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3rdgymbros · 3 years

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— title; i will protect you (no matter the cost to my body)

— pairing; kaeya alberich x zombie sibling! reader (platonic)

— summary; in which kaeya attacks collei during the events of ludi harpastum; the only difference is that you are there to witness it, and end up attacking collei as well.

— notes; this is based off the genshin webtoon. a special thanks to @/abyssheart and @/diluch for proof-reading. please donate to my kofi (https://ko-fi.com/thirdgymbros) if you like my content and wish to support me. reblogs are appreciated !!

❋ ludi harpastum, as the maids (and your older brothers) have taken great care to explain to you, is a festival of music and games. the days are filled with a holiday atmosphere, and an enormous crowd flocks to the streets. housewives usher children into stores, fathers and sons dip into taverns, young couples walk with their fingers intertwined through the happy streets of mondstadt, where all kinds of cheese, grilled meat, and fresh fruit release delicious fragrances. under the careful guidance of the maids and staff, you’ve even attempted to make a handmade harpastum to hang on the front door of the dawn winery.

❋ your brothers, as busy as they are, even manage to spend time with you (never in the company of each other, though diluc and kaeya can be persuaded to remain in each other’s company if you beg them hard enough), bringing you about the stalls to try your hand at games, and encouraging you to try the different food and drinks. although you’re unable to remember much of the emotions you’d felt, or what happened during the day – the ring toss game, in which you’d won a stuffed animal, the fried radish balls you’d scarfed down, one after another – you faithfully record it all down in your notebook anyway. your brothers seem to be holding onto the hope that things will get better, that your memory will improve, and you don’t have the heart to tell them otherwise.

❋ the climax of the festival, you’re told, is when a maiden throws the harpastum into the crowd; whoever picks it up will be blessed with a year of fortune and happiness. your eyes brightened, and you smiled; emotion had flooded your face, and for the briefest of moments, you seemed like your old self.

❋ and so, it’s under a black velvet sky studded with thousands of tiny diamonds that you find yourself watching a young lady with dainty features clutching a red ball in her shaking hands. diluc and kaeya had both been too busy to accompany you, and so, the duty had fallen to adelinde. tightly, you grasp onto her hand. games had been played and rousing songs sang, leaving the crowd buoyed up with emotion as they wait for the highlight of the night to begin.

❋ in the distance, over the murmurs and chatter of the crowd, you hear a confusion of noise; a beacon of icy light splits apart the darkness. your eyes remain glued to the sight, long after the brightness has faded away, leaving you with a feeling of panic and dread welling up in your throat, a big black bubble of fear clogging up your airways and wringing the breath from your lungs.

❋ you begin to run as soon as you hit the pavement, jerking your hand out of adelinde’s. you dash through bodies, push through the crowd, until everything blurs except the fear in your chest and the feeling of your feet pounding against the pavement. faster, faster, you have to move faster. you’re not sure how long you run, only that it doesn’t seem as though it’s been long enough when your body jerks to a halt.

❋ black flames hold kaeya in a vice-like grip; the colour is rapidly draining from his face, and the fear which had been brewing inside of you is replaced by the feeling of unrelenting, powerful anger. a scream rips its way from your throat, more animal than human.

❋ suddenly, time speeds up and before you know it, your world slows down to two very simple tasks. kill the enemy. protect kaeya. you can’t process anything else. rage seethes through you, the most deadly, hot-blooded fury you’ve ever known, giving you the strength to call upon your powers of flame and heat. you’ve always hated fire, hated the way it saps all the strength from your limbs and makes you feel rotten and disgusting. but now, in the heat of battle, as your skin turns first grey, then blackens, all you can think is: not enough, not enough. you want to kill. you want to destroy. you want to be the last thing your enemy sees.

❋ through your hate-filled haze and the crazed laughter scraping past your throat, you just barely detect kaeya’s voice; a voice that your soul knows anywhere. amidst the ashes and the flames still licking at your skin, kaeya grabs at your shoulders and pulls you into his arms, uncaring of the fire, or the searing pain. i love you, i love you, i love you, come back, come back, come back. your blood cools, the anger dissipates, and suddenly your skin feels cold. you lean your head against his chest, and he starts stroking your hair, murmuring something in a foreign language. you don’t understand a word of it, but the gentle tone soothes you, manages to rouse a smile to your lips.

❋ kaeya holds you for a very long time.

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mrpenguinpants · 3 years

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Kaeya: Comfort HCs

WOW IF THE TIMING OF THIS ASK ISN’T SPOT ON BECAUSE GOD DO I NEED COMFORT. Childe won’t come home and I’ve never been this hollow before ;-; I suck at writing Kaeya but Cryo boy please.

Honestly, with how tumblr is acting and how genshin is sucking my soul out, I really lost a lot of motivation to write. I’m not sure if it’s because I took a small break or if it’s just tumblr saying no but my activity has gotten lower and lower. But I’ll post this one and see how it does. I know Kaeya is not my strong suit since I can’t fucking write his character, so this isn’t a good fic to base my feelings on but if this sucks. I might take a longer break. My stuff won’t show up in tags and I don’t know why. I haven’t gotten anything back from staff yet.

I try to keep these gender-neutral and only use ��you” as the “pronoun” but if I happen to slip up, please let me know 💕

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Kaeya: Comfort HCs

The Ludi Harpastum was a festival that Mondstadt celebrated every year. A full 15 days of games for children to enjoy with carnivals of songs and other excitements. Restaurants would display their finest dishes while taverns, like the Dawn Winery and The Cat’s Tail, would roll out plenty of cider and wine for the adults. Bards from all over Teyvat would come to sing their wonderful poems, indulge in liveliness that was Mondstadt during these 15 days. So why did you seem so down lately? It was a question the Calvary Captain pondered as he saw you shuffle away from the festivities.

Were you overworked perhaps? Jean had been running around trying to prepare for the festival but even she had a smile on, excited for the Ludi Harpastum and what was to come. Though, in your defense, Jean was just that kind of person. He had noticed that you looked more and more out of it as the days passed. As if you were going through the motions from trying to appease the children to helping out wherever you could. He quickly racked his brain for any signs that something was wrong leading up to the festival, but he couldn’t recall anything specific. He sent a small mental apology to Jean and the other knights but his attention was on something more important now.

At first, he’ll take his approach discretely. If it’s just nerves from getting the festival sorted out then it’s not something he needs to sit you down and talk you through. That might just add more to your stress if you knew how worried he got. He’ll slip a couple check ins with you to see how you’re faring outside of the public eye, or making sure that your work load is manageable, anything to maybe ease whatever it was that was getting you down. If it is just nerves he’ll gently but jokingly let you know that if you have any troubles you can always come to him. If you remark that everything that you needed to do for the festival was already taken care of he’ll laugh it off. Jean sure is working hard huh?

If it really does seem that you’re slipping apart and leaving you to your own devices is not helping you, his worry for you overtakes his professional role of boundaries and he’ll confront you. Not as the Calvary Captain making sure the festival goes smoothly but as Kaeya whose is concerned for your safety and health. If you don’t want to get into specific’s that’s all right with him, just so long as you aren’t alone with your thoughts. He’ll initiate by gently lacing your fingers together and but then it’s up to you on how you want things to go.

During the day, the Captain side of him will appear laid back and fondly tease you. Anything to see you smile or even lightly embarrass you. But at night when it’s just the two of you together, you’ll both settle into the quiet atmosphere but he’ll hold you just a little tighter. Spend just a second longer in your embrace. All silent cues that you mean a lot to him.

If Jean or Amber asks where he’s been lately he’ll gladly tell a bald-faced lie. Making remarks that a couple of pyro slimes seemed to get into the wine barrels and made it their home. Amber is suspicious of him but he’s the Calvary Captain so she’ll let it go but she’s watching him. Jean is concerned but he’ll wave it off and give a small nod towards your form in the distance. She immediately understands and if you or him need anything to let her know. Really, Jean works way too hard.

He won’t pry, everyone has their own secrets and issues, plus on the very slim chance you find out he was digging into your business, you might never trust him again. You never bothered him with his origins or his methods so it’s only fair he does the same to you. While he likes tricking and putting other’s in danger to justify the means, you’re someone important to him. He’ll only do something like that if it’s to ensure your safety or you’re pushed to the breaking limit. You might hate him for looking through your privacy but at the end of the day, if it makes you happier he’ll do it.

He’ll leave little signs that he’s concerned for you and that he’s here if you need him. If you’ve been sleeping more often, be it from overwork or sadness, you’ll wake up with a white fur cloak wrapped around you. He’ll make up some joke that a cat snagged it off him, and it just happened to climb in through your window, snuggled up to you, and than ran away without the cloak. That’s just how funny nature works. Cats sure are tricky things huh?

If you’re reaching break point he will corner you and ask what’s wrong. You might brush him off or get mad at him in the morning but Kaeya believes that the end justifies the means. He knows that somethings you just want to deal with alone, his entire backstory and family issues are like that, but it pains him deep inside to see you so upset. He doesn’t want to feel that same helplessness again, especially to someone he cares deeply about, so he’ll do anything in his power to ease your heart.

While he prefers to do things independently if it’s something he can’t help with, he’ll take Jean up on her offer. Just to check up on you and see if her calming presence is enough to make you feel calm just for a moment. When he does see you slowly start to get better it makes him happy. He might get a bit more affectionate but really he’s just relieved that you’re alright now.

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anithenerd · 3 years

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1.6 hype

Here’s a list of questions I have that were raised by the trailer that weren’t answered by the stream (or I didn’t pay enough attention), because why not:

why did the Dodo-King send the letter to Klee?

who is the Dodo-King? the name is suspiciously similar to Dodoco, Klee’s doll that she supposedly named herself, so why is he called that?

is any of this connected to Alice, Klee’s mom?

who convinced Jean to take time off and how?

why did Jean promise to go fish blasting with Klee?

why is Dvalin in the trailer when we’re gonna get a boat?

where are the islands?

why do they seem... connected to Klee, especially the mechanism in Kaboomball Kombat? (also, did she paint that one picture of Dodoco on the rock?)

the samurai seems like a puppet, with the strings and all, but who is the puppetmaster?

why does its mask resemble Xiao’s? (trust me, I checked the Yakshas trailer - the horns are similar and the downwards-pointing fangs too, both unique to Xiao)

to whom does the voice on the recorder belong to?

where exactly is The Clash being held? (it’s probably in/near Liyue based on the people seen there)

who did the now-blank Vision belong to?

who stole it? (it probably wasn’t Kazuha, he wears his in a pretty visible spot on his person)

how did it get out of Inazuma in the first place?

why is Kazuha participating this year in The Clash and not earlier? was he only exiled/escaped Inazuma recently?

what did he do to basically get on the Inazuma wanted list?

old question returning with the trailer: why did the Electro Archon do... all of that?

are the Harpastum Bombs connected to Ludi Harpastum? are they perhaps the bombs that Klee wanted to prepare for that event?

how old are the voices sealed in the Echoing Conches gonna be? what do they have to say?

and finally, how the fuck are we gonna get to Inazuma? based on what Kazuha (it was him right? I’m not that goot at voices) said, there’s a storm surrounding it, so our teeny tiny boat doesn’t seem very suitable. but what is?

this is mostly for me to organize my thoughts, but feel free to reblog

can’t wait for 1.6 to hopefully get most of these answered!

#will i make another post with the answers when we get them?#you bet i will #i think good omens boosted my desire to ask questions so you can blame these kinds of posts on crowley #genshin impact #my post

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