#Furina and her whale son

[avemstella]

So as u probably know I went insane with the fake Rome lore in my Furina fic and since posting that thing I went 'holy shit Ajax is Greek' and how both of them are tied together by the Primordial Sea. I have so many thoughts.

[fischlcatgirl]

Cassie's Works Masterpost (Updated 11/28/24)

Hello, fans of my writing and also most likely fans of the genshin impact character childe tartaglia ajax whatever whatever. and also haters. hello haters.

For many years I have employed the classic tumblr dot com tactic of just kind of posting about my works and their progress whenever I thought of them. But no more!

Fics will be ordered by how soon I think I'm going to finish them, but I make no promises. Such is the life of a guy who has a new idea every few days.

If a fic you liked the premise of was on this list and has disappeared, you can ask me about it! Probably I've just deprioritized it..... it's just on the backburner in my mind.

Works In Progress:

Like Liquor, Drink Venom - PERFUME PETTICOAT TWO: SECOND PERSON POV ABYSS WHALE PARISITE. The young man who was once Ajax and can never be human again, through the years. Revamped with even more headcannons. May feature transfemme Childe... though that is yet to be revealed even to myself. 4k/7-8k.

CASSIES SECRET PROJECT - A SECRET!

Lethe - A 3rd person Lynette pov, concerning what might have happened if the twins (but not Freminet!) drank the bottled flames at the end of Arlecchino's story quest and are trying to be regular magicians. It doesn't go very well for them! 3.5/6-8k.

Ces't la Vie - Furina grows bored with everyday life and finds herself restlessly wandering the streets of Fontaine, where she meets with a wandering bard who is particularly interested in avoiding the Iudex. A conversation about freedom between a caged bird and one only recently released. Planning stage, but it'll probably be around 2-3k? Experienced a setback in that I completely changed the POV of this fic.

Derail This Train of Thought - 3rd person, switching focus between Kaveh and Nahida. No Traveller Au in Sumeru, starts midway through the Sumeru Archon Quest. Things are not good. Focus on a Kaveh and Nahida friendship, Kaveh's sense of pride and how it connects to his self-worth, and also Nahida's different roles and very splintered sense of self because of the whole bubble thing. 18k/25-30k.

aiya, that's one kind of burnout! - We have all asked ourselves "what is Hu Tao actually doing when she uses her skill? Why does she take damage?" and this fic is here to answer that question. SHE IS BURNING HER VERY SOUL. ITS BAD. Kind of a mystery where starts in medias res and that first scene informs the others... Hu Tao and Zhongli as dual protagonists trying to stop a threat to Liyue masquerading as none other than Rex Lapis himself. 2k/?? maybe 8kish. idrk yet.

POV You are Kaveh - A text adventure game where. Well. POV you are Kaveh, shortly after finishing work on the Palace of Alcazarzaray. Will feature 5 different planned endings, only 1.5 of which are remotely canon compliant, so. It'll be a minute. Demo soon?

Archon War 2 - Working title. Celestia takes the power of the archons and offers it to whichever Vision wielder is the last one standing of each element. So much slaughter. So much horror. Still in the planning phase and set to be approx. 50 chapters so. It's going to be a while on this one folks.

Completed Fics:

Invitation to a Beheading - Peruere is visited by the Tsaritsa in jail, and offered the role of Harbinger. 1k.

a snapping - Albedo falls off of Dragonspine and breaks his leg. He suffers a little bit. 1.5k.

Promise Me Kindness - Collei tries to run away from Gandharva Ville and has a panic attack when Tighnari catches her. 1k.

Puppetstrings - Ei looks at all the stuff she has control over and goes hey. Whats this little guy doing in here so she investigates (uses Scara to go talk to Nahida). Hurt/comfort. Nahida and Scara are both REALLY BAD at being friends with anyone and they both hurt each other but they are. Trying. 4k.

Storm's Wake - Miko character study post-cataclysm through canon. Some Eimiko in there but really it's just about Miko being kind of terrible in a women's wrongs sort of way. 2k.

Fisherman's Son - Childe character study, 2nd person pov Childe, set a little bit before and then through his time in the Abyss. He dies a thousand little deaths. Yippee!! 4.5k.

In Absentia (Of?) - Some of Nahida's thoughts on her role post-Rukkadevata erasure. 0.5k.

Grand Finale - Kind of Lisa-Centric fic about a threat to Teyvat. A little bit of mystery. A little bit of hurt. Written 100% just for fun. 8.5k.

Gods and Monsters - Zhongchi but they're bad for each other. A little meeting in Liyue Harbor post-Liyue but pre-Fontaine Archon Quest. Big time resentment from Childe. 2k.

Eye of God - Keqing recieves her Vision but horror style. She has a bad time, but still technically canon compliant. 1k.

Perfume Petticoat - 2nd person rotating pov Childe character study. Maybe the best fic I've ever written, in my own opinion. Covers his climb out of the Abyss through his imprisonment in the Fortress of Meropide, though the Fortress part isn't quite canon compliant anymore. Angst. Mild gore. Childe stuff, you know. 8k.

Greener Grass - Barbatos Character study. Venti Anarchonism, if you read that part, so interactions between him and all of the members of the Mondstadt cast except for Mika, who wasn't out when I started writing, and forgot to put in when he was. Focus on the difference between his place as an Archon and his place as a god. 5k.

Fics on Hiatus (womp womp):

Go For Broke - Zhongli wishes himself into a world where he isn't an Archon, and things are worse there. The main issue here is that while the idea is interesting to me in theory, in practice it's not very exciting. 3.5k/?. I have no idea how long this would be if I ever finished it.

A Dog and Oni Show - Kokomi makes Gorou take a break, and to show how well he can take a break, Gorou decides to fake date Itto. This fic is technically entirely plotted out I have the beats but the thing is that it just isn't very good. I wrote it because I thought it would appeal to people and the title I came up with is a real banger but it's just. It's bad. Sorry everyone. 3.5k/19-20k, were I ever to finish it.

If you think I've spoken before about some idea and it's not on here, I probably just forgot to put it on. Send me a message or an ask and I'll fix that! Also you can just. You can always ask me what's going on with my fics. I love to talk about them. That's part of why I made this post it's really just one big excuse to talk about them and then to keep talking about them when I edit it. Yippee!

PATCH NOTES 11/28/24:

Minor changes to the description of "C'est la Vie".

Added to the word count of "Like Liquor, Drink Venom".

Moved "C'est la Vie" above "Derail This Train of Thought".

Removed "A Waking Life of Looking Backwards". It is too much a comic in my mind.

Added MY SECRET PROJECT.

[avemstella]

Okay finished Remuria main quest and wow

well first thing, Scylla is so fucking chill I'm dying. My dude is so nice and helpful, for a guy with a title like Fell Dragon I was expecting a much more grumpy dude (honestly thinking about it more like Dvalin/dendro dragon/etc). I was also expecting doomed toxic yaoi from him and Remus, but no they were bros to the end (the one entrusted with Remus's final song, I'm crying).

But yeah, I'm so glad I knew the lore because I wish I was recording the face I made when Boethius showed up. Jaw dropped (and when the cat was revealed to be Cassiodor. All around really enjoyed how so much of this was set up in lore, and how differences between lore is just how history is portrayed versus reality etc. felt very realistic).

And while Boethius was way more of a twat than I was expecting, I kind of dig how everyone in this story is Complicated TM. Everyone was doing what they thought was best for their people, even if some were more misguided than others and had some atrocious outcomes. Even Boethius, we don't actually know where he ends and Phobos begins, so it is left very ambiguous who he truly was (a monster/good/probably somewhere in the middle), which makes him just as tragic and sad as the rest (He reminds me a lot of my Dedil Furina tbh). They all deserved better.

I really want to draw the Remuria fam now (well my version lol). A family can be a god king, his whale I mean dragon husband, their weird water daughter, their cat whose also a man, a crazy musician man, an even more crazy prophet musical instrument, and weird water daughter's water dragon son who also has a bunch of adopted daughters who are a different dead dragon's kids. The Dragons and the Romans as I like to call them pfft. Bonus: an ancient water goddess and her Queen-Knight-Prophetess girlfriend, looking on in utter bafflement

Though on Erinnyes, the lore that is probably just a title not her actual name is really interesting. Also, that she wasn't the previous king's daughter, but someone who just came sort of out of nowhere... For a hot minute there, I thought she might literally be Sybilla who took the form of a human to fight Remus. But then I was reminded that she died to create Phobos/is basically now Phobos, so probably not (would be interesting if she's like a reincarnation or something though). I haven't finished the area yet though so there might be more lore that I'm missing but hmmmmm. I'm not someone who is sold on her being Furina (also not like she can't be her either), but I am curious if we will get more answers on her eventually, or she'll just be a vague historical figure (like will she show up like Boethius/revealed as Furina/etc).

um... I think thats all for now. Also, I need to see that meeting between Scylla and Neuvillette, it just sounds hilarious.

I've been having a great time with this new patch (harbingers and Remuria, I was only ever going to have a fun time), here's some small rambling thoughts under the cut that aren't particularly spoilerly but just to be safe

Teenage father Arle, I'm in tears. She's a baby. I both love it and hate it, what is this pfft. Also because there is a very real chance that she became a Harbinger at 17, and Ajax has been stated to be the youngest person to become a Harbinger, that means he became a Harbinger sometime between age 14-16 (maybe slightly older if we bump up Arle's age because there is ambiguity there, but still). Of all things my fic to get right, honestly not the one I wanted because of the implications lol. 16-year-old Harbinger Childe, what a thing.

Also, people were always saying that Arle would be shitty because of Childe and Scara's voicelines, but I was always like 'yo those two are super biased they aren't the best source of info' and I like being right pfft. I love stuff like this, it's such fun character building for both parties.

It makes me really curious about Pulcinella, like there are two ways of reading his shit talking of Arle to Childe. A) he's got along with the previous Knave and is pissed she killed her so he's complaining to the kid he picked up, or B) he's intentionally isolating Childe from the other harbingers by making them out to be the worst. Also, could be a mix of both, and either way neither particularly paint him in the best light. Either way, super intrigued (though I personally hope there's nuance to him, we already have the Dottore/Scara dynamic that's just Dottore being the worst. Like don't get me wrong don't want Pulcinella to nessisarilly be a secret amazing guy (and I do like the Dottore Scara dynamic), but I think there's a balance u know).

Rip harbinger found fam u were too good for this world, though I will admit if we aren't getting that I do love a good political drama. I'm digging all the different Fatui factions and how they fight, but also work together.

Also, talk of Tonia rebellious phase makes me giggle because of future fic plans, and that's all I'm gonna say haha.

And finally Remuria! Okay this will be short because I've not had a lot of time this week and only just started that quest lol. But damn what I've seen so far is so cool. I love exploring this sort of thing and because I have a decent grasp of the lore has helped a lot.

Also this me being delusional, but me seeing the cat with heterochromia and how the ruins of Remuria were sealed under a Spring... looks at my Furina fic... (I know I'm delusional, but it brings me joy pfft). Furina is part of my Remuria exploration team for a reason haha.

But yes, I'll probably have more to say later (for example I'm waiting to unlock naturally Arle's voicelines/stories, though I have seen some talk of them), so stay tuned (maybe).