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[chamoemileclown]

oomf u should draw some ppls evbo designs

there's too many of them

[moetxt]

zhongven and zhongscara for the ship bingo (guess who this is 😏

i see you 👁️

ah, zhongscara...

for me, it started with mine and a friend's determination to have our faves kiss zhongli, but i only got further enabled when someone else pointed out parallels i didn't even see initially. i'm proud to be one of the 13 people who ships it 😁

though, to be honest, i really prefer them in a non-romantic context. in my eyes, they're friends with a compatible worldview and REALLY REALLY compatible kinks. scara would never admit this to his face but he sees zhongli as one of the precious few people in the world competent enough to dom him. meanwhile, on zhongli's side, he enjoys very much how scara lets him do what he does best, to the fullest; most people wouldn't be able to handle it, after all.

i think romance is the one major thing they disagree on. scara with his trust issues cannot COMPREHEND how zhongli is still willing to put his whole heart into loving someone even after getting hurt multiple times in the past.

now... you knew this was coming.

zhongven my BELOVED!!! they've been happily married for 2,000 years. they have an angsty on-again/off-again open relationship thing but neither of them thinks it's enough and also they get jealous. they've been mutually pining for millennia to the point that there is plentiful evidence of how down bad they are for each other in both their countries' mythology/folklore/traditions/ancient artifacts/archaeological sites but they've never once actually admitted they're in love with one another. as gods, they can't love as humans do and as divine manifestations of their elements and ideals, they're natural opposites locked in an eternal stalemate of courtship; can't tie down the wind, can't whisk away the earth. they've divorced at least 300 times. they're bitter exes and ei is the only one left alive who can tell you all about it (she will not).

unlike other ships i've been obsessed with in the past, it's hard for me to remove zhongven from their canon context, or at the very least a context where they are still divine/immortals. the divine opposites thing is just so key to me—they way they shouldn't get along, they shouldn't understand each other, but nonetheless they do. also, exploring edge cases of locality-specific or occupation-specific dual worship that occurs when morax's and barbatos' domains meet. like, how ancient northern liyuens knew to scatter dandelion seeds along with their prayers to make earthquakes during the spring and summer go away because it was probably the geo lord sulking and missing his beloved. or how sailors whisper a prayer or two to the god of wind for safe travels as where rex lapis' domain does not extend, they instead hope for the protection of his "bride" :)

actually, i am writing a whole fic about this! it's an epistolary-styled story filled with outsider accounts of how morax and barbatos just keep popping up, directly or indirectly, in each other's mythology. it's also about zhongli intentionally messing with the historical record in attempt to bring more of this to light because he's sulky about venti not visiting him for 500 years lol.

but yeah, the gods aspect is quite important to me and my view of them is so specific that i tend to be picky when it comes to fics, especially if they are AUs.

finally, as you know, i have more than a couple of crack theories/shipper delusion when it comes to zhongven and wider genshin lore. (descender zhongli and shade of istaroth venti my beloved!!!) namely, that venti warned zhongli about the cataclysm beforehand due to his god of time/celestia connections, but didn't warn the others, and that's why there was a near pantheon wipeout and the tsaritsa hates him now while zhongli carries so much guilt. also, that zhongli retired godhood at least partly due to venti, leaving his country to the humans (just like venti had done all along), and because he regretted how he always prioritized work and didn't treasure what he had until venti disappeared for his 500y coma.

"the end of godhood" is a really fascinating concept to me, as is what their relationship could turn out like in the future. they aren't gods anymore, but they're not exactly humans either, and no one else can really understand them like they understand each other. a lot of the obstacles in the way of them being together are now gone, but they now also carry new scars. i have a fic vaguely drafted centering around this too.

hehe, thanks for giving me the excuse to talk at length about them! 💞

[perksofimmortality]

Hey please I need merthur fic recs

hi! since you didn’t mention anything specific, i can direct you to my full list of merlin bookmarks (click) --- 200+ pieces i love. for a quick list of my absolute favorites, which i can name off the top of my head:

- literally anything by kianspo. i’ve read everything and it’s all great (but if i had to pick favorites it’d be a tie between [M] Let Us Dare and [E] Dew Point.

- [M] You Only Live Twice by storiesforsomeone. modern magical AU with Arthur as 007 and Merlin as Q! 260k of goodness!

- [E] World Enough and Time by alicephantomwise. modern assassins AU. just... everything is right about this fic. every word.

- [E] Stars Above, Stones Below by Destina. canon divergence handfasting AU. i also like the sequel.

- [T] But It’s a Good Refrain by lady_ragnell. modern AU. this one speaks for itself, i cannot tell you enough to read it.

- [M] The Future Soon by lady_ragnell. modern magical AU. this one also speaks for itself. i’ve reread it way too many times.

- [E] Remember When We Never Faded by giselleslash. canon AU where Merlin and Arthur meet in Ealdor when an injured Arthur is taken in by Merlin and Hunith.

[chamoemileclown]

I LOVE YOUR EMF DESIGN HES SO SHAPED

fun, little known, parkciv fact is that EMF actually stands for Evbo’s Master Fork

[chamoemileclown]

I originally interpreted your seavbo comic w/ evbo being sick and the brewing stand as seawatt using poison to make him feel sick so he could take care of him im so sorry

he's prolonging his time with him before he destroys all of civilization

[chamoemileclown]

What’s your 1x1x1x1 lore? Abusive father? Fragment of Telamon’s mind? Failed experiment?

In my mind 1x is closer to an accidental manifestation of Telamon’s worser qualities than anything.

I think a much younger Telamon started 1x as a rumor to cover up his misdoings and pranks around Ye Olde Robloxia and didn’t understand the full extent of his powers at the time, causing him to accidentally speak 1x into existence. To me 1x isn’t just a manifestation of hatred but more so a personification of Telamon’s selfishness and cowardice coming back to bite him.

TLDR: 1x is kinda like if a younger snapshot of you came back to haunt you and it was just your most insufferable traits.

I think 1x grew past just being an angsty teenletsky fragment and telamon would later assume the role of John “shedletsky” Humanman but there’s still something keeping them tied together.

[chamoemileclown]

trick or treat!!!

guess we're trick or treating now

[chamoemileclown]

sorry i didn't understand it, what were they talking about when he said "i didn't realize you-" ? regardless of understanding i gave it my like, cheers!

don’t apologize i sorta left it up in the air! he doesn’t realize how different he truly is from someone who is mortal like seawatt, someone who is still recovering from dying and being revived again. evbo may understand he’s god in more obvious ways but he’s still trying to hold onto some normalcy. he subconsciously still thinks of seawatt as the powerful guy that ran the lab and aided the evil champion’s regime, but now their power dynamic has reversed.