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Alhaitham’s agency throws him into a livestream dating show. As expected, he rejects everyone. Rudely.
“Name a key scientist involved in the laws of thermodynamics.”
“Newton?”
“What is your stance on Dialectic of Enlightenment?”
“Dia-what?”
“Name a philosopher. As an advantage, a dead one.”
“...”
“Next.”It shouldn't have been as surprising when someone finally snaps.
“Do you even know the answers to these questions, or are you just waiting for someone to say Ibn al-Haytham to boost your own ego?”
Or: The internet is privy to Alhaitham falling in love on camera.
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17 Jan 2026
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it's international love by honeybakedtea
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
11 Jan 2026
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A scrap of paper containing only a hasty scrawl, delivered to Castrum Kremnos:
DAN HENG IS A DRAGON. DID YOU KNOW THIS. BECAUSE I CERTAINLY DID NOT.
In which Phainon meddles in his friends' budding relationship, sends a few letters, and realises a few things.
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- Part 2 of pitbull hsr
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12 Jan 2026
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Of Flowers and Circumstance by immorality
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
12 Dec 2025
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“Phainon, I have no desire to play this game with you anymore.”
Bewilderment coats his face, “Pardon?”
“You have made your peace back then as have I,” he says firmly, “I am no longer the Mydei from our youth—the one that chases after your coattails for any sliver of your affection. I have a nation to lead now.”
“I apologize that it took me so long to reciprocate—”
Phainon nearly flinches back as Mydei laughs, resigned, “No, there is nothing to apologize for now, Duke Khaslana. The sun has set within my heart.”
In his youth, Duke Khaslana turns down the affection of the Crown Prince of Kremnos, Mydei, with the weight of his duchy and societal norms on his back and in his adulthood, he chases after him with missed summers’ worth of kisses and touches weighing on him.
Will he somehow manage to earn back the prince’s affection or is the sun never destined to rise within Mydei’s heart ever again?
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15 Dec 2025
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“What’s your name?” The soldier slides his hand underneath Phainon’s head, gently cradling him. “Not your rank or serial number, just your name.”
“Phainon… Phainon of Aedes Elysiae.”
The soldier nods, speaking gently once more.
“Phainon, hm? Mydei of Castrum Kremnos. I’ll stay with you until you die.”
Or, Phainon gets trapped in a time loop, returning to the morning before the day of battle each time he dies. He meets Mydei in every loop, repeating their first meeting again and again; Phainon himself falling harder each time. End the loop, save the world—until their tomorrow comes.
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15 Dec 2025
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“The art of tarot can be difficult to process, I know,” Al-Haitham says, nodding. “You just have to accept it.”
“STOP SAYING THAT,” Kaveh says.
Al-Haitham picks a random card from his pile of cards and flips it over to reveal a Genius Invokation HP food card of tandoori roast chicken. “This is going to be your dinner.”
“WHY DO YOU KNOW MY DOORDASH ORDER,” Kaveh yells, typing furiously into his phone and brandishing the app in Al-Haitham’s face. “I PLACED THE ORDER RIGHT BEFORE I WALKED THROUGH YOUR DOOR.”
Al-Haitham is a tarot card reader. Kaveh is skeptical.
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15 Nov 2025
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wildflower (a promise from me to you) by aurellya
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
15 Apr 2025
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One’s hair is a sacred thing to the Kremnoan people, not to be carelessly touched under any circumstances by others. Like a lion’s mane shall it shine with glory; like a crown should it adorn one’s head.
When two souls seal the bond between them, seeking mnestia’s blessing, it is at this time wherein the pair exchange hairpieces of their own making. By this ceremony do they mark each other as equals.
At the precipice of the Flame-Chase Journey’s conclusion, Phainon makes a visit to Castrum Kremnos bearing gifts for Mydei in a meeting before he fulfils his fate. Pomegranate juice is shared, hair is braided, and hearts are bared in a garden of wildflowers.
Or: Three times where Phainon plays with Mydei’s hair (and his heart, by extension, announcing himself as Mydei’s spouse thrice by Kremnoan Tradition).
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- Part 4 of aionios (may our love last eternal)
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08 Oct 2025
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Whichever Shape It Takes by princesscas
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
27 Aug 2025
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Mydei can shapeshift into a cat. Phainon accidentally courts him twice.
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28 Aug 2025
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To fix the public image of Epiclese Law, Neuvillette goes on staged outings with Wriothesley. Surely this will not spiral into anything beyond his control.
(Simplified Chinese | 中文 translation thanks to the lovely MrFrame!)
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17 Jul 2025
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from admiration to love, from love to matrimony by moongallery
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
16 Jun 2025
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"Forgive me, Lord Phainon, I can't help but be curious. How could you possibly not know that Lord Mydei has been your spouse for... four months?"
"To be honest, Miss Castorice, I haven't the slightest idea."
Through a series of events that may or may not have involved a Kremnoan courting ritual, Phainon had somehow managed to ask for Mydei's hand in marriage.
For some reason, Mydei said yes.
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02 Jul 2025
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Alhaitham has recently come to realize three things:
- He is in love with Kaveh.
- He would like to kiss Kaveh, hold Kaveh’s hand, go on dates with Kaveh, and become boyfriends with Kaveh.
- He has absolutely no idea how to go about doing any of that.
Having nobody to confide in, he resorts to writing to Sumeru’s most popular advice column, The Wanderer’s Advice, for help. Before long, seemingly everyone in Sumeru City gets swept up in the story of Ardent Admirer and their clueless beloved.
Everyone except Kaveh, for better or for worse.
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15 Jun 2025
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What would it be like to tell Cyno that Tighnari keeps his love of him nestled between his lungs, close to the soft and bloody tissue of his heart, and feels it grow in his body like a benign, lovely tumor with each meeting and parting?
It would certainly be humiliating to verbalize, to say nothing of the physiologically flawed metaphor. Better not risk it.
Tighnari & Cyno through the years.
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- Part 1 of here is the house (& related stories)
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09 Jun 2025
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Kaveh’s newest acquaintance, an Amurta student by the name of Tighnari, once witnessed a relatively tame argument over the precise angle of one line in an ancient Enkanomiyan rune. After Al-Haitham left with a roll of his eyes and curt wave of his hand, Tighnari took a long look at Kaveh’s narrowed eyes, slight breathlessness, and flushed cheeks and said, Get well soon.
There is no getting well. There is only this: grappling in the sand like little boys, laughing and pretending to not be laughing.
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- Part 2 of here is the house (& related stories)
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08 Jun 2025
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What if we fell in love? by Intensely_Reading for kirishit
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 Dec 2023
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“Excuse me. May I sit here?”
Al-Haitham looks up. He watches the student’s red eyes darken with recognition. Unfortunately, Al-Haitham recognizes him too.
“Would you leave if I said ‘no’?” Al-Haitham asks.
And just like that, the student is sliding into the seat, flipping up the desk and pulling his tablet out. He shoots Al-Haitham a glare just as the professor starts lecturing.
(Al-Haitham, Kaveh, and the three semesters in between.)
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06 Jun 2025
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Alhaitham's books-hoarding situation continued to grow out of control. Kaveh magnanimously decided to offer to build a new house for him, with enough space for his ego and the books too.
This was fine by Alhaitham. And, of course, he wanted it to be a house for two.
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On moving out of the old, moving on to the new, and moving forward together.
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- Part 1 of Home is Where Our Hearts Are
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03 Jun 2025
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Kaveh just wanted to finish his architectural projects, pay off his debts, and maybe enjoy some alcohol without someone ruining his day.
Instead, he’s getting interrogated by an amateur kidnapper who won’t take no for an answer, playing chess with the same amateur who definitely has ulterior motives, and realizing that, maybe, he’s stumbled headfirst into a conspiracy way above his pay grade.
Oh, and the not-so-amateur kidnapper? He’s everywhere.
(Or: Kaveh makes one wrong turn and ends up accidentally kidnapped. Somehow, it's less stressful than dealing with his clients.)
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30 May 2025
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With Great Power Comes a Terrible Rent Split by dtnvrr4
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
27 May 2025
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Alhaitham is just trying to survive his final year of university while juggling his secret identity as Spider-Man without jeopardizing his academic standing or dying. Simple goals. Unfortunately, his biggest obstacle isn’t a supervillain—it’s his endearingly overdramatic roommate.
Who won’t stop asking Alhaitham why he keeps coming home bruised.
And won't stop yelling at Spider-Man to understand basic architectural integrity when slamming bad guys into buildings.
(Or: Spider-Man!Alhaitham and Gwen Stacy!Kaveh)
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- Part 1 of The (Not So) Greater Good
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28 May 2025
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“Al-Haitham, what—”
He freezes.
There is a child in Al-Haitham’s covers, on Al-Haitham’s bed. A child. They can’t be older than two or three from how tiny they are. Their hair is a messy bird’s nest of gray strands, and their hands are small—gripped tight to Al-Haitham’s sheets. The child is drowning in the shirt they have on, the sleeves reaching their elbows and the collar drooping over their chest. For one nonsensical moment, Kaveh thinks, Al-Haitham never told him he had a child.
(Al-Haitham turns into a kid. It goes about as well as you’d expect.)
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28 May 2025
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returning the favor (how, how, how) by tamerofdarkstars
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
02 May 2025
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“Why are you doing this?” Alhaitham asked quietly. He asked it more to the bowl of soup than to Kaveh himself. Kaveh put a hand on his hip, holding out the spoon for Alhaitham to take.
“What do you mean, why? Like I’m just supposed to leave you to suffer?”
“You’re going to catch… whatever this is. It’s the better choice to just go to work like normal and leave me alone to let it run its course.”
Kaveh scoffed. “Well, that’s just heartless. Would you have left me like this?”
“Yes.”
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Kaveh takes care of Alhaitham when he comes home sick - Alhaitham can't understand why he did it, much less how to go about making them even.Bookmarked by mdkps
13 May 2025
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and you know we can be just what they want by taeyongsan for midnighter777
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
16 Sep 2024
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cautioninconfidence: !love kaveh
StreamElements: cautioninconfidence and kaveh are 100% in love paradiAYAYAKaveh has successfully kept his relationship with Alhaitham a secret for three years now, so why has Alhaitham suddenly decided to publicly bring him up and link them together for all to see? Of course, it’s just to make fun of him!
Now, both on the internet and in real life, Kaveh can’t escape the hold Alhaitham has on him — on his mind, his body, or his heart. But the question is: does he even want to?
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12 May 2025
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Kaveh smiles up at the stranger. "Sorry, he's right! I am taken. By him. But he doesn't know it yet."
What.
"Wait, what did you mean by that?" Al-Haitham asks faintly.
"Oh, that?" Kaveh scoffs. "You're a little dense. Obviously, I meant exactly what I said. I wouldn't want to be kept by anybody but you."
"But we are—" Al-Haitham trips over his words, trailing behind Kaveh as he walks purposefully through the city. "We aren't. Together. Neither of us has confirmed anything of the sort."
Kaveh gives him a derisory look. "And what, we don't act like it? Some things don't have to be put into words to be understood. Ah, I forgot. Haravatat. You probably wouldn't accept anything else any other way."
"It is not logical to make assumptions without empirical evidence."
"You scholarly types," Kaveh mutters. "Always so particular."
So. Al-Haitham is in love with Kaveh. This has got to be somebody's fault.
Cue the five stages of grief.
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07 May 2025