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It took about another minute of staring the other down for Xiao the enchanter and Venti the witch to realize the more subtle implications of that option.
And then, even though they'd both been having their own internal debates throughout the entire interaction so far, and even though they were in fact drastically different people, Xiao and Venti had, in the same moment, the exact same thought:
“Oh, God. A roommate.”
In which Venti the witch tries his best to break Xiao's mysterious curse.
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the liberty of death by verona_left for SlightlyEclipsed
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
28 Jan 2026
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With his free hand, Xiao slowly reached up and pulled the hood from the stranger’s head. He was being allowed to do so. And it really was not his night, not at all, because he got a very good look at the culprit, and he would recognize that face anywhere, and for some reason–perhaps the fact that one of his hands was completely immobilized by the robber–Xiao couldn’t move at all, because–
“Prince Venti?” he whispered.
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“What are you looking for?” Xiao asks. He pulls his coat tighter around himself.
“Nirnroot. I need it.”
“...You haven’t…needed it before?” Xiao blinks in thought. “I think.”
Venti crouches down by the riverside to look downstream. “I ran out. As it turns out, your pharmaceutical ingredient stash runs out a lot more slowly if you never get sick.”
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Across the water and at the river’s edge, the beast lay. In the sun its scales shimmer and its eyes close. Its fingers skim through the water, letting it flow between them, and Venti knows, he knows.
The legend had been wrong. Venti had been wrong.
A monster could never be so beautiful.
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“I’d imagined you saying my name,” the stranger replied, smile gracious.
“...Which is?”
The stranger gently grabbed his wrist. He raised it to his own throat so that Xiao’s hand wrapped around it, and with his stolen fingers Xiao could feel the warmth of the stranger’s neck, his pulse. The barest edge of his jawline.
“Venti,” he said.
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born to blossom, bloom to perish by SlightlyEclipsed for verona_left
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
05 Apr 2026
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For all his life, Xiao has been cursed. The petals within his lungs trap him within a stasis unlike any other, betraying all that is known about the mysterious condition that ends the lives of all too many soulmates. In search of answers, he finds himself deep within a remote forest, far from home.
There, he meets a curious spirit, one he finds is fond of keeping secrets.
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virgin 26 year old postgrad gets laid! (not clickbait) by SlightlyEclipsed
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
13 Oct 2025
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Xiao is twenty six, and his friends decide to throw him a surprise party.
Hu Tao decides it's a good day to deal with his pesky virginity.
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13 Oct 2025
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Venti's workday as a phone psychic turns interesting when he's mistakenly called by someone with a cute voice looking for the maintenance guy.
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27 Jan 2025
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Something goes wrong. The crown is split during Narinder's defeat, splitting the power between him and the Lamb.
Narinder keeps a portion of his godhood, and the Lamb finds that abilities they had access to before are no longer possible: Healing is cut short. Powers are halved. And there is a very real chance of permadeath, as the ability to resurrect is not possible without full power, and the God of Death is not cooperative.
Afterlife and Purgatory are not options either. Dying means erasure. Gone.Lambert knows Narinder grows stronger by the day, crown or not, and yet keeps him spared as they try to figure out how to complete their own goals. Narinder vows vengeance on the lamb for usurping him. After a few unsuccessful murder attempts, he's in for the long haul. It is only a matter of time before the Lamb's guard is down before he can strike, and The One Who Waits is very patient. When a mystic being demands they save the bishops from purgatory, an alliance is in order.
Except...the lamb's actions and their presence begin to unlock abilities within the God of Death he didn't know he had prior to his imprisonment, among other fickle things, like emotions. The prophecy didn't warn him of that part.
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so good it healed my adjustment disorder 10/10 would recommend
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...It is then, in a violent spasm of his memory, that he recalls the first pain of his new life: Venti’s grip, vice-like, against his torso, nails punctured into his skin.
“You can’t die. You can’t. I won’t let you, not ever again.”
The words are fleeting, transient, Venti’s taste and warmth and presence are tangible. He forgets.
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Or: Venti loses himself in grief, and takes it upon himself to fix what is broken, by any means necessary.
For Xiaoven & Venxiao Week 2024, Day 4: Possessive.
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