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Title: the rose’s scent
Fandom: Link Click
Characters: Cheng Xiaoshi, Lu Guang, Qiao Ling, Xiao Li
Rating: T
Word Count: 12,363
Summary: Cheng Xiaoshi, photography, and the act of preserving the past in the face of a daunting future.
[Major spoilers for season 1′s finale.]
Title: world’s end
Fandom: Genshin Impact
Characters: Kaveh, Alhaitham
Rating: T
Word Count: 7,073 [total]
Summary: The world is coming to an end for the fourteenth time in a fortnight. Penniless, homeless, and friendless, Kaveh decides to ride out the apocalypse by drowning himself in alcohol.
Enter Alhaitham, but whether he holds salvation or the second coming of Khaenri’ah in his hands is another matter altogether.
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Title: world’s end
Fandom: Genshin Impact
Characters: Kaveh, Alhaitham
Rating: T
Word Count: 7,073 [total]
Summary: The world is coming to an end for the fourteenth time in a fortnight. Penniless, homeless, and friendless, Kaveh decides to ride out the apocalypse by drowning himself in alcohol.
Enter Alhaitham, but whether he holds salvation or the second coming of Khaenri’ah in his hands is another matter altogether.
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Title: light is a shepherd
Fandom: Octopath Traveller II
Characters: Temenos, Crick
Rating: T
Word Count: 3,514
Summary: Crick may have survived the attempt on his life, but his wounded trust in the Sacred Guard and world at large is not something so easily salved.
But sometimes, the best medicine is having someone else to put your faith in.
[Canon divergence from Chapter 3 - Stormhail Route.]
Title: daybreak
Fandom: Octopath Traveller II
Characters: Temenos, all Travellers, Crick
Rating: T
Word Count: 1,818
Summary: Temenos navigates grief once again, messily, but with friends at his side.
Major spoilers for Temenos’s Stormhail Chapter 3 Route.
Title: be on your way
Fandom: Genshin Impact
Characters: Alhaitham, Kaveh
Rating: G
Word Count: 1,397
Summary: Kaveh prepares to leave for the evening, disrupting Alhaitham’s quiet peace.
An argument breaks out, as it so often does.
peonies- good fortune and everlasting love :)
male characters are at their most relatable when they have a weakness for insane women
[ Prints, HD wallpapers & Behind-the-scenes ] Second illustration for a custom Triple Triad I’m currently working on. Taken I’ll produce two pieces per month on my free time, the whole project should be complete by 2026! Already looking forward to get the full deck printed! - character © Square Enix • art: Priscillia ‘Tholia’ Bentz ·
Title: a step away
Fandom: Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Characters: M, N, Mio, Noah
Rating: T
Word Count: 3,363
Summary: MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR THE FINAL SCENE OF CHAPTER 5
It never had to be forever. Everything came to an end; it was what they made of the time they were given that mattered.
M had known that all along.
(Two interlinking scenes. M, and N, and the inherent toxicity of what they have become. Mio, and Noah, and the inherent hope of the future to come.)
Title: from the heart
Fandom: Fire Emblem: Three Hopes
Characters: M!Byleth, M!Shez, Jeralt
Rating: T
Word Count: 4,682
Summary: Shez takes a blow for Byleth. While he's bleeding out the battlefield, he gives a gift, believing it might be his last chance.
Byleth doesn't necessarily understand his intentions, however.
so like. obviously it's an immensely tragic route to take but sometimes it's just so satisfying for a story to go "there's no happy ending this time. resistance is futile in this scenario. the 'good guys' can't win. this is a pointless last stand. so for their final act, our beloved characters are going to rock the antagonist's shit so fucking hard it makes you stare at a wall struggling to process what just happened and how you feel about it for hours afterwards."
i simply think that sometimes it's the best possible narrative decision to allow characters to become supernovas, imploding on themselves but taking as much with them as possible. "you can't save anyone" "maybe not, but i can hurt you". fuck yes. if you can't beat them, tear them apart.
Title: homecoming
Fandom: Genshin Impact
Characters: Beidou, Kazuha, Ningguang
Rating: G
Word Count: 3,286
Summary: After months of no contact, Beidou receives a message from Kazuha. Three lines, a simple haiku, one that she can't ignore.
"Please come and get me I’m tired of this country I want to come home."
(Set just after the Irodori Festival, Kazuha reunites with the crew of the Alcor.)
Homunculus: Dwarf in a Flask
“This is a cursed tale, and it is not one whose weight you should have to bear.”
