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Lumi♡Xiao Materials 👹✨

A collection and analysis of all canon Xiaolumi content, including cultural references, hidden romantic subtext and other interesting trivia. Now updated up to version 5.6! I hope you enjoy it! 😊

Xiao Character Study 🌟 Additionally, a reminder that I also have a Xiao Character Study that has also been updated up to version 5.6!

[krisichiki]

Tell Me Tuesday! 🌸

Pick a scene/chapter/whatever from one of your fics (or I'll suggest one!) and add any commentary you feel like. Why that line? How come this plot twist? What does the eyebrow waggle MEAN?!?! I want the dirt and I can only smash my face up against the glass of your stories so hard before I start to leave smudges.

★ Tagged by @qaanngi Thank you for thinking of me! (≧∇≦)ﾉ Since I had to do it a bit later, I figured I might as well wait for the next Tuesday 🤭

★ Tagging @lilaccheese would you be interested in talking about your Raqio fanfics? Or maybe some other Raqio fanfics you read and liked!

Here's my pick! ────────── .✦

A scene from Chapter 37 of my fanfic "Wish upon a Luminous Star" Despite this being a Xiaolumi fanfic, the scene I picked is one with Xiao and Zhongli. It's very dear to me.

At last he opened his eyes and for the first time in all the long years he had known him Xiao looked upon Zhongli, truly looked, and their eyes met, not in passing but in truth. “The loss of my kin is a wound I shall carry all my days. Their absence is a silence I have learned to live with, but never to fill. And the karmic burden I bore — yes, it was a torment beyond words. For millennia it consumed me, body and soul. But we Yakshas took the oath and made the contract knowing full well the cost it would demand. We entered the fray not for glory, nor even for reward, but because it was right. We bore our arms with pride in our duty. And the legacy we left behind is not something that can be measured. “I cannot resent you. You have saved me, more than once, from the slow unmaking of the soul. It was you who brought me to the Guili Assembly, who welcomed me when I bore naught but blood upon my hands. You accepted me as I was and never once sought to chain me. You honored my will and watched over me from afar with patience, not command. I believe I would have made the same choice, even had the world turned differently. The path of slaughter was all I knew, and I wished to use what strength I had to shield others, even if it meant walking the road of misery. But in your service, I found more than duty. “We lived in an age of chaos and ruin. So much was lost and so little time was given to weigh the cost of every act. The choices made then were not perfect but they were made in earnest and with what wisdom we had in that hour. Only from the vantage of the present can we see the paths behind us clearly. And from where I now stand with all that I have known, I cannot lay blame upon you. I do not resent you.” At those words Zhongli closed his eyes and a long breath escaped him and to Xiao it seemed as though a burden long held in silence had been released and the heart had finally eased. “There is something I have come to understand,” Xiao added. “True goodness is not the absence of error, nor the perfection of all choices. It lies in the will to do good for as long as we are able. Mistakes shall be made for such is the fate of all who choose and act. Experience may prove lacking and wisdom may falter. And the future, the true shape of it, lies beyond the grasp of even the greatest seers. “My own choices, too, have led to ruin. I have walked roads I now grieve, and innocent lives were lost by my doing. Yet I believe this: that true goodness is not lost, nor does it pass away. Though the end be marked by failure, it does not diminish what lies within you nor render you unworthy. Those who fell by my hand found cause to forgive me, and so too do I find cause to forgive you. Liyue names one like me its hero, so know that you are a hero to me.” “You have my gratitude, old friend,” said Zhongli, and the words, though simple, were the sincerest of all.

This chapter was the conclusion of Xiao's character development and, naturally, I had to bring closure to the relationship between him and Zhongli.

Xiao has idolized and idealized Zhongli since the day Morax saved him. He treated Morax as his new master. Everything Morax said was an order to be followed. Then in Lantern Rite 3.4 Xiao finally learns that Zhongli has always considered Xiao a friend, not a servant. Since then Xiao struggled to reshape his thoughts and feelings towards Zhongli, slowly learning to see him as a friend. Yet, still, he couldn't bring himself to see Zhongli as an equal... It was complicated.

But in Ch37, Zhongli and Xiao finally started having a more honest conversation, and Zhongli asked something he has always wanted to know: if somewhere in Xiao's heart there was anger or disappointment that Morax let the Yakshas die. That Morax led Xiao to immense suffering, that Xiao was denied of so many things.

It wasn't out of malice, no. But back then Morax was far too rigid and could not comprehend that contracts can end, duties can end and humans can be trusted to grow stronger and take control of their own fate. There could have been other ways, other options. So once Zhongli admits his own errors, Xiao takes a long moment to think. And then, for the first time, he finally looks into Zhongli's eyes, as equals. This time it is Xiao who shares his wisdom, and why, despite everything, both of them are heroes. True goodness is not the absence of error, it's the will to do good for as long as we are able.

[krisichiki]

Wish Upon a Luminous Star ☆

Rating: Mature (17+)

Chapters: 40/40

Words: 378,814

Relationships: Xiao / Lumine

Tags: Canon Compliant, Slow Burn, Eventual Romance, Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Character Study, Touch-Starved, Mutual Pining, Bonding, References to Depression, Friends to Lovers, Past Abuse, Canon Divergence after Sumeru, Content Warnings for Chapters: 17 and 18, Healing, Established Relationship in Later Chapters, Domestic Fluff, Eventual Smut, Happy Ending

Summary: A lone Yaksha wandered through the quiet fields, tormented by the lingering enmity of the vanquished. He felt his soul slipping into the darkness, and when he looked up at the sky one last time, he noticed two brilliant stars crossing the firmament. Mortals would often entrust their wishes on these skytreading travelers so, perhaps, he too could do the same…

A character study and exploration tale focused on the developing relationship between Xiao and Lumine, in which they find friendship, love and healing.

[krisichiki]

Wish Upon a Luminous Star ☆

Rating: Mature (16+)

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Xiao / Lumine (Genshin Impact)

Characters: Xiao, Lumine, Paimon, Liyue Characters, Genshin Impact NPCs

Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Slow Burn, Eventual Romance, Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Character Study, Touch-Starved, Mutual Pining, Bonding, References to Depression, Friends to Lovers, Past Abuse, Canon Divergence after Sumeru, Content Warnings for Chapters: 17 and 18, Healing, Established Relationship in Later Chapters, Domestic Fluff

Summary:

A lone Yaksha wandered through the quiet fields, tormented by the lingering enmity of the vanquished. He felt his soul slipping into the darkness, and when he looked up at the sky one last time, he noticed two brilliant stars crossing the firmament. Mortals would often entrust their wishes on these skytreading travelers so, perhaps, he too could do the same…

A character study and exploration tale, focused on the developing relationship between Xiao and Lumine.

[krisichiki]

Lumi♡Xiao Materials 👹✨

A collection and analysis of all canon Xiaolumi content, including cultural references, hidden romantic subtext and other interesting trivia. I hope you enjoy it! 😊

Xiao Character Study 🌟 Additionally, a reminder that I also have a Xiao character study that has been recently updated with the latest content from Patch 4.1!