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Celine doesn’t know how to raise a child, let alone a half-demon one. She’s crap at warmth, worse at intimacy, and too often harsh with Rumi. But she knows how to cook, and she’s determined to shield Rumi and the other Huntrix girls from the idol industry’s coercive diet culture. She might not know how to love the way she should—but she can make sure her girls eat.
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30 Jun 2026
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When Rumi was old enough to ask about her violet whorl of a birthmark, Celine stumbled through conversations she felt wholly unprepared for. She knew she was rough, knew her answers cut. She didn’t know any other way. But she steamed carrots and fried tofu and sliced fruit. She arranged lunch on Rumi’s plate so that the rice balls made a teddy bear and the apple slices looked like a sailboat.
Rumi grew with a healthy child’s appetite. When the girl reached, Celine slid the bowl closer. When the girl asked, Celine said yes. If the world outside would not have mercy, their home would.
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Ei sheds her divine body, folding her consciousness into thirds and then quarters, and then forges it anew before settling into the Musou Isshin.
Here, the noise of the world is gone. She can rest and think as she contemplates the makings of the world. To find Eternity, one must unravel everything else first. Only then can she quilt together a plan, a plot, an idea to undermine that which is known as the Heavenly Principles.
Ei struggles and learns how to deal with grief, and what Eternity truly means. Written for Eternity's Queendom, a Raiden Ei Zine.
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29 Jun 2026
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Ei must hone her jagged edges and become a weapon of the future. She will not just find Eternity, she will become it herself.
For Makoto. It is a clever thought, a clever trick that almost makes her believe that it might work.
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Xiangling hunkers lower, hiding away, and her gaze flickers back to the creature. What could they want with it?
The panda’s foot falls to the ground with a heavy step, and with it comes a swell of glittering green. Dendro. She’s heard about this in books. Xiangling’s mouth falls open as light bubbles underneath the creature's feet, and with it, a leaf rises from the ground. Another step, and another leaf. And another.
Teyvat hasn’t seen a wild plant in centuries.
Xiangling finds an elder god out in the dry, dead, Liyue flatlands. Written for Circuit Noir, a Genshin Cyberpunk Zine.
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29 Jun 2026
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Xiangling curses, biting at her thumb. “I can’t just leave you here. I can’t—” She can’t bring him home either. Her one mouth is already enough to feed, let alone the bedraggled patrons of her restaurant. The panda lets out a soft sound—and then Pyro curls from his mouth in a soft puff.
Truly an adeptus then.
She pulls at her face, pinching her nose. “Archons, I’m going to regret this.” Her gaze falls onto the ground leading up to their hiding space. A trail of glittering green Dendro still glows softly, detailing his most recent footfalls. Beyond that, there’s a line of plants, green, fluttering things that catch the gentle breeze of the night.
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now i'm standing in the black rain by pxlarizing
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
15 Jan 2022
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The Plane drones with a familiar silence. It has been silent for five-hundred years. The Traveler breaks this, too. “I don’t think you are being dishonest,” the Traveler tilts his head. “I think you are being different.”
Change: the enemy of eternity. Ei has slain many enemies, yet she can’t seem to kill ambition. Why?
Conceptually, ‘change’ and ‘eternity’ couldn’t be more incompatible. A static world has no tolerance for variables.
But even the perpetual Heavenly Principles are shadowed by the inevitability of erosion. Nothing is immune to change when change itself is eternally present.
(Or: Ei, Aether, and the eroding definition of ‘eternity.’)
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- Part 3 of the sky, a noir
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16 May 2026
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And Yae was right when she said Ei was glad to see her again, right when she said eternity alone was too cruel a fate. The Traveler was right because he brought Inazuma’s ambition to the Plane, and Ei’s own desire brightened the sky with pastel pink. If the Plane reflects her inner world and now it looks happy... then ambition brings happiness, and Ei wants to be happy, and those hundreds of years in the Plane, centuries of loneliness... she had wanted that to change.
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As the God of Wisdom, Nahida is ever-curious, and ten times as observant. It’s only natural for her to notice the odd, crooked way some gaps in Irminsul are filled in.
Lumine is still, at times, caught off-guard by how perceptive Nahida can be.
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15 May 2026
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When Lumine enters the Sanctuary of Surasthana, she does so alone. This place has taken on a more homely quality since the youngest of the Seven earned her freedom. Stacks of books and scrolls spilling out over the new rugs on the floor; vines curling lovingly over the sides of the bridge, potted padisarahs in bloom; and Nahida, at the center of it all.
Nahida greets Lumine with a warm smile, and at her urging, Lumine plants herself wearily atop one of the cushions lining the space around a short table at the center of the room. Nahida hurries around, arranging cutlery and a pot of floral tea before her. Lumine would tell her it isn’t necessary, but Nahida always seems overly pleased at the prospect of playing host; fluttering around like a butterfly that’s eager to test its new wings.
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Even Birds Must Land on Solid Ground by Zebra (DQueenie13)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
24 Nov 2020
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Even I sometimes reminisce the carefree and happy days of the past. The warmth of the Knights, my friends, my father...
Everything was perfect.
But one can never return to the past. I cannot keep on daydreaming for the sake of the future.
Or should I say, someone has to wake up to face the darkness before dawn so others can dream.
Logically you know there are some things you need to accept, yet emotionally it’s so much harder. I’m so torn...
Hope the business goes well. It’s a battlefield out there in the liquor business.Now, Margaret knew she wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. But if her hunch was right, and that first line was referring to what she thought it was referring to, there was only one person who could’ve written this note.
Diluc Ragnvindr.
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01 May 2026
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Margaret’s eyes kept getting drawn to one particular line. Someone has to wake up to face the darkness before dawn so others can dream.
[…] Did this mean he didn’t have any dreams? Or was it that all his dreams were crushed on that fateful day? Either way, the way this was worded sounded like he was giving up even the possibility of dreaming for the sake of others. Perhaps it was some sense of self-righteousness, but this didn’t sit right in Margaret’s stomach. Mondstadt was the City of Freedom. That meant nobody should give up their freedom to dream, or anything, even if they did so willingly. The knowledge that the city’s hidden savior resigned himself to protect the city from the shadows, sacrificing… whatever he sacrificed to make that possible, made her apologize to him in her heart, even if it was meaningless.
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The Past, the Present, and All the Memories in Between by fi_niamh
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
31 Mar 2026
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“So it’s time travel?”
“No, not quite,” Albedo gently chews on his lower lip in contemplation on how to simplify the concept. “The Ley Lines hold memories of everything that has ever happened in the world. It appears that this Ley Line disorder has converged the past memories with our current memories.”
Kaeya cocks his head to the side, “So we’re currently in the past?”
“I suppose you could put it like that, but it’s more like our past and our present have collided.”
“So, time travel?”
Albedo sighs, “Sure, let’s call it that.”
A growing string of disappearing people, a catastrophic Ley Line disorder, a chaotic space and a convoluted Fatui plot throws much of Mondstadt into a not-so-distant past, surrounded by uncomfortably familiar faces.
Unfortunately for Kaeya, this means forgoing a much-needed vacation to figure out what is actually going on, which is quite difficult when a certain Inspector keeps getting in the way.
And all the while grappling with the presence of a boy who looks and sounds like Diluc, but is someone far different than the man that Diluc has become.
Gods, he could really go for a drink right about now.
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Bookmarked by DancingInTheStorm
24 Apr 2026
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“Nymph didn’t mention specifics,” Albedo says as he continues to focus on the board, “but she believes that some of the senior Knights are trying to limit contact with us.”
Kaeya hums in contemplation—in part trying to analyse what Albedo said and in part trying to figure out what his next move should be. “Did she mention anything about the Inspector?”
If this really is the past, then the Inspector will be a nightmare to deal with. It took months for him and Jean to prove Eroch’s treachery, and longer still to convince Varka to take their accusations seriously. Varka had trusted Eroch for decades. They'd grown up together. Kaeya hadn't exactly envied Jean when she had to tell the Grand Master.
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Venti has a lot to have nightmares about. Fortunately, he's thought up a solution.
Unfortunately, his solution might not be too viable anymore.
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04 Apr 2026
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Kusanali stood before him, a little over half his height but managing to look quite a bit more intimidating thanks to her command of [this dreamscape]. She really was Rukkhadevata’s spitting image– she could be her younger sister. For a moment, his heart ached– but this was not Rukkhadevata. For all her awkwardness and tendency to get absorbed in things and the way she never seemed to quite know how to show her feelings, Rukkhadevata’s eyes, and heart, had been kind. Kusanali’s eyes were large, round, and dull. They scrutinized him with a clinical precision he found he very much did not like. “You are the Anemo Archon.”
“Barbatos,” he answered after a moment, giving her a short bow at the waist. “But please, call me Venti.”
She stared at him for several long seconds before she finally blinked. It was the first time he’d seen her do that. “I am called Kusanali.”
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this hand, and yours.
(Alhaitham and Paimon's friendship, through letters.)
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29 Mar 2026
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You know what?? I finished the book you sent in three days! THREE! The Traveller says that’s like seven percent of our sentence [in Meropide], but we miiiight be in trouble and get our sentence extended for other reasons
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You were right!! The plot is really crazy and Paimon kept guessing people who got “offed”! (That means “killed”. Paimon’s got her eyes and her ears wide open!)
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Home is Where You Long to Return by PencilofAwesomeness
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
28 Oct 2025
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Due to a ley line mishap, Flins is unexpectedly transported to Mondstadt, with no immediate idea of where he is, or how he will get back. (Or, more pressingly, where he belongs in the first place.)
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Whumptober Day 23: “How’d I get to this place?”Series
- Part 17 of Whumptober 2025
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07 Mar 2026
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He sighed. “I’m afraid that I am, indeed, lost. The ley lines have whisked me to this land of yours without my say…”
“It would seem so,” the being agreed lightly. “Your arrival confused the winds, for a moment, but they welcome you all the same.” […] He looked at Kyryll with a tilt of his head, assessing. There was that thread of familiarity again, and finally, Kyryll placed it.
“You’re Barbatos,” he remembered. It… really has been so long… And the god of wind had only a visitor to the Tsar’s court, but he fit in with the fae all too well whenever he was around. It made for great entertainment all around. But those days were fuzzy with their distance.
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Hold tight, promise me by Heffalumps_and_Snoozles
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
23 Jan 2024
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Major spoilers for the end of the Fortress of Meropide section of the Fontaine Archon quest (Act 4)!!
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Wriothesley doesn't make it through the sluice gate. He sprints like his life depends on it, but doesn't make it through.
He is now trapped in a pocket of ice as dark as the abyss and as instable as his own condition. Clorinde can only do so much to keep him from succumbing to his injuries and the cold. They speak of meaningless things to fill the time while they wait for Neuvillette to arrive, and make a bet.
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- Part 1 of Hold tight, promise me
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01 Mar 2026
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He’s alive. He is entirely encased in Primordial seawater from every angle that he isn’t encased with frigid bronze and iron, but he’s alive.
An impact reverberates through the door behind his back and he feels the vibrations of a yell of his name rather than hears the actual sound. Then the yell is slightly louder and he makes out the desperation in Clorinde’s voice.
To her, he’s dead right now. She saw him die. She saw him not make it through the door. He has to let her know he’s alive, but his jaw hurts and his heart is beating so fast, his breath catches with nearly every beat.
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Nahida thought her growth would be slow. She expected it to be a gradual sort of thing, taking place over centuries. But in the months and years after her escape, Nahida shoots up like a plant moved from shade to light.
Nahida photosynthesizes, grows from a sprout to a sapling, destroys a building, initiates an accidental mind-meld, and begins to come to terms with the five hundred years that were taken from her, roughly in that order.
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- Part 11 of scara brainrot
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22 Feb 2026
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There is an uncharacteristic bitterness twining up her bones the more they deign to grow. She used to think, curled alone in her prison: If only I were bigger. If only I had more time before they found me.
She tries not to think about it. She does not like to think of it. But her body no longer gives her the option to ignore it.
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You Get to be Khaenriahn, And You Get to be Khaenriahn, Everyone Gets to be Khaenriahn! by mosaicofdreamsanddragons
Fandom 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
14 Sep 2025
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07 Feb 2026
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Grown-up spies don’t make a face when they get a doll of the god who destroyed their homeland. They smile and tell the new parents how much they love it.
And then when said new parents are asleep, they take it out onto the balcony and put it on trial with only the stars, the moon, and one very grumpy bird to witness.
“Rex Lapis,” [Keqing] said to her toy gravely, “You stand her accused of…” destroying people and killing people and all sorts of other words the adults used. But she couldn’t say that. Even here, she didn’t know if her soon to be foster parents were sleeping or not. If they heard, even if she was Passing, surely, they would know she was Khaenriahn. But she couldn’t not punish Rex Lapis. “…of being mean.” The bird squawked as if offended. She hummed at it and continued anyway, “And having no handrails. Anywhere. That’s very dangerous. You are endangering the people. You are fined with…” she hummed again. “All the glowing amber rocks are mine now.”
She looked at the toy, laying there accepting her judgement. It needed something more. “And I’ll be better than you,” she said. “I’ll be better than you at everything.”
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When Rosaria finds Kaeya has overindulged in both alcohol and angst for his 18th birthday, she begrudgingly drags him home. And nothing could have prepared her for what she learns when they get there.
Set the night of Kaeya's birthday the year Diluc left for Snezhnaya, about three years before in-game timeline begins.
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- Part 1 of Canonverse Genshin Fics
- Part 1 of As Above, So Below
Bookmarked by DancingInTheStorm
31 Jan 2026
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"Actually, it's ironic twice," [Kaeya] says then, sounding eerily rational and clear in the moment. "Ironic that your name means rosary and you ended up becoming a nun," he says, "but... also ironic we bothered learning a word for a concept we would never need to write about." He turns his head to look at her, the sharp star of his pupil flashing in the light again, and she thinks there's something really ancient about him right now, something far older than either of them would ever live to be. "We only learned that language because writing was forbidden, you know?”
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Mortal lives are brief on the scale of ages. Even the winds forget that you were a god of freedom before a god of air.
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08 Nov 2025
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You were of the air, certainly, but it was not your domain in the way of gods or lords until much later. No, you were barely even a thing of your own in those days, a single whisper in the chorus or a firefly in the night.
They didn’t pray to you at first, not the way one beseeches a god, but they would ask a friendly wind sprite for luck. They would smile when you danced around a bard who sang of freedom, and when you tried to bring them flowers. You were… a mascot, a charm, a promise of fortune and a hopeful future. They began to talk to you, eventually, began to believe there was a you, a proper you, that a person lived in this scrap of wind, and with their belief they made it true.
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On the run after a mission, Freminet stumbles into Merusea Village and the care of a sweet little Melusine--and possibly, someone else.
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- Part 21 of May Trope Mayhem
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05 Nov 2025
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Freminet pauses to look around. He's heard that the Melusines have their own village, but he wouldn't have imagined it would be so... cute. The sort of place that Pers might protect or visit.
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On the eighth day after his awakening, she visits him in person, finding him curled up on the divan like a pill bug. His hair spills over his face and shadows his eyes, but she can tell from the way his bare feet brace against the mattress beneath him that he’s awake. It makes the ball joints in his ankles, already visible through skin torn and pared down to the metaphorical bone, all the more prominent.
He doesn’t need to eat; Nahida brings him food anyway. He doesn’t move as she draws near, though she’s certain he hears her. In the dimness of the cell, the violet streaks in his hair seem almost to glow. Below them, the mitsudomoe symbol stamped into the back of his neck stands stark against his flesh—an indelible reminder of his artificiality.
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In the aftermath of Shouki no Kami’s fall, Nahida chooses to pick up the pieces.
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Bookmarked by DancingInTheStorm
20 Oct 2025
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“You…” He lifts himself up off the divan on shaking arms, grinding his teeth with the effort. “How dare you talk about my pain when you’re the one who ripped my heart out?”
Nahida lowers her head, but her voice is firm. “That wasn’t your heart.”
“Shut up!”
His voice cracks. There’s fury in his eyes but also fear. He can’t stand the truth, she realizes, and clings to the fantasy he constructed in his own head.
“Shut up.” His breath is ragged. He only needs to breathe to speak, and now he sucks in air like it’s the punctuation marks to his staggered words.
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Querida takes Claudia on as a summer apprentice to help her tame the mountains in the Waste. The process of rewriting past wrongs done to the world is not always a smooth one.
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16 Sep 2025
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She took Claudia up to the attic and showed her the grids and concentric circles, and the large nets at one window. She pointed out the different ways that the spells converted the unpleasantness, inverting the magic by copying its signatures and laying them backwards on the magic to convince it to be neutral again. She noted, too, the redundancies she'd built in to catch especially determined strains of it, and had Claudia watch as one piece snaked off from the main defenses and got stuck in those redundancies. She smiled at Claudia's gasp.
Then Claudia turned to her with shining eyes, her mind clearly alight with questions and curiosity. Querida grumbled inside at the way that look touched the one soft edge of her heart. Please, please let me learn and explore! it seemed to say. Please, I have so much I want to know! Variations of that look were what had gotten Querida through so many years as a teacher, before Mr. Chesney had come and it was only survival for so long.
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Bookmarked by DancingInTheStorm
04 Sep 2025
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“If they catch you, you’ll get in trouble.”
Something about that just makes the boy smile more. “Haha. If they catch me. Most people don’t look up, you know.”
“I did,” Jean points out.
The boy blinks. “Well.” He opens his mouth then closes it again, and this time when he looks at her, there is something considering in it. His one eye is bright with curiosity and something else Jean doesn’t know the name to, some strange mix of delight and calculation. “…So you did.” A pause. “Well, anyway. It’s a pleasure to meet you. My name is Kaeya.”
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Homuncular Nature by Otaku553
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
10 May 2026
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When the opportunity to research a new world drops itself into Albedo’s lap, he does as any alchemist worth his salt does and gladly takes it.
Getting involved in a countrywide government conspiracy is not part of the plan.
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15 Aug 2025
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Amestris was yet another place where Albedo did not belong. Albedo was a stranger to this world and its history. Albedo was an outsider here, like the Traveler had been.
(…) Mondstadt and Amestris could physically never meet. For Albedo to have one, the other had to be sacrificed. Equivalent exchange, one home for another.
Perhaps it was selfish of Albedo to wish he could have both.