Wrote a fic years ago and when I found this was the last line, I had to post it in tribute to @sfiolumi and her current WIP. From the short Bucky/Nat nsfw fic Pretending.
Natasha breathes out hard, trembles at the sound of his voice, “Your body always remembers.”
Fandom: Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Rating: E (18+)
Relationships: Alhaitham/Kaveh, Alhaitham/Kaveh/OFC, Alhaitham/OFC, Kaveh/OFC, some mentions of Cyno/Tighnari, Ayato/OFC, Takuya/OFC, Xiao/Lumine, Scaramouche/Childe
Content: Rated E on AO3 - Please read the tags!
Summary:
When Kaveh’s childhood friend returns to Sumeru, things between him and Alhaitham begin to get interesting. Little does he know that Lily is also Alhaitham’s colleague, and both of them have more secrets than Kaveh could ever begin to imagine.
Or, this is a story of an artist named Kaveh, his hacker roommate Alhaitham, and Kaveh’s childhood friend Lily. It’s a story about navigating espionage and love, when neither situation is what it seems.
Chapter 1 - connect
Chapter 2 - tend
Chapter 3 - tell
Chapter 4 - draw
Chapter 5 : game
Fandom: Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Rating: E (18+)
Relationships: Alhaitham/Kaveh, Alhaitham/Kaveh/OFC, Alhaitham/OFC, Kaveh/OFC, some mentions of Cyno/Tighnari, Ayato/OFC, Takuya/OFC, Xiao/Lumine, Scaramouche/Childe
Content: Rated E on AO3 - Please read the tags!
Summary:
When Kaveh's childhood friend returns to Sumeru, things between him and Alhaitham begin to get interesting. Little does he know that Lily is also Alhaitham's colleague, and both of them have more secrets than Kaveh could ever begin to imagine.
Or, this is a story of an artist named Kaveh, his hacker roommate Alhaitham, and Kaveh's childhood friend Lily. It's a story about navigating espionage and love, when neither situation is what it seems.
Chapter 1 - connect
Chapter 2 - tend
Chapter 3 - tell
Chapter 4 - draw
Chapter 5 : game
Just... Why are hands so attractive?
And why are his hands so attractive especially?!
Bless whoever draws his hands at Hoyo because istg they always look so good... Judging by how often they draw them in official art - Hoyo artists love his hands as well, confirmed.
A lot of this came about bcs I was thinking about speculations that Cyno is also Haravatat (which is seeming unlikely), but even if he was from another Darshan and is just, like, a language hobbyist, they might work with a little tweaking. ANYWAY
- Languages as another thing they bicker and sass each other about. Alhaitham mocking Cyno for confusing tones when speaking in Liyue language. Cyno calling out Alhaitham for messing up conjugations in Mond language. They’d get so, so gloriously petty with it.
Cyno: How unprofessional of the Scribe, to use first-person language in an official report.
Alhaitham: You counted three words, and it’s practice in the style of official reports. Shut it.
Cyno: Five. Wait… Six. Two of the same mistakes repeated.
Alhaitham: I’m not taking this from someone who asked for soup instead of sugar in his tea.
Cyno: That was one time–!
- But also languages as a thing they could agree about. Cyno squints over a letter from Lisa written in Mond and complains about the grammatical gender being so different from Sumeru’s. Instead of roasting him, Alhaitham makes a remark on how at least Sumeru’s gendered nouns are easier to identify and the articles don’t change around like theirs.
Cyno: Tch. Articles. Don’t even get me started on how they change with the cases.
Alhaitham: if you won’t get started, then allow me– (insert 2 hour rant here that they end up laughing about)
- They’re both fond of ancient languages, Cyno a bit moreso. So whenever Cyno borrows a Decarabian-era poetry collection from Lisa after accompanying Collei to Mondstadt or wins some Ishine script stone slates from his Genius Invokation game with Yae, he makes sure to wait for Alhaitham so they could nerd about it analyse it together.
- Cyno adores (and is jealous of) Alhaitham’s handwriting in all languages. Like how does this man write so neatly and robotically in line, yet not lack the flowiness and artistry characteristic to Sumeru and Inazuma scripts??
- Whenever the Traveler comes by to visit, the two keep track of how their accent and phrases slightly changes and then guess where they had been recently, before the Traveler even says it. It’s a game and they’re keeping score of who can guess first, and Alhaitham is just slightly ahead because he’s a Rude Bastard who will just say, “Oh, you’ve been in Liyue this past month?” while the Traveler is still mid-sentence.
- Alhaitham is terrorized by Cyno’s attempts at language-related jokes on top of his other jokes.
Cyno: If I were to describe my latest mission in grammatical terms, it would be simple past tense.
Alhaitham: …what?
Cyno: It was easy, and it happened in the past.
Alhaitham: …I’m going to maul you.
Cyno: No, that’s simple future tense.
Alhaitham: Your life will be simple past tense if you don’t stop soon–
- Also multilingual puns.
Cyno: An Inazuman cat is lazing about. You could say he’s doing…nyathing.
Alhaitham: (snorts because Cyno said nya)
Cyno: (makes mental note thinking that Alhaitham likes cat puns)
- Sometimes Alhaitham replaces words with shorter words in another language in his personal notes, chaotically using one script to write a word from an entirely different language. One time, since he left it open anyway, Cyno takes a peek to make sure he’s not up to some shit like with the Divine Knowledge Capsule. He feels like he had a seizure.
Cyno: Why the fuck did you spell 地脉 with Sumeru script. Just say Ley Line, you lunatic.
Alhaitham: It’s shorter. Efficient.
Cyno: Not by much.
Alhaitham: Considering how much I need to write anyway, every little bit helps.
If you have more please please share with me with the tags or replies, I’m brainrotting over these two and I love languages.
◇ tags ◇ gn pronouns but reader has boobs, fluff, crack, suggestive (al haitham, childe, ayato)
◇ a/n ◇ i have no idea where this idea came from but just take it off my hands thanks
𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 ⬙ 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 ⬙ 𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡
zhongli doesn't even flinch or blink. he merely smiles that mysterious and handsome smile of his, wordlessly standing behind you to calmly adjust the straps; making sure they’re fitted snugly, not too loose but not too tight, just the way he knows you like it.
he finishes with a soft, intimate kiss to the junction of your neck right after, and if he’s feeling risqué you might even feel a little nibble. it seems like the turns have tabled.
at your request, al haitham hums airily and does as asked, checking up on you every time he tightened the straps, to make sure they aren’t digging onto your shoulders. when he finishes, he tells you you look good and he can’t wait to pull them off you later in a matter-of-fact manner before going back to reading his book nonchalantly.
well then. guess you’ve gained an unplanned activity in your schedule today.
childe eyes you with mischief twinkling in his blue eyes, and if he judges that you’re indeed in a playful mood, he’ll slip his hands under your bra to grab your boobs, without any shame whatsoever. he laughs merrily if you protest and try to slap his hands away, but if you do anything borderline scandalous or tease back?
oh, you better be prepared, comrade.
diluc almost splutters in embarrassment, but he somehow barely manages to catch his composure from slipping at the very last moment.
he’s gentle as he fixes the straps, smoothening the stretchy fabric and making sure he’s not hurting you in any way as he adjusts it to your liking. your fiercely blushing lover presses a kiss to your shoulder when he’s done and avoids your eyes when you thank him.
go ahead, push him more, make him break that composure.
did you just try and fluster kaeya? welp, unfortunately for you, his instinct is to retaliate by teasing you to no end.
that is not to say that he doesn’t help, however. he’ll still do it, but you best be prepared for him doing so while whispering sweet nothings into your ear all the while. he chuckles when you tell him it’s enough, and with one last kiss on your cheek he walks away - but not before he lightly snaps one of the straps against your skin; not enough to hurt but just as a playful gesture.
better luck next time, darling.
wanderer rolls his eyes, “do it yourself,” he says with a huff. he can’t blush, but honestly, if he could, he probably would have - because seriously, what kind of stupid request did you just ask him to do??
it’s only when you huff back and threaten him with a hissy “fine then, i’ll just ask someone else.” does he relent.
he does it while grumbling all the while, by the way.
ayato merely chuckles and proceeds to tease you with a snarky “should i get a maid to help you get dressed from now on, dear?”
he ponders for a while as he touches the soft material and a cunning smile spreads across his handsomeness, along with a half-playful, half-serious, “actually, scratch the idea, i’d rather do the putting-on and taking-off myself.”
cyno splutters and chokes on his own spit at the sudden request.
for a moment, he’s utterly baffled; was this a normal request one would commonly ask of a lover? he has no idea, but he could never refuse you anyway, so he nervously does it under your guidance, ever so benignly, as if he’s afraid he’ll somehow hurt you in the process.
tighnari’s reply is as snarky as usual and accompanied by an affectionate roll of his eyes, “alright, your royal highness.”
he plays with the material for a while, trying to gauge your reactions, because he’s almost pretty sure that you don’t need actual help - that you’re just asking to get a rise out of him.
and if he judges that his hunch is correct? well, he’ll still help you, but he might bite you (lovingly) in retaliation.
kaveh can’t help his sappy ass from crooning and giving you an affectionate back hug while praising your ethereal beauty before actually doing the task you require him to do. he’s talking all the while about how pretty your skin is and how he loves seeing it in its most natural state with every discoloration and bumps and freckles and moles and all its perfection. but god forbid the strap was digging into your shoulder and leaving a red mark on your skin, for he would gasp in horror and offer you to buy a better brassiere that would fit you more with his nonexistent money.
it’s okay, he can just uh- sell some of this stuff. like... his rulers! yes. he can use his claymore to measure things, don’t you even worry!
xiao teleports away in embarrassment the first time it happened.
the second time, he freezes in place, eyes wide, cheeks bursting in red, before he teleports away into the wind. again.
the third time around, he reacts similarly, only this time, he’s scowling at you with those blushes on his cheeks instead of running away. in fact, he’s approaching you, and he grumbles a soft “you’re definitely doing this to tease me. no respect for the adepti.” his hand trembles as he helps you, but when you kiss him as thanks he thinks perhaps he wouldn’t mind suffering from embarrassment if you’re going to reward him this way.