#chiluc: how lucky am i to have found you? (in this masquerade we call life)
author: d_fenestrate
rating: mature
warnings: no archive warnings apply
pairings: diluc/childe
character(s): diluc, childe, elzer (mentioned), the night (heavily personified)
tags: pov tartaglia | childe (genshin impact), tartaglia | childe-centric (genshin impact), introspective tartaglia | childe (genshin impact), character study, introspection, trauma, making out, pretty diluc (genshin impact), angst with a happy ending, fluff and angst, alternate universe - canon divergence
op’s ramble tags: masquerade ball that is not historically accurate as op took many creative liberties, childe tries to deal with his abyss trauma while also trying to figure out diluc, both op and childe love calling diluc pretty and it happens a lot in this fic
word count: 15.7k
status: long form fic, completed
summary:
The Abyss responds immediately. Childe inhales sharply as he watches the crowd around him close in on the distance separating the guests of the ball from the supposed, celebrated host. The red dims. And then, it begins to retract. Childe cannot recall arriving at the Dawn Winery. In fact, even before that, he cannot recall what behooved him to leave his post in Liyue and travel to Mondstadt. And, archons, he cannot, for the life of him, remember how he ended up kneeling on a single knee with an arm outstretched to an unamused Diluc Ragnvindr. All he remembers is the fact that he moved.
alt; the dawn winery hosts a masquerade ball to celebrate diluc's return. a certain 11th harbinger of the fatui sneaks into said ball, for reasons supposedly unknown to him. he spends the night chasing the truth, and somehow the truth keeps leading him to diluc ;)
link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60703885