#farbod

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Farbod Zare the Artist , Musician , Composer and Arranger , Mixing and Mastering Engineer , Music Producer

[farbodfary]

شده ساعت ۵ صبح انقدر حالت خوب باشه ؟

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De finalisten van Ik Ga Stuk! vanaf januari in het theater

De finalisten van Ik Ga Stuk! vanaf januari in het theater

Zet je schrap, want in 2023 maakt Nederland kennis met nieuw komedietalent! Verschillende jonge en gepassioneerde cabaretiers gingen in Ik Ga Stuk! onder leiding van Stefano Keizers aan de slag om hun droom te verwezenlijken, namelijk een carrière als cabaretier. De drie talenten die het uiteindelijk tot de finale schopten, hebben de harten van juryleden Thomas van Luyn, Soundos El Ahmadi en…

[youreallyshouldtalkmore]

That’s the Tale of It

A.N:  I still think about Tighnari oiling is tail to this day. It was just a line that you didn’t even get unless you talked to him while camping during his story arc. It was so random but important info, you know. lol So naturally I had to write a story about it. Tighnari x reader 

Genshin Impact MasterList  

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The two of you were newlyweds, so this was the fourth time you had seen Tighnari oil his tail, a habit he developed every night in order to remain well groomed during the day. To date, you had never asked to help him, instead observing him as you undid your own hair for the day. 

“How is it this man is even still alive?” Tighnari growled, “I have posted the ‘Guide to Avidya Forest’ on the bulletin years ago, I have gifted a copy to him several times. I have even taken time out of my precious days to educate the man, and yet he still after all these years he forgets what mushrooms to avoid? Even you, have gotten up to speed faster than that lummox! I should just stuff the mushroom down his throat and finish the job!!” 

Despite his growling over Farbod, a man who could never heed the advice of the Forest Rangers, his hands were always gentle as he smoothed and oiled his tail. 

“Hm-mm…” you murmured, your eyes on his hands. You had heard a lot about Farbod over the years, so it wasn’t like he was saying anything new. 

“Perhaps I should have you give him a crash course on what mushrooms to avoid! Maybe he’ll listen and retain it from you. You were one of my better students in this last few years. Although he swears that he doesn’t enjoy little imaginary fairies dancing before his eyes, he has gotten almost no better in all this time. On second thought, it is perhaps time to let him be….”  

“Hm-mm…” 

Tighnari glanced up at you to see that you were watching him. He blinked before looking down at his tail. Were you watching him? 

His face heated up a little as he gave a cough, “Y/N…” 

“Yeah?” To his relief, you met his eyes. 

“What do you think we should do?” His hands stopped as he looked at you. 

“Uh…” 

Tighnari’s ears twitched once, “About Farbod. Keep up.” 

“Ahh, well, since he’s a repeat offender, I’m inclined to think he likes the imaginary fairies. But I shall talk with him. If he still doesn’t heed this last warning, we’ll consider it as he likes it and let him be. You would have done all you can.” You answered, turning away from him. 

Tighnari nodded, although you didn’t see him. Sounds reasonable enough. On the other side, though, his brain was not thinking of the nuisance that was Farbod but how your eyes lingered on his hands and tails. 

Despite his fox appendices, he was not a pet to be cuddled, even though he knew most people would have loved to pet his ears or tails. He had long since gotten used to people’s eyes trailing to his ears in particular. It used to annoy him, but he found he had other things to worry about as long they didn’t go to try to touch him without permission. 

Permission he recently granted to you shortly before you were married. But that had only extended to his ears and only in private where no one could witness what a hot mess he would become in your hands. 

It was quite embarrassing to Tighnari how he would whine and sigh at your light fingertips working its way in his ears. The cautious and hard glint in his eyes would fall away, leaving him feeling extremely vulnerable. 

But you never took advantage of that, even if you liked to tease him when it was only the two of you. 

That permission did not extend to his tail. 

He had never given you leeway to touch it, and you never attempted to do so. But it just now occurred to him that, perhaps, he should have his new wife help him. 

But his face was already heating up at the prospect. 

If his ears produced such a vulnerability, how much more would his tail in your hands feel? 

“Ti, are you alright?” 

Tighnari almost jumped out of his skin at you climbing into your side of the bed. He had been sitting still for quite some time, he realized. 

“You done?” you inquired. 

Tighnari coughed once, his eyes sliding away from you. 

You peered at him in concern,“Are you sure you’re okay?”

Tighnari fought to regain his composure, “Yes, and no, I’m not done.” 

You nodded once before swiping a book from the dresser and popping it open, saying not another word. 

“Help me?” 

You were barely into a paragraph when the words filtered into your brain, making you blink and look up. Tighnari was holding the jar out towards you without looking at you. 

“I wouldn’t know, but logic dictates it would be easier for another to oil my tail. However, given that it’s invasive, I would never let just anyone touch it. But since you are my wife and mate, it has occurred to me, that you have the right to do so. So…help me?” 

It took you a minute to place the book back on the shelf and take the jar of oil. Suddenly shyness overcame you as you ducked your gaze, “Are… you sure? You don’t have to if you don’t want to.” 

You felt a hand come under your chin and lift your gaze.

“I’m sure. Help me.” 

A demand, not a question this time. 

You gave a nod before he retracted his arm, and the both of you just sat there awkwardly for a minute. 

Then he turned and flopped on his stomach. “This is probably better.” He murmured. 

You weren’t sure if he was telling you or himself. 

Although you had watched him all of four times, now face with the reality, you had no idea what to do, “Ahh, what do you want me to do?” 

“Ahh, right.” Tighnari propped himself on his elbow, realizing that he held the small comb in his hand. He handed it to you, “Just rubbed some of the essential oil on your hand and use this to work out any kinks. It’s really like the hair on your head, at the end of the day.” 

You took the comb without looking at him, and his own eyes were elsewhere. He was quite happy, his voice did not waver as he gave an explanation. 

Why were your fingers trembling? You managed to rub some oil between them before cautiously running your hand through his tail. You weren’t sure where he already applied and hopefully he would say something if you were doing it wrong. 

You managed to imitate the way you have seen him attend to his tail, before running the comb through it. Then you move onto the next section. 

Your fingers were warm and gentle as they continued. You did not do unnecessary pulling and were quite adapt at untangling the knots that got worked into it from daily life. 

It was quite a calming affair making Tighnari’s eyes flutter. 

Strangly, he suddenly found himself wanting to fall asleep. While oiling his tail himself was quite meditating, it never felt as good as the way you were doing. You were taking quite a bit of care. Perhaps a bit too much, but he could feel your hands becoming steadier the longer you worked. 

Tighnari’s ears twitched, “It took me several years to get the correct consistency of the herbs to make the oil I use today. I have made a cream format before, but I don’t like the way my tail stuck together, and it looked unbecoming. It must maintain a glossy shine, which is why I prefer the oil.” 

“Is there a Sumeru Rose in this?” you asked. You swore you detected it slightly. 

“Very good! Very good! Yes, a Sumeru Rose is one of the ingredients. I once tried to use mint, as it’s in abundance like a common weed, but….that might have had a number of side effects I do not like. And I’m not particular on the smell.”

You ran the comb though detangling a knot, making him sigh in bliss, giving an involuntary hum. 

Your hand stilled at the new sound from your new husband. 

Tighnari realized that he had produced a kind of mewling sound. He was glad his face was away from you. He coughed and used his tail to give you a light smack in the face, “Continue….” 

“Ahh, sure…” you giggled. His tail was really soft and bushy. 

But really, why did you your hands have to feel that good in his tail? He hadn’t even dreamt how nice it would feel to have you do this for him. However, his eyes popped open when you got closer to the base of his tail. 

Feeling the shift, you retracted your hands, “Sorry!” 

“Ahh, no. It’s fine. Please continue.” Tighnari spoke. 

“Ti, you don’t have to force yourself.” 

Tighnari turned his head to look up at you then, “Trust me, I wouldn’t. It just startled me. Continue…” 

“Let me know if I hurt you, okay?” You were serous about this as you looked down at him. 

He nodded once, and you reached back up to continue your administrations while he turned his face to the other side.  A comfortable silence reigned as you finished up. 

When you considered yourself done, you sat back and spoke, “How is that?” 

There was a beat or two before you got a response, “You practically put me to sleep. Are you sure you were never trained as a masseuse?” 

“No way….” you laughed, “Though I’m glad it was satisfactory.” You screwed the top back on the oil jar before turning and putting it and the comb on the dresser.

When you turned back, you found yourself laying flat on your back with Tighnari looking down at you. 

You practically put him to sleep, he said? 

So why was he looking down at you like a predator hunting his prey. 

Quite wide awake if you ask me! 

You gulped. 

Was your massage that good? 

“I’m quite curious now.” 

When Tighnari said nothing else but look down at you, you realize he was waiting for your response, “About?” 

“You have handled my tail, quite well. Better than I expect for your first time. But now I’m wondering about your masseuse talent, that I’m just now discovering.” His voice was slow as he continued, “I’m wondering what else you could massage quite as well.” 

Your eyes widened once before, your eyes darted all over, not meeting his gaze. 

But Tighnari continued, “I believe an experiment is the only way, we will learn these things. How well can you massage….” 

In retaliation, you reached up and ran a hand up and down the base of his ears, making his voice falter. His brown-green eyes melted at your touch. 

“Yes, we are aware of that particular area.” He murmured, “But I have in mind some other experiments.” 

You giggled, “Do you now?” 

Tighnari gave a wicked smirk, “Indeed. Now, let us began…..” 

And then his lips descended upon yours. 

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Farbod Elkaei - Panjare 15, 2021 - Acrylic, Cardboard

[divinepriestesskokomi]

Long rant undercut cause certain mischaracterization has been getting on my nerves lately. Feel free to ignore.

It frustrates me SO much to see people constantly mischaracterizing Tighnari as being mean and rude when that's like, the complete opposite of how he is in cannon.

Like people just see his sharp wit or how he will lecture people and take that to mean he's some sort of jerk without actually looking into his character at all.

Like we are talking about the guy who:

Was apparently so pleasant to talk to during his Akademiya days that tons of other students would come to him for help on course work.

Would let people take pictures with him even though he hates having his photo taken.

Took in and cared for Collei, an abused and deeply traumatized child with a terminal illness, and was so kind and patient with her that she's now grown confident and has made incredible progress in her life.

Took full responsibility for her education, teaching her to read, write, and cook, and is now teaching her all about the duties of a forest ranger and how to perform basic medicine. Even when it was assumed that she would die young due to her eleazar, he still encouraged her dream of studying medicine.

Is very protective of Collei and attentive to her needs, making sure to change her forest ranger duties around to accommodate her eleazar and doing his best to make sure her feelings aren't hurt.

When Collei felt self conscious about being illiterate, he comforted her by saying "We all start having no knowledge — in this you are no different from anyone else."

Will gladly teach anyone whose willing to learn.

Has an idle voiceline where he says to not be afraid of making mistakes because it's all a part of the learning process.

Let the traveler stay in his hut TWICE while they recovered.

Had a passionate speech about how all life is important and deserves respect.

Left the Akademiya because he disagrees with the way they commodify knowledge.

Frequently turns down high ranking positions in the Akademiya because he is so passionate about protecting the forest.

Took in and cares for Karkata even though it could get him in trouble with the Akademiya.

Comforted and encouraged Layla when she was feeling self-conscious during the Interdarshan Champsionship.

Constantly invites his friends and family over for dinner.

Dotes on his friends and family, even scolding them for not taking proper care of themselves.

Planned surprise parties for both Collei and Kaveh on their birthdays.

Dropped everything to go to the desert, a place he struggles in, just so he could be there to support Cyno in a difficult time,

Made a point to remind Cyno that he is his own person outside of his job and Hermanubis.

After the events in the Temple of Silence, has gone out of his way to make Sethos feel included in their friend group, even introducing him to the rest of their friends.

Is described by Cyno, Collei, Kaveh, Alhaitham, and Lisa as being a good, kind person.

He's a teacher at heart, so of course he's stern when it comes to teaching people, especially when they've done something wrong. But it's not like he yells at people, I'd describe it more like "I'm not mad, just disappointed" energy.

Yeah, he looses his patience and gets snappy with people who actively choose to be ignorant despite constantly being corrected. But honestly, anyone who has a job that works with the public will understand just how exhausted it can be to constantly be reminding people of information that is right in front of them. Lord knows I'd be more frustrated with Farbod for repeatedly eating poisonous mushrooms after telling him not to.

I don't know. This was a very long rant, but I just hate seeing people constantly paint Tighnari as some bad guy just for getting frustrated at people doing foolish things. He's really caring and thoughtful, and anyone who did even a little bit of research on his character could see that. He can be both kind AND witty, those things aren't mutually exclusive.

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Links amazing journey through Teyvat

A crossover between Genshin Impact and The legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, by yours truly! Also its abandoned, but Im posting this here bcuz why not?

“Who was he?” was Aethers first thought when looking at the boy, he had a blue shirt and golden blond hair. At a closer look, the blue shirt the boy was wearing had a white pattern that looked like a sword. When he focused on his face he saw that half his face was a giant scar, and one of his pointy ears, which reminded him of Klees, was completely destroyed. When he focused on his blue eyes, he saw that the boy was staring right back at him. “This person is an outlander, like you,” Jean said while looking at the boy. “he fell down from the sky on one of the islands in the lake. We don't know how he managed to swim from there to one of the beaches with all those bruises he got from the fall.” or, Link gets transported into Teyvat and they do stuff idk.

Whole thing under the cut, (9.3k words!)

Chapter 1: Beginning

First half written in late December 2022, second half written/published in september 2023

Aether was flying around in the Ashavan Realm looking for Rukkhashava mushrooms for Collei and the Wanderer. He had already bought some from Aramani in Vanara and 5 more from Ashpazi in Ghandara village, and while he was there he also got some from Farbod. 

“ Ugh, if I only had Tighnari right now… ” Aether thought. “... If only I had some shrooms so I could get more aquaints…“ 

Aether looked around, seeing if he saw some more shrooms. He didn't. 

“Welp, time to ‘port to Lokopala Jungle.” he sighed as he took up his map. 

As Aether clicked on the teleport button he remembered that he hadn't been in his teapot in a while, he made a mental note that after all the shrooms were taken, he would visit his friends there. And maybe he could put Collei and Scaramoose in there so they would get some friendship exp? Or are there too many people in the teapot? Or do any of ‘em have friendship 10? He has to check later. 

When Aether jumped down the cliff, releasing his paraglider in the process. In the few seconds he was in the air, he gazed around looking for the shrooms, he didn't find any, again. Maybe he had already picked them all yesterday? He didn't remember.

“Guess I have to farm some bosses...” He thought out loud with a sigh, completely forgetting the teapot plan.

“Maybe I can go to Mondstadt for some TCG?” he said to himself, he had completely forgotten about the TCG after it came out and he got jumpscared by Sucrose. 

Aether decided that it was a good idea to go to Mondstadt and talk to the people there. …And play the TCG of course. 

He took up his map again and scrolled to Mondstadt and clicked a waypoint there. Within seconds he was there, in the city of the Wind.

As he looked around in the city, he saw Jean sprinting to him.

“Oh, hello Aether,” Jean said, looking a bit nervous. “Perfect timing, we need some help and we were looking for you.

“Sure, what do you need?” Aether said.

“Come to the knights and we will talk there.” she said. 

“Well what do we need to talk about?”

“... I do not know how to explain it… also where's Paimon?”

“Eh, she's sleeping and I don't want to wake her up. She's also probably gonna sleep for a few more days anyways”

“Oh.” 

Jean and Aether walked to the Knights of Favonius building, they didn't say anything else while they walked there.

When they came there, which only took about a minute, as it was pretty close. 

“So what's the problem?” Aether asked when he walked in the building.

“Let's go to my office first.” she said as she started walking there.

When they walked into the office the first thing Aether saw was that he had not raided her office for books, and that there was an unknown boy in the room. 

“ Who was he? ” was Aethers first thought when looking at the boy, he had a blue shirt and golden blond hair. At a closer look, the blue shirt the boy was wearing had a white pattern that looked like a sword. When he focused on his face he saw that half his face was a giant scar, and one of his pointy ears, which reminded him of Klees, was completely destroyed. When he focused on his blue eyes, he saw that the boy was staring right back at him.

“This person is an outlander, like you,” Jean said while looking at the boy. “he fell down from the sky on one of the islands in the lake. We don't know how he managed to swim from there to one of the beaches with all those bruises he got from the fall.” 

“That's interesting, have you tried talking to him?”

“We have tried to, but he just looks at us with a confused look,” Jean sighed, she was way too tired to be dealing with this, she had taxes and paperwork to get through! “And before you ask, he doesn't talk either, we have tried to make him talk but he, once again, looks confused.”

“Well, what's your name?” Aether turned his attention away from Jean. The boy said nothing in return, but stared at him with a kind of confusion.

“That didn't work…” he said with a sigh. “Time for plan B!”

“You have a plan B?” Jean asked, a bit confused. “What is it?”

“I- uh, haven't gotten to that part yet.”

“Holy Barbatos…” she sighed, pinching the top of her nose, she was really tired of this. “Well what do we do now?”

“We could go out for a walk around Mondstadt and then maybe he'll talk!”

“Last time we did that he whipped out a bomb out of nowhere and almost blew up a wall, and tried to climb to the top of the cathedral.” Jean said with a disappointed look at the boy. “We were lucky that the sisters caught him in time.”

“And he didn't get put in solitary confinement?” he asked.

“Well, he was in solitary confinement for like.. two minutes, before he blew up the wall and escaped.”

“At least in the short while he was there, Klee was happy to have a friend.” Aether said. 

“I mean, that's true, but it still doesn't excuse that he blew up a wall .” she said, a bit irritated.

“Well, what are we going to do with him?” Aether said, all while looking at the boy again. “We can't exactly put him in solitary confinement again.”

“That's the problem, we can't let him go. And we shouldn't if he plans to blow up a wall again.”

Aether and Jean looked at eachother, both not knowing what to do with the boy. 

“Maybe we can teach him the language and then talk to him?” Aether said, not knowing what else to do.

“We can try, but we don't know what language he speaks.” Jean said. “So we don't know how to translate to his language.”

“Have you tried any other languages than Mond and common?” he said. “He maybe doesn't know them?”

Aether sat next to the boy and tried to make a simple conversation while switching between all of Teyvats languages to try to see if he understood any of them, unfortunately, he only got confused looks when he tried them.

“That didn't work.” Aether said. 

“Okay, but what do we do now?” Jean asked. “We have tried everything.”

“I think that probably the best thing to do is to take a walk? Maybe?” 

“Well, we can try again.” Jean sighed. “But please take him back here if he causes trouble.”

“Noted!” Aether said, as he took the boys armed and practically dragged him out the door.

When they were out of the Knights of Favonius building he tried to make some small talk, but having someone who didn't talk as a conversation partner made that the talking fastly died down.

As they walked onto the bridge, the boy took his bow out, the bow looked strange and he couldn't quite see what material it was made of, but it had weird glowing orange lights on it, nicked an arrow with a red arrow head and shot it right at Timmies pigeons. When he did that, there was a huge explosion with smoke. When the smoke cleared the pigeons were dead and the only thing that was left was fowl. 

“Nice shot dude” Aether said encouragingly, but the boy was still quiet.

“Why is everyone always shooting the pigeons?” Timmy asked angrily, Aether could see slight tears forming up in his eyes. “I'm gonna tell mom all about you!”

“I don't know man, they're very shootable.” Said Aether with a laugh as they walked away. “And your mom cant do anything about me.”

He and Aether wandered out in the wilderness, still not saying a word to each other, the silence was awkward.

They walked for maybe an hour and a half, during this time Aether had tried to make small talk multiple times but every time the boy just looked confused or ignored him. He was starting to get frustrated.

“Do you like food?” Aether asked, trying to break the silence.

The boy just looked at him confused, not seeming to understand the question. Aether sighed and opened his inventory and took out a tea-break pancake. 

“Food.” He said while pointing at the pancake. 

The boy nodded at the pancake and took a bite out of it, and got a small smile after he took it.

“Now when you're done, we can set up a tent and sleep a bit,” Aether said while starting to stand up and stretched. “Oh right, forgot you can't understand me.”

A few minutes after that “conversation”, if you can even call it that, Aether came up with a great idea. He thought that maybe he could draw an object in the sand and then the word! …But maybe he wouldnt understand the intention? 

Aether tried to push that thought away, it was going to work! Everything he does works! Even if its as stupid as challenging the shogun without remembering to lvl up his characters, or even putting artifacts on ‘em all together. Everything he does is great! He has saved multiple nations, killed a harbinger ,and fought and won against two others, he has also challenged gods, and won of course. He really was great, so why was he anxious about how this outlander thought of him? He was also an outlander, they should be able to communicate and help each other out!

“Sooooooo, you can't talk?�� Aether asked, even if he felt like he had asked this 5 times already, which he probably did. “And you can't understand me either? Nod for yes and shake your head for no.” 

“...” the outlander didn't say anything, just looked up at him from eating his pancake.

“Okaaay, I forgot you wouldn't be able to understand that…” He said, feeling incredibly stupid for just confirming the obvious. “Soooooo, food, am I right?”

The boy looked at his pancake, and then pointed at it, slightly confused.

“Yes yes! That's food!” Aether said in excitement, while doing a thumbs up to show that it was indeed food. “Okay so we're getting somewhere! You can understand food, atleast! ”

“...” he looked up at him, face returning to a neutral expression. 

“Ahh, it seems like we still have some more stuff to get through before we can fully understand each other…” 

“.......” The boy started putting away the plate the pancake was on, then started standing up, all while maintaining eye contact.

“Okay… do you want to do something?” Aether was confused about just what the boy was doing. 

He watched as the boy threw some firewood onto the ground, then pulled out his bow and knocked an orange arrow with a flame tip, “ It's probably a fire arrow. ” Aether thought. When the arrow was inevitably fired and hit the wood, when it hit a small cloud of fire was there, for probably less than a second. The wood immediately fell into a triangle shape and started burning. Once it had burned for a few seconds the boy, who Aether realised he needed a better name in his head for, pulled out a few apples and put them on the fire.

“Whatcha doing?” Aether wondered out loud, but of course there was no reply.

He said nothing in return, just held out his hands, as if to say “ wait and you'll see ”. After a few more seconds of the apples were baked, or grilled, Common Teyvat really was confusing. He hurriedly picked them up and held one out to him.

After a few seconds of staring at the apple he took it, only hearing a few mutters from the boy. He thought he could hear something that was similar to the words “baked apple” but not really the same, the sound of the ‘a’ in the apple was off, like if you somehow merged a and e into one letter. It was strange, but maybe it was another language that's similar? 

“Okaaay, sooo that's an …. apple?” he said with half an apple in his mouth.

No response. 

They just stared at each other, it felt like minutes, but it was probably just a few seconds. A few very awkward seconds.

“......wha?” a pretty hoarse voice came from his mouth, with a heavy country accent, Aether thought that it matched Xinyans accent a bit, but with slight variations on pronunciation.

“OH SHIT HE CAN TALK?!?” Aether exclaimed, not expecting him to talk.

The boy mumbled something under his breath, something about that he shouldn't have said anything and just continued the act.

“So we can actually have a conversation now!” Aether said. “And what's your name? I can't keep calling you ‘boy’ in my head.”

“.... I am actually onehundred- and-seventeen…” he said, voice still hoarse, probably from disuse.

“WHAT,” Aether exclaimed, surprised by that age. “HUMANS DON'T LOOK LIKE THAT WHEN THEY ARE THAT OLD????”

“......what's a human??...” he asked, in pure confusion. 

“.. You don't know what a human is?” 

“... no? …” 

“Well, a human is what people are here.” he said, fumbling on his words because he had no idea he was going to explain humans to someone who apparently was an outlander like him. “except for maybe Klee, Albedo, … Diona too I guess.”

“... I don't know who any of those people are…” 

“I heard Klee was the child you were stuck in solitary confinement with,” he said. “until you blew up a wall.”

“... oh, right I forgot I did that…”

“Also if you're not a human, what are you then?”

“... I'm a Hylian?..." He said, slightly confused. 

“Well, what's that? I've never heard of it before.” he was really confused as to what a ‘hylian’ was.

“... I'm guessing it's similar to a human? But we’re kinda blessed by the goddess so our ears are long with magic stuff,” he explained. “I'm also guessing that humans aren't blessed by goddesses because their ears are so short…”

“Oh so you have a goddess?” 

“... yeah we have one, or it's actually four but Hylia is the main one that actually answers most of the time…” his expression changed a bit, Aether didn't really know if it was a positive or negative change because his expressions were really hard to decode. “like or at least she is supposed to, but she like, only talks to me most of the time, dunno why. She also ignores Zelda!”

“...What a nice goddess you have.”

“... yeah right! Zeldas is like her descendant too so it makes less sense with that!”

“What??” 

“... Yeah! Like way over 10 000 years ago, after the kingdom was founded again by ‘divine beings from the sky’ that made some … bond or something with the hylians?” 

“Wait wait, who did what and why are you telling me this?” 

“... I dunno to be honest, I just need someone to rant to, like a lot of stuff has happened to me and this kingdom.” 

“Well, take it from the start.”

“The start start or the start of the kingdom? Also I don't know all of the details because I have amnesia and forgot literally everything, Zelda has been trying to reteach me stuff but history is hard.”

“Let's take this from the start start,” Aether was surprised that this stranger had been willing to open up so easily, like this guy was rambling about everything, to a stranger. He didn't even want to speak five minutes ago! “Wait, you have amnesia?”

“Yea, yea, but that's not important right now,” he waved with his hands as if it didn't matter, his voice also getting more strained with each passing word, Aether was starting to get worried that he would get so hoarse he couldn't talk. “Okay so, it starts with the three golden goddesses who create the world and all that stuff, and they also create the triforce, which consists of three parts, power, courage and wisdom.”

“Why just those three things?”

“Take that up with the goddesses will you.” he let out a laugh. “So I hold the triforce of Courage, Zelda holds the wisdom one and some dude named Ganondorf holds the power one. Apparently Ganondorf is evil and stuff.”

“So you're… like chosen by the goddess?”

“Yeah yeah-” his ramblings was broken by him coughing a few times. How often does this guy talk actually? His voice was already raspy and hoarse from the start, and he faked not being able to understand him. He probably needed to at least know his name before his voice gave out. “And that is the basics of the goddess stuff.”

“Okay I realised I haven't asked for your name yet?” Aether asked as he realised he zoned out during his explanation.

“... "It's Link.” 

“Well I am Aether, I'm glad to finally know your name.”

Original Authors notes:

I wrote the first 1.2 k words in late december and i have written the rest this last week. the first half of this is kinda bad but i have edited it enough so its good enough is this cringe? yes. am i proud of this? also yes. I dont know if i will continue this, and if I dont i think this is good enough to stand alone. Was previously named: "Link in Teyvat, what shenanigans gonna happen??" because I thought that want that good of a title

New authors notes:

This is something, idk what but its something. And geez I couldve definitely handled this better. :/

Chapter 2: Sunset

Written & Published in October 2023

It had been a couple hours since they last spoke to each other, Link's voice had given out and he still hadn't explained everything, or ranted about all his problems, even if he didn't need to. Aether had also zoned out in the middle of his explanation about the goddesses, so he needed to explain that again. And not to mention that he didn't even know how he got here! He just woke up on an island in the middle of the lake. Now, this wasn't the first time he woke up all alone in a world he didn't know, but this time he had memories and clothes. 

“Sooo, how are you doing?” A voice cut through the silence. “You fell out of the sky, ya know?”

He opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out no matter how hard he tried. Impa said that apparently he had some condition that made him unable to speak sometimes, damn he couldn't remember if it was psychological or physical, are those even the correct terms for this kinda stuff? His memory was messed up since he came out of the shrine of resurrection, and his speciality was fighting and breaking the laws of physics, not psychology. 

“You can't talk right now?” Aethers asked but sounded a bit confused, Link nodded as an answer.

Now with that ‘conversation’ over, Link returned to his own thoughts, like how he was gonna get home to Hyrule. 

“Wait, does the Sheikah slate still work?” He thought, and hurriedly pulled out the slate and opened the map. The map looked like it had when he first got it, blank. “ Maybe I can unlock the map? But how would I do that? There looks to be no towers here from what I noticed. ”

“Whatcha thinking about?” Aether asked, if only Link could actually talk right now, Hylia damn it this was so annoying. “Aaaand what's that thing?”

Link made some gestures with his hands, trying to explain that he couldn't talk right now, it didn't work well. Aether just stood there, looking pretty confused, even if he asked the same question less than a minute before.

“So you can't talk right now?” Finally! He somehow got his point across with his weird hand gestures.

They continued the walk, Aether started rambling about some people in this world, he heard names like ‘Noelle’ and ‘Eula’, maybe he could meet them later? It would be nice to get to know people, but hopefully he wouldn't get too attached so when he gets home he won't miss them too much, if he ever gets home, that is. 

“Okay so we're heading to Cape Oath, because why not? It got a good view and stuff.” Aether explained where they were heading, Link tried to ask about how long it was to get there, but he still couldn't talk, it was getting real annoying. But not like he needed to know the answer, he could stay awake for days! “Wait, we maybe should've gone to Starsnacht cliff instead? I think it got a better view.”

Aether gripped his arm and turned right around, basically dragging Link with him. After a few minutes of basically dragging Link, a map materialises in front of Aether. 

“...What's that?...” Finally, his voice came through and he actually said something, but earning a yelp out of Aether in the process. 

“Dude give me a heads up next time so you dont scare me!” He yelped, and after a few seconds recognizing that what he said was complete nonsense. 

“I-, Wha-, How am I supposed to do that??” Link said with a hearty chuckle, even if his voice was so hoarse. They both had a good laugh about it for a few minutes and then continued to walk. 

“...Okay, so I asked you this before, but what was the thing you pulled out?” Link asked, still chuckling a bit.

“Could ask the same for that weird slate!” 

“If you answer me first I'll tell you!” 

“Well, I actually asked first, sooo you should tell me first!” 

“You're from here! Shouldn't you be the one that explains things from this world?” 

“Actually I'm not from here either! I also fell from the sky into Mondstadt!” 

“Wait you did?? Why didn't you tell me??” 

“Teeeechnically I did,” Aether did a smug face. “During the conversation with Jean, she said something like: ‘This boy is a outlander, like you.’”

“Weeeeell, did you think I was gonna remember a throwaway line like that?” Link rebutted that argument, while doing some huffs and puffs to seem mad while he actually wasn't. “and I'm not a boy! I am 117!

“... Are you sure you're that old? You barely look 17!!” 

“Weeell,  100 of these years I was away kinda sleeping but not sleeping. I think there's a word for that but I don't remember it.”

“Coma?”

“Yes! That's the word!”

“...But why were you in that coma??” he asked, his older brother senses kicking in.

“Okay soooo I kinda died, that's why I got all these scars.” Link started explaining, leaning in on Aether like it was some giant secret he shouldn't tell anyone. “And Zelda made Purah put me in the shrine of resurrection, which as the suggests, resurrected me! It also took all my memories but that's beside the point” 

“Wait you were 17 when you died-” 

“... I died and got resurrected and that's the part you're surprised at?” 

Quiet. Aether pondered that his new friend had died , no one in Teyvat had survived death, not even gods! After a few minutes of them just standing there very awkwardly, Link sighs and mumbles something about ‘How he shouldn't have said anything’. 

“How did you die?” Aether decided to break the silence.

“Well uhhhh,” Link pondered for a moment over how to describe how he died to him. “Well I got lasered by a guardian.”

“Did it hurt?”

“I guess? Don't really remember because it was 100 years ago?” he said and he kinda phrased the last sentence as a question, even though it wasn't one.

“I see,” Aether looked lost in thought, and Link wondered why he even said something. He should've just stayed quiet. “Why did you get lasered by a guardian? What even is a guardian??” 

“Calamity ganon had taken control of almost all sheikah technology in the kingdom, and that includes guardians,” he tried to explain, but probably just confused Aether even more. “and when calamity ganon woke up I and the other champions and Zelda were at mount Lanayru, so we ran to our respective posts, the other champions had their divine beasts as posts and me and Zelda had the castle, so we kinda ran there, then we discovered that like everyone was dead there? So we need to get too safety right?”

“Wait wait, champions? Divine beasts? Did your goddess like give you guys things to defeat it?” Aether cut into his ramblings, looking as concerned as ever, but also curious.

“No, I don't think she would do that.” 

“... But who are the champions?” Aether asked again, while muttering something about how gods need to take more responsibilities instead of leaving their kingdoms to catastrophes. 

“They were my friends?” he said with a small amount of hesitancy, as if they weren't really friends, but more like coworkers. “And one was my … lover? But I don't really remember her so are we still lovers?” 

“Are they still your friends?”

“They died.”

“Oh.” 

Once again, they just awkwardly stared at each other, Link wondered how asking about Aethers weird thing he pulled out turned into this. 

“Wanna talk about other stuff? Like stuff that isn't depressing?” Link said to try to lighten the mood, he was never good with these kinds of situations.

“Uh yeah that would be good, wanna ask me something?” Aether said while starting to walk.

“How did you end up in this world?” 

“I think you're the first one that has actually asked that.” 

“Not even that Jean girl?”

“Not that I remember at least!” “That's weird, you would think at least one person has asked?”

“I think someone has probably asked that but I don't remember it, maybe Yae Miko asked one time? Or maybe Venti? Zhongli may have asked once.”

“I don't know who any of these people are.”

“Maybe I can get you to meet them! I think that would be fun considering that you are an outlander and they are gods and yokai!” 

“...Gods?” Link was a bit confused that gods were actually talking to this guy. 

“Oh right they are gods pretending to be normal people,” After Aether said that he realised he probably shouldn't have revealed Zhonglis and Ventis biggest secrets to a guy he just met a few hours ago. “Don't tell this to anyone though, it's a secret, and like everyone in Mondstadt and Liyue would go crazy that their gods are pretending to be mortals. And other stuff too.”

“I- Why are you telling me this??” Link did some wild gestures with his hands. “If its so important for this to stay under the covers, why did you tell me this??”

“Says the one who told this person he met just a few hours ago that he literally died and came back to life,” he did some gestures with his hands in response to Links hand waving thing. “And besides, you feel like a trustworthy person!”

“Weirdo.”

“Same to you.” Link and Aether both let out a lighthearted laugh and continued walking up the mountain.

 After maybe another half an hour of walking they happen to cross a path with 3 hilichurls and an abyss mage. Link thinks they look weird, while Aether remembers he forgot to do his daily commissions and this is one of the ones he missed. After Link asked a quick question about what that animal with a shield was, Aether explained that those things were not in fact animals but monsters and his commission was about helping get rid of those monsters so they don't hurt people.

“So how do we get rid of them? Do we just go in and stab them? Or blow them up? I can blow them up!” Link really wanted to blow something up, he got stopped when he tried to blow up one of the city's walls and blowing up the solitary confinement room doesn't really count. “I can also stab them if you want.”

“You turned to blowing em up real fast didnt you?” Aether let out a loud chuckle, almost making the monsters notice them. “But we can do that! I also like bombs a lot.”

"Yay bombs!” he said as he pulled out a blue bomb from the slate. “Let's blow these idiots up!”

LInk threw the remote bomb and waited a bit before blowing it up, enjoying seeing the terrified body language of the monsters, but one of the monsters was left. The one with the shield. 

A few moments after the monster and Link were just staring at each other, he pulled out another bomb and threw it at it. It didn't do anything.

“Well that happened,” he said as the monster continued to stare at him, it was starting to make Link a bit uncomfortable actually. “Should I like stab it or something instead?”

“Can you use those arrows with bombs you used to blow up Timmies pigeons with? It has an ice shield and those blue bombs definitely aren't cryo so yeah,” Aether said as he looked at it, who had teleported a little bit closer and began an attack. It only seemed to do that after Aether said something. “Also that thing is an abyss mage, and we should really attack it so we won't die.”

“Yeah yeah I'll shoot a bomb arrow at it,” Link replied as he dodges a falling icicle. 

“Well do it now!” 

“Sure sure! Just give me a minute!” Link started to knock a bomb arrow on his bow, he had changed bows since last time he blew up Timmies arrows, this time it was a Royal Guards bow instead of the ancient bow, as it had faster draw time and was very powerful. 

When the arrow hit its target it exploded, as it is indeed a bomb, which blew up the abyss mage and cracked its shield. Even then it was still alive, but barely. Before either of them could attack again the cryo abyss mage teleported away, leaving only an icy mist that quickly disappeared.

“I wonder why it didn't attack at first, and that it teleported away rather than fighting until it died?” Aether wondered as this wasn't something abyss mages normally didn't do, even when the other hilichurls died by the bomb. He looked over as Link started collecting the materials who were glowing in white, green and blue light.

“Whaat? You don't collect everything monsters drop?” Link clearly hadn't listened to him questioning the abyss mages weirdness.

“I actually do, I just didn't expect you to do the same!” Aether let out a chuckle at that, who knew they were so similar? But there was still a weird feeling left from the commission.

“What's that thing over there?” Link said as he pointed to the thousand winds temple, with the ruin guard in the middle.

“Well that's the thousand winds temple, and in the middle there's a ruin guard.” Aether continued to point at the ruin guard as it walked around the arena. “They're pretty aggressive and resistant to physical attacks. We could defeat it if you want, I actually need the materials it drops.” 

“Let's do it,” he said and ran to the edge and pulled out his paraglider. “Also should we bomb it? I have a lot of bombs.”

“I'm stuck with a pyromaniac,” Aether said and rolled his eyes as he also ran to the edge and pulled out his wingglider.

Link was a bit before him in the air when he took out one of his blue bombs and dropped it on top of the ruin guard, it didn't notice Link until the bomb exploded. When it exploded did that it didn't seem to do maybe a fourth of its health? Aether didn't look that closely at the heath bar. 

Aether was just about to plunge down to the ground when he got a weird feeling, like time itself was slowing down. And apparently it was, because he was falling to the ground extremely slowly, and the ruin guard, who had just started firing some rockets, was barely moving. The only thing moving in something close to normal speed was Link , who took out his bow and started firing arrows with some kind of yellow lightning. Aether had many thoughts running through his head at that moment, like, “ Why is the lightning yellow? ”, “ Why is everything in slow motion? ” and “ What in the abyss is happening? ”.

Once Link put the bow away time went back to normal and Aether plummeted to the ground. He did some confused gesturing with his hands at Link but he just stood there as the mechanical body of the ruin guard exploded. 

“Wha- How did you manage to do that,” Aether was very confused, and impressed but he wouldn't want to admit that, as he sprinted to where Link and what was the ruin guard stood. 

“... I call it ‘Bullet Time’!” he said excitedly. “But I dunno what a bullet is.”

“But how do you have the ability to manipulate time itself ?” While he asked Link that he wondered what a bullet was.

“Apparently I can kinda slow down time while pulling out my bow in the air! I can also do it when I dodge something perfectly! But I call that ‘Flurry Rush’ instead…” He wasn't really answering Aethers question properly but he started to hand him the materials he picked up from the ruin guard with a genuine smile on his face. “I still don't know why I can do it? Maybe Hylia blessed me or something? Or maybe I got it while I was in the shrine? No wait Daruk mentioned in his diary that he felt like time was slowing down when I trained-”

“You're pretty weird.” Aether cut Link off while he was putting the materials in his inventory. “We're pretty close to the top now, the last person on the top is a rotten egg!” 

Aether began sprinting to one of the sides of the temple and started to climb while Link yelled something about how he was cheating before starting to sprint after him. When at the wall Aether thought it looked like he was glued to the wall in the split second he looked back. When Link got to the top he was full on sprinting again, and started catching up to Aether, who was only a bit ahead of him. 

There was only about twenty meters to the top now, and Link was rapidly catching up to him, if he wanted to win he would need to cheat… but that would be bad practice especially to his new friend. He would've put another Anemo character in his party or maybe Rosaria, but the sun was just beginning to set and her passive would start until it was night.

In the middle of his thinking Link ran ahead of him to the top and made a shit-eating grin at him, before starting to wheeze as if he was dying.

“How are you so damn fast?” Aether said between breaths when he got to the top. 

“I run-” a long wheeze. “a lot.”

“I definitely think you need a bunch of stamina training.” Aether did a small chuckle, while Link fell on the ground, still wheezing from running.

“Say that to Hylia!” Link managed to say between his tired breaths, until he finally recovered. 

“Took a few seconds huh?” Aether said as he looked at the view with the setting sun. “Isn't this beautiful?”

“Yeah it really is.” Link said as he moved to sit on the edge of the cliff. “Just going to a cliff and watching the view is really nice. Kinda reminds me of when I first got out of my coma thingy and there was this cliff and I ran out on it and there was a view of the entire kingdom! It was really fun to see that. And then I ran off said cliff because I didn't know what would happen. It wasn't that deep though.” 

“Damn, one of the first things I saw when I got here was walking out on a cliff and seeing Mondstadt. Guess we are really similar?”

“Guess we are huh?” They both let out another chuckle at that, seriously how many times have they done that today? Too many to keep count off at least. 

After they stopped chuckling they just sat there, taking in the view and talking about miscellaneous stuff. After the sun set completely Link made a campfire and Aether started setting up camp, even if they could stay awake the whole night, which they did even if they could have gone to sleep. Both of them stayed there and watched the sunset together.

Original authors notes

Well, I think turned out pretty good I would say, and hopefully I catched all my errors and weird sentence structure. Hope you enjoy reading this! I actually made it a bit longer than I thought it would be for you guys! :D I think im gonna do a quick tag overview after this goes up and change em up a bit.

Thanks for reading to the end! Hope this put a smile on your face or made you feel a positive emotion! (or negative, atleast I made you feel an emotion in the end.) :]

New authors notes:

This is where I ran out of plot points lol

Chapter 3: Rolling

Written and published in November 2023

Chapter Text

The abyss was like a void, dark and seemingly endless. It wasn't dark everywhere, it depended on the location actually, the darkness was kinda shimmering through different places, making it sometimes dark as coal, and sometimes looking like when the moon shines down during the night. Anyways, in some place in the abyss is the abyss orders hideout.

The abyss orders hideout in the abyss was situated right under Mondstadt, mostly because its the nation the spiral abyss is in, which is one of the only permanent openings to the abyss. Most other openings only open for a few minutes, an hour at most. Sometimes humans fall into those openings, but it's very rare for one to even open at all.

Right now was their hideout in one of the places where it wasnt that dark, right now it was actually light enough to not have the cool, blue light of the lanterns on, so they didn't have them on so they didn't have to send up as many grunts too hijack a cart and carry it down. The abyss mages and heralds can teleport, and are actually sentient.

Today was a weird day for the abyss order, one, it was unnaturally light in the abyss, two, it was the monthly cleaning day, which meant the entire abyss order was doing a deep cleaning of their base, and a certain area around it. It was a dreaded day for the entire order, as no one really wanted to clean. Some abyss mages avoided coming down there entirely that day, or went and did some field work at the surface, but this was different for a certain abyss mage. This cryo abyss mage, nicknamed “John” by most of the other abyss mages, actually went down to the base on their monthly cleaning day, which was rare since most everyone tried to escape out of the abyss during this day.

“Hey man whatcha doin down here today? I know ya hate cleanin!” laughed a hydro abyss mage as John floated through the hall, John cringed a bit at his pronunciation. “But seriouslay, ya were luckay to be put up there.”

“Yeah-” John thought about how to explain. “so the Traveler has gotten a new buddy and I wanted to report it.”

“Oh wow, ya reallay came down here for that? Ya sure theres nothin else?”

“Yes.”

“Ya really sure?”

“Yes, now get out of my face before I freeze you.”

“Aggressive much.” mumbled the hydro mage before returning to continue cleaning. John continued floating down the hall, eventually stopping before one of the grandiose doors to the throne hall where the Princess resides. John hesitantly started to knock on one of the doors.

“Hello?” An herald said as he opened the door. “Aren't you like supposed to be cleaning or something?”

“Yeah, so the Traveler has a new buddy,” even though he had given a quick explanation to another abyss mage, he still barely knew what to say. “uh yeah I was on scout duty on the surface and thought I report it.”

“Oh- yeah thats good.” said the herald. “lemme just find the report paper that you can fill in-”

“Oh a he got a new buddy?” A striking feminine voice ripped through the hall. “Tell me about it.”

“Y-yes of course my Princess.” John managed to stutter out, cause he was surprised he got the attention of the princess herself. “Uh- he kinda looks like a teenager, he also loves bombs. And he apparently had no idea what an abyss mage, or hilichurl, is for that matter. Cause the Traveler had to explain that to him.”

“Anything more?” The Princess was now looking directly into the eye holes of his mask. “Do you know his name? Or do you recognise him?”

“No, I don't know his name, or recognise him.” John wondered how he was gonna explain the weird bombs. “He also had some weird bombs? He tried to blow my shield but with these weird bombs that were blue. Even the Traveler said that those bombs aren't cryo, and it didn't look like they were any other element. But he also pulled out a bow and fired an arrow with a bomb attached which broke my shield, then I traveled down here to report this.”

“That's very interesting, where did you last see them?”

“I was scouting around the Thousands Winds Temple, they were apparently going up to see the views from Starsnatch cliff.”

“Thank you for reporting this, I will look into this immediately.” the Princess remarked.

“My princess, we still need to clean…” the herald cut into their conversation.

“Oh right,” she looked at the herald, then back at John. “Give him a paper to report this on, we don't want to forget this.”

“Of course, my princess.”

---

“So what should we do now?” Aether asked.

“Dunno.” Link answered. “You know this place better than I do, so you can probably come up with a better place to go to.”

“Maybe we can go forage for materials and stuff? I was thinking of actually leveling up one of my characters.”

“Leveling up characters?” asked Link, wondering what Aether meant with that.

“Uh yeah, I get characters and I kinda …make a clone of them? I've noticed that no one but me can see that I …shapeshift into them? They just see me as me.” Aether kinda started to question the morality of this, as he technically used their powers instead of his own to become powerful. He was pretty weak on his own, but he got a bit buffed when he resonated with dendro. “It's pretty weird now that I think about this.”

“...How do you do that?”

“I actually don't know, I just can.”

“Amazing explanation,” he said with sarcasm. “How do you get characters? Just go to them and shapeshift?”

“I pull them from the banner?”

“Banner?”

“Uhh yeah I kinda get small gems I can spend to basically pull to get characters I guess?”

“Oh so like, how many gems do you spend to get a character?”

“It depends, it takes anything from one to ninety wishes to get a five-star, then there's a fifty-fifty chance to get the character I want.” Aether started to explain. “If I lose it I get the next five-star guaranteed. Then there's also four-stars that I get every ten wishes, but I can also get a weapon then and there's no guarantee to get the four-star I want.”

“You're strange.” Link was a bit confused to this shapeshifting. “Can you show me you shapeshifting?”

“Yeah, uhh I have Wanderer in my party after pulling him from his banner. Yeah I can show you.” Aether said, a bit unsure if he should actually do that. Suddenly Aether felt so unsure of everything, like, did he actually shapeshift into them? Or was that just a trick his eyes were playing on him?

“You don't have to if you don't want to.” said Link, noticing how much Aether was internally panicking.

“It's fiiiine, I've just never done this before…”

“Is it really fine though?”

“Yep, yep, yeppity yep.”

“Wha--” and BAM his voice was out, he at least got to make this word intelligible, who knows how many times his voice has given out directly in the middle of a word?

“Voice gave out?” Aether asked, and Link nodded back. “That's annoying isn't it?”

He gave him another nod and Aether started wondering if he really should try the shapeshifting thing.

“Okay, Link imma try the shapeshifting thing,” well there was no going back for Aether now. “Nod or something if I shapeshift.”

Link watched as Aether panicked inside, and just rolled his eyes. Aether started forgetting how you switch characters. After a few seconds he finally got it, even if it felt like it took hours for Aether. He pressed the 2 button on his arm and a familiar feeling started running through his body as he transformed. It felt kinda good to do that every once in a while, but the feeling quickly lost its charm after a moment. A bunch of yellow particles came out and signified that the transformation was complete.

“So yeah I've transformed now, I guess?” Aether said, looking for a reaction out of Link. He started a slow clap, probably to signify that he saw the transformation. “Did you see it?”

A slow nod came from Link, as Aether said that he was gonna change back now.

“Bro, dude, should we go to Springvale? It's pretty cozy and you like food right?” Aether was thinking about where to go next. Link had a bit of a confused look on his face and he couldn't exactly elaborate why he had it with words. “I'm taking that as a yes.”

Aether took his hand and started running down the mountain ignoring all obstacles in their path. Link was practically hanging on as he didnt expect to be dragged down a mountain. After a few seconds of chock of being dragged down a mountain, both men tripped. Aether fell and got a few bruises, but Link, he was ROLLING down. Aether doesnt think he has seen someone roll that far before, he has himself gotten knocked off cliffs and been knocked back into oblivion but not rolled like that.

Link wouldn't stop rolling down, he never seemed to stop or slow down, rather it seemed like he was gaining speed. Link weakly tried to get himself to stop, but it seemed like Teyvats physics didn't exactly apply to him, he knew at that moment he would be able to stop until he got to flat ground. He watched his health slowly deplete on his arm, he only hoped he had either a fairy stocked up or that Mipha had been transported with him here.

Aether started running after the quickly accelerating Link, hoping he wouldn't fall off the mountain. A blue glow suddenly enveloped him as a …fish? said something? Aether couldn't hear her as they were so far away at that point, the fish disappeared in a veil of water and Link continued rolling down.

A few minutes before that John and a herald, who was often called Bob, had just got to the point where John had last seen them. He had just finished explaining what he had seen again as Bob started saying something.

“What the -” he said in surprise, John turned around and saw a boy in a blue tunic tumble down the mountain, all while the Traveler was running after him. John and Bob just looked at each other not saying a word, both being very confused as to why he was rolling down the mountain.

Link had just about reached his max rolling speed, with it being as fast as a bullet. Or he thinks it is, he still doesn't really know what a bullet is. Aether had tried to switch to Yelan, he wanted to use her skill to catch up to Link faster, but there was some lag before the switch and now he was even further away. Link caught a glimpse of Yelan and was very confused as to why a girl was now chasing him, a few seconds later his head connected the dots and was instead confused as to why he switched.

Aether used the skill and zoomed closer to him, unfortunately he was still a bit behind, and Link was quickly approaching the foot of the mountain.

Link's health was depleting again, and again he didn't know if he had a fairy. BUT this time he remembered that he had his inventory! He opened his inventory and saw his sixhundred fifty-seven apples and started eating them, he shoved them in his mouth and didn't stop until his health was full, then he checked if he had any fairies, which he had 6 of. He remembered that before he fell he wanted to get to the capped limit, but it didn't happen because of obvious circumstances.

His head was spinning when he finally stopped on the ground, Aether being close behind as he switched back to himself.

“Holy shit are you okay??” he said, a mix of panic, guilt and worry in his voice. “I have some food that can patch you up if you want-”

“I’m fine, I'm fine, this isn't my first time rolling down mountains…” Link said, head still spinning. “I’ll just lay here for a minute until my head calms down.”

“Okay, want me to catch you some water?” he still had a bit of guilt and worry in his voice, but he seemed to not panic as much. Before waiting for a reply he opened his bag, taking out a bottle of water. “Wait, did that roll remove you from your muteness?”

“It seems so.” Link confirmed. “Now give me the water.”

Aether gives Link the water bottle and he drinks it. Aether sits down and they just sit in uncomfortable silence.

John and Bob had traveled down the mountain, definitely a bit slower than Link and Aether, but enough to keep them in their sight.

“Should we attack now?” John asked.

“Nah, we should probably wait a bit.”

“Ok.”

Original authors note:

New chapter yay!! This one is a bit shorter than the others (this one being 2204 words with the others being about 2800/3200 respectively, but that is mostly cause I also wrote a genshin oneshot this month. And on the topic of months I think I will try to do a monthly update schedule, with this story being updated aroud the 20th every month, but itll probably not be updated in either december or january. I also tried to write it a bit differently this time, with more descriptions than straight up dialogue. Another thing is that it will probably only be this chapter and the next one Bob and John will pop up, because I dont like using OCs that much, but I hope you liked them anyways. Anyways, hope this story made you feel something and thanks for reading! (PS: Theres probably some weird sentences in here, but I think I catched all of them while editing :))

New authors note:

I ran out of ideas lol. also that authors note ddint age well. lol

Chapter 4: Colours

Written during Febuary/March 2024, Published in June 2024..

small warning of vomiting at the end.

Aether and Link laid in a slightly awkward silence, no one really knowing what they should do now.

“Sooo, what's your favourite colour?” Aether awkwardly asked.

“Uh-, I guess it's orange,” Link replied after a few seconds, “like the leaves in Akkala, I guess.”

“Oh okay,” Aether wanted to say something to continue this conversation, just to get rid of this damned awkwardness. “Well, what's your least favourite one then?”

“Blue.”

“Blue is a broad colour, any specific shade?” Aether was kinda surprised at his quick reply to the question.

“This one.” Link detached his slate from his belt and held it out to Aether, who gladly took it. “If you somehow destroy it I’m stabbing you.” He said with some spite with his words.

“Fair enough.” Aether absentmindedly replied as he inspected the slate. It was truly a curious device, It had a big eye motif on the back with the iris glowing a bright blue. “You don't like this kind of blue?”

“Ya know the guardian I told you about? Its eye is blue, and the whole shrine of resurrection was blue.” Link paused, pondering what to say next. “Last and first thing you see, you either hate it because it took your life or you love it because it gave you life.”

"That is kinda sad if you think about it.” Aether said, still looking over the Sheikah slate. “I think my favourite colour is red.”

“Why?”

“To the sad thing or the colour?”

“Both.”

“Well I just like the colour, no real deeper meaning.” He sighed, why had everything have to have some deeper meaning? Maybe he just liked the damn colour! “And for the sad thing, it's not really sad, I just,” a sigh was let out, “words are weird.”

“Yea, words are weird.” Link repeated as they let a comfortable silence fall upon them.

“Okay,” John began, “what shall we do now?”

“We shall continue to observe!” He said with an amount of confidence that made John so sure that Bob had no idea what he was doing. “Alright.” He said with a sigh.

“Do you think we are being watched?” Blue eyes watched him intently as he continued to fiddle with the slate, a nagging feeling crept up his spine as he locked eyes with him.

“Something is wrong.” It was a statement, a fact. Something was wrong, but what could it be? He racked his mind for answers, but none came up.

“Should we leave?” He asked, hand reaching out for the slate, which was promptly deposited into the hands of its rightful owner.

“That's probably the best option we have right now.” Aether stretched as he stood up. “I also wanna try something.”

In return Link just watched him intently and raised an eyebrow.

“And the thing I wanna test includes you!” He pointed a finger at Link, who tilted his head in return as he broke the tension.

“Me?” He pointed a finger to himself. “What are you gonna do?”

"You'll see!" Aether said as he took Link's hand, and pulled as hard as he could on the leyline leading to a waypoint, he didn't care which one he picked, he just wanted to test this, and during a split second as they turned into golden sparkles they made eye contact. Aether saw something in those electric blue eyes. What he saw, he didn't know.

And as they both appeared out of the leylines golden shimmers, Link turned around and threw up.

And as bluish-green bile camouflaged itself between the grass, Aether couldn't help but say “Ew.”

“Ew yourself.” Link shot back once the vomiting stopped.

“Well, I guess we know I shouldn't teleport you!” At least there was something positive that came out of experience.

“Fuck you!” Link said between his dry heaving and Aether patted his back with a laugh until the dry heaving stopped. “We'll never do that again.”

“After seeing you throw up? I would never dream of it!”

“Give me a warning next time..” Link said while wiping off some leftover vomit. “Alright, what's the plan?”

“At least you seem to recover quickly from throwing up.” Aether said, striking a lame pose (but he wouldn't ever admit that). “Anyways-”

“Hey, Aeth?” Link interrupted as he started turning around, looking at the scenery.

“Yeah?” He chose to ignore the nickname as he turned back to look at Link.

“Where the FUCK are we?”

It's just then Aether realizes where he had teleported, they were in the Mawtiyima Forest in Sumeru, right where he was a day ago, looking for mushrooms.

“Oh.”

“Fuck you mean ‘Oh’??”

“Ya know, while we’re here,” Aether started, while Link raised an eyebrow. “Do you wanna go fight an almost god?”

“...” Link looked a bit taken aback and pale, but the pale this was probably because he puked his guts out. “A- a what now?”

“Okay so there's this dude, and he was like created as a puppet of a goddess, but she abandoned him?” Aether watched as Link slightly tilted his head to the side, like a child seeing something for the first time and trying to wrap their head around it. “And then some bad things happened to him and then he like declared war on the world in his mind and then he got picked up by the Fatui and became a harbinger.” Aether began to pace back-and-forth. “And then they tried to make him into a god-”

Aether took a breath, truly this was the most he had talked since his late night talks with Paimon (Where was she anyways? Is she still sleeping? Oh my god- has he just abandoned her?) and he truly needed to take a breath and drink something because his throat had started to dry out. He started to fish something drinkable out of his inventory. A Frostshield potion, something he made at the start of his journey and has been rotting in his inventory ever since. Good enough. He dragged the cap off and downed it. The cold liquid felt as if it was gonna freeze him as it flowed through his throat, before disappearing as quickly as it appeared.

“You okay?” A voice cut through his gurgling, Links voice, there was some semblance of concern in it.

“Uh- Yeah. Just doesn’t usually talk this much.” Aether replied, but only getting silence in return as they both looked at eachother.

“If you say so.”

They fall into silence, it was the kind of awkward silence when you both don't know what to say and you instead just stare at each other.

“Sooo, about that fighting an almost-god?”

Original authors note:

Hello! I hope you have enjoyed this chapter(even if it was a bit short and ended on a cliffhanger(?)), and this whole story by extension, but with a heavy heart I have to announce this will be the last chapter for the time being. I just didnt feel like writing this anymore. Dont get me wrong, I still adore this story and the concept behind it, but I just dont feel like writing this anymore. It has felt as if Ive rushed through all the available plot in the first chapter, you get me? Plus I actually started writing this in December 2022. A lot of things has changed since then, for example, I barely play genshin anymore, I think I shouldnt have given the abyss mages names, I couldve incorperated gameplay elements better, and even if Paimon isnt a my favourite thing in the world, it feels as if Ive made a mistake not including her, etc, etc. AND another thing the most cardinal sin of all: I actually picked Lumine as the MC. This chapter was tough for me to write, not because of external reasons, but just because I had no idea what to do with this chapter. This was actually the third start of the chapter (I cant remember what the first draft was about, but the second started with Aether pouring down a ice potion down Links back. pretty fun). This chapter was meant to be written in Febuary, then March (where I actually wrote the last bits of the current state in March. Fun Fact: It was supposed to include Noelle and be released the 21st (her birthday) but I couldnt write fast enough ( :/ ), and then I forgot about it until now. Wow, this became longer than I thought it was gonna be, but thanks for reading this story. Have a good one!

No new authors note on this expect that I hope youve enjoyed reading this <3

[designmatazz]

Farbod Kokabi – A designer, artist, and director living and working in San Francisco, CA.

[glitchartistscollective]

In the beginning there was noise – thus writes Rosa Menkman in her influential Glitch Studies Manifesto (2011), a work that laid the foundations for the critical exploration of art works that incorporate noise & error as a means to examine and interrupt the normative function of the image and the media itself.These works do not only present pleasurable aesthetic objects (because, yes, dirty glitch can be indeed very pretty) – they also act as a magnifying glass drawing attention to the material basis of the technology used to reproduce moving images, whether it be celluloid, analogue video or digital apparatus.Using various means to distort the recognizable imagery, they bring us exciting, vibrant & noisy alternative visions that radically challenge the dominating clean, sterile imagery of contemporary digital cinema. As such, they pose fundamental questions regarding the political nature of technology, image and the reality itself.The selection divided in two blocks will showcase 16 eye- & mind-bending contemporary audiovisual works that offer a journey through a myriad of creative & critical uses of glitch followed by the Q&A discussion with the artists.PROGRAM 09.10.2023.Introspective landscapes & limits of memory in the post-internet wildernessDuration: 50′Death Orgone Absorption fœtale – Pulsion panspermique (CA, 2023,6′)Sabato Visconti – Origin Story (Best Price USA), v01 (US, 2023, 2′)Sarah Lasley – Welcome to the Enclave (US, 2023, 12′)Autojektor – robyn (2021, UK, 4′)YOVOZOL – Purplenoia (Parts 1 & 2) (NL, 2023, 10′)le désert mauve (Charline Dally + Gabrielle HB) – dickinsonia. les archives sensibles (CA, FR, 11′)Niloufar Baniasadi, Farbod Hamedi – Flower of Life (Fractal Geometry of the Carpet) (IR, 2023, 2′)Artiom Constantinov – You Never Happened, You Never Existed (IT, 2023, 4′)PROGRAM 10.10.2023.Hacking, playing & (de)constructing (new) realitiesDuration: 50′André Oliveira Cebola – ultraCritical() (BR, 2023, 1′)Chris Coleman with Music by George Cicci – Threaded Tracing (US, 2023, 7′)Josh Brown – First Wave (IE, 2023, 3′)Gino Battiston – Beware Spamart (AR, 2023, 2′)Theo Rosemffet and Rocco.FX – Descontrol (ES, 2023, 6′)aitso + ex_mortal – release decay (CA, US, 2023, 2′)Jan Swinburne – CRACKERS a brief history of code (CA, 2020, 4’20)Toma Ștefănescu – Entropy (RO, 2022, 25′)Curated by:EJLA KOVAČEVIĆA freelance film critic, curator and independent/experimental cinema researcher. She’s a member of the curatorial team at the International Experimental Film and Video Festival 25 FPS and a selection committee member at Belgrade-based International Analog Film Festival KINOSKOP. Since 2011 she’s been active in the film labs community dedicated to the promotion and preservation of analog film practices. In Zagreb-based filmlab Klubvizija she organized numerous workshops, screenings and held lectures on experimental and photochemical cinema. As an Erasmus scholar she spent a semester working in filmmakers’ cooperative LIGHT CONE in Paris. She earned her MA in French Language at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and MA in Comparative Literature at the University of Zagreb

[starlitwishes]

"There, there - you can cry. It's okay. I would never judge you for that," says Rudaba, sitting beside him.

There was a crowd now.

He supposed in hindsight it was to be expected--that after his outburst with Iraj, that the other residents of Gandharva Ville would seek him out.

It was overwhelming. It was a bit humiliating, too--that so many people were seeing him in such a state.

Yet no matter how much shame built up in his chest, the tear still came forward and out, dripping onto the ground, one by one.

“You're not alone,“ says Yohanan.

Those words were oddly soft and gentle coming from Yohanan. Yet Wrenn still flinched away, trying to cower away. He buried his face, wanting to snap those walls back up and demand they all leave him alone. That he didn't want nor need their kindness.

That he didn't deserve it.

Maybe those words slipped out, somehow, without him noticing. There was a hush among the crowd around him now, with only the sound of rustling leaves and bodies shuffling.

“Don't think for even a second that you have to prove something to me. I like you just the way you are,“ says Nasrin.

Nasrin spoke first, of reassurance, of praise. To comfort him, surely, but it only made more tears fall from his eyes.

Like him??? How could anyone like him? They heard the rumors, didn't they?

"You don't know what you're talking about," Wrenn managed to growl out. "You--you don't know anything about me... Not really."

He heard someone respond with, "That doesn't sound right."

To which he shook his head.

"I'm a monster," Wrenn whispered. "You know--all of you, you all know, don't you? Then why..."

"Why?" Someone echoed, but through the throbbing in his own chest, Wrenn couldn't make out who it was. "Why what? You've been nothing but good to us. What makes you such a monster, anyway?"

"Sometimes your brain will lie to you and tell you bad stuff, but it's not true. It's never as bad as it seems," says Farbod.

"Ghh..."

Such ignorant kindness--how could they all be such fools? Did they not understand who they were talking to? Wrenn couldn't understand it. After everything that happened...

"He's right," Someone else chimed in. "Things are not as bad as they seem... and you really have been good to us--all of us."

"But... we understand if you don't believe it just yet," another person added. "We can head on back, maybe get you some fresh water."

“And If you're not ready, we can wait," says Hayyan. “You don't need to worry. You're safe with us,“ says Futuh, puffing up his chest.

"You... you all..."

Wrenn wanted to tell them so desperately that they were wrong. That he was dangerous, that he should be despised. They in the echo of the voices who currently gave their love to him, he remembered the voices of a family.

A family who had loved him just as much. A family who saw him as one of their own--and once more, it was happening all over again.

It was terrifying. It was horrifying.What if these people got hurt? What if they got hurt because of him? How could they know so much, and yet so little? He was dangerous to be around.

...

Wasn't he?

Over and over, again and again, the people of Gandharva Ville told him no, no you are not dangerous. They told him yes, yes you are cherished. They told him yes, you are one of us.

And yes, we love you.

He broke down in tears once again, his chest heaving heavily with hiccups and sobs.

Someone who was sitting next to him started tracing their hand along his back. He didn't flinch.

He only quietly cried, terrified that something in his chest wanted to accept their warmth so badly, and that he couldn't stop it.

The twinkling constellations of the sky, in his heart--the fates of himself and the people of this place, they were shining the same as they did the day the miners took him into their arms.

... Yes, for all of the doubt placed into his mind, these people were his family--and Gandharva Ville was his home.

Home.

He was home.

He finally found his home.

[digitalisnarcissus]

This feels like a hot twitter take from some insufferable startup guy but alas it's a professional philosopher who is shovelling coals in our individualist hellscape.

[farbodzare]

Farbod Zare the Artist , Musician , Composer and Arranger , Mixing and Mastering Engineer , Music Producer

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[crash-stop]

Glitch cinema: 2023-10-09 MON & 2023-10-10 TUE

In the beginning there was noise – thus writes Rosa Menkman in her influential Glitch Studies Manifesto (2011), a work that laid the foundations for the critical exploration of art works that incorporate noise & error as a means to examine and interrupt the normative function of the image and the media itself.

These works do not only present pleasurable aesthetic objects (because, yes, dirty glitch can be indeed very pretty) – they also act as a magnifying glass drawing attention to the material basis of the technology used to reproduce moving images, whether it be celluloid, analogue video or digital apparatus.

Using various means to distort the recognizable imagery, they bring us exciting, vibrant & noisy alternative visions that radically challenge the dominating clean, sterile imagery of contemporary digital cinema. As such, they pose fundamental questions regarding the political nature of technology, image and the reality itself.

The selection divided in two blocks will showcase 16 eye- & mind-bending contemporary audiovisual works that offer a journey through a myriad of creative & critical uses of glitch followed by the Q&A discussion with the artists.

PROGRAM 09.10.2023.

Introspective landscapes & limits of memory in the post-internet wildernessDuration: 50′

Death Orgone Absorption fœtale – Pulsion panspermique (CA, 2023,6′)

Sabato Visconti – Origin Story (Best Price USA), v01 (US, 2023, 2′)

Sarah Lasley – Welcome to the Enclave (US, 2023, 12′)

Autojektor – robyn (2021, UK, 4′)

YOVOZOL – Purplenoia (Parts 1 & 2) (NL, 2023, 10′)

le désert mauve (Charline Dally + Gabrielle HB) – dickinsonia. les archives sensibles (CA, FR, 11′)

Niloufar Baniasadi, Farbod Hamedi – Flower of Life (Fractal Geometry of the Carpet) (IR, 2023, 2′)

Artiom Constantinov – You Never Happened, You Never Existed (IT, 2023, 4′)

PROGRAM 10.10.2023.

Hacking, playing & (de)constructing (new) realities Duration: 50′

André Oliveira Cebola – ultraCritical() (BR, 2023, 1′)

Chris Coleman with Music by George Cicci – Threaded Tracing (US, 2023, 7′)

Josh Brown – First Wave (IE, 2023, 3′)

Gino Battiston – Beware Spamart (AR, 2023, 2′)

Theo Rosemffet and Rocco.FX – Descontrol (ES, 2023, 6′)

aitso + ex_mortal – release decay (CA, US, 2023, 2′)

Jan Swinburne – CRACKERS a brief history of code (CA, 2020, 4’20)

Toma Ștefănescu – Entropy (RO, 2022, 25′)

Curated by:

EJLA KOVAČEVIĆ

A freelance film critic, curator and independent/experimental cinema researcher. She’s a member of the curatorial team at the International Experimental Film and Video Festival 25 FPS and a selection committee member at Belgrade-based International Analog Film Festival KINOSKOP. Since 2011 she’s been active in the film labs community dedicated to the promotion and preservation of analog film practices. In Zagreb-based filmlab Klubvizija she organized numerous workshops, screenings and held lectures on experimental and photochemical cinema. As an Erasmus scholar she spent a semester working in filmmakers’ cooperative LIGHT CONE in Paris. She earned her MA in French Language at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and MA in Comparative Literature at the University of Zagreb

[nuzzy]

OKAY SO I WROTE A FANFIC !! ITS 2 828 WORDS AND IT TOOK 9 MONTHS TO WRITE (if you include the 8 months where i completely forgot it exsisted) !! AND I ALSO WROTE LIKE 1 400 WORDS THE LAST WEEK !!

Link in Teyvat, what shenanigans gonna happen?? - nuzzy - 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

^ LINK (not that character)

actual fic below!!!! (i hope i got everything in it) (also can you tell that the first part was written around december? n before totk was released)

Aether was flying around in the Ashavan Realm looking for Rukkhashava mushrooms for Collei and the Wanderer. He had already bought some from Aramani in Vanara and 5 more from Ashpazi in Ghandara village, and while he was there he also got some from Farbod. 

“ Ugh, if I only had Tighnari right now… ” Aether thought. “... If only I had some shrooms so I could get more aquaints…“ 

Aether looked around, seeing if he saw some more shrooms. He didn't. 

“Welp, time to ‘port to Lokopala Jungle.” he sighed as he took up his map. 

As Aether clicked on the teleport button he remembered that he hadn't been in his teapot in a while, he made a mental note that after all the shrooms were taken, he would visit his friends there. And maybe he could put Collei and Scaramoose in there so they would get some friendship exp? Or are there too many people in the teapot? Or do any of ‘em have friendship 10? He has to check later. 

When Aether jumped down the cliff, releasing his paraglider in the process. In the few seconds he was in the air, he gazed around looking for the shrooms, he didn't find any, again. Maybe he had already picked them all yesterday? He didn't remember.

“Guess I have to farm some bosses...” He thought out loud with a sigh, completely forgetting the teapot plan.

“Maybe I can go to Mondstadt for some TCG?” he said to himself, he had completely forgotten about the TCG after it came out and he got jumpscared by Sucrose. 

Aether decided that it was a good idea to go to Mondstadt and talk to the people there. …And play the TCG of course. 

He took up his map again and scrolled to Mondstadt and clicked a waypoint there. Within seconds he was there, in the city of the Wind.

As he looked around in the city, he saw Jean sprinting to him.

“Oh, hello Aether,” Jean said, looking a bit nervous. “Perfect timing, we need some help and we were looking for you.

“Sure, what do you need?” Aether said.

“Come to the knights and we will talk there.” she said. 

“Well what do we need to talk about?”

“... I do not know how to explain it… also where's Paimon?”

“Eh, she's sleeping and I don't want to wake her up. She's also probably gonna sleep for a few more days anyways”

“Oh.” 

Jean and Aether walked to the Knights of Favonius building, they didn't say anything else while they walked there.

When they came there, which only took about a minute, as it was pretty close. 

“So what's the problem?” Aether asked when he walked in the building.

“Let's go to my office first.” she said as she started walking there.

When they walked into the office the first thing Aether saw was that he had not raided her office for books, and that there was an unknown boy in the room. 

“ Who was he? ” was Aethers first thought when looking at the boy, he had a blue shirt and golden blond hair. At a closer look, the blue shirt the boy was wearing had a white pattern that looked like a sword. When he focused on his face he saw that half his face was a giant scar, and one of his pointy ears, which reminded him of Klees, was completely destroyed. When he focused on his blue eyes, he saw that the boy was staring right back at him.

“This person is an outlander, like you,” Jean said while looking at the boy. “he fell down from the sky on one of the islands in the lake. We don't know how he managed to swim from there to one of the beaches with all those bruises he got from the fall.” 

“That's interesting, have you tried talking to him?”

“We have tried to, but he just looks at us with a confused look,” Jean sighed, she was way too tired to be dealing with this, she had taxes and paperwork to get through! “And before you ask, he doesn't talk either, we have tried to make him talk but he, once again, looks confused.”

“Well, what's your name?” Aether turned his attention away from Jean. The boy said nothing in return, but stared at him with a kind of confusion.

“That didn't work…” he said with a sigh. “Time for plan B!”

“You have a plan B?” Jean asked, a bit confused. “What is it?”

“I- uh, haven't gotten to that part yet.”

“Holy Barbatos…” she sighed, pinching the top of her nose, she was really tired of this. “Well what do we do now?”

“We could go out for a walk around Mondstadt and then maybe he'll talk!”

“Last time we did that he whipped out a bomb out of nowhere and almost blew up a wall, and tried to climb to the top of the cathedral.” Jean said with a disappointed look at the boy. “We were lucky that the sisters caught him in time.”

“And he didn't get put in solitary confinement?” he asked.

“Well, he was in solitary confinement for like.. two minutes, before he blew up the wall and escaped.”

“At least in the short while he was there, Klee was happy to have a friend.” Aether said. 

“I mean, that's true, but it still doesn't excuse that he blew up a wall .” she said, a bit irritated.

“Well, what are we going to do with him?” Aether said, all while looking at the boy again. “We can't exactly put him in solitary confinement again.”

“That's the problem, we can't let him go. And we shouldn't if he plans to blow up a wall again.”

Aether and Jean looked at eachother, both not knowing what to do with the boy. 

“Maybe we can teach him the language and then talk to him?” Aether said, not knowing what else to do.

“We can try, but we don't know what language he speaks.” Jean said. “So we don't know how to translate to his language.”

“Have you tried any other languages than Mond and common?” he said. “He maybe doesn't know them?”

Aether sat next to the boy and tried to make a simple conversation while switching between all of Teyvats languages to try to see if he understood any of them, unfortunately, he only got confused looks when he tried them.

“That didn't work.” Aether said. 

“Okay, but what do we do now?” Jean asked. “We have tried everything.”

“I think that probably the best thing to do is to take a walk? Maybe?” 

“Well, we can try again.” Jean sighed. “But please take him back here if he causes trouble.”

“Noted!” Aether said, as he took the boys armed and practically dragged him out the door.

When they were out of the Knights of Favonius building he tried to make some small talk, but having someone who didn't talk as a conversation partner made that the talking fastly died down.

As they walked onto the bridge, the boy took his bow out, the bow looked strange and he couldn't quite see what material it was made of, but it had weird glowing orange lights on it, nicked an arrow with a red arrow head and shot it right at Timmies pigeons. When he did that, there was a huge explosion with smoke. When the smoke cleared the pigeons were dead and the only thing that was left was fowl. 

“Nice shot dude” Aether said encouragingly, but the boy was still quiet.

“Why is everyone always shooting the pigeons?” Timmy asked angrily, Aether could see slight tears forming up in his eyes. “I'm gonna tell mom all about you!”

“I don't know man, they're very shootable.” Said Aether with a laugh as they walked away. “And your mom cant do anything about me.”

He and Aether wandered out in the wilderness, still not saying a word to each other, the silence was awkward.

They walked for maybe an hour and a half, during this time Aether had tried to make small talk multiple times but every time the boy just looked confused or ignored him. He was starting to get frustrated.

“Do you like food?” Aether asked, trying to break the silence.

The boy just looked at him confused, not seeming to understand the question. Aether sighed and opened his inventory and took out a tea-break pancake. 

“Food.” He said while pointing at the pancake. 

The boy nodded at the pancake and took a bite out of it, and got a small smile after he took it.

“Now when you're done, we can set up a tent and sleep a bit,” Aether said while starting to stand up and stretched. “Oh right, forgot you can't understand me.”

A few minutes after that “conversation”, if you can even call it that, Aether came up with a great idea. He thought that maybe he could draw an object in the sand and then the word! …But maybe he wouldnt understand the intention? 

Aether tried to push that thought away, it was going to work! Everything he does works! Even if its as stupid as challenging the shogun without remembering to lvl up his characters, or even putting artifacts on ‘em all together. Everything he does is great! He has saved multiple nations, killed a harbinger ,and fought and won against two others, he has also challenged gods, and won of course. He really was great, so why was he anxious about how this outlander thought of him? He was also an outlander, they should be able to communicate and help each other out!

“Sooooooo, you can't talk?” Aether asked, even if he felt like he had asked this 5 times already, which he probably did. “And you can't understand me either? Nod for yes and shake your head for no.” 

“...” the outlander didn't say anything, just looked up at him from eating his pancake.

“Okaaay, I forgot you wouldn't be able to understand that…” He said, feeling incredibly stupid for just confirming the obvious. “Soooooo, food, am I right?”

The boy looked at his pancake, and then pointed at it, slightly confused.

“Yes yes! That's food!” Aether said in excitement, while doing a thumbs up to show that it was indeed food. “Okay so we're getting somewhere! You can understand food, atleast! ”

“...” he looked up at him, face returning to a neutral expression. 

“Ahh, it seems like we still have some more stuff to get through before we can fully understand each other…” 

“.......” The boy started putting away the plate the pancake was on, then started standing up, all while maintaining eye contact.

“Okay… do you want to do something?” Aether was confused about just what the boy was doing. 

He watched as the boy threw some firewood onto the ground, then pulled out his bow and knocked an orange arrow with a flame tip, “ It's probably a fire arrow. ” Aether thought. When the arrow was inevitably fired and hit the wood, when it hit a small cloud of fire was there, for probably less than a second. The wood immediately fell into a triangle shape and started burning. Once it had burned for a few seconds the boy, who Aether realised he needed a better name in his head for, pulled out a few apples and put them on the fire.

“Whatcha doing?” Aether wondered out loud, but of course there was no reply.

He said nothing in return, just held out his hands, as if to say “ wait and you'll see ”. After a few more seconds of the apples were baked, or grilled, Common Teyvat really was confusing. He hurriedly picked them up and held one out to him.

After a few seconds of staring at the apple he took it, only hearing a few mutters from the boy. He thought he could hear something that was similar to the words “baked apple” but not really the same, the sound of the ‘a’ in the apple was off, like if you somehow merged a and e into one letter. It was strange, but maybe it was another language that's similar? 

“Okaaay, sooo that's an …. apple?” he said with half an apple in his mouth.

No response. 

They just stared at each other, it felt like minutes, but it was probably just a few seconds. A few very awkward seconds.

“......wha?” a pretty hoarse voice came from his mouth, with a heavy country accent, Aether thought that it matched Xinyans accent a bit, but with slight variations on pronunciation.

“OH SHIT HE CAN TALK?!?” Aether exclaimed, not expecting him to talk.

The boy mumbled something under his breath, something about that he shouldn't have said anything and just continued the act.

“So we can actually have a conversation now!” Aether said. “And what's your name? I can't keep calling you ‘boy’ in my head.”

“.... I am actually onehundred- and-seventeen…” he said, voice still hoarse, probably from disuse.

“WHAT,” Aether exclaimed, surprised by that age. “HUMANS DON'T LOOK LIKE THAT WHEN THEY ARE THAT OLD????”

“......what's a human??...” he asked, in pure confusion. 

“.. You don't know what a human is?” 

“... no? …” 

“Well, a human is what people are here.” he said, fumbling on his words because he had no idea he was going to explain humans to someone who apparently was an outlander like him. “except for maybe Klee, Albedo, … Diona too I guess.”

“... I don't know who any of those people are…” 

“I heard Klee was the child you were stuck in solitary confinement with,” he said. “until you blew up a wall.”

“... oh, right I forgot I did that…”

“Also if you're not a human, what are you then?”

“... I'm a Hylian?..." He said, slightly confused. 

“Well, what's that? I've never heard of it before.” he was really confused as to what a ‘hylian’ was.

“... I'm guessing it's similar to a human? But we’re kinda blessed by the goddess so our ears are long with magic stuff,” he explained. “I'm also guessing that humans aren't blessed by goddesses because their ears are so short…”

“Oh so you have a goddess?” 

“... yeah we have one, or it's actually four but Hylia is the main one that actually answers most of the time…” his expression changed a bit, Aether didn't really know if it was a positive or negative change because his expressions were really hard to decode. “like or at least she is supposed to, but she like, only talks to me most of the time, dunno why. She also ignores Zelda!”

“...What a nice goddess you have.”

“... yeah right! Zeldas is like her descendant too so it makes less sense with that!”

“What??” 

“... Yeah! Like way over 10 000 years ago, after the kingdom was founded again by ‘divine beings from the sky’ that made some … bond or something with the hylians?” 

“Wait wait, who did what and why are you telling me this?” 

“... I dunno to be honest, I just need someone to rant to, like a lot of stuff has happened to me and this kingdom.” 

“Well, take it from the start.”

“The start start or the start of the kingdom? Also I don't know all of the details because I have amnesia and forgot literally everything, Zelda has been trying to reteach me stuff but history is hard.”

“Let's take this from the start start,” Aether was surprised that this stranger had been willing to open up so easily, like this guy was rambling about everything, to a stranger. He didn't even want to speak five minutes ago! “Wait, you have amnesia?”

“Yea, yea, but that's not important right now,” he waved with his hands as if it didn't matter, his voice also getting more strained with each passing word, Aether was starting to get worried that he would get so hoarse he couldn't talk. “Okay so, it starts with the three golden goddesses who create the world and all that stuff, and they also create the triforce, which consists of three parts, power, courage and wisdom.”

“Why just those three things?”

“Take that up with the goddesses will you.” he let out a laugh. “So I hold the triforce of Courage, Zelda holds the wisdom one and some dude named Ganondorf holds the power one. Apparently Ganondorf is evil and stuff.”

“So you're… like chosen by the goddess?”

“Yeah yeah-” his ramblings was broken by him coughing a few times. How often does this guy talk actually? His voice was already raspy and hoarse from the start, and he faked not being able to understand him. He probably needed to at least know his name before his voice gave out. “And that is the basics of the goddess stuff.”

“Okay I realised I haven't asked for your name yet?” Aether asked as he realised he zoned out during his explanation.

“... "It's Link.” 

“Well I am Aether, I'm glad to finally know your name.”

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is it cringe? yes

did i probably write everyone out of character? yes

am I GOSH DARNIT PROUD OF THIS?? YOU BETTER BELIVE ITS YES