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june's cat cafe | dark content blog | 20s | mdni | @saekogun

[dearestxiao]

you have no cat allergies, right?

this blog is 18+ and interacts with dark content. @/saekogun's new blog.

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recent work:

the color blue series (college au: yandere venti x reader x yandere xiao) [one] [two] [three]

coming soon:

when the wind howls your name [yandere childhood best friend childe x reader]

may the gods be in my favor [yan. venti x devotee!reader x yan. dahlia]

[dearestxiao]

going through a nasty breakup!!! but I will be back soon!!!!!

[dearestxiao]

xiao renaissance ensuing!!!!

[dearestxiao]

writing a post about this but it's getting too long so I just wanted to post something in the meantime:

I think what makes flins such an interesting character (and especially an interesting yandere) is the way in which it's hard to pin point his exact intentions when it comes to the things he says and his actions. you cannot take everything he says at face value. at the same time, it would be extremely well advised for you to read between the lines. he's also naturally manipulative, but not necessarily maliciously, or even consciously, so.

trying to decipher even the most simplest conversations between you and flins will always turn out to be more challenging than it seems.

[dearestxiao]

yearning.........

[dearestxiao]

the clingiest you will ever see/experience xiao is when he's drunk, cheeks flushed and eyelashes heavy, who seems to want nothing more than to wrap his arms around you and cuddle up to your side

[dearestxiao]

I hope my beloved husband (xiao) returns from war soon (appears in the next later rite event)...

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dottore and his emotional support lab guinea pig (aka you)

[dearestxiao]

just musing now as I gather my thoughts about him but I think flins would be a real deal obsessive yandere... he is utterly bewitched by you, mind body and soul. he cannot get you out of his head and never necessarily even attempts to restrict himself from showing his devotion over you...

[dearestxiao]

flins is so naturally flirty. you don't get the hint that he's into you because you think that that's just how he is with everyone. I think that he would go out of his way to make more extravagant displays of courtship just to get you to understand that he likes you. and he perhaps becomes more mindful of how he speaks to other people so that you know he's being more genuine when it comes to you

yandere flins is even worse with his wooing...

[dearestxiao]

bouncing between wanderer, flins and al-haitham continuously in my mind

[dearestxiao]

some softer flins ramblings and thoughts to ease the soul:

flins often 'suddenly' appears behind you every time you so much as take a foot outside during the cover of night, offering to accompany you along to wherever your destination may lie. he always mentions how you 'ought not to be out so late,' especially not with the constant threat of the wild hunt ever looming, yet he never complains necessarily, at least not when he gets the pleasure of placing a guiding hand against the small of your back as he walks you to wherever you're headed. if you ask, he always says that the reason he was around to catch you in the first place was simply because he was on patrol in the area, although you're not really sure you believe that excuse.

speaking of his patrol, flins also likes to bring you back the things he finds on them, like your devoutful crow. there's all sorts of bits and bobbles to be found around nod krai, peculiar oddities left behind by the various walks of life who've trailed though region over the past few centuries. you never know just what history is lingering within the grains of sand. glassware, buttons, jewelry, diary entries, love notes, toys and trinkets— sadly, he himself does not have much use for them, but he takes pleasure in knowing that you find much joy in them. he likes observing your responses to the items, gauging which kinds of things you find yourself more interested in over others so that he knows what to search for next time he goes out.

on nights you have trouble falling asleep, he likes to hold you to his chest, hand trailing soothing shapes into your skin as he lulls you to sleep with tales from the olden days. he speaks of the folklore he's picked up from the frost moon scions, stories of his fellow light keepers, tales imparted onto him by the locals, times when faes still roamed snezhnaya. he tries to ramble only about the ones that are more light hearted so as to not weigh on you, but he hopes you could forgive him if his mind trails. his lantern is often lit off to the side so as to serve as a soothing nightlight, your eyes growing ever heavier as you watch the blue flame flicker gently. he lingers even after you finally fall into rest, finding any excuse he can to watch over you just for a little longer, only leaving once his duties pulls him away.

[dearestxiao]

very, very into weird yandere duo dynamics. thinking about diluc watching over varka's poor (captured) darling while he's on an expedition, letting him take reign over you in his absence to ensure you stay safe and protected. you're expected to be especially obedient for diluc, considering he so graciously took you in, and varka is often in contact to make sure you're on your best behavior.

[dearestxiao]

caught up with nod krai!! can now officially flins post hehe

[dearestxiao]

severally underestimated how much more of the natlan archon quest I had to do but that's okay cause I'm officially in nod krai and have met our beautiful fae husband

[dearestxiao]

'gentlemen' sleazes who take care of you after you've had a bit too much to drink. they are so sweet and kind to you when you're drunk and stumbling around, offering to take you home and make sure you're safe, wrapping an arm around your waist just to keep you steady and not minding that you're slurring. they never explicitly say that they expect anything in return for the way they were so dutifully attentive over you (even though their lingering and trailing gaze says enough on it's own), but they also wouldn't turn you down if you just so happened to want to repay them back for such a favor.

[dearestxiao]

so happy to have received a knight xiao ask bc I've been thinking about him so bad lately