#everytime i leave the house my headphones are in idk how ppl survive without music

[fatuismooches]

Thinking about dottore with a reader who was extremely passionate about music

Like even back in the akademiya days. Maybe they only joined to appease their family. Reader would always be rambling about transferring maybe to a music school in Liyue or Fontaine but stuck around to look out for a certain blue haired scholar who could barely remember to eat his meals…

Reader probably never got to fulfil their musical dreams considering they probably moved to Snezhnaya to be in the labs with Dottore (or if it’s fragile reader they kinda lost the ability to perform over the years) which is very sad

Prime + all the segments probably fight just to try to stand the closest to your door to hear you potentially start humming or something, hoping that you don’t notice them and stop

Since you were young, your family was never particularly supportive of your hobbies or pursuit in the art of music, more interested in pushing you toward academics. You fell into the role they wanted you to play but you always hoped to transfer out of the suffocating Akademiya and be somewhere you could openly express yourself, saving money here and there. Even when you met Zandik, that dream was still in the back of your mind - but you didn't share it with him until he found out your talent of his own accord.

He always knew you were hiding something when you woke up early and wouldn't come back until later, and eventually, he just followed you and silently listened to the combination of your instrument and voice. You found it funny that he of all people would be the one to understand your passion, but really, it's not all that unbelievable - of course it'd be him, the one with the most open mind (albeit a bit stubborn sometimes). Since then, you always took Zandik deep into the forests of Sumeru whenever you wanted to play for him, so no one else could risk hearing. He was content to listen while he worked, and he was content to listen to you rant about the latest performance in another nation or go on about how a great school is accepting applications or- you get the point.

Though you don't regret going with Dottore all those years ago, you regret the state your dream is in. Although you don't talk about it much, the scholar is very much aware of your sacrifice to join him for his dreams. Therefore he makes sure you take time to practice your craft and will ban you from work if need be. Or if you're too sick to, whenever there's a musical performance in the nation, he would arrange for a segment to take you with the best seats, or if that's not possible, he would look for the spincrystal of the performance for you to listen to.

Regardless, they still do their best to support you, and at the end of the day, one of the only ways for Prime to fall asleep is due to your soft voice.

"You know, if you want to listen to me, you can just ask. You don't have to creep around in the shadows..."

"I did no such thing, darling. I merely did not want to disrupt you."