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summer in the meadow (a valley hushed with snow) by jello12451
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), 崩坏3rd | Honkai Impact 3rd (Video Game)
04 Mar 2024
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“I think,” Welt says out loud, “it’s okay to be a little selfish sometimes.”
“Really?”
Dan Heng sounds like he doesn’t believe him. Welt can’t blame him.
Nonetheless, he continues. “I’ve mentored a group of kids much like you all. Young, energetic, and hearts too big for their own good.” Welt sighs. “They didn’t have the time to be selfish, too busy being heroes. So if there is room for you to be selfish, then at least the burdens of the world are not placed on your shoulders.”
“Someone has to be a hero eventually.”
“‘The tragedy does not lie in the sacrifices we’ve made for our victory - it is that we’ve accustomed ourselves to the fact that we must sacrifice someone for our victory,’” Welt recites, an age-old lesson that took him far too long to understand. “If you have something to call your own, that you can be selfish for, then the world has not failed you yet, Dan Heng.”
Dan Heng has nothing to say to that, but Welt thinks that he might get it.
Or, not yet. Just like how Welt didn’t get it, once.
But he will, with time.
OR: Welt, The Astral Express, Anti-Entropy, and then some - on the topics of moving on from the past, healing, and a long journey home.
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12 Sep 2025
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you look into their eyes (and find you're looking in your own) by robyndoesntlikeyou
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
23 Oct 2023
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Welt has never seen Dan Heng take the jacket off. He assumed there was a sentimental attachment. Now, though, he understands a little better.
His arms are littered with criss-crossing lashes, faded things that are almost as old as Welt's own. It's an uneasy sight, considering the age difference between the two of them.
"... The rain," the young man offers quietly, avoiding the subject, because they're both perceptive enough to realize what this conversation could become. "On the last planet. They still ache."
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08 Sep 2025
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my reflection has come to find me by CicadaVortex
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
27 Apr 2024
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The train is quiet, the inhabitants are asleep. Except for Welt Yang, for whom sleep is only a distant memory, and, as it seems, Dan Heng.
Dan Heng, who pointedly never speaks of his past. Dan Heng, who regards the whole world like it might lash out at any time.
Dan Heng, who wants help but doesn’t know how to ask for it.
(Aka, the fic where Welt has some revelations about Dan Heng’s dark past and also helps patch him up when his scars start coming open)
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06 Sep 2025
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Still, there in the corner of the Archives — sitting on his futon, head against a bookshelf, Dan Heng looks down at the ticket.
Carefully and very slowly he pins it on the end of his jacket.
There's no mirror for him to see what it changes about him.
So he tests out on his tongue, “Dan Heng. A Nameless. Guard of the Astral Express.”
Perhaps that's a person he can become
— do not crumble
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22 Aug 2025
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Childe gives Kaeya a reason to start a trolling war for his birthday.
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