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#rin is having tea with: luke 馃挋
zhongrin 1 year
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Plot bunny?
You are a servant of some god during the Archon War.
He enslaved you and your people, saying that humans are too simple to rule themselves.
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You scratched the dirty floor, trying to achieve perfection as your god demanded it. It didn't matter that your knees hurt as skin gave up and broke. It didn't matter that your fingernails were almost completely destroyed. It didn't matter that your spine was giving up.
This task was the simplest one your pathetic self could do. That's the only thing you could do. Thing that you were made to do.
At least it was what your "Master" said.
Your village laid in the mountains, growing into a small city over the years, slowly connecting with other small villages. It was peaceful, your biggest enemies being some rowdy slimes and a geovishap from time to time. But that changed when your "Master" marched in the town and claimed all that he saw. He was the one who told you that as humans, you are simple, made to serve. He killed anyone who disagreed, showcasing how weak you are.
Now, you almost believed him.
Yet, as years of breaking your back and thinking of not being worthy of doing anything else but serving your master, one moment in your life caused it to change completely.
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You only watched as guards dragged someone, following Master and his toy - Alatus. You wondered who angered your Master this time and yet, as you uncharacteristically looked away from your work on the victim, you couldnt recognise even a bit of human in him. That meant one thing - your Master defeated a new enemy.
His beaten body was a mix of somewhat human and a dragon. He had a long tail with some missing scales and fluffy end was drenched in mud. His clothes that once could be white were mostly covered in blood and dirt. His back was bare of clothing, and you could see whip marks along it, scales on it missing as well. His hair was all over the place, tangled and greasy. And on top of his head you saw two orange horns, that dully glowed.
If it was your old self, you would say that this man was beautiful. But as you learned in the hard way - god's were cruel beings and their beauty was nothing but a mask put over a monster inside.
Your second encounter with him was when you were tasked with cleaning steps leading to the throne. Your Master often ordered servants to clean while he was there, so he could watch over you, as humans were so stupid that they often missed spots.
You dutifully scrubbed the steps and golden decorations while the god that your Master captured was being kicked around by him.
Your Master ordered Alatus to whip him again, and you heard grunts coming out of the strangers mouth. It sounded like he didn't have any strength left to scream.
For some reason you felt... sad? As if you didn't want this stranger to suffer. You were told that god's are heartless and humans are replaceable, so why do you feel sad for him?
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You were tasked with giving the new prisoner food while he waited for his execution. It was weird.
He tried to talk to you. Like you weren't lower being. He thanked you for goodness sake. It wasn't something a god would do. Or maybe it was something your god wouldnt do?
You thought about this for a long time. This stranger was the kindest treatment you experienced in years. You couldn't let him die.
So now there you were, running with a torch and stolen keys through long and gloomy corridors, looking for him.
Your heart was racing and your mind was filled with terror. If you were caught, you would suffer. Why were you even doing this again? Humans weren't supposed to have free will, so why?
You saw him, chained to the walls behind thick bars. His wounded flesh angry red, wounds dirty with various spices that your Master ordered to smear in his wounds. He now looked weak, but you knew it was only because of that collar made of cursed metal. It was suppressing his godly powers.
But not for long.
Frantically you searched the keys and opened his cell. He looked at you shocked - he only saw light when he was dragged outside for torture. And you definitely looked too weak to do that. He was silent as you unchained him and freed his neck from that collar. Grabbing his hand, you stormed out, running towards the hidden exit.
As you stopped and opened door to the outside, you looked in his reptilian eyes.
"Free us please"
You didn't know where these words came from.
As he tried to speak, you heard ruckus and screams. Your Master felt his enemy being freed. You didn't listen to the stranger, pushing him outside and slamming the door, only telling him to go.
You then ran to servants quarters and laid down, praying that the chaos will buy him enough time.
You will be dead by tomorrow morning, but perhaps as you dared to hope, maybe some of the others will taste the freedom in their lives.
luke: plot bunny? :)
also luke: *dishes out a whole fic*
me: what-
also luke: and here's a cliffhanger :)
me: *angery kitten screams*
NO BUT FR THIS IS A WHOLE ASS FIC YOU JUST DROPPED IN MY INBOX HELLO????????? imma cry my zhongli my bby he does not deserve all these tortures ;A;
but but but the potential for this to turn yandere..... oooohfladhufsebfurnsuf frothing screaming salivating-
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zhongrin 1 year
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I know you are into ceo zhongli
But consider
Sugar baby Zhongli, being always ready for you at your home, being a lil housewife as you pay back his debts
Modern or normal setting work, with normal being more funny, as the great and powerful Archon has to clean up the house and is being broke
with normal being more funny, as the great and powerful Archon has to clean up the house and is being broke
wdym this isn't our dynamic right now i'm the one running the teahouse i'm the one winning the bread bay beee-
i cannot choose. i literally cannot choose. i love me my hot, rich, and powerful ceo zhongli. the zhongli who wears sunglasses and drives a bmw and appears in his company's commercials because he's got both the looks, the brains, and skills. the sugar daddy who would buy you everything without question, who loves seeing you all dolled up as he takes you to a fancy-ass dinner in the most luxurious restaurant in the city.
but i also love me my hot, broke, and charismatic househusband zhongli. the zhongli who wears reading glasses and an apron and drives a family car, who goes to supermarkets and has to recheck his notes because he can't for his life remembers if three dollars for a carton of eggs are cheap or expensive. the sugar baby who smiles kindly upon you gifting him expensive watches and armanis for him to wear, who welcomes you home with a home-cooked meal and massages your tired body and helps you shower, dry your hair, all the way until you're snoozing peacefully on the bed.
i love them both. can i have them both....
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zhongrin 1 year
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Zhongli, but he acts more like a big reptile/cat/dog and doesn't realize that, especially in private.
You catch him kneading your body when you cuddle, rubbing himself on you to leave his scent, wagging his tail when he is happy, when it's sunny, he lays down on a balcony with little clothing, during walks he sometimes stops hearing and sniffing around, he purrs when you scratch this one point on his head.
If you had a laser pointer, he would run after it. He sometimes follows reflections of your small mirror when you move it and you can see his hands twitching. Also, when he is happy and with only you, his slit like irises widen like a cats would. He also likes to collect pebbles during walks and more than once you caught him munching on a piece of cor lapis.
And when you are alone in the house and he trusts you, he lets it happen willingly, not stopping to avoid suspicion.
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oH MY GODDDDDDDD...... pls luke you can't do this to me i love animals too much this is adorable as fuck i'm gonna cRY
i would carry doggo-cat-dragon hybrid chonkli. if he's small enough i would buy a huge bag and line it with the softest towels and silks just for him to hide in so he can travel with me everywhere. if he's too big for that he's gonna be carried. in my arms. literally everywhere. you know those videos where people carry their big doggos up the escalators? that's it. that's gonna be me.
and if people come up to me to say my dog looks weird i'm the one who's gonna bite them.
i would coddle him and kiss his adorable wet nose and nuzzle his floofy tuft of a tail.
he's my baby now and no one can tell me otherwise.
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zhongrin 10 months
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Hello, I'm almost done with my bachelor's degree and I'm in exam hell right now, but have this crumb
Consider: the great Rex Lapis of Liyue that has a short but fierce mortal so. Reader was found by the adepti while going against some god during archon war, on her own with a chipped sword and no vision, with power of nothing but anger and chaos trapped inside smol body. It was stupid, but to Morax' suprise, reader won somehow, almost dying in the proces, as killing a god frees their entire energy in a blast. In the last moment, Rex Lapis shielded her, saving her life. She then stood up to him, asking him if he also will destroy everything that she held dear. And that was the moment when he had his first crush (like a schoolboy) and reader got geo vision for her stubborness. Vision fell on Zhonglis head and fell into her hands.
Qu茅 Zhongli trying to court reader while reader takes everything as a challenge because she can't understand someone trying to romance her lmao
LUKE!!!!! you can do this, friend!!! i have no doubts in your ability and i know you're gonna crush those exams!!! good luck and know that i'm spiritually cheering you on <3
also this is adorable, definitely reminds me of that meme with a handler who has someone else on leash and be like >:) lol
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zhongrin 1 year
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If friendship level was indicating how characters were acting about you in impostor sagau, where you would be safest?
1-3 - they know something is wrong with you, but they still act as if you were the imposter
4-7 - they will ignore you. They won't help but they won't rush to capture you if u know what I mean
8-10 - they will help you hide and will try and act on the side to convince others that you are not an imposter
For me it's probably Mondstadt or Liyue
From Mondstadt I have friendship lv10 with Diluc, Barbara, Lisa, Amber, Kaeya, lv8 with Noelle and Bennett.
For Liyue i have Zhongli, Kazuha and Xiao on lv10, Ningguang, Yun Jin, Yanfei and Xiangling on lv8
In Inazuma, well... My raiden is on lv7 and rest is below lv5 so yeah, not good
In Sumeru I have to get to Tighnari, as he is on lv10, Cyno is on 6 so it's not the worst thing I guess
Anyways, I'm safest in Mondstadt
Wonder where you are safe owo
*gasp* i remember seeing this kind of prompt on hira's (@/hiraya-rawr) blog and i wanted to do it for so long hsdlfjsldkjf
i think i'll be safest in... either mond or liyue? but generally, most of the characters will ignore me because whenever i get new characters i have a habit of stuffing them into the teapot until they reach lv. 6 lmao
mondstadt
lv. 10 jean and kaeya + lv. 8 amber and sucrose - fingers crossed they'll help convince the rest of the mondstadt residents that i mean no harm??
then again i don't have venti. does that mean he's at lv. 0? what would that translate to? that the character has no idea that you're the real creator and will hunt you down? bc if so well then rip me-
conclusion: safe(?)
liyue
tbh it's equally as safe and dangerous here i feel hsldfjlksdf zhongli. zhongli please you have to keep me safe-
lv. 10 zhongli and xiao + lv. 9 xingqiu + lv. 8 qiqi - yk what this isn't bad i have a dps, support, shielder, and healer i'm all set lmaooo
well... considering there are two characters who are my only triple-crowned peeps here (xiao and zhongli), i am praying to rex lapis that they would keep me safe ;;;
lv. 3 yun jin + lv. 2 yaoyao would be after me haldjsldj
no yelan, hu tao, shenhe, ganyu, childe - i think out of these people the only dangerous ones would be ganyu and childe (if they're devoted to the impostor that is). the others doesn't seem like the type who would care much about impostor gods and such... unless this is the sagau with heavy cultist element, in which case hoo boy guess we'll see who wins...
conclusion: safe... maybe
inazuma
lv. 10 shinobu and kazuha + lv. 9 thoma
i feel like my only option here is to:
1) rely on kazuha to persuade beidou (lv. 6) so they can snuck me out to liyue, or
2) rely on thoma to persuade ayato (lv. 7) for a temporary shelter in the kamisato residence (but i don't have ayaka so it's more likely that she might influence her brother to turn me in to the shogun shdlfkjsdl), or
3) rely on shinobu to persuade itto (lv. 6) to take me in... but can i live as an arataki gang member? ........... probably not.....
i have no ei or yae so as soon as they see me i think i'm gonna be vaporized ala signora so uh. yeah.
conclusion: not safe
sumeru
i'm fucked *chuckles*
lv. 10 collei - my sweet summer child. i am hoping she'll manage to convince tighnari at the very least. but otherwise, i'm fucked.
lv. 7 wanderer + lv. 5 al haitham - it's unfortunate but they would ignore me sobsob
i don't have cyno, tighnari, nilou, or nahida, which are the key people running sumeru so really i think i have the smallest chance of survival here orz
conclusion: very not safe
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zhongrin 1 year
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You. Ayato. Arranged marriage troupe. Strangers to friends to lovers. He respects you and distances yourself but you start to take him to the walls in the garden. Qu茅 romance blooms.
馃憖馃憖馃憖 would watch that
yk what i dig that. arranged marriage where the relationship goes strangers -> friends -> lovers is a trope that's pretty up there in my favorites list. there's just something so inherently endearing to me when two people are developing feelings and both of them (or in this case probably just one) are getting all flustered from all the little actions which are expected of them with their title.
i feel like ayato would be very amused at the way my eyes can't seem to meet his and how i jump whenever he tries to escort me in public. bc that's what i would do when the realization of 'oh shit i'm in love with my husband' hits. which, without context, sounds very funny lmao
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zhongrin 1 year
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How to train your dragon Morax edition?
no wait what if. what if hiccup is aether, morax is toothless, and reader is the light fury AAAAAAAAAAA
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zhongrin 1 year
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Powerful CEO zhongli that wants to learn living away from a city and you living in a country on a small farm.
One rainy night someone knocks on your door, and you carefully open it with a weapon ready. It turns out there is a guy standing there, completely wet and asking if he can spend the night here, as it's heavy raining and his car broke.
You agree and he stays for a few days waiting for help. You help him adapt to living on his own, as he never had to do chores like washing dishes and cooking. He is very eager to learn tho.
You both want to stay like this, but you have suspicions about this mysterious stranger that looked like a prince.
But those are just in fairytales, no?
OH MY GOD AAAA
i am loving this concept.... awkward but eager city boy curiously trying out the village life of a homebody!!! his mannerisms and speech and overall gestures suggests that he's a well-off gentleman with a high-standing in society, but he never really talks about his 'past' so you just don't want to assume. yeah, it's not like you're living in a fairytale of anything!
and then one day a big corporation threatens to level the whole village down to the ground because they have a 'master project' and your tiny insignificant little town is in their way... well. zhongli can't exactly have that now, can we?
he ends up buying your whole village plus the whole lands surrounding it.
the next time a representative from the corporation visits, zhongli faces them directly, tone cold and authoritative as he shoves the deed in front of them: "if you wish to buy my property i advise you to talk to my lawyers."
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zhongrin 1 year
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*whispers*: im alive, unfortunately
This is literally a scenario straight from my last half dreaming scenario (I'm not sure when I fell asleep during this lol)
So, after Rex Lapis established Liyue Harbour, and after the Archon War finally came to an end, his animalistic nature could not be silenced any longer.
He was going into rut and his body screamed that he had to migrate to the mating grounds, like any mature dragon, to find a mate for life and have children.
So finally after years and years, he left Liyue in the hands of the adepti, and flew across the sea to certain cluster of islands untouched by human hand, where all dragons of Teyvat every hundred years gathered to find a significant other.
When he arrives in all his draconic glory, there is no warm welcome. Him being a hybrid and being one of the smallest in size (I'm going of what we see in game and that his full dragon form is big like a bus, but not as big as Dvalin for example) put him as one of the least desirable, despite being one of the strongest. However dragons don't care about being a god or having a title of an Archon. What counts during the mating season is physical strength and size. Hybrids are also thought off as weaker and less potent, so they aren't a first choice for many.
Morax didn't want this to stop him though.
And then the biggest dragon he has ever seen lands near the islands, standing in the shallow water. It was a female that was a size of a biggest mountain, with giant wings capable of causing a storm and claws the size of a house.
And then he, the smallest of them all decided.
That was supposed to be his mate.
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Qu茅 smol dragon zhongli giving gifts and trying to court giant dragon reader by using his mind and knowledge instead of his physical strength.
cries this is such a cute concept
what if you as the biggest dragon is actually just. yknow. a gentle giant despite their size. and perhaps a human fanatic as well hehehe
cue zhongli teaching them to shapeshift and bringing them to his city for their dates <3
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zhongrin 11 months
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I think that it would've been funny, if during Morax angst teen years he met chaotic lover, who is not afraid to do the weirdest stuff with him.
Like if both were adeptal beasts and turned for the first time into human as Guizhong asked them, and start to crawl around naked and eat frogs, trying to figure out how humans work, while Guizhong and Osail run after them.
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Morax: Can humans have multiple elbows?
Y/n: I don't know. Let's try it
*they proceed to change their forms to have way too many joints*
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Y/n: Humans aren't that aerodynamic, but we should be able to glide from the mt Aozang
Morax: Well there is only way to find out
Guizhong: *runs after them* nO-
"crawl around naked and eat frogs" "can humans have multiple elbows?" cying in tears rn luke omg-
no but this is so real hahahahah i remember i posted a picture thingy of how... you know how the characters' legs would bent unnaturally on certain steep terrains in the game? i remember saying how zhongli in his morax days descending to liyue to walk among his people for the first time and being like. hm? human joints don't bend that way? i seem to have too many teeth? i.. i see.... *confuzzled dragon purrs* lmao
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zhongrin 1 year
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As you fell to the ground seeking shelter from my cruel eyes, it was I alone standing there to come and save you.
Got a little idea, since oftentimes reader is either a minor god or a mortal and there is big power imbalance. This time I wanted to do something a little different as you can say, with heretic reader I guess? Reader has a blade made out of unknown metal that allows them to absorb power of the gods. Since they killed a lot of god's, they are more powerful by anyone. (Since canonically god's in genshin explode when they die lol)
Reader was a human that didn't want some insecure god to enslave them, so they took the matters into their own hands.
The question is, will they spare one god that stood in their way or not?
>:3
Idea tim
Rex Lapis was one of the strongest gods among those, who dared to compete for a throne in the sky, yet he still was no all-knowing and invincible.
As fire roared and scorched the earth and divine blood soaked the ground, the dragon god was struck by a sword and send plummeting into the plains below.
The god who wounded him did not have any time to celebrate, as they knew that as long as the death was not confirmed, there was no victor.
God flew to the heaving body of once glorious dragon, now wounded and dirty, that was crawling away in the desperate attempt to flee. The distraction was done and people already escaped so there was no more time to buy.
As god raised his sword, a blade dark as night that seemed as nothing itself severed their head from their body.
Morax looked in horror, as his enemy's head landed with a soft plop next to his.
There was no explosion. There was no surge of power.
All that energy that this god once had was being greedily caught by this eerie blade and absorbed by a body of a mortal. Or at least something that was once a mortal.
The End of the Divine was standing right in front of him and he could do nothing more than growl.
He could only hope that Guizhong would survive on her own.
as per usual, luke says 'idea time' but blesses us with a fic. everyone says thank you luke for the delicacy 馃檹馃徎
that's a really interesting thought. celestia must really scorn the reader tho shdfljskldf i can't see the reader sparing morax in this scenario unless he proposed some kind of a very compelling contract, or if they had met in the past and reader is indebted to him somehow? ohhhhhhh i'm very interested to see where you would take the direction of the story if you ever wanna continue it!!!
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zhongrin 1 year
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Do you think when Morax wanted to become Zhongli full time, he picked up one of those books like "How to talk to people" or "How to make friends".
Also, imagine catching him reading one of those pink books for teenage girls "how to get a boyfriend"
YES YES AND YES
i mean he's observed how mortals lived for millenias, and he's already descended to live amongst his people several times in the past but actually casting his identity away to live between mortals, not as their god but as zhongli? i bet my mora he'd read all the books he could get his hands on.
HELP HSKDJSKDJLS ZHONGLI READING UP ON ROMANCE WHEN HE REALIZES HE WANTS TO PURSUE US ROMANTICALLY imma cry that is both adorable and hilarious-
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zhongrin 1 year
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He had a fear of sea for far more than he could remember. Which was pretty ironic considering that he chose the location of his main city to be at the edge of it.
And while he knew it was the best choice for his people, as Harbour would be the center of bountiful trade, he never wanted to step on the ship or sail across it. He was fine with coming as close to the edge as possible, often walking through docks and overseeing his subjects days, but he never crossed that edge willingly.
Not after what happened. Not after she was taken away by it. Not after the one who ruled over it betrayed him.
Sometimes perhaps his memory was too good.
Some angst with zhongli and dead s/o who drowned, because of osail perhaps???
oh
oh
OH MY GOD
Y E S
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zhongrin 1 year
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Ayo, my vision has arrived
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Ye, I went for the Sumeru one because I like the metal frame and dendro because we'll... I don't think I would get geo so yeah
OH OH THATS SO PRETTY WAUGH
i have a geo one but the casing is from inazuma so i want to buy another one ;w;
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zhongrin 1 year
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*whispers* zhongli in a corset
Ayo, I'm alive and kickin, tired and less active and a little down, but I'm alive
better yet zhongli putting me in a corset and telling me how pretty i am
hskdjskd are you ok
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zhongrin 1 year
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I just realized that I have been feeding Zhongli curry shrimp for the past five months because I wanted to make something different than sweet madame...
Poor him 馃ぃ
........... luke. luke don't do our beautiful dragon like this pls he hates seafood why are you hurting him stop- /j
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