You get a fragrant taste that's simply... unforgettable
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A silly little sentimental sprout of basil that writes for Genshin Impact (call me Basil or Sprout!) || 26 || nb || home of the KazuXiaoReader nation!! || I write 18+ content often, so keep that in mind
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Hihi, I wanted to request maybe Albedo with a cardiophilia kink? (The kink mostly has to do with hearing peoples heartbeats and/or feeling their pulse) There’s no need to accept this if it’s outside of your boundaries but if you do, thank you!!
(This is my first time ever requesting something haha)
lol nearly two years later and I was hit with inspiration, so here you go anon o7
it's a bit on the shorter end (just over 500 words) and it's been a hot minute or maybe more like three and a half years but who's counting amirite
Lifeblood
Summary: Albedo adores you and this simple proof of your existence only furthers that.
Contains: Albedo x gn!Reader, suggestive fluff, established relationship, cardiophilia (or, Albedo really loves the sound and feel of your heart beating).
The steady rush, the thrumming that sits just below the surface, is intoxicating.
Lub dub, lub dub.
Eyes flutter shut as his fingertips graze over the warmth of your skin, dancing along gooseflesh to shoulder, and along the slope of your neck. It’s habit now. Second nature, with how quickly Albedo could find it—but he hesitates. Not from fear or uncertainty, but to prolong the feeling that seems to consume his own thoughts. A warmth that blooms and presses against the insides of his chest and forces sea green to hide in anticipation.
So, his touch stills.
Lub dub, lub dub.
As his fingers lift, the dull edge of his nails skim to follow along the curve just past that lovely beat. They slip up until his full palm cups your jaw and the sigh that escapes your lips finally lulls his gaze to fall up on the sight before him.
He wasn’t the only one who was affected, after all. He knew this after countless seconds, minutes, hours, spent with that strange giddiness that seemed to consume him as his hands mapped out your body. The very same routes from head to toe bring a fain flush of warmth that blooms beneath his cupped hand. It was funny how life could be explored in so many different ways.
Perhaps it wouldn’t bring him any closer to finding that meaning, but...perhaps it would if the look on your face, near pleading, was what brought that desire back tenfold.
His palm lifts, leaving fingertips to graze your cheek.
Lub dub, lub dub.
Pinky, ring, middle—they curl to rest against his palm until only a single digit curves down to brush over your lips followed by a knowing glint within his eyes. Patience. Was that word for you or for himself? He could practically hear it already, memorizing that mesmerizing found, that feeling.
Lub dub, lub dub.
From your lips, he drags that finger just past the dip to your chin. There, he stops again.
Lub dub, lub dub.
It only makes sense that he’d be fascinated.
And perhaps he was hearing his own heart beating faster within his chest.
Lub dub, lub dub, lub dub.
His touch makes it down further, slow in its drag.
Lub dub, lub dub.
Down until he can feel the bob of your throat. Then…
Two fingers now shift. He’d removed his gloves at some point. The calloused pads pressing down into the soft flesh of your neck with a gentle pressure. There.
Again, his eyes fall shut until fair lashes brush against his ruddied cheeks, a breath he didn’t know he was holding exhaled shakily. That steady, strong beat lay just beneath his fingertips. The echo of your heart—the one that you’d claimed belonged to him. It wasn’t quite the same as when his hand was flat against your chest, nor did it echo in his ears like when he was engulfed by your familiar scent with the radiating heat of your body warming his cheek.
But it was alluring all the more.
Each beat of your heart pulsed within your jugular to reveal the very essence of your life, the literal blood that ran through your veins.
sprout omg hello!!! i haven't seen you on dash in ages, i hope you've been doing well 💞
HELLO HIIII do you prefer Kira now?
I've been doing alright, chugging along with classes as per usual hehe I essentially have one semester left of classes + maybe 1 more class (probably will be taken during summer or in tandem when I'm doing my clinicals for teaching), but otherwise I've been focusing more on drawing more than writing!
I read that the title of Durin's event wish is "Rubedo, of White Stone Born". How does it feel to have semi-predicted that
Also hi I hope you're doing well!!
-meerkat anon I believe is what I used. There's still no meerkat emoji 🥀
MEERKAT ANON HELLO! I hope that things are going alright for you haha, it's been quite some time huh?
ehe whoopsie
anyway! I'm delighted because that was before anyone could've ever guessed that we'd be getting Durin (though I suppose not quite Durin in the same way we'd thought way back when) as a playable character and also get the whole Rubedo thing down too while also getting it entirely wrong!
Honestly, I'm just pleased lmao and Durin is such a sweetheart so I'm even happier
there's going to be some light spoilers for Durin's quest stuff and all that jazz from the current (6.2) update below the cut
Like idk if you've read it, but there was that one thing I did as a backtrack to Shadows Amidst Snowstorms back in 2023 where I kinda went on about simulacrums, paintings, and how Rubedo (Subject 2)--SPECIFICALLY THIS BIT I WROTE:
Rubedo sees himself as defective because he was not chosen to become human by Rhindottir, unlike Albedo. The bitterness in his lines–about how humans only judge for what is worth or not worth and cast away what they deem as trash–is proof to that.
And looking back on that, it's kinda cool cause now we see that our Durin, who once was Mini Durin (who, himself, is like Albedo is to Subject 2 for the original Durin), was chosen to become his own being unlike that of the original Durin who was essentially doomed to his own fate and who (our Durin) now has the opportunity to discover his own worth. So, in a way, it's kinda the opposite of what I'd predicted lol.
This is also so interesting because we get a look at what things were probably like for Albedo and how they could have been for Subject 2 but through our Durin's childlike views of the world around him--and though I want to continue on and say that this is like what Subject 2 could have had, that would also be incredibly wrong because we know now that Subject 2 was never going to be like that. He was, in all ways, too far gone in his desire to replace Albedo that he likely wouldn't ever have considered rehabilitation (as much as my poor heart wishes it).
THOUGH I'm also tickled that the collective thought dumping about soft and clueless and confused and learning how to human Rubedo agenda applies to Durin thus far-
I've been wayy more active on my art account (@dourgeek)so if you want to see my art and stuff still, head on over there- this is acct is purely for fic (that I haven't had the time to write due to class and work) nodnod
though atm I've been on a batman rogues stint so all my current art has been either the Riddler or Scarecrow (I have two hands and they are being put to good use--as in holding their hands)
I've been wayy more active on my art account (@dourgeek)so if you want to see my art and stuff still, head on over there- this is acct is purely for fic (that I haven't had the time to write due to class and work) nodnod
I tag anyone who wants to do it and my lovely mutuals!! @boy-oneder @malicious-bog-creature @komorybatz @dxckgrxsonx @britonell @fallencrowkarma @sio-ina-bottle @starlitvalyria @dontknowanythingohwell @theriverbeneaththeriver
i blacked out and it was 22:00 the day was gone and I had this drawing in front of me and Quest's tits on my mind. I used reference for it. Sowwy this is who i am apparently
RIP Subject Two, you'll be missed OTL except for the fact that you technically ended up a part of Durin who then attempted to kill Albedo (again) in order to replace him--this time not literally replace in the sense of becoming him, but rather replace his spot in mother dearest's (Rhinedottir's) eyes which, all things considered, probably would really be able to happen anyway
BUT you know that's what fanfic is for! So long Subject Two, hello (again) Rubedo o7
