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Promises were similar to contracts. They were both based on mutual trust, and were absolute.
Childe never broke his promises. This was the first time he did, as well as the last.
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01 Jun 2026
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Snezhnaya welcomed him back like a mother embracing her child.
Yet what happened to the Eleventh Fatui Harbinger after that?
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01 Jun 2026
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"Your Majesty, I can fight any enemy you throw at me, but revive a gnosis? I-I don’t know the first thing about gnoses and Celestial power. While I’m honored to be chosen for the mission, I just… it doesn’t seem like I’m the best fit for the role. How would I be able to revive Morax’s gnosis?”
The Tsaritsa gives a small, sad smile. “Do not ask for answers you do not wish to receive, my Childe.”A ship from Liyue arrives in Snezhnaya, bringing a mysterious Adeptai and Childe's first mission from Her Majesty.
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- Part 1 of howls moving castle au
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01 Jun 2026
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Liyue Harbor is the last place on Teyvat that Ajax wanted to see a second time, but the Tsaritsa's orders are absolute.
His mission is simple. The tangle of emotions in his heart is not.
He'd sworn never to forgive Zhongli.
But contracts made with yourself are the hardest ones to keep.
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02 Jun 2026
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Lover of the Emperor, Enemy of the State by equinoctial
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
27 Oct 2022
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Many have flocked to Liyue to try their hand at conquering Rex Lapis’ Path of Indomitable Jade, rumoured to be relentless in its challenge but bountiful in its reward. Unsurprisingly, Ajax’s one track mind honed in on the word challenge and ran all the way to Celestia with it.
No one told him it was a bygone tradition that vied for the emperor’s hand in marriage, not until much later, when Liyue was already decked to the nines in preparation for the coronation of the emperor’s beloved consort– an Ajax-shaped consort.
(In which a bored Childe thinks he’s scaling up mountains to fight adepti and gain bountiful gifts for his nation and all that jazz, but he actually ends up wooing one of them and fighting favour from the rest and-- uh, wait, what do you mean the eccentric rock enthusiast is the emperor--)
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02 Jun 2026
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childe goes into heat. zhongli learns what it is like to love.
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02 Jun 2026
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Lapis Lazuli, rock of enlightenment by Noctis (Luminatum)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Feb 2025
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A beat of silence envelops them briefly, Zhongli taking another step toward him but still not touching him. The aura of the Geo Archon crackles invisibly in the air, making Childe swallow as he fights to keep his hands to himself.
“Would you like for me to scent you?” Zhongli offers then. “It may ease some of the discomfort.”
Childe proceeds to choke on his own spit.
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Or: Childe and Zhongli are both betas. Until they're not.
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- Part 1 of Stonehymns
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02 Jun 2026