M/N : I can't believe we finally get to see our son's girlfriends!
F/N : Hahaha! I know you are excited dear and honestly so am I our son is growing up
KNOCK KNOCK
M/N : Oh it must be them!
[Meanwhile outside]
M!Reader : Remember guys I'm going in first so I can clarify them to not faint when they see you guys
Beidou : Oh come on! They would love us!
Ningguang : What Y/N saying is true beidou we don't wanna see them having a panic attack do we?
Beidou : T-true that
[Holds the door knob]
M!Reader : Ok...I can do this
Ningguang : Good luck my love
[kiss his cheek]
Beidou : Remember if anything goes wrong go outside to us ok?
[Kiss his cheek also]
Beidou : Good luck my seashell
M!Reader : Thank's guys ♥️
[Y/N Took a Deep breath]
M!Reader : Let's do this...
[Y/N enters the house]
M!Reader : Mom! Dad!
M/N : Y/N! It's so nice to meet you again sweetheart! Kisses his cheek repeatedly
M!Reader : Mooooooooom
F/N : Hahaha! You know how you're mother is
M!Reader : Dad!
F/N : Hey champ!
M!Reader : I miss you guys so much!
M/N : we miss you so much too sweetheart! Now where are those girlfriends of yours? I made cookies!
M!Reader : T-thanks mom, they're still outside
F/N : Well what are you waiting for? A kiss on the cheek? let them in I wanna meet your girlfriends
M!Reader : Before I do that... I-I want to tell you guys something
F/N & M/N : ???
M!Reader : .....Please don't faint when you guys meet them
F/N : Woah woah woah calm down there you dating some hilichurls or somethin? hahahaha!
M/N : F/N!
F/N : S-sorry dear
M/N : Why would we faint? Seeing two girls dating our son? PFFTT- please I'm not as weak as your father every time he sees me wearing my good dress
F/N : Hey!
M!Reader : Ok... I trust you two GUYS! You can come in now
[Beidou and Ningguang enter]
Ningguang : it's a pleasure meeting the parents of our lovely Y/N
Beidou : it really is!
[Holds Y/N's hand and kiss his forehead]
Beidou : you two raised me and Ning's Prince very well~
M!Reader : [Stuttering] B-beidou stop your making me flustered
Beidou : that's the plan~
M!Reader : 0/////0
M!Reader : I-i can E-explain?
.......
M/N : .......THE TIANQUAN OF THE LIYUE QIXING?!
F/N : ........THE UNCROWNED LORD OF THE SEA?!
M!Reader explains to F/N and M/N (who almost fainted) how He met ningguang & Beidou and How the three decided to become a three way loving relationship
F/N : I can't believe it... Our son dating THE beidou and THE ningguang
M!Reader : A-are you guys disappointed?
F/N & M/N : Disappointed?!
M/N : This is such an amazing news! my son dating the most independent and the most trust worthy women's!
F/N : I can tell our Y/N is in great hands now!
Beidou & ningguang : he is!/he certainly is
After that All of them started to chat,Eat and even baked cookies together
M!Reader : You two can wait for me in the car I have something to do first
Beidou/Ningguang : Sure thing sweetie/Take your time love
Y/N hugs M/N and F/N
M!Reader : I promise I'll visit you guys more often!
F/N : You better this man couldn't handle your mom alone y'know
M/N : Hey! Sighs me and your dad are so happy that we don't need to be worried about you anymore cause we now know that our Y/N are in good hands now
Beidou : trust me he is!
Ningguang : Beidou roll down the car window you almost ruin a family moment
Beidou : O-oh right S-sorry Y/N
M!Reader : Chuckles it's okay beidou!
.....
M!Reader : Bye mom! Bye dad!
F/N & M/N : Bye Y/N!
[Meanwhile inside the house]
F/N : Wow... Our son dating those two who would've guessed
M/N : His a lady killer reminds me of you in highschool
F/N : Hahaha! Yeah but in the end I chose the best one to end up with
𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓 — beidou x f!reader (with a twist). 1k. part of 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆, a southern au.
anyone else hate how much itto relies on kuki and how she should be a lawyer in liyue with the rest of the lesbians? tw: implied toxic relationships, discussion of bar fights, cops being called, allusions to other characters that are lingering in this universe, reader is a teacher.
You’re able to pinpoint the minute Beidou stops listening to you. Sighing, and perhaps still frustrated from the week’s work, you huff and drop your half eaten onion ring back onto the plate. Beidou doesn’t even realize, mindlessly lifting fries into her mouth as she looks over your shoulder.
Don’t be a petty bitch, you tell yourself. Beidou is good to you. She’s nice. She’s thoughtful. She takes care of you. You enjoy making her lunches. Don’t be a petty bitch. Beidou is not your ex.
“What are you looking at?” You ask, irritation clinging to the underbelly of your words.
Beidou brings her hand down to grab another fry and doesn’t even look at you. She uses the food to point over your shoulder.
“Look what the cat dragged in.”
Still irritated, you look over your shoulder to see what could be more interesting than your complaints about the work week. And it does nothing to soothe your irritation. If anything— You only find yourself more irritated.
“What the fuck is she doing here?” You ask.
This time, you pick up your discarded onion ring and mindlessly eat it, watching as a group sits down at one of the larger booths. Its group members aren’t out of the ordinary— Despite their childish demeanor, the Arataki Gang is old enough to eat and drink at your favorite bar.
However, it’s not the Arataki Gang that has you irritated, even though it is. Kuki is back in town. With her freshly dyed green hair, crop top and shorts, you watch as she removes her mask to take a drink of her water. Beside her, brash as ever, Itto carries a conversation over her to the man sitting beside her.
“I don’t know why they’re still allowed in here,” Beidou says. “The bartender had to call the cops on ‘em last week. Kazuha apparently had to give a statement and everythin.’ Apparently they broke a few chairs too.”
You turn back to your girlfriend. “I hope they aren’t doing so bad that they need that business. I doubt they even tip.”
“Well, they’ll tip tonight because Kuki’s here,” Beidou quips.
“I thought she was supposed to be in the city,” You huff.
Beidou sighs, and turns her attention back to her plate. “We all know she’s here because she bailed her stupid boyfriend out of jail.” Beidou ends her sentence by shoving the last three bites into her mouth.
“You’re going to choke like that,” You huff, glancing over at the table again. Plucking up your beer, you down it and place the empty glass on the table. “I’m going to go get another one from the bar.”
Beidou’s eye lights up and she makes a few muffled sounds, still chewing, and points at her own, half drunk glass with saucy fingers.
“Yeah, course baby,” You say, sliding out of the booth and heading towards the bar. With a quick detour, of course.
Approaching the already rowdy table, you zero in on Kuki.
“It’s been so long since I’ve seen you!” You say, putting on your most excited face and tone.
Kuki’s eyes widen as you come in, giving her a hug and kissing her cheeks. “What a treat to run into you here.”
“H-hey,” Kuki says, brows slightly pinched together, eyes flighty. “It’s good to see you to, [First.]”
You smile widely at that. “How’s university going? Are you on break?”
Before Kuki and respond, Itto wraps an arm around her shoulders and laughs. “She came down for the weekend to help me and my compadres out of our sticky situation. Kind of rough, but Kuks make it all better.”
Kuki’s shoulder’s sag under the weight of her boyfriend. She gently bugs his tattooed forearm.
“Are you in town all weekend?” You ask Kuki, ignoring Itto. Upon not getting the response he wanted, Itto withdraws and returns to his conversation.
“I’m going to leave Sunday,” Kuki says. “I’ve got homework due Monday, so…”
“Well, if you need a quiet place to study,” You put a heavy emphasis on the word, “You can always come over and use my place. I’ve got an office you can use.”
“I really appreciate that,” Kuki says. “I’ll text you?”
“Course you can,” You say, leaning down to give her another hug. “You can stay, too, you know,” You whisper to her.
Kuki nods in your shoulder, and you slowly pull away. “It was so good to see you!” You repeat, giving her a beaming smile, “I gotta go, I was on the beer run.”
“See you around,” Kuki says.
“We have to catch up,” You say, before waving to head over to the bar to pick up beers.
Upon returning to your table, it’s clear that Beidou has successfully not choked, and has also finished her beer. You place it down in front of her, and she picks it up gratefully, taking a few long pulls.
“What did you say to her?” Beidou asks.
“Oh, just that she could stay at my place if she wanted. You know, she was just texting me the other day asking for Yanfei’s number. Apparently they ran into each other at a party but never exchanged numbers.”
Beidou laughs at that. “Really?”
You hum in confirmation. “Bless her heart though. That boy does nothin’ but drain the life out of her.”
“I’ll drink to that,” Beidou agrees, raising her glass to clink against yours.
You take your respective sips before you pause, setting your glass back down. “Wait, Kazuha was here?”
Beidou nods. “Yeah. Catchin’ up with an old friend or somethin.’ Honestly, shocked me that he would be here by himself without me or Drake here. Well, I guess he wasn’t by himself. Was with some guy named, fuck, I can’t remember. He was tellin’ me about it while we were on the roof so I couldn’t really hear him over the nail gun. Seemed like he had a good time though.”
You don’t have much to say about that. “Well, it’s good he has a life outside of work. Speaking of, that’s what I was trying to talk about before you ignored me. As I was saying, I went to the fridge to go and grab a Diet Coke and someone had snagged my last one. Of course, I have a running list of who it could be. Number One: Lisa, because she’s always…”
You stared at the endless blue for the last time. One would think your stomach would take to the ocean kindlier today, now that it was your last day on board, but of course, it didn't.
All it took was a soft lurch and it had you pressing down the rising bile in your throat.You spun away from the railing, wincing as you pressed a palm to your wind-beaten face. Few more hours. You reminded yourself. Just a few more hours and you'd be rolling in grasslands before sundown.
The curx lurched suddenly and you lost your footing. Feet skidding on the slippery boards as you yelped sliding on all fours.
"Easy there!" Someone called out. The next thing you felt was a strong grip, pulling you up on your feet like picking up a stray kitten. You pushed your hair off your face, looking up at your saviour.
"Are you okay kid?" Juza asked, his bushy eyebrows knit together with concern.
You jutted out your chin, "I'm fine." you replied, trying earn back the dignity you had lost after mopping the floor with yourself.
He gave you a fatherly grin, "takes a while to get used to the sea, that one over there was wobbling like a fawn for weeks before he got used to it."
You knew who he was referring to even before you looked, simply because he had pointed up, towards the lofty masts of the ship kissing the clouds.
The young inazuman's feet dangled from the navigator's post, swinging to an invisible rhythm. As usual, his eyes were lidded. You frowned at his expression of absolute ease. You couldn't help but feel jealous at how easily he could fall asleep there.
Not that you had any of that privilege. The wretched sea would not let you catch a moment of peace. Tossing you around in your little hammock until you couldn't help but hurl your insides out.
Even when you tried to make yourself useful on board, you were only met with irritation. The floorboards were always wet, growing things in crevices you had missed, like barnacles eating away at a turtle. They regrew no matter what you did, no matter how hard you scrubbed at them, squatting for so long your thighs screamed in pain.
It was as if the ocean had realized you were an outsider, a pest, and now was hell-bent on squashing you out.
After all, you weren't meant for the ocean. You were raised to tread mountains and open fields. To run barefoot on ground that doesn't shake and rumble. The most water you had seen was knee-deep. So if anything, just the thought of limitless depths, where you couldn't feel the earth under your feet scared you shitless.
You dragged yourself back to your feet just as the ship lurched again. Your knees buckled again, someone swore loudly and laughter erupted from the upper deck. Great now your clothes were all soapy
"Land Ahoy!" someone yelled out and your heart leaped. Sure enough among the clouds, you could see the odd peaks of juyun karst over the horizon. Finally. Finally.
The thought of home eased you tremendously. You had been on the ship for over a week now. Longer at sea than you had been on inazuman land. You had only gone there to find more materials that you could use as dyes, not knowing just how long the trip would keep you from home.
Your permit was about to end when the storms erupted. Sudden torrents so powerful that every ship including the one you were supposed to be on, decided not to set sail. There was no way you could afford to extend the permit, so when the young man named Kazuha offered you passage on the crux, you jumped at the opportunity.
You should have known that only a ship that could rival thunderstorms would harbor a captain that was lightning personified.
It was bad enough that the ocean made you queasy, so you did not want another someone here to throw your mind for a toss, make pits in your stomach and have you biting your tongue.
You tightened the grip on the railing. You couldn't tell if it was the thought of home or something else that made you tear up.
The ocean spray seemed to be eating away at your mind too. Clinging on like barnacles that you just couldn't scrape out. You couldn't wait to be back home, back with your parents and maybe then things would actually go back to normal.
Your parents had been simple people, devoted to their beloved Rex Lapis. But fear had ruled their faith, and so they hated the ocean. Given its natural history with the archon, it wasn't odd they felt so. The ocean was chaotic and unsteady. Constantly churning out calamity after calamity, harboring demons and monsters and all kinds of nasty beings.
"You find a man that's steady like a rock." They would say. You find a rock. Steady, strong and reliable. And you settle down.
Obviously, their thoughts had affected you, in every sense, you were honed to live on the hills. Knees scraped from climbing mountains and calloused feet from treading fields, raised to stand on earth that never trembled. Meant to find a man steady as a rock.
Steady, strong, and reliable.
But to temper the ocean, you had to be built differently.
Like the captain.
At first you thought it was envy that made your gut twist as you saw her. Envy of being that free. Envy of being so untamed, that it made the monsters lurking in the deep blues quiver with jealousy. You realized you couldn't stare at her too much. Every time you did, your mind would begin to drift, focusing on small things.
Like how she always had a beckoning smile, one corner of her mouth slipping tipsily. How her skin tanned, blotched with light hues of red, fading into brown, like patches of red hydrangeas had erupted across her body. Your eyes would trail the faint scars rippling across her toned arms.
You wondered how far they went, if you could trace them like lines on a weathered map.
The sound jostled you out of your trance. Her laugh breaks through your thoughts like sunlight through thunderclouds.
You blushed furiously. If it was that easy for her to distract you, The fathomless ocean must have started to make you delirious.
Just the thought of it had sent your mind spinning.
The first time you had seen her, her gaze had made you squirm in your spot. There was an underlying danger to it, like licking food off knives, or playing with flames until it finally smites your fingers. You had known in that moment; you had earned the captain’s curiosity.
And you doubted even Rex Lapis could help you with this situation.
Your interactions with the captain had been brief. But every second had scorched itself in your mind. You had known there was a pull you felt, envy and fascination and something more, mired into something you dared not give a name.
When you had lingered overboard longer than you anticipated. Night fell quickly bringing a chill that made your teeth clatter.
Like when she offered you her flask, moonlight washing over her crouched figure.
You hesitated for a second, wondering if you could really keep it down at all.
Beidou read your gait, “It will help with the cold.” She replied.
You seemed to consider this. One of the sailors beside her moved, offering you his place, and you took it.
The floor boards creaked under your weight as you sat down beside her.
You regretted saying yes the moment you tasted the booze.
It's strong. Stronger than any wine you had back home. Just one sip and its choking smell clogs your nose. You splutter out the drink, coughing.
Beido laughs as you reach for your skirts, wiping your mouth, embarrassed at how much of an idiot you looked like.
“Easy there” someone laughed, “You need a strong stomach for the sea.”
Beido’s chuckle echoed with the rest. You are caught off guard as her thumb brushed against your chin, wiping away the faint dribble of wine. Your stomach drops when she brings it to her lips and licks it off her thumb.
Her reaction was as nonchalant as yours was flustered,
The captain of the crux shrugged, "Can't waste good wine, can we?"
She pinned you with that same smiting gaze,
That was all it had been, the fleeting ghost of a touch. The captain was swept away immediately after, leaving you still standing there. You knew it was more than just fascination when it was a touch that simple that left you sleepless at night.
It was the smallest interaction, but it you tumbling back underboard, you twisted in your hammock, pulling your extra clothes to cover your sea-sprayed skirts that never dried, dreaming of tangled limbs and mapping stars on her skin.
The night only got colder as you lay awake, you might just be in love with the captain. no biggie.
Your gut wrenched as you pulled your eyes off her. Forcing your legs to move, "Yes." you replied.
Her cranberry eye settled on you. You averted your gaze at once, still can't read her.
“Running away from the sea?” She jibed. “Or running away from me?”
"That's not-" You started, but the stupid ship lurched again. You huffed angrily as the luggage you were holding slipped from your grip, stumbling forward.
Beido hoisted one bag up easily.
“I’m just going home.” You completed.
“After all,” You murmured, “You can’t really run away from the horizon. It just chases you regardless.”
Every day all you wanted to do was jump off this darn ship, but something today grounded you to your spot.
You let out a gasp and too much happened in a fraction of a second, you slipped again, maybe you didn't but the next thing you felt was her arms around you, hoisting you up from being thrown overboard. Your fingers dug into her shoulders.
It hit you in that moment, how badly you had craved her touch.
“No hard feelings love, just that I can’t have regrets.” She said.
You skipped a breath and she drew you in. You went in willingly, caving under her touch. Someone gave out a low whistle and the stupid boat lurched again, but you couldn't care anymore. The world closed in on you as her lips crashed into yours.
She tasted like wine and honey and you could smell the sea salt on her skin. At that moment the world was in your hands. Nothing in your life had felt this right before. The warmth of her tongue on yours was overwhelming.
Your body felt languid, and fluid. Every time you had dreamed of this moment you thought you would freeze. Your body going still from the shock. But your body reacted naturally, feet finding the unmoving ground you had longed for.
For all the morbid mountain in your soul, you matched her with a passion and fire you didn't think you could conjure. She chuckled under your intensity, your teeth gashing lightly.
You could taste the ocean in her mouth, her fingers curled in your hair, tugging you towards her slightly.
When you pulled away, your mind was still foggy.
"Go" She rasped out.
The answer shocked you. Her cherry eyes looked at you with so much affection, you felt sea-legs all over again.
Archons, you wanted her, you needed her.
"What?" You choked out. Suddenly realizing where you were, how your baggage leaned against your leg, and where you were supposed to go. You felt lightheaded.
Her breath fanned against your face, "Go, run to your mountains." She breathed into your hair, calloused fingers running down your arms.