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Change Is Imp(ur)rative by iridescentmirrorshkvh
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
24 Jun 2024
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"Alhaitham?"
The cat only stared back at him, as if he hadn’t just spelt out the name of Kaveh’s roommate on the floor.
Kaveh was being goaded.
He grabbed the cat (Alhaitham, but he couldn’t fully register this, so he wouldn’t for now). “This is no time to be difficult! You’re a cat! We have to get you help!”
But the cat deplored this notion. He clung to the floor, or attempted to, claws drawn out and scratching with particular vehemence. “Hey!” Kaveh held him up, his body hanging low and limbs tensing. “This is your floor, you know!”
And then he processed what had just happened. “Hold on – you don’t want to get help?” The cat’s body became lax, and he stared back at Kaveh was disinterest. Kaveh resisted the urge to shake him. “This is ridiculous! I’m not arguing with a cat! I don’t care if you just so happen to be Alhaitham. I’m getting you help whether you like it or not.”
(Upon inadvertently transforming Alhaitham from a cat back to a human by somehow fulfilling an unknown desire, Kaveh is confronted with the question he’s tried to smother for years – why did Alhaitham allow him to stay? Why was Kaveh here?)
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Kaveh is living through his lowest of lows, which leads him to drink far too much all too often, struggling to find a reason to keep fighting. A chance at some respite comes in the unlikeliest of forms, as his best-friend-turned-distant-acquaintance-whom-he-hates-but-not-really offers him a place to stay.
The story of how two idiots learn to forgive past hurt and fall in love. Or, perhaps, it was love from the start.
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- Part 1 of Finished ending at the start
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14 May 2025
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is it that sweet? i guess so by bejeweledhaze, cupidei
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
21 Sep 2024
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“I think that–” Neela cuts herself off with a giddy laugh, bringing a delicate hand up to her face. “I believe, no– I just know that you and my grandson would get along.”
“Hah–” Kaveh smiles awkwardly. “As… as friends?” A beat of silence. His head rushes. “...right?”
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or… a coffee shop au where kaveh’s favorite customer is alhaitham’s grandma who keeps trying to set kaveh up with her grandson
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11 May 2025
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Gepard didn't think he'd be this famous.
But after a threat to his home – and therefore, a threat to the Silvermane Guards themselves – why wouldn't his face be all over the newspapers? This entire situation had him feeling uneasy. And he was supposed to be on vacation.
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Gepard receives a strange package at his door that results in a mysterious investigation. Based off of the hidden quest involving the Back Alley.
Rating may change.
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11 Apr 2025
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Discimus via interrogare by Jeanthreetwoone
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
15 Sep 2025
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Loneliness takes many forms. Whether you’re alone in a room full of ‘friends’ or choose to distance yourself from people who follow you with blind stupidity, its void always feels the same.
No matter how untouchable you seem, at the end of the day you’re only a person, and people are fools, struggling with life. So are Aventurine and Ratio, coworkers who decide to gradually spend more and more time together.
Maybe they’ll find themselves willing to stand by each other’s side and learn to change for the better.
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05 Apr 2025