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“Sir, kindly do not obstruct us,” says the matra sharply. “We are in the midst of carrying out an arrest.”
“An arrest?” repeats Kaveh, incredulously. “You’re arresting him? You’re arresting him? Why, what in Teyvat has he done?”
The Archon Rescue Operation is going as smoothly as it possibly can — that is, until Kaveh returns prematurely from his desert trip, and runs into Alhaitham at the absolute worst possible moment.
Of course he would.
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09 Jan 2026
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Be fooled by me, over and over. by mingmingming (caramelisedbrownsugar)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
29 Dec 2025
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A series of strange events has begun to enter Illuga's life, and a certain Ratnik takes it upon himself to guard the human that's dear to him, but not without having his fair share of mischief!
“Illuga, I don’t think you need to wear the nails anymore.” His father starts one day as they were eating dinner, placing his fork to the side of his plate. “Or placing salt on the windowsill, and you can take down the horseshoe by your door.”
“I thought the nails were for The Wild Hunt.”
“It turned out to be a bit more of a hassle when—er—Rolf scratched himself with it.”
“Oh dear…is he alright?”
“Nothing major—just—take off all of that stuff.”
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- Part 1 of When Winter Cometh.
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08 Jan 2026
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“Don’t do that again,” Illuga whispered, his voice soft and silky amidst the golden glow of the flames, warmed up by them, sluggish and tinted with the sweet embrace of sleep. “Just, ask for help, next time.” And even quieter, uttered so achingly soft; please.
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06 Jan 2026
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For a man raised to want nothing, Flins finds himself wanting Illuga’s company far too easily. A shared gift, a shared night, and the quiet understanding that neither of them is as untouched as they pretend.
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06 Jan 2026
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Flins's self-imposed isolation once led Illuga to assume a distaste for social obligations, perhaps to avoid small talk with his peers. Far from it. Once the man got going, he never quite stopped. Plenty of late nights by the lighthouse can attest to that.
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Flins is a mystery Illuga has yet to figure out. He'd like to.
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06 Jan 2026
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Alhaitham has a meltdown in the House of Daena - terrible timing, considering he's sitting right beside Kaveh. But instead of responding with judgment or treating him like a burden, his senior shields him with unexpected gentleness... and something inside Alhaitham starts to shift toward Kaveh in a way he can't quite name.
The library was never truly silent, but the air seemed to be heavier than usual with noise - pages turning, whispers rising, chairs scraping, pens scratching on parchment in an endless loop that pressed against the confines of Alhaitham’s skull and set him on edge.
The final straw was the tragic 'beep boop' of his noise-cancelling headphones’ battery shutting down. And as they powered off... Alhaitham’s pencil snapped in half with a sharp crack.
All at once, the world was unbearably loud.
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- Part 9 of Haikaveh threadfics
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05 Jan 2026
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Albedo rushes up to her, easily picking her up and heading towards her room. “Hey! No, let me go! Mister Swan said Kaeya was hurt!” She protests, and almost kicks at Albedo’s chest before he puts her down swiftly in the middle of her room.
Albedo runs a hand through her hair, and she can feel it shaking. “Stay here. I’ll be back for you in a bit, yeah? Just gotta take care of some things. Can you do that for me?”
“Okay.” Obviously, she's not going to do that for him. Klee is now on a quest to one, find kaeya and see what happened to him, two, fix him up, somehow. That's what a little sister should do for her big brother.
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Alternatively, Kaeya gets stabbed, Klee thinks she's a god, which is definitely Venti's fault, Albedo is stressed but put together, and Diluc is in desperate need of therapy. Klee takes it upon herself as a god to see to it that Kaeya heals, her big brothers stay safe (and in love), and Diluc gets the help he desperately needs with working things out with Kaeya.
Oh, and Childe is there... for a bit.Series
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02 Jan 2026
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“You need to calm down,” Kaeya hisses.
Albedo's grin reveals bloody teeth.
“Play with me, little prince,” he croons. “We’re going to have so much fun.”
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Kaeya said he'd stop him. He didn't think it would come to this.
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30 Dec 2025
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this past that binds us by dreamstarved for Alikuro
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
13 Mar 2023
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Albedo hums and leans in close. Kaeya doesn’t move back.
“I know good things when I see them,” he says, his breath fanning against Kaeya’s face. Kaeya swallows. “You are very, very good, Kaeya Alberich.”
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Or, Albedo moves to Mondstadt. He and Kaeya don't get along.
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29 Dec 2025
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“You are walking down a dangerous path, Albedo…”
“As have you,” responds Albedo. “I spent months trying to understand you, Captain, why you act the way you do, why you provoke me.” He takes another step closer. “Why I like it.”
Kaeya's heart falters.
(Or: There are some things Kaeya and Albedo definitely need to talk about.)
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28 Dec 2025
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One day, when Albedo is no longer married to work, Kaeya thinks Albedo should marry him instead.
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27 Dec 2025
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a drag path, etched in the surface (as evidence) by cherry_uecchi for Katapults
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
23 Dec 2025
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Kaveh's eyelashes flutter open. Alhaitham is greeted with the most beautiful shade of maroon red he has ever seen. There's no hostility in Kaveh's gaze, no insecurity. Alhaitham won't have to decode his silence today.
No, Kaveh simply smiles, and then giggles as he tries to spin in Alhaitham's arms.
"Dance with me," Kaveh mumbles, and Alhaitham wraps his arm around his middle a little tighter. "'Haitham, pretend you don't dislike me. Just this once."
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25 Dec 2025
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When Sucrose, Albedo, and Lisa begin clinical, controlled trials on a potential love potion, they're delighted to find that it works just as expected. Until, of course, they administer the potion to Kaeya.
Albedo needs to know why there is an outlier in the data, and why Kaeya is the only person wholly unaffected by the potion.
Perhaps being in love just isn't in their nature.
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22 Dec 2025
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“You know, if I didn’t know any better,” Aventurine murmurs, backing Boothill into a corner, “I’d say you’ve been deliberately trying to get my attention.”
“Um. No?” Boothill says, like the goddamned genius he is.
Or, avenhill managing their relationship like idiots (they're trying their best)
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- Part 3 of would you live on, for me?
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11 Dec 2025
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After a fight, Alhaitham has a nightmare where he loses Kaveh entirely. Waking brings no relief - only a fear he can't shake, pushing him toward Kaveh's door while praying he hasn't already gone too far.
Instantly withdrawn, Kaveh rose to his feet, silently gathered his blueprints, and turned his back. Dragging a hand over his face, Alhaitham reached for the gentler words he should’ve used in the first place to try and undo the damage - but Kaveh cut him off with a quiet 'leave me alone' and retreated into his bedroom without a backward glance.
It hadn’t even been an insult, but it was somehow all the more piercing for its bare simplicity. In one solitary sentence, Alhaitham heard the echo of every fear he carried about himself - incapable of the softness required to hold something as bright as Kaveh’s trust without breaking it into pieces.
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29 Nov 2025
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“Ah.” Kaveh glows with Dendro, reacting instinctively, but before Al-Haitham can reach him, and before he can do anything, there is a sickening lurch in the space around them—it sends them both stumbling, and Kaveh loses his grip on the doorframe—
—and Kaveh falls outside, tumbling into the shapeless nothing, eyes wide as the darkness swallows him whole—
—And Al-Haitham wakes up from a fitful sleep, and knows that something is wrong.
Or: Al-Haitham and Kaveh are trapped in a time loop.
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21 Nov 2025
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Whatever spell the Grand Bazaar and its atmosphere had cast on Sethos, it made him bold enough to extend his pinky finger and loop it around Scaramouche’s pinky in return.
The touch was static, even though it was the softest thing. They both sharply inhaled, lightning on their lips, but it got swallowed by the roaring applause. Neither Scaramouche nor Sethos joined the crowd, keeping their fingers linked.
“Scara—”
“Just…shut up,” Scaramouche whispered, eyes pinned to the stage. “Just one minute, for once.”
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- Part 1 of Genshin College AU
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16 Oct 2025
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He closed the book, put it back in place carefully. “Once divinity enters your body, it never really leaves.” He got closer to Sethos, and even though he stepped back to give Hat Guy space, he only kept getting closer. “It takes root inside you, and when it’s gone, the roots stay,” Sethos felt the back of his knees hit his bed, and Hat Guy only stopped then, they'd be face to face if Hat Guy wasn't slightly shorter. He put a hand over Sethos’ chest. “They wrap around your organs, the deepest parts of you, and when divinity is ripped from us, its roots stay lodged inside, like a parasite.”
Us. When divinity is ripped from us.
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12 Oct 2025
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synecdoche (you, love) by komorebi (liuloeylee)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
18 Jul 2024
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“Do I?” Sethos hums. The urge to slap him across the head is stemmed by the fact that he is still very much bleeding all over the floor. “Oh, right. I mean, it’s not like I had time? And nobody does my hair like you, dear.”
“That’s not what I—” Scaramouche begins. Then his brain latches onto the last word like a leech, a broken record: dear. Dear. Dear, he said.
Has he ever called Scaramouche that before?
Or, the wanderer's relationship to terms of endearment.
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12 Oct 2025
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this is all there is by merthurlin for mercurial_moth
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 Jul 2021
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A missing moment in time - Venti remembers.
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- Part 2 of I could have been anyone, anyone else
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01 Oct 2025