#aly.genshin

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wriothesley when i get my hands on you.

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currently feeling a degree of love for scaramouche genshin impact that has me wondering whether or not my meds are working as well as they should be

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sorry. sorry. sorry. sorry. do you see my vision though.

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guys. guys. pinkseas nation. aly pinkseas followers. do you promise to vote for collei in the polls tomorrow.... do you prommy...........

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girl whose golden troupe artifacts are totally fine and pretty good for furina specifically and who even has a full tenacity set for furina as well but who DESPERATELY needs better deepwood artifacts and doesnt even have a complete set for nahida: what if i farmed more golden ^_^

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ARLEBINA ZINE LEFTOVER SALES THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE the way my little order makes it so fucking clear that idgaf about arlebina and im only here for columbina LMAO

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whats the best song on the entire genshin ost and why is it surreal noctivaga

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fun fact: even though i would just about Kill for a cryo vision every time i go back to my little personal analysis i always end up dendro. every single time without fail. and both aesthetically and personally speaking it DOES actually suit me more than cryo does, cryo is just the one im most obsessed with. ive tried So Many Fucking Times to justify being more cryo coded than dendro coded and every single time i have failed.

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isat spoilers again

collei isa btw. if u even care.

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i am so fucking good at this game

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if genshin were even a Slightly different game this would be so scaramouche coded

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OKAY BUT. LAYLA SCARA FRIENDSHIP RIGHT. mmmmmmmgnmgnmbgnbgmm

starts with the wisdom seelie and other layla. scara does some investigating at nahida's request it all seems to come back to her but he can't manage to get actual proof, and it's not like she's doing harm? which is the important part. the advice she gives is good, pointing lost students in the right direction without doing all their work for them, and the pranks on students looking to take advantage of her are pretty funny. he leaves it alone.

students hide in the house of daena to stay and study after the doors are locked ALL the time. what they don't do very often, if ever, is break in to the house of daena at night. except for other layla and now hat guy, both of whom have very questionable schedules and plenty of reason for stealth. it's all well and good until they try breaking in at the same place, at the same time.

cue the split second of EXTREMELY awkward eye contact, immediately followed by the silent shared sentiment of i won't tell if you don't. so neither of them says a word about it, even as they run into each other more and more often. they're busy people. they can't exactly be bothered.

but there are rumors about hat guy, just as much as there are rumors about layla. and as much as scara has heard (and largely ignored) about the human calculator, other layla has heard the whispers about hat guy. how brilliant and well articulated his papers are, how he showed up out of nowhere, the fact that academically speaking he's kind of an asshole who refuses to soften the truth or hold anything back.

and here's the thing: as much as she doesn't want layla to be stressed out, as much work as they already have on their plate, other layla wants to learn. she wants to challenge herself and push through it all and get better and learn more with every passing day. and that's a lot harder to do alone than with help.

people at the akademiya are logical, sure, often to a fault, but apparently hat guy is ruthless and that's perfect. she is, of course, completely willing to be ruthless right back at him, something she's sure other students (at least, those who don't have their heads shoved up their asses) are far too afraid to attempt.

the next time they run into each other, she asks him to critique her thesis. which is fucking baffling. he doesn't know a damn thing about rtawahist's studies and he tells her as much. to which other layla points out that SHE doesn't know more than the basics of vahumana's studies, but it's not like it would be hard to learn. she's not asking him for a favor. it's equal exchange, obviously. now is he going to read her paper or not?

and it's a little annoying on hat guy's end, but there's also a begrudging respect there. and, admittedly, it would be useful to have someone to look over his own shit who wouldn't waste time or hold back.

the single night very quickly turns into routine, meeting twice a week or so to viciously tear each other's papers to fucking shreds before swapping back and reworking whatever is necessary. it's easy and it's useful and it works for both of them, and neither of them ever ask for more than studying together at night, which is a relief for them both in more ways than one.

hat guy finally running into or even seeking out daylight layla for a last-minute question about one of his papers only for her to stare blankly at him, stammering out something about not being familiar with vahumana's studies followed by an even more cautious im really, really sorry, but have we met?

and she seems so genuinely apologetic and uncharacteristically nervous and her posture and even her voice are different and as much as he wants to get pissed off at her for very likely pretending not to know who he is when they're around other people, he remembers some of those first rumors. the human calculator, the heaven-sent thesis, the sleepwalking eccentric. leaves it be, at least for now.

the next time they meet he stares at her for a long, long moment, and she stares right back until he goes 🤨 sleepwalking? and she blinks and flashes him the most brilliant smile and goes yeah, actually. layla is asleep right now. she won't remember any of this in the morning. and he fucking gapes at her because That's Not Sleepwalking. you KNOW that's not sleepwalking, right??? and all she does is shrug and ask if they're gonna study or what

snowballing from there. hat guy seeking layla out during the day because he's kind of pissed, kind of suspicious, and really curious, only to grow more and more certain that yeah, there are two of them. and neither of them are a danger in the slightest. could be if they chose to be, sure, but they couldn't be further from doing that.

coming to respect daylight layla a lot, too, because akademiya students are usually entitled fucking assholes but she's unsure of herself and she's quiet and isolated and she doesn't feel she belongs or deserves to be here but she also hasn't quit, not once, hasn't given up or ever taken the "blessing from the stars" for granted.

joining her sometimes for commissions and eventually teaching her how to use a catalyst because he knows her, knows that when she really wants to learn something she learns it in and out, if she actually gave a fuck about using a sword she wouldn't be swinging it around like a baseball bat.

(learning, eventually, that layla flourishes with a catalyst but other layla is damn good with the sword and it's probably in her best bet to keep them both on her person)

them becoming actual friends and layla slowly becoming more and more confident and them being able to tease each other and being really good influences on each other in terms of believing in themselves and feeling like they might actually belong her and the potential for layla to have a really fucking long lifespan without really knowing it and them navigating that and

all of these are from my notes for a layla-centric fic that i desperately need to write so i have the layla side of it much more thought out but oughghghghgh wanderer making normal friends and just having fun and fucking around and being able to do stupid shit but also being respected and cared about and thought of even when he's not around and and and and and and

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do NOT fucking care for neuvifuri as a ship and the way (most) ppl portray them but dear god if i am not fucking Obsessed with their dynamic they're so everything to me

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genshin tarot game thingy 😳🥰 emperor diluc 💀💀💀💀💀💀

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idk man part of it is me wanting to see hat guy and layla and nahida and layla get closer and layla and albedo friendship and such and part of it is wanting to explore the disconnect that comes with learning youre functionally immortal. assuming youll grow and age and die with everyone youve ever known its a fact its life its fine only to realize youre going to outlast each and every one of them and you just have to live with that. everything youve ever known will change and youll see more of it than you ever dreamed of and isnt that so terrifying? isnt that so isolating? mmgmngmgmgnfng

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diluc collei scara and xiao.......................... img,oiggn to be sick