#albedo rerun when

[sheyfu]

i love how everytime i join a new player w albedo theyre like WHO IS THAT and then i have yo pull up my 10 pages long albedo spiel

[charmzero]

omggg it’s national albedo day

[m1khailingf]

Albedo missed his stupid cheese cat

[fuwahua]

Joke

♡₊˚ 🦢・₊✧ Tktober Day 24: Joke

Tags: Alberose implied (Albedo/Sucrose), crush, terrible dad jokes

“Erm… what did the thermometer say to the graduated cylinder?”

“What?”

“You may have graduated but… but… I’ve got… m-many degrees!”

“Ah, haha.”

“Mister Albedo, please take this seriously!”

Albedo offers her a (genuine!) apologetic smile, the kinds of which that would send her heart aflutter any other day if not for the multitude of fake smiles and laughs he’d offered her a second ago. Sucrose smothers her face in her hands, embarrassed red burning through her parted fingertips.

She was never one for humor, not that she hated dad jokes or anything of the like! But they didn’t evoke any laughter (or wincing, as Timeaus was often to do) from her. Albedo, however, seemed to have awakened an adoration for jokes after the visit of Collei and her friends to Mondstadt; in the weeks since their leaving, Albedo had bought 3 joke books from Margarite, attended the Cat’s Parlor’s open mic night (and watched Six Finger Jose tell knock knock jokes for 15 minutes before someone shoved him offstage), and discovered Glory was immensely clever at coming up with dad humor. It was nice to see him smiling so often now and Sucrose had. Um.

She wanted to be a part of it. A reason he smiled.

“You’re doing great, Sucrose.”

“I’m doing terribly.” Sucrose moans, shaking her head. What had she been thinking of when signing up for next week’s open mic?! A whole fifteen minutes, dedicate to just her, her of all people, telling jokes? Dad jokes, at that? “Mister Albedo, why didn’t you stop me?”

“You’re doing better than you think, I promise.”

“But you’re not laughing!”

“I was.”

“You were fake laughing.” Her ears droop as she speaks, squeezing her eyes tight as images of Albedo’s reaction to Cyno’s jokes in comparison to hers flash through her memory. In comparison to that reaction, hers was… lacking. “I’m truly no good at this, really.”

“Sucrose, can you raise your arms for me?”

She blinks, startled at the sudden request. Still, she does, nodding to Albedo. “U-um, yes!”

He smiles, reassuring. “Can you close your eyes? And don’t open them, please.”

“Of course! I will do just thahahahat?! M-misteheher AlbehehEHEHEDO?!”

Sucrose flinches, eyes reflexively opening by surprise as fingers dig into her armpits. Albedo’s gaze meets hers, lips quirked, and her cheeks flush red at her blatant inability to follow the instructions. Her eyes snap shut as she squirms, arms trembling. “W-whahahaat?”

“We’re conducting an experiment.” Are they? On her? She yelps as he flares his fingers wide and then rubs the center of her underarms with his thumb, crooking deep into the groove. It tickles, relentlessly, and she squirms.

“Do you feel that?”

Of course she does! She nods, gritting her teeth before another bout of giggles force them open, shaking her head as Albedo’s hand shifts to her sides. Oh no, oh no! “I dohahaha! W-whehehehy?”

“You’re laughing, correct?”

“YehehehEHEHEHES!”

“Perfect. Hold just like that for me, please.”

Does she have a choice? Sucrose gasps as the hands travel her upper body, scratching at her stomach, her waist, even skirting over to the small of her back where she bounces on her toes to unsuccessfully dislodge the hands. They linger there, scratching above where her tail would be if she had one, and she yelps. Albedo hums, almost undetectable beneath the shrill shout of her laughter, and her face burns unmistakenly. “P-PLeahahahIahahase!”

“How does this make you feel?”

“HwahaHAHA?”

Albedo’s breath grazes her ear, and she gasps, quivering, before her arms snap back in a fresh peal of laughter as his hands dart back up to her ribs. “We’re in Mondstadt square. I’m tickling you. You’re laughing. How does this make you feel?”

“I-it fehHEEHEhels,” Sucrose chokes out, shaking her head. Embarrassing, overwhelming, electric? The vision comes to her mind easily—Sara from Good Hunter across the street, eyes on them and her reckless laughter. Timeaus’ quirked lips at the scene and his deliberate scooting over the other side of the Alchemy table to avoid them, focusing on his experiments instead. Herself caught in Albedo’s arms, eyes squeezed tight, and the persistent itching that runs its way through her body with every wriggle of his fingers. That her ribs are more sensitive than her arms and every nudge and bump between them has her gasping, yelping, and that Albedo’s hands are surely stuck there beneath her clamped arms. That her mouth is wide open in wild laughter, improper. And yet—and yet—

“H-HAHAHAPPEHEHEHE! I FEHEHEHEL H-HAHAHAHAPPY!”

“Good.”

The tickling ends as abruptly as it started and Sucrose sags in relief, hands pressed against her aching ribs. Albedo’s hand rests against her back instead and she squeaks, ears flapping in alarm before realizing that his grip is steady, not teasing, as it rights her. “Are you alright?”

“Y-yehehehes?” She flexes her wrists, her feet. No changes, not when she was only tickled for a matter of minutes. Still, her face remains warm, and she swallows. “Um, w-why did you do that?”

Surprise flickers in his gaze before he speaks. “You were worried that I was fake laughing.”

She nods, still confused. “Yes?”

“Think objectively, Sucrose. If this was an experiment we were running, how would we measure what is a fake laugh and a real one? How would we measure the effectiveness of your humor?”

“That—”

“You weren’t laughing before I tickled you, an act that has nothing related to jokes. Does that mean your laugh was fake, then?”

She swallows, the pieces beginning to click. “It… was an instinctual reaction at first.”

He nods. “At first, yes. Yet, when I asked how you felt, your response was happiness. Did fake laughter lead to real laughter? Or was your laughter real from the beginning, even if you didn’t intend on laughing? Sometimes, the line between what’s fake and real isn’t as clear as we’d like to think.”

That… that makes sense. Sucrose ponders as familiar sequences fill her thoughts; even though she wouldn’t volunteer to be tickled, it honestly wasn’t terrible being beneath the hands of the man she liked. And wasn’t that why she’d signed up for the comedy show—out of a desire to make him happy, even if she thought she wouldn’t like it? It was true that Albedo seemed to react differently to Cyno’s jokes than hers, but how much of that memory was real, and how much warped by her own emotions? Rather than focusing on immeasurable factors, it’d be more effective to focus on what was right in front of her.

Like herself, and the man who’d spent his weekend listening to her jokes.

Maybe she wasn’t the only one willing to push herself for the other. She shifts, gaze flicking back to meet his, and Albedo smiles. It’s bright, maybe even brighter than when he laughed for Cyno. She beams.

“I get it!”

[lameow-l]

BRING BACK ALBEDO’S WINTER EVENTS!!

[c6jpg]

ooooo fuck neuvillette rerun.... sorry chiori it's over

[welcometoteyvat]

is arlecchino 4.6 or 4.8.. if shes later i might just go ahead and pull yae if albedo's not coming next patch

[c0rpsedemon]

can't wait until guaranteed benny tomorrowwwwww

[uhzuku]

how do you keep getting all of the event five stars so often have you even lost like wth

ig the pity system is being nice to me?? idk man i’ve won my last 5 50/50s and am just like

also update since i forgot to post this; i lost alhaitham to jean :(

[eggs-can-draw]

Venti had a rapid rise to my favorite and I have 0 clue how it happened lol.

He’s sneaky like that

[pierswife]

Alrighty gamers we're cool and normal now that meds have been taken and I've been at work for about an hour. Still really sleepy tho /lh

[tirsden]

Threw this together for a hoyoverse forums "show me your team comp" post so I'ma chuck it here as well. This is the f2p challenge gang, and while I do have a good-sized roster with them and play a whole bunch of comps... these guys are the real deal.

Meanwhile, C0R1 Neuvillette freeze comp with noblesse Aloy, tenacity Layla, and clam Mika are offscreen going, "You just keep telling yourself that."

[guubiiz]

think m’ gonna save up for alhaitham

[m1khailingf]

Does this count as evil vs normal art style?

[sailorstar9]

I'm going to need either Zhongli or Albedo on my baby acct. Can't keep relying on Geo Traveler construct on pressure plates.

[rubys-domain]

sooooooooo, now that the stream spilled the deets, let's talk 4.0 banners shall we?

1st half: Lyney, Yelan; Lynette

2nd half: Childe, Zhongli; Freminet

pulling plans below cuz this is gonna be a long one

so, on my main account. i don't know if i want to pull zhongli this rerun tbh. i already have layla and she's serving me pretty well already. maybe after i get the other 5 stars i really want. yelan though......

see. on my main account, i already have xingqiu. and i probably won't need a team where i'll be using both of them anytime soon. originally i wanted her because i thought i would need xingqiu in both teams in the abyss. but 1) i still can't be bothered to do the abyss, and probably won't be for a good long while, and 2) i'm not even gonna need him for my chongyun team in the abyss since i'd be going the melt route. my cyno team would benefit from having her instead of xingqiu, sure. i just broke my back pulling for kokomi though, and i don't fancy doing that again in literally the next round of banners. therefore, yelan will have to wait until her next rerun.

so, new characters. i am kinda curious about lyney. but i know nothing about him except that he's a pyro bow user. so i'm gonna do it like this: if i want cons of the other 4 stars on the banner, i'll casually pull (i.e. not being on a mad dash to grind primos like i'd been for the past week or so). if i don't, my primo wallet can finally take a breather.

for the second half, despite me giving freminet the massive side-eye back when he was leaked, i'm a sucker for cryo in general so i might be tempted to get a copy of him. if i do then i'll pull on the zhongli side. if i get a zhongli along the way, that's cool too. but honestly i'd rather i lose the 50/50 (and get tighnari, fingers crossed), which would make me a little more ready if venti or anyone else of personal interest gets a rerun soon after

okay, time to talk about the alt.

this is a bit of a tough one tbh. since yelan is getting a rerun before xingqiu comes back to the starglitter shop, i am incentivized to pull for her since i don't have xingqiu there yet and it doesn't feel good in the slightest. but i still haven't gotten kokomi there yet, and she would also be a godsend to have. so i need to figure out whether or not i should keep pulling for kokomi or wait until yelan's banner.

and i'm probably gonna skip zhongli's banner there honestly. even though i still haven't gotten her shield strength up to snuff, the bottleland event did give me a free layla. and even though he would be a massive upgrade in the shield department, i'm gonna be exhausted as all hell after grinding primos for kokomi/yelan.

actually... how about this. a few days before the current banner ends, hoyo releases a notice for the next half's banners. so what i'm gonna do is this: i'm gonna hold off on pulling in the alt until then. if xingqiu turns out to be one of the 4 stars featured with yelan and lyney, then i'm gonna keep waiting until 4.0 to pull. (still gonna keep my starglitter tho in case i get super unlucky and don't get either of them). if he's not one of the featured 4 stars, i'm dumping all my primos into kokomi's banner. and then it's all up to luck — if i win the 50/50 i get kokomi, and if i lose the 50/50 i get yelan. or at least a higher chance of getting yelan depending on how many primos i can grind. i'll still pull even if i get kokomi though. at least until i get a rosaria or the banner ends. i won't pull on yelan's banner until the 2nd half banner notices drop. then, if there's still no sign of xingqiu and there aren't any 4 stars i want in the next banner besides freminet, i'll dump all my remaining primos into yelan's banner. if i get her, yay. i just really need to grind up starglitter to get xingqiu cuz i want to get him either way. if i still don't have enough starglitter by the time yelan's banner ends, i'll wait for the 4.1 stream and 1st half banner notices before deciding whether or not to pull on the zhongli banner. if there's a 5 star i really need or a 4 star i really want cons on, then i'll continue pulling for starglitter on the 4.1 banners. if none of the 4.1 banners sound useful then i'm pulling on the zhongli banner. getting freminet or zhongli along the way would be a happy bonus.

sigh i do hope i don't have to get yelan though... i'm not confident that my alt can farm the ruin serpent without everyone being on life support after every single fight. farming the aeonblight drake for layla was painful enough.