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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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Jean glances up at Kaeya, to her right, and thinks that it is nice to be here with him.
And then her brain catches up with her and she wonders if she means it is pleasant, which it is, or perhaps lovely, which it also is, or wonderful, which seems rather too exuberant a word but somehow fits anyway. And then she gives up on finding the right word—because the fact of the matter is that it is all of those things, simultaneously, and yet none of them fit right in the blank space that she has come to silently associate with Kaeya’s presence in her life, the one that stretches out wordlessly like a gap in a game of mad libs and that she has never quite managed to fill with nice unambiguous words like “friend” or “best friend” or “colleague.”
Jean attempts to define her relationship with Kaeya and comes to an unsurprising realization.
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set aside the highlight reel by fromthedeskof (leify)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
11 Apr 2025
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“I’m your older brother,” he insists. “It’s my job to keep you safe.”
“We keep each other safe,” she says, still halfway across the room. A cupboard door opens and closes. The whisper of a jar lid twisting open. “We always have. This won’t be any different.”
In the aftermath of the trial that exposed them as Fatui, Lyney has a crisis and Lynette makes tea.
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“Falling in love with him is a bad idea,” Kaeya says.
“I’m not in love with him,” Rosaria says. She realizes too late that this too is a confession. She ought to have asked who he meant; she’s shown her hand too early.
He shakes his head at her. “I wouldn’t get too close, if I were you. He burns everything he touches.”
Rosaria is not in love with Diluc. That doesn’t stop Kaeya from warning her off.
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love song for my best friend: a kaejean drabble collection by fromthedeskof (leify)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
05 Apr 2025
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She wonders what he would do if she leaned in and pressed her lips to his. Would he laugh it off? Would he inhale lightly like he does when something takes him by surprise? Would he freeze up, or push her away?
(Sometimes, when she’s feeling particularly brave, she lets herself hope that he would kiss her back.)
Kaeya and Jean in every universe.
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“I wouldn’t worry too much about Diona,” Kaeya said. “There are worse ways for a child to live, Jean.”
Jean glanced past him to the bar, where Diona stood hunched over her cocktail shaker. “But there must be better ways, too.”
When Jean takes notice of how Diona has been living, her quest to confront years-old neglect requires her to reckon with her own childhood—and the childhoods of those around her.
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- Part 7 of jarch 2025
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“How fast did they say you'd have to go so that the sun would never set?”
“Really fast,” Barbara says. “Like, a thousand miles an hour. You’d basically have to run as fast as the earth is spinning.”
Jean glances at the speedometer, which reads 50 mph. And then at the sun, just kissing the horizon on its inexorable course through the sky, and then at her sister, silhouetted against the golden fields of wheat, a tiny smile playing on her lips.
“I think we can do it,” she says.
On the way home from the Winery, Jean and Barbara set themselves a challenge.
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- Part 6 of jarch 2025
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with your friendship and your name by leify for cele_ish, broskev
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
22 Mar 2025
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She puts her hand on the doorknob, eases the front door open, and finds not a robber or a miscreant but—
“Venti?”
The bard in question looks up from where he’s peering at what looks suspiciously like a puddle of vomit in the gutter. “Acting Grand Master Jean!” He drops into a flamboyant, if slightly wobbly, bow. “To what do I owe the pleasure?”
Jean finds her archon on the doorstep in the wee hours and offers him a shower and a place to stay the night.
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- Part 5 of jarch 2025
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“They’ll kill you,” the Traveler says.
He laughs, too shrill. “Isn’t that what you wanted?” he demands. “You win, okay? Run along, now, unless you want to watch them take me out back and shoot me like a dog.”
A myriad of emotions flickers across the Traveler’s face: disgust, horror, something that looks terribly like pity. Then—
“Hells,” she spits, darting forward. He flinches, anticipating her saber through his chest—but instead she grabs his limp hand and spins, dashing for the hangar and dragging him stumbling behind her.
When an altercation with the Traveler leaves the Wanderer’s identity as an android exposed, he expects to be left to bleed out before the Sages terminate him. He doesn’t expect her to help him escape. And he definitely doesn’t expect her to adopt him into her crew.
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Still: “The headline is only ever half the story,” Frederica says later, as if she’d tasted Jean’s bitterness on her own tongue. She is looking at the clipping of her own induction as Alder Knight, pinned to a corkboard in Jean’s room.
“Mother?” Jean says—asks, rather, with no inflection, the way Gunnhildrs do.
Frederica turns. “The Kamera thinks it knows you, but it doesn’t. Don’t let the public eye make you anxious. And don’t let it make you complacent.”
Headlines from a storied career.
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- Part 4 of jarch 2025
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i'll say farewell (to what, i can't tell) by leify
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Mar 2025
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Some nights, she dreams that Diluc never left Mondstadt.
The dreams are fuzzy, fading in and out. But they always end the same way.
Jean is sitting in the Angel’s Share. She perches on a bar stool, watching 12-year-old Diluc serve drinks behind the bar. The door opens behind her and Master Crepus walks in, with Inspector Eroch by his side—and she wakes up with a terrible sense of disorientation, like she has taken a wrong turn somewhere and cannot find her way home.
A recurring dream leads Jean to ruminate on what could have been.
Or, local woman discovers multiverse theory and is very normal and sane about it.
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- Part 3 of jarch 2025
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"The dandelions are blooming." She bends to pluck a dandelion from the frozen ground. Her big sister will understand this, at least: the symbol of a language only they two know and a history only they two share. She can’t help the smile that sneaks onto her face as she holds the flower out to Jean.
But Jean’s gaze, when it falls to the flower, holds only a painfully muted confusion—and a distant civility that somehow hurts more than the former.
“And?” Jean asks.
Jean's return to Mondstadt prompts Barbara to recollect the wishes she's made over the years.
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- Part 2 of jarch 2025
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“There’s nothing wrong with me,” Jean said, and promptly made a liar of herself by falling into a bout of hacking coughs. Once those died down, she inhaled cautiously, reluctant to breathe too deep and trigger another round of coughing, and winced at the low rattle that accompanied each careful breath.
“Perhaps,” she conceded finally, unable to meet Kaeya’s incredulous stare, “I am not quite as fine as I would like to be.”
“At least you admit it,” Kaeya said generously.
When Jean comes down with a flu, her Knights and her sister band together to take care of her.
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- Part 1 of jarch 2025
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That afternoon, she called her Triad leader and told her she’d met a girl.
“Why are you telling me this?” Yan’er-jiejie asked irritably.
“Because I want out,” Rosaria said.
While making dinner, Rosaria reminisces about how she met her wife.
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She watches him step across the threshold, his footfalls silent and his movements ginger, and says, “Kaeya,” before she can think better of it.
He looks up, eye wide. “Hmm?”
“Running is easy,” she says. “But sometimes you have to stand your ground.”
Rosaria finds her roommate's friend trying to sneak out after a difficult night.
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Kaeya swallows, the sticky sound audible even over the phone. Then, very softly, he says, “My dad died.”
Jean’s stomach drops. “What?”
“And Diluc and I had a fight,” he continues, so low she has to strain to hear him. “He said he doesn’t want to see me ever again.” His voice wobbles and he takes a deep breath to steady it. “Can you please come pick me up, Jean?”
A phone call from Kaeya sends Jean driving two hours in the dark to bring him home.
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