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darkjazzpunk · 2 years ago

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Feeding shedule

First off all, this is purley headcanon stuff I made up and it is probably proven wrong as soon as he's released (as it was written before his release). As my other fanfictions are... (But I'm interested in how much is wrong exactly).

Second is the fact that my character is probably not to the taste of everyone here, since they are a person that isn't well versed in the matter of handling a disabled person. They are not yet capable of treating every disabled person to their liking as much as they are not able to treat every nondisabled person to their liking. This is a learning process. No one is an expert right away and so mistakes are made, that's where people usually learn from the most. And everyone wants to be treated differently! This isn't meant as a good example in any way!

If you want to critize something or explain something to others in my comment-section go for it. If you just want to rant about 'stupid ableist scum', do us the favor an stick it up your ass. I won't tolerate it.

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"Hey, by the way, as your cook I think I should also know what your favourite food is?"

The Pharmacist looked up from the prescriptions he was writing. Startled by your sudden question: "There's this dish, relatively handy to prevent and alleviate dryness, which I suffer from relatively often, hehe."

You snapped your fingers right in front of his face, which earned you an irritated look from the doctor.

"What's YOUR favorite food? Let me put it another way. Just imagine a day when your illness leaves you mostly alone, your stomach doesn't bitch, and your taste buds don't overreact. What is your favorite food then, if you can get your hands on it. And no, it doesn't have to be that healthy either, for once. A quilty pleasure, if you will. I want to be ready should it occur."

The green-haired one stared into space for a moment, overwhelmed, before he began to think. It seemed to be visibly difficult for him to see past all his limitations. A small part of you even started to feel bad for also reminding him of what he would so rarely be able to have.

You quietly began to serve him his green tea, not wanting to rush him as well, knowing how little he could stand it.

Meanwhile, his gaze wandered in the direction of Wangmin Restaurant, then towards Xinyue Kiosk. He even leaned back swingingly and placed his fingers under chin in a thinker pose.

He had really never allowed himself this thought in his life!

"Although I'm usually forced to limit myself to simple soup, broth, rice and congee, I'm never averse to a good noodle soup: With rice vermicelli, thick pieces of braised pork belly, smoked tofu and two tea egg halves. But I probably should cut short the portion by half or even thirds even on a good day, or I'm going to regret it the hours afterwards."

Your guilt only increased as a result. But it was now no longer possible for you to take back the question and an elegant excuse would not occur to you either.

Just as you wanted to start something, his airy voice interrupted you:

His serpentine tongue flicked as if by itself barely noticeable to emphasize his point of craving described dish.

"For dessert, if the rare moment occures that I crave something sweet, I prefer any little pastry filled with salted egg yolk and or lotus seed paste, huh. Whereas tapioca pudding cooked with coconut milk is also really delicious, but forget the extra sugar some put into it. However, when I need something sweet on a normal day, I usually stick to simple guilinggao... maybe with coconut cream…"

"That's a good start…"

"Hey! What about me, when will you asssk me?", Changsheng had reared back and punished you with a sideways glance.

"I don't want to confuse your preferences, give me a second. Besides, Baizhu has already warned me not to pay too much attention to you when it comes to food. Don't you hunt most of it yourself?"

Baizhu let out a small laugh before stroking his partner's little head soothingly, "Did you like the little onigiri made from chicken that much?"

(The other day you tried to make some Onigiri, a specialety from Inazuma, as you thought it had a rather subtle taste and might be easy to stomach cause of its few ingredients. A sudden strike of inspiration made you then form another tiny one out of cooked and grounded chicken meat for Changsheng as a small treat. They both rather liked it and it found its way on you list of everyday suitable dishes for the Doctor.)

"It wasss quite acceptable." with those words she disappeared back into the curtain of green strands.

Changsheng's personal way of praising someone, you probably couldn't expect more, but that was more than enough for you. It was hard enough to win over her stubborn character. Sometimes you wondered if the pharmacist just wasn't that strict with her, or if he had a secret fondness for people who weren't afraid to treat him and others rather brusquely. After all, most people treated him like fragile porcelain.

Like you just wished you did the other moment...

You wondered yourself where the thought came from but shoved it away to rethink it later by taking a blank sheet off the notepad on the table and writing down the new information about your boss.

"Any allergies or intolerances apart from the daily fluctuations?"

Baizhu chuckled at your sudden professionalism, eyeing you with a gentle gaze: "As you're already know since the incident the other day, I'm extremely lactose intolerant. I can't even smell cow's milk without getting sick. Other than that I have no direct allergies, only that I tolerate some things just one day more and the other not."

A warm, true smile apeared on his lips: A truely rare sight, as he witnessed you actually writing everything down what he told you and what he just mention on the side. Like the fact that he needs smaller portions than what one would anticipate for a actually tall man like him.

Your sadly didn't notice much of it, since you were preoccupied making the notes and formulating your next questions.

"Anything you simply don't like? Flavours, smells, consistencies and such?"

"I don't like slimy foods or those with a pungent smell to it. That fermented soybean dish from Inazuma: whilst high on nutrients, wrong in any other way possible if you ask me."

Changsheng pushed her little head foreward for a informative comment: "If I remember correctly did you call it a 'gruessome abomination' and a 'Food maltreatment' lassst time..."

Baizhu simply waved his hand infront of her to shush her, before smiling apologetically for being called out badmouthing a indeed healthy dish that harshly.

You couldn't help laughing, longing a little for the day when Baizhu would drop his doctor facade in front of you and just be himself. At least once in a while. Until then, you would be content with Changsheng's unadorned glimpses into the inner life of this complex man.

"Ok this means no stinky tofu, no okra should I ever get my hands on them, careful with seaweed and mushrooms, no thousand-year eggs or Baluten..."

"The last two are an exception! No matter if I think I won't like it I at least try it once... those two are actually quite nice I found out... raw egg is also alright with me."

"The Baluten that developed for 21 daysss isss the bessst!"

It was hard for you to write down the embryo egg dish, but since you cooked for him (and Gui and Qiqi occassionaly) it didn't matter if the idea of it didn't sit with you to well, you would probably try it but in the end it was for you boss. He was supposed to get what he liked.

"Oh and spicy food only when I ask specifically about it. While I crave some spicy shrimp soup from time to time it is always a gambling game", he laid a hand on his visible stomach at the remorseful memory of the last time he obviously lost the coin flip: "Exclusive spices and multilayered tasting shenanigans are sadly pearls cast before swine with me. I don't taste much these days... Oh, and what I can taste I can't destinct from the smell of it like most humans are able to. Haha, I warned you, that cooking for me will be a fulltime job."

"I don't mind it, otherwise I wouldn't have offered it to you. Like that I can work off my dept to Bubu Pharmacy and earn something after that and you are spared from Gui's and Changsheng's scolding because you forgot to eat... again."

In your mind's eye, the memory played out of Gui actually feeding the doctor a small bowl of white rice while he was hunched over notes sorting out his schedule for the next day. As if his affliction didn't drain him enough every day….

#baizhu #pre baizhu release #genshin impact #genshin impact fanfiction #foodie #gui #qiqi #changsheng

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whispereons · 2 years ago

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Over This Shit

So, you know how I said it was mostly going to be boys and based on my game? I lied. I have no idea what I'm writing. I'm just making it up as I go.

The Beginning

Yanfei didn't know how much longer she could take it.

Her days were happy and peaceful with her job giving her day a little chaos. A normal, fulfilling life is what her and her parents wanted and it was going well.

Until a month ago that is.

Y/n, a traveler who saved Mondstadt from Stormterror and recently took part in the battle against Osial.

They first met when Y/n was speaking to Granny. They went on a whole case for smaragdus jadeite and bonded quite well. At the end a serena teapot was given away and they both went their ways.

Unless they had a case, that's how it should have ended.

The shooting stars lasted almost an entire day, and after that the world got... confusing.

A warmth envelops her body, and a name enters her mind.

Turns out the traveler's real name was Lumine who just introduces herself as Y/n. Reason being that she's basically being controlled by Y/n.

The same Y/n that now has a hold on Yanfei herself.

Yanfei can't understand why Lumine is so okay with it (in fact it seems like she likes it).

Because forcibly being dragged into the red glittering sky while in the middle of court isn't very fun. At least she's not losing time.

She's thankful that Y/n didn't make her a permanent part of the team.

Yanfei was a busy woman after all. With legal work to do, papers to file, rap battles to be won and relationships to be kept up with.

Her annoyance was understandable as you changed day into night.

Again

The judge, jury, everyone, even her client was leaving!

"But the defense hasn't even began!..."

She was usually more composed than that, but this would be the 5th time this week and its only Tuesday.

The judge only gives a nod saying "Yes, but it's night already we can continue the case tomorrow."

Resisting a long-suffering sigh, she left intending on eating her weight in tofu at the Wanmin Restaurant.

Even if the start was hectic, she couldn't deny how the world felt more real after the truth was revealed to her. Even if that was the opposite of this world...

At the beginning Yanfei had zero idea why or how she was dragged into a salmon sky with embers of pyro floating around.

Not being able to move any part of her body was a major part of concern. She dimly wonders if she should have paid more attention to the adepti history.

Nothing she could do about it now, really all she could look at was this...person?

You were cute but being in a rectangle with only a face and some shoulders to be seen would be off-putting to anyone.

You go around her body quietly, getting close before moving back, inspecting her she realizes.

"Yanfei you're really cute."

Yanfei doesn't know how to react to a stranger calling her that but she can't refuse considering her condition. In fact it makes her feel a little bashful.

Peculiar

You smile tiredly as her body starts moving on it's own.

The feel of noctilucous jade was familiar as well as the action of setting it on the scale. Small hums escape her as she does so before the scale disappears.

"The little details like your antler rings and mora accessories suit you nicely."

Yanfei doesn't get embarrassed that easily but you paying such attention to her still makes her feel a bit flushed.

Suddenly she's speaking, "My name is Yanfei, top legal expert in Liyue-"

Her mouth moves as if it has a mind of its own. Sure, this is stuff she would say if she met Y/N under normal standards.

But you were not Y/n. And this was anything but normal!

Her mouth continues to talk about different topics until she says something that didn't quite make sense.

"A client? Very pleased to meet you, here's my card. I'm afraid I can't leave my desk today-"

This wasn't her office but then again it wasn't raining when she spoke earlier but from her first words, she thought you might have been drawing out her thoughts.

"...you came to chat as friends with a legal expert that you've never met before... care to explain?"

But Yanfei met Y/n before, saying she never met them is a direct contradictory.

"Thats strange. I guess they made this in case the player got her before finishing the Liyue quest."

Quest? What quest? Who's 'they'? What players are you talking about?

She doesn't have enough clues to figure out what is going on but someone else does.

You had the power to render her, a half-adepti, immobile and draw out private information from her. Would you force her to forget or keep quiet about it?

She's taken from her thoughts when she's dropped back into her chair. The feeling similar to being scared awake when you fall in your dreams.

Scrambling for the time Yanfei stresses over how long she was stuck in that limbo.

No time passed.

She stares blankly at it with disbelief. Could you control time too?

Her half-eaten breakfast is still hot, the tea hasn't finished boiling either.

Yanfei wants to brush it off as a daydream but the evidence says otherwise. And she was a woman of the law if not anything else.

Y/n was a clear part in this scenario but tracking down the traveler was hard. From the rumors, she might be trying to get to Inazuma right now!

Other than an early morning appointment, Yanfei was surprisingly clear for the day.

After the client left, Yanfei didn't hesitate to go looking for the traveler. Her first stop being the adventures guild to see if she was on a commission.

Climbing up the stairs in haste she looks at the reception desk. An adventurer was expected, not the fatui.

Yet there he was, Tartaglia the 11th of the fatui harbingers.

The fatui didn't have a good reputation being the cause of multiple cases she's gotten ever since they made moves into Liyue. Childe was also blamed for the Osial attack.

Combining that with his already bloodthirsty reputation made his appearance even more suspicious.

It was easy to tell something was off about him. He stood with a blank look and had a fire in him, she could tell it was the same as hers with the only difference being his burned far more brightly.

Did he experience it too?

It was risky to talk to him but she needed answers.

She stretched her arm out and opened her mouth to grab his attention when a light consumed her sight.

Yanfei didn't realize she closed her eyes until she was blinking rapidly to chase away the lingering brightness.

Katheryne and Lan didn't react at all, was it another thing you did to them? In fact that warmth you planted in her felt cold...

Looking back to Tartaglia she was shocked at his disappearance.

Instead Y/n stood in his place.

Sighing Y/n rubbed at her eyes and muttered "I don't think I'll ever get used to that."

Yanfei grinned at the traveler, Y/n saw that brightness too. In fact, the warmth was in Y/n as well!

"Y/n!" Yanfei grabbed the travelers wrist as Y/n turned to look at her.

"You saw that bright light too right? And um you saw that person in the rectangle too?" Loud at first Yanfei quieted down as she finished.

Y/n was shocked, for a long time no one else could see it. What made Yanfei see when even a yaksha and a god couldn't?

"Yeah, you're the first I found you could see it. You probably saw Y/n too right?"

Yanfei tilted her head in confusion, "What are you talking about? You are Y/n... right?"

Y/n(?) shook her head 'no' and gestured Yanfei to follow her as she walked away.

"No, I'm Lumine. I'll explain everything I can in a more private setting."

Staying quiet Yanfei followed Y/- Lumine.

Eventually they arrived at the very last dock, far away enough that no one could overhear. The sun was still high in the sky as they both sat on the dock.

Lumine looked at Yanfei with a serious expression, "The truth is, is that this whole world is a game."

Yanfei could only deadpan.

Lumine launched into a series of explanations starting with the fact that you are that warmth that enters them through 'pulling' which would be the meteor showers that only vision holders could see. To how you can control them and make them stronger through upgrades that Yanfei has never heard of. Pointing out the world's bizarre behavior when you are 'playing'. And how you watch and control them through a screen, the same screen that allows them to see you.

"Okay, I don't want to believe it but let's say I do. What sets us apart from the rest that allows us to see Y/n and know the truth?"

Yanfei didn't want to think about everything done was all for naught when someone could just change it.

How long her father fought for Liyue when it could have been prevented easily.

Cause it was only a game...

Lumine pointed up to the sky as stars began to emerge from the darkening sky.

"It was when all my constellations glowed or activated that I was able to see the truth and see them. Before that my head was hazy and I didn't question all the strange things happening. Are all 6 of your constellations activated?"

Yanfei didn't need to look up at the sky to know the answer. When those shooting stars filled the sky, she briefly noticed her constellation glowing in completion, but she didn't care about power and brushed it off.

Lumine frowned at Yanfei's silence. She already knew the answer to her question, she kept meticulous track after all. She needed to know her rivals allies well after all.

"Yeah, they did. Did that not happen to anyone else? In fact how many of us are there?"

Lumine nodded and spoke, "You're the first that was c6'ed, that's what they call it, and I wanted to check in to see if my theory was right."

Yanfei pursed her lips as she asked the question that had bouncing in her mind since she was first controlled.

"Constellations grant power, since I've been c6'd does that mean they'll force me on their team? It's not like I can refuse or even show that I don't want to..."

Lumine shook her head, "No, they won't"

"What makes you so sure?"

Gazing at the waves Lumine responded, "It isn't cheap to make us stronger and they invested a lot in their current team. Plus, they have have rather specific taste..."

Ignoring the last part Yanfei sighed in relief, being stuck as a random person puppet wasn't ideal. Still how could she ever be sure when you were going to pause their world?

The traveler spoke up again, "I have a few theories at the moment but I'll wait to share until I have more proof. Right now I can only tell you that the time in this world and theirs is different. They say that'll see me tomorrow and disappear for a month. Sometimes later sometimes earlier but they always leave saying 'Goodbye I'll see you tomorrow'. So I don't think they're lying."

"Then we'll have to deal with them for a few weeks then get about a month break?" Yanfei sighed as she imagined being stuck in limbo and slowly forgetting what legal case she was dealing with.

"I'll take what I can get. If that's the last thing you can warn me about then I'll be going. I can already see the line of clients in the morning."

Lumine nodded as she got back to her feet.

Yanfei smiled at the blonde as she spoke, "Thank you for clearing this up. You really are one of a kind. I felt like I was going crazy by myself. Remember if you have any legal trouble in Inazuma I can help you out!"

After that they both went their ways, but Yanfei could tell that Lumine was a little bitter at not being used as much.

Yanfei entered the Wanmin Restaurant and ordered an almond tofu to start off. After all nothing like a sweet treat to melt away the stress of a pausing nightmare week.

As she waited for her food, she watched Xiangling cook and deliver food in its usual fast pace.

Bright and cheery as always Xiangling greeted each customer.

The eyebags didn't escape Yanfei's sight.

Looking closer Yanfei could see Xiangling nodding off before startling awake when another customer comes in.

"Sorry for the wait! Lots of customers have been coming in due to Lantern Rite approaching. Enjoy your food!"

Xiangling still smiled as she set down the plate of tofu. Yanfei didn't know Xiangling personally, she only came for their food really, so she only looked at Xiangling as she thanked her.

The words died in her throat as the world sped up into day.

Again

Xiangling's eye twitched and Yanfei covered her face with her hands as she groaned in despair.

"Um Yanfei right?"

Xiangling looked nervous and up close Yanfei could see that the poor girl was starting to lose it.

"You can see it right? The night turning into day, that's why you are upset."

Yanfei sighed tiredly and nodded. That was all Xiangling needed. She grabbed the half-adepti by the shoulders and got closer.

"Please tell me you know what's going on! I've barely got any sleep these past few weeks. I feel like I'm going crazy since no one else can see it."

Yanfei didn't want to get more involved with you, but she had been wanting to tell someone else about this that wouldn't automatically regard her as crazy. The young girl's touch also revealed the warmth in her.

'I guess we're in this together.' Yanfei shrugged off Xiangling's hands and grabbed her plate of almond tofu.

Walking leisurely to the entrance, Yanfei turned her head slightly to face Xiangling.

"You coming or what?"

Xiangling could cry in happiness, finally answers!

Yanfei was an intimidating lawyer in Liyue. So, she'll either get charged with insanity, collapse from stress and lack of sleep, or get some answers (and a solution if the archons allow it).

All done! Would you believe me if I said that this is only half and I split it due to length and time? I really suck at sad stuff so don't be too mad about it. This is my first time writing genshin characters so tell me if it's too ooc!

Either way Xiangling was done with this bullshit.

Taglist: @ognenniyvolk @i-hate-that-i-love-them

I do want to do a few other characters but I'm just doing the ones that come to mind. Who knows maybe I'll change things up again.

Edit: I can not believe I was dumb and sleep deprived enough that I left the author notes in inside this post. And I spent a hour looking for it too.

#yandere genshin impact #genshin impact x reader #yandere genshin x reader #yanfei #xiangling #genshin impact #sagau x reader #self aware genshin #genshin impact sagau #genshin sagau #yandere sagau #childe #tartaglia #lumine #lumine x reader #yanfei x reader #geshin impact #whisp's amateur work

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jspenft · 2 years ago

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WHERE WOULD THEY TAKE YOU ON VACATION ☆ MY HERO ACADEMIA

✧ PAIRING : Katsuki Bakugo / Izuku Midoriya / Shoto Todoroki x Fem♀ reader. (Thanks to @izukuisbaby for helping me with Sho's part-😭)

✧ AN : Supposed to b mix of headcanons and fic, but became stories for each. May be long, sorry. All characters are aged up. Not proofread. AN #2 : I feel like I write better for those I simp. So if you happen to read everything, guess who's my crush among these 3.

⚘ ｡ KATSUKI BAKUGO :

🍉 Go mountaineering. He's a man of thrills, obviously he loves it.

🍉 Is initially reluctant when he proposes the idea to you, but automatically changes his behavior when notices the stars in your eyes. As trivial as things are, you love to learn more about the man you likes. He likes spicy food ? You train all night long to cook him the best mapo tofu he's ever eaten ! He like mountaineering ? You going there with him without hesitation !

🍉 Hours spent on the internet to learn about this sport. Wanting to impress him, and above all not to make mistakes.

🍉 So arrived at the store for purchase of equipment, you already know what to take.

" - So fleece clothes are here, windbreaker is done... you whisper to yourself Katsuki, did you take gloves ?

- Mmh, even in your favorite color.

- Okay, we have almost everything. you say, moving towards another aisle

- May I help you, miss ?

- Oh uh yes, I'm looking for a helmet. you respond to the salesman who popped up behind you

- You're lucky, I have this magnificent aerodynamic helmet. It's our far among popular model with cyclists and there're only a few copies left. I can also recommend these shorts and overshoes, very trendy among women.

Katsuki inwardly laughs at the salesman's tirade to restock you with a bunch of expensive and useless equipment, in order to fulfill his sales quota.

- Oh no, you must have misunderstood, I'm not a cyclist, but mountaineer. you answer cheerfully Besides, I would need a harness and a survival blanket.

- Oh um excuse me then, mountaineering equipment are on this side, follow me please. he pulls himself together

After a while, you have everything you need and let the salesman get back to his business. Katsuki returns, leaning on a shelf and crossing his arms, with more items in his bag.

- Well then, you seem to know your stuff. he smirk

- Yeah ! It's not complicated, you really have to be stupid not to know about that stuff. proudly assert yourself

After a few seconds of silence, he answers.

- You know that.. we have a common computer, don't you ?

- Yeah, why bringing that u-

- And I have access to the search history, right ? he cuts you off

You're trying to remember something incriminating you could have researched, when it hits you. Silence broken by your boyfriend again.

- That's it, remember ?

- I-

- « It's not complicated, you really have to be stupid not to know about that stuff. » he declares with a cheerful voice, imitating your way of speaking earlier.

- It's not what you think-

- Never said it's a bad thing. It was actually quite fun to read « everything you need to know about mountaineering » , « mountaineering for beginners in 5 steps », « best equipment-

- Ahh all right got it, it's embarrassing...

- « How to impress your lover »...

- I could die of shame right now... you whisper

- It's okay, sorry, just funny to see you like that. he continues after a silence But hey, given the number of searches, you must have spent hours and hours on it. I love that you try to impress me, but please think of yourself. I'll explain it to you properly, so don't worry, okay ? You'll always up to it.

His speech warms your heart.

- Okay Katsu, let's get the latest items and go to the checkout, yeah ? you answer with a light smile

- Sure thing. "

🍉 Groans during the journey, secretly hiding his joy at being able to share one of his passions with you.

🍉 Arrived at destination, fresh air hits your face, it's cold but so pleasant. Katsuki takes you aside from the group of apinists and asks you one last time if you're sure you want to do this. And you obviously answer in the affirmative.

🍉 Trainer explains the rules to everyone.

" - Well before starting, know that this is a beginners group. So for the more experienced, be sure to help others for their first time and be patient. As for the others, remember that mountaineering isn't climbing, it's an extreme sport, so be careful and attentive. We'll start after checking material, thanks for listening.

You turn back to Katsuki.

- Have everything in your backpack ?

- Of course I do, who do you think I am ? Even bring a first aid kit in case Madame is injured. He throws you a flick

- Ouch ! We won't even need it cause I'm strong enough. Look, I even took a compass ! you exclaim while chowing it

- Y/n... where's the North ?

- Well, it's here. you say pointing at your right

- What's the point of having a compass if you don't even know how to use it... Your sense of direction is still biased as I can see, sweet.

- Said the man that were looking for sugar in all kitchen cupboard for like 2 hours. Who has the worst sense of direction ? you smirk

- IT'S BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS CHANGE EVERYTHING IN THE HOUSE !

- Hey, calm down you two trainer interrupt him finish tying the rope, we're leaving in 5 minutes.

- Tch, yes sirrr~ " he rumbles

🍉 As a mountaineering groupe, you're all attached to the same rope. Katsuki insists that you be in front of him. Then he can guide, help you, and watch your ass.

🍉 He admires your serious face, giving your all.

🍉 Arrived at mountain refuge, you both take a well-deserved rest.

" - I'm proud of you, but you didn't need to overwork yourself for today.

- Who said JUST for today ? you glare at him

- Uh ?

- I love mountaineering, and from now on, I want it to become a daily thing, for both of us. "

Bonus : two grandmothers gossiping :

" - See this young girl blushing over there ?

- Flirting in a store, young people these days... "

⚘ ｡IZUKU MIDORIYA :

🍉 Literally fuckin' everywhere.

🍉 Notes, takes a lot of notes. Have a notebook especially on the places you love to go to. Whether it's places he's already taken you to, or those you mention in the course of a conversation.

🍉 Tries to plan everything from a to z, is so focused that he becomes clumsy. So obviously, his mother notices.

" - Izuku, I'm glad you came to visit me, but could you please stop staring at your taiyaki like that.

He stops daydreaming and quickly raises his head

- Sorry mom, I was in my thoughts.

- Seriously, you've been very tense lately, a problem at work ?

- Oh no, don't worry, it's about Y/n.

- Y/n ? What's going on with my beautiful daughter in law ? she said smiling

- Mmh, we're going to spend our first vacation together and I don't know what to do… he said collapsing on the table

- She likes the beach, doesn't she ? Why don't you take her there ?

- Yeah, I already intended to...

- What's the matter then ?

- Beach is not enough, need other things, I just want it to be perfect.

Inko answers with a tender looks on her face

- You know, it's not a honeymoon or anything, just vacation. I know her very well, and no matter what you do, she'll like it. I'm sure just being with you is enough for her. Simple words, but words that a son needed to hear from his mother. Come on, tell me the activities you've already thought about doing with her, I'll help you.

- Oh that's good cause I just wrote everything down, so there's this place but I'm hesitating cause we've already been there once and I dunno if it's good for holidays, otherwise we could do that I know that she liked it last time, ah and also that [...] "

'And here we go again with his usual monologues...' she thought

🍉 Makes you breakfast in bed on first day of vacation. He's usually really caring, but now he's so attentive that you wonder if it's an important date that you forgot.

🍉 Of course not, it's neither your couple anniversary, nor your birthday either. He just wanted to mark the occasion, having been very busy with his work lately.

🍉 " - Izuuu, my feet hurttt. you moan Plus I need to go to the toil-

- There's still this shop, want me to carry you honey ?

- Yes plea- I mean no. We can go tomorrow, why'd you absolutely wanna go there now ?

- The day isn't over yet Y/n. Come on, I still have things to show y-

You suddenly let go of his hand.

- No, sorry but I really am tired. Can we do this another time ?

He looks at you intently, as if surveying the situation.

- Oh um.. I'm sorry. I was so happy we're spending time together that I didn't pay attention to what you really wanted... he confesses after realizing

You move closer and take his hands in yours.

- It's okay honey, all that matters is that you meant well.

Admiring each other's eyes, as if you were alone in the world. Until a thought brings you back to reality.

- But umm.. Can we go now ? I really wanna pee you confess by no longer holding up on your legs

- Oh sure, I'll carry you right away ! " he suddenly respond with a soft smile

🍉 At the end of the day, you give him a massage on his back (he loves it, don't tell me otherwise).

" - That's not fair, I had to take the lead today, and you ended up taking care of mee~ he pout

- You shouldn't have taken so much trouble for me, you idiot. "

🍉 He gave his all to prepare you the best vacation of your life. So much so that he became stressed. In the end, you still did some activities that he prepared for you. Apart from that, you both preferred to enjoy present moment.

🍉 Went to the sea, several times, especially cause you wanted to try all flavors of ice cream from the nearby ice-cream maker.

🍉 You managed to get movie tickets for the premiere of All Might's biographical movie. He cried. What a fanboy

🍉 He'll take you to the gym. Since when he's not at work, he's at the gym, you want to start sport to go there daily with him.

" - Arghhh, I can't take it anymore- you growl

- Come on Y/n one more rep, you can do it !

You thought you were going to suffer at gym, but not that much.

- You doing great honey, that was perfect !

- Perfect my ass you collapse on the floor I'm exhausted~

- Hehe here you go he hands you a bottle of water You mustn't flinch, I want to do my sport with you now

- Mmh thanks Izu

- Something bothering you ?

- Hum no, that's just.. you wave your hand come closer.

He leans over and you whisper in his ear.

- Don't you see girls over there watching us ? I mean, watching you ?

- Mmh ? Oh, it must be cause I'm kinda well-known. he touches his face looking a little embarrassed

- 'Or you just look attractive' you mumble

Yeah you mumble, but he understand, absolutely everything you just said. So he slowly approached, put his hand on your cheek, and kissed you.

- A few more series ? There's nothing MY wife can't do. " he declares with a soft smile quite loudly, not just for you, but as if he wants to be heard by women around him.

And you just sat here, amazed.

🍉 After going to the sea, cinema, gym; he listens to all your suggestions and takes you where you want. Fairground ? No problem, you may be adults, there is no age limit for having fun. You buy lots of sweets, so many you'll have to takes some home, so many that Izu give some to his colleagues at work. Katsuki told him several times he doesn't like sweets, but ate them anyway.

🍉 In short, no pressure. He learned not to stress out trying to please you. You just both enjoy the moment.

Bonus : returning from the gym :

" - Did you really call me "my wife" earlier ?

- No, I mean yeah, but it was on impulse and-

- Hope you'll take your responsibilities and truly call me your wife then. you smirk leaving him in the bedroom

⚘ ｡ SHOTO TODOROKI :

🍉 Fancy locations.

🍉 He sends you a message to ask you to wear something nice for tonight. At first you're taken aback 'cause you weren't thinking of moving today. Indeed, lying in your pajamas in your bed watching TV, you're not really ready to go outside. But then you're pretty happy that he's asking you to go out, so you answers him 'Of course ! Can't wait for 2night❤️' with a smile on your face.

🍉 The evening, you find yourself a little disconcerted.

" - A costume, and a restaurant ?

- Yeah, don't you like it ?

- Yes ! I just thought we were going to have a picnic. Well... I'm going to look ridiculous in this little summer dress in a 5 star restaurant...

- Why this ? You are very beautiful in this dress.

- If you say so... "

🍉 In the middle of the meal you felt a little uncomfortable, with this impression that everyone is watching you. You even came to wonder if he was not going to ask you out, I mean in marriage, why put so much effort for a simple date otherwise ?

🍉 But no, nothing at all, you just went home afterwards. Not that you actually expected him to propose to you but. And the following days, the same. He takes you to a fancy place, you expect something, but in fact nothing happens.

🍉 Every time you offer him a simple activity or outing, he says he has a better idea in mind.

🍉 Shoto notices after a while that you don't like these outings that much.

He needs advice.

But his friends from high school promo say so many different things that he no longer knows where to turn.

" - Dance lessons ! Here you go, it's a good activity to do as a couple. Besides, it would be so funny to see you dancing !

- No Mina ! A date at restaurant, that's what he need ! It's so romanticc~ answers Toruu

Girls continue to debate, as if the principal concerned no longer exists.

- Huh, it's just vacation, right..? Question meant for his friends, but Shoto talks more to himself at this point. Plus I already do date restaurant... he mumbled

🍉 Was initially asking for some advice on where he could take you on vacation. Then girls jumped on him so excited to help him. In the end, they're more debating on the best date than helping him with his vacation...

🍉 They didn't help him at all, all their words were mixed up in his head. So he decided to turn to a better person, the one he's sure will be of good help : Fuyumi<3

" - Wich places could you take Y/n ?

- Yeah, she looked so happy to finally be on vacation, but I don't know where to take her. I think i screwed up.

Indeed, he didn't really think about it. But it was by seeing ads on TV, billboards, and couples in the street that he realized it. Holidays are significant in a couple

- What if you just ask her ? Don't take it so seriously. " she smiled

🍉 He now has clearer ideas thanks to his sister. And can finally talk to you.

" - You know, it's not that I didn't like the outings you prepared for me. It was just.. too much.

His face relaxes, as if he had finally found the solution to an enigma still unsolved. Sooo...

- Where would I like to go on vacation ? Mmh.. where you wanna go !

- Huh... he makes his usual stoic face

- W-what, did I say something wrong ? Oh, that doesn't help you at all, does it ? you answer looking sheepish

- Exactly...

- Well, where did you go when you were little ?

- Little... he whispers to himself

- Ah, don't answer if it makes you uncomfortable !

- No do not worry. Uh, we used to go to the temple, and... Matsuri..? he responds like he's not sure

- Perfect, that's what we'll do then !

- That's all ? he seems disconcerted I mean, I thought vacations were important to you.

- And it is, I want to learn more about you, and share the things you aspire to. you share a wonderful smile

🍉 Soo, cultural places

🍉 In the town next door, a Matsuri, a famous Japanese festival, was taking place. You definitely go there. It's so simple, but seeing your face so happy makes his heart feel better.

🍉 Between food stalls and rifle shooting, you had no time to get bored. It was really something you wanted to do at least once in your life.

🍉 You both go to the temple. You usually go there very little, more at New Years. But Shoto comes from a traditional family, so obviously he goes there a lot more often.

🍉 Before leaving, come the time to write a wish on a wooden plaque, the ema.

" - What did you write ?

- I can't say that Y/n.

- I know.. have a sense of humor.. you pout

After a short silence he continues

- ... What did you write ? he pout too

you answers with a smirk

- Someone gets nosy too.

Bonus : Girls after talking for hours :

" - And you Shoto what d'you think ? ...Shoto ?

- He's been gone for a long time. " replied Tsuyu

Yes, he slipped away in the middle of their conversation.

FEEDBACK AND REBLOGS ARE REALLY APPRECIATED

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sadsayu · 2 years ago

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non-stop - diluc ragnvindr x overworked reader

IN WHICH ; your boyfriend realizes that your working too much.

WARNINGS! mentions of fighting, blood, and injury. overworking to the point of severe exhaustion. i think that’s it but idk please be careful <3

they/them pronouns used for reader.

reader takes the place of the traveler.

the commissions you had today were draining.

you loved mondstadt and it’s people, but honestly, you really wished that they would handle their own tedious problems instead of taking every single minor incident to the adventures guild or the knights.

it was only nine in the morning, and you already wanted to back to your warm bed. … at least, it used to be warm.

ever since diluc had decided he wanted to bartend at angels share more often, along with his dark night hero duties, he hadn’t been getting home until the early hours of the morning. you didn’t mind, but this meant that your boyfriend was completely oblivious to the brutal hours that you spent running around teyvat.

you shook the thoughts of him out of your mind as you stepped away from one of the teleport waypoints in inazuma city. many errands had be completed before the end of the day in inazuma, and you didn’t have a break due to also planning on going to liyue, too.

“(y/n)! i’m glad you could make it!” thoma waved to you. he was smiling, as usual.

“hey thoma! what do you need help with today?” paimon said, floating over to him excitedly. you were glad that paimon did all the talking, as you would get tired of if very quickly.

he explained his errand for you, and quickly it was done. thoma gave you your reward, and an extra plate of sakura mochi as a thanks.

you exchanged your goodbyes, storing the plate in your inventory so that diluc could eat it with you later, and moved on to the next person you had to meet.

after running around inazuma for several hours fighting treasure hoarders, hillichurls, a fatui here and here, running around for the shogun, getting teased by yae miko, getting distracted by chests and puzzles, getting ambushed by a ruin hunter, getting struck by lightning several times, and accidentally meddling into your friends’ personal lives, all the tasks in inazuma were done for the day.

you were so, so tired.

but then it was time to teleport to liyue.

you had to meet zhongli for tea first, which was always refreshing after working so hard, and then immediately after you threw yourself back into work.

this time you were mostly fighting abyssal monsters, which was easy due to how repetitive their attacks were, a few treasure hoarders again, delivering almost tofu for xiao (he paled when he saw how tired you looked, but didn’t mention it during your conversation,) and ending with your weekly spar with childe.

you won, obviously, but you sustained more injuries than normal. luckily, your day was almost over as the sun dipped below the horizon. your muscles practically screamed at you to stop moving as you walked through liyue to get one last errand over with. the people around you must’ve noticed how horrible you looked, because they seemed to avoid you.

you slouched as you dragged your feet to deliver the letter that was clenched in your palm. you were so out of it, that you couldn’t even notice that the sun had set a long time ago.

a very long time ago.

the moon was high in the sky when you finally were able to teleport to dawn winery, where you temporarily stayed.

paimon was mindlessly rambling as she floated beside you.

“we had a long day today” she pouted, “i thought you said that you’d postpone your liyue stuff until tomorrow!”

“why… why did i say that?” you asked, putting no effort into making your tone seem normal. you were more focused on not passing out where you walked than that.

“diluc said that he wasn’t bartending tonight. weren’t you two supposed to do an at-home date or something?”

oh.

you remembered suddenly why you saved the sakura mochi that thoma kindly made for you. paimon had a dawn of realization when she saw how your face turned from “absolutely exhausted” to “how the fuck do i explain this??”

but you didn’t have any time to think of an excuse to why you missed your date with diluc, or why your arms and legs were littered with injuries, because at that moment is when you walked through the front door to see your boyfriend staring at you.

paimon muttered something before speeding away to her room upstairs, leaving the couple alone. all of the staff had retired to bed.

diluc’s eyes softened when he looked at you up and down.

“darling…” he muttered, walking over to you. “.. why?”

you sniffed, curling your hands into fists as you tried to keep in the tears that threatened to spill down your face.

shaking your head, you willed your voice to sound almost okay as you tried to explain why you looked so horrible.

“i just..” you stumbled over your words, “i just got caught up in commissions. i’m sorry for missing our date, i know it was probably gonna be the only time you’re off from work for the next few weeks.. so…”

he didn’t reply as he scanned your features. his hand gently brushed against a small gash on your cheek, feeling the dried blood on his fingertips.

“my love, don’t be sorry. i’m not mad.” he says softly. “just… i know you started your day early this morning, and the staff said you hadn’t been here all day.”

those snitching fuckers.

“i was worried about you.” he said.

you nodded, pressing a quick kiss to his lips, “i’m okay. i just had a lot to do, and i accidentally planned it all on the same day.”

you knew it wasn’t convincing.

diluc was aware of your habits- to work yourself everyday to the point of passing out in the middle of the street. he knows what excuses you made and he knows that you never actually tried to make it better for yourself.

“please, be honest to me.” diluc said, his voice quiet and comforting. this was a side of him that not many people would see.

“do you do this often?”

you opened your mouth to spill another one of your excuses, but paimon appeared and suddenly started explaining what your routine was every day- how your only breaks were cut short most of the time and how you regularly denied help from healers when you got hurt.

diluc could only stare at you with pitying eyes. you hated it.

you didn’t hate him, you could never. just the feeling of pity. even though, a small part of you wanted the attention from him. that small part wanted nothing but to be cared for and comforted.

when paimon disappeared, diluc pulled you gently to the couch, where he left for a moment to get the proper tools to care for your injuries.

you tried to compose yourself while he was gone, but the facade quickly shattered when he got back.

“who did this to you, my love.” he said, his voice calm but with contaminated with anger.

“just hillichurls, you know.”

“this is not the work of hillichurls.” he said.

you sighed, finally accepting that this was a fight you couldn’t win and you began explaining how you got your injuries during the days you spent in liyue, mondstadt, and inazuma.

you felt his hands tighten around your arm, but he remained gentle.

diluc wanted nothing more than to explain to you that you didn’t need to do all these commissions. he wanted you to use his money, so that you wouldn’t be doing the dangerous bounties just for enough mora to buy one paimon meal. he wanted to beg you to take it easy, and bring him along when it was possible.

but you were both tired, so he left that conversation for the next morning.

diluc would not be working that day, and neither would you. he would make sure of it.

[ part 2 coming soon ]

AUTHORS NOTE! woo my first published fic guys!! i’m so sorry if it’s bad lol. i didn’t see anything like this for any genshin characters that i liked so i figured that i’d do if myself. i’ll be making a part two that will focus on more comfort from him soon <3 see you next time!

remember to drink water, eat a snack if you want, get some sleep!

TAGS!

#diluc ragnivindr x reader #diluc x gender neutral reader #diluc fluff #diluc ragnvindr #genshin comfort #genshin impact #genshin diluc #diluc x you #comfort #mondstadt #liyue characters #inazuma characters #overworked

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pippytmi · 3 years ago

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Roommates au, enemies to lovers, “you confuse me.” Supercorp obvs

“You’re a fucking liar.”

This is—objectively speaking—not the worst greeting Kara has ever received from her roommate, and so she takes it in stride. “Uh, hello to you…too,” Kara says slowly, silently running through a list of everything she could have done wrong to warrant such strong words.

But Lena does not offer any explanation; in fact, when she spots Kara in the doorway, she sends her a nasty glare as if Kara has said something wrong. “Don’t pretend you’re a saint in this matter, Lex,” Lena hisses, and only then does Kara notice the cell phone in Lena’s hands. “If I have to go and clean up your mess again…”

So it’s one of those days. Kara wisely shuts the door quietly behind her, and sneaks into the kitchen as Lena takes her argument into her room.

There is a list of chores pinned to the fridge—four black X’s cross out Lena’s, and Kara’s are underlined twice. They have a code, so as to avoid speaking to each other; X’s mean done, underlined means Kara you're a slob and a pain in the ass to live with. (All verbatim, by the way.)

The dishes, however, are not on Kara’s agenda at the moment. She instead takes the expensive whiskey hidden under the sink (that belongs to Alex, not that she has noticed it’s missing), and pours it into a glass with some ice. Then she whips out the ingredients for a stir fry, complete with every vegetable she had been saving for the potluck at work this weekend.

It is an unspoken rule that Lena will shut herself off into her room after this phone call is over. She does that every time her brother calls (and on occasion her mother), and Kara has picked up enough information about her roommate to know Lena will appreciate a hard drink and some food. She hasn’t said so or anything, but every time Kara knocks three times on the door and leaves a plate outside, it will re-emerge an hour later completely empty.

Lena’s voice grows louder despite the distance, and Kara turns on the stereo out of respect for her roommate's privacy. Lena hates the stereo and all it stands for; she argues it is outdated, and they have numerous pieces of technology that are less bulky and fully able to connect to radio stations. But Kara keeps it around anyway, because she still likes buying CD’s (and maybe to bother Lena, which is a bonus).

Blink-182 is playing on that alternative station Alex likes. Kara cranks it up as she cooks, singing under her breath as she sautes bell peppers and onions, ignoring the rumble of her stomach and the tight belt of her work pants still digging into her hips. “Say it ain’t so, I will not go,” she practically yells, poking her head into the fridge for the tofu that Lena always keeps. Kara personally won’t touch the stuff, but Lena is trying to eat less meat. It cuts up easily enough, even though Kara isn’t sure what the proper technique is.

She leaves the finished plate and drink outside after it’s done, rapping on Lena’s door in tune with The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army,” and then finally has some dinner herself. Since the tofu is unappetizing, Kara stores the rest of the stir fry in a container for Lena to take for lunch, and opts for a sandwich. She eats while scrolling through her notifications (she owes Nia twenty bucks, and so far Nia has been clogging up her phone with Venmo requests all well over $500), and keeps the radio on just for background noise.

That’s probably why she doesn’t even notice when Lena approaches; Kara has barely begun to type a text to Nia swearing to bring some cash next time she visits when a sharp voice declares,

“You confuse me.”

Which. Is not at all what Kara expected from her usually empty kitchen. And, caught exceptionally off guard, she nearly falls off her chair. “What the—Lena,” she sputters, righting herself. Unfortunately, the crust of her sandwich is a casualty of the surprise, and she watches as it crumples devastatingly on the floor.

Lena is not half as concerned about the fate of her dinner, and she stalks forward to jab a finger at Kara’s chest. “You confuse me,” she repeats.

Kara blinks. Then blinks again. “Um, okay,” she says. “…why?”

A strange, strangled noise rises from Lena’s mouth, and she appears angrier than Kara has ever seen. (Well, except for that one time that Kara did laundry and flooded the apartment laundromat, which had other pissed off tenants leaving mean messages for two weeks straight). “Because,” angrier-than-usual Lena says, “you do shit like cook food for me and don’t even say anything.”

“What do you want me to say?” Kara frowns, not sure where this conversation is going. “If you want I can start saying ‘Hey Lena, I made dinner’ every time.”

“You and I don’t do dinner,” Lena says, and it sounds like an accusation. “Every time I get off the phone, you decide to leave food outside my door. Why? What on Earth compels you to do that?”

“Because you’re always upset afterwards,” Kara says slowly. “And I thought you could use some cheering up, or at least a drink.”

“Whiskey,” Lena notes. “It’s always whiskey. And it’s never a cheap brand.”

“Well, yeah,” Kara says, gesturing pointedly to Lena’s designer work clothes (that she never seems to be without; Kara’s not sure Lena even owns pajamas). “You would probably accuse me of poisoning you if I gave you anything less.”

Lena narrows her eyes. “You don’t owe me anything,” she says. “So whatever this is, you can stop it.”

“What do you mean, ‘whatever this is’?” Kara repeats incredulously. “I’m just being nice!”

“I never asked you to be ‘nice’!”

Kara exhales, and reminds herself that it is illegal to strangle people. Especially since she is Lena’s roommate, and will therefore be suspect #1. Kara has never been a violent person, but her roommate just manages to test her limits.

“Look,” Kara says patiently, “I give you my sister’s whiskey, and she doesn’t care because she is trying to give up drinking. And I’m not a frequent cook or anything, but I can still throw together a plate because I know you don’t cook at all. That’s it! I don’t have a hidden agenda, or some secret plot here. I’m just being friendly.”

“We are not friends, Kara Danvers,” Lena says. “And I know exactly what this is, even if you refuse to acknowledge it.”

God, what an insufferable—“Okay, know-it-all,” Kara says, instead of the ruder words echoing through her head. “What am I doing?”

Lena’s jaw clenches noticeably. “You pity me,” she accuses. “You look down at my relationship with my family, and—and I don’t want your sympathy, or your stupid food, anymore.”

“If you wanted me to back off, that’s fine,” Kara says, holding her hands up in mock surrender. “But I don’t pity you, or feel sorry for you. Heck, with your track record, I’d feel more sympathy for your family. They seem to be on the other end of some nasty phone calls.”

Lena’s expression darkens. “You don’t know my family.”

“I don’t know you very well, either,” Kara retorts, and she turns back to her phone where three new Venmo requests are waiting (two of them well in the thousands range; Nia must think she’s hilarious). “Message received, okay? I’ll leave you alone.”

At first, Kara assumes that's the end of it—assumes that Lena is going to stalk off, and leave a strongly worded post-it on the fridge later that night for Kara to wake up to. That has always been how their relationship works; they fight, reiterate how much they hate living together, and go right back to ignoring each other.

But Lena doesn't walk away. Instead she sighs, and at that unexpected sound Kara looks up just in time to catch Lena frowning. “I—” Lena begins, and then she pauses uncomfortably before getting the words out. “I'm...sorry. I have been having the worst day, and it’s—it’s rude of me to take it out on you.”

“Okay,” says Kara dumbly, because she’s not sure what to respond. Lena never apologizes. Ever. It’s about as rare as, well, Kara actually doing her chores on time. “Thanks?”

Lena bites her lip, glances away. “You’re welcome,” she says stiffly. And this time she leaves—leaves, and abandons the plate of food Kara left her on the edge of the table.

Kara looks down at her phone. There are ten texts waiting from Nia, and about double that of Venmo requests. But she can’t shake the feeling that she is forgetting something, and it’s more than a twenty dollar bill. “Wait,” she blurts out, “Lena. What—what does that mean? You were an asshole to me, and I was an asshole right back, so why are you apologizing?”

“Well, you are more than welcome to apologize too,” Lena says, pausing in the kitchen doorway. She has a quizzical expression on her face, a kind of raw confusion that Kara has never seen before. Without the sharp clenched jaw and the angry eyes, she’s…just a girl. A girl, with a nervous tic of wringing her fingers together. A girl, despite her guarded nature, who is gazing right back at Kara as if she has no right to.

“Do you want me to apologize to you?”

A beat. “Not really,” Lena says. “I don’t—want that. You’re right, you don’t know me. Or my family. We’re nothing to each other, and I can’t expect you to know how complicated my relationship with them is.”

“Still,” Kara says, and she scratches the back of her neck absentmindedly at the sudden flush of guilt that overtakes her. “I am sorry. It was rude of me to, um, say that. Like if your family is a bunch of serial killers, who am I to say you’re worse than that?”

Lena scrunches her nose in a manner that is sort of cute. “Serial killers? Really?”

Kara shrugs—aiming for casual—and really that just looks like attempting nonchalance when suddenly she’s consumed with thoughts about how pretty her roommate is. “Like you said,” she says, “I don’t know your family.”

And, surprisingly, all Lena does is smile. A real smile, the kind that Kara has never witnessed, barely soft and just kind enough. “They’re not,” she says, and unnecessarily clarifies, “serial killers.”

“That you know of,” Kara points out, and Lena’s cautious smile becomes something fuller. That is the only thing that gives Kara the courage to add, “So, now that we have covered the whole you’re not your family thing, are you really not going to have dinner? I cooked tofu for you and everything!”

“You didn’t have to,” Lena argues, because she is defensive to a fault. But she falters immediately after, and sighs again, albeit in a more mellowed tone. “What I meant to say is, I really don’t need you to keep cooking for me. I’m fine.”

“Well what if I want to cook for you?” Kara says, and that is her own fault: she is ready to argue to protect her (noble) intentions. “We don’t have to be friends, if it terrifies you that much—”

“It does not terrify me—”

“—but we can be friendly,” Kara offers, and it’s a testament to her newfound appreciation for her roommate that she manages to even make a sentence. “If you want.”

Lena tilts her head, considering, and this time when she smiles it is curious. “If you knew what I wanted, Kara Danvers,” she says, “your delicate sensibilities would blush to their roots.” And with that odd goodbye, she eventually takes her leave; however, she does take the plate of stir fry with her, so Kara guesses that means they’re on their way to being friendly, if anything.

#remember when quarantine started & i asked for prompts?#yeah u read that right a whole ass year ago?#well. uh. so this is embarrassing but-#supercorp #supergirl #i need a fic tag #proudlyunicorn

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gowriarun · 3 years ago

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Don't forget... not again

Summary: Uhm I decided to write sagau au because I've been reading it a lot lately.... and here's a brief explanation! Reader has stars and galaxies for blood and blood for tears... Reader slowly regains her memories of her being a god but doesn't forget her time in her real world so gets a little crazy and stuff... Warnings: Abuse, mentions of blood, obsessive & ignorant behavior, reader just experiencing stuff ig? Anyways mental and physical torture implied so watch out for that!

what happened?! Where was I going?! Why am I even being chased?! I was supposed to go buy some tomatoes for mother!! While running she mentally cursed whoever the hell 'god' was, because by the looks of it, that dude was the reason she was being chased by a good crowed of what she remembered to be npcs and unreal people who were just mere characters of a game! She cried and cried for someone, blood dripping from her face along with stars and liquid galaxies. Her feet were practically on auto pilot, and the fuel seemed to be her will to live! She didn't even look where she was going. just run. Her mind screamed at her, no way was her legs capable of doing that!

Did I... loose them? You never trusted your instincts and you weren't gonna start now, so without rest you climbed on top of a tree because that's the only thing your physical state could let you do. What... just happened?! Ok sit down, think! Tomatoes, cabbage, pasta sauce and.... No!! Not about the lists y/n! goodness! What happened that I had gotten chased by a whole city?! Did I forget to pay the money for the things I brought?! No! Why would they start a fire a throw it at me for something like that?! More importantly, where am I?! And.... is that a small lamp grass?!

No, no, no please god don't tell me

Am i in... is this a dream?! It was way too real.... I looked around... wolvendom? Ok... this is fine! I'm completely gonna be okay! A- okay! I hope... Well I have to be! But right now I need to think! If.... probably not but.... if i'm actually in genshin..... and these guys are running after me for no reason.... Then will I be able to try almond tofu?! Oh how I always wanted to try it!! wait wait! that isn't the problem! I'm a wanted criminal! I stole the tomatoes and pasta sauce! Am i..... gonna go to jail!?

No way... right?

Well... I'm not going in that direction again though! I thought looking over the water to the tall cathedral and the statue of barbatos... And what now?! Even the day and night move faster than average, if I'm not wrong, in the two hours that I've been here, thirteen days passed! And the big question comes now! I'm hungry... should I eat the very good apples or sunsettias!

And before I could take a bite into the sunsettias it seemed my presence caught the attention of a hilichurl and two mitachurl, axe guy and shield guy! Whoo hoo things are going so well!

why? You might ask, because they had food! good food! As they say desperate time call for desperate measures, I'm gonna eat the god damn hilichurl food because no matter how crunchy these are, I thought looking at the apples, that looks wayy better.! If i could run from a whole city, these guys should be easy game!

I hopped down and dashed toward the pot, and picked it up, fuck! Hot!

The hilichurls stood there still though, but because of the pain I dropped the pot, all over me and burnt myself.

Great, y/n, fucking amazing!

i stumbled up on my feet right after and fell ace first to the ground. The hillichurls said something, but didn't attack. I obviously didn't understand them so I replied "hakuna matata? " I said and they looked at each other and then looked at me "ok, yes bad joke! I know! But uhm... I'm sorry for ruining your dish and uh yeah! So ... let me live?" I said all pride and logic draining from me

They said something again but i didn't understand, I waited for my mind to process the situation and carried out the plan as it was supposed to go! I ran! Like and idiot!

The camp didn't follow me though! That's good.. i guess?

I sighed as I sat down the grass in the shape of a tree "that... just happened" I munched down on another apple God damn it

I started walking again Ok so if I'm here, I pinpointed an assumed location, the wolf guy must be here, and then.... hmm, where should I even go?Dawn winery? Yeah... and then what?! Get my hands cut off because I stole something?! yeah, no!

Think! y/n, think! Well guess there's no time to think! Should've done that instead of eating! Now the knight are back at it again!

"You guys!- whats your problem?!" I groaned and got back up running, running and running... as far as eyes could reach and legs could keep up, we crossed the winery and nearly died every time a bow was shot but luckily, I jumped off a cliff and into the water! Since i was tired I decided to drown a bit before getting back up and running running running.... is it just me, or is the temperature a little...low? As I kept running.... lower..... and oh my god I'm freezing!

please don't tell me this is dragonspine! aish...

No but wait!! "albedo...." I thought He'll help out... he has to! But before I could think of getting to him, i felt like my body was dying. What? Oh... sheer cold, right! I ran up to one of the fireplaces, and sat down sighing..... Tired, so.... tired

"Tomatoes.... cabbages... pasta sauce and.... no... i remember.... cheese? No no... something else..." "Half a kilo of potatoes?" A voice asked "Yes!" I said suddenly remembering Wait... what? that - who???

I opened my eyes to come back to dragonspine... are those- slimes?! Oh I never imagined them to be so cuddly! Wait- no! Slimes are dangerous! I have nothing to protect my self! But they aren't attacking???

"Have I .... gone mad?" I asked taking a hand to my head "No.... I want to go home.... " I cried holding one of the slime in my arm, completely forgetting about how they were a threat just a second ago "Why..?"

"Hm... the slimes don't seem to want to attack you. Instead, they are attracted to you? I don't understand? are you a slime in human form?" A cool voice came from behind me What?! Albedo! My chalk prince!

"Albedo! Finally! Someone who doesn't kill me on sight!" I said excited "You have to explain why I'm being killed here!" I pleaded "Hm, that would be because you have the gods face" He sighed "Are you just born with it? Or was it your plan to make a fool out of everybody and think you can get away with it? You must really be stupid if you thought of it like that" He glared down at me summoning his sword Ah... of course... why would he? "Wait wait! At least tell me! Who the hell is this god?! why would I make a fool out of anyone?! I thought I was here because I stole my pasts sauce?! " This comment momentarily stopped his motion "Pasta sauce? Oh you did that as well?" He asked "No! I paid for it! If I remember correctly.... but if I didn't I still can! I have money! There's no reason for me to steal anyway!" "Why should I choose to believe you?" He asked I pulled out fifty dollars, this should be enough! "You can go pay it yourself if you don't trust me that much!" He looked down at the money I had in hand "paper ?" He looked at it "This is a rather boring design, even if you were to sell it, I don't think you'd be able to pay for what you stole" "Design?? Money is money!" I said complaining "this.... is paper" He sighed "Are you kidding me?" I asked Oh... right..... Mora! Mora is the money here....

"I.... I'm sorry, I lost my tomatoes and potatoes and sauce while I was running for my life, so I don't have them with me to return." I sighed looking down "You first take our gods face and try to fool us now you can't even pay back?!" A different voice said from behind me Pallad was circle around the area again. He picked up a rock and threw at me, I covered my face with my hands and tried to dodge but the slime that was with me moments ago took the hit for me.

And it along with its friends (?) went to attack pallad.

Good. I ain't ever helping that fucker again!!

"Hm, the slimes really like you, are you sure you aren't a slime?" Albedo went back to questioning me "If I were a slime I wouldn't talk to you because slimes don't speak human!" I complained "A smart slime?" He wondered "no! Not slime! unlike you, I'm human!" I rolled my eyes

"Huh? How... I mean, what do you mean I'm not human?" He quickly covered up "What- you're a chalk thing aren't you? I forgot the details but, you were some sort of experiment right?" I asked trying to remember "Who- Who told you that?" He asked seemingly surprised "Who told me that? you did!" I said "When? Did you kidnap me and erase my memories? ut I have not been reported missing any day in the past-" Before he starts questioning me on math and shit I decided to cut him off "You told me, on your own, because you wanted to. In the event quest! Do you- Ohh yeah, you told the traveller!" I sighed, that made sense, my face and the travelers face are different so he must've gotten confused! "Traveler? You mean... lumine? She told you?" He asked He had a look of '#betrayed' painted on his face "Wai- No no! Traveler didn't tell me this! I guess you could say... I am the traveler?" i said questioning my own words "If you are not going to tell the truth clearly, I will have to use other means" He said putting his swords tip on my neck

"that was hot though." You said out loud "What?" he pulled back, surprised by that reaction "Uhh, ok listen! I'll put it in the easiest way I can ok? You're not real, nor is this world. You're just fictional characters. And I have no idea how I ended up here. Make it easier?" I said "Seems you don't understand the position you're in to fool around like this" He said pushing the blade a little more so that blood comes from my neck, hurt I took a step back.

He advanced a step and all of us sudden! pusshhh!!! Some lue orb thing covered me and albedo was pushed away!

"Wait what-" I asked my self seeing an abyss mage try to attack albedo. Now that I notice... is that a travelers handy sword?! Dude, why do you even have that on?!?!

goodness.... I think they're talking.... I knocked on the blue glass shield thing, is it sound proof? But since they both turned their heads toward me, I think it isn't I smiled awkwardly "Could you uhm... let me out?" I ask "Please?" I sighed not having any hope but I was let down

"Your majesty!" the mage came running to me "Whoah there... uhm I- I'm sorry ok? I swear I didn't mean to steal the tomatoes!" I said holding up my hands "I know I cant pay for it at the moment, but.. I'll earn! Some how.... I swear!!!" I tried "steal? everything in this world.... is yours! I shall personally deal with any of them who dares charge her highness who-!" Before the mage could finish, albedo cut them off "Your being fooled, if the creator was actually-" He didn't finish his sentence when the mage shut him up "Silence! You... can't see?" The mage asked

"So am I off the wanted list? or..." I trailed off "Your majesty! No! Your not wanted, as in a criminal! Your highness let me take you to somewhere more suitable for conversing" they lowered their head "I- okay uhm.... is this an interrogation?" I sighed... No point going against the police.. they'd shoot you the second they see a chance... but this is a mage! why would a mage question me about stealing!! "What's your name?" Albedo asked ignoring the abyss mage glaring at him "y/n? Y/n..l/n," I said "What- that's not our creators name!" He said arguing "Your highness.... please, this might seem weird the first time" The mage said before teleporting away "woahh" i said before passing out

An endless void, what was it? I can't open my eyes, but I can see, everything, this overwhelming pressure and weight, but somehow it feels natural to me, am I dead? "Child..." A voice echoed The tranquility of the space had been broken and I shot open my eyes from the free space. I wish I didn't...

There was red, everywhere. Not pretty red... the red you choke on. Blood, blood red. that wasn't all, the atmosphere was so different from when I had closed my eyes. It was suffocating, but again, it seemed so natural. There were bodies everywhere, in fact I had been sleeping on a liver for cushion along with what I think is a lung? "You.... could've made better choice" The voice said and my head shot in that direction "You... did not though. You have regrets, so much it weighs you down" The voice had no origin, it came from every where! "I.. don't really" I sighed "A lie!" She said "A huge lie! Who are you thinking of fooling?! I know better than anyone!" After a few seconds the voice announced again "You... who made it all, will now see, that your creation, was an utter failure!" she said and soon my eyes where forced shut.

I was back in the void again but this time I saw myself, much more elegant and dignified than I am, like some.... queen of something I was making something, something similar to a sphere? A globe, perhaps? I tried to move toward the figure but something stopped me "live" the voice sounded so sad.... "Because I couldn't"

She couldn't? But shes so godly.. why?

At that moment all went black and I saw again, the figure of the sleeping woman, she was bored now.... "something...." She said "Why.. am I here?" She moved her hand and slowly drew a line and then another and another... she created a child. how? "Go elsewhere, where you might see and experience something" her voice was a request only, but as if her very existence meant absoluteness, the universe sent the child somewhere.

She was alone, again.

She closed her eyes and opened them, when she did, stars where ever where, all of us sudden, everything was filled... And she seemed so happy, but yet so alone.... "more.... I want to see more..." now her voice was like a plea! Yet the universe took it in and created for her, her very own globe....

And I was forced to close my eyes again

#sagau #genshin sagau #genshin x reader sagau #genshin impact #genhsin x reader #self aware #self aware! reader #angst #genshin angst #genshin x reader angst #albedo #albedo agau #albedo x reader

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rin-itoshi · 3 years ago

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kisses . genshin impact (pt. 2)

> summary: places the genshin boys kiss you other than the lips (ft. bennett, chongyun, razor, xiao, xingqiu, zhongli)

> content: fluff , gn!reader , ooc(?idk)

here’s part one!

# BENNETT

where: your palm!

why: this man does not know how to stfu, so when you have to forcefully shush him, your palm is the best spot for his lips to kiss.

“It’s awfully quiet today,” you murmured as you turned on your heels, hearing the whirlwind of a boy coming your way. He nearly tumbled—so close to crashing at your feet but fortunately caught himself before he could hit the ground. He stood up straight, dusting his clothes with a breathy laugh before yelping out a pained, “Ow!”

“What happened?” You ask as you reach out to cup his face, checking his head and skin for any injuries.

The male chuckled with a closed eyed smile, “I got hit by a rock!” His voice echoed within the city, making you slightly cringe when your ears ached. He was quick to go off on a tangent, babbling about some nonsense that made you even more confused than before.

“Bennett,” you call out to grasp his attention. The moment he turned your way, you slapped a hand over his mouth with an amused smile. “I know you’re excited and want to talk, but we should move away from the Knights of Favonius headquarters before Captain Kaeya kills us.”

He kissed your palm gently, eliciting a ticklish sensation in your hand that made you pull away. Before you could do anything about his sneaky kisses, he grabbed your hand and began dragging you away, talking about some adventure team he was putting together.

# CHONGYUN

where: your shoulders!

why: he likes the smoothness of your shoulder when he lays down behind you and can rest easily without being judged.

The bedroom door creaked open to reveal the blue haired male who stood in the doorway with a pensive look on his face. Upon seeing you lying in your shared bed, he exhaled deeply and you could practically see relief wash over is features. “[y/n],” he breathed out as he shuffled into the room, scurrying over the bed to climb onto the silk sheets and lay himself in the spot behind you.

He wrapped his arms around your waist, pulling your body into his chest as gently as possible. As hesitant as he was, he was way too tired to be reluctant about holding you even thought you clearly felt the same need for touch as him. “’m so tired.”

After a long day of training, he was exhausted and was in desperate need of your touch in order to replenish the energy he had depleted earlier that day. It was only much better now that you were both living together and were able to cuddle as much as needed after work.

“Welcome home, my love.”

He buried his face in the crook of your neck, doing his absolute best to push away the strong emotions that burned inside of his heart. He refused to flare-up in front of you ever again, but with you unknowingly doing things to stir him up, he was always struggling to keep calm.

Peppering kisses along your shoulders, you felt a shiver run down your spine at the cold sensation of his lips on your skin. It was a blissful feeling, warming up your heart with love despite how cold his body truly was. Too beautiful.

# RAZOR

where: your eyelids!

why: this one may sound weird but he just gets curious when he keeps watch and tends to do it without a thought.

Razor stood tall at the peak of the mountain that you both temporarily resided on. His chin was held high, chest puffed out with a sense of responsibility flowing through his veins at the thought of watching over you while you slept to keep you out of harms way. It wasn’t necessarily a demanding duty but for you, it meant a thousand times more than it usually would have.

The boy approached your sleeping body. You were rested on the ground under his jacket that barely shielded you from the cold weather tonight presented to you both. He gently tugged his jacket further up your body, covering your arm that had been slightly exposed.

You were cute like this, sleeping so peacefully with so much trust in the guy who could barely communicate yet you loved him so much. It was amazing.

Subconsciously, he bent down and placed a chaste kiss on your eyelid. You stirred in your sleep, forcing him to jolt away in surprise before settling when you murmured something sleepily, smiled and then relaxed. Your behavior was new to him and yet, it brought so many different feelings into his heart. Unknowing to you, he smiled genuinely and patted your head gently.

“You rest. I keep watch.”

# XIAO

where: your forehead!

why: he just thinks it is less embarrassing than trying to kiss you on the lips openly + less chances of him getting denied the kiss.

His expression was rather dark as you stood in front of one another. It looked like he was thinking deeply about something but you brushed it off, assuming it was just his way of sulking since you two were about to split for the night.

“I packed you some Almond Tofu, so you can eat some on your way back. I also got you a jacket to wear since it might be a little cold in the evening. I know you don’t sleep and stuff, so I just wanted to make sure you were okay.” Your rambling about his well-being wasn’t new to him, which is why he didn’t interrupt you. He watched with the same dark expression that seemed scary but if you looked closely, you would see just how soft those eyes had become after spending so much time with a “mere human” like you.

Grasping you by the back of you head, he pulled you forward and leaned in briskly, kissing your forehead softly before pulling away and turning around. You barely had a second to recover as he adjusted his mask on his face and disappeared from your sight, muttering nothing but a simple, “be careful.”

You smiled at the tingling sensation on you skin, knowing he had only escaped to avoid feeling any type of emotion after kissing you so brazenly. As mean as Xiao seemed, he really was a simpleton with you.

# XINGQIU

where: the back of your hand!

why: do i have to explain?

“Xingqiu, where are we going?” You asked with a tired smile on your lips as you allowed yourself to be dragged along this upward slope with no set destination in mind. The boy simply laughed, pulling you faster until you were nearly tripping over your own feet. By the time you had planned to complain once more, he came to an abrupt stop and you almost bumped into his body if it wasn’t for your quick senses. “Where are we?”

“Take a look, my liege. Quite fascinating, is it not?” He said as he took a seat on the branch perched on the top of the hill, big enough for the two of them to sit on. You plopped beside him, admiring the sun that was beginning to set while Xingqiu opened a book to the page he had left off on.

“My life seems fulfilled when I am sat here with a book in my hands and you by my side. Don’t you agree?” HIs words were sincere, surprisingly void of that mischievous tone he usually had these days.

“I’m not particularly fond of books like you, but I am extremely fond of you. So, yes, I do agree.” You said with a cheesy smile, leaning in his direction. The boy abruptly stood up, and you rose an eyebrow in confusion.

Bending his body slightly, he held out his hand to you until you placed yours on top of his. Once you did so, he pressed his lips to the back of your hand and flashed you an easy smile. “With this, I owe my life to you, my liege. A vow much greater than marriage.”

# ZHONGLI

where: your lips!

why: I legit couldn’t think of a non-lips spot so i gave up. mans just likes the way your lips taste like his favorite wine. two good things.

He admired his cup with bright eyes, absolute taken with the way it tasted on his tongue and hadn’t changed in all these years. It was a beautiful emotion that was a mixture of happiness and nostalgia, plus a bit of romance considering he was here with the one he loved.

“What do you think?” Zhongli asked, eyes full of curiosity as he turned in your direction. You hadn’t said anything all night and he assumed you weren’t enjoying the wine he had presented to you so happily.

On contrary, it was way too good to be wasted, so you chose to drink it slowly in order to savor the beautiful taste that somehow reminded you of Zhongli himself. Maybe it was because he talked about this wine too much.

“It tastes good,” you murmur, leaning into his side to gain a bit of warmth from the male who shared the emotion, leaning into your touch.

You glanced up at him, smiling softly when you already saw his eyes on you. “Stop staring so impolitely. Where are your manners?” You asked jokingly, giggling softly when Zhongli looked down and chuckled.

Leaning in, he cupped your cheek and smashed your lips together. He could taste the Osmanthus wine on you and it nearly made him melt into the kiss that he had long suppressed.

When he pulled away, a small smile settled into his lips, satisfaction in his eyes. “Osmanthus wine tastes the same as I remember.”

a/n: finally, I finished it. im going to bed now uhhdhfjf (idk if i’ll ever do other characters but we’ll see)

#bennett x reader #chongyun x reader #razor x reader #xiao x reader #xinqiu x reader #zhongli x reader #genshin impact x reader #xingqiu #genshin impact #bennett #genshin #razor #xiao #genshin fluff #chongyun #zhongli

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cleumz-moved · 3 years ago

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I have a request. Traveler!s/o dying in their arms? :( (Kaeya, Zhongli, Lisa , Xiao, Ayaka, Childe and any other characters of your choice if you want to add more). And their last words is about their sibling? :'(

awww neato idea!

mk, so

notes - sorry, i can't characterize zhongli too well (also the length of each is wildly varying)

characters included - kaeya, lisa, xiao, ayaka, childe!

warnings - major character death <3 also cursing lol

stuff under the cut!!

KAEYA -

'heyy, hey, shhh shh shh. save your breath. its gonna be fine, i'll get you to barbara, you'll be fine, you'll be fine...' he repeated those words like a mantra, trying to convince himself more than you. that damn mage. 'kaeya, please. i-' 'no. you will be fine. i- i can't- no. it'll be alright.' you gave a weak smile, eyes closed, and in a whisper, 'just, tell (twin) i love them.' 'you'll be able to do it yourself.'

LISA -

she was helping razor with his vocabulary. an average day. completely normal, until jean burst in. 'ohh~ jean, dear! what's the rush? i don't think ive forgote-' '(...) is hurt, you need to go, now.' her world started to crack. 'what- what do you mean? my cutie is and excellent adventurer.' 'lisa, please. follow me.' she really ran, for the first time in years. she burst through the churches doors, and when her eyes fell ipon the scene layed out before her, she broke. you were on the floor of the church, exhaling labored breath, but your chest still rose and fell. she wasn't too late. she rushed over, and cradled your head in her lap. 'hey cutie.' tears pricking her eyes 'hey lisa. here, i have something for you.' you press two small brooches into her hand. 'i was thinking you and (twin) could wear it to our wedding, but now the odds of that a-' 'don't say that. it's beautiful, and we will wear it.' 'always so persistent, hmm?' then your eyes closed. she ran out the door, and after your funeral, she didn't leave the library. ever. but stayed vigilant incase your twin came around, to give them your gift.

XIAO -

he didn't want this. he didn't want to get so attached to a mortal. but he did. to the point that he would lift you with the winds if you were gliding. he should have been paying better attention. really. but he was too late. that stupid dragon. and you only went to get him jade. 'wha- why didn't you call my name.' 'it was supposed to be a surprise. i wanted to do something nice for you.' 'you foolish mortal, i-' you started to chuckle, quickly beginning to cough. 'save your breath.' you gently handed him the piece of juvenile jade. and with an exhale, in a breathless manner, 'i'm sorry my love, i hope to see you and (twin) again, maybe some other time.' after, he wouldn't show himself to anyone, not the adepti, not verr goldet, hell, he didn't even eat the almond tofu smiley left for him. it reminds him to mich of your shared dream.

AYAKA -

she was training. you had gone off to get some ingredients for dinner. just some lavender melon. the very freshest. it wasn't supposed to end up like this. '(...)? is that you? i- i-' 'shh...' you presented a small bouquet of naku weed 'y'know, (twin) really would have like these... i hope you do too.....'

CHILDE -

you guys were going about, totally clearing liyue of hilichurls, when a stonehide mitachurl tired you both out, then a geovishap hatchling seemed to pop out of nowhere, he wasn't fast enough, it knocked you into a big rock (boulder?) there was a yucky crack noise, and after quickly finishing it off, and rushing over to you, 'hey, (...), please say something...' all of his limited medical knowledge seeming to slip away, 'ajax, please, just, if you ever see them, tell (twin) i love them? please...'

pffttt- i never write angst, i hope this wasn't too corny lol

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dreamrecorder · 4 years ago

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Ok so- idk if you’ve seen demon slayer;; but there’s this episode (it was during the spider fambam arc) aNywaYs- so like. Rui yeets ties* (i guess-) Nezuko like. Up in the air. With his weird spider thread jazz— and like. It’s sHarP weird spider thread jazz— so she’s like. Yknow. Being sliced and diced with string— but it kindaaa reminds me of like. Xiao. And his like.... weird... sad.... uh. Karma. Thing. Like y’know where he’s like hanging from his arms- red stuff. Yeah. So like. Now for the actual request

Xiao’s s/o (female if you don’t mind;;) gets kidnapped by like— the fatui or smth. And they tie her up like Nezuko :D to be like “lol haha Xiao be all like-” and she’s just. Like. Dying. Slowly. Dripping b l o o d and yknow. All the tea. And Xiao comes to rescue her— and he’s like 0-0 “wait...” and he realizes that’s like- exactly what happens to him- and so. He beats the fatui’s butts saves his s/o, anddddd she like.

Idk. This is where I need your angst expertise ❤️ like- she could d i e. In his arms. And poor Xiao would be so scarred omg poor thing- BUT THE ANGST- but at the same time;;;; the f l u f f of him being able to save her just in time and she was like fighting for him the whole time or whatever and ended up needing him to save her anyways- and then Xiao feeding her almond tofu until she gets better ❤️❤️❤️

IM SORRY THAT WAS SO LONG- im probably going crazy from lack of sleep from reading fics for too long sndndnsnsj

But if you do this,,, BLESS YOUR SOUL I HOPE TO EITHER BALL MY EYES OUT OR SQUEAL FROM THE WHOLESOMENESS-

Anyways.... thank you! Have a stellar day~ ✨❤️

The heart yearns and the wind heard

lmao this ask is so adorable i hope you’d enjoy this ksks

anyway, full Angst train up ahead but there are moments of Fluff too. There are mentions of blood and violence if those are not your thing- dont worry guys, this goes with a happy ending cos you and Xiao deserve one~ on a final note- non canon compliant and suuuuuuper long- like- legit this is very long

The Yaksha sighs.

He’s here again. His mind and heart has returned his being into this crimson world his demons have created within him.

He feels it. He feels the corruption binding him tighter again for every death he brings by his tainted hands.

He looks at his bindings. And ever so slowly, the red and black coiling around his person will eventually reach his heart.

One day, he thinks, all this crimson and black in this world will swallow him whole and he will see the light no more.

Xiao sighs again.

This is his karmic debt.

The moment you stepped foot within Wangshu Inn, you knew he was in his prison again. After giving a quick greeting to the inn keeper, you hastily went to Xiao’s room. The closer you got, the heavier the atmosphere became.

You reached his door and knocked softly. As expected, no reply as he continues to struggle to take back his control over himself. Without hesitation, you stepped in. To anyone else, they would have instantly met his spear at their throats, but with you, this doesn’t happen. Instead, you see him crouched on the wooden floor with a hand on his chest. His knuckles were white and his breathing was ragged. His amber eyes- lost. Observing his form, yes… his moments of corruption are becoming progressively worse.

With swift steps of familiarity to this routine, you went to him and grasped his shoulders.

“Xiao, it’s me…” You whispered with clarity. And oh- how your voice brought a wave of comfort to his soul.

“N-name…” His voice cracked, but him calling to you is always a good sign.

You gave him a small smile and proceeded to grasp his hands together with yours. After which, you then leaned your forehead to his to chant your prayers. As your prayers progressed, slowly but surely, the corruption begins to fade along with the black mist that covered him. However, you took note how this ritual took longer than the last.

Once everything is done, Xiao just slumped onto your shoulders, still breathing deeply. “How are you feeling?” It was a useless question you asked every time this happens, but you always, always, have to make sure.

Usually, he would mutter a small ‘fine,’ but now- words seemed to have left his mind and all he could muster was an almost-unnoticeable shrug.

Truth be told- his response disheartened you, but you did not show it. Instead, you opted to simply encase him in your arms and caress his hair. After all, these are just one of the few, rare moments Xiao would leave himself into your care. Xiao is aware, himself, that his state has been becoming worse and worse. And you both know, that a day would come when he would just attack anyone- friend or foe- without a trace of hesitation. So, just this time- he speaks his feelings.

“Name?”

You answered immediately with a questioning hum.

“What would you do… when I finally lose control over myself?”

It was very subtle, but he felt how your hand stopped caressing his hair for a second, then proceeded to the previous task at hand again. In all honestly, you can never find yourself having an answer to that question. “And why would I ever let that happen to you?” You questioned back, fully aware that you were dodging his question.

Silence surrounded the two of you, unsure on what to do with the sudden heavier atmosphere.

Not wanting to face the cruelty of the world yet, Xiao simply buried himself on the crook of your neck even more. And despite the ghostly sensation of his lips on your skin, you could feel him mouth the words ‘I love you.’

“As long as I’m here,” you whispered, “nothing can hurt you.” And that was the most beautiful lie that the Yaksha has heard, but he was willing to believe all the same.

When word about Fatui diplomats starting a bank reached you, there was a nagging feeling in your head that trouble would bring itself present anytime soon. It was like an itch that wouldn’t get away. And the only way to have that itch gone is to scratch it.

“You are absolutely a fool.” Xiao stated darkly with crossed arms, for once disagreeing with the plans of his master.

“We can never know what their intentions are unless we let them start their bank, no?” Zhongli said as he gazed at the marsh spread beneath him.

The Yaksha only scoffed but said no more.

Building up your courage, you deemed it was your turn to voice out your thoughts, “Um… Rex Lapis, I see your point, but wouldn’t it be best to resolve the problem before it persists into something larger? We all know- All of Teyvat knows, that the Fatui are not to be trusted.”

Your archon offered you a kind smile, “I understand your worries, Name. However, as of the moment, they have not presented themselves as such. If they truly are our enemies, then it would be beneficial for us to know their intentions.”

You frowned deeply at his statement. Seeing you do so, somehow, your archon immediately identified your main concern.

“Is this about the Tianquan assigning you to be her representative for the Fatui?”

The moment those words left his mouth, a growl tore from Xiao’s throat, but he held his tongue.

“Did Ganyu tell you?”

The Archon nodded and you sighed.

“I volunteered, actually.”

And at that point, Xiao vanished into thin hair, but you could still his sense his presence around.

“May I know why?” Zhongli questioned gently.

For a moment, you struggled for words. You didn’t know how to describe this ‘itch’ to him. “At first, it was supposed to be Ganyu, since in the Tianquan’s eyes- Ganyu is an adeptus and she does not know that I am, too. Perhaps she didn’t want to put me in harm’s way, a ‘visionless human’ at the side of a harbinger. After some convincing to Ningguang for my volunteering, I spoke to Ganyu next.

“The adepti are divine beings that walk here in Liyue. I had this feeling that putting a divine next to a power-hungry harbinger would become an issue. I told Ganyu that, since I looked ‘harmless’ and ‘ordinary,’ the harbinger’s interest about the divine would never surface.”

A stretch of silence wrapped around them as Zhongli pondered over your words. “Perhaps, are you also planning to dig out the truth of their arrival?”

You nodded, “I knew you would allow them to stay, so I just took it upon myself to unfurl their secrets.”

“Hmmm… I grant you permission on doing this. However, should trouble arise, do not hesitate to tell us.”

The glare pointed at you was strong. Even without him saying a single word, you could hear his phantom voice in your head speak with such coldness, What are you thinking?

You simply gave him a reassuring smile, “I’ll be fine, Xiao. I may be a human in mortal eyes, but please do remember that I am also an adeptus, no matter how weak I am.”

Xiao releases a huff, but still sits by your side at the floor of the balcony, letting the moon kiss his skin. “You’re not weak.” He mumbled as he snaked his hand to yours.

To him, you will never be weak. In fact, you were the strongest being he has ever laid his eyes on. Not physically, no. It was you mental and emotional fortitude. Back during the Archon War, he always admired how you kept your head held up high no matter the suffering you have experienced. No matter how much death surrounded you, you still fought. And that strength made you a survivor. During the war, you never failed to help the wounded. Even when someone dies under your care, you held strong for the departed and for those who are left behind. You were a pillar of hope.

He brings your hand to his lips and kisses every knuckle “… Just be careful. If ever you are in trouble do not-“

“Hesitate to call your name.” You finished, beaming at his words.

As someone who used to be a healer and a doctor, you were quite familiar with several mild skin diseases that mortals can suffer from.

If there is an itch, you do not scratch it- for you will only aggravate the area even more.

Now that you’re working alongside the Fatui as the Tianquan’s representative, the itch you kept feeling was only irritated more. Especially whenever you spoke with the Harbinger who goes by the name Childe. And since your work requires you to cooperate with him, you also don’t miss the chance to discover what he hides, should the opportunity presents itself.

Childe… his azure eyes certainly have their… charm to those unaware. However, you knew better. You know he’s capable of drowning you just by his eyes. While he may be a cheerful man, his eyes lack the lustre of joy. The eyes are the windows of the soul, yes? If so, all you see is an unending ocean that you do not want to swim in. The surface may be calm, but the deep is relentless. However, duty bound you are- deep within the ocean, you shall find the secrets the Fatui hides.

Again, another scratch to the itch, but it only irritates you more.

The news of Rex Lapis’s death became the catalyst of you confronting the Harbinger. From Yujeng Terrace all the way to Northland Bank, you ran (with Ningguang’s permission of course). Before you can even open the door to his office, something caught your eye.

It’s faint, but you’re an adeptus. You sensed elemental traces, just smack bang at the middle of the door. You carefully scrutinized the tracings, and fortunately you knew Snezhnayan script. And what you read only made your heart sink.

It’s ready.

With the adeptal arts, you managed to uncover the origins of these elemental tracings.

Scratch.

Without hesitation, you followed these tracings until it led you into some ruins.

Scratch.

Following the tracings further, you find yourself in a dimly lit room. Wary, you summoned your weapon imbued with your element.

Scratch.

Searching the room, you came across several antique boxes. You opened them.

Scratch.

What you saw were familiar. Too familiar. Dimming the room more with your element, you find more Sigils of Permission hanging on the walls and on the ceilings. The energy within them were faint, but with enough numbers, it’s enough to kill a-

“Well, well well, I thought you’d be there mourning for your Archon. But here you are, snooping around someone else’s research material.”

The sound of his voice made you sharply turn your head to him, your stance now more offensive. “What are you planning?” You bit coldly.

The Harbinger hummed a small tune, “Nothing much… But! If you’re really curious, I guess I could tell you.” He hummed some more but you knew he’s not finished. Once he finished his tune, he grinned to you menacingly and the depths in his eyes became even deeper and darker, “After all, I won’t let you leave this place with you knowing my secret~”

There was this one time, Xiao struggled against himself so much, he scratched himself red so that he could anchor himself back to the real world. You remembered how much you cried as he slept in your arms. You never wanted to see him do that again. Seeing him hurt himself also hurt you, too. It was like a stab in the heart, then a twist, and twist some more. A slap in the reality that you might lose him one day.

As he slept, you solemnly observed the wounds he sustained himself to. They were angry red, just like blood.

Now, you, yourself scratched that itch in your head too much into a wound for blood to seep through. You scratched too much and now you have to bleed from it.

You were slipping in and out of consciousness. Sleep was tempting you more and more but you know you have to wake up. You were aware that this is going on for days.

Everything hurts. You remembered how his blades, imbued with the Sigils, weakened you thoroughly. Every slash he brought to your body just drained the energy away from you. But still you had to do something.

He wanted an adeptus- he wanted an adeptus in order for the Sigils to grow stronger both in number and in power.

Now here you are, bound by chains and suspended at the middle of this empty room. These chains were adorned by talismans that drained away your energy. You were bleeding from your wounds of your previous battle.

Drip. Drip. Drip goes the blood and pools on the ground underneath you. The ground, you barely noticed, was lined by Liyuean script which enacts the ritual of the Sigils draining your divine power from your blood.

To the eyes of a sadist- you were a picture perfect in a canvas. A dark room lined by the damned Sigils, glowing an eerie gold. Then there's you with your bloodied clothes and chains. The red pool underneath was casting a red glow on your way, giving you a red shade to your pale skin.

Everything hurts-

And everything was driving you mad.

You can also feel the Overlord of the Vortex feed from your energy through the Sigils. You sensed his lust for power and revenge. You felt his anger and the corruption within him. You felt his hatred and his want to bring death. For days that felt like years, you’ve been battling against that very same god in your head. This battle was not something you shall not lose to and failure is not an option. If you fail here, then Liyue will fall.

This god- he was driving you mad slowly.

If ever you are in trouble, do not hesitate to call my-

You shut the thought from your head. You are not going to call him. You will not speak of him. You will not think of him. You will not call him. Not to this place where his corruption will grow. No. You Will Not Call Him.

If it means that me not calling you will keep you safe from the corrupted remnant of a god- so be it.

Please

However, no matter how much you denied yourself to call his name, no matter how much your heart yearns to be with him- the wind does not ignore the pained sob that left your lips.

Ever since the news of Rex Lapis's death and the visit of the Traveler with a Sigil in his hand- the corruption within him just bloomed into something feral.

The Sigil- there was something wrong about it but Xiao doesn't know what is it that is wrong. Then there's you- where are you? Surely with the news of their Archon's death- it would send you to bring forth a meeting for the adepti to talk this over. But now- for days- you remain not by his side.

With you missing- the demons inside him are slowly taking control over him, taking advantage of his vulnerability for you. For each passing day, it was slow torture for him- The worry bubbling in him was consuming him. He glared at the Sigil between his fingers and not failing to notice how his dark aura covers him once more.

“Traveler,” Xiao called sharply, “What is it you intend to do next?”

To any mere mortal, the look his eyes held were enough to strike fear, but the Traveler stealed themselves- meeting the adeptus’s gaze with an equally serious calm. “I have my suspicions on a certain harbinger and I-”

“Where?” The Yaksha growled.

“In the Golden House.”

Without a word nor warning, Xiao placed a hand on the Traveler’s shoulder and teleported them to the place where the Exuvia is hidden.

To the Traveler, everything happened so quickly as one event led to another. One moment, they were standing among unconscious bodies of the Millelith then the next thing they knew a corrupted and demonic gust of wind flew them away to the side. Regaining back their vision, they could see Alatus’s spear now at Tartaglia’s barrier made of Sigils.

Alatus narrowed his eyes at the floating talismans and began to calculate the flow of this incoming battle with precision and accuracy despite his losing control over himself.

It was a tense minute of sizing each other up, but eventually, Tartaglia has broken the silence with his annoying innocent voice.

“Who would have thought that I’d have the honor of fighting another adeptus of Liyue?”

The question immediately fed the corruption within him, the dark aura exploding at it. He knew that he should not believe in the Harbinger’s words so easily, but the glint in the latter’s eyes held truth. You could be out there, hurting, scared, alone. You could be out there, bleeding out. You could be out there dyi-

His aura exploded once more at the thoughts spreading in his being. With a burst of unspeakable power, Alatus lifted his weapon and pierced the barrier once more, this time breaking it without failure. At the threat, Tartaglia backed away as he donned his mask.

In a similar fashion, Alatus, too donned his mask. “I will ask you once,” the Conqueror of Demons spoke with a deathly calm, “Where is she?”

He should have killed him then and there. But the call of the Overlord of the Vortex must not be ignored as it threatens Liyue.

In the small opportunity of escape, Childe took it. But he was weak and injured as Alatus swiftly threw his spear to block his way and teleported right in front of him. In a show of power, the Conqueror of Demons lifted the mortal by the neck.

“I will ask you again, where is she?”

In fear, Childe told him everything and at his every word, Xiao listened carefully- never speaking once. But the anger within his heart, it boils- it rages. His amber eyes bored into Childe’s soul- thinking what he should do to this mortal. Oh how killing him would be so nice. However, when the Yaksha’s gaze landed on the regal form of the Exuvia, he merely threw the mortal in its way.

“Killing you would have been easier. However, the crimes you have presented against Liyue are not mine for me to judge.

I leave the Harbinger to you... Rex Lapis.”

Once out of the Golden House, the Overlord roared once more, shaking the lands of the nation. However, along with it, he heard the faintest of voices. I’m so sorry... I couldn’t hold him back anymore.

Only then did the demons in his heart freely took control of him. Just like the stories of old, where the Yaksha walks, death follows. But they were no stories. In his way towards the ruins where you were held captive, every step he took brought carnage and even more death and blood to taint his hands. No Fatui will leave this place alive. The very being of destruction ended many lives. Each death, the demons were growing stronger.

All he wanted now was to kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill killkillkill killkill kill killkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkill

Then seeing you suspended in the ceiling and bound by chains. Blood was painted on your lifeless skin. Wounds were littered and bruises were blooming on your form. But most of all, your eyes. What were once full of life and hope- now empty and blank. His demons quieted down.

Broken. You were like a broken porcelain doll.

“N-name...” His voice cracked, not believing it all.

With haste, he quickly broke your binds and caught you in his arms. he was fast to check for your pulse and your breathing. And thank the Archons, you were breathing but barely. You were now walking the line between life and death. With all his might yet a gentle caress, he hugged you for dear life. “Name... It’s me...”

But still, your eyes still held no recognition and it shattered his heart to pieces. With further inspection, he sensed the presence within you. A corruption. A certain evil.

“Name, stay with me please,” Xiao begged with desperation as he fought back tears. “It’s me who supposed to be the corrupted one between us, not you... I’m not allowing you to leave me, you hear me-”

With a ritual of the adeptal arts, he started purging and purifying the evil left by the god who fed from you. He is not letting you stay alone in your prison, not for a second longer.

Xiao prays and he never prayed before. Even to his master. But just this once, He prays with desperation. You are the light in his darkness. You are the moon in his night.

The ritual was a delicate process. For every word he spoke, he was rewarded by your screams of pain and the writhing of your fragile body. He wanted to stop, but he can’t. He had to physically restrain you from trying to escape from his embrace and from hurting yourself. And for every cry you released, Xiao merely shuts his eyes clos just for him not to see your pained eyes. Every now and then, Xiao speaks gentle apologies and words of encouragement for you. You were coming back. But still, the evil persists.

You writhed and scratched against him, until you were creating more wounds for blood to seep through. When it came to a point, you began pleading and begging for him to stop, that was when Xiao had shed a tear. So he continues the ritual, his prayers, and his apologies. They were arriving to a point where the ritual is reaching its conclusion but your screams only grew louder.

Please, just a little more...

Please, just stop...

Please...

The corruption disintegrated away from you in a forceful release of dark energy. He was breathing deeply, attempting to calm his loud heart. When he placed his gaze on you, you were breathing rapidly and your eyes were searching blindly and your hands were desperately holding onto him.

“X-Xiao...” You whispered, “Where am I? Where are you?”

With a sigh of relief, the Yaksha hugged you again closer and his forehead to yours, fearing you would go away again. The action made you lift your hands to his face, still searching blindly.

“I’m here, Name... I’m here.” At his voice, the dam in your eyes broke as you cried silently. Xiao was not adept in emotions, but for you, he will face them gladly. He lets you cry as he gives you soft whispers of assurance, safety, love, and promises. However, you were not crying because of what had happened to you. You were crying for him. After experiencing such corruption-

You sobbed some more- you were this close to him losing you and you could not bring yourself to imagine if your roles were reversed.

“P-please,” you said with a broken voice, “please don’t go to the place where I can’t follow...’

The words, at first puzzled him, but after a few moments, he realized and once more it broke his heart. Bringing you closer, Xiao let loose the tears he was holding back. With a gentleness unexpected of the Conqueror, he simply littered your face with kisses. “I promise if only you would do the same.”

With your smile that he loved dearly for so long you too spoke your promise, “I do.” They were simply two words, but the comfort they bring into the Yaksha’s heart was in volumes.

After that, you shared a few tender moments in each other’s arms. Simply relishing the feeling of their familiar warmth. A little later, Xiao spoke, “Would you like to eat some Almond Tofu once we get home?”

The question made you giggle at his innocence, so you agreed. Despite you needing physical medical attention. But Almond Tofu with him? Yes, you two definitely need some emotional healing.

A/N: fINALLY dONE lmao this was supposed to be short but angst really makes me want to write longer everytime haha~ anyway this request really made me ponder bout genshin stuff with all the corruption this and corruption that but then a question popped up like-

how did childe replicate the sigil of permission? since sigils are imbued with divine energy, i just thought how did this guy accumulate so much sigils to the point of freeing Osial- a god!!! soooo i just played with the idea for a bit then figured out maybe these pieces of paper get the divine energy from a divine source right? and the adepti are divine beings of liyue and another thing- you guys might have noticed the change of names in some scenes- i dont know but i think somehow different names represents different side of a person like- we have childe the cheerful harbinger then tartaglia the power hungry harbinger- there’s Alatus who’s calculating and cold, there’s the Conqueror of Demons who’s ruthless and unforgiving, then Xiao who is calm and humane- lastlyyyyy i might post this in ao3 ksks

#genshin impact #genshin imagines #genshin scenarios #xiao #genshin xiao #genshin x reader #genshin impact x reader #xiao genshin #xiao x reader #xiao imagines #zhongli #childe #ganyu #ningguang

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intothegenshinworld · 2 years ago

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Tofu Anon:

Are you any better now? (If not, I can always attempt to distract you xD)

Do you accept regular Genshin brainrot or exclusively SAGAU?

CHALLENGE:

Choose four superpowers that you’d like to have when you’re isekai’d to Genshin cult au and explain why.

For your reference, there’s always Superpower Wiki ;)

I have a really weak health so I tend to get sick often. Sometimes it's okay and I'll still be able to get out of bed and write, but some days it just doesn't work out XD

Yes! I accept regular Genshin brainrots as well. I'm a huge sucker for the isekai/creator reader so I tend to make more content about that, but I'm open to regular genshin stuffs as well!

So, for the superpowers I tried to come up with some on my own! I tried to debuff them here and there to not make em too OP :D

Future sight

The ability to see the near future.

If you ‘intervene’ this near future you'll change your fate and thus the events seen in future sight will be 'false'.

Personally I'd envision it like this; if you look into the future, you'll never experience that future again. You basically messed with your own actions and thought leading up to that 'future', and seeing the future events 'killed' that 'future'. If you saw a bad future, lucky you! You can evade that easily! But if something good happened- good luck with mourning the loss of your happiness.

Time reset

The ability to rewind time up to a minute prior.

Every time you use ‘time reset’ you'll lose one day of your life force (the days you've lived.) If you use it too frequently you'll age backwards. Usually this power comes paired with immortality, should you use it efficiently

I like the idea of rewinding time but in a way where you can play with it! If it takes away your life force (the days you have yet to spent.) it could be a lot more dangerous. You don't know how old you'll be and you'll probably use the power a few hundred times before never using it again... But!! If you age back, (it eats the days you lived), you can sorta mess with it? You can become immortal at the age you want (use the power a lot to age back in time, don't use it for a few years until you've reached the perfect age and then maintain it,,,). The downside is that it takes a lot more than it gives. You can only go back one minute at a time. If you've walked into a trap you'll still be in danger. You also can't go back in time to change the future either, one minute isn't enough to do that.

Vision

The ability to control elemental power

Rules are the same as any other vision holder in Teyvat. You must train your power and become familiar with the element to fully harness its power.

Being able to fit into society seems like a neat idea. Perhaps I can choose what element I control like the traveller (by touching a statue of the Seven), or maybe I get stuck with one. Either way, having a vision sounds cool!!

Waypoints

The ability to teleport to waypoints you've unlocked

You must touch the waypoint for it to be unlocked. It takes 10 seconds for you to fully teleport and you must stand still during that time period. You can teleport once every hour. You can't take anyone with you.

It’s a nice and easy way to get access all over Teyvat. Because of the '10 second' rule you can't just freely escape from any situation. Best you can do is hide and hope you won't be interrupted as you try to teleport. The cool down leads to interesting situations as well. You can't go back and forth in seconds, so you better calculate where you're going!! Once you arrive you can't go back for a while.

#Tofu Anon #ask #shiro talks

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lovestrucklosers · 4 years ago

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― qingxin flower crowns.

summary: xiao has always been a tool, a weapon. but not to you. never to you.

words: 589

warnings: not edited. reader is not traveler/regular human. soft (ooc?) xiao because he deserves happiness.

happy birthday xiao i love you with my entire heart <3 you deserve the world and i wrote this just because of that

xiao is not sure of the last time he was able to rest easy.

for as long as he can remember, he’s been a weapon. simply just a tool for protecting the innocent people of all of liyue. even during major festivals and events, he’s merely in the background, slaying demons and garnering more karmic debt for the sake of liyue. he’s never been afforded the luxury of “resting easy”.

that is, not until you came along.

you’ve attached yourself to him at the hip (at his slight reluctance) and refused to let him go, no matter how curt he was with you. even as he stands on the wangshu inn’s highest balcony with the wind brushing against him, he can’t seem to get you out of his mind.

“xiao!”

he hears your call, swiftly leaping off the inn’s railing to teleport to your location. he stands protectively with his polearm only to be met with the soft orange and purple hues of the sunset over liyue. where..? he glances around, meeting your excitement-filled eyes, and noticing the fluffy blanket nearby topped with a large wicker picnic basket.

the black-haired male allows himself to be disarmed as turns his attention to you once more, watching as you sit down on a blanket closer to the cliff.

“what are you doing here?” he moves to stand beside you. you merely smile up at him and gently take his gloved hand in yours, guiding him to sit cross-legged beside you. he quirks an eyebrow up at your antics, but continues to let you do as you please.

the soft breeze fills the comfortable silence between you two. he watches you unpack the wicker basket, placing various items on the blanket (notably) including a large bundle of qingxins, two bowls of almond tofu and the appropriate cutlery, and a small hand-made bracelet. you hand him a single bowl with a grin. he takes it, albeit with a small amount of confusion, and sets it in front of him. a couple of beats pass before you speak.

“you can eat it, xiao!” you laugh, “i prepared it just for you! ..or do you want me to feed you?”

he begins to dig into the dish. the sight makes you laugh again.

while eating, he keeps his eyes on you. you’ve placed your own dish aside and carefully undo the band holding the bundle of flowers together. next, you begin to weave the flowers together. by the time he looks away once he hears a rustle nearby, he freezes as he feels something gently placed on his head.

he locks eyes with you, reaching up to touch the crown of flowers you’ve just placed upon your head.

“happy birthday, xiao,” you murmur, cupping his face. he’s surprised, and lets a few seconds pass before he leans into your warm touch.

“so that’s what all this was for..” he lets his eyes flutter shut.

“mhm,” your lovely voice flows through his ears like music, “i found out from zhongli yesterday, so all of this was on short notice.. hmph, you should’ve told me earlier so i could’ve prepared something better than this.”

your hands leave his face and he grumbles, opening his eyes just in time to see you slip the hand-made bracelet onto his wrist. he stares at it with a wondrous glint in his eyes.

he softly smiles, shuffling closer to you, pulling you in for a gentle kiss.

“i think.. that it’s perfect,” he mumbles against your lips, kissing you again. “thank you.”

a/n: wowowowow first genshin post and its xiao. im so happy its xiao bc i love him sm <3 anyways did you guys see his birthday art............ going to cry over it and his letter brb

also sorry for the lackluster banner i wanted something pretty but............. i got lazy so official art it is <3 ALSO ALSO IDK HOW TO END A STORY SO YEADGJHDGJHDG im gonna go play genshin and look at xiao. maybe give him a proper build and do stuff for him bc he deserves it and also i need to give him a better build </3

#my writing #genshin impact #genshin #genshin x reader #genshin impact x reader #genshin impact xiao #xiao x reader

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skellebonez · 3 years ago

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Could you do number 46. They have amnesia? With Monkie King and MK If you’re still doing the request/prompts

You didn't say who had to have amnesia, anon. Spoilers for episodes up to S2E6 inside.

They have amnesia?

"How is this even possible?" MK asked softly, not wanting to be heard but knowing that Wukong’s superior hearing would pick up most of what he was saying. Though given how distracted he was...

"It shouldn't be!" Tang exclaimed equally as quiet, watching his hero with a mix of curiosity and dismay. "He's the Monkey King, nothing should be able to hurt him like this."

"Maybe he wasn't hurt," Mei offered, watching Wukong herself as Pigsy held up another photograph and only recieved a confused look in response. "Maybe it's magic. He can be affected by magic that isn't directly hurting him, right? Even if it takes something big to hurt him physically a spell or curse could still something."

"That is a possibility..." Tang muttered under his breathe. He ran his hand through his hair, sighing as Pigsy seemed to exhaust photographs and illustrations to show the Monkey King. Sandy stood beside them both, Mo curled up in Wukong’s arms instead of his usual place on the big guy's shoulder, and said something in hushed tones that made the Monkey King's ears pull back. "There are no shortages of either that could cause memory loss, hopefully for us temporarily so. And he didn't seem injured in any way when we found him outside the shop... though he shouldn't even be here, he was on vacation! Wouldn't he have told you he was coming back?"

"Maybe..." MK started slowly, watching as Pigsy held up a group of photos and Wukong pointed to one of them excitedly. "But he's been acting... weird since he left anyway. Like he was distracted. I kinda just tried not to worry about it but..." He trailed off, jumping as a loud snap was heard and then wishing he had the staff out in his hands to wrap them around it instead of the mop he just snapped in two. "... crap..."

"You're worried," Mei said softly, laying her hand on her best friend's shoulder. "I am too, even though I may not know the Monkey King that well. But once we find out exactly how much he remembers we can find a way to help him."

"Yeah, about that," Pigsy's voice broke through their conversation as he made his way over. The chef looked perturbed. "So we went through all your pictures MK. He remembers going on the journey, though the details of it are lost, and he knows Mount Huaguo like the back of his hand. But he doesn't remember like 99% of the journey, can't remember any of his monkeys, can't remember us, can't even remember that he's the Monkey King or what that title means." He sighed, pinching the bridge of his snout for a second before continuing. "What he does remember clearly is that he lives alone on an island and that it's the modern day, he went on some big journey he barely recalls... and that he knows MK and that MK is important."

"What?" MK looked away from where he had glanced over to Wukong, staring at Pigsy in disbelief. "Wait, you're telling me I'm the only person he remembers!?"

"Barely!" Pigsy elaborated with another sigh. "Kid, whatever happened to him really messed up his memories. He knows your name and face and that you're important. He kind of remembers training you. But that is it. He doesn't recognize anyone else. And I don't know him that good, but he doesn't seem to be acting like his normal self either."

This was bad. There was no other way to put it. And they needed to figure something out fast.

"MK?" Wukong said suddenly, having wandered up to the group. He still had Mo in his arms, the cat looking up at him in concern. "Is everything alright, Bud?"

It most certainly was not.

"This is my house?" Wukong asked softly, one of the first things he had said since MK and he had arrived back on Mount Huaguo. Getting him home was easy enough, one of the few things he remembered was where he lived after all, but he seemed confused regardless. Perhaps he didn't remember the mountain as much as Pigsy thought he did. "It's... cozy!" He laughed, rubbing the back of his neck. "When your boss told me I was a king I kind of worried that... well, I don't know why, I was just worried for some reason. Weird."

Weird didn't even begin to cover it.

Pigsy wasn't lying when he said that Wukong hadn't been acting like his normal self. Instead of the loud and boisterous and kind of, admittedly, self important Monkey King MK expected, Wukong was oddly subdued. Maybe it was the amnesia making him weary, but he was acting so much like he had for just the shortest moments at the Lunar New Year festival (both before the fireworks had cheered him up and after the fight with the Spider Queen) that MK was starting to wonder...

"I really do live alone except for my monkeys, huh?" Wukong said softly, one of the aforementioned monkeys looking at him in their own concern.

When he saw them face to face he seemed to recall at least a bit. That he cared for them in some capacity both as an actual caregiver and as "I guess a King is right" as Wukong put it. But while he knew each one on the island by name before he couldn't recall a single one now. But MK remembered that the little one that followed them inside was called Yue, partly because he had been the one to help name her.

Knowing that Wukong likely didn't remember that day, let alone how important it had been to him to include his student in this endeavor, made MK's chest hurt.

"Yeah, it's, uh... yeah," MK attempted to confirm, coming off as awkward as he felt internally. Everything about this was awkward. But MK could not, and would not, leave his mentor while he could only barely recall how to navigate his own home island. "So... we didn't exactly get that much to eat at Pigsy's... you hungry?"

The two ate in moderate silence. MK didn't want to force Wukong to feel awkward by asking him about topics he couldn't remember (the last few confused and then apologetic smiles made him feel too bad to try again). He managed to find something, at least, however small it was.

Wukong seemed to remember little bits and pieces about himself. Not everything, obviously, but he remembered some important things. He knew he was immortal and invincible. He knew that he was very very old. He knew he was technically not a regular demon monkey but a stone monkey born out of a... well, a stone. And he remembered his dietary preferences.

This last one was news to MK, who had never actually seen him eat more than peaches and peach chips and food made from his own hair (which was not something he was looking forward to trying again). But it made fashioning something for them to eat easier. Something simple, rice for both of them with fresh peaches (he had so many of these things in his fridge and MK did not know how they lasted without spoiling, but he did not ask) for his mentor and rice with some tofu and green onions for MK (simple, but with seasoning and sauce that for some reason had his own initials on it tasty, he had to remember to ask about that... after).

It was... kind of nice, the situation aside.

"... am I your... absentee dad?"

And there that went right out the window and right into the volcanic inferno of the flaming mountains!

MK nearly choked on his rice, barely managing to chug a glass of water before managing out a "HWUH?" in his mentor's direction.

"I-I'm sorry!" Wukong stuttered out, the uncertainty in his voice sounding wrong. "I just... I thought... there's stuff in here with your name on it but there isn't a place for you to stay, the second room is just storage, so I thought..." He trailed off, biting his lip before sighing. "You told me you were my student. But that... it's doesn't feel right. It doesn't feel wrong but it feels... sorry."

Taking a moment to breathe in deeply, MK steeled himself.

"No, don't apologize," he started, setting his bowl to the side and staying quiet for a moment. "No, you're not... my dad. But I noticed those things too. I've never really been inside your house all that much, only a couple times before you left and only twice since. You don't..." He paused, trying to find the right words to express himself. "I guess I'm just realizing there's a lot of things you don't tell me."

"... it'd be kind of awkward if I just ruined some kind of big thing I was gonna tell you when I got back," Wukong said through another bite of a peach.

"Yeah, I doubt you were gonna tell me you'e adopting me," MK laughed out awkwardly... but that awkwardness lingered long after the conversation moved on to how much of the stuff in the house he remembered.

MK woke up in a sleeping bag in a room that didn't belong to him. He was confused at first, sitting up quickly and looking around before realizing that he was just in Wukong's house. On the floor of Wukong's bedroom, actually. The Monkey King had insisted that he could not sleep on the couch, comfortable as it looked, and they looked around in his storage room for any alternative until they found this.

It was comfortable enough. But not so comfortable he slept through what had woken him.

It sounded like crying.

Not loud, not enough to wake most people. But MK was already highly stressed from the situation and had developed much better hearing since obtaining the Monkey King Powers (how he had thought he needed to learn super hearing that one time he did not know now that he thought about it). So he picked up on the soft sniffs and whimpers and shakey breathes and now he would not be going back to sleep until he figured out what was up.

"Monkey King? You sure there isn-" MK froze as he turned to his mentor's bed, only to find it empty.

Well. Shit...

That probably answered that question.

MK wasted no time in jumping to his feet rushing out of the room and toward the crying before freezing in the door way to he living room.

Monkey King was sitting on the floor, TV on and VR set still strapped to his head.

"Oh... no..." MK muttered softly, making his way inside to stand behind Wukong. "Hey... Monkey King? What are you doing?"

Wukong flinched, he'd never seen him do that before, and gripped his controller tighter. He heard it creak worryingly under his grip.

"I... I saw this game earlier," he started slowly, and MK didn't need him to explain which one it was. The case, familiar to him now, was sitting in plain sight on the floor before them. "I dunno, it just... it felt important. And I couldn't sleep so I decided to go through some more of my stuff and... and..." He took in a shakey breathe, putting the controller down and taking the VR headset off. "I... it was weird looking at myself. Listening to myself tell me what do to. But it felt familar. So I kept playing and..."

MK put a hand on his mentor's shoulder and looked at the screen. He'd made it to the in game store, the temple. There Tripitaka, Tang Sanzang, resided to give the player passive abilities. "How long have you been playing?"

"An hour maybe?" Wukong offered, wiping the tears from his face. "I made it to Zhu Ganglie but I. I couldn't. I didn't want to... MK, I feel like I should remember these people. I can't look at them without feeling... sad. Guilty? I can't help but feel like I did something wrong to them?"

And MK's chest hurt once again, knowing that somewhere deep down in Wukong he hadn't completely forgotten his companions from his journey centuries ago. He should have pieced it together when he played. The art, the dialogue, the placement of the monk... he'd never seen the game on store shelves before either, never even heard of it.

But Sun Wukong had played this game for 10,000 hours.

"They're, uh... They're the people who were on your journey with you," MK started as he sat on the floor by his mentor. "You haven't gotten to Sha Wujing, but he's there too. So was Bai Long Ma. I could... tell you about them? I don't know all the stories by heart like Tang does, but I can try."

"You don't have to do that," Wukong said much more assuredly and firm than before. "If I did something that made me feel like this that should be my own burden to bear, not yours."

"Yeah... but I want to help you anyway."

The two sat in silence for a moment before Wukong stood and made his way into the kitchen. He returned a moment later with a small bowl of peaches and a wrapped pack of pears (once again with MK's initials on it). He sat on the couch, gesturing for his student to join him before he spoke.

"I appreciate the offer, I do... but I'll be able to learn that on my own before my memories return," Wukong said, biting into one of his peaches with a sad smile. "You said Tang, the guy from the noodle shop, knows them. I can ask him tomorrow... well, later today. But as I said before, that isn't your burden to bear. And I don't want to put that on you. And even though I remember you the most out of everything it feels like I don't know you as much as I should. So, if neither of us is going to sleep again any time soon... tell me about MK?"

"... When I moved into the apartment above Pigsy’s I took on MK as a nickname."

Wukong looked up in confusion for a moment before his eyes widened and he put all his focus on his student with a soft smile. "OK..."

The two talked for only roughly another hour, Sun Wukong listening to MK tell him anything he felt comfortable telling him. When he woke up he was back in the sleeping bag, the soft snores of the Monkey King resounding above him.

As he laid awake, the small monkey Yue having made her way inside to sleep on his chest making a good excuse to not get up, he wanted to mull over everything he had learned. He'd learned more about his mentor in the 6 waking hours they spent together in his home than he had his entire apprenticeship, and the same went the other way.

MK wondered just why Sun Wukong hid all this from him so far. For so long. And he knew now he couldn't have possibly been on vacation. Not when it resulted in this. The Monkey King had been hiding so much from him and it clearly wasn't limited to what he was doing behind his back.

But right now Sun Wukong trusted MK, him coming back with him to Mount Huaguo was evidence enough of that. And MK trusted him as he was now... but didn't know how much of Sun Wukong from the past to trust anymore. He needed to get his mentor's memories back. And he needed to get answers.

Sun Wukong slept on, oblivious to the conflict in his student's head.

#monkie kid #lego monkie kid #gen fic #amnesia fic #mk #qi xiaotian #sun wukong #monkey king #dad wukong hints #prompt fill #the amnesia is magic so it is not an accurate representation

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theolsentimes · 3 years ago

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Mary-Kate Olsen's Singular Style

She came to fame as a twin, but the actress's cultish look is entirely her own. Here, with Lauren Hutton, she pays homage to another fashion inspiration, Grey Gardens. Written by Laura Brown, with photography by Peter Lindbergh (Harper's Bazaar, 2007)

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Mary-Kate Olsen may be the only young actress who breezes into her local Starbucks wearing towering, fashion-fierce Balenciaga boots, who arrives at her latest premiere (in Mary-Kate's case, for the new season of Showtime's Weeds, in which she plays a devout Christian with a pot fetish) sporting an oversize cross, and whose favorite band is Led Zeppelin. She may, in fact, be the only young actress who knows who Led Zeppelin is. MK, as she is known to her friends and family, is also a punctual and professional sort. She arrives for a poolside tea in Los Angeles 10 minutes early, ordering a hot chocolate while explaining her fetish for all things sweet — "I'm a candy girl, like Tootsie Rolls and Swedish Fish" — and objecting when the waiter tries to take the sugar bowl away. She is wearing a nautical striped T-shirt (her mom's, from the '70s), tucked into two black Wolford slips rolled down and turned into a tight, Robert-Palmer-video-style mini, and multicolored sparkly Christian Louboutin stilettos. She's just had her hair colored, returning to a sunnier shade after some experiments with both peroxide ("I woke up one morning and was like, I want white-trash hair today") and the dark side (an auburn-haired near-Goth moment last year). She's carrying a large black fringed leather Prada tote — she doesn't do small bags — and her fingers are covered with rings, most notably two vintage coiled gold snakes stacked on top of each other. ("They remind me of twins, sort of double headed.") Altogether, the effect is less her famed "bag-lady chic" than an edgy, body-conscious, and, yes, sexy silhouette. If she weren't 21, she could be 40. And French.

Few people need reminding that Mary-Kate — with her twin sister, Ashley — literally crawled into celebrity aged nine months (courtesy of Full House) and has not been out of the spotlight ever since. She has been a celebrity for more than two decades. Perhaps that's one reason she seems as if she came out of the womb worldly, the textbook old soul. "Yeah," she says with a small shrug. "I get that a lot." With all of that attention and all of the money (her and Ashley's company, Dualstar, has famously become a "billion-dollar business"), Mary-Kate could easily have ended up the type who wears pink terry cloth and carries a variety of small dogs. "Could you imagine?" she says with the politest version of a snort. "No way." She credits her exceptionally close-knit family (she has five siblings) and, interestingly, early stardom with helping her keep her perspective. "I think it helped that I started in front of the camera, so it didn't come as a shock. If I was a teenager and was thrown into the spotlight, I don't know how I would react, to be honest." Though the tabloids are all too keen to brand her a skinny, nervous deer in the headlights, in person Mary-Kate is easy in her skin, confident and surprisingly tactile, curling up in her seat and touching you on the arm to make a point. She laments the generic style of most actresses and cites only men as style inspirations: "Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp. Men, they just dress the way they want, and they don't think about Who Wore It Best." She doesn't much care for Who Wore It Best, noting she avoids those pages by "wearing vintage so often. I just dress the way I feel instead of looking for what's the new handbag." If Mary-Kate and Ashley have their way, more people will be wearing clothes and carrying bags the way they do. They have just shown the fifth collection of their ready-to-wear line, the Row, and recently launched a contemporary label, Elizabeth and James, named after a sister and a brother. The Row's holiday collection (in stores next month) is a slick mix of skinny leather pants, razor-cut blazers, butter-soft, slouchy tees, and a destined-to-be-cultish pullover fur. Lauren Hutton, who stars in the Row's Spring '08 look book, says, "The clothes are extraordinary. A man I was with just loved them. The pieces are just so genius, soft like a baby's skin. Simple minimalist stuff, but really spectacular." Mary-Kate, designer, faces an interesting challenge. She has to marry Dualstar — which has made its fortune selling tween-tastic DVDs and pastel Mary-Kate and Ashley T-shirts at Wal-Mart — with her increasingly edgy and subversive taste. Dualstar executives, some of whom have worked with her since she was a child, often nag her, mom-style, about pulling her hair back "or wearing a color," she says with a laugh. "I had this event recently, and I was like, They're going to be so happy that I'm wearing ... purple. I actually have to think about those things, though, you know, so I don't get trashed." Get trashed sometimes she does. Hutton says, "Once in a while, she'll wear something and I'll think, Oh, baby doll, take another look. But to have the bravery, to take the chance to do that, is pretty wonderful. She is making her own way, which is hardly ever done in Hollywood." Of Mary-Kate's penchant for gigantic Balenciaga heels, Jenji Kohan, the creator of Weeds, says, laughing, "I'd be like, 'It's Tuesday. Do you really want to be wearing those shoes?' But she pulls it off." Designer Giambattista Valli, a friend, says, "She likes to take risks, but because she has such strong personal style, she always manages to make it work. Even if she had nothing on, she'd have style." And MK chic is spreading. "Sometimes I'll look at people or at a magazine and I'll do a double take because I'm like, Oh, my God, that's my outfit, but that's not me," Mary-Kate says. Playing with her wire-rimmed aviators, she jokes wryly that she should have bought shares in Ray-Ban. (She and Chloë Sevigny pretty much brought back white '80s Wayfarers.) She tends to fall in love with a look, then wear it until she's done. "If I put together a good outfit, I'll wear it for three days and then switch it up with a blazer," she says. "I still love my vintage jeans, my tights, and my pants, though." She didn't start wearing heels, in fact, until a couple of years ago: "I kept watching Ashley walk around in them so gracefully, and I'm such a klutz. But I ended up loving heels, and I don't usually take them off." She wears precisely one pair of flat shoes: Chanel's knee-high patent-leather gladiator sandals. This season, it's Balenciaga's fall collection — all of it — that has Mary-Kate obsessed. She is close to designer Nicolas Ghesquière and says, "He is so talented, but he's the nicest, most down-to-earth guy, and that makes everything he does more brilliant. I bought everything, but I haven't got anything yet," she says like a girl impatiently waiting for Christmas. Will she wear the new pieces with her infamous clodhopper boots? "Uh-huh. Wore them the other day, actually." Mary-Kate always goes with her gut, even if some people (back to those tabloids) don't quite get it. "The tabloids say things about me? What do they say?" she asks archly. "People are going to write what they want, and everyone's going to have their own idea of who I am. But I'm not trying to be friends with the people who are reading them, really." After a rough couple of years filled with near-forensic scrutiny of her weight, she'll have you know that she does eat. "This is not going to sound good," she laughs, "but I like making crispy tofu sticks with peanut sauce. I love my sashimi and my salmon and my vegetables." She observes, "Stress plays a big role in how I look day-to-day. I've always been very active — Pilates, yoga. I grew up horseback riding every day for hours. I love dancing. I usually last longer than anyone on the dance floor." A common image of Mary-Kate has her emerging from a coffee joint with an oversize cup. "I always get creamed for having my Starbucks cup," she says, sighing. "But the only time people get photos of me is when I'm getting coffee, when I can't sneak away from the camera." She also resents the pictorial implication that she and Ashley are dilettantes. "They take photos of us going into our offices, and it's 'Mary-Kate and Ashley shopping again.' But I'm going to work for eight hours, and we're working so hard. ..." She trails off. "It just shows how people want to think of you." Mary-Kate is not above celeb watching herself, however. Newly obsessed with Victoria Beckham, she notes she avidly watched Beckham's Coming to America documentary: "She's running around in a bikini and heels, and I'm like, Oh, my God! I do that, too!" How positively Grey Gardens. "I run around my house naked with heels all the time. It's so funny. All my friends will tell you I love running around in kimonos and jewelry or naked with jewelry." More people will be watching Mary-Kate soon, thanks to her role in the Emmy-nominated Weeds. "I am a very good Christian girl," she says with a wink. "She has her moral beliefs — and she happens to smoke pot." Of her newest cast member, Kohan adds, "Mary-Kate is complicated. She's a big celebrity, a huge media icon, but you have to separate the media images from someone who has the same issues, the same desires, as anyone else." Of course, Mary-Kate's image, in all its incarnations — from high fashion to small screen — is her strongest asset. And she has yet to settle on one. "I feel like I've lived 10 different lives already and I'm only 21," she says, almost as a reminder to herself. "But I also feel like I'm entering a new chapter." One thing on which she is clear, though: She doesn't need to be looked at all the time. What would she do for a day if she were invisible? "I would probably go to a restaurant with my friends, who would be able to see me, of course," she adds pragmatically, "and I would sit outside and enjoy a nice lunch with them. Then I would walk down the street." The old soul takes a sip of her little-girl-sweet hot chocolate. "That's what I would do."

#Mary Kate Olsen #mary kate and ashley #Ashley Olsen #harper's bazaar #magazines #articles #photoshoot

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bleachbleachbleach · 3 years ago

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The Ocean at the End of the Realm

My current hyperfixation is the nature and location of the ocean in Soul Society!!! Why is this information important within the broader plot/thematics of Bleach? IT’S NOT, REALLY. IT’S NOT AT ALL. But we’ve never seen it and I’m basically just assuming it exists in SS because Japan has big ocean, but hear me out: Wakame Ambassador gotta come from somewhere. Ergo, ocean. Thanks, Byakuya!

Biomes?

But I’m still curious about where it is and how far away it is. We know West Rukongai abuts mountains relatively quickly (Kaien and Rukia go to their 3rd district to train), so it could perhaps be on the other side of those. Inuzuri (78) also looked pretty mountainous in Fade to Black outside of like, the main village part, but who knows, maybe part of that is sea cliffs. Mostly what we see of Rukongai, though, is either “trees” or “not trees,” so that might not be helpful. But if we pretend work similarly to those in the living realm (even in the absence of the same geophysics, since I’m assuming SS is not a planet and does not have a molten core, plate tectonics, etc. in the traditional sense) I could get behind the closest ocean possibly being West Somewhere.

* Er, speaking of Kaien maybe his existence is stronger evidence for there being an ocean in SS somewhere than Wakame Ambassador, LOL.

Food?

So then I was like, okay, well, how much fish are they eating (and is any of it raw)? Because freshwater fish is generally not a good sashimi pick, and I assume parasites very much still exist in SS because otherwise Mayuri would be wholly unable to live his very best life, and we can’t have that. 99% of the food I could remember is from the same filler arc, and man, as an aside, I see why Rukia prefers eating within the Kuchiki estate, vs. elsewhere.

Kuchiki food (from the first ep of the Sword Beast arc):

Dainty single servings with some very pretty tempura, kombu, seasonal tsunomono, a broiled fish... fancy fancy!

3rd Division blob food (first ep of the New Third Captain arc):

Served mess hall-style, but it’s still Special Occasion Food and probably a step up from the norm, since this is the banquet welcoming their New Third Captain, per the title of the arc. But what is it?? Brown. They are eating Brown, mostly. Maybe it’s marinated tofu?

10th also has blob food (first ep of the Sword Beast arc again):

Also batch cooking, and also for a semi-special occasion. (What that occasion is? Unclear. Ask Senbonzakura. Why it is being held at 10th? Even less clear.) Anyway, we have some meat alongside platters of 10th’s regional delicacy, Light Brown!

Not that the Kuchiki estate is the only game in town when it comes to nice food. There’s also this restaurant that Hinamori, Nanao, and Matsumoto go to (at some point in the Sword Beast arc):

Notable because there’s definitely sashimi here, which lends some credence to my “the ocean exists” theory (if we’re willing to call it a theory--that seems a little heavy. Exuberant fabulation!). Though... I’ll also note that this spread seems really nice and I would imagine this restaurant is too spendy for anyone below VC rank to be able to afford it. Chow down, ladies. XD (Someone, somewhere in SS, is mad about the fact that VCs be out here feeding their SWORDS sashimi just because they can!) Given that, I still think the ocean is further away and fish less readily available in Seireitei than it is in the majority of living realm Japan.

Other food things we know re: fish vs. meat: Soi Fon likes fish, 8th proposes sushi as part of their Jump Festa booth snacks, tai yaki exists, Kuukaku mostly serves meat when she invites Ichigo/Rukia et al to dinner at the end of the SS arc in the anime, and it looks like mostly meat up in the sky when Renji and Ichigo eat at 0 Squad.

Beaches?

The SWA (+ a surprising number of dudes in the anime version, now that I think about it) also took their beach vacation in the living realm, which might have been for the exotic militouristic novelty of it all, but I mean, also because the beaches in the living realm are probably significantly more developed and commercial than the beaches of SS. And possibly easier to get to even though it requires literally traversing a realm: Transcending space-time is no biggie when the other option is to just hoof it out to the boonies because your society never saw need to invent transportation!

I bet the oceans in SS are all craggy and sylvan and full of Weird Stuff the Gotei 13 has criminally underexplored relative to the amount of time and energy they’ve put into the living realm/Hueco Mundo (though these are also still underexplored).

YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT. Post-TYBW I want them to have to like, lead convoys to the various corners of the realm to apologize to the neighbors for the ruckus. Like, man, sorry bruh, houseguests, amirite? Pls don’t file a celestial noise complaint. (And somewhere, some Kuchiki is just like, “but the original terms of our trade and fisheries agreement is still cool, right? Cool.”)

tl;dr I think the ocean in SS close enough to access, but far enough that eating terrestrial animals is more common than fish (or at least ocean fish). And now I really, desperately want someone to go visit it!

#bleach headcanons #perfectly pointless postulating #soul society #bleach geography #bleach #bleach anime #bleach food #just to be clear i'm not trying to make a definitive argument about canon or anything #i'm just messing around XDD #seriously though i've been thinking about the soul society ocean all week #it's one of my new favorite things

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