“Feeling guilty over a broken plate? Not on my watch! Big brother is on his way to make his little brother happy again!”
I am still, after these years of Genshin still such a big fan of these two,, what I wouldn’t do to see them finally just.. hug it out after so many years.. well I will just live in the past where everything was fluffy and wholesome.
Enjoy some art now, I haven’t fed you guys in a while, sorry~✨
Pairing: Diluc/Venti (I read it platonic, but you can read it romantic if you like)
Length: 340
Summary: Venti steals something he shouldn't. Again.
“How many times have I told you not to let me catch you stealing my drinks!?”
Oops. Diluc looked livid. Venti smiled sheepishly even as he saluted and tried to bolt with the drink in hand.
“Sorry, Pyro but I swear, I’ll pay you back when I perform tomorrow! Later!”
He didn’t get far; Diluc was faster than he thought and he went down rather hard on the wood as the barkeep tackled him and straddled his waist from behind, keeping him firmly pinned.
“Did Kaeya put you up to this? I swear I’m gonna-”
Diluc paused as Venti let out an odd sound as he put pressure on his side. His eyes narrowed and Venti panicked.
“You can have your drink back! I’m sorry okay? Please just don’t-shihihihit!”
He squealed as Diluc abruptly dug into his ribs, taking the wine bottle and placing it safely away before shooting a smirk at the Anemo God.
“Oh I’m taking my wine back regardless given it’s not yours. Honestly. Well, if you want to be childish so bad I suppose I’ll teach you in a way appropriate for your level. You. Shouldn’t. Steal. Things. That. Don’t. Belong. To. You!"
Each emphasized word was a ticklish poke that made Venti squeal and writhe but he didn’t struggle too hard or push the man off him with wind like he could have and that fact was anything but lost on Diluc.
"Okay I’m shahahahary!! I won’t do it again!”
“If you like this…it isn’t a very effective punishment I’m afraid.”
Venti went from pink to red and shook his head in mortification before hiding his face in his arms on the floor.
“I-you don’t-that’s not-”
“…So I’m right? Hm. Cute.”
It was all the warning Venti got before rough tickles assaulted his hips and made him buck and burst out laughing.
“Whahahahahay!?”
“Well, you did give it back. I suppose I can indulge you because you ultimately learned your lesson. Just don’t let me catch you again or I’ll make you cry next time.”
SINCE REQUESTS ARE OPEN ragbros with Lee Kaeya please-
oh my god this was so fun to write. first of all i am SO ler for kaeya like it's crazy. secondly. writing ragbros is so fun their dynamic if they were friends again is so fun to think about i love to read like... different interpretations of ragbros friendships but i stand by a mutual friendship of teasy bickering ok its just. chefs kiss mwah
reunited
ragbros <333
word count: 1.4k
It hasn't been too long since Kaeya and Diluc... Reunited, for lack of a better word.
It's a very tentative sort of reunited- The kind where they're both afraid to say something that'll set the other off, or maybe they'll say something they don't mean and it'll shatter everything.
But that hasn't happened yet. They're careful around each other. They're cautious, walking on eggshells that if they think about it rationally, aren't really there.
But it's nice to... Get along again. If Kaeya sees Diluc in Mondstadt he has the privilege to actually have a conversation with him rather than pretend he never saw him at all.
Now, though, Kaeya leisurely strolls into Angel's Share. After hours, of course.
Diluc barely glances at the door before he speaks. "We're closed... Oh, it's you." If Kaeya weren't paying attention, he wouldn't have noticed the small upwards quirk of Diluc's lips. He makes himself comfortable on the stool near the bar, right across from his brother.
Kaeya does his usual smirk, leaning his elbows on the bar with his hands clasped beneath his chin. "If you're closed, you should lock your doors, don't you think?" He asks.
Rolling his eyes, Diluc crosses his arms. "Forgive me for that. What'll it be?" He asks, casually setting his hands down on the bar. It really wouldn't usually mean anything, but Diluc acting so casual even with Kaeya's presence around makes Kaeya so much happier than it should.
"Mmm.... Surprise me," He says, lazily tapping a finger on the cold, wood surface.
"What makes you believe I won't just give you grape juice?" Diluc teases, yet turns around and starts making one of those unbelievably delightful concoctions of his. God, they're good.
"You wouldn't do that to your poor brother, would you?" Kaeya says, starting with his damn puppy eyes- Diluc wasn't even planning to actually give him grape juice, but he averts his eyes anyway. Those eyes could make the most stone-hearted man crumble.
He presents Kaeya with a drink. It's pretty, that's for sure. Two colors layer over each-other, a peachy orange at the top and a nice, light pink at the bottom.
"Well, what is it?" He asks, swirling the drink around a bit. The colors mix a bit more. It's almost... entrancing.
"You said to surprise you. Try it yourself," Diluc says. He matches Kaeya's tapping on the bar, but his seems a bit more impatient, like he's waiting for Kaeya to try it. He knows his drinks are good, but he also knows that he knows Kaeya's preferences and this is a little... Different. On the topic of walking on eggshells, even this feels like one of them. Like making a drink he doesn't like could be...
(He doesn't use the word betrayal anymore. Not when it comes to Kaeya.)
"Mmm! Oh, Diluc, your skills never fail to amaze me." Kaeya takes leisurely sips of his drink, leaning forward on the counter. The comment is genuine, but his tone is playfully teasing.
"Is that so? I seem to remember you talking with Rosaria the other day... Hmm... About how you just can't stand a certain drink I make." Diluc remarks, making the most unamused expression he can muster- Which is to say, he still looks pretty amused.
Kaeya gasps, as if in offense. "Have you been eavesdropping on me? For shame, 'Luc. I should've known you'd do something like that." He shakes his head in disapproval. Diluc comes around the bar to sit on the stool beside his brother.
"You're always sitting right in front of me. Was I supposed to tune you out?" He asks, punctuating his remark with a gentle poke to Kaeya's side, just thinking it'd be a casual sort of contact- Something to shorten the distance between them just a little more, but he's surprised when Kaeya squeaks and bats his hand away, trying to cover it up with a cough.
"Kaeya... You're still ticklish?" He can't help but ask, letting his small smirk grow into a sort of fond smile mixed with something more teasing.
"I- Well, it's- Are you?" Kaeya's attempt to turn the attention off of himself is a total failure, and to save it he tries to retaliate with a poke to Diluc's side instead. This fails as well, when Diluc catches Kaeya's wrist in his hand before he can make it.
"Answer the question, Kaeya."
"...No, I don't think I will."
"Well, I can just find out myself then." Before Kaeya can make any attempt to run away or deflect, Diluc already has two hands squeezing at his sides, thumbs massaging into his skin over the thin material of his shirt.
"W-Wait! Nohohoho fahahahair! 'Luc, You bahahastard!" Kaeya squeals, covering his smile with one gloved hand and desperately pushing at Diluc's shoulder with the other.
"Are you in any position to be insulting me, Kaeya? For shame." He mimics Kaeya's earlier words right back to him, climbing up to scribble his fingers under his arms, to which Kaeya reacts with a high-pitched squeal and howling cackles. He slams his arms down as tight as he possibly can, still squirming about. "You'll fall off the stool if you do that," Diluc comments, still chuckling.
When Kaeya looks Diluc in the eye, he detects such a soft fondness that he has to look away. His squirming becomes significantly less because he wants to get away and more because he can't help it. "Oh, shuhut uhuhup! Nohoho, Luc, Not thehehere-!! AACK-!!"
He feels the lightest poke to his hips and Kaeya screeches. The only thing he can think to do is retaliate. He knows somewhere Diluc used to be incredibly ticklish and can only hope that he still is.
Grabbing at Diluc's ribs, Kaeya gasps with relief and curls up in his seat when Diluc flinches away.
"...I'll make you regret that, Kaeya."
Kaeya jumps out of his seat, holding his hands up in front of him as if that'll save him.
"Waitwaitwaitwait- 'Luc, H-Hold on, you don't want to do this!"
"Is that a threat?"
"I- What?!"
"Lost your wit, Kaeya?"
Diluc inches closer with a dangerous look in his eyes. If Kaeya's good at anything, it's running. He darts up the stairs with a silly, unrepressable grin on his face. His legs feel like jelly and he's almost bursting with a giddy energy as he hears Diluc's quick footsteps following him.
Before he can turn the corner, Diluc's dashed in front of him and he's just run straight into his brother, causing a domino effect. They both fall straight to the floor.
Kaeya can't help it, he rolls onto his side and doubles over laughing, because how can they still be so childishly stupid?
He cracks his eye open to look at Diluc, and he notices that they're both laughing. Diluc's covering his eyes with one hand, and his laugh is still so bouncy and happy, just as it was when they were kids. Only, now it has a more mature, rich sound to it. Kaeya rolls onto his back again, panting.
"We're not done here," Diluc says. He has an evil smile on his face and Kaeya does try to get up to run away again but his legs are jelly and he just flops back downward.
Diluc grabs his hips and starts clawing and Kaeya can't even think. The ticklish feeling is both delightfully silly and unbearably intense and he cannot believe this is happening right now. "N-No! Fuhuhuck! Oh, Archons, EEK-!! Dihihiluc! Stahahap, I can't! I cahahan't!!"
"Wow. You're usually a lot more cocky than that. Apologize." Diluc massages his fingers into Kaeya's hip-bones and he involuntary bucks, smacking at Diluc's hands to no avail.
"For Whaahahahat?!? I dihihidn't-!" Before he can finish his sentence, Diluc moves his one hand to scribble under his arms while the other stays at his hips and he just gives in, shrieking and bucking and trying to escape the hands of his evil brother. "I'M SORRY! I'm sohohohorry!" He apologizes without even knowing what he's apologizing for, but before he can even react, Diluc's hands have stilled and he's already standing.
Panting like an idiot on the floor, Kaeya glares at Diluc. As much as he can with that grin still plastered to his face, anyway. "Why? Explain what your goal was just now."
Diluc mockingly hums, as if really thinking about it. "I felt like it. You were apologizing for insulting my drink, by the way."
"Hmph. Well, maybe you should've taken my advice."
"Maybe you should watch your mouth before we go through all that again."
"You wouldn't dare!"
"I definitely would."
Kaeya rolls his eyes, playfully punching Diluc's arm and flinching when he receives an evil glare in return.
Hi hi are you taking hc requests? If you are can we pleease have lee and ler diluc?
Hi hi hi thank you for your question!
This is super cute I love Diluc I used to main him lol
Ler Diluc -
Typical Dad tickles, of course, a big teddy bear making the littler ones smile and squeal out. Not even the smaller ones sometimes, just anyone in real need of a pick-me-up. Best in-game father figure B)
His tickling style is very predictable when they're pick-me-up tickles, his hands are always visible and usually, just light pokes and scribbles. Maybe some light humming and "Oh, right here? Interesting." Very cute and light-hearted to draw some out smiles.
When he's feeling vengeful though (coughcoughkaeyarevengecough) he can be particularly ruthless. He'll claw and target your worst spots, and he's good at finding them too. (Interrogation Diluc when he set that Ice Mage on fire lives in my brain to this day) He knows exactly what methods and techniques to use against you, even if he's never tickled you before. You DON'T want to see that particular side of the DarkKnight Hero.
Lee Diluc -
If I could see anyone from the game be tickled, like a thorough session, Diluc would be one of them. Ugh imagine breaking him down from his tough exterior into a giggly twitching puddle UUUGH
Anyway yes you know the drill if you're a follower of me HOT MEN ALWAYS HAVE TICKLISH HIPS it's a cardinal rule I don't make them I just follow them.
And Diluc is no exception, his hips are so ticklish they're practically warm to the touch with their nerve endings. Diluc is one of those people where if they are tickled they can feel everything but they can keep it inside extremely well. No tells or anything. But if you catch him off-guard in a super good spot, then suddenly he's ticklish all over his body, even in places that weren't ticklish before.
He's not much of a fighter, tickles paralyze him and he hates it. That's why he avoids getting tickles as much as he can because he knows that he can't do much to stop it AND he needs a lot of recovery time afterward. Not to mention his laugh is so light and bubbly for someone with such a dark exterior. What a horrible blow to his reputation this would be if it were to get out~
Also if you could see that I adore the trope where characters have the exact opposite ticklish personality than their regular personality, no you didn't <3