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    “Fine!” Edward stamps his foot, heat rearing into his mouth and his eyes. “I’m sorry for the amount of paperwork you would’ve had to do if I got my head blown off, is that it? Are you happy now?”

    The furrow doesn’t leave Mustang’s face, but it tilts. He stares. “What the hell are you talking about?”

    “Don’t play dumb with me! I know you don’t care about me, all you care about is your own goddamn self, so stop pretending to care about me so we can finish the mission and everything can go back to normal!” 

    Edward is reckless. Mustang is upset. A bridge collapses - literally and otherwise - and the mission goes wrong.

    All that's left to do is to build back stronger.

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    “He takes his stresses out on you,” Zhongli said, suddenly angry for reasons he could only half place. This wasn’t his business—not really.

    Childe wasn’t weak. He wasn’t weak at all.

    He was a mortal—and he was strong as a mortal could be.

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    An Archon and a Harbinger meet in a tavern.

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    10 Jun 2026

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    “There’s this thing you do,” they said, almost gently,
    “where you smile, and it’s the biggest lie you’ve ever told.”

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    Men like Kaeya don’t break.
    They shatter.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    For the record, Ajax was not at all opposed to being sent on missions as another Harbinger's backup. As long as he was given things to fight and the rest of the tasks were not excruciatingly boring to get through, Tartaglia would comply without issues.

    The actual mission, the actual tasks, the actual experience of being the backup was not the issue here.
    The issue was-

    ...He was the only Harbinger being tasked with things like these. The only Harbinger being designated as backup. The only Harbinger being treated like a class below the rest.

    (Because Tartaglia was rash and reckless and could not be trusted to keep himself safe.
    Tartaglia was to be looked after like an unpredictable rabid animal that only behaved under certain conditions.

    Tartaglia was off.)

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    Or, Childe struggles to understand why the Tsaritsa insists on treating him differently from the other Harbingers, and tries to pretend like his affiliations aren't irrevocably shifting towards the mysterious god he meets in Liyue.

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    Aite let out a nervous laugh. “Of course, Lord Morax, I have coexisted peacefully alongside the Guili Assembly for centuries. I would not dare—”

    “But you did,” Morax cut her off, voice soft but imbued with telluric power. Once again, the limestone beneath his feet shivered. “Their dreams were eaten. This is your work. Your mark is plainly on it.”

    “Allow me to explain,” Aite said, voice sickly-sweet — just like the stench of overripe fruit that pervaded her hall. “I believe I know how this…mistake…was made.”

    “Oh? Then explain.”

     
    Xiao first meets Morax when he is still enslaved to his first master. He does not expect kindness, especially not when his goddess puts him forth as the culprit in the massacre of a human settlement on a contested border.

    Morax, though, surprises him.

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    22 May 2026