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  1. Summary

    Stories about Allogenes (proto-Gods; “Genshin”s) and their Visions. Ambitions, wishes, and how Visions affect their wielders...
    and, what the Seven elements mean.

    1. Start with Seven Prayers[...], which (re)tells the Vision stories for all the characters up to version 2.4, plus a few more.
    2. Then for post-Sumeru Dendro, see Yet Still You Climb, a story about a brave little cat becoming a nekomata.
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    Any innocence I might’ve had’s been stained black—midnight black—by all the things I’ve seen.

    “Fischl’s Investigations,” I said. I took a long drag of my violet licorice, holding it between my index and middle finger. “If you need a problem solved, you’ve come to the right place.”

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    Hu Tao was merely the latest such adoptee. She came from a long line of funeral directors[...] and had become an orphan and Vision user at age eleven. Not long after, Rex Lapis—who had been helping care for her—made the critical error of seeking Cloud Retainer’s advice on dealing with children. By the end of that night, Cloud Retainer had kidnapped Hu Tao from Liyue Harbour and was teaching her the basics of Adeptal arts.

    Canon divergence AU. The various fics are self contained except where otherwise noted.

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  1. Public Bookmark 4

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    Xianyun and Faruzan brought together for a collaborative Lantern Rite project, and how their shared experiences of isolation and displacement create an unexpected bond

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    29 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 1

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    "One finds one's estimation of you continues to rise. And... ahem. One requires an assistant. Someone with modern scholarly knowledge to help document one's work and translate it for contemporary understanding. One wonders if you might consider an extended stay?"

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  3. Public Bookmark 5

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    Faruzan wavered, her eyes fluttering closed. "I'm difficult," she warned. "I'm stubborn and proud and I don't know how to ask for help."

    "One is aware. One finds these qualities rather endearing."

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  4. Rec 6

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    Madam Faruzan. There is something I would like to show you, if you have an afternoon free. Meet me at the east gate at second bell? I will bring snacks! — N

    Faruzan read it twice. She set it on her desk. She looked at her manuscript. She looked at the mechanism, which had, in a development she was choosing to interpret as coincidental rather than symbolic, defeated her again this morning on what she had believed was the final calibration step. She looked at the note again.

    She spent two hours not thinking about it during which she accomplished nothing useful and knocked over one of the inkwells.

    She was at the east gate at second bell.

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    28 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Faruzan looked down at the cup in her hands. “That was a hundred years ago.”

    “Yes,” Nicole gave a soft smile. “It was.”

    Which was not the same thing as saying it didn’t matter. Faruzan heard the difference very clearly. She heard it in the specific way she hears something she did not know she had been waiting to hear, which is not with surprise but with a sudden and involuntary sense of recognition, like solving the last step of a proof and finding it comes out right.

    Nicole did not try to resolve the weight of it for her, did not offer consolation in the form of reduction, the way most people did, telling her it was long ago as though that erased it, or that she had done so well as though the hundred years had been a performance requiring evaluation. Nicole just acknowledged what was true and then let it be true and sat with her in the light.

    Faruzan thought, when was the last time someone did that?

  5. Public Bookmark 3

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    Stellefly Week 2026 – Day 5: Trapped in a Room

    See title.

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