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“You know he’s a pretty smart guy,” Mary says. This is the most Rhys has ever said to her, and she’s curious how far she can push. “He doesn’t need a babysitter.”
She knows she’s hit a nerve when Rhys barks a harsh laugh. “A babysitter? What about a commanding officer?”
As they wait for news of Jack, gone AWOL in Agarum, Rhys and Mary have a short conversation about trust, friendship, and duty.
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The boy points at a photograph of Jean and her two roommates: a rare one where Rosaria isn’t scowling and Kaeya actually looks happy. “Lupical?” he asks.
Jean returns to her apartment to find an unidentified child waiting for her, and ends up learning much more about her roommate than she'd anticipated.
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long is the road that leads me home by leify for dreamylink
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
21 Jun 2025
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Dainsleif feels his hackles rise. “I’m quite sure I can draw myself a bath.”
“Paimon’s on it!” the fairy chirps, swooping into the house. “Don’t worry, Dain—we got this.”
Lumine pauses at the threshold, looking thoughtfully back at him. Whatever she sees in his scowl makes the corner of her mouth twitch up. “Just sit there and look pretty, yeah?” she says, and disappears.
After their missing person investigation in Vimara Village, Dainsleif is convinced to spend the night in Lumine’s teapot.
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Diluc’s eyes still burn, these days. Not with his childhood exuberance, nor with the terrifying heat of that one night, but with an intensity that Kaeya can only liken to campfire coals buried in the ash.
Except when he looks at Kaeya. When he looks at Kaeya, he just looks sad.
Four older siblings through the eyes of four younger siblings.
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She tips the lid open and is greeted by a ballerina, slowly turning to the sound of silvery notes and a familiar song. Next to her, Dainsleif shoves his hands into his pockets. “Thought you might like it,” he says, staring fixedly at her left ear. “It’s—”
“—Tchaikovsky’s Pas de Deux, from The Nutcracker,” she finishes for him, unable to keep the smile from her face.
Dainsleif gives Lumine a music box.
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all the things that you tried to believe in by leify
Fandom: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
09 Sep 2025
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College roommates Jean and Rosaria accidentally adopt a traumatized high schooler.
Series title from Best of the Broken Things by Ken Yates.
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Jarch (noun): a portmanteau of Jean (Gunnhildr, from Genshin Impact) and March (her birthday month).
Or, a series of fics for Jean month (Jonth, if you will).
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In which two deeply broken people try to heal each other, and find instead that they don't much mind being broken together.
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“To dear Miss Barbara, I have stolen and buried your most precious thing.”
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Snippets of Barbara watching her sister fall in love.Series
- Part 2 of jean + diluc + everything in between
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12 Oct 2022
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The previous instalment in this series is lovely, but this fic is everything! I’m weak for the estranged sibling relationships between Jean and Barbara, and Kaeya and Diluc. Author does a wonderful job of exploring how sibling relationships change and strain over the years.
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your love-like eyes, the seasons lost inside by dayzwithluv (k_itsmay) for leify
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
19 Sep 2024
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After Lumine woke up one afternoon in Vimara Village, feeling like something was missing.
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24 Sep 2024
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She’s not sure how much sense she makes, telling this story.
It jumps back and forth, between times and places and people and memories. But Wanderer listens nonetheless, his gaze never drifting away from her, even when their coffee arrives. Or at least, not until she hands him a photo across the table.
He lifts it for just a second to eye it, then tosses it back onto the table. “You have the same mopey look in your eyes.”
the silliest!! just an alien and a puppet talking about their lost memories
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Teyvat emerges triumphant in the war against Celestia. The Sustainer takes revenge with her dying gasp, and it's only through Kaeya's sacrifice that the people of Mondstadt outlive her fury.
However, his heroism leaves him a petrified husk in the center of Mondstadt's main square. Mondstadt is eager to enshrine him in legend – how could they not, with the statue right there? Diluc abhors the sentiment.
After all, commemorating Kaeya's heroism is tantamount to accepting his death.
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06 Aug 2023
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When he looks, Amber’s eyes are wide with realization, fixed on his bloodied hand. Well, shucks. Looks like he’s given himself away.
“You can’t do this,” she whispers into the storm.
The worldbuilding! The angst! The knowing that your brother is Right There and still being unable to reach him! Doing anything you can to save him because he’s still your baby brother!
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In the wake of the tragedy that tore his family apart, Jean offers Kaeya her hand in marriage to keep him safe and in the Knights. But the fate of the Ragnvindrs is only one of the troubles besetting Mondstadt. As Kaeya and Jean dig into Diluc's loss and other suspicious events, they find themselves trying to unwind a conspiracy that may test their fragile new family to its limits.
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- Part 1 of Bells and Spires
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09 Apr 2023
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"Who's going to take me purely on what I can offer the Knights of Favonius?" Kaeya's smile is taking on that sharp edge again.
She meant what she said. Kaeya isn't Diluc, but he's just as competent, in his own way. He's stood in for Diluc before, when Diluc was ill or injured or off on a one-man mission, and he's performed well. The thought of his talent, his dedication, his training all being tossed away because he pricked Diluc's temper at a painful moment is devastating. The Ordo can't lose them both. She can't lose them both.
"I will," Jean says, before she's entirely aware that she's intending to say it.
A wonderful Jean and Kaeya marriage of convenience/political thriller/murder mystery rolled into one. Author takes what we know of the period following Crepus’s death and brings it to life with such vivid detail and thorough worldbuilding that it absolutely sucks you in.
Characters are at their fullest and most well-realized in this fic, arguably better than in canon. Frederica in this fic has my entire heart - she toes the line between stern and well-meaning, between competent official and slightly awkward mother. Jean and Kaeya’s relationship is such a delight to read: the most fulfilling kind of platonic, shot through with a deep trust and understanding of what the other person needs and what they have to offer.
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“Do you still love the crystalflies?” Venti asks, runs a finger around edge of his wine.
Diluc goes very still. “What?”
“They haunt your vines,” Venti says, smiles into his glass, soft and a little melancholic. “I thought you liked them?”
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16 Apr 2023
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“Is it a true story?” Diluc says, wary and sounding childish even to his own ears.
Venti pauses, looks very nearly stricken. “I wouldn’t tell you falsehoods, Master Diluc,” he says, quietly. “I promise.”
“Alright,” Diluc says. Fights the urge to tug at his gloves, hunch his shoulders like a person much younger, with much cleaner hands. “Tell me about the wine.”
I think this fic rewired my brain. I keep finding myself coming back to it for its vivid atmosphere, the delicate prose, and the wry and pensive way Venti is characterized.