#for some time after returning to mond diluc just assumes kaeya figured out that people are flirting with him

[kaeyachi]

Funny idea. Hear me out.

Diluc, who we all know would go out the door, claymore blazing, to attack a supposed pervert

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Kaeya who doesn't recognize people are flirting with him/ oggling him

Diluc must have regularly had a field day slamming his claymore left and right when they were younger, trying to explain to Kaeya that they were perverts and to be more careful.

Kaeya would just think they were crazy fans or something.

[kae-karo]

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Q: Do you have any discarded scenes/storylines/projects?

oooo very good question! i try to live under the philosophy of 'never say never', in that if i've given smth some thought, i'll never say that i'd never come back to it, but i do have a handful of ideas that i've definitely set aside for the time being. i'm a firm believer in following wherever inspiration strikes, so if i'm not vibing with an idea at the moment, i'll set it aside and return to it if/when i feel like it or get some new ideas (or fresh brainrot lmao)

and i say 'never say never' because i first had the idea for 'here's our own hands against our hearts' back in may of 2021, and i didn't even start writing it til september, and ofc i didn't finish/start posting til december

so, in no particular order, some concepts i've set aside for the moment and hope to return to some day:

(bnha) immortal baku who's stuck with the only other immortal, deku, to help him figure out how to break the curse of immortality. on par with canon, baku very much detests deku :) enemies to lovers style

(genshin from here on out) struggling artist kaeya who lucks into an encounter with renowned art connoisseurs zhongluc, healing and self love ensues

murder husbands zhongchi from the 'to love (and be loved in return) universe, both the getting-together past aspects and the plot after kaeluc's story

a kaeluc tarot fic that follows the progression of the tarot major arcana as inspiration for plot points during a canon-divergent au

Lovesick Fool expanded modern teyvat au, zhongchi getting together fic

dragon zhongli x phoenix diluc

a scene from hoohaoh (x) where childe and diluc talk about how diluc's father might've come into possession of a delusion - it felt a little more heavily focused on some diluc trauma and healing that didn't quite fit with the rest of the story

diluc tricking his roommate kaeya into thinking he's a hot tinder date coming over soon so kaeya will actually clean the house, but kaeya...actually falls for this 'date' pretty hard...

actual pirate kaeya with stowaway childe - canon-divergent au where kaeya's sort of captain of the mond fleet, docked in liyue when childe's escaping the millileth

xiaoven where xiao finally chases after the little spark that floats away from him in his idle only to discover that it's venti

the actual original scene i had in mind that 'to love (and be loved in return)' (x) began to revolve around was a soft kaeluc scene in the hidden-away library where kaeya first showed diluc his magic, and it's also where they first kissed 'for real'...ofc, that never made it into the story, as it evolved quite a lot in other directions lmao

tl(ablir) actually had a LONG history of struggling with the main plot in the background - i went back and forth on crepus being the main antagonist, kaeya's father being the antagonist, the abyss being the antagonist, and so on. intentional and unintentional, in some cases, it went on quite a lot, but none of those concepts really fit the story i wanted to tell

oh another from tl(ablir) - kaeya getting just a little Too Drunk and diluc pushes him too far, implies that he doesn't care about his people (this ended up not fitting well with what i'd established between them). this was going to be his dialogue for the scene:

they have been dying since before i was born i know that they're dying they're dying right now and i can do nothing to stop it. do you think it even occurred to me to refuse your father's offer if it meant helping my people? do you think i drink for FUN? you must think me immeasurably callous if you assume i do not care that my people suffer for our ancestor's mistakes. you must think me heartless, then. and i'd rather be, than face for even a moment the overwhelming grief of so many dead while i sit here in your cushy palace, comfortable and safe

there are also some other ideas that i haven't quite decided to set aside just yet, but who knows when exactly they'll crop up lmao

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