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I find it endlessly fascinating how much Alhaitham outside of his character stories is portrayed as someone solely defined by the present. He never mentions his family ever. You don’t even know he’s an orphan unless you read them, or even that his grandma was such a pivotal figure in his life (and inspired some of his current views). He’s so divorced from his past you could be convinced he just popped into existence one day with no fuss.

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a list of my haikaveh meta in one place!

The Haikaveh Essay - Genshin Impact and Queercoding: Identifying Queercoding in Alhaitham and Kaveh's relationship, 55k (Latest update: 15/07/2024) - Medium - PDF

Masterpost series of Alhaitham being endeared by Kaveh - Part 1 - The Archon Quest - Part 2 - A Parade of Providence - Part 3 - Kaveh's Hangout - Part 4 - Alhaitham's Story Quest - Bonus: Alhaitham being intolerable for attention - Bonus pt 2: Alhaitham being a romantic through actions

The Archon Quest - Camera angles: establishing Kaveh's importance to Alhaitham - The Archon Quest as a metaphor for Alhaitham and Kaveh's relationship + the resolution in Cyno's Story Quest

A Parade of Providence - The ultimate analysis of how A Parade of Providence changes Alhaitham and Kaveh's relationship - Miscommunication and misunderstanding: a call for change - <ask> Kaveh's reaction to The Traveller vs Alhaitham

Cyno Story Quest II - General Thoughts (Haikaveh/Cynonari) - The Improvement in Alhaitham and Kaveh's Relationship - Kaveh referring to Alhaitham's house as 'Home' and its significance - Reconciliation: Parallels between Alhaitham and Kaveh's research on The Temple of Silence and their abandoned thesis - Looking into the mirror: The balancing of Alhaitham and Kaveh's opposing viewpoints - The parallels between Alhaitham and Kaveh and Naphis and Cyrus - 'The Dead Past is the Living Present' quest title and its connection to Alhaitham and Kaveh - Analysing Alhaitham and Kaveh's body language in A Parade of Providence compared to Cyno's Story Quest II

An Odd Textual Mystery - Overall thoughts [Part 1] - Overall thoughts (analysis of the final scene with Alhaitham and Kaveh) [Part 2] - Alhaitham's curiosity around Kaveh being the catalyst for the event - How the event can relate to Alhaitham and Kaveh's past thesis - <ask> The further progression of Alhaitham and Kaveh's relationship

Miscommunication - Alhaitham's manner of expression - Port Ormos Bulletin Board analysis - The Omissions in Alhaitham's Character Stories - Alhaitham's Egoism in relation to Kaveh - Alhaitham and Kaveh's argument - <ask> Alhaitham and Kaveh complaining about each other and fandom misconception - <ask> Kaveh and Alhaitham's differing philosophies founding their friendship

Queercoding - The Double Entendre of 'Roommates': Madam Faruzan - Parallels Between Kaveh and His Mother: Companionship and Romance - Pride and Prejudice: Alhaitham's Story Quest in Relation to Kaveh - Alhaitham and Kaveh - not 'friends' but 'roommates'

Sumeru Bulletin Board Analyses - Mahamata Bulletin Board - Puspa's Cafe Message Board - Port Ormos Bulletin Board (revamped)

'Home' - Alhaitham as Kaveh's 'home' - Alhaitham and Kaveh As Each Other's Home and Family - <ask> Alhaitham and Kaveh as found family pre and post argument

Alhaitham's Birthday 2024 - Birthday art musings - Lack of Kaveh mention musings

Kaveh's Birthday 2023 - Kaveh's letter: Home and Alhaitham

Other things of interest - <ask> Kaveh's Hangout: The implications of Cyrus knowing both Kaveh's and Alhaitham's parents - <ask> Alhaitham buying wine for Kaveh as an apology - <ask> Alhaitham and Kaveh as Teapot companions: similarities and differences

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Women can write m/m. Men can write f/f. Asexuals can write filthy smut. Lesbians and gay men can write m/f. It's all arbitrary anyway. Who give a shit.

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laurent is a beautiful man who is so beautiful he is taken as an even more stunning woman in comparison to her portraits! he is beautiful and androgynous! he is not a masculine hero warrior archetype like damen, and that is something i love about his character. he is still a hero and still beloved by his people in the end, but he only became a fighter because he HAD to to survive. at heart he is a soft, book nerd, horse lover who likes to play and run and be silly. he doesn't have to be his brother, like he tried to force himself to be out of survival--training endlessly in swordplay when he isn't naturally inclined to do so, holding himself to a standard that is violent/unnatural to his body, rigid and laced tight and ready to defend himself. and being safe and loved lets him loosen and embrace that youthful side again and wear garish fashion and be silly and throw grapes while the other men fight around him. being an androgynous/effeminate/non-ubermasculine man is so rare in books and i love him so much <3

i'll forever love that c s pacat is bold enough to make laurent being androgynous effeminate canonical so much so that he's able to pass as jokaste with flying colors and even gets complimented on 'her' beauty. it's so rare to find a character like him. beautiful things happen when genderqueer writers play with gender expression in their books thank you pacat!!

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Swan - Kyouko Ariyoshi

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dainsleif

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“I am his sword” lines to touch the stove to

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Siblings outfit swap for Halloween!

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kaveh was 26 when he learned that its not normal to want to kiss your best friends

kaveh & tighnari met fairly recently (during the palace of alcazarzaray's construction) but have now become very close friends

you ever think about how kaveh realised that his fast-developing friendship with alhaitham back in school felt NOTHING like his also friendship with tighnari

kaveh, looking back: oh. those weren't platonic feelings.....

imagine kaveh saw all the jokes about how all teenage girls have an incredibly intense friendship that ends abruptly in a way that leaves a lot of unresolved feelings behind... and was like "yeah that checks out"

....without realising the whole point was the unaddressed homoerotic tension..............

imagine kaveh having this realisation mid-conversation with tighnari like

kaveh: oh my god i dont want to kiss you

tighnari: okay??? i dont either so we're good???

kaveh: no you have to understand i thought it was normal to want to kiss your best friends

tighnari: weren't you and alhaitham close in the akademiya

kaveh: 🫠🫠

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No end and no escape

(Anharion for a color study)

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Tom and “one of his friends” Devon. Yknow. Conducting some business

You guys don’t understand the kind of chokehold they have me in 😔😔😔

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happy halloween from a little vampire!!!! 🎃

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Lyney + Wrioney