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“Prior to departing the Zapolyarny Palace for your trip, have you made plans to visit Liyue?”
“I had to leave it,” Childe might say if he wanted to be honest—but honesty is not something he can afford… and not something he would offer someone he barely knows. He is open-minded and charming, people say, easygoing and entertaining. But he is a general and a duke, Her Majesty’s weapon and favourite Harbinger. “I had to leave it,” thus, he tells nobody but himself, “I had to leave it because my ambitions, and my hunger for power, and my arrogance brought destruction upon my country.”
After a series of unfortunate events, Childe—Tartaglia, Duke of Morepesok and a general of Snezhnaya—ends up in Liyue Harbour, met with all the proper courtesies. Welcomed by Rex Lapis, however, might be an overstatement. Despite his stay in the esteemed Yujing City, not once does he catch sight of the Emperor.
But Childe has a plan of his own to seek out the Emperor of Liyue—and the Ministry of Rite’s enigmatic consultant, Mr Zhongli, is his key to doing just that.
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07 Oct 2025
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Something was wrong in Beacon Hills. Derek was halfway across the country when he felt a call to return to his hometown, and somehow Stiles had been talked into letting the werewolf stay in his guest bedroom. This could lead to nothing good.
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01 Oct 2025
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It’s 6:18 A.M. on a Monday, and Stiles is using his thumbs to shape the fondant butt of a Winnie the Pooh sculpture. It’s the most action he’s seen in a long time.
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Or the one where Stiles runs his own bakery, never locks the front door, and doesn't know he's part of a werewolf pack (until he does).
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29 Sep 2025
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but his lungs were not deep enough by notavodkashot
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
27 Jun 2025
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“I understand my own nature,” he said, eyebrows arched, “that doesn’t mean I’m not a slave to it. Just because you understand gravity, it doesn’t mean that you can choose not to abide it.”
“Gravity is not the same as killing,” Neuvillette countered. “You speak too lightly about killing people.”
“Killing people is easy,” Ajax replied. “And I happen to be good at it. Now keeping people alive. Keeping people happy. That’s a tall order, alright, but that’s what your nature says you should do, doesn’t it?”
“I am more than just impulse,” Neuvillette pointed out. “And I suspect, so are you.”
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26 Sep 2025
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When Zhongli defeats a monstrous creature in the depths of the Chasm, he does not expect what’s left behind — a strange boy with a wound that will never heal.
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26 Sep 2025
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"Realistically, if I never found out, what would you have done? Promising to grow old with me, only for you to never age, what then? When was I supposed to find out?"
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Five years. Five Nations. Three Lantern Rites. In the end, Ajax only ever yearns to return to one. AKA Ajax takes on a character development arc on his departure from Liyue, swears to move on, and finds that he doesn't really want to leave.
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19 Sep 2025
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"This is Uncle Tian, Liyue Qixing Tianshu," Ganyu says, in Teyvatian common tongue, offering Ajax her signature smallish not-smile. "Starting today, you are his ward."
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[Millelith Childe AU:] At fourteen, Ajax is sent to Liyue to dodge Fatui enlistment, and that changes everything. AKA Eleventh Harbinger Tartaglia (codename: Childe) does not exist, but Millelith Sergeant Ajax does.
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19 Sep 2025
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An unexpected visitor brings news that a rival Alpha is interested in taking over Beacon Hills. This means that Derek has to travel to Colorado to convince Werewolf Society to deny that petition. Packs with a mated alpha look stronger and more stable, so Derek needs a mate. Or more accurately, he needs someone to pretend to be his mate. Enter Stiles, who is somehow Derek's best option. Etiquette lessons bring them closer together than either of them expected, and the part of Derek that is more wolf than human is starting to take an interest.
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18 Sep 2025
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he’s gonna say it’s love by TheGreatSwordSwallower
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
28 Aug 2025
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“See, Tartaglia, you are to care for the children. All five of them,” Pierro says.
Ajax’s stomach drops. Five. He tries to protest, but the Director’s voice cuts like breaking ice.
“You can and you will. It is Her Majesty’s and Morax’s will. If the old god finds you satisfactory, the Gnosis will be returned to us.”
So this is what She believes of him. That he can fight wars, raise children, carry any burden without complaint. And the truth is, he would. If She asked him to drown Liyue, he would. If She asked him to drown himself, he would.
What are Yaksha-turned-children in comparison? If it gets Ajax the gnosis, then he will do everything in his power to raise the children.
He will do everything in his power to please Morax.
or: the summer Ajax, as his task in order to acquire the Geo Gnosis, becomes an au pair in Liyue for four-Yaksha-turned-children + Alatus, and consequently learns what it means to love — and to leave.
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17 Sep 2025
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"Welcome to a new user experience! You have triggered this interface with the keywords, ‘Stupid game! Stupid devs! I want my f*****g money back!’ You are now bound to the character Tartaglia, the Eleventh Harbinger of the Fatui, codename: Childe! We hope you have an enjoyable user experience and we welcome you once again to Genshin Impact 2.0!”
Those are some of the first words Ajax, starving college student extraordinaire, has the misfortune of hearing upon waking up in a brave new world from what he's fairly sure is a very fatal accident involving water and a shit ton of electricity.
Okay, so he's not dead. That's good. But what's this about him being stuck playing the character Tartaglia? Tartaglia, as in the no-good, one-dimensional, cartoonish villain who met his untimely, gruesome death in the first act of the original game?
Forget this. Like hell Ajax is going to share that fate.
And so begins one man's journey to save himself from his awful destiny.
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22 Aug 2025
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When Rex Lapis received the contract proposition from the Tsaritsa herself, he considered it thoroughly. Amidst the various conditions and technicalities, Rex Lapis issued a crucial demand: a helping hand in challenging the people of Liyue.
Without this aid, he declared, he couldn’t part with the Gnosis—his land, this diamond of the city, must be protected at all costs.
The Harbinger, wreaking havoc upon Rex Lapis’ beloved city, proved to be more resourceful than the combined strength of the Adepti and the Qixing. As the Jade Chamber collapses beneath the force of an ancient god, Morax, the Lord of Geo, returns from the dead.
Or, more accurately, from his disappointingly brief retirement.
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Written for ZhongChiLi Week 2024
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21 Aug 2025
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The world came into focus slowly. A soft bed beneath his back and a heavy comforter weighing down his chest. It was warm and comfortable. Ajax didn’t want to open his eyes. But he could sense he wasn’t alone and after his terrible few nights, he couldn’t risk letting his guard down,
He blinked his eyes open and everything looked strange. Colors were heightened and he groaned as a headache throbbed behind his eyes.
“Take it slow,” Zhongli told him, his voice soft and closer than Ajax expected.
“What h-happened?” he asked. “The last thing I remember was…”
The memory of that horrid burning pain rushed in and Ajax reached for his neck. It was still bandaged and sore. God, he was so thirsty.
“It was the only way,” Zhongli said sadly. “I am sorry.”
Amor fati: Latin; love of fate; accepting positive and negative experiences in one's life.
Ajax learns to love and live again with the help of Zhongli.
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- Part 5 of ZhongChi Week 2025
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24 Jul 2025
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To forgo the chance to eliminate Rex Lapis just to pleasure him—that is the arrogance of the young, the brash, the undefeated.
“Show me yourself,” Zhongli orders, perhaps arrogant as well, old, bored and undefeated.
The hitman chuckles softly but complies, raising his hands to lower the mask. It now rests around his neck, revealing his face. Zhongli examines him—not for strategic purposes. He simply enjoys the pretty face, the cheerful smile of tempting lips, the flush covering freckles on his cheeks.
“How handsome you are,” he remarks. Compliments are the easiest way to gauge a person. There is something genuine, unfiltered, in the way people react to praise—something no amount of training or self-discipline can fully mask.
Six months ago, Fatui's attempts to eliminate Rex Lapis began—from plots to disrupt his work to assassination attempts. None of them have been competent enough to harm Rex Lapis personally, so when he is attacked in the car park of his own building, and the assassin does indeed have impressive martial arts skills… the blood in his veins rushes faster and pounds louder in his ears.
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- Part 2 of DARK ROMANCE
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24 Jul 2025
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The handwriting is not as sharp as he’d envision from a man whose mission is honing himself into a blade. It carries an innocence that sits completely opposed to the death it heralds. The cursive bends elegantly around imaginary straight lines, every letter flawlessly aligned, masterfully connected to the others with fine yet firm strokes. A most intriguing penmanship, revealing a precision that Zhongli can’t help but hope he’ll soon be acquainted with. The fangs behind the smile.
It takes a single reading to memorize the name and the address noted down, yet his stare lingers on the words some more, as if they could answer the cravings of a god’s curiosity. They leave him with a charming promise of more.
Or: Zhongli develops a fascination towards Childe's violence.
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23 Jul 2025
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Everything loses focus in the months that follow the bombing. His life becomes a blur of camera flashes and self-censorship, of increasing loneliness and dimming hope. He begins to think Yohan was right about him. Maybe his methods are too gentle. Maybe his expectations were too great.
Gaon is struggling. Yohan takes him home.
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22 May 2025
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After the disastrous meeting where K had gotten the better of him and expressed his explicit distaste for Gaon’s existence, Yohan insisted that Gaon learn to fight properly.
“If you have him, why do you need me to learn how to fight?”
Or: K teaches Gaon to fight under Yohan's assistance, and suddenly Yohan and Gaon are fighting two battles at once.
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- Part 2 of Armata Potentia
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12 May 2025
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Kim Gaon wakes up to the sound of unfamiliar footsteps in the house.
Or: Kim Gaon comes face to face with Kang Yohan’s driver/errand boy and…neither of them are impressed. Especially not Yohan. Yohan just gets mad.
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- Part 1 of Armata Potentia
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12 May 2025
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'Till the next hello by Tenillypo for Incandescentflower
Fandoms: 악마판사 | The Devil Judge (TV)
26 Dec 2021
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"Don't react," Yohan says in his ear, low and familiar. "Do exactly as I say."
Gaon's breath stutters. It's been four months since he last heard that particular voice.
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12 May 2025
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There's a unicorn in Beacon Hills. A fricken' unicorn. In fricken' Beacon Hills, California. And it turns out that unicorns aren't drawn towards virgins in a happy-go-lucky let-me-lay-my-not-at-all-metaphorical-horn-in-your-lap way. No. They kill them. And guess who's the only virgin idiotic enough to get sucked into the Beacon Hills supernatural scene? Stiles, that's who.
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17 Apr 2025
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out like a light by theyaremycrocs
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
16 Jan 2021
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Izuku feels a hand grip the back of his jacket before he can even turn around to see what's there, and he’s being thrown onto the floor.
He launches himself at whoever came up behind him, and as he collides with them, he finds himself dwarfed by their height - they overpower him easily, taking hold of his wrists as he struggles without a weapon.
He’s pushed back against a tree, an arm pressed to his throat, pinning him to it.
Izuku looks up and is faced with blue and grey eyes.
“I know you,” Todoroki says flatly.
Izuku Midoriya is picked as the male tribute for District Seven, and even he, at seventeen, knows he has no chance of winning the Hunger Games.
Maybe he'll survive better with an ally.
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- Part 1 of out like a light
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17 Apr 2025