The ascent was so swift it took his breath away.
He was floating. He was glowing. Lines of brilliant blue ran up his wrists, across his chest, under the fabric of his clothes. He looked down at himself, and his held breath abruptly left him in a huff of involuntary laughter – he was glorious. At last.
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Currently writing for this series: ✨Mended with Gold✨ - both long and short Wanderer-centric Genshin stories, as canon-compliant as possible, featuring his healing and self-expression in Sumeru and beyond, with lots of Nahida, the Aranara, Durin, and other characters by his side.
These are chronological as events happened ingame, but can all be read as standalones!
🍃The wind guides, the forest remembers (39,510 words, 8 chapters) - right after gaining his Vision in Inversion of Genesis, the Wanderer goes for his first flight, ends up somewhere he didn't intend, and gets adopted by the Aranara for a while. Much-needed forest therapy ensues, as well as an unplanned tutorial on his new powers.
🌷Dream Flower (2,452 words) - coming to terms with the name the Traveler gave him, and the one that wasn't given as well.
🍵Warm Care, Bitter Truth (3,432 words) - It's a cold night up in the Divine Tree. Luckily there are ways to warm back up, inside and out.
⛅Enlightenment after the rain (2,663 words) - Haypasia returns to her meditation cave to pick up some supplies, but the cave already has an occupant. He seems impossibly familiar.
🌱It's Called Growth (1,786 words) - Nahida almost did something drastic when faced with the Dendro Dragon. Someone isn't taking it well.
🩹Papercut (1,413 words) - Nahida gets a papercut. Small and silly :P
🏅The Wishful Thinking of Idiots (56,724 words, 8 chapters) - The Akademiya Extravaganza, from Hat Guy's perspective. His (sharply opinionated) thoughts on the matter, what he was up to behind the scenes, and ways he interacted with the other contestants.
⚔On swords and those who wield them (10,902 words, 3 chapters) - the Wanderer practices telling his true story through sword dance.
🌄Splendorous Skies (118,032 words, 17 chapters) - Khvarena of Good and Evil, with Wanderer in the Traveler's place by Sorush' side as her Yasnapati, standing against the Abyss.
📖Dark shapes flutter free (980 words) - The Wanderer (re)starts a little journal of haiku.
🌠Vantage Point (1,821 words) - the Traveler (me) giving out a gift on my own birthday, Teyvat style. Also, wishing my way to C6 Wanderer. ❤
🎉The Return of the Sabzeruz Festival (12,641 words) - Happy birthday, Nahida. ❤ The Sumeran festival event we didn't get. (2023 edition, before it was cool.)
⛲A Cage of Your Own Making (84,189 words, 8 chapters) - ‘It is forbidden to release any flying objects during the first three days of each month.’ Nahida and the Wanderer visit... different parts of Fontaine.
🌊No adventures on the mountain (1,067 words) - I'm not salty about that giant empty mountain in Sumeru's north. But the ocean is.
🎂This sweetness isn’t so bad (5,631 words) - It's just another ordinary day for the Wanderer. Until people look up his birthday in the Akademiya records.
🐟Rainjade Ovation (ongoing, chapter 1/10) - After finishing his essay on Fontainian law, the Wanderer earns himself a little holiday, accompanying a certain star performer in search of inspiration in Chenyu Vale. A Hero's Journey ensues, because of course.
🐝Heirs of lightning, breakers of silence (3,077 words) - the Wanderer's first meetings with the leader of the Temple of Silence. Busy bees, flying lotuses. :P
🎭At the mercy of the mages (8,977 words, 2 chapters) - the Wanderer is summoned to the Imaginarium Theater. His disappointment is immeasurable and his day is ruined. Moreso in chapter 2.
🐉The Light Beyond the End (84,387 words, 7 chapters) - Summertide Scales and Tales, from Wanderer's perspective. Sometimes, becoming a Hero is about deciding to help just one person, even if the title feels like a mockery. <3
🌺Chromatic Ode of Annoyance (65,579 words, 6 chapters (2 of them silly bonuses)) - it's Sabzeruz again. A certain introverted Wanderer is dragged into things even though he wanted to keep a bit more distance this time - and all his floating friends are included.
🎁Pleasant surprises, lighting the way (9,450 words) - the Wanderer celebrates his birthday by means of card games, preemptive socializing, and a fairytale surprise party.
⛵As Though Waking from a Dream (2,143 words) - a Sumeran ship sets sail for Inazuma bearing a package. The Wanderer ponders a few things back on the shore.
🫧Dreams and Nightmares (ongoing, chapter 1/?) - the Wanderer saves his first fledgeling by flying him to Sumeru's hospital... and other stories that never were. Multiple planned but writing very slowly.
❤️🔥Go Forth, and Save the Dragon (145,514 words, 14 chapters) - Paralogism, with added Wanderer. The hardest thing he's done recently, but... anything for his fledgeling. The terror is part of them growing up, surely.
🌒Furtive moonlight, bright and veiled (ongoing, chapter 2/6?) - Luna I and II, with added Wanderer. He came along on the same ship as Albedo and Durin, but where was he during these patches?
💐A quiet bridge between our hearts (1,930 words) - Nahida writes her birthday letter, but also receives one of her own.
🌓Nod-Krai story 2 (6.2) - 3 chapters, to be written
🌟Durin's story quest - to be written
🪶Light as Dreamlike Satins (5,454 words) - the Wanderer's mood gradually lightens after that fateful Moon-Prayer Night.
🌔Nod-Krai story 3 (6.3) - to be written
🎀Being alive is a happy thing (6,415 words) - Durin has been a part of Teyvat for one whole year. This deserves a proper celebration!
🌳Pages of Purana story - to be written, I am so scared
🌌Shadowpiercing Starlight (3,728 words) - Sethos' birthday comes and goes. It doesn't remain entirely unnoticed.
...and more to come because I'm far from done with this lad :D
Also, set before all the others:
🍀Sapienta Oromasdis (19,891 words, 6 chapters) - Nahida is freed from her cage, and experiences a few things for the first time.
☔Wisdom's Shadow (36,512 words, 6 chapters) - Nahida deals with a comatose Scaramouche, and his inevitable wakeup.
🪷Unmade, Remade (41,590 words, 12 chapters) - Inversion of Genesis, from Scaramouche / Wanderer's POV. Let's go through the wringer together this time.
Also also:
🍑Sunny Sky, an ongoing (GORGEOUS) comic drawn by the marvellous ✨Lumier✨ (now also on tumblr!) and supplied with written material by me, about her younger Scaramouche segment Kuni meeting my Kintsugi. Two rash puppet boys going on an adventure! :D





















