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quick wit but nothing good to say by cherotonin
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
14 Nov 2024
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Tighnari’s jaw snaps shut. They both watch in silence as Al-Haitham, ritual worshiper of the daily workplace routine, a transcendently habitual creature set in his ways since the moment he accepted this job offer, reaches thoughtlessly into his desk organizer for a pen and instead comes up with three-quarters of a pastel blue crayon.
Al-Haitham pauses. He looks down at the crayon in his hand; then, at the document he was about to sign. Next, he casts his gaze across the rest of his desk, where it lands on a sheet of scratch-n-sniff stickers in place of his post-its and a heart-shaped hole punch replacing his stapler. His hand visibly twitches.
I will get you, he mouths at Kaveh. Then he puts down the crayon and signs the phrase without breaking eye contact, just to be thorough.
Good luck, moron, Kaveh signs back. Then he blows a kiss.
Al-Haitham and Kaveh have a totally normal and mature workplace prank war of totally normal and mature proportions.
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- Part 1 of the university of sumeru city
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15 Jul 2026
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two hearts so open, feelings so in unison by ByTheBi for winterinthesewoods (silveresque)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
15 Jul 2026
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Kaveh gives his friend a helpless look. "Alhaitham doesn't flirt with me."
"Kaveh. He literally quotes lines from famous romance novels at you. All the time."
"He just does that! He's a lit major!" he argues, face hot. "Besides, the stuff he quotes isn't even romantic all of the time. He once told me, 'Better be without sense than to misapply it as you do.' That one's from Emma, by the way. Definitely an insult."
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(Or a simple college love story told through Jane Austen quotes.)
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The air in the house feels especially stilted, like a sentence left hanging. Or maybe it's just him that's been left hanging. He debates going to bed early and just sleeping the rest of his birthday away, but for some reason he stays up, keeping silent vigil.
It reminds him of the birthdays right after their thesis fell apart— and before that, the birthdays after the death of his grandmother. He realizes, belatedly, that the only times he's spent his birthday alone have been after the loss of those closest to him.
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In which Kaveh's birthday gift to Alhaitham is a week with the house to himself.
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"How did you even learn to draw?" Kaveh asks another day, observing another drawing closely (one where he seemed to be passionately talking about something again).
"Hm? I just flipped through a book on anatomy and got the hang of it."
. . . Why did Kaveh even bother? Alhaitham was probably the kind of monster who could draw a perfect side profile without lifting the pencil from the sheet even once.
Kaveh learns that Alhaitham liked to draw.
Or . . . he resorted to it, for reasons Kaveh would have to piece together over pages and pages of works created with the cost of a fraction of his dignity. Hopefully, he gets his answers, before the humiliation gets to him.
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Tighnari’s tail swishes with visible frustration. “He buys you your favourite food after you guys have had a fight. He drives you to places, takes care of you when you’re ill, and covers you in blankets when you fall asleep in the living room.”
Kaveh hums to show Tighnari that he’s still listening.
“Sometimes, you do his laundry. You were the one who decorated his entire place, you have customized house keys, you have the spare for his car, and both your brushes can be found in the same cup.”
Kaveh sighs. He knows how it sounds, but this is completely normal. It’s what they’ve always done. “Tighnari, babe, what’s the point you’re trying to make?”
“Kaveh, if this is your idea of platonic, then Cyno and I are practically strangers!” Tighnari exclaims.
Alhaitham and Kaveh are just two totally platonic roommates. Platonic™, with a capital P. (Jury’s still out, though.)
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08 Jul 2026