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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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“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.
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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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She can’t find it in her to relate or care about whatever transient misery he might feel later. He’ll get over it.
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- Part 1 of a proscenium before pedantics
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Bookmarked by leify
13 Jan 2023
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He already likes her, he’s deluded himself into thinking she feels the same kinship of being a foreign body in a sea of people who are all similar and can sympathize with each other’s emotions and issues, people who can interact with each other as if they are one another. If she leaves like his parent after having her fun, she wonders if he'll break from one too many betrayals.
One of the first albelumi fics I ever read and still one of my all-time favourites. More than that, though, this fic absolutely sold me on the Lumine-as-alien characterization. The detachment of being a Traveler across worlds, unconcerned with the grief of others — just so compelling and written so well!
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The fall of the storm, the fall of the nobles, and the fall of everything else— but before tragedy and before legends, there was only this: a tavern, a drink, and the friends who would shape history.
Or: Venti and his loved ones through the ages, and what remains through it all.
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23 Dec 2022
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Tomorrow, the wind sprite knows, the flowers passed between shaking hands will finally bloom towards open sky.
But for now it is night, and the light is warm, and their laughter is warmer.
Ok LISTEN this whole fic is just!! Wonderful!! Poignant and touching and quietly funny! The sense of history behind every word, years and years of friendship and a bone-deep trust in your people!! I read this twice and cried both times.
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we cut love on our tongues (blood: an act of service.) by GStK
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
07 Dec 2022
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when god screams, you scream louder.
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08 Dec 2022
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you are the traitor; the saviour; the sage; and the hammer
of the very same heavens that took your shadow.I read this through like five times and each time I found something new to marvel over. The sharp bitterness, the way the hero is portrayed despite not appearing, the carefully disguised similarities between the hero and the villain.
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should lycoris bloom in dawn by tinylethologica
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
13 Nov 2022
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Night—the first time they’d slept under the stars together, her eyes wary, her voice a warning. Keep away. Don’t come close.
But she still offers him a blanket, bleeding heart as always, blink and you could see her chest, carved open and weeping blood—only because I hate the sound of teeth chattering together, she mutters, not knowing that he doesn’t feel the cold, not if he detaches himself from sensation and nerves, revert himself back into a doll once more.
There is a reason he survived Snezhnaya, survived the Cryo Archon. What harm could the tame winds outside of Snezhnayan ice storms do in comparison?
Yet, he takes what she offers.
A wanderer, a traveller, and what happens after defeat and victory.
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- Part 1 of the quantum of a mechanical heart
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14 Nov 2022
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If you threw a dart at this fic, there is a 100% chance that the dart would hit a sentence so simply and agonizingly beautiful that you’d burst into tears immediately.
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Love is never greater than in the face of death.
(As the god of love, the Tsaritsa can hear every time someone declares their love for another. Some nights are louder than others.)
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- Part 2 of Archons
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12 Nov 2022
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"Piercing cries chip slivers of ice from the walls around her; delicate threads of love spanning centuries begin to fray and snap, sending shards of memories into the air."
Written so skillfully, with words picked so carefully, that you can really feel the anguish, the pain, the love love love that seeps through every thought that the Tsaritsa has.
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Kaeya doesn’t trust her.
He isn’t sure how to feel about the Inteyvats she so carefully wears—knowing himself, something close to suspicion is appropriate.
There's an outlander in Mondstadt, and Kaeya intends on doing something about that. He didn't anticipate getting so attached.
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12 Nov 2022
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This fic broke me. You know when you can see the ending coming but your eyes are still glued to your screen because of how skillfully the author builds suspense? That's what this fic is. Angst, banter, crying-together-in-the-rain scene, the unbearable weight of being perceived by someone who is terribly like you — and terribly unlike you in the end.
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The early years of a partnership: conspiracy, sneaking, and a lot of adjustment. Trust is a dangerous game.
Or: A look into the start of Jean and Kaeya’s relationship, and how sometimes one choice can determine the rest of the future.
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- Part 1 of trust fall
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10 Nov 2022
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Obsessed with this!! Author treats the awkward dance of getting-to-know-you with a skillful and compassionate hand. Learning to trust each other, to unearth certain secrets and let others serve as camouflage; figuring out each other’s quirks and playing to your strengths; knowing someone is lying to you and trusting them anyway.
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After chasing Klee up Dragonspine, Jean and Kaeya find themselves stuck with the mage overnight, and have to protect her as well as worrying about how things seem to change between them.
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09 Nov 2022
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The only one bed trope but treated with such gentleness! Really soft and affectionate found family vibes.
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“I’ve never seen her do this before!” Paimon wails. “Do you think she’s gone crazy?”
“Not crazy,” Barbara says with a shake of her pigtails. “She was lucid enough to say sorry, and to ask for supper when she wakes up. There’s…”
She trails off, searching for the right words. “She seems very sad.”
“Surely not sad enough to leap off a cliff without a glider!” Jean protests, and Kaeya finally sits down with a heavy thump and a monstrous sigh that wrenches itself out of his chest without permission.
Or: Lumine walks off a cliff without a glider, and Kaeya realizes that they have a lot in common. Kaeya/Lumine, pre-relationship. Spoilers/Mentions of Kaeya's backstory.
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07 Nov 2022
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Absolutely adore the ways in which Lumine and Kaeya’s commonalities are explored! Their feelings of alienation, or not belonging, of having to hide parts of themselves. Wonderful characterization told with lyrical prose.
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it's time to leave and turn to dust by reptilianraven
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
11 Apr 2021
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“I’m going to miss you when you leave,” Kaeya slurs, leaning against Jean’s strong hold on him.
“What are you talking about, Kaeya?” She asks lightly, but her voice confused and concerned.
“Everybody leaves me one way or another,” he laughs brokenly, the alcohol in his system making the truth pour out. “Promise me you’ll give me a proper goodbye, at least, yeah?”
“I’m not going anywhere,” Jean says softly. “I’m here, Kaeya.”
But for how long?
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Kaeya’s bleeds the anguish of being left behind over and over and over again. A sane man would let the cut scar and fade.
He pries the wound open with the knife, letting the blood spill to the floor.
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24 Oct 2022
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If I had an extra year of life for every sharp and beautiful line in this fic i would literally never die.
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“Two of the most powerful men in Mondstadt walk into a bar…”
It sounds like the beginning of a joke. But it was muttered so quietly under the breath, as though to himself, and when Eren looks up, there’s just Charles polishing a glass in his hands, over and over.
“What?” He says.
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23 Oct 2022
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Lovely! Atmospheric! Funny! Everybody is deeply in character and incredibly hot! Just pure vibes.
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what's inside? that's causing this malfunction by reptilianraven
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
21 Apr 2021
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Her hands are beginning to wander now, and Diluc refuses to tremble as the touch he knows as safety and home suddenly feels like something he wants to get away from. Panic laces through Diluc’s body, but he smothers it down as he continues to kiss Jean, continues to hold her as she touches him. Her hands go lower, lower, and he can do this, he can fix himself, he can be what Jean wants, he can—
“Diluc?” Jean pulls back, eyes wide, concerned, and he ca—
He can’t breathe.
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Diluc cannot give Jean what he is sure she will eventually want.
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Bookmarked by leify
22 Oct 2022
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I had this fic open on my phone for the longest time and then I lost it and now I’ve found it again!! A phenomenally tender exploration of intimacy featuring asexual Diluc. Heartwrenching, heartwarming, just a lot of heart things.
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By the remains of that day, we burned by dayzwithluv (k_itsmay)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
06 May 2023
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The news of Crepus Ragnvindr’s passing came too quick, too sudden.
And oh, the way grief can change a person, Jean would never wish it upon anyone.
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14 Oct 2022
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Such a gorgeous and emotionally fraught exploration of the Kaeya/Jean/Diluc dynamic! Taut with suppressed emotions, with grief and longing, and an agonizing wish for simpler times. Author writes Kaeya's emotional distance so well—every interaction and line of dialogue is shot through with so much insight into his mental state and hurt at the world.
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Lumine, like the children in his yard, is just probably confused. He’s going to let her down gently because the poor woman is just lying to herself that they’re more than what they are and he’s more than who he is. He’s just a guy she’s sleeping with, a guy that raises her son and takes care of her home and is a nanny but not really. Scaramouche does gardening and plumbing and other things for free, but not really, too.
Cleaning the kitchen counters until they squeak, he would never be able to do domesticity, Scaramouche thinks.
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12 Oct 2022
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My (400M) friend with benefits (?F) told me she loved me last night, what do?? I’ve been raising her child and doing her housework for years btw.
A lovely and hilarious fic from one of my fave writers! Funny, tender, featuring a guy with rocks for brains - everything a good fic should be.
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Perhaps they should have never met, he keeps finding himself circling this thought.
Then she smiles at him and he will love her, always.
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- Part 1 of colour-stained, i wanted you anyway.
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12 Oct 2022
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This is peak modern AU abyss dainslumi. Captures the angst of the star-crossed lovers - two people who love each other too desperately - and transposes it into the cutthroat world of showbiz. The structure in particular will not leave my brain: the non-linear storytelling highlights the jaggedness of their relationship and the way it was doomed from the start.
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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.