alhaitham's terrible taste in conversation topics and decorations. He doesn't understand how one man can be so knowledgeable while simultaneously being so, so ignorant.

    Living with Alhaitham is going to drive Kaveh crazy.

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    21 Apr 2024

  11. Public Bookmark 74

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    Some things start with harmless intentions... like satisfying Alhaitham's curiosity.

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    In which Alhaitham needs to know what Sumeru people say about him and Kaveh.

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    31 Mar 2024

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    Applicant Name: Kaveh

    Darshan of Affiliation: Kshahrewar

    Desired Salary: N/A

    Attached CV: [Decoding the Runes and Architectural Philosophy of the Ruins of King Deshret’s Civilization]

    Cover Letter (if applicable):

    Kindly send this appropriately credited document to Akademiya staff so that someone may teach the belligerent Scribe that he cannot blindly pass along my existing work to some newcomer over a topic he destroyed almost a decade ago.

    Delete this.

    (or, Alhaitham posts a familiar job listing. Sumeru wishes he hadn’t.)

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    04 Mar 2024

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    “Coming!” Al-Haitham calls, navigating the maze of packing peanuts and crates. He undoes the latch on the door and lets it swing open, fully expecting to see the bearded face of his landlord only to be met with the vermillion-eyed face of somebody he had given up hope on seeing for the rest of his life.

    There’s a long moment of silence. The aching swell of Vivaldi in the background and the rushing in his ears like the ocean waves.

    “...Kaveh?”

    Kaveh, globally-renowned musician, disappears off the face of Teyvat. Five years later, he shows up outside of Al-Haitham's door with no explanation but to ask for a bed to sleep in.

    It's fine. They only have thirteen years of history, after all.

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    26 Feb 2024

  14. Public Bookmark 27

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    The instances Alhaitham’s admitted to feeling sad could be counted with one hand, partly because he’s good at hiding his negative emotions, and partly because he’s so good at rationalizing them that he truly feels alright most of the time.

    To Kaveh, however, the thought of not feeling sad is strange. He still feels sorrow for his father, for his mother, and the suffocating emotions cannot be smothered despite how hard he keeps on working or drinking

    Kaveh and Alhaitham comforting each other in their own way, and navigating through their sadness (together).

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    22 Feb 2024

  15. Public Bookmark 81

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    “Your incredulity pains me,” Alhaitham says, placing a hand on his chest as if he’s in physical pain. “I’m the most sincere person in the world,” Alhaitham continues, knowing that Kaveh will misinterpret his words as quiet mockery.

    Sure enough, Kaveh lets out a scoff, as if Alhaitham’s words are nothing but false sanctimony. “Yeah right, and I’m the best person in the world.”

    You are, Alhaitham thinks, without any hesitation. You have always been the best.

    “Well you’re not exactly a saint,” Alhaitham says instead, because not even Kaveh’s innate goodness equates to perfection and this is, in part, why he almost feels close enough to touch.

    (Or, 4 times Alhaitham yearns for the sun, and the 1 time he finally manages to hold it in his hands like a second heartbeat.)

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    14 Feb 2024

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    Alhaitham’s constellation finds its home on the bony edge of her shoulder, where he supports her when she sways. Six dots in a shade of turquoise and a hawk mid-flight.

    “My little bird,” his grandmother had said to him as they admired the design, heads pressed together in the mirror. “My little hawk, I always knew you would grow to be strong.”

    - - -

    In Teyvat, the constellations of those whose lives intertwine with yours find their home on your skin.

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    12 Feb 2024

  17. Public Bookmark 44

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    And yet, something still lingers on Alhaitham’s mind. He brushes his lips against a blond braid held in place by Kaveh’s signature red clips and presses a kiss to the top of his head.

    “Kaveh,” he speaks into threads of gold. “Do you want to have children with me?”

     

    Alhaitham and Kaveh bring up the topic of their future as they grow older.

    Inspired by Alhaitham's birthday letter

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    11 Feb 2024

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    Kaveh breaks a set of bangles. Kaveh breaks a heart. Kaveh tries to run away from it all, and then tries to put it all back together.

    Al-Haitham waits with open arms.

    [Hanahaki, until it's not.]

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    10 Feb 2024

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    “I’m in love with you. Isn’t that pathetic?” Kaveh murmurs into his ear. He is laughing—harsh and discordant and bitter.

    “I’m in love with you, and I’m dying,” Kaveh rambles. “You’re killing me, Alhaitham.”

    (Kaveh contracts hanahaki. He and Alhaitham deal with the consequences.)

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    05 Feb 2024

  20. Public Bookmark 65

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    Kaveh is a mess, but so is his roommate's home. And at least one of those he can easily fix.

    Or, 5 times Kaveh cleans up after Alhaitham, and 1 time Alhaitham returns the favour

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    04 Feb 2024

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