My extremely niche but all-time favorite trope's gotta be the Once inseparable tragic siblings seperated after The Incident™, leaving one of them locked away for a certain amount of years (preferably 500) and once they are free to move again and reunite with their sibling, they're faced with a cruel reality of the other having been dragged onto a dark path which was the fallout of The Incident™ that basically made them sworn enemies. And despite their best efforts, later have to grapple with the fact that's most likely not their sibling anymore, and they cannot be saved

aether’s the type to keep things accidentally private. not that he wants to hide your relationship with him, but because no one has asked him about it. if someone did, however. he will speak of blossom, saying everything that makes him connect with you, how you’re too good for him, how perfect you are.

it’s the opposite though, when it comes to physical contact. the outlander likes it when you’re very showy, but cannot deal with it when it’s front of other people. even a simple kiss is enough to rile him up, not sure how to balance that image of the “mighty savior of teyvat” with the side that he shows only to you. he stutters, he flushes red. wanting to ask for more but not wanting to be seem needy especially if you two are in public.

OMG HELLO AETHER NATION LEADER BLAKE !!!

I keep rereading this and oh my god,,, the image of aether flushing the brightest red after you purposely pull him into your lap at a tea kisok in Liyue [exploding sfx]

Thank u sm for the brainworms, scuttling off 2 write the aether blurb rn !!

my dash has been solid teal & gold for an hour, you good?

i had a moment

as much as i love genshin interactions, lately i've been craving writing aether in other universes/fandoms or maybe exploring more about his past pre-teyvat. i have so many ideas for him, and i'd love to explore the process of him slowly developing a heart and a mind of his own (instead of just being an order-keeper that travels through worlds guided by the stars). just!!! the process of him relating to mortals and falling in love with mortality yknow! itd be pretty neat 🥺

starting noelle’s chunk now and uh. girl. girl you have Issues

I have added a few characters from Genshin in my ‘request’ section for muses alongside Thoma and Diluc!

"use the force, aether"

i had this brainworm and now it's ruining my life help

hi, new follower here! absolutely obsessed with your work!

do you have any disability headcanons for any of the ghouls? i'm physically disabled myself (various conditions that cause me chronic pain in my joints, particularly my legs/ankles/hips/etc) so i'd really love to hear if you think any of the ghouls have anything similar! and maybe something about the ghouls helping each other through any of the issues their disabilities may cause?

-🍊 anon

Surprisingly, given how I suffer with chronic pain myself, I've never actually put much thought into physical disability headcanons for the ghouls. Due to this, this response is sadly not as long as I'd like it to be but I'll 100% be thinking about more disabled ghoul hcs in the future (the brainworms have begun worming)

All ghouls experience some sort of physical backlash from being forced into human forms that don't quite agree with their hellish forms. It does vary greatly from mild aches and allergies to cases like Zephyr, who deals with severe chronic pain on a day-to-day basis that restricts how much he can move and what he can do.

Phantom is very hypermobile and suffers from aches and pains fairly regularly, however, they range in severity. Sometimes it's easily ignorable and he's able to continue with his day, but other times he's unable to do anything because the pain is hitting so hard it wipes him out.

The best remedy for achy joints and painful bones is the soothing fizz of quintessence and the heat of a fire ghoul. The ministry's resident Quint and fire ghouls are always prepared to help a ghoul in need and soothe away pain to a more manageable level.

The first time Dew ever really showed much kindness to Phantom was when Aether dragged him into the new ghoul's room and forced him to become a living snugglesafe for the younger. It's hard to hold rage towards someone you see and help at their most vulnerable.

Hey Aether, sorry you're sexy guy didn't win but here's photo evidence of my solidarity <3

Also if you are still doing sketch requests may I pretty please have a drawing of Maya the siren from borderlands :]

(^^^that's her)

I am having brainworms about her rn <3

ty for your vote asriel , even tho he did not win <333 he won TO ME <333

here is your girl :3

hope you like her :33

I've been thinking about Gear stuff like, all day, but what I'm really becoming inspired to do is write out the crazy long story of my little pokemon trainer oc from when I was a kid across the regions I like and just end it with Paldea. The whole Kieran thing reactivated shit in my brain like sleeper cells and if I can find a free native word processor I just might sit down and get to work and maybe even post it somewhere. I might actually write something just cause I want to. I could create. I actually rambled out a little outline in my notes app which is pretty big for me and also means it won't just fade into the aether. Brainworms puppeteer me into doing the thing please.

The Ragnvindr bros are back lol

uhh…yeah lol i was thinking about them and how the twins (aether and lumine) parallel them specifically and obviously i had to write it to get the brainworms out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (if you’re familiar with me/my work, you know the drill by now)

basically this is just an in vino veritas-type thing except make it platonic and ft. the ragnvindr brothers- happy reading! :D

[rises from my grave] I'll be back tomorrow [descends back into my grave]

      ‘ You're clearly not from Sumeru, ʼ not that many people are, the Akademiya lures all sorts of individuals from multiple corners of Teyvat. Still, Kaveh notes that the way the traveler enunciates  each word with an odd spin he hasn't heard from anyone else. Interesting.

      His hand moves comfortably under his own chin as means to shift weight over the way it supports his head, eyes fixed on the foreign presence. In the carmine of Kaveh's, naive innocence glints.  ‘ How's it like... there? Wherever it is. ʼ

ㅤㅤcuriosity was as natural to the academics of sumeru as thirst and hunger were to most living beings, it appeared. yet the way that the famous architect directed the question to the traveller was refreshing on its own—genuinely caring, not looking for addendum knowledge or practical tools he could later on use, but rather connection. or at least that’s what the little sparkles in soft crimsons with long lashes seemed to imply. he could understand why kaveh was deemed the light of the kshahrewar. with that, lips curled delicately into a smile as aether took a shy spoonful from his padisarah pudding, not yet facing his companion from the other side of the not-so-large table. a few thousand years ago, he’d be unable to taste its sweetness; both from the desert and from the question. 

ㅤㅤhe took a few seconds too long to respond, humming pensively as he let the spoon rest against the plate. there would be no sense in lying saying he was from mondstadt or liyue, the other man had probably traversed through such countries as well. besides, he just didn’t feel like it. he thought of the stars, of the kaleidoscopic nebulae, of the white and black holes he journeyed through, of the ruins of planets he explored, of the messages from the heavens, of his sister. banzo. yes, that’s what he was feeling. how bittersweet. “it’s really beautiful, like nothing you’ve ever seen”, words came out as accent-heavy as they always were, only now carrying a mix of murky melancholy,   “i think you’d like how elaborate it is.”   he chuckled to himself, thinking about what kaveh would be able to draw out on his blueprints if he could take a close glimpse at the rings of a planet and its moons. the architecture of the universe ought to inspire anyone to create a grander project than that of palace of alcazarzaray, right?   “roofs made from shiny crystals, walls of colourful rocks, flooring as soft to the feet as clouds…”   he sighed longingly, closing his eyes for a moment.   “if you climbed up really high, you could watch the entire night sky from the ruins and hear the howling of the winds. It got… a little too cold or warm sometimes, though.”   it was space, after all. but even that was nice, he reminisced to himself.

ㅤㅤ“but i don’t think i can return there—to… home, that is.”   the word felt awfully wrong for him to use, almost fake and perhaps his throat didn’t recognise its sound, and maybe that’s why he instinctively crossed his arms against his chest, frowning. was it really ‘home’ if he was designed to forever be a wanderer, never to stay for too long, always serving the cosmos? the stars never answered his pleas either, denying him any solace. shaking golden locks, he put on the best smile he could forge, eating yet another spoonful as he looked at kaveh.   “are you looking for inspiration, perhaps?”

Pregnant Cumulus headcanons below, because these brainworms won't go away until I write all of this out

The kit was a complete accident. Cumulus wasn't down on the mover roster due to her work on the tours, a kit would just slow her down. However, heats lined up and accidents happened.

Rain was the first one to scent it on Cumulus. He'd smelled it in passing, and then he had backtracked and pressed his nose into Cumulus' neck until he was sure that he smelled a kit on her.

Aether was the one to confirm it after catching Rain cuddling into Cumulus' side, his nose snuffling against her neck. He'd rested his hand on Cumulus' middle and he could feel the energy of a kit within her.

After that, Cumulus called a meeting with her pack to announce it. She even called Copia through, since they were on tour and it would be pretty dumb to try to hide that from him.

Copia's jaw dropped at the news. He picked it up off the floor, and then it dropped again. He did not have a good poker face.

Dew straight up tackle hugged Cirrus, letting out excited chirrups and yips as he nuzzled her all over.

Cirrus shared a proud kiss with Cumulus and whispered that she'd protect both Cumulus and the kit, no matter what.

Copia had been the one to ask who the dad was. The whole pack went silent at that. Cumulus blushed, then slowly looked over at Sunshine.

Cue another round of excited shrieking from the ghouls, and Copia having to sit down because he didn't even know that Sunshine could do that.

Cumulus and Sunshine tended to share a bunk after the announcement. Sunny was addicted to Cumulus' new scent, the sweetness of all of her new hormones, mixed with a slight cinnamon scent that told everyone that this was Sunshine's kit.

Cumulus was more tired than anything during her first trimester. Lots of naps, before and after rituals. Her morning sickness wasn't too bad, it was mostly nausea, but the nausea plus the motion of the bus didn't make her feel great. She tried to stay away from Rain on these days, because Rain's a sympathetic puker.

In her second trimester, Cumulus grew rapidly. Her soft belly made way for a perfectly round bump, which soon sprouted sparkly gold stretch marks to match her glittery freckles. During this time, Cumulus stole a lot of Aether's t-shirts and hoodies, finding that they fit better than her own clothes.

There was one ritual where she had to perform with her waistcoat half buttoned, as her bump had grown overnight, to the point where she couldn't button her waistcoat. There was two frantic stagehands running around the city that night, trying to find a tailor to add elasticated panels to her backup waistcoat and trousers.

Swiss was the first to feel the baby. He'd been cuddling with Cumulus on the sofa, post-ritual, while she napped. He'd felt a small squirm, followed by a flutter. He freaked out. So much that it woke Cumulus up and had all the other ghouls running, thinking that something had gone wrong. When Swiss explained that he felt a foot, or maybe an elbow, or something, Cumulus just chuckled and explained that she'd been feeling them for the past month, but it was good to know that they could be felt from the outside. The ghouls had all lined up to feel the kicks after that.

Lemme know if I should do a part 2!

What if Traveler, but Non-binary?

Okay okay in all seriousness, I've had. A very serious brainworm for an AU that ISN'T the Genshin fic I'm currently working on, BUT it won't leave my hecking brain--so I drew the Traveler from that AU!

I don't know if I want to 100% dive into the details of the AU right now.... but know that this version of the Traveler is named Robin in the AU. They're currently Geo Traveler simply because the golden colors looked the best, but I personally prefer them to be an Anemo baby.

Their name being Robin in the AU is very specific to the AU, so I might do some research to give the generic NB traveler a name similar to Aether and Lumine's names. Thoughts?

glance: At first glance, what stands out most about your OC's appearance? What's their distinguishing feature?

no character specified, so you get the pair I've got brainworms about right now!

for Rrahna: absolutely her scars. she scars easily and (as the WoL) is therefor absolutely covered in them. I think in one write I described her as something along the lines of "like she was drawn by an artist who'd just heard of cross-hatching, but hadn't really understood the point of it yet." pretty much only her face and neck are (mostly) unscarred 'cause she protects them better (/survivorship bias, wounds to the neck would be Bad). Her usual outfit leaves a fair bit of her torso uncovered, so while there's a lot more hidden, it's still probably the thing most people notice first. Those who don't know who she is probably assume she's some grizzled mercenary

for Cota: they have pixie wings lol. yeah most people in Eorzea assume they're fake and it's just some like... idk, oversized bit of enchanted(?) jewelry that they're really attached to, but no, they were just born with pixie wings. because I made them in a very self indulgent mood. After a while they realize just how much Cota emotes with them and start to go "wait, are those actually real?" and Cota's just "I can't believe how many people here think these are fake." .... anyway, the excuse I came up with was that their Azem (Pandora) was heavily tinkering with their aether around the time of the Final Days for gender reasons and also kicks and giggles and Cota's just the first shard that's put back together enough for the tinkering to have a visible effect.