#diluc's father ex fatui yes or yes?

[torgawl]

the hexenzirkel x ragnvindr agenda continues

[egoistrin]

letters from the past

DILUC RAGVINDR X FEM!READER

[🐰] angst. female reader. use of the word y/n. hurt no comfort. mentions of diluc's past/lore. may contain typos and grammatical errors. this is cross-posted on my ao3 account. likes and reblogs are very much appreciated!

Dear Diluc,

I heard from the knights that you had left Mondstadt and went on your way to pursue people who had given your father the delusion. I assume you are on your way to Snezhnaya? The Fatui are mighty and I hope you know that but I know I cannot change your mind as you are as stubborn as ever. You are doing this to give justice to your father's death, Mr. Crepus was a good man and he didn't deserve to be disrespected by Mr. Eroch. I truly understand your decision. However, these are just my thoughts as a knight. I hope you do not mind me babbling about my feelings as someone who holds you dear to my heart.

I cannot accept the news that you had left Mondstadt. I hate it as it was the first thing that I heard in the morning. You know me well enough to know that I do not want to hear this information. So, why? I could always help you, Diluc. Why did not you consult me? I thought you trusted me? We have gone through so many talks about this already. Did you not promise me? I understand your grieving but I do not understand your rash decisions to leave the city and go risk your life hunting the Fatuis. It will not go well as Snezhnaya has the most powerful military in all of Teyvat. Why do you have to be stubborn? Why can you not just let Grand Master Varka and Jean handle the situation? At the end of the day, Mr. Crepus is already dead. A mere person like me cannot change the hard-headed Diluc Ragnvindr. If this letter finds you, you are not obligated to reply. Safe travels, Diluc.

From, Y/n

No matter how many times Diluc had read this letter, he always felt the twinge of pain in his chest. He finds himself thinking of the answers he can give Y/n in her letter but he chose to be quiet. It is better this way. He is not sure if his answer would suffice to cover all her questions or not. He would rather feel miserable than face her again.

After all, is it not a bit scandalous to talk to a married woman in his manor?

Diluc puts the letter down and his eyes roam at the table. He was about to organize the papers when he saw the other letter written by Y/n. Compared to the first letter, this one appears the latest and less crumpled than the other one. He took a deep breath before opening the letter, preparing himself not to breakdown as he already knows the content of the letter like the back of his hand.

Diluc finds himself questioning if he is a masochist or not. I mean, why would you even read the letter your ex-girlfriend sent you? Finally, he opened the paper, and beautiful handwriting greets Diluc's eyes.

To Diluc Ragnvindr,

I hope you are having a good day Mr. Diluc. I have heard from Lisa that you came back from your adventure yesterday. I am disappointed as I cannot greet you in person as I was busy dealing with work. It has been four years since you left Mondstadt. I assume you had your questions answered now? I assume yes, 4 years' worth of traveling and not even a single clue? Impossible, you are a well-capable man, Mr. Diluc. Kaeya told me you left your vision.... I do not know what to say, I deduced that you used your father's delusion to survive. That is dangerous but never mind, the fact that you are home now puts my mind at ease.

This is probably not the right time to say this but I am now married. My parents decided to put me into an arranged marriage as they could not stand the sight of me waiting for a man whose return is unknown. I tried to oppose them, insisting on waiting for you but as time goes by I can no longer hold on. This is not your fault Diluc, I have come to accept my fate. I am just a mere woman compared to your father. I understand that you would choose to avenge your father's death than fulfill a stupid promise to marry me. I hope that one day, you can let go of your past and decide to move on from all of the things that happened. In that way, you can find your happiness and find someone you love. I have faith in you, I will forever cherish you and our memories together.

From, Y/n L/n

Words cannot describe how Diluc wants to hold you in his arms and apologize for being away from you the whole time. Yes, he needs to search for clues behind his father's death but he cannot stand letting you go. He finds himself wishing for another chance to makeup the time that he missed with you, a chance to redo his mistake, and a chance to spend time with his family again. He cannot help thinking that this is all his fault, from his father's death, his and Kaeya's fight, and to your marriage to another man. But alas, he cannot turn back time. Yet he still holds that prayer tight, If Barbatos is listening to him right now he just hopes that He will give Diluc a chance to live his life again.

He holds your letter tight to his chest as tears sprung down from his eyes. Someone walking on him crying is not his concern right now, he can easily order them to forget what they saw.

Who would have expected that Diluc Ragnvindr can cry from just a single letter? But Diluc has always been emotional, he just tries his best not to show any emotion as he claims himself not the same anymore. Most people see Diluc as grumpy but he is not. He is just reserved, a fragile person, that is. A single letter from his past is sufficient for Diluc to show emotions.

[🐰]. i miss diluc so much for real 😭 i need more of his lore !!! hoyoverse give us more diluc crumbs !!! i miss my man !!! i still remember the time that i rlly wanted diluc so much... sighsss... good times fr. reblogs guys plss!

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GENSHIN MEN WITH ASSASSIN WIVES!

Characters!

Zhongli, diluc, kaeya, childe, albedo!

FEM!READER!

Reader and the characters have children!

Warnings: blood! Mentions of pregnancy! Albedo being horny!

Let’s say the ex geo archon was shocked to find out his shy lover was a assassin.

Ofc he was stay worried about your safety as a assassin, but you always told him to stop worrying about you

He stayed up to late hours to greet you at the door whenever you came home late form a assassination!

He loved the way you would kiss his cheek everytime!

Ofc everytime one of your children asked what your job was you just lied about being a doctor.

scenario!

You came home late very late. Stay covered in blood, then you heard a deep voice speak “welcome home my dearest.” Zhongli said your and his children asleep on his lap. “Ah my love hello sorry for coming home late tonight’s assassination was a bit hard-“ you said quietly, “my dearest I wonder what if one of our children take in your footsteps?” Zhongli said with a serious face. You froze was he gonna hit you? Or take your weapon away? OR MAYBE KILL YOU?! “I was joking you look so shocked it’s adorable.. I will go start the bath for you” he kisses your cheek and left the living room!

poor diluc letted out a small scream-

We’re you working for the fatui?! Or the knights? He was confused who did you work for.

When he asked you went silent, when you told him you work for nobody and just do assassinations for clans and the knights

He was mostly worried did you assassin people while pregnant?! Why did you tell him before?! He was so worried.

When you made sure that you didn’t assassin anyone while pregnant he got calm and smiled. At least his children had a strong mother.

Scenario!

You came home very early- you thought your kids were asleep. You entered the living room and dropped your knifes and everything. They were lily and crepus were playing with they’re toys- “MAMA YOUR HOMEW!” Lily hugged your bloody dress. And crepus who was already 15 was shocked his mother was a ASSASSIN?! Then you three heard a angry voice, “hello {name} ragnivndr.” Diluc spoke, ah then you remember he told you to enter the winery form the back door and not the front door- WELL YOU GOT A VERY GOOD YELLING FOR YOUR HUSBAND-

And yes you and diluc named your first son after his father<3

He was amazed. VERY AMAZED. That explains where you got this beauty form.

You didn’t even need to tell him because he already knew- he was looking for a shirt to wear after one of your devil tango nights and saw your knives-

He also loved to see with your and his daughter. You named her Marie because it was a beautiful name!

Scenario!

Your daughter also knew about your secret she didn’t mind having a boss girl mom! “IM HOME!” You yelled scaring the fuck out of kaeya. Poor boy was having a good dream of finding his dad- Marie spoke “welcome home miss girlboss” you gave your daughter a bloody hug! “I guess you gotta chose! Be a assassin or a useless knight” you smirked at kaeya! At least how dangerous your job was your life was happy with your small family!

Fell in love with you harder!

He wanted you to join the fatui! Then you two could assassin and be partners in crime right? RIGHT!

Ofc he never brought up who you worked for!

When you told him you were working for pantalone he had a BIG ASS MENTAL BREAK DOWN-

Scenario!

You didn’t even get the time to grab the mora form pantalone hands before he slammed the door open- “GET YOUR EMO HANDS OFF MY WIFE YOU FOUR EYES.” He yelled- and hugged you tightly and your poor son who was 13 had to watch him be a weirdo-

You kicked him in the balls dragged him by the ears out of pantalone office- pantalone spoke “everyday kid?” Your son Andrew spoke “yap now give me the mora four eyes.”

Ofc you apologized to pantalone so many times so so many times.

He was shocked but so HORNY. He was horny to see you in your assassin clothes- ofc you never did.

He also drawed you killing people for fun- your poor 3 year old saw the drawings and had nightmares for MONTHS-

Ofc you gave albedo a good hard kick in the balls for that-

Scenario

Albedo and your daughter Lina were watching a movie when you walked in covered in blood and much worse- she just hugged you “mama hi!” You picked her up. There is not much albedo does and your daughter got used to the smell of blood.

IM SORRY IF THIS TURNED OUT BAD! BUT I HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT!

[slimepuparibaba]

My Genshin Universe Ship Dynamics

I've given so much info about ChiLumi, but I definitely wanna expand on everyone else, because their stories are interesting too! So, without further ado, here are the ship dynamics in as little time as possible. This is a long one, so it'll be below the cut! Thanks!

ChiLumi (Childe x Lumine)

Lumine is a sweet dazzling ray of sunshine who is a bit of a chaotic gremlin at times. Loves her boyfriend dearly and isn't afraid to make it known. Usually flirts with him without hesitation.

Childe is a simp. Usually, he is the one in charge and having everyone listen to him, but he will immediately bend to Lumine's will. Also responsible for most of the following ships out of protecting Lumine from any 'love rivals'

JeaLuc (Jean x Diluc)

Small feelings existed before Diluc's whole father incident happened. Then, the feelings got crushed. They hide their small lingering feelings behind mutual respect

Jean heavily respects Diluc and is eager to work together with him due to how he displayed himself in his younger years. She hopes that one day, that fire may come back to him.

Diluc is so tired of everyone and everrything, but he's tolerant with Jean. He sometimes checks up on her as she can exhaust herself on her duties. Deep down, and I mean REEEAAAL deep down, he still cares. He just doesn't want to admit it. (Tsuntsun? Kuu... tsun? Tsunkuu? I... I don't know)

Heavily advocated and supported by Childe. The ex-Fatui gives constant advice to Jean since she's the one more likely to make a move rather than Diluc.

If they were together, it would be one of the more mature, civil relationships. also klee is their surrogate child while alice is away fight me on this

AlbeCrose (Albedo x Sucrose)

Master and apprentice dynamic (obviously)

Albedo admires Sucrose for her work ethic and also sometimes sketches her when she isn't paying attention. He's not entirely aware of what love is, so his feelings are questionable to him. He would love it if Sucrose called him by his name, though.

Sucrose admires Albedo and looks up to him, to the point where that idolization grew into a crush. She tries to ignore it, though, because Albedo is her teacher, and she is his student.

Childe is not satisfied with Sucrose's conclusion and has since stolen pages from Albedo's sketchbook (with the help of oh-so convenient wind from Venti) that had notes about Albedo's feelings for Sucrose on it.

To his dismay, they are not a thing yet.

...he will keep trying, though.

XiaoYu (Xiao x Ganyu)

Cold, harsh tsundere with a delicate, but well-mannered partner

The ones closest to fruition. Lantern Rite helped move their friendship along and they're now in territory that can be assumed as 'more than friends, but questioning if lovers'

Xiao pushes away Ganyu on instinct because of his karma, but he does care. Ganyu sees this and continues moving closer to prove his karma won't hurt her and she's perfectly fine.

They also both babysit Qiqi and look like a family. Very cute.

HEAVILY advocated by Childe--Xiao is the worst love rival TO DATE

ZhongGuang (Zhongli x Ningguang)

A himbo god and an intelligent reincarnation of a God his intelligent wife that will point out everything (see John Mulaney for example)

Advocated by both Childe AND Lumine

Neither has made a move yet...

Both hold a mutual respect for each other. Both have expressed interest (albeit not in front of each other) of giving the other a chance, but otherwise, no actions have been taken

Zhongli, however, seems to be the one pining a bit more noticeably than Ningguabg. Sometimes, one can catch him staring at her as she looks out upon the city of Liyue Harbor as if mesmerized.

Ningguang may also have had a dream or two about him. She hasn't dove into explicit detail though.

These two old folk need a bit more time than everyone else.

BenBar? BarNett? ...BenAra? (Bennett x Barbara)

Debated between BenneFischl, but Bennett had custom-made balloons on his birthday with Barbara on it, so Childe went through with this instead (plus, he does owe Barbara for her help with him and Lumine, so...)

Plus, he does think her smile is dazzling

Barbara is super concerned about Bennett's wellbeing and constantly patches him up on their journey. Bennett just shrugs it off and says it's no problem

Both are on the younger side, so they're not looking to rush into a relationship. Currently, they are best of friends, with some crushes on each other (Bennett pining over Barbara just a tiny bit more)

Give them time. They're young.

Chongqiu / Xingyun (Chongyun x Xingqiu)

Buddies who are totally not gay

Chongyun is, despite popular belief, not very forward in pursuing Xingqiu. It's actually Xingqiu who does the pursuing.

Xingqiu found a bunch of romance novels, took them as relationship advice, and is torturing Chongyun with it.

Give Chongyun some time to reaffirm that yes, this is love, and yes, Xingqiu bullying him is just because Xingqiu thought the tropes in romances were all totally correct

It's basically Chongyun, the panicked gay, and Xingqiu, the confident gay

Ramber (Razor x... Amber?)

For reasons unknown, Childe has this down in his matchmaking notebook. No other information was actually revealed...

Lumine seems to have penned this as well?

Amber and Razor have apparently been reported to have been hunting together after Razor was sent to adapt to human society. He seems to rely heavily on Amber for that, since she's one of his only human friends around his age

It's basically Amber and her dog, but for some reason, Amber doesn't seem to mind pampering him every once in a while...

Not heavily advocated yet and needs more evidence, according to Childe and Lumine

ScaraMona (Scaramouche x Mona)

Made by Childe as a failsafe in case Scaramouche joins their expedition.

He wants to make sure Scaramouche does not woo Lumine, so he decided that Mona would be best to handle him.

If they got together, their dynamic would definitely be a bickering old married couple that never gets along but still loves each other

BONUS: Dainther (Dainsleif x Aether)

Supported by Childe--he won't push it, but he hopes it works out for Dain

Dain reminisces on the times he spent with Aether and constantly wishes to go back. He treasures Aether with all his heart and hopes that someday, they will be reunited again.

Dainsleif loves Aether and misses him dearly. He pines over his missing traveling companion.

Aether...

...well, Aether's feelings aren't relevant, now are they?

He set those aside long ago, anyway. He has a duty to uphold.

[tartagliaxx]

hi lei!! thank you for explaining the whole pity system for me!! it did make me realize i don't have childe confirmed which makes me nervous i like most of the other characters but if some other five star comes home there gonna be benched and hated i have an idea kinda like a little ritual to get him home its something i wanna try before i start to pull for him i looked through the archive and found i think every location childe has been to and i plan to go through all of them if you want i can give you the list :3

right now whos in your team? and who is childe going to replace? if you imagined a team dynamic with the characters what would it be like and how would it different with childe?

for me my current team is xiangling, noelle, lumine and kaeya i plan to bench lumine,,,,i'm gonna miss calling my team kaeya n girlies but i'll live considering i have childe i can imagine him trying to entertain the others by making little whales out of water and xiangling gets the idea to make ice cream animals by having him manipulate it while its liquid, kaeya freezes it and noelle acts as the taste tester- 🍰

you’re welcome! i also dont have childe confirmed so same boat bestie but we shouldnt worry too much bc childe will come home to us... right? i was planning to do the same! i saved the golden house fight for today and i also planned to go to the northland bank later. please do send the locations 👀

so the thing abt me playing is i dont have a team? my priority are the namecards lmfao so i’ll just randomly switch people in depending on friendship lvls, my mood and their compatibility against enemies. what i can tell you is my go-to team when im not sure which enemies i’ll be fighting. that team is composed of diluc, zhongli, mona and venti. i can see myself switching out venti for childe when facing single enemies/bosses since venti’s ult doesnt really work too well for them.

literally the dynamic is ‘rich ceo turns sugar father to two broke ex-gods and one broke astrologer’. with venti around, everyone is at guaranteed at least one prank a day and that stresses out zhongli so much that he loses a big chunk of his cool. mona is generally pretty chill but broke. she sometimes helps stop zhongli from grabbing venti by the neck and swinging him off the cliff but she’s also traumatized from that one time she almost got blown away from trying to read his fate. meanwhile, diluc is just there staring at them exasperatedly bc he legitimately feels as if he adopted three rowdy children. rest assured tho, diluc nags and pesters at them to eat lunch on time and buys them proper clothes when they’re going to dragonspine or whatever. ‘no mona. you’re not taking a step into dragonspine w that outfit. here. have this coat’

when venti unfortunately had to leave for bard duties, zhongli was pleased and offered to introduce a potential new member which just so happened to be childe. suddenly, the team dynamic shifted and now, it’s zhongli’s turn to be the dad bc diluc and childe are always at each other’s necks (quite literally. you almost never see them without weapons pointed at each other). diluc hates the fatui, end of the story while childe has taken a liking into infuriating diluc and getting into a fight w him. mona would leave but unfortunately, she’s very broke and now, she has two sugar fathers to pay for her expenses. childe may also bother her to read his fate not bc he believes in it but bc he finds it intriguing. oh and tea breaks! it’s a must for zhongli so everyone puts down whatever they’re doing and sits down for tea at zhongli’s insistence once a day in the afternoon. i feel like mona’s the youngest? and everyone sees her as a little sister (except for zhongli. he sees her more of a granddaughter) so if anyone dared hurt her, everyone is suddenly best friends who work together very well. yes let’s go spam that burst and vaporize.

🥺🥺 your team is very cute. that dynamic is so wholesome ahhhhhh. it suits you very well :)