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Pantalone discovers he is allergic to his favorite sweater. Then, he demands Dottore fix it.
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Inspired by the Anomalous Tree Marrow 1 entry about Pantalone's allergy to alpaca wool where Dottore canonically makes him not allergic to alpaca wool anymore. Yeah.
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01 Jun 2026
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A few of the many times the Regrator finds himself in the Doctor's care.
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23 May 2026
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Diluc ends up grievously injured during his very first mission as Cavalry Captain while protecting Kaeya from what would have been a fatal attack. Kaeya, naturally, blames himself for letting this happen, but he has to set that aside when Diluc blames himself even more and begins to panic about how their father will react.
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01 Apr 2026
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Almost two years after Diluc’s departure from Mondstadt, Kaeya gets drunk, mixes up his letters, and accidentally sends Diluc the first draft of his suicide note – but he doesn’t realise his mistake until Diluc appears on his doorstep less than a week later, as if he’d never left.
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31 Mar 2026
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The person in front of them put a shaky, mechanical hand on the doorway to support himself, looking weak and exhausted from walking even such a short distance. Now that he’d come out of the dark doom, his face was recognizable as that of none other than Crepus Ragnvindr himself.
Or something or someone wearing his face, anyway.
Crepus Ragnvindr was dead.
And yet what Kaeya and Diluc saw in front of them would suggest otherwise.
‘Hey, Diluc…’ Kaeya breathed out, unable to tear his eyes away. ‘You see him too, don’t you?’
‘Yeah.’ Diluc whispered, finding it equally impossible.
‘Two people don’t usually hallucinate the same thing at the same time, do they?’
‘Shut up.’
Kaeya did, if only because the piercing gaze of those familiar eyes was boring into him. He felt frozen in place, unable to do a thing.
‘I kind of…need a hand here.’ Crepus brought out, his voice raspy almost as if hadn’t used it in, let’s say, almost five years.
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Or: Il Dottore is a madman who conducts morally dubious experiments...but if that means their dead father doesn't actually turn out to be dead after all, maybe Kaeya and Diluc are willing to ignore that. Maybe.
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26 Mar 2026
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man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble by birdsofpassage
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
12 Nov 2020
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“Was that a confession?” Childe brings his hands up to his face. His head hurts from where it had slammed against the ground. “Because that was unromantic as fuck. I want a redo.”
Childe is the most unreliable narrator in the world, especially when the story keeps taking him by surprise.
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04 Mar 2026
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Diluc wakes a week before his birthday thinking, I will be the same age as my father was when he died.
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03 Mar 2026
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At the back of the cramped cell is Kaeya. He’s sitting with his knees pulled up to his chest, his head hanging low to obscure his face, trying to make himself as small as possible. Diluc’s heart clenches painfully: if anyone has laid so much as a finger—
Kaeya looks up at his approach and immediately his face breaks out into a blood-boiling smirk. “Hello, come here often, handsome?”
Diluc stops, spins on his heel, and makes for the door.
“Wait, wait!” Kaeya laughs, “I’m sorry, please rescue me!”
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02 Mar 2026
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Kaeya never hid his mark. It was as bold and on display as was every other piece of him, in full view of anyone who chose to glance his way. Diluc was envious of his bravery. He, on the other hand, had hid his mark his entire life.
(A soulmate AU where each bears a mark that transmits touch between those bonded)
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19 Feb 2026
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Here’s the thing about Kaeya: he’s a liar. He obscures and deceives, and he does it to himself nearly as much as he does to other people. He got really good at it while Diluc was away on his cross-country tour of rage.
He’s worried he’s not as good with Diluc back in town.
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18 Feb 2026
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The seasons come to Mondstadt. Diluc learns (again) to let himself love.
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11 Feb 2026
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If Kaeya had been paying attention, he would’ve picked up on it sooner. But he hadn’t been—he preferred to forget what November meant, except for the nights getting longer and the days cooler. Remembering hurt. Birthdays had never felt like a clean new leaf, only another toll of a bell whose shadow lay long over Kaeya’s life.
Diluc, of course, did not think of it like that.
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03 Feb 2026
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“I thought you would block,” Diluc says.
Kaeya smiles, “I guess you thought wrong,”
If Kaeya had a coin for every poor choice he’d made concerning Diluc he’d have enough mora to buy back the family estate.
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02 Feb 2026
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When a new threat to Mondstadt happens to be too powerful for the Dark Night Hero to deal with on his own, he has to team up with a certain mischievous cavalry captain. Neither of them is happy about this arrangement (or are they?).
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01 Feb 2026
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lightning never strikes the same place twice by thatsformetoknow
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
23 Feb 2022
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That was personal problem number two. For whatever reason, Kaeya simply couldn’t fathom what it may be, the only two tents available for them to take with them were quite small. Meaning there wouldn’t be enough space for all four of them in one. This then left the obvious and seemingly harmless solution of Lumine and Paimon sharing one, and Kaeya and Diluc sharing the other. Kaeya simply did not under any circumstances wish to share a tent with his estranged brother, not now, not ever.
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28 Jan 2026
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11 Jan 2026
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may the winds carry you safely into the spring (and may i meet you there) by madarch for thatsformetoknow
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Jan 2024
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But as with so many things, Kaeya’s attitude towards Mondstadt’s holidays changed after Crepus’s tragic death, after clashing swords with Diluc, after his pointed and furious abandonment. Betrayal had a way of shrouding memories in darkness, and Kaeya found dawn breaking later with each passing year.
Kaeya has struggled to enjoy Mondstadt’s holidays since the night he crossed blades with Diluc—most of all Wintruztide, its winter festival. But when when he notices a glimpse of red hair peeking out from beneath the headdress of Ursakin, the frightening beast said to have a taste for naughty children's toes, he can't help but take the opportunity to reconcile both his love of the holiday, and his relationship with the love of his life.
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10 Jan 2026
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There had been a few times where Kaeya had been certain of his death. That night in the rain: a child left shivering and abandoned in this strange land of light and life with the weight of a world’s desperate hope on his tiny shoulders.
The night in the rain many years later, Diluc’s broadsword held above him like a guillotine, the whites of his red eyes showing all around, delirious with fury and grief.That night, maybe in the rain, when he went past even his limit on death after noon and choked on his own vomit in his dark and lonely room until he whited out.
Two were good reasons. Worthy reasons to die. The third was at least the product of something he loved.
(Kaeya always loved the things that hurt him the most)But this? Dying in this gods forsaken blizzard for the sake of some rich asshole’s asshole son?
Pathetic.
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30 Nov 2025
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Kaeya stares until he’s forced to blink, and the spot is empty as soon as his eye refocuses—he’d assume it’d been a mirage, but the fire Diluc had left in his wake, skittering across Kaeya’s skin, is far from gone.
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Out of options and out of his mind, Kaeya returns to Dawn Winery.
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27 Nov 2025
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it took my blood on your blood to believe by intimatopia
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
07 Jan 2022
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Heats had never felt good to Kaeya. They were nightmarish, his body and mind warring with each other until he didn’t know whether to tear his skin off or stuff his fingers inside himself. The need of it blinded him and robbed him of suspicion.
He couldn’t afford to be that weak, that trusting. He couldn’t. He knew the consequences.
Kaeya's forced off his suppressants, forced into heat, and forced to take Diluc as a partner. Things spin out of his control, and then back, but they don't go back to what they were.
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22 Nov 2025