#ragfam

[fruity-mond]

I keep forgetting to post art on here funnily enough. I'll just be yapping half the time. God, dude. Drawing this actually made me feel a pit in my stomach...

[pastelchaos242]

You can’t tell me tha diluc and kaeya were not handful as kids

Diluc would probably bring birds into the house when he wasn’t setting the drapes on fire.

Diluc would run inside and show crepus business partners the snake in the garden he got

Diluc lit half the grape fields on fire because he wanted to make snores.

Diluc would leave a trial of destruction in his wake. While Kaeya had the talent of magically going to any place in the world as soon as you blink

Crepus leaves the door open to get fresh air? Kaeya has now walked to a hillicurl camp and made friends with all of them

Crepus busy trying to get diluc to not release frogs into the house?Kaeya is now on top of the knight headquarters because he wanted a calm place to read

Crepus shuts his eyes for a bit? Kaeya is now in liyue because he wanted to try the food

[raeri-iy]

Thinking about how most men don’t start growing facial hair until they’re in their early twenties so Crepus probably never got that father-son moment of teaching either of his boys how to shave.

Imagine Kaeya going to Varka for advice and Varka being his usual charismatic self. Probably teasing Kaeya that if he’s a real knight, he should be skilled with blades no matter if it’s swords or the razors of a shaver. Maybe after Kaeya got the hang of it, Varka would reminisce how particular Crepus was his shaving routine, how he would only use a high quality razor from Fontaine to clean up his sides.

Then cut to Diluc, still a long ways from Mondstadt on his own with no one to turn to, trying to figure it out. He probably started growing stubble along his chin and began finding it annoying and itchy as all hell. With trying to lay low, he attempted to shave it with a pocket knife only to nick himself in the process. It was only after he returned home that he actually learned how to maintain it by Elzer or even Adelinde.

Kaeya never got to see the Fontaine razor as Diluc probably auctioned it off like the rest of Crepus’ belongings.

[tsukiglitch]

Crepus Love being a father.

An au where Kaeya was put in front of the Ragnvindr family door as an Infant lol and him and Diluc are around the same age. as to where my normal au where Diluc is older by 2y.

No blurred effect ver

based off of this

[gothic-btch]

Time Travel Ragbros meet Crepus again

Through some magic of the leylines, or abyss mages, or whatever, the Ragbros travel back in time to a couple years after Kaeya was adopted in the family.

They're still their adult selves, so now there's two sets of them. Little Diluc is immediately all over Kaeya, just as in love with this bigger version of his baby brother as he is with the mini one, and while Kaeya manages to act like his normal self on the outside, on the inside he's distraught at how much he misses this version of his brother and how he'll never truly get it back.

Diluc doesn't know how to react to baby Kaeya. At first he's all stiff and awkward around him, not wanting to get to close because he hasn't done that so long. But also his heart hurts, because this is the Kaeya he was so angry at. The spy, the traitor, the liar. But he's literally just a kid, he hated this version of his brother so much for so long but he was just a child, had always been just a child. And when that child who had secretly been alone for so long finally confided in him, he nearly killed the kid.

So he starts slowly warming up to this kid, allowing himself to get close and talk to him and eventually even hold him.

And baby Kaeya is so relieved, because he thought his brother had grown up to hate him but maybe everything in the future will be okay. Baby Diluc also starts to feel better because he really didn't like that this bigger version of him was glaring at his baby brothers. (Protective Diluc for the win!)

Crepus doesn't consider himself the smartest man, but he knows that something's off with his boys. They tell him a rather obvious lie about not seeing him in sometime because he went on this grand expedition with Varka. But he could see the distraught in his boys eyes when they looked at him, like they'd seen a ghost.

So of course Crepus makes it his mission to make all four of his boys get along perfectly, not only does he want them to like the other brother, but he wants his boys to feel good about their past/future selves. Because if he isn't going to be around long enough for his boys to grow into men, he's going to make sure that they're alright while he's here.

He also sits the older boys down and talks to them. Kaeya's first, because even though Diluc he's outwardly grumpy, Kaeya's mask is so obvious and laid on so thick it's scary.

He tries to coax the truth out of Kaeya first, to understand what's wrong before he makes it better, and archons it hurts to hear Kaeya calling him "Master Crepus" instead of dad. Eventually, he can't take it anymore, he tells Kaeya that he knows the boy is Khaenri'ahn and he doesn't love him any less for it. That he's sorry for being the second father in his life to leave him and all he wants is for Kaeya to understand just how much he cares about him.

And Kaeya can't handle it. He tells Crepus he's a spy, and whatever else he thinks he has to to make the man hate him. It doesn't work of course, because Crepus loves him so so so much and nothing would ever change that. And they cry, and they hug. And the next time little Kaeya sees big Kaeya he feels just a little bit better, because he's always been observant and he knows something just changed for the better.

Then Crepus talks to Diluc and its surprising just how quickly Diluc breaks down, apologizing for not being able to save him and do better. That he's sorry for breaking their family apart and how he wishes he could change. Because Diluc has a deep rooted fear that everything that has ever gone wrong in his life is his fault and he's never doing anything right.

Crepus tries his best to reassure his boy that nothing was ever his fault and he was also just a child so how was he supposed to do it all on his own? Then Crepus finds out how he died, how Kaeya gained his vision and everything that happens after. After so long of keeping everything bottled inside, spilling all of his secrets to a long-dead ghost is the one way Diluc feels he can lift the weight off of his shoulders.

And Crepus is distraught, distraught because he knew, knew he should've gotten rid of the damned Delusion long ago, that he never should've taken it in the first place. It's all his fault that their family fell apart and now he needs to fix it. So he promises Diluc that he'll never touch that delusion again except to destroy it, and actually does so in front of his boy. Diluc is so, so relieved and afterwards he goes to Kaeya because that is one last thing he needs to get right.

Diluc and Kaeya have the most heartwarming heart to heart ever, finally letting themselves be fully honest with their feelings and even though their relationship isn't healed, it's on the path there.

Then Albedo appears (because I love him) and explains some things to them.

1) Time travel isn't technically possible, at least not in both directions. If one person travels back in time, another can't travel back to that same past with the person because the timelines have diverged and some other nerdy crap I just realized I don't feel like explaining

Point is, timelines diverged, they didn't change the past but did change the path of this Universe's future, and that was how Albedo was able to find them and bring them back. The entire ragfam is grateful for this alternate universe people fixing their lives and our Diluc and Kaeya go back Adelinde a visit with an apology cake

The end :D

[angeofpearls]

Kaeya kinda have the same haircut and personality as Elzer.

Plus him being fully aware and competent about everything related to the winery business just like Elzer.

I love the ragfam sm

There is tiny bits of every person who raised him in kaeya's design and it makes me very emotional

[dogguila]

Crepus can’t take a nap without fearing that two little monsters will make him a little beauty 💫 .

[dayluc-ragnvindr]

I love when people mix up “step-brothers” and “adopted brothers” when it comes to Kaeya and Diluc because it makes me think of an AU where Kaeya’s biological father goes to leave him but runs into Crepus and falls for him.

“But dad, I thought you were going to leave me for the mission?”

“Not now Kaeya, you're scaring the hoes.”