in which wanderer is a gentleman. wanderer x fem!reader. soft! wanderer. fluffy fluff fluff.
wanderer has been extra deep on thought lately. he knows he is lucky. really fucking lucky. you are so far out of his league that he isn't even playing the same game as you.
he is an experience to be around. he knows this. the entire akademiya knows this. pretty much all of teyvat knows this.
and yet, somehow, he manages to get himself a little wife. you do so much for him. and you don't ask for a thing in return (which baffled him for the longest time).
wanderer has grown increasingly worried that he doesn't do enough for you. in his anxiety, he took refuge in the library until later than usual lately. he checks out, and thoroughly reads every book the akademiya library has to offer about one subject.
the art of being a gentleman.
reading about it simple enough. being polite, opening doors, and the like. it's just finding situations to put these into practice that's hard for him. he isn't the best at expressing himself to begin with.
easier said than done is shoving itself down his throat more than usual. he doesn't want you to suddenly think he wasn't right for you.
then, it was like the heavens opened up for him when you say one day, "okay, i'm heading out to the store now. do you want me to pick you up anything special? coffee?"
wanderer's ear's prick like a cat's. "you are going out?" he won't admit it, but he always gets a little anxious when you say you are going out.
"mhm," you nod, smiling softly at him as you open your wallet to double check how much mora you have, "we need groceries for the week, and cat food. and i want to get ingredients to make your favorite eel and rice bowl. you have been working so hard on that paper lately."
wanderer reels for a second. what did he do to deserve you, damn it? he is really starting to consider what that strange boy from the temple of silence suggested to him one day. "you better lock that one down," is what he said. for someone who talks too much, sethos has a point.
"i am going with you," he picks the cat quietly sleeping in his lap up, and gently puts him down, "and leave your wallet here. i have money, i'll pay."
"really?" you ask, your eyes lighting up hearing he decided to come with you, "but you should keep your money for your research--"
"let's go," wanderer gently cuts you before you can protest anymore. he didn't want you to go out without him, not when he has had such a bad feeling since returning from nod krai. he still feels like he has a chip on his shoulders...
"okay, it will be really nice to have your company," you hook your arm through his when wanderer extends it to you.
wanderer mentally purrs seeing you cling to his arm like that. he gives himself two gentleman points, as far as he is concerned, he is a on a roll so far.
he stays close to you while you are at the market stalls. he keeps looking around for threats, anyone watching you. he also notices the ones that look too hard at you, those leave a bad taste in his mouth.
he glares at another man walking right up with his eyes fixed on you. keep walking buddy, she's taken sears into the other man, stopping him right in his tracks, and making him turn around and walk the other way.
after you finish at one stall, he promptly takes the bags from you. "i'll carry these," he gently plucks the bags from your fingers.
"my, my, what a gentleman," you tilt your head up, giving him a soft kiss on the lips. wanderer looks away as his cheeks heat, his vision on his chest lighting up.
he gives himself ten, no twenty gentlemen points for that. you even told him specifically he is being a gentleman. big win.
as you start walking again, life just suddenly gives him another shining opportunity. you have to walk next to a road to get the stall you prefer that sells sea food.
wanderer walks next to you, closest to the road with his arm around you. you would be out of the way of any oncoming traffic from people or sumpter beasts passing by.
he didn't even read this move in a text book either. he'd seen an elderly man do this with his wife while they were walking together. to him, that is the most pure hearted act of gentleman kindness he had ever seen.
he gives himself ten thousand points, and then twenty more for the way you smile at him.
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