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chocoenvy · 3 years ago

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Let's play a game of dissection (part one)

Part Two Part Three Part Four(Final)

Inspired by this ask that @is-very-sad got. as soon as i read it the amount of inspiration that hit me just- yeah it got super long lol

WARNINGS!!!

-reader is tortured, the torture is detailed and isn't glossed over at all. Cult behaviors. The original ask reffered to the reader with fem pronouns but I used gn pronouns. Gore, blood. Imposter au.

Please tell me if I missed any warnings as this is fairly graphic, but if you're okay with all of that then read more under the cut :))

word count: 1321

Three days.

You had ran for three days straight.

You didn't need as much food or rest as they did so you were sure that eventually eventually you'd be able to escape them.

But as they chased you around Teyvat, more people started following you.

It was when Xiao and the rest of the adepti joined the chase that you didn't stand a chance. You grew hungry and tired. You don't even remember passing out.

When you awoke, the sun beamed down bright on you. You weren't sure how long you had been asleep, but from how groggy you were it felt like forever.

Slowly, you blinked your eyes open and regained your senses. The first thing you noticed was your hands bound behind your back. You twitched in the restraints, they were bound tight. Your legs were also tied to your arms, restraining your movement even more. Even the slightest twitch sent a throb of dull pain throughout your body.

"They're awake." You heard a familiar voice say, "Inform the Liyue Qixing as soon as possible."

"Yes Rex Lapis."

Footsteps scurried off and you looked up blearily. Zhongli, Venti, Jean, and a few other Knights of Favonius were standing before you. You were sure there was nothing left of your heart to break but you were wrong. Despite having been chased around by your beloved characters for who knows how long, seeing them up close broke your heart. Tears pricked the backs of your eyes and your hands and bottom lip shook.

"Pathetic." Venti sneered, "You should've thought twice about impersonating our god. You don't have the right to cry."

You flinched as he moved his hand. A sick, twisted delight bubbled in Venti's chest.

"I-I-I don't even know what you're talking abou-about-"

"You claimed to know everything about us, be our best friends, love us and yet you don't even know the god we worship?" Jean spat.

You lowered your head and squeezed your eyes shut so you didn't have to see Jean's angry face.

They took it as confirmation of you being guilty.

A harsh kick met your stomach and you toppled back. It was then, painfully looking up at the burning sun, that you noticed you were in the middle of Liyue Harbor. With a crowd starting to gather around you.

Another kick to your side caused you to roll over and curl in on yourself. Shutting your eyes tightly so you could pretend it wasn't your beloved characters beating you.

"Hu Tao," You muttered in between kicks and rocks being thrown at you, "Chongyun," You choked out droplets of blood, "Xingqiu," You whimpered, "Qiqi," You were barely whispering, "Zhongli," Huffing for air, "Beidou, Ningguang," You became almost frantic whispering their names, "Jean, Amber, Noelle," Hoping it would distract you from the pain, "Lisa, Venti, Benny, Keqing-"

You choked on your own air as someone grabbed the collar of your worn down shirt. They brought you up face-to-face. You only opened your eyes a crack and saw glowing golden-orange eyes before you were knocked to the ground with a harsh punch to your face.

Cheers went up as your head made harsh contact with the floor. But they quieted down when heels clicked the floor. You cracked your eyes open, peaking at the person parting the crowd.

"Ningguang," You whispered, but it only sounded like a breath of air.

She grabbed you by your hair and harshly lifted you up to look at her. Your face was twisted in agony, blood dripping down your nose and star-like tears staining your face.

You fought for air, your bruised ribs hurt everytime you inhaled or exhaled, "Ning..." You huffed, "Pleas-"

She smacked you harshly, disgust painting her beautiful face.

"Don't you dare address me so informally." She sneered, dropping you as though you were the most disgusting thing on this earth.

...to be honest you probably were.

She wiped her hand off on her clothes, her lips drawn back, disgusted. Afterwards, she snapped, "Restrain them."

Immediately, the two closest to you grabbed your arms, still bound. You could see strands of brunnette and blue hair.

"Grab their hair."

They did so, a hand with rings held your hair tightly. You struggled to get them to let go but only ended up yelping in pain as your hair got tugged out and they grappled your arms back in place. Bruises littered your arms in their wake, pulsating and screaming in pain.

Ningguang grappled your chin in her left hand, with her right, she produced a sharp blade made out of geo. She forced your mouth open, the person holding you down on your left helped her and held your jaw. Ningguang used her sharp nails to keep your mouth from closing. Even a tiny movement caused her nails to poke the roof of your mouth.

You whined, trying to move away to no avail. In one fell swoop, Ningguang had forced your tongue out of your mouth and had cut it.

A strangled scream tore from your throat, you thrashed wildly, not caring for your broken ribs, nose, or the cuts on the roof of your mouth. The adrenaline blocked any pain from registering you just knew that you needed to run.

Sadly, the characters were much more capable than you were. They got you back into place and Ningguang continued to slowly carve your tongue off.

You couldn't breath, you could barely even scream. Blood fell out of your mouth and down your throat, choking you with the iron stench. Wildly, you kicked your legs still tied to your hands. Somehow, thanks to the adrenaline, you freed your legs from the rope and started kicking Ningguang wildly. Your ankles were bleeding but you couldn't feel the pain. You could only feel how your tongue was only halfway attatched. How you could still move it.

Panic had completely taken over your system. You couldn't think and you only knew one thing you had to get away.

You only landed a few kicks at Ningguang before someone else, with a thin ponytail and glowing orange-gold eyes, restrained your legs.

With renewed rage, Ningguang's face, now twisted with her anger and bruised from one of your kicks, she grabbed your face and plunged her knife back into your mouth. Slowly sawing your tongue off.

You could only see a blurry Ningguang, tears almost completely obscurring your vision. They fell down your face as though they were racing, to see who could escape the awful situation first. You couldn't hear anything, the world was muffled. You knew they were shouting at you, cheering as the blood fell out of your mouth, but you didn't know what they were saying. You could only taste and smell blood as it dropped down your throat. As your tongue got sawed off, your tastebuds went with it. You only hoped you wouldn't be able to taste the blood soon. With the amount of adrenaline that was pumping through your body, you could barely feel any pain outside from your tongue. It was the only prominent feeling, the only thing your brain could register. The only thing you knew and that you had to stop it. You had to run.

But you couldn't run.

Only choke on blood as you tried to scream. Yelp as your favorite characters restrained you from being able to escape.

Black spots invaded your vision as you saw Ningguang with your tongue in her hand, raising it up for the entirety of Liyue, part of Mondstat and maybe even Inazuma to see.

They cheered and clapped as you screamed, your mouth feeling empty. You spat out as much blood as you could. You weren't sure how much of your blood you had consumed but it was starting to make you sick. You felt bile tickle the back of your throat as you whined.

Take me anywhere but here. You cried.

And Teyvat listened.

#SAGAU #genshin self aware #self aware genshin #cult genshin au #genshin impact cult au #im kinda proud of this???#it was so fun thank you for letting me steal this <3

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chongyunkinnie · 3 years ago

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where the genshin boys like to be touched | ii.

a/n: back at it again with where the genshin boys like to be touched! i love this so much you have lit rally no idEA!

characters: chongyun, xingqiu, scaramouche, bennett (x gn!reader)

warnings: none

genre: fluff

Chongyun doesn't know how much he loves the feeling of your lips grazing the nape of his neck until he has a day where even the slightest source of heat or embarrassment sends him into overdrive. He asked for you to refrain from even looking at him, stating that your gaze alone made him dizzy. Reluctantly, you had agreed to stay away for the day while he finished up a few leads, but not without leaving him an encouraging gift. The second he turned away, you pressed your lips to the nape of his neck, muttering for him to stay safe and hurry back. He remembers how he felt his chest explode and how his neck and ears turned unbearably hot. He remembers how throughout the day he kept finding his fingers touching the spot where you had kissed him, face flushing at the mere memory. He remembers how quiet his voice was when he returned home at the end of the day, asking for you to kiss him there again, and again, and again until his heart couldn't take it anymore.

Xingqiu finds his cheeks flush the most when you teasingly kiss the corner of his mouth. Despite being raised by a wealthy family who put manners before anything and everything, he was a hopeless romantic that wished for the bold displays of affection that he often read about in tacky romance novels. So, when you go against common decency and kiss him so boldly just barely millimeters from where he wishes you would kiss in public, it makes him crumble. Hell, he was supposed to be the playful one in the relationship, he was supposed to be the prince who swept you off your feet, yet here you were making him melt. When you kiss him like that, every time without fail, he'll stop whatever he's doing and trail after you like a lovesick puppy. He doesn't care if there are highly-esteemed guests looking at you both with a judgemental gaze, he will follow you to the ends of Teyvat if it meant you'd kiss him like that again.

Bennett's heart stops when your hands come to rest on his shoulders out of nowhere. He feels lame that his heart reacts so strongly to such a simple action, but he's spent so long wandering alone, going on adventures alone, pretending to be happy when he goes back home to his dads with nothing but vegetables-- he doesn't remember what it's like to have someone by his side indefinitely. But right when his head is hung low and his shoulders are slumped, he hears footsteps racing towards him, then he feels familiar hands clasp his shoulders and turn him around. "Bennett! You'll never believe it-- I just found a chest with an artifact!" Suddenly, his face is warm. His shoulders are warm, too. He... feels warm. The days he spent alone vanish from his mind when he remembers he has you, the luckiest thing to ever happen to him, by his side forever, your arm wrapped around his shoulders to guide him to the precious chest.

Scaramouche is a Harbinger, he can't afford to show vulnerability. He likes to believe that he doesn't even have a vulnerable bone in his body, but then you touch his stomach-- and he feels butterflies. Butterflies. They burst from his chest and fly up his throat and suddenly his voice is hoarse and his mouth is dry and his cleverness leaves his body. You hadn't even meant anything by it, your hands were cold and you just wanted some warmth, opting to slide your fingers under his nightshirt as you rested your head on his back. But it makes Scaramouche feel safe and loved. You feel his hands clasp yours over his shirt, and you expect him to push you away, but instead, he just keeps them there. Your eyes widen as he slowly pulls them over one another, tightening your embrace. His ears are red and you can hear how hard his heart is beating. You say nothing, letting a smile overcome you as you bury your face further into his back, fingers now laced between his.

chongyunkinnie 2021.

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cinnamonest · 3 years ago

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Kaeya is really touchy with his darling, right? So then,, what are the other Yan’s love languages?

NICE I love the love languages stuff! Sorry this was from April but I'm finally getting to it! Usually the two are similar, but sometimes people have different ways of expressing love versus how they want to receive it, so I'll elaborate on that as well. Enjoy my rareish semi-fluffy stuff, boys and which of the 5 love languages they are :3 Kazuha - quality time

Honestly, he's a simple boy. All he really needs to be happy and feel mutual love is sit with you close to him, arms wrapped around you, preferably with you returning the gesture. He has a lot of feelings and fears for the future, lots of emotions all bottled up, so someone to listen to him means a lot. Taking the time to listen to all he has to say makes him sheepish and embarrassed even, but as long as you assure him it's ok, he'll keep coming back for more of your listening ears.

Also, he likes to go on walks. These can be talking or not, sometimes he just likes walking in silence. Either way, accompanying him on said walks is a way to endear yourself to him and show him you love him. Sometimes it's just silently walking down beaches or pathways or in circles around the ship deck, sometimes it's him venting, sometimes it's him gushing about this or that... either way, basically providing him with an outlet for his emotions and spending time with him is what matters.

Zhongli - gifts, quality time

Sugar daddy

But in all seriousness he's big on spoiling a darling. I mean let's be real it's probably someone else's money OR this is in an era where he could just make some, so he will literally get you anything you could ask for, hell, anything he sees you looking at, tons of things you have no use for but he just likes the way your eyes light up all the same. It makes you happy, and that's what love is about, right? Wanting to make people you love happy.

However, for himself, it's a quality time thing, similar to Kazuha's where it's a lot of listening. He has a lot to say sometimes and can get to rambling about details of this or that thing he somehow manages to be an expert on, and while he usually catches himself early on, sometimes he can REALLY go on a while. He knows you don't have any clue what he's talking about, and probably don't really care, but if you sudden bring up a detail that shows you were listening -- it makes him feel oddly warm inside, like you actually think what he talks about is important and care about it. It makes him chuckle a bit, pat your head. He tells you if you're bored you don't have to listen.... so if you insist on doing so anyway, well, that just makes him feel even better inside, oddly validated in a way.

Kaeya - words of affirmation, touch

Is sex a love language?

But in all seriousness, yes as per the opening of the ask, he's very touchy. By 'touch' in this case, that... does translate to sex about 90% of the time. Can you blame him?? It's because he loves you! If he didn't love you he wouldn't wanna get his dick in you so bad! It's love that makes him so handsy and touchy, always rubbing you and running the edges of his fingers under your shirts and skirts and shorts even in public, hands wrapping around your waist and hips, sneaking fondles here and there... and it's out of love that you get railed all the time. His peak happiness is just being balls deep inside you, bodies pressed up against each other, moving slow and gentle and gradually building up... and he wants you to feel like that's love, too. To be honest he gets genuinely sad if you don't see it that way, or if you don't understand it as an expression of love. It seems so natural and innate that being pressed up close together should invoke feelings of love, right?

As for how he understands love as a recipient, well, pretty much the same thing, any sign of eagerness or willingness or especially initiative to fuck sets his brain off. But also, he's weak to any attempts to boost his ego. Say anything positive about him and he'll get excited and let it go to his head, particularly if your words of choice make him feel strong or powerful or capable.

Also speaking of touch, surprisingly big on handholding, especially in public. Sure part of it is a "signaling to others to back off" sort of thing, but he just likes the warmth of your hand as well.

Diluc - touch

It might be a bit surprising, given the stoic nature but... just give this man a hug. Please.

Being inside you is very very nice of course, but he's also notably a cuddly person when you get past the rough exterior. He likes to just sit you in his lap and hold you, spoon you in bed at night, etc.

And as for giving, he doesn't really have knowledge of how to go about other things. He's not good with words at all, he doesn't really know what gifts to get, and despite his affection he's not really submissive enough of a person to go about acts of service, and he's very busy, so while he might get quality time, it's not too often. In the end he doesn't really know how to do anything else, so if he really wants to express affection, the only way he can really think of is just wrapping his arms around you and squeezing. Sometimes a little too hard, like sir I'm asphyxiating please

Also it takes him a while to work up to it. At first he's just too nervous and can barely touch you without retracting his hand back out of nervousness, but he gets used to it.

Razor - quality time, touch

The others are kind of foreign concepts, really. But touch and time is how his kind bond! It's what he's used to. Nuzzling his face into your shoulders and neck and wrapping arms around you and holding you tight. He will often just cling to you physically in some way, holding your wrist in his hand or reaching out to embrace you at random. Of course, sex is a part of it, gotta have that too, it means love to him because he gets the urge whenever he thinks about loving you! And not gonna lie, he tries to remember you don't really like it but, he'll lick you every now and then too. It just comes naturally because he gets excited 'cause he loves you so much!! Lick lick.

Quality time comes in many forms. Every second is quality time in its own way, but especially naps in the sun and walks through the woods. Fun fact: wolf mates go on little "walks" together occasionally, breaking off from the rest of the pack to get alone time. It's fun! You can run through the woods with him! The naps combine the two expressions of touch and time, getting to spend lots of quiet, valuable time, all while snuggled up close. It's nice.

He doesn't really understand if you try to communicate love otherwise, but he'll kind of grasp that it's nice. But really, in the end he wants touch and time too. It's the only form he really understands. The rest just leave him a bit "??" But a nuzzle and a nap in the sun are things he understands perfectly.

Xingqiu - gifts, words of affirmation

The first is more how he shows, the second how he receives. It's a rather selfish form of love, really, because it benefits him as well and it's not exactly difficult. He doesn't have to put a lot of work into gifting, since he can pretty much get anything he asks for out of his father, and even if he says no to something, well, father won't notice a few hundred thousand mora gone from the stash of money kept in his bedroom, right? And he loves giving you gifts because of your reaction! You smile and say thank you and it makes him feel all warm and fuzzy inside... and he likes to think that maybe you feel indebted to him, maybe you're awed and impressed by how he manages to find you such expensive and rare things, maybe it makes you look up to him and see him as superior a bit. Hopefully.

However, because he's got so much wealth already, so gifts don't really do much for him. He responds well to praise, though, especially if you compliment him on the things he cares about, like his sword skills, his writing, his vigilantism. Make him feel like the protagonist he is inside his head, and he'll be beaming with pride and happiness, it makes him feel important, which translates to feeling loved.

Chongyun - quality time, acts of service

In particular, he likes to have you around when he's training. You don't have to train yourself, just be by his side. It makes him more motivated, so he's noticed. Not to mention, he likes showing off if possible to impress you.

Also, he likes having someone to vent to. He's a sweet boy, but he has his stressors and frustrations. He's used to strict self-discipline and normally refrains from talking about his feelings too much, but if you make him feel like your presence is a safe place for him to come to, he will end up almost becoming dependent on getting to emotionally unload on you every day, recalling all the details of every bad thing that happened and waiting for your soft comfort.

Here, "acts of service" is more like... consideration. Little moments where he's reminded you remember his needs and care about them. You make food and note that you made it especially free of anything hot, just for him! Or you make his little popsicles when he forgets, you help him deal with the damage and destruction of his most recent episode. Little acts like that make him feel appreciated, loved and cared for.

Childe - acts of service

Similar to Kaeya and touch, acts of service is... yeah it's basically sex. It falls more into the category of acts of service because it's a little different in nature from Kaeya's -- he loves normal sex of course, and cuddles are nice too, but in his mind really loving him is about taking initiative and doing things to him... in other words, to translate that in simple terms... blow him. Please. It would make him the happiest man in the world. Or ride him. Just anything that feels like you taking some initiative and making him feel wanted. ...And making him feel worshipped is nice too, getting you down on your knees in front of him or any act of service and submission gives him a sort of high from the ego boost and masculine validation.

And he's similar with how he expresses it himself. Most likely candidate to eat you out against your will. One infuriating and potentially humiliating thing about him is he's one of the most insistent to ensure you cum every single time, if you don't cum from him fucking you he'll just force your legs open and eat you out or shove his fingers into you until you do. Because he loves you and orgasms equate to love in his mind.

Venti - acts of service, words of affirmation, gifts

It's more on the giving end for him -- specifically, he can be a very sappy individual when he's in love, to a point it's nauseating to the people around you, really. But he spends a lot of time writing you poems and songs. To him, song is one of the utmost powerful expressions of love. It sort of combines the service and words -- the writing itself is a labor of love, but the words are filled with praises. He genuinely spends a lot of time on it, though, and it's really important to him that you like the things he makes and plays for you, and will continuously modify his next pieces to what he perceives as your taste. He's a bit of a perfectionist on stuff like that.

Venti is actually rather shy when it comes to receiving love. He tends to be very no, you don't have to do that for me! And things like gifts can make him feel a bit guilty, so... you just have to give him stuff he likes so much he's too busy indulging to feel guilt. Namely alcohol. He gets a bit red in the face, but, deep down he likes words of affirmation and compliments too, even the lightest of sweet words he'll replay in his head over and over for days after you say them.

Bennett - acts of service

One of the quickest ways to endear yourself to him is the simple act of helping him. This can manifest in several ways, such as healing his wounds when he's all scraped up or just come back from an adventure, helping him patch up his clothes that get ripped so much, helping him find some thing he lost in the woods yet again, or following him on one of said adventures. People don't really have him in mind too often, he tends to get forgotten a lot and left to handle things all on his own, and as a result, someone who reaches out to help him has a significant impact on him, he finds himself unable to stop thinking about it and the warm feeling it gives him to know that someone cares.

As a result, he starts basically mimicking the same behaviors because it's all he really knows how to do. He wants to give you the same warm happiness that you give him, so he tries to help you out with the things you need, complete tasks he knows would be helpful to you. Unfortunately for him, this tends to backfire as something usually goes wrong and it turns into a mess that he fears will just make you hate him. Poor baby.

Albedo - quality time

He's one of those people that really loves to just spend time in the presence of the people he loves -- you don't have to be doing something together, or the same thing. Even if you're just reading a book or drawing or something on your own, he likes you to be nearby him. It's kinda cute how if you go wandering off or go into another room, he'll wait a minute, then silently kinda come peeking around the corner to check on you because?? Why did you leave? Did he do something to upset you? He's too proud to explicitly ask you to come back, but he might blatantly follow you to the room you're in, claiming it's just better lighting in here, or the other room was too cold, or some other excuse.

He still likes doing things with you, though, too. Another favorite is late night conversations, the kind you get into once you're already laying in bed in the dark, pressed against each other and mumbling little thoughts that occur to you before you drift off to sleep, questions about tomorrow, or a hey remind me to do this or that, that sort of thing. Little conversations you never really finish, your voices get softer and sleepier with each moment, you eventually close your eyes as you talk back and forth, until one of you eventually doesn't get a response, and then drifts off themselves.... and in the morning neither of you remember who was the last person to speak or what the conversation was even about in the end.

Xiao - touch

He just doesn't... get much else. Words are hard. He doesn't know whether this or that gift or gesture is considered appropriate to present to a human as sign of love, and those kinds of things, words and gifts and stuff, embarrass him too much... and he doesn't every really know whether or not he's correct when interpreting your actions and words either. How does he know the gift isn't just because you wanted to be nice, or that the nice things you said were just meant mildly, and he's just indulging in wishful thinking when he thinks it means more? Ugh. It's too troublesome to have to deal with.

But touch... it's straightforward and easy and impossible to misunderstand. And it's also objectively the best, he thinks, even without the issues in understanding it's just what he feels the most natural urge towards. Why would anyone do any differently? Why do humans waste their time giving each other gifts and compliments and stuff when they could just do the thing that feels so much better than that other stuff? It confuses him. He doesn't want material goods, he just wants to cuddle you and put his dick in you. Yeah it... also translates to sex here, similar to Kaeya. Like, he likes it when you kiss his forehead and snuggle up close, but those things will inevitably result in wanting more. And he loves the rests you two take, half-asleep soundly wrapped up and bodies pressed close, spooning with his arms latched onto you. It's just that said rests/naps are almost always very much naked due to being after cumming in you a few times.

Scaramouche - acts of service, words of affirmation, touch

I mean, you're kinda forced into the acts of service thing, but the idea is that you start to perform said acts willingly, or without needing to be commanded. Eventually you get to where you do things on your own initiative, and he likes to think maybe you just want to (and not because you've been beaten into doing it so many times it's become instinctive, definitely not that). A lot of it is just tasks, but similar to Childe's acts of service, it's definitely a sex thing too, wants you to show initiative and do things on your own -- not that you won't likely get told not to do shit like that without permission, but he still does like it, internally.

Words of praise are similar. Say anything nice about him and he'll probably accuse you of lying or trying to manipulate him/get something, but deep down he kinda thrives on anything positive you have to say or think about him. Not that you'd ever know.

As for how he actually shows love, well... does... he...? Yes actually, primarily it's a touch thing. Not always pleasant touches, but touches. It's similar to how other yans equate different things with love, like Childe sees orgasms as a form of love, to him possession is the utmost expression of "love" in the sense that he perceives it. Possession, to own a thing completely and entirely, to have full power over something... that sort of connection is incredibly intimate, when you think about it. It's a connection on a deep level, it's loving. So anything that expresses possession -- pleasant or unpleasant for you -- is thus an expression of love.

#lena's asks #atml #scheduled post

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clouds-rambles · 4 years ago

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hai-haii~ seeing your requests is opened, may i request a hc? ✨ what would they do if they hear their crush crying inside the shower, their light sobs that got them curious, walking out with eyes that's slightly swallen.. for xiao, dainsleif or zhongli (if you can 😣) and chongyun? thanks so muchh :> that would really comfort me ehe

Damn I see we are hurting today, this is the third ask that’s requested for angst. I love ya’ll so much <3

As usual Zhongli will be your husband because I literally love husband Zhongli

Lmao this reminds me of this one time I had a panic attack after a shower and one of my flatmates cheered me up :)

Pairings; (Separate) Xiao, Dainsleif, Zhongli, and Chongyun x reader

Warning(s); crying

Keep reading under the cut!

Xiao

You often stay with Xiao when you’re visiting the Inn, mainly because you are far too broke to afford a room and since Xiao barely requires sleep he doesn’t mind offering you the space. Just as long as you don’t touch anything.

Currently, Xiao is lounging on the bed in his room as he waits for you to get out the shower.

Thanks, or not so in this situation, to his superior he hears your weeping while you’re in the shower. Xiao is content that you’re not physically hurting but his heart does reach out to you

There’s been many times he’s been in your exact position. So much so that Xiao doesn’t knock on the door. The shower is his safe space to cry as much as he wants, the place he doesn’t have to show face

He won’t mention it unless you look particularly distraught

And when you come out of the shower eyes puffy from crying Xiao doesn’t have the heart to talk about it, but in an unusual moment of softness he finds himself giving you a soft hug

And without many words from your part you embrace him back, a hand at the top of your towel to stop it falling, and you let yourself cry on the yaksha’s shoulder

“You’re not alone in whatever is happening” Xiao consoles. You shake your head

“It feels like I am”

Dainsleif

Dain hums quietly to himself as he hears the sobbing as you shower. The man reflects on how he had been in a similar predicament some 400 years ago when he was first cursed with immortality

Crying in the only safe space he could find was certainly a task, especially when he started watching his kin turn into members of the abyss

Dainsleif waits for you to get out the shower, nothings worse than being caught crying to yourself, that’s from experience

When you finally get out the shower Dain notes that you’ve still got your towel tied tightly about you

“Come” he half orders in a soft tone, he opens his arms to allow you to sit on his lap, and you do “You don’t have to tell me anything my love, but please I’d hate to see you suffer in silence” he consoles cupping your cheek and giving you a forehead kiss

“Being with me is enough to ease the pain” you tell him with a soft smile, Dain closes his eyes against your hair at the compliment and kisses your head

“I’m here for all the things, not just the good things” he tells you squeezing his arms a little tighter around you, you nod and whisper a ‘i know’

For now the pain of not having confessed his attraction to you buries its self, Dain is more than contempt consoling you as a friend

Zhongli

Your sobs wreak through the whole house, that’s what alerted Zhongli to them in the first place

You haven’t recently found yourself coming back into the habit of crying in the shower, especially considering how supportive your husband is, but occasionally it slips through the cracks

Zhongli makes a knock on the bathroom door, which ceases your sobs for a moment “Can I come in?” he asks, he waits for your voice to whimper a ‘please’ before he enters

He doesn’t care if he gets his casual shirt a little wet so long as he can ground you

And that’s what he does, as he pulls back the shower curtain you throw yourself into your spouses embrace and he just hugs you back, Zhongli can feel the wet of your body and the shower seep through his clothes, but alas he has many clothes and only one spouse

“It’s okay [name], I’m here, you don’t need to battle anything alone” he consoles kissing your head. You nod and bury your head deeper into your husbands neck

“I know it’s just...” you trail off and Zhongli nods his head

“I know that feeling love, but I’m here for you” he continues to console

Chongyun

You had decided to take a shower in yours and Chongyuns barely two bed hotel room, it’s not like you had planned to cry in the shower but the weight of that little ghost girl just weighs heavily on your heart

How cruel is it for a sweet little girl to die in such a way? Curse the archons for that one

Chongyun hears you weeping, he doesn’t knock on the bathroom. This is what Chongyun had experienced when he had encountered his first young ghost

He waits patiently for you to get out the shower, a lolipop in his hand and one of them book things Xingqiu had told him about in the other

Once you’re out the shower Chongyun doesn’t fail to miss the bags from crying under your eyes, the exorcist offers you a lolipop, which you accept with a small smile

You sit beside Chongyun and he begins reading the book to you, he doesn’t physically offer much in empathy, apart from tapping his elbow against yours

But Chongyun reading you the book is enough to ground you back to the man beside you. You rest your head on his shoulder and listen to the words of the book

“I can’t read, is this that book Xingqiu gave you to read?” you ask, Chongyun shakes his head

“Yes, but I can’t read Liyue’s language so I’ve kind of been making it up” he confesses with a light chuckle

#genshin impact #genshin impact x reader #xiao x reade #dainsleif x reader #zhongli x reader #chongyun x reader

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zuluc · 4 years ago

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summary: how the genshin boys give kisses

characters: childe, diluc, kaeya, razor, venti, xiao, xingqiu, zhongli

style & genre: bulleted & written; fluff

warnings: a tiny bit suggestive in some of them

notes: i love them, that’s all

Childe

he likes to tell you that he wants a kiss, most of which is through simply staring at you until you turn your head his way

he’ll lean forward and press his lips against yours with a strength juxtaposed to that of what he uses for fights

in other words, he’s very gentle and kisses you with so much care you forget about his other

his hands may start by holding your face but can wander down your torso to pull you closer

You exhale in exasperation when you hear the hilichurl war cry and summon your sword. After a bit, the last of them finally falls and you wipe the sweat off of your brow, throwing your weapon behind you to tuck it away. You place your hands on your hips and look around the area that Childe said he would be waiting for you at but he’s not yet here.

Your tired legs carry you to a large fallen branch, sitting down to feel the breeze to cool yourself down. You hear someone sit beside you and peek an eye open, seeing the man himself. He has a boyish grin on and you roll your eyes, accepting the kiss he gives you in greeting.

Childe’s hands rest on your waist and they tighten when he deepens the kiss, pulling you closer. You sigh into the affection but remember what had to be doing. You pull away and raise an eyebrow, asking him what he is up to as you both were supposed here for one of your commissions nearby. He only winks in response.

“Let me have some time with you first.”

Diluc

he rarely initiates kisses and whenever he does it is always with fevor

it’s not like he doesn’t want to kiss you, he does at every waking moment, but he prefers to keep that between the two of you and away from prying eyes

his hands come to hold your head so you can’t pull away, not that you wanted to anyways

your face will flush from the warmth his kisses give you as well as that radiating off of his roaming hands

The day has been as busy as all the others and he’s looking forward to seeing you for a midday visit. You made it a habit to pop in during afternoons to make sure he isn’t overworking himself by taking a short break. Breaks usually consist of small chat about your day or him complaining about the workload seeming to increase each passing second. Others include him resting his head on you and closing his eyes, stress slipping away while you run your hands through his hair.

There are some breaks, however, that are a bit different.

Your clothes are wrinkled, dress shirt slipping off your shoulders as Diluc’s deft fingers unbutton it. Your soft sighs are released into the room when his lips move to nip at your neck, soothing the red areas with soft, warm kisses. Your hands move from his shoulders to stop him and he’s amused at the weak pushes. The words that leave your mouth complain about how disheveled you would look when you return to work. He chuckles, leaning up to kiss you fully and leaving no room for protesting.

“You may have to stay a bit longer.”

Kaeya

surprise kisses are his specialty

they’re fleeting and they leave you flustered whenever he takes your chin between two fingers and turns your head, giving you a quick kiss

has absolutely no shame in kissing you anywhere but respects your wishes if you aren’t comfortable with it

absolutely loves it when you initiate kisses yourself and will tease you about how you can’t get enough of them

His arm is slung around your shoulders as you both are conversing with Amber about the new camps around Mondstadt. You nod at her words and accept to take a few of them in one area. But notice that Kaeya has been unusually quiet.

Amber leaves the two of you and Kaeya turns you around to hug you against him. He shares with you that he needs to finish off another one of his mystery missions which would be very far from your own. He loves being near you to see your face and make sure you’re out of danger so this mission has gotten him quite peeved.

A laugh escapes you with a look of endearment directed at him as you move to peck his lips. You feel him tense since you know he never expects you to do things like this so suddenly as you were out in public after all. His frown morphs into a small smirk at your action and you look away, trying your best to leave his strong hold.

“You’re so cute, darling.”

Razor

he gets flustered easily since you’re the one giving him kisses most of the time that his heart skips a beat

he’s still not used to the fact that he is doing this with someone, who he loves dearly

his lips are a bit chapped and it’s relief when he feels your much softer ones against his own

he may be inexperienced, but he’s trying his best and you reassure him that you love kissing him

He’s frozen in place when you pull away from pressing a kiss to his cheek. You look in concern until he takes your gaze as apprehension to his reaction. He quickly takes your hands in his and looks down at his feet as he tries to formulate words in his head to tell you how he really feels.

Your gaze softens, knowing that it was a stretch to kiss him so suddenly, but you wanted to show your affection in this way. You would catch his not-so secret glances at your lips from time to time and you knew he would be a bit too shy and awkward to act on his own.

Razor’s hands tighten and untighten around your own and you see that he is still in his own head. When you decide to speak, he looks up and leans forward, placing a light kiss on your lips before pulling back and looking at you questioningly.

“How was that?”

Venti

he’s very playful with his kisses and will lean in for one, making you think you’ll receive it, and then pull away when you are mere centimeters apart

when you pout at his teasing he’ll just laugh before indulging you in what you both want

prefers giving you short kisses multiple times a day and will occasionally take the time to hold you in his arms to enjoy the moment

he’s always on the move so times like these are important to him

Your calls of his name don’t go unnoticed when he tugs you along outside of Mondstadt. He had said that it was finally the perfect chance for some time with you right in the depths of night when everyone was asleep and the stars shined brightly in the sky. While you were slightly groggy from being woken up from a peaceful slumber, the carefree smile on his face pushed you through.

You both come to stand in front of the large tree in Windrise and Venti takes the both of you up to one of the branches with his anemo. Once settled, you sit beside each other, hands overlapping with fingers intertwined between the two of you. Some of the crystal butterflies manage to fly high enough to where you both are and you see them fluttering by your eyes against the starry sky.

He calls your name and when you look his way, he’s already staring at you with a smile. You smile right back at him and lean forward, but his cheekiness gets the best of him and you’re met with pure air instead of him. A laugh bubbles from him but you take the opportunity to place your hand behind his head to guide a proper kiss.

“That seemed to be enough teasing for you.”

Xiao

he may seem as if he doesn’t like kisses but he absolutely melts when your lips meet his

kissing you is something he sees as very intimate and wants to keep behind closed doors at all times

during such, he likes you against him as close as possible, pouring out his emotions and leaving himself vulnerable to you

when he pulls away he’s simply content looking at you

He asks for permission, hand holding yours with the utmost of care. You grant it to him of course, for you couldn’t deny the adeptus something he would most likely never ask for again. His lips are surprisingly smooth and you find yourself gradually letting him take the lead to which he was not opposed to. This was the first time he kissed you.

Now, a bit later in your relationship, you’re both atop of the balcony standing by the railing. His amber eyes have intensity and sincerity in them as they look at you with one of his hands caressing your face. The other arm is wrapped behind your back, pressing you to him. In these moments he lets the silence tell you his thoughts, tell you his feelings for you with the wordless confessions he would never dare say out loud.

When he kisses you it starts off gentle, his lips moving against yours in a languid manner before picking up due to his impatience. This visit of yours was unplanned and wasn’t due for another week or so, but nevertheless the actions he would do then would be done now. The words to be said then, would be said now.

“I love you.”

Xingqiu

when he manages to sneak out of the house, his greetings always consist of presses a quick peck to your cheek, lips, or hand

sometimes he doesn’t even know he kisses you because it feel natural for him to do

likes to reenact scenes from the books he reads but is too embarrassed to tell you that they came from them

he can never deny you when you ask for one, thinking it chivalrous to listen to the requests of his lover

You are laying your head in his lap as you are both enjoying the nice weather underneath a large tree. This is supposed to be his “moment of solitude,” as he says, but he brings you along on his way. The wind blows and the leaves rustle above you, causing you to stick your arm up to shield your eyes from the sunlight peeking through them.

Xingqiu clicks his tongue at the cliffhanger, closing his novel and placing it beside your head before moving to tap your nose. You scrunch it in response and ask him how he thought about the ending. He gives you a look of annoyance, presumably because of the actions of the main character.

You laugh lightly at his face and use your hand to poke his cheek. His face softens, taking your hand and leaning down to kiss you gently.

“He should have done that when seeing his love.”

Zhongli

his kisses are very proper, most likely due to just the type of person he is, but he never gives you any that are rushed

he likes to take his time and gently cup your face with one hand while simultaneously leaning down

ever the romantic he always leaves you with parting words like those from a poem

if you decide to press further, he would happily let you, pushing back with the same intensity

He can see that you are upset when he meets you after you’ re done for the day. You have a crestfallen demeanor and your steps are slightly slower as you make your way to him. Immediately, he opens his arms and you happily accept the invitation, sighing in relief when your face his rests on him.

You proceed to tell him what had happened. Apparently, the commission you took on was to find a missing kid who had been gone for days. You were able to rescue her and the sight of her reuniting her with siblings made you think of your own. Were they safe? Where could they possibly be? Will I see them again?

The questions never became words that he could hear but he knew what you were thinking. Zhongli lifts your head to face him directly, kissing your forehead, cheeks, tip of the nose, and finally your lips. He does so with full, soft kisses, promising you that he would do anything to help you find them. Anything that would make you happy. With one last look at you he sees that you’re smiling.

“I would be delighted to have your smile etched in my memory for all of time.”

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kazuhasbunny · 3 years ago

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But like sitting on xingqiu's lap with your back against his chest one hand holding a book and the other under your shirt playing with one of your boobs and you have to sit there and be obedient for him while he reads the book and ur trying to cignal to him to fuck you already by grinding against his crotch but he just ignores it and now his hand trails down to your thighs and spreading them to make room for his hand and just fingers you while he continues reading the book

🤺

“hmm .. wow , this is interesting ! such an interesting book , maybe you should read it sometimes ~”

the more you cry out for him , the more he say stuffs like these and ignores your needs . he just loves teasing you , feeling you grind on him trying to gain his attention but you know he’s specialized in ignoring others so it’s no use actually

“x-xingqiu .. please fuck me .. p-please ..~”

“i think this chapter is the best out of all . don’t you think so ?”

you turn your head to look at him , an innocent smile wide on his face as his eyes took off from the book he was reading to look at your flustered face . his hand underneath is still moving inside of you , his fingers are long , so it’s easy for him to reach your sweet spots

turning back his attention onto the book , his pace fastens in you , thumb reaching up to rub on your clit . you clutch onto the desk infront of you , grinding yourself onto his fingers , so close to release — until he takes it out of you making you whine loudly and sob onto the desk , crying out xingqiu’s name all over begging for him to just fuck you right now

“i think that’s enough reading for today ~! someone’s been really needy for me and it would be rude for me to decline such a request .. come on , thats it .. archons , have you been waiting for this ~?”

all you could do was nod , whining out his name . his cock was set free now after a long time of being restrained , rubbing between your slick folds and still teasing you . you tried to grind onto him but he was quick enough to grab onto your hips

“now now .. aren’t you a hungry cockslut ? fine , i’ll fuck you . i’ll make sure you won’t be able to feel your legs soon . and i’ll make sure that the only thing you can think of is my cock in you ~”

#eli.replies #eli.thirsts #🤺 anon #👀.xingqiu #genshin smut #the xingqiu brainrot hits hard

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kiriiqt · 2 years ago

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Hello! I'm new here, but I must say that I'm having a good time on your blog, and I specially like the Ather theme!! I don't know how to properly request something, but, if you don't mind... I was wondering if you could write modern headcanons for Lumine, please? I hope you have a nice day 🤍

modern au lumine headcanons

- random modern au headcanons for lumine regarding her style, behaviour, hobbies and life overall!

characters: lumine (modern au)

a/n: I'm glad you’re enjoying my blog, and thank you for your request! i’m not entirely sure if you mean modern lumine in general, or the format i used for xiao and aether, but i chose to just write general headcanons (the profile format is coming up though, so if that’s what you meant, no worries). feel free to send another request if i misunderstood anything! also, as something new, i tried to add pictures. links at the bottom of the post.

warnings: none!

Sidenote; my modern au “vision”, if you could call it that, has the twins in highschool, but these can also apply to them in college or overall. I’ll just be referring to school related things. I sorted them into categories bc why not.

General

I view modern au Lumine as someone pretty confident and bold, but also kind of quiet. She’s a bit of a hothead at times, especially when she’s passionate about something, but knows how to pick her battles. Actually, she’s pretty in tune with her own emotions, and knows how to calm herself down and think rationally.

She’s an ambivert, and can work with most people, but prefers to keep a small and close circle of friends. She’s also more outwardly protective of people than her brother is.

Also, the travelers can both be little shits, so Lumine is not above playing small pranks and sassing people. She’s mastered the deadpan expression, and only Aether can beat her in sarcasm.

Closet reveal

Her style is comparable to tech wear, but the more alternative/street fashion inspired one, if that makes sense. So lots of cargo pants, buckles, boots, and those layered two-piece crop tops. It’s mostly black, with some grays and purples.

However, on the other end of the scale, she likes to wear more casual clothes. This is especially for moments where pulling up like you just stepped out of a dystopian sci-fi movie adaption isn’t appropriate. Regular-fit jeans, big sweaters, loose button-ups and t-shirts are staples for her. She mostly wears light tones, like white, gray, blue, green, and occasionally purple. All jewelry suits her, but she prefers silver, only sticking to gold when she needs some contrast in her outfit. She has simple accessories, like pearl hair clips and small necklaces. Flowers are common themes there.

Social

Again, Lumine is an ambivert, she’s a solid 50/50 when it comes to her social life. She can appreciate her own company just as much as she can appreciate others’. She’s really popular in school, but I feel like it’s a case of “a lot of people are friends with Lumine, but Lumine isn’t friends with a lot of people”. What I mean is, she’s naturally nice and when you get past her slightly intimidating appearance, she’s super easy to get along with and eager to help - so a lot of people know her and like her. She prefers to have a few close friends. She’s also busy, so it’s hard for her to maintain contact with most people.

Xiangling is her best friend, and they hang out almost every day. They usually cook together, watch anime (slice of life or horror), go on walks and take photos. They have a scrapbook that they share, and when they haven’t seen each other for a while, they can easily spend a day updating it. The scrapbook is fairly new, but they’ve been doing similar stuff since they met (first week of middle school).

By extension, she’s quite close with Chongyun and Xinqiu as well; all 4 of them hang out once a week minimum, and she works out with Chongyun. Her and Xingqiu like to debate for fun (and they both suffer over homework together)

She’s known Hu Tao since they were kids (they were on the same gymnastics team), and they just stuck together, so they’re almost like siblings. Equally crazy about sports, and they play on the same basketball team.

She’s cool with some of Aethers’ friends as well, namely Xiao and Albedo. Also, she doesn’t actually hate Venti, they just love to bully each other (lovingly).

Hobbies

Lumine is actually pretty athletic and has been on multiple competitive teams; She did competitive boxing for a short while, but stopped due to an injury. She picked it up again casually after recovering. As a child, she did gymnastics and track until the end of middle school, which is how she met Hu Tao and Xiangling. She plays on the school basketball team, and loves running as well.

She got into cooking and photography because of Xiangling.

She’s really into the sciences and learning about how the world works, and she watches a lot of lectures online. She’d like to pursue a career in STEM one day, but it would have to be a flexible one.

She loves to travel, and plans to take a gap year after school to go see the world. She also hopes that whatever she decides to study and work as will allow her to travel around.

Various likes and dislikes

Ironically, her least favorite class is physics, mainly due to the workload (and also, the stuff they do in high school just isn’t all that interesting to her)

She prefers math class, because she works more efficiently, and unlike English, she doesn’t risk getting stuck in a back and forth analytical debate.

She's not a big fan of tea or coffee.

She prefers spicy food.

Her music taste is varied, but I’d say she likes bands like mother mother, paramore, palaye royale and måneskin, among others.

If she had to choose between writing an essay on a book or doing a math exam, she’d choose the math exam.

She strongly dislikes having long hair, which is why she cuts it quite often.

Her favorite season is spring, specifically when the first flowers start to break through.

Her favorite candy is sugar frosted slime.

She prefers rainy weather.

Random facts

While Aether was obsessed with slimes as a child, Lumine was obsessed with geovishaps; she has an old wallet shaped like one from a zoo (I think that in a modern au, certain creatures like geovishaps are extinct, like dinosaurs in real life), and she knows an excessive amount of random facts about them

The main cast are active twitter users, and Lumine mostly uses hers to roast Venti or post photos of her cats. Her header is a photo of her and Xianling holding hands, and her icon is one of her cats who’s named Aria.

Her and Aether have 3 cats; Aria, Sonnet and Canon.

Lumine sometimes helps out in Xiangling’s family’s restaurant and refuses payment for it, but her parents find a way to pay her back anyway.

She has the most cursed camera roll that you’ll ever see - she never cleans it out, which results in an abomination of random photos, awful memes, photos of the classroom board, text screenshots, and too many accidental pics of the ground. Also, she has memes so cursed that none of her friends have managed to locate the side of pinterest she finds them on.

Replying to a text can take her anywhere between 2 hours to 7 business days, but if you call her, she’ll pick up immediately (unless you’re Venti)

She’s definitely the person who just says “get well soon” if you’re crushing on a guy and send her a photo of him.

If you ask her for the assignment answers the day they’re due, she’ll deliberately ignore your text until 5 minutes before the deadline. Otherwise, she’s happy to help. This totally isn’t because she’s doing it last minute, either.

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I hope this was okay! I tried to make it make sense without explaining too many details irrelevant to the post. I’m iffy about the cat names, but for anyone who’s wondering; they’re the names of the 3 moon sisters in genshin.

#genshin impact lumine #genshin modern au #genshin headcanons #headcanons #genshin impact

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babychoko · 2 years ago

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🎀𝔽𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕡𝕠𝕜𝕖𝕟 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕤🎀

Part 8

Note: Some unexpected things c:

"I just want to skip this gym class. I mean it." I complained, unbuttoning my blouse. Besides, I have something important to do after school. Something I'm worried about.

"You can say that again. That Tartaglia isn't even human anymore!" Xinyan agreed with me and threw her white blouse on the bench. At the moment, we were all in the locker room. It was very noisy, not to mention stuffy. It was our class's turn for gym class while the parallel class was getting ready for their next class. Therefore, we were pretty much cramped. I only noticed now that we are more girls at this school than boys. "I must say, though, he doesn't look bad..." Yun Jin put on her sports jacket and giggled. "Oh, did anyone bring deodorant for later? Forgot mine at home." We waited for her sentence to turn out to be a joke. But that didn't seem to be the case. She looked at us cluelessly. "So no one brought deodorant?"

"I can tell you that he is so not my type...'' Confessed Xinyan. "But alright, yeah. He's not that bad looking." She probably said that so Yun Jin wouldn't feel alone.

"I need deodorant!"

Personalities can really spoil appearances. Tartaglia is the real deal, no lie!

Rarely does he show grace. But as soon as another teacher appears, he is the treasure of the whole earth. Just watch.

I put on a shirt and our sports jacket. Somehow I felt I was being watched when I pulled up my sports pants. But of course I hurried because letting underwear be seen is embarrassing. I briefly peeked over my shoulder. But no one suspicious was to be seen. Strange...

In the sports field it started immediately. First we were told to stretch as much as possible. But that was difficult for most of the students. Next came the sit ups as well as push ups. Actually, we were all used to it. But Mr.Tartaglia loves to do multiple reps.

"You are not tensing your abdominals! Otherwise it won't work!" He laughed and went around once. "As a reward, you may..."

"Run a few tracks! Isn't that great?" Many groaned in annoyance. "But only after you do the crunches. Not to mention the five-minute planks." Well this class seemed like it was going to be especially great. But at least not as intense as normal. Apparently, he was in a good mood.

After the gym class, most everyone was sweaty. I loosened my arms because I had to repeat the planks. My arms were hurting. Do we at least not get real mats?

Suddenly Hu Tao put her hands on my ears and whispered to me:

"Meow, meow..heheh." She then ran away giggling. I looked stupidly after her. Afterwards, I realized why I felt like I was being watched while I was changing.

She had seen my panties which had a kitten on them. However, I didn't let that bother me.

We were lucky that there were many cool breezes blowing from the wind during the day. At least I didn't feel warm or sweaty anymore. I continued to fan myself with the notebook. It was like an air conditioner. With my other hand, I opened my school bag and looked at the last bag of cookies.

"You look determined. Do you have any plans after school?" Xinyan looked at me curiously and was retying her braids. I gestured to the bags. "Oh... the last person is...?"

"Chongyun." I whispered. "It's kind of hard to talk to him lately. Now that we're all getting close again..." Hu Tao patted me on the shoulder. "You guys are good friends after all! You can't just leave him like this forever. He must be getting lonely."

"I don't know..." I whispered, grabbing my bag. "I was planning to visit him with Xingqiu. He was worried about me too. But something came up. So I'm going there alone."

"I'd love to go but..." She scratched the back of her head. I get it already. Chonygun... Is not really pleased with Hu Tao. They both have completely different views on life. "There's nothing wrong with that. So see you tomorrow!"

I made my way to his house. After a few streets, I passed a cemetery and came across a shrine. And if I go in the corner across the street..there's his house!

I exhaled deeply once and rang the bell. It didn't take long for a white-haired woman to open the door for me.

"Hi. Chongyun has company." She said, as if this was a new fact. "Good afternoon, Shenhe. It's good to see you again." His parents were not there today. Instead, his auntie Shenhe, who looked after him many times. I can well imagine that he has often tried to make his parents understand that he can manage on his own and doesn't need a babysitter at his age anymore. But of course, his parents disagree.

She was pleased to let me in. Before that, however, she checked to see if anyone had come along. "Ah..auntie. I came alone. Xingqiu couldn't come after all." Somehow she looked relieved and closed the door behind me. "I see. I'll get you something to drink..if you like? Or would something to eat be better after all?" Somehow I thought she was cute.

"It's all good! I'm okay with everything." She led me to his room. It was downstairs, you see. Right where their basement is. The reason for this is that it's always nice and cold downstairs. As we walked down the lowest hallway, the walls were more and more decorated with talismans. I noticed new decorations and a few multiple dream catchers on the walls. "Today his class ended early. He was still able to escape the midday sun. He forgot his parasol today."

"Poor him..."

She gave me a gentle nudge on the back as a sign that I could quietly go in his room. I must have been distracted by all the decorations as usual. Shenhe eventually went back to prepare drinks. I rubbed my arms to give them some warmth. It was really chilly downstairs. He had probably turned his air conditioner back on.

His room door was wide open. I didn't enter his room yet. Chongyun was sitting cross-legged very still. His eyes were closed and his breaths were so slow that I almost thought he wasn't breathing at all!

I leaned against his door frame and said nothing because I didn't want to disturb him. But he seemed to have noticed me long ago.

He opened his eyes and looked at me with a calm smile.

"You came, didn't you?"

"I did."

"Come on in, please. You don't have to stand there." I listened to his request and entered his room. There were so many sigils, feathers and scarves hanging. You could almost never see his dark blue walls.

On a table were his beloved stones, cards as well as prayer chains. I don't know how long I haven't been here. But I found his room especially beautiful. Especially the sun catchers, reflecting rainbows in the form of water drops from the small slit of the window. Whenever I'm here, I feel a certain calm.

"I just finished meditating. You're just in time..." I nodded in response and placed my school bag on my lap as he offered me a seat.

"I was thinking of coming to see you. With Xingqiu, of course. But unfortunately, something came up with him."

"Oh, that's too bad. But nothing serious, I hope?" He looked a little worried. I shook my head. "No, just don't worry. You know his brother is still nauseous..."

Xingqiu still has his brother's punishments on his hands, but at least it's not as severe as it was a few days ago! He may be annoyed by it, but he didn't complain.

"I see..punishments, huh? He could always talk his way out of that." He seemed surprised that Xingqiu didn't use that tactic anymore. Therefore, we have been under a lot of stress lately, it seems to be the case because of that. With my feet, I supported the casters of the swivel chair I was sitting on and slowly turned back and forth sideways. Then I braked.

"How..are you doing?" I just wanted to know if something was bothering him. Not having him around us felt like nothing. Like there was a void. He leaned his upper body back slightly and looked up at the ceiling. For a moment he watched the little rainbows mapped through his crystals. "I'm feeling better already, thank you. But I must confess that my yang energy..got worse." He paused a bit, then looked at me.

"I didn't mean to hurt you."

"Chongyun..!" What is he saying all of a sudden?

He sat up straight again. "No, I'm serious. I stayed away from everyone..because I didn't want to involve anyone." He got up from his bed and pushed off the incense stick. It stopped smoking and the ash fell apart. "So I spent the entire time meditating and training." I played a little with my pendant, which was hanging on my school bag. "How is it now?" Chongyun always suffered from his yang energy. It made his whole life difficult, after all, he couldn't participate in many leisure activities. However, we as his friends did not let this affect him. He can't help it and remains our kind-hearted friend.

His reaction, which he now showed me, surprised me. His eyes lit up. "You know, much better! But the heat..it makes it difficult for me. As long as I meditate and focus on not going crazy, it's going to be a success. I'm already learning to deal with it better. But it really took time..much more than it normally does."

I already felt relieved. "So you can go back outside soon...?"

He sat back down on the edge of his bed. "Huh? Outside?" I rummaged around in my bag now and pulled out a small pouch. "We all wanted to get together again. All the exams and class changes kind of separated us from each other ..separated was the word...?" I stood up and handed him the bag of cookies. "Well, it would be nice if we spent time together again." He stared at my hands and then back at me.

"Burn marks?"

I scratched my head. "Ahah, don't worry about it! That happened to me yesterday after. It'll go away though!" I baked cookies again because there was no way I was giving him old cookies that went bad over the summer. "Finally, I can give you that too."

"All this trouble for me...?" He asked, partly unsure. I could only shake my head at that. "It was no big deal. Besides, baking is fun."

"Listen, there's something else I wanted to tell you..." Chongyun's cheeks turned slightly pink. But his expression seemed unsettled. "I wanted to apologize that...remember when you found out about Xingqiu's moving?"

I pressed my lips together for a moment. That's a phrase I hated to hear lately. "What about it?"

"From me..."

"Huh?"

"It came from me. I just blurted it out. Though I was sure he'd rather tell you."

I didn't blame him, though. Somehow, I just couldn't. "You're sad about that too, aren't you? After all, you guys are inseparable.... And sooner or later it would have come out anyway."

"But it wasn't right of me!" He replied. "I knew that I had to stay away from you sooner then, after all." I have to sigh once and smiled at him.

"Let's rather all look for solutions and spend the future time together with joy." Fighting is the last thing I want.

Shenhe entered the room, but we didn't notice it at first. Immediately, we startled as long white hair flew past and by. We almost thought that a ghost had entered his room.

And that would have ended unpleasantly, because I could see from Chongyun's face how he relaxed again.

He certainly wasn't going to beat her up if she had been a ghost.

I looked at him and widened my eyes as he put back a seal.

Eh.

Or was he?!

When I got back home, I felt a slight joy. It was as if another weight had fallen off my shoulder. But then I remembered that I had to get to homework and was annoyed again. I showerd, threw on some loose clothes, grabbed a popsicle, and got to work. At least I had a cool down for a while. With a tired look on my face, I flipped my textbook closed. I was about to get up and ask my father if I could use his computer for further and faster research. But in the middle of it, I got a call.

"Hello, (Name). Do you feel like..coming over tomorrow afternoon? I'd love to spend some time with you. I'd have a day off tomorrow. How about it?" My eyes sparkled.

The next day, I stood in front of the mansion. I took off my sun hat and entered the grounds. Somehow, the place was quieter than usual. Did I really come at the right time? Did I take too long to get ready after all? I looked at my note. No, the time seemed right after all. I rang the bell once and waited until the door was opened for me.

A tall young man looked down at me.

Xingqiu's big brother!

Immediately he smiled. "Greetings to you. It's good to see you back. Please, come in." I shyly greeted him back and took off my sandals. "Where is this..." He heaved a single sigh. "He really has no sense of his own guests!..Ah, would you like a drink? Come on, I'll take you to the living room."

"Thank you..." I looked around. Did they change the decorations around? And the carpets? His home certainly looked different than usual. And the mood was different than normal, too. It was much more hectic. Many maids were carrying certain boxes and hurrying to go outside. Some were running with long lists.

"Don't let it bother you. It's just an event taking place. Unfortunately, some things didn't go as planned. But it is getting smoother already. Xu will probably have to step in as the only house helper today..I hope Xingqiu doesn't take advantage of that." He looked kind of stressed out.

Take advantage? What would Xingqiu want to do to Xu? I think I missed so many things.

"Please, make yourself at home- ah, your drink. Hope you like lemonade?"

I suddenly had to giggle a little. "It's all right. I'll wait. I'm sure you have a lot to do."

"Ahhh, master! There's an order..."

"Excuse me! (Name), sorry!" Immediately he rushed to a maid. I sat down on the sofa and had to take a deep breath.

And exhale once...

Somehow their stress was rubbing off on me. I looked at the beautifully decorated lemonade with many ice cubes. The little parasol I found particularly cute. But to make me a fresh drink in a hurry and brought here remains a mystery to me. But that was nothing new. It is with them the usual. I drank some of the lemonade from the straw and put the glass back on the tray. Xingqiu really has it good. He could be served something like this all day.

"But young master... are you sure you'll be able to get along with Xu? Can you really stay alone? What about if there's an emergency..."

"I told you, go ahead without me. I'm sure father is already waiting. The more backup, the easier it will be there." My ears perked up when I heard this familiar one. Automatically, I had to smile. He stood confidently in the hallway, saying goodbye to the maids. Then he turned his gaze to me.

I got up from the sofa and he came towards me, pleased. Immediately he took my hands in his. "You came! I'm sorry I kept you waiting." I shook my head. "Don't be."

I noticed the stack of DVDs on a drawer. He followed my gaze. "I thought we could watch some movies together." I don't say no to that. It got quieter in the house while I picked out a few movies. They're probably all gone by now.

"I can't believe you rented a lot of these movies."

"You had to make us watch these." He didn't sound excited at all. I don't think he likes watching a certain confident blonde in different roles. "I mean seriously..." He sighed and pulled out a couple of movies. "...as in Nutcracker, ah and Swan Lake." I shook my head and put my hands on my hips. "Now don't be like that. Razor seemed to have been really excited about it! And Bennett was very invested!" But the fact that Xingqiu didn't like these movies, but still watched them with me, was saying something. Somehow I thought that was totally cute..

"But I kind of feel like doing something else for now." We decided to watch TV. I found his TV especially great. It ran smoothly and was also very large. We sat on the sofa while a cartoon was playing. Honestly, I was totally excited to be able to spend time alone with him. But why, I couldn't explain to myself. It wasn't like we had never spent time alone before. I leaned my head on his shoulder. After a moment, he put his hand on mine.

However, this time it was totally different than usual..

" Drat! I forgot my folder!" It was his big brother's voice. Never in my life had I sat up straight on a sofa so quickly. We both had a light bead of sweat on our foreheads, trying not to look suspicious.

"There it is..oh, you guys just watch movies?" His brother took the mysterious folder from the drawer and looked at us. I don't know if I'm imagining it..but it looked like he was measuring with his own eyes, the distance between the two of us.

"We're just looking at a mouse and a cat taking a swipe at each other. Nothing unusual, right (name)?"

I agreed with him. "Certainly. There are infinite episodes." For a while his brother said nothing, but then he seemed to look pleased. "Have fun then!" I waved after him and we were silent until we heard no more footsteps. With an uncertain smile, I turned to Xingqiu.

"Do you think he suspects us..."

"Yes, I think so." Xingqiu didn't take a second longer in answering. "That must be why he asked Xu to come here later. After all, I can stay home alone for a few hours..." It already made me nervous that someone might have a clue about our relationship. And by that, I meant people from our family. Xingqiu brushed up a strand that was behind my ear. "Don't be afraid." I put my hand on his and leaned further back on the sofa. If only it were that easy. You see, my parents are very strict when it comes to relationships. They still don't know that I have a boyfriend. Xingqiu stroked the back of my hand with his thumb and turned his head towards me.

And to be honest, I felt guilty about what I was doing behind their backs. This is not only because of the cultural as well as religious aspects. What pulled me out of my thoughts, however, was Xingqiu getting up from the sofa, pulling my hands towards him. He seems to have turned off the television.

"Do you feel like letting off steam? We have a lot of space here." Let off steam? I wonder what he could possibly mean by that.

"Young master...? Are you here?" Xingqiu laughed softly and pointed out to me not to make a sound. I think I now have a slight idea of what he is up to. This is something that could be mean. But it was typical of him. I am fortunately used to his bizarre sense of humor. He looked to me and grinned. "Perfect timing. Come on!" He pulled me after him.

Now the two of us were running in socks, hand in hand down the halls and past Xu.

"Huh. You here? What was that?" Immediately, I held my hand in front of my mouth to keep from laughing out loud. The sun was shining through the hallway windows, and I hoped our shadows wouldn't give us away.

"Young master!! Please don't play games with me. Your father would be worried if I told him you were not present..." We turned quickly because the corridors here were endlessly long. Otherwise, he would have seen us. But now Xu would have to choose which way to go.

Left? Right? Or maybe straight ahead? If he only knew that he had just passed us...!

He should have turned left. Then he would have found us. As Xingqiu kept guard and made sure Xu was out of sight, we continued to sneak down the hallway straight ahead.

Big mistake.

For a second, my heart almost raced to my feet. We were right behind him! Just as Xu was about to turn around, we raced into the next room. It was a bathroom. Probably for guests because usually each room has its own bathroom. I think so.

"Aha, don't think I didn't see you guys!" Xu kept approaching and yanked open the bathroom door.

However, he didn't see us. All he saw was a bright bathroom, the big bathtub which was in front of a window, a toilet on the left and a sink next to it. Even behind the door we were not visible. "T..This can't be happening! I could have sworn. Maybe I should take a vacation after all..." He muttered to himself.

The footsteps were getting quieter and quieter.

Luckily, he didn't look into the bathtub. Well, Xingqiu and I were cramped in there. He had his arms tightly around me and his chin on my shoulder. I felt relieved now. Although it wouldn't have been bad if Xu had found us. But playing hide and seek is exciting now.

I don't want to be like this, but lying in a bathtub like this wasn't entirely uncomfortable. On the contrary... with him it was kind of pleasant. Maybe it was because I felt secure at that moment and looked up at the ceiling. The white and translucent shower curtain continued to waft before it like a ghost. We watched the curtain for a few minutes before sitting back up.

"I think he's gone. Let's go back to the living room." I agreed with him and we got out of the bathtub as a result. Good thing no one here had showered before. Otherwise we would have been soaking wet.

It took a while before we made our way to the living room. We were fooling around quite a bit in the hallway. Playfully I refused to move and he tried to pull me along. But when I saw a small picture frame that caught my eye, I stopped. I got up from the floor and took a closer look at the photo.

"No, how cute."

A very small boy in winter clothes was looking intently at the camera. Next to him was a young woman with slightly wavy hair in a coat. She was kneeling down behind the little boy and was holding his shoulder while smiling to the camera.

"Xingqiu, is that you and your mom?" He seemed surprised by the photo himself and looked at it. This picture frame must have been hung up since recently without his knowledge. "Yeah, I think I just turned 4 then?" Smiling, I brushed my finger over the picture, then analyzed the place. It looked very familiar to me. But I don't know from where.

"Do you know where this photo was taken?" I looked at him questioningly. Xingqiu scratched his head thoughtfully. "I could ask my father. He took the photo back when he was trying out a camera. But I'm pretty sure the Central Library was in front of us."

I looked at the photo for a moment before we dashed back into the living room. Since the sun was shining a strong orange light as it was about to set, Xingqiu dimmed the living room by drawing the curtains. They were really very long curtains because the windows went from the end to the beginning.

As he was about to draw the curtain further, I tapped his shoulder. Confused, he tried to turn to me until I blew in his ear and ran away. He made a sound of shock and ran after me.

He managed to catch me immediately. "Do you want me to punish you?" He laughed, trying to hold me down. "And that would be how? Tickle me to death?" I teased with confidence. He softened a bit and shook his head.

"No, but... maybe more intense than at school a few days ago?" He whispered, stroking both hands down my side to my thighs. I didn't expect that at all and fell squealing to the carpet. I pulled him right down with me. Now I lay giggling caught between his arms as he knelt over me. I couldn't see him clearly at first because there were still a few rays of sunlight shining from the slits in the curtains.

Slowly I calmed down and looked up at him. Somehow this moment seemed very familiar to me.

Then it hit me. Right. That was when he and I were in the stairwell when I almost put my hand in-

"(Name)?" Huh?

I blinked a few times and looked back at him. Oh dear, was I absent-minded again? And what the thell was I thinking about? "Yeah?"

He smiled and put a hand on my cheek. "I'm always thinking about you..you know that, right?" Then he leaned closer.

"Hmh..yes.." I continued to hold eye contact with him. Ahh..for him to just say it like that..

"I'm relieved to hear that."

He then lifted my chin and placed a kiss on my lips. Automatically, I closed my eyes at that. How long had it been...? I missed his lips. But unfortunately, it was very short.

"Xingqiu..one more time?" I asked softly. From the second kiss, it turned into a third..then fourth..then..oh, forget it. I stopped counting a long time ago.

We then innocently drank lemonade and watched the movies. When Xu came back, he saw us in this sight. The look on his face told me that he needed a vacation badly. Xingqiu seemed to have been very amused.

"Huuh..but we sat here all the time, right (Name)?"

"Yeah..of course." Man, do I feel guilty.

Eventually, I went home before it got late. I would have loved to stay with him longer. But there will be another time soon. As I walked quietly through the streets, I reflected a bit.

Actually, today we could have discussed what will become of us when he moves away. It won't be long now. But we still have time. I remembered how he said then that he will look for a solution. All right, then I'll try to do that too. Even if I realize that it will be difficult if we will live far away from each other. No, no. After all, it's not just about me. There are the others. Besides, he himself has to process what he's still leaving behind.

I realized now that maybe it was good that we didn't talk about it today. And surely it is good not to plan much and leave it to fate...

Now I'm getting a headache again.

I notice that in this situation I get the total block of thoughts. I sighed and entered my home. I went to greet my mother and found her in the living room as a result. She was looking at some photos.

What I found strange, however, was that she didn't question where I was.

"Are you getting nostalgic, Mom?" She continued to turn the pages.

"I was actually trying to pick out a photo for my card..and now I'm distracted." Who hasn't been there? Anyway, it happened to me when I was cleaning out some toys from my kindergarten days.

"Look, this is you and me. You were I think..3 years old? Maybe there's something written on the back." I sat down with her and took one look at the photo. It was only very slightly creased, yet well kept.

Hold on a second.

"What is it? Can't you make out what's pictured?"

My heart started to race slightly. If you look closely, you can see in the background the back of a woman who had placed her hands on the shoulders of her child while kneeling down. A man was half in view who seemed to be taking the picture. I flipped the picture over.

On the back, there actually seemed to be something written.

"(Name) with her mother in front of the Central Library. Autumn, 1991." I whispered.

Speechless, I lowered the photo in front of my face. The family behind me and my mother in this picture..This couldn't be true?

Masterlist

Part 9

#genshin x reader #genshin impact x reader #romance #fanfic #xingqiu x reader #chongyun #love #tartaglia #hu tao #yun jin #xinyan #shenhe #kisses #cute

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chocoenvy · 3 years ago

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💳💥💳💥💳💥💳💥💥💥💳 MORE TRANS READER PLEASE. CRYING ACTUAL TEARS OF JOY. I AM DISSOLVING INTO A PUDDLE OF TEARS. NEW FAVORITE AUTHOR

A;SLDKFJASDFAS YOU'RE SO FALS;KFJASLDFKAS NICE PLS I LOVE YOU PLATONICALLY???????? I'M SO GLAD YOU LIKE IT!!! SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE SAID HOW THEY LOVE THE TRANS READER! I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WERE SO MANY TRANS PPL IN THE WILD!!! YOU'RE SO NICE I'M JUST-A;SLDKFJASLFKJASF THANK YOU <33333

MORE TRANS READER AS PER YOUR REQUEST! it's a bit of a mess but it's super fun and fluffy.

warnings: cult behaviors, dysphoria, lots of fluff :))

Nicknames and constant compliments.

They'd call you Prince/Princess, I don't make the rules

some of them start to get the whole dysphoria thing and will give you small compliments that mean the world

like "Your hands are so masculine/feminine!" "Wow your voice is so cute/handsome/hot/pretty!" "You've got a little fuzz on your face."/ "Your face is so smooth!"

stuff like that. the compliments that cater to your weird dysphoric needs.

I STILL WANNA STAY ON THE OUTFIT THOUGHTS OKAY?

Ningguang buying you literally anything you want.

Taking your kins or characters you find aesthetically pleasing to help you pick out outfits

Imagine buying a really masc/fem outfit and strutting around with the boys/girls in town acting like you own the place (because you do)

(Fem) imagine a flowy dress or skirt and flowy sleeves. Or a cute kimono from Inazuma with cute earrings you got from your favorite character. (Imagine getting cat earrings from Diona)

(Masc) Or a hoodie like chongyun has, a dress shirt, chains, rings. That necklace thing that Thoma wears.

PIRATE. APPAREL. A PIRATE HAT. pirate apparel is not gendered but imagine a super masc/fem version of pirate wear and boarding the alcor with Beidou i'm-

The amount of euphoria!

and if anybody ever misgenders you on purpose literally the entirety of teyvat will sneer at them

like wtf dude? that's basic human respect dumbass. you're creating a problem from nothing.

you'll never see whoever did that again :)) (childe took the "boil the homophobes" too literally)

Comfort from Dysphoria

as far as we're aware none of the characters are trans and understand dysphoria. But if there is anybody that would understand it would be the gods. Specifically Venti.

They can change forms, surely they understand that if they're in the wrong form everything feels wrong.

Whenever you approach Venti about this he understands. Not to the extent you do since he's not trapped in one body, but he does get it.

"It was such an awful feeling." Venti grimaced, "I changed my form as soon as I could to get rid of it. Is that what you go through everyday?" His eyes shone with pity. Sadness that his beloved god feels so awful all the time.

Venti, being the cutest dumbass bard that he is, sings a song praising you using your name and pronouns (think "He's a Jolly Good Fellow" but you and your pronouns. really dumb but cute)

It's so goofy that you can't help but giggle uncontrolably. Any thoughts of dysphoria or self hatred pretty much gone with the wind.

-Venti jokingly making his voice higher/lower to show you how masc/fem you are

-Zhongli giving you masculine/feminine jewlery custom made by him with pretty stones

-Ei doesn't know how to be comforting so she'll probably just be your supply of sweets on those really rough days. She'll also personally m u r d e r those that made you upset.

-IMAGINE Beidou and Xinyan helping you look like a masculine girl and Venti and Xingqiu helping you look like feminine guy. Like imagine for my trans mascs, looking like a boy but wearing a skirt!! Or wearing a tux and looking like a girl for trans fems!!

"Razor, what do I smell like?"

"Like...Lupical..."

"No, like, does my scent give away my biological sex?"

"Sex? Your scent... like lupical?"

"Razor I-"

"..."

"T-thank you Razor..."

":D"

-Someone is misgendering you and the traveler gets more and more pissed off while Paimon not-so-sutbly corrects them, her voice getting higher and higher everytime they use the wrong pronoun.

TransMasc!Reader: My chest is so big :(

Beidou: *proud* Not as big as these honkers *slaps her chest*

Transfem Reader begging the women of genshin to spare some boobage.

Aether and Lumine being the best older siblings:

Aether helping transmasc reader with his wardrobe and daily routine.

"i have long hair so you shouldn't worry about how long yours is"

He helps you do masculine makeup, "My sister taught me how to do it, i'll try to make is as masculine as possible :))"

if your hair is short but grows back super quick and you don't wanna get your hair cut every week Aether will jokingly put it in a tiny ponytail to match his braid.

You teasingly steal his sword and he just stares at you with his hand to his chin, humming, "You look very masculine with a sword."

Lumine dresses transfem reader all pretty everyday with fancy and cute dresses and jewlery.

Going shopping with Lumine and she points out every item she thinks would look good on you.

"Here take these dresses and model them for me!" She grinned.

The two of you had a whole fashion show in the dressing room.

Lumine puts flowers in your hair whenever she can because you just look so cute! (it was originally Venti's idea but Lumine beat him to it)

Lumine doing your makeup super fem and pretty. Matching makeup!! The two of you sitting at the vanity staring into the mirror, "What kind of look are we going for today?"

STYLING. YOUR. HAIR. doesn't matter how long or short it is, it's Lumine's to style! now She'll have a blast with your hair, she has lots of experience with Aether's hair and her own so she'll have fun and you'll definetely like the results.

#sagau #genshin sagau #genshin cult au #self aware genshin #trans darling #trans reader #i had a bit too much fun with this #pushing my agenda of aether using he/they #and lumine using she/they

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clarissalance · 3 years ago

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A sneak peck on the corner of your lips

Pairing: Xingqiu x G/N!reader, Chongyun, mention of Xiangling and Liyue trio

Warning: a peck, hugging, reader and Xingqiu are the same age

Word count: 3943

Summary: You are going on a ghost-hunting trip with Chongyun and Xingqiu to Mingyun village.

A/N: Last time I said I’m going to write shorter fic, well, my fingers accidentally slip and tada, here it is. I feel like this Xingqiu is a little bit too shy compare to the game but I want to make him blush (or any character in general). This one takes me quite a long time to write but I hope you all enjoy it. Maybe I should write Venti next, I totally forgot his birthday until my feed was flooded with his fanart. I’m sorry Bartobas ;-; Anyhow, please shower Xingqiu with a lot of love!! He’s the reason why I can pass abyss floor 11.

Picture credit: Pinterest. ( I really don’t know the author of this picture. If you find the source, please comment so I can add. Thank you (❁´◡`❁) )

Hanging out with the Liyuen trio has always been an adventure full of thrill and excitement. Usually, there would be someone who ends up with all troubles and mischiefs the other two sets up. Chongyun is our center, holding a strike 10 times in a row, while Xiangling sometimes gets bombed by them, but it’s nothing compared to our popsicle boy. Xingqiu, you have never heard of him getting into any troubles, but he has been the famous one in the town for plotting pranks and tricks. The victim is Chongyun, and he’s somehow still very oblivious, despite many times falling into the holes.

Maybe the boy is just too naïve and trusting for his own good.

“ Xiangling is not coming today. ” Xingqiu announces, successful getting your attention and Chongyun’s. “She’s busy with the restaurant, so today, there will be only three of us.” Letting out a commital sound, you return your focus back onto the unfinished charm on your hand, fingers skillfully waving through the strings.

“ Guess we’re off to Mingyun then.” Chongyun stands up abruptly from his seat, the sound of clothes rustling together. “I got a reliable intel this time about a ghost there.”

Glance up from the unfinished charm, you shoot a questioning look to Xingqiu, to which he sends you a wink and a charming smile. The source of ‘reliable intel’ Chongyun is telling you here definitely comes from Xingqiu. Somehow, the boy has managed to stay away from the Chongyun’s suspicion list, even after those obvious unrealistic intel disguise as pranks. You wonder how has he manage to deceive the poor exorcist this time.

“Chongyun, there are only hilichurls in Mingyun village. No one is there.” You state the obvious. How can he fall for this so many times? The light blue hair boy turns at you and tilts his head in confusion, waiting for you to anticipate more details. He is really dense, isn’t he?

“ So, how did you get intel about a spirit at the place if there is no one lives there?” Letting out a huff, you fold your arm, feet tapping impatiently.

“ Someone sends me the request this morning.” He pulls out a white envelope in his pocket and hands it to you, smiling a bit enthusiastically. The envelope has no trace that indicates sender, yet the exorcist assures you it’s a reliable source. You have no idea what his standard of ‘reliable' is anymore.

Inside the envelope is an expensive-looking card, the curving and neat writing dances on the piece. Bringing the paper closer, you can faintly make out the scent of floral perfume mingles with the fresh wooden smell of crisp paper. “By the look, this looks more like a love letter than a request of exorcism to me. You’re sure it’s not from one of the maidens?” A little further away, you can hear the sound of someone choking on breath and a muffled laugh. Chongyun then mutters something about no one would send him a love letter anyway. Oh, so he doesn’t know then. Did this boy live under a rock or something?

This is too well-crafted for a mere prank. Did Xingqiu handwriting improve this much over the past month? Eyeing the blue boy suspiciously, you carefully watch his interaction with the young exorcist while reading the content.

This letter is pretty legit, but you’re still very suspicious of a certain someone over there who meticulously crafts this. If you ask, will he answer truthfully or skit around the subject again?

Putting the card back into the envelop and return them to Chongyun, you finally raise your hand in defeat. Coming with them might be a better solution, in case the exorcist condition gets out of control, you can help Xingqiu carry him back.

“Fine, let’s see the spirit ourselves then.” You stand up, hand dusting your clothes. “ If we’re lucky enough, we might be able to see the adepti on the mountain before catching the ghost.” Shrugging, you beam brightly at the shoulder-shaking Xingqiu and the scratching-head Chongyun. You can already guess what will happen in the village after so many times witnessing Xingqiu’s prank. Is this what we called… experiences?

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Mingyun village is located on a mountain and surrounded by many dried up ores mines, which result in people leaving their homes and moves to the Chasm and Harbor. As your group slowly trek to the written address, you notice an unusually high activity of hilichurls. It’s common for them to move to an abandoned village but isn’t this a little too much? From broken bridge connect the Guili Plain, there are many groups clustering, wandering among themselves. Even Chongyun tries to avoid them, not jumping on their head as usual.

Imagine fighting this many hilichurls, you don’t think your group can make it back to the harbour in one piece. Padding quietly, you walk faster toward Xingqiu, hoping to stick close to him. At least if fighting is bounded to happen, he can protect you. The young master still keeps his unfazed face, following Chongyun while eyes glued on his book. You remember he already finished reading this book?

“ Psstt.” You whisper. “ Are you sure we’re heading the right way? That direction is crowded with monsters.” From here, they can barely see the beast but you can sense an abundant amount over there.

“ It’s this way. It’s marked on the map.” Chongyun answers, eyestrain on a piece of paper, which results in his misstep and tripping. Behind, Xingqiu looks up and worriedly calls out to be careful. You trust Chongyun map-reading skill, but right now, you’re very concerned about his navigation. How can he navigating if he does not even look at the road?

As the scorching sun blazing down the heat, big droplets of sweat dripping down your forehead, and your shirt starts to stick on your skin. Ah, you forgot summer has arrived. The path is sun-drenched, not a single shade can be found. The sweltering heat in this village is almost unbearable, despite the area is borderline with Dragonspine. How can not a single breeze from Dragonspine drift to this area?

As you lazily following the group, your mind starts going into vacation mode. You imagine staying under the shade, enjoy the cool breeze and munching ice cream. The village is quite close to Yaoguang Shoal, maybe you can convince the guys to head down there after they finish their task. In this weather, dipping your feet in the cold water while enjoying popsicles are the best. Stealing some from Chongyun might not be that bad.

Next to you, the Chongyun and Xingqiu are not affected as much as you, maybe because they carry visions? You wonder how their visions help them to cool down?

“ Xingqiu.” You call, hand fanning your face. The boy looks up from his book, humming, unfazed by the boiling weather. Is he not feeling hot at all? Under all of those long sleeve shirt?

“Can we hold hand?”

As soon as the question leaves your mouth, some things don’t feel right. Did you phrase it, a little bit weird?

The cerulean-haired boy chokes on his saliva, eyes widen in surprise, almost drop his precious rare novel. You think you definitely phrase it wrong.

“ Are you okay?” Chongyun turns back abruptly after noticing the coughing sound, his blue eyes filled with worries.

Xingqiu shakes his head and waves his hand, motioning the exorcist to turns back to his map. After a few second of heaving, he finally returns back to normal, shooting you stinky eyes and put his book away. It’s not your fault that he chokes on his own saliva. He chokes it by himself.

“Why would you want… to hold my hand?” Xingqiu questions, cringing at his cracking voice.

“Don’t you feel hot under this weather?” You point your finger at the sky, bright rays hitting your face. Xingqiu nods in confusion, still not understand how your request related to this question.

“If we hold hand, maybe you can share with me some of your coolness.”

Xingqiu stares owlishly at you, and you elaborate more on how the pyro transfers heat through physical touch, and maybe, hydro has a similar mechanism.

As you explain, you notice how his shoulders shaking, while his face remains perfectly calm, except for the betraying light curve on his mouth. Is he trying to contain his smile?

Finally, Xingqiu folds in half and blurts out in laughter, tears forming at the corner of his eyes. In between his howling, the boy breathlessly explains how you misunderstand the elements and visions aren't used for this situation.

Potato, potato, you don’t believe the mischievous vision-holder over there has never tried using his vision for different purposes other than fighting.

Your face burns up, you’re not sure if it’s because of the burning sun, or the embarrassment caused by the hydro user over there. Pouting, you turn away from him, stomping toward Chongyun direction instead.

Hmph, if Xingqiu isn’t going to help you to cool down, then you’d have to ask the exorcist. Somehow, you already know the man is going to hesitate because it might disturb his congenital condition. Well, you’re just going to bribe him with two or three popsicles when you are coming back to the harbour. Nothing a little money can’t fix. And maybe a lot of persuasions too.

As soon as you make your mind, you rush toward Chongyun, calling out for the cryo user. The exorcist is a distance away from you both, and he doesn’t turn back even when you call out for him. Does this mean he didn’t hear the conversation between you and Xingqiu?

Casually skipping toward Chongyun, you call for him again-

“Chongyun, can I... ” before, suddenly hands from behind wrap around your neck, pull you into a wall of meat. You wince at the hard collision with the chest, sensation of callous fingers on your shoulder bring your longing desired: Coolness. Surprised by the sudden touch, you shoot your eyes wide open and crane your neck behind, immediately meet with a sly amber orb.

What is he doing?

Followed by your call, Chongyun curiously turns back and his gentle light blue eyes unwavering. He doesn’t seem to be surprised at this scene.

Does Xingqiu always this touchy?

The young exorcist raises his brows at you but behind, Xingqiu waves his hand dismissive, successfully driving the young boy away, even before you can form your word.

You see the exorcist shrugs and turns his attention back on the piece of paper, heading deeper into the abandoned village, distance between the cryo users and you two starts to grow.

You gawk shockingly into his small figure starts to get smaller, mouth gapes open slightly.

Did Chongyun just leave you behind? What kind of cold-heart friend is he? He definitely saw you are being held back by Xingqiu, right?

Behind, you hear Xingqiu mumbles something about Chongyun being ‘unbelievable’, ‘workaholic’ and ‘careless friend’. Shouldn’t you be the one who says that?

All of a sudden, you realize your back touching his chest, his hands wrap around you from behind. From here, you can smell the faint vanilla and a mix of woody, musk scent.

He reminds you of old books, the feeling of immersing yourself in a dusty library.

Blood rushing to your face, and the first thing that comes to your mind is to escape from his hold. The hydro user somehow able to read your mind, his grip tightens, holding you close.

In an intimate position, with you both fall in silence, your senses suddenly heighten. Even separated by layers of clothes, you can still feel the heat from Xingqiu. The rapid beat of your heart thumping in your rib cage, the coolness from his palm seeping slowly into your skin.

Somehow his touch doesn’t cool you but heating you up more, your body slowly burns up like a furnace. “ C-can you let me go ?” You stutter, squirming helplessly inside the young hydro user, avoiding his teasing gaze.

“ You asked me to touch you, so I comply with my liege's request.”

“ I didn't ask you to touch me.” You quip back at the shameless hydro user, body twisting weakly inside his hold, the sound of clothes rustling. How come you both learn martial arts, yet your strength is nothing compared to him?

“ This is not holding a hand.” You point out at his long arms wrap just under your neck, sulky. “ And stop hugging me. It’s burning in here.”

Xingqiu gives you a grin, amber orbs shoot you a questioning gaze. Well, it’s not true. His long-sleeved are rolled up, exposing the long slender arms, now is pressing on the thin layer of fabric, resonating with coolness. It feels like hydro is running under the vein of his arm. His fingers wrap on your shoulder, constantly transferring the calming sensation of flowing water.

“Isn’t this position more efficient than holding hand?” The hydro lazily rests his face on your shoulder, smirking devilishly. You have to admit this is much cooler than holding a hand, but this is too intimate. Flustered by his alluring gaze, you turn your head away, feet start moving toward the exorcist direction.

“W-we sh-ould catching up with Chongyun, he’s quite far away.” Stammering like a mess, you point your finger at the general direction where the exorcist was heading, the image of a light blue boy is getting smaller, slowly mending into the heat under the scorching furnace resting on your head. A chuckle is followed, but Xingqiu doesn’t say anything else, hands still wrap loosely around you, trailing steps after you.

You are too naïve to think that walking fast will break his hold. The young master of Feiyun Commerce Guild has proved your effort is futile. He effortlessly adjusts to your pace even when you purposefully try to quicken your step or stop abruptly. He doesn’t faze by your antic, instead, leaning close to your ear and blow hot air into your ears teasingly, knowing well how flustered you are.

From here, you can see Chongyun still having his eyes glued on the piece of paper, still not noticing his companions drift far behind him. Indeed he is careless, maybe you two should keep a close distance to protect him.

“ Are you getting cooler?” Xingqiu suddenly leans close, his face just a few inches away from yours.

You hold your breath in silence, heart almost drops at his close proximation. Can he not scare you like that? “ It's getting cooler.” As much as you tempted to elbow the hydro user away, you know how hot it will be without having his arms wrap around you, so you easily give in.

The two of you keep a decent pace while the boy wraps his hand around you, clinging like a koala. Look around, you realize this place is mostly dry trees somehow manage to root in the barren soil, broken wagons and holed baskets lying around in this place. Luckily, this area has much fewer hilichurls compares to the entrance of the village. Look like they’re also trying to find a shade in this weather. This place is closed to Dragonspine, and you still have no idea how the land doesn’t receive a single cool breeze from the frosted city.

“Why did you pull me back earlier?” Hesitantly, you ask him.

Xingqiu let out a confusing sound, not registering your question. Should you elaborate some more?

“When I was calling out to Chongyun.” You quickly add, trying to keep your voice steady and casual.

“ Oh, that.” He hums, his arms tighten around you. Why did he even hold you closer than before? You didn’t try to pry off his hug, why all of a sudden?

“ Because… you were… about to ask Chongyun to h-hold your hand right?” Freeze at his words, you twist your neck, curious at the face he is making right now. It’s rare for him to sound this uncertain about something. As a second son of the Guild Manager of one of the biggest trading guild in Liyue, the young man has been trained to speak with perfection. Every word coming from this young man is carefully formulated and spoken with utmost confidence.

As you face him, the young man furrows his brows, amber eyes fill with hesitant and worried. Why is he acting like this? A sudden wave of guilt washing your stomach, uneasiness slowly sinks deep into your skin.

You… are not supposed to call out for Chongyun?

“ B-but you laugh at me when I explain about the coolness exchange?” Tilting your head in confusion, you can’t help to not follow the hydro user thoughts. He refused you first, wasn't he? It should be normal for you to find Chongyun instead. The exorcist will probably agree to anything as long as he can help. “Wouldn’t it make more sense if I go to find Chongyun instead?”

“And holding hand with Chongyun? Archon, no!” Your skin jumps as Xingqiu raises his voice, and you have no idea what tickles him. Why fuzzing over something so trivial like this?

“ We always hold hands. There’s nothing wrong with it.” You can’t help to shoot back. “ You also hold his hand too.”

“N-no, our holding hand is different.” He can weakly defend, trying to rack his brain out to think of a time when they hold hands. He gives up soon afterwards. “Besides, you shouldn’t be holding hands with anyone.”

“ For your information, this is much more scandalous than holding hand.” You meekly point out, finger poking on his arm bares smooth skin. Twist back, you lean in closer, eyes crinkle into the shape of crescent moons. “And what’s wrong with us kids holding hand?”

Xingqiu can’t help but let out a defeated sigh, face drops down your shoulder and sulky buries his face in the crook of your neck. His hot breaths tickle the sensitive skin, cerulean locks brushing your cheek. Under his breath, you can barely make out his muffle word, saying something about don’t understand.

You slowly trek toward Chongyun’s direction, humming along with familiar tunes. Sudden changes from Chongyun and Xingqiu have no longer made you felt lonely or sadden. Boys at this age are unusual. They aren’t being closed with you as before, no longer inching close to you or hugging you from behind. They are more cautious when being close with you, more mindful when your fingers accidentally graze their.

If you ask them directly, will they answer you why they're acting like a married woman, always jumping every time you innate skinship?

You have a feeling they probably won't answer that.

“ /N… Y/N! ”

Abruptly, you raise your head, forehead almost hitting with Xingqiu’s. Your face is a breath away from his, so close that you can see his long lashes fluttering like a butterfly, shying away from the captivating eyes. His porcelain skin is smooth and flawless, a sudden urge tells you to caress it. A blush slowly creeping up his cheek, and finally, the hydro user shies away, staring at the road.

Xingqiu clears his throat. “ I was talking to you. You were spacing out again?” You can only offer him a sheepish smile.

“ S-sorry, I was thinking about something.”

Xingqiu looks up and stares at your face intently like he is trying to make his way into your maze-like mind. You shift away from his fierce gaze, but the hydro user is faster. His fingers easily catch your face, your cheeks fit perfectly into his cool smooth palm. Xingqiu lets out an amusing chuckle, fingers squishing your cheek playfully like a stress-reliever.

You feel like he has you wrapped around his little finger, literally.

“I don’t know what you were thinking, but whatever it is, it’s incorrect.” Despite the mean fingers toying your cheek, his voice is awfully soft and reassuring. Is he trying to comfort you? Carefully, you gloss your eyes over to his direction, observing the mischievous feature on his face slowly melts into a soft and mellow.

Before you can enjoy the rare gentle side of his, the amber eyes slowly gleam with playfulness, and he leans closer, only stops when your face is just a breath away. His hot breath fanning on your cheek, tickling. He is so close to you, so close that if you tilt your head, our lips will meet.

“ A moment ago, I said that you shouldn’t let any male hold your hand right?” His voice drops low, golden orb flickers like a torch. What is he planning again? You carefully nod.

He isn’t going to… bite you right?

“ You see, holding hand...” The young man chuckles slyly, the arm was wrapped around your neck makes the way down and nudges into your hand, fingers interlocking. " can easily drifting to this." You turn back fully to face him, the other hand still glazes your cheek.

“ They can easily slip their arm around you into a hug…” Slowly, the coolness in your palm slips away and snakes around your shoulder. “Then, they can…” Xingqiu’s grip on your cheek slowly relaxes, fingers slowly inch down on your neck.

Take a big gulp of saliva, you can only widen your eyes, nervously follow at the tracing fingers of his. His long digits don’t stop after wandering around your neck, they slowly creep up, follow your jaw, and then cup on your cheek. The cooling sensation you craved a moment ago now feels like frost nipping on your skin. Heart thumping loudly in the rib cage, you unconsciously hold your breath, waiting for his next move.

In the comfortable silence, his thump delicately brushes your cheek, caressing the sensitive skin. You notice his touch is loving and delicate, it makes you want to snuggle your face into his palm, enjoying this lasting moment.

“…then what?” You open your mouth impatiently, voice light and mushy.

A light pinkish blush quickly dusts on his cheek, you feel the man in front of you tenses up, but he remains his eye contact with you, refuses to avoid your gaze. His lips quiver but nothing coming out. Is he… hesitating? Finally, you hear him mumbles something quietly.

…you

“ What ?” You cock your brows and inch closer, eyes training on his plump lip. They remain still.

Feeling an intense gaze on your head, you feel a light squeeze on your cheek so you curiously tilt your chin up, just to see Xingqiu leans down and presses a light peck at the corner of your mouth.

His plump lips brush yours like a feather, almost non-touching. It’s soft and plush, but the moment only lasts for a few second. Abruptly, the coolness on your cheek leaves hastily, follows by his sleeveless arm around your shoulder.

As soon as you realize what just happened, the young master of Feiyun Commerce Guild has already dashed away, leaving a burning tomato behind. You shyly lower your head, face heats up profusely. Fingers slowly draw up to your lip, you recall the feeling of his lip touching yours.

You feel like you can combust right here and right now.

Unknownst to you, if you look in his direction, you might have spotted a pair of red ears and his inelegant falling on his butt.

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