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“Sometimes, it gets to a point that I,” Kaveh swallows. “That I don’t know if I’d ever like to move out of your house. And I know I’ll have to, eventually, if we make it out of here, but that doesn’t stop me from selfishly wishing I could stay.”
“You can,” Alhaitham says immediately. His voice is low as he stands so painfully close, close enough that Kaveh can smell him, that comforting woodsy scent that both makes his stomach flip and his nerves ease. “You can stay. I never had any plans to ask you to leave.”
Kaveh blinks. “Really?”
With Teyvat in danger due to the corruption from Irminsul, Kaveh realizes that there's things he's left unsaid to Alhaitham. In the event they don't make it out alive, he spills to him how he's felt for a long, long time.
Takes place during the scene on the rooftop of the Temple.
Bookmarked by larad
13 Jun 2026
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Crying at 1:11 for how single I am (not really but heheh)
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“Alhaitham,” Kaveh drawls quietly, the alcohol hitting his system. “Why don’t you touch me?”
Alhaitham blinks. He wasn’t expected to be asked about this, of all things. This goes against everything he had gathered from his observations of Kaveh’s behavior.
“Because… you don’t like being touched?” Alhaitham supplies.
“But I do,” Kaveh whines. “And you never touch me.”
Or, Kaveh keeps reacting strangely when Alhaitham touches him. In observing why exactly Kaveh's behaving like this, Alhaitham realizes that what Kaveh desires aligns awfully close to his own.
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the architectural language of nostalgia by AppleSharon
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 May 2026
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Alhaitham’s eyes travel down and then back up the length of Kaveh’s body as he glares at Kaveh. “Unfortunately, not all of my decision-making is guided by logic.”
Shuddering under Alhaitham’s scrutiny, Kaveh flushes with anger at how his body still automatically reacts to Alhaitham after all these years.
“Regardless, we used to be…” Kaveh’s voice trails off as he realizes that he doesn’t really know what he should say.
“…research partners,” he finishes lamely, placing his hands on his hips in an attempt to look more intimidating. “I know you don’t approve of my methods or reasoning or…anything, but I didn’t think you would be this purposefully spiteful. I thought it beneath even you.”
Kaveh goes to the desert for a personal project. Alhaitham meets him where he is.
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Bookmarked by larad
04 Jun 2026
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😭🌈✨ just finished the archon quest and man did my heart skip a beat. This was so perfect!!
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the self is not so weightless nor whole and unbroken by cheschi
Fandoms: Circe - Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, The Odyssey - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
04 May 2021
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Odysseus meets many faces again when he journeys to the Underworld in search of the seer Tieresias. Some are more familiar than others.
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14 Apr 2026
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so many details in this short pieces. For not reading in 3 years and then writing this you’re insane
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i don’t want to be in love with another even in another life by cheschi
Fandoms: A Song to Drown Rivers - Ann Liang
01 Sep 2025
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She tries to remember everything from when she was alive, tries to hold the images for as long as she can. It keeps the wait from feeling fruitless, she thinks. Some echo as clear as a crystal, burning as bright in her mind as the day they happened, while some she can barely muster into a proper memory. In the end they all never last too long.
Her mind wanders in the Yellow Springs.