#genhsin x reader

[katskitoshi]

"CERTIFIED SOFT MOMENTS!" with the INAZUMANS from GENSHIN IMPACT.

synopsis: just some soft, sweet moments with some of the inazumans.

characters: ayaka, kuki, gorou, yoimiya, thoma, ayato, kazuha, and tomo (mostly separate) x gn!reader

includes: poly! kazutomo (i love them so you will too), sweet moments with some inazuma men and women!! ♡

--just watching ayaka dance. time seems to stop, the air seeming to cool around the two of you. she giggles nervously before slowly stepping into the water. drawing her fan out, she begins her angelic movements with little snowflakes and ice shards trailing her. your eyes follow her as she moves, love glazing them over. ayaka, your girlfriend, your future wife, seems so perfect in these moments that when your eyes meet, you can't draw them away -- and neither can she.

her dancing stops, but the world doesn't resume nor does the air warm. never breaking eye contact, ayaka slowly approaches you, and she takes your hand in her own. her usual ice-cold fingers feel so warm in your embrace. she leans in, then to your lips. a kiss that resumes time itself, warms the air, and sparks love once again between you.

--kuki, who rarely gets free-time from playing the gang's brain, finally finds comfort and relaxation with you. you take her to a secluded part of an inazuman forrest, where only you and her can exist. a little picnic is set up, all her favorite dishes and desserts presented before her on a soft blanket. when you show her, she's speechless, almost as if she doesn't like. perhaps you did to much? was it not enough? maybe she didn't like-

all the thoughts of what could have made her silent suddenly come to a close when her lips meet yours in a gentle moment. you hadn't even notice she'd taken off her mask. but since she did, you can see the clear smile on her face. "thank you so much for this, love. i guess you can really tell when i need a break." kuki begins to walk to the blanket, lowering herself on it before she pats the area besides her. "aren't you going to join me?"

--it's almost as if gorou is always busy or free, but never when you need him. he loves you dearly and always tries to make time for you but all his soldiers and kokomi work him like a dog. which is totally unfair! but you understand and try to help him out when you can. whether it's with his work, or a nice massage and meal when works done. he loves what you do for him, but gorou can't but feel guilty. he felt like he was the one working you! so, he decided to treat you to a nice night in the city once a festival rolls around.

each stand that catches your eye, he'll let you wander and stare as long as you want. and don't even think about pulling out your mora! gorou is sponsoring the whole night. any food or item you wish for he'll buy and carry for you. once the night is over, he'll drag you outside your little cottage and lay you down on the soft grass. you two can watch the twinkling stars, in silence or in conversation, but at some point gorou just turns to you and stares. the admiration in your eyes as he stares at the stars and the admiration in his eyes as he stares at his star.

--yoimiya who obviously brings you on dates to make, test, and watch her fireworks -- but also loves telling you stories during the process. she'll always bring you your favorite foods with a smile on her face as she drags you to some far off area from the village before gushing on about anything any everything. oh, did you see that butterfly? let her tell you a story she heard the other day about one she saw that was almost as beautiful as you!

just as you reach the mountaintop, the stars start to glimmer especially bright. yoimiya takes your hand and drags you close to the edge where she takes a seat and waits for you to accompany her. she sets the fireworks, and you two relish in the few silent moments before the loud booms start. crackles of [favorite color], red, orange, and pinks all explode against the dark sky.

your eyes focus on the fireworks, but yoimiya's eyes focus on you. she couldn't look away if she wanted too. of course the fireworks are beautiful, but your beauty alone surpasses anything she could make. yoimiya kisses your cheek and smiles before pulling your head to rest on her shoulders. the night quiets around you, the crackles and booms of the fireworks make a lovely melody in the background to aid the picture perfect moment yoimiya and you have created.

--the life of a nobleman's retainer seems to never come to a halt, but thoma will always put work to a pause for you. one day, he'll bring you out to the komore teahouse. taroumaru will greet you with loving barks before he leads you to a secluded room of the teahouse, where thoma awaits you. a shy smile is etched on his lips, and the table before him is covered in an abundance of dishes that makes your mouth water. as you take your seat across him, thoma thanks you for coming and tells you to help yourself.

as the night advances, his initial nervousness melts away. he'll start a conversation on just about anything; the weird odd jobs he's been doing, disputes he's resolved, even little secrets he's never thought to tell anyone! when he's with you, he stops being a retainer or the fixer, he just becomes thoma: your boyfriend. and he loves not having the additional weight of everything else on his shoulders.

--ayato never has free time but he'll sure as hell make some for his lover. perhaps you can join him in his office while he works for a bit? he'll let you rest your head on his lap, and if one of his hands are free, he'll even rub little shapes into your arm, or back, or whatever part of your body you'll let him. if you're not fancy to laying his head in his lap, perhaps you can sit on him instead. he won't mind. and, if that's also not to your liking, he's free to offer you to sit by him and let him rest his hand on your thigh. t

hese moments are sweet in itself, but this is just a little warm up for what he has planned later. once he's done working, he'll pick you up, and use one of his delicate gloved hands to cover your eyes as he leads you somewhere. soon enough, you're off the estate grounds and in the nearby forrest. he removes his hands from over your eyes, and behold: a tea party is set up. some sweets imported from across teyvat lay on the small table with

the finest inazuman tea already steamily brewed. off to the side there's a record player, playing some nice music the set the scene. still holding you, ayato gently places you in the seat across from his own, but does not seat himself. he notices you about to go for a pastry and dabs your hand away.

"allow me, darling." he grabbed the pastry you were going for and tilted your chin up with his other hand. "say, 'ahh~'" and you do, he places it in your mouth and you take a bite. his hand holding the pastry places it on the plate infant of you but he never lets go of your chin.

"ayato..?" "you have something right..." his pointer finger flicks a crumb off her cheek. and then he leans in and licks your lips before kissing you. ayato doesn't stop until you're nearly breathless. he chuckles as a string of saliva connects you before promptly snapping. he lets go and sits on his side on the table. "..there."

--besides for their travels, tomo and kazuha aren't ever that busy. with them, every moment is a soft moment. each mini cooking competition as the two compete for which of their dishes is best. each cuddle session, that started as a stargazing date. each time kazuha would write you a poem or make you a love letter and make tomo jealous. each time tomo would make a meal that puts master chefs and kazuha to shame, or plants and gives you flowers, or grooming and taking care of his cat, mimi. every moment was worth it with these two. even as tomo might not always be there because of each odd job he picks up. or kazuha might just take a moment to run off on his own. but at the end of the day, you all are together, and thats what matters.

[genshingarbage]

Hello, I'm not sure if I understood well but are your requests open?

I would like to ask for breeding scenarios of Xiao and Gorou with their fem s/o (separate)? Thank you so much!

Hello~ Sorry this took so long Anon!! Yes, requests are open! We just only take a select number when we’re having burnout or are really busy to prevent the ask box from overflowing but it’s a free for all right now >:D, I had a bunch of fun with this one and I hope you will too!- Mod Kaeya

Xiao

He couldn’t have children, he has always known this. He wasn’t an adeptus born of animals or the elements destined to simply walk the land as any other living creature was to. He was born of war, he thought he understood more than anyone he was more forged than birthed by anyone, like a weapon to be wielded by any who proved their worth to him. He thought his own body understood that, carrying the burden of karma and the ill will of long slain gods was its only purpose and things like children or lovers weren’t something it would ever have to deal with.

And yet here he was trembling beneath your touch, your lips so close to his ear he could feel your breath graze across it’s tip whispering temptations that he didn’t even know he could succumb to.

He couldn’t tear his widened eyes away from your hand- barely touching his length as you teased him with a cruelty he couldn’t find a comparison for- caught between trying to stay stoic and uncaring when he could feel his cheeks scalding, his hips straining with the compulsion to move into the direction you were guiding them, his mind starting to become muddled and confused with only the thoughts of what you were serenading him with left- and simply pleasing you like you wanted. What would be the point though? Lovemaking- lovemaking would be fruitless for him.

“Please make me yours- please, Xiao, please…claim me.”

He sucked in a harsh breath when you began to suck on his neck to leave a dark mark. What were you doing? Ho could you of all things, a mere mortal leave marks and wind him up so horrifically that he was thinking- hoping so many silly things about the both of you. Then you eagerly straddled him on the bench you both had found after wandering away from the inn, making him grip all the more on to your shoulders, eyes roving over your body like an animal examining something too good to be true. He didn’t need to do something like this- he knew that so why was he so responsive? Why did he ache so much when you slid your thumb across the head of his prick? It was pointless, a waste of time.

Any answers he could’ve drawn up mentally were thrown out the window when you began to steadily slide him inside which in turn caused him to make a high pitched noise he likely would be embarrassed about for the rest of eternity if not for how you shuddered around him once you heard it.

“Please breed me Xiao, I want you so much, please-“

Breed you? Just when he believed his thoughts were beginning to clear from the fog he felt himself fall into an smoldering ocean of arousal, drowning in your lust filled scent, his chest began to heave as he picked you up and pressed you against the bench to give you exactly what you wanted, what he needed.

Nothing would come of this but he so badly wanted it to, if anything the thoughts of it being useless to fill you to the brim with his seed somehow dissipated behind overwhelming urges to fuck you this way and rail you another until sundown to sunup because surely if he keeps trying come morning you’ll be carrying his child like you wanted. Your keening moans were a gratuitous encouragement as he spread your legs as wide as he could and caged you underneath him.

You weren’t leaving his side, he decided with fluorescent golden eyes boring into your blissed out expression, he would take you again and again until he was certain you were to bear his children.

Goro

Something that was understood widely was that Goro was a busy man, even in the confines of the decently sized camp tent he shared with you. He was not to be disturbed by troops or rookies willy nilly. If you were one of those few that were sent to fetch him after he had retired for the day, god help you. It wasn’t so much he was irritated or angry, it simply hurt to watch him drag his exhausted limbs back into action, away from the warm arms of his lover.

His mind was almost always on the resistance, on Kokomi and on the war. He was constantly on edge, surveying his peripherals or even testing the air for new scents or sounds.

What was rare for him was time with you. Let alone private time lasting so long he got to properly spend it bonding with you or taking care of you as there was always something to be attended to even in Sangonomiya. He was immensely sweet, that was something you’d known since the nerve wracking bittersweet confession you both had shared one night after an invasion from the Kanjou commission.

However he wasn’t so gentle when it came to matters of the bedroom.

Should he ever find that he has a rare day off to recuperate, he’s never one to resist your charms like he usually can. He needs the whole day if he’s to indulge. A single, long, taxing day that leaves you wrecked and sore. That’s when his ever sharp ears become blind to all but the tiniest of shifts from your cot, his meticulously trained eyes only zero in on the sweat dripping down your collar bones whilst everything around him melts away. He can hear the sound of your heartbeat spike again as you shift your hips upwards to meet him more frequently.

Goro swore if he could do nothing but replay the sounds of your bodies moving against one another, the grunts and moans that you gave for him so musically for the rest of his life would be content.

The ginger was so so pent up, so needy, so thirsty for your touch and you were taking him so well over and over again, he pressed himself closer so that he was laying against your chest. His teeth met your neck not long after, just pressing barely enough to avoid puncturing the skin but running along the straining veins underneath regardless as he began to loose himself. He had you, he had you and he wanted nothing more than to have you again and again until you could think about nothing but him. A passing thought, truly minuscule at that, caused him to dig his claws into your thighs and snap his hips a little harsher.

…what if the two of you had children because of this? Hm?

He flushed darkly, deep cherry hues spreading down his chest as he mouthed at your neck in appreciation for you, for the fact that your body seemed to be thinking the same as it did nothing but wring out his cock and tighten and grip him so deliciously.

What if you were swollen with his…his pups? So that everyone knew you were his and his alone?

A gasp left him as you canted your hips at some angle he hadn’t thought of just yet. He doubled down at that angle, feeling his ears swivel to zero in on the change of pitch in your voice like he’d targeted some legendary prey. He felt criminal thinking all these things, feeling borderline like his teeth were going to sink into your neck to hold you in place while he pressed you into the mattress and bred you until the electro archon herself could hear you groaning his name. But that feeling made him throb all the more harder inside you- want nothing more than to drown himself in the feeling of that amazing thing you do with your hands. He couldn’t think? Couldn’t breathe anymore, too good too good-

And then he was blindsided by a feeling of euphoria that had him whimpering into your skin, claws digging into the sheets underneath you as he pressed his hips against yours almost in an effort to pin you to the bed with them.

[gowriarun]

Don't forget... not again

Summary: Uhm I decided to write sagau au because I've been reading it a lot lately.... and here's a brief explanation! Reader has stars and galaxies for blood and blood for tears... Reader slowly regains her memories of her being a god but doesn't forget her time in her real world so gets a little crazy and stuff... Warnings: Abuse, mentions of blood, obsessive & ignorant behavior, reader just experiencing stuff ig? Anyways mental and physical torture implied so watch out for that!

what happened?! Where was I going?! Why am I even being chased?! I was supposed to go buy some tomatoes for mother!! While running she mentally cursed whoever the hell 'god' was, because by the looks of it, that dude was the reason she was being chased by a good crowed of what she remembered to be npcs and unreal people who were just mere characters of a game! She cried and cried for someone, blood dripping from her face along with stars and liquid galaxies. Her feet were practically on auto pilot, and the fuel seemed to be her will to live! She didn't even look where she was going. just run. Her mind screamed at her, no way was her legs capable of doing that!

Did I... loose them? You never trusted your instincts and you weren't gonna start now, so without rest you climbed on top of a tree because that's the only thing your physical state could let you do. What... just happened?! Ok sit down, think! Tomatoes, cabbage, pasta sauce and.... No!! Not about the lists y/n! goodness! What happened that I had gotten chased by a whole city?! Did I forget to pay the money for the things I brought?! No! Why would they start a fire a throw it at me for something like that?! More importantly, where am I?! And.... is that a small lamp grass?!

No, no, no please god don't tell me

Am i in... is this a dream?! It was way too real.... I looked around... wolvendom? Ok... this is fine! I'm completely gonna be okay! A- okay! I hope... Well I have to be! But right now I need to think! If.... probably not but.... if i'm actually in genshin..... and these guys are running after me for no reason.... Then will I be able to try almond tofu?! Oh how I always wanted to try it!! wait wait! that isn't the problem! I'm a wanted criminal! I stole the tomatoes and pasta sauce! Am i..... gonna go to jail!?

No way... right?

Well... I'm not going in that direction again though! I thought looking over the water to the tall cathedral and the statue of barbatos... And what now?! Even the day and night move faster than average, if I'm not wrong, in the two hours that I've been here, thirteen days passed! And the big question comes now! I'm hungry... should I eat the very good apples or sunsettias!

And before I could take a bite into the sunsettias it seemed my presence caught the attention of a hilichurl and two mitachurl, axe guy and shield guy! Whoo hoo things are going so well!

why? You might ask, because they had food! good food! As they say desperate time call for desperate measures, I'm gonna eat the god damn hilichurl food because no matter how crunchy these are, I thought looking at the apples, that looks wayy better.! If i could run from a whole city, these guys should be easy game!

I hopped down and dashed toward the pot, and picked it up, fuck! Hot!

The hilichurls stood there still though, but because of the pain I dropped the pot, all over me and burnt myself.

Great, y/n, fucking amazing!

i stumbled up on my feet right after and fell ace first to the ground. The hillichurls said something, but didn't attack. I obviously didn't understand them so I replied "hakuna matata? " I said and they looked at each other and then looked at me "ok, yes bad joke! I know! But uhm... I'm sorry for ruining your dish and uh yeah! So ... let me live?" I said all pride and logic draining from me

They said something again but i didn't understand, I waited for my mind to process the situation and carried out the plan as it was supposed to go! I ran! Like and idiot!

The camp didn't follow me though! That's good.. i guess?

I sighed as I sat down the grass in the shape of a tree "that... just happened" I munched down on another apple God damn it

I started walking again Ok so if I'm here, I pinpointed an assumed location, the wolf guy must be here, and then.... hmm, where should I even go?Dawn winery? Yeah... and then what?! Get my hands cut off because I stole something?! yeah, no!

Think! y/n, think! Well guess there's no time to think! Should've done that instead of eating! Now the knight are back at it again!

"You guys!- whats your problem?!" I groaned and got back up running, running and running... as far as eyes could reach and legs could keep up, we crossed the winery and nearly died every time a bow was shot but luckily, I jumped off a cliff and into the water! Since i was tired I decided to drown a bit before getting back up and running running running.... is it just me, or is the temperature a little...low? As I kept running.... lower..... and oh my god I'm freezing!

please don't tell me this is dragonspine! aish...

No but wait!! "albedo...." I thought He'll help out... he has to! But before I could think of getting to him, i felt like my body was dying. What? Oh... sheer cold, right! I ran up to one of the fireplaces, and sat down sighing..... Tired, so.... tired

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"Tomatoes.... cabbages... pasta sauce and.... no... i remember.... cheese? No no... something else..." "Half a kilo of potatoes?" A voice asked "Yes!" I said suddenly remembering Wait... what? that - who???

I opened my eyes to come back to dragonspine... are those- slimes?! Oh I never imagined them to be so cuddly! Wait- no! Slimes are dangerous! I have nothing to protect my self! But they aren't attacking???

"Have I .... gone mad?" I asked taking a hand to my head "No.... I want to go home.... " I cried holding one of the slime in my arm, completely forgetting about how they were a threat just a second ago "Why..?"

"Hm... the slimes don't seem to want to attack you. Instead, they are attracted to you? I don't understand? are you a slime in human form?" A cool voice came from behind me What?! Albedo! My chalk prince!

"Albedo! Finally! Someone who doesn't kill me on sight!" I said excited "You have to explain why I'm being killed here!" I pleaded "Hm, that would be because you have the gods face" He sighed "Are you just born with it? Or was it your plan to make a fool out of everybody and think you can get away with it? You must really be stupid if you thought of it like that" He glared down at me summoning his sword Ah... of course... why would he? "Wait wait! At least tell me! Who the hell is this god?! why would I make a fool out of anyone?! I thought I was here because I stole my pasts sauce?! " This comment momentarily stopped his motion "Pasta sauce? Oh you did that as well?" He asked "No! I paid for it! If I remember correctly.... but if I didn't I still can! I have money! There's no reason for me to steal anyway!" "Why should I choose to believe you?" He asked I pulled out fifty dollars, this should be enough! "You can go pay it yourself if you don't trust me that much!" He looked down at the money I had in hand "paper ?" He looked at it "This is a rather boring design, even if you were to sell it, I don't think you'd be able to pay for what you stole" "Design?? Money is money!" I said complaining "this.... is paper" He sighed "Are you kidding me?" I asked Oh... right..... Mora! Mora is the money here....

"I.... I'm sorry, I lost my tomatoes and potatoes and sauce while I was running for my life, so I don't have them with me to return." I sighed looking down "You first take our gods face and try to fool us now you can't even pay back?!" A different voice said from behind me Pallad was circle around the area again. He picked up a rock and threw at me, I covered my face with my hands and tried to dodge but the slime that was with me moments ago took the hit for me.

And it along with its friends (?) went to attack pallad.

Good. I ain't ever helping that fucker again!!

"Hm, the slimes really like you, are you sure you aren't a slime?" Albedo went back to questioning me "If I were a slime I wouldn't talk to you because slimes don't speak human!" I complained "A smart slime?" He wondered "no! Not slime! unlike you, I'm human!" I rolled my eyes

"Huh? How... I mean, what do you mean I'm not human?" He quickly covered up "What- you're a chalk thing aren't you? I forgot the details but, you were some sort of experiment right?" I asked trying to remember "Who- Who told you that?" He asked seemingly surprised "Who told me that? you did!" I said "When? Did you kidnap me and erase my memories? ut I have not been reported missing any day in the past-" Before he starts questioning me on math and shit I decided to cut him off "You told me, on your own, because you wanted to. In the event quest! Do you- Ohh yeah, you told the traveller!" I sighed, that made sense, my face and the travelers face are different so he must've gotten confused! "Traveler? You mean... lumine? She told you?" He asked He had a look of '#betrayed' painted on his face "Wai- No no! Traveler didn't tell me this! I guess you could say... I am the traveler?" i said questioning my own words "If you are not going to tell the truth clearly, I will have to use other means" He said putting his swords tip on my neck

"that was hot though." You said out loud "What?" he pulled back, surprised by that reaction "Uhh, ok listen! I'll put it in the easiest way I can ok? You're not real, nor is this world. You're just fictional characters. And I have no idea how I ended up here. Make it easier?" I said "Seems you don't understand the position you're in to fool around like this" He said pushing the blade a little more so that blood comes from my neck, hurt I took a step back.

He advanced a step and all of us sudden! pusshhh!!! Some lue orb thing covered me and albedo was pushed away!

"Wait what-" I asked my self seeing an abyss mage try to attack albedo. Now that I notice... is that a travelers handy sword?! Dude, why do you even have that on?!?!

goodness.... I think they're talking.... I knocked on the blue glass shield thing, is it sound proof? But since they both turned their heads toward me, I think it isn't I smiled awkwardly "Could you uhm... let me out?" I ask "Please?" I sighed not having any hope but I was let down

"Your majesty!" the mage came running to me "Whoah there... uhm I- I'm sorry ok? I swear I didn't mean to steal the tomatoes!" I said holding up my hands "I know I cant pay for it at the moment, but.. I'll earn! Some how.... I swear!!!" I tried "steal? everything in this world.... is yours! I shall personally deal with any of them who dares charge her highness who-!" Before the mage could finish, albedo cut them off "Your being fooled, if the creator was actually-" He didn't finish his sentence when the mage shut him up "Silence! You... can't see?" The mage asked

"So am I off the wanted list? or..." I trailed off "Your majesty! No! Your not wanted, as in a criminal! Your highness let me take you to somewhere more suitable for conversing" they lowered their head "I- okay uhm.... is this an interrogation?" I sighed... No point going against the police.. they'd shoot you the second they see a chance... but this is a mage! why would a mage question me about stealing!! "What's your name?" Albedo asked ignoring the abyss mage glaring at him "y/n? Y/n..l/n," I said "What- that's not our creators name!" He said arguing "Your highness.... please, this might seem weird the first time" The mage said before teleporting away "woahh" i said before passing out

An endless void, what was it? I can't open my eyes, but I can see, everything, this overwhelming pressure and weight, but somehow it feels natural to me, am I dead? "Child..." A voice echoed The tranquility of the space had been broken and I shot open my eyes from the free space. I wish I didn't...

There was red, everywhere. Not pretty red... the red you choke on. Blood, blood red. that wasn't all, the atmosphere was so different from when I had closed my eyes. It was suffocating, but again, it seemed so natural. There were bodies everywhere, in fact I had been sleeping on a liver for cushion along with what I think is a lung? "You.... could've made better choice" The voice said and my head shot in that direction "You... did not though. You have regrets, so much it weighs you down" The voice had no origin, it came from every where! "I.. don't really" I sighed "A lie!" She said "A huge lie! Who are you thinking of fooling?! I know better than anyone!" After a few seconds the voice announced again "You... who made it all, will now see, that your creation, was an utter failure!" she said and soon my eyes where forced shut.

I was back in the void again but this time I saw myself, much more elegant and dignified than I am, like some.... queen of something I was making something, something similar to a sphere? A globe, perhaps? I tried to move toward the figure but something stopped me "live" the voice sounded so sad.... "Because I couldn't"

She couldn't? But shes so godly.. why?

At that moment all went black and I saw again, the figure of the sleeping woman, she was bored now.... "something...." She said "Why.. am I here?" She moved her hand and slowly drew a line and then another and another... she created a child. how? "Go elsewhere, where you might see and experience something" her voice was a request only, but as if her very existence meant absoluteness, the universe sent the child somewhere.

She was alone, again.

She closed her eyes and opened them, when she did, stars where ever where, all of us sudden, everything was filled... And she seemed so happy, but yet so alone.... "more.... I want to see more..." now her voice was like a plea! Yet the universe took it in and created for her, her very own globe....

And I was forced to close my eyes again

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[voidcat]

characters: zhongli, you

song: francis forever by mitski (matches melodywise, not lyrically/thematically)

a/n: did i jst typed this whole thing on a whim bc ive been procrastinating w mitski the whole day and saw this sad looking zhongli art that got me wondering "i wonder which one of his dead besties is he thinking abt"? the answer is: yes.

Warm colors, cold colors...

You recall the artists of Liyue argue around out in the open. And raising your head back up, you find the dispute itself all wrong from the start.

Maybe in a moment of illusion and blind belief, yes, the tones of red and orange and yellow scattered around are warm; as opposed to icy blues and purples of the sky.

Yet gazing into the amber eyes up ahead you, so close yet so far, such a warm color yet so chilling to feel locked on you, you are sure you’re right.

Zhongli sits in front of you, staring ahead.

Bare body, arms covered in black and golden lines, he looks ethereal, far away, out of touch.

Then again, that’s exactly how he feels, to you, right now.

Beautiful yet cold amber of his eyes watching a memory pass by, you wonder if it’s a war or an idle moment spent with someone by his side.

Dipping your brush into the paint and mixing it with the few others again, you resume your work at hand.

For preserving moments, Fontaine has presented this device named kamera, but you find the traditional ways more efficient.

A kamera, in your opinion, cannot capture the things felt in that moment, the thoughts arising and the emotions filling the air. Quick to capture the scene but it’ll never be as sensational as art is, what it gains in mobility, loses in personality. There is quality but no soul.

It does not breath like a poem or cry like a painting.

And you’re certain a particular consultant would agree with you on this. No matter how convenient, it can never hold the warmth of the moment, carry the same emotion, or reflect it…

Then probably go on a lecture on the history of art and trace the source of your painting materials somehow.

A brush stroke for his hair there, a thinner brush used for his fingers, nails and lashes there.

Dip the brush back into the artificial gold again to imitate the linings on his arm, though your paint can never shine in the dark like the marks covering Morax.

His horns longer and thicker, everything inhuman about him is more apparent today. And from the little window of the room opening to the outside world, the rays of the setting sun enter, ending the day and adding one last touch to his solemn face as they leave.

He must be too deep in thought to be in this state. He is losing control more and more nowadays.

You wonder which lost memory it is that he longs for today.

He hasn’t been the same ever since his trip to Nantianmen.

And this is Zhongli most days, the man who cannot even look at any creature of the sea, or use salt in the table without getting lost in the wasted past, spilling out of one’s hand like sand.

Yet right now, sits Morax in your presence. Maybe not in position but still he manages to be the center of the room somehow.

Putting the brushes aside, you wet your finger and spread some paint across the canvas now, smearing some of the paint and adding a different type of texture yourself. Another thing the mighty kamera cannot achieve, you’d joke if it was any other day, to add a piece of yourself to the medium you create.

You wonder what emotion he will think this painting reflects once you’re finished.

(For the time being, the moment sits still, as does he.)