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#ABYSSLI , a canon divergent , headcanon based - tartaglia via genshin impact . UNNIFILATED WITH , hoyoverse && most of the related fandom . as wished by aster ( she/her , they/them , 21+ )
#ABYSSLI , a canon divergent , headcanon based - tartaglia via genshin impact . UNNIFILATED WITH , hoyoverse && most of the related fandom . as wished by aster ( she/her , they/them , 21+ )
[ FAREWELL ]: a letter written to say goodbye to the recipient, where the writer knows there’s an extremely high chance that they’ll never see each other again.
( yes i know this is an older ask, but I'd love to see what sort of letter Childe would write in this situation to whomever! ^_^ )
THIS ISN'T EASY TO WRITE , both because of the topic at hand – and because i don't have a lot of time. you know better than most how out of control things are getting, in fact i wouldn't be surprised if you knew more than most with how many spy's you just so happen to have around.
i have so many that i would love to write to, but you seem to be the easiest that comes to mind … and the one i can trust with these favors i have to ask. first, in case things do go wrong – i need you to promise me something. take care of my family , don't .. let them know the truth of what's happened unless you absolutely have to. keep them safe, hell , get them out of snezhnaya. i'll leave money for them that you can access.
i want them to be as far away from this as they can be, if i should fail to keep them safe myself.
secondly .. if you're able to get your hands on my vision? give it to the traveler , please. i know you know about us by now, and yes i know how stupid it was to allow myself to fall in love with someone who is seen as a enemy of the fatui .. but i couldn't help it, not when she made me feel so normal.
and lastly ..
if i start to be lead astray .. if i can't be reeled back in? do what you need to do, arlecchino. i trust your judgement.
YOURS TRULY , tartaglia .
( 🌒 ) IT SAYS NOTHING at first ( not something unusual when it came to it at all , really ) while it listened to the story that ajax spun for it. achilles caring so much for its host isn't unsurprising --- as protective as it expected the legacy to be .. it being sorry was a bit of a surprise.
a welcome one , it supposed. could be worse and not care at all which would pose an even larger issue in the future .. but this too could pose problems. it caring too much for its host and focusing its efforts into protection .. well the effects are night and day.
just LOOK at ajax for one second and those with eyes can see something is different. not that it was hard to tell , really. more abyssal features. their eye more dull and like the ocean depths .. but still it found itself oddly relieved over the changes as well.
THE MORTAL WOULD be dead without these changes. achilles was protective and that's all that mattered.
❛ .. FEAR IS GOOD. it keeps you alive. grounded. aware and non - compliant with the order of things. you grew on your own , i gave you the stepping stones to move yourself. you improve and while i am able to teach you more .. i still plan to witness your growth. ❜
❛❛ FEAR IS … NAUSEATING – though that may also be the residual effects of using foul legacy . it always seems to make me feel sick for days or weeks on end . ❜❜ and they had been in the form for .. longer than they'd like to remember. fourty some odd days in teyvat , what felt like years for them ..
years they'd never get back .
❛❛ SOMETIMES IT DOES NOT FEEL like growth , more it feels like i am stuck in the same place unable to move forward . there are to many failures , to many things i could have done differently – even in fontaine . if i hadn't listened to those dreams i wouldn't have been there .. ❜❜ but at the same time , that means no one would have been fighting the whale , keeping it in the abyss where it belonged until someone else could arrive .
protecting the civilians .. it's hard to admit that their trauma was almost worth it in the end .
MAKE YOUR CHOICE : reject your rules , or allow me to trigger the paradox . . .
( 🎠 ) THE YOUNGEST DUTIFULLY listens ( something his mama had said was very polite ------ and he wanted to be polite with his brother , as they wanted to talk about something serious ) as ajax continues to speak , continues to outline and try their best to unwrap the confusion that teucer had at the end of explaining up to this point. he wanted to understand --- despite the minor fidgeting that he was beginning to show now --- and remained as focused as a child of under the age of twelve can provide.
MAMA SAID THAT he's a good listener when he wants to be. that he's smart and a little bit too cunning for his age ( it gets him into trouble a lot of the time : but not like the trouble his big brother says that they had gotten into .. he isn't violent 'less his sister is in trouble. even then he'd rather talk it out .. ! ) and , well , said smarts begin to whurr in his head.
PUTTING ALL HE'S concluded together the boys bright blues fall away after a moment of searching his brother's face. he's quiet ( which in itself is terrifying , the boy always had something to say ) as he contemplates.
papa leaves BECAUSE IT HURTS to see his big brother not be ' the same ' as he was before ( a before that the youngest had no concept of .. except some photos on walls at home before whatever happened .. happened ).
mama gets SAD AND DISTANT because some of the same .. and she gets cross with papa for sending him away. those friends of his big brothers that are all dressed super weird were related.
with ajax confirming this .. soldier thing it CLICKS INTO PLACE. uncomfortably. his head hurts. his chest burns but he remains in his brother's lap as he sucks in a heavy breath of air. the lady he had met in liyue wasn't like the soldier's his big brother hung around with -- she made them happy. made mama happy. a good thing in a sea of bad that swam and begun to drown the boy a little bit.
THE LIE HAD fractured .. while hurt he wasn't that angry. perhaps he had known for awhile but .. the lie had been super fun. he got cool toys out of it , candies and all sorts of interesting things. but a lie can only stay such for so long -- now shimmering blues looking up at ajax and sniffed.
❝ .. YOU AREN'T A toymaker are you .. ❞
THEY SHOULD BE SURPRISED at how quickly he catches on – but they're not. they've always known how smart teucer could be when he put his mind to something. it doesn't help that uncomfortable feeling building in their chest, that mix of nausea and fear that was attempting to consume them. it makes their breath come out quicker – a pending panic beginning to arise at the question at hand .
you aren't a toymaker , are you ?
despite the weeks worth of building up their walls, knowing that when they traveled home they were going to tell him the truth – it still caused their breath to almost stall. it's why it takes a moment to answer, a moment of them taking in deep breaths to push away the panic attack that was sure to come after this talk was over – after they were far far away where no one could see them break apart .
❛❛ NO. I'M NOT A TOYMAKER … i'm – i lied about what i am, because .. i thought it would protect you from the truths of the world. i admit it was foolish of me … but you're my little brother and i wanted you to believe in the good in this world, rather than the knowledge that under it all .. ❜❜ there's darkness, that tries so hard to consume any ounce of light it gets it's claws into. they hadn't wanted that for teucer, wanting him to grow up , explore the world – make friends .. be the good that those around him needed .
like the heroes in the stories their father use to tell them .
❛❛ YOU KNOW OF THE TSARITSA , YES ? maybe not fully .. but mama and papa speak of her, so does alyona , and myself. our archon , the one who watches over snezhnaya ? i'm one of her harbingers .. meaning i am the head of one of my own divisions. i lead some agents, i train them – and if our lady asks me to do something, i comply. ❜❜ no matter what – all though they always tried their best to make each mission given to them go by smoothly.
they may be a monster , but they still wanted to protect the innocent and not drag them into the fatui's affairs .
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ANONYMOUSLY TELL ME YOUR HONEST OPINION ABOUT ME. I CAN’T REPLY/COMMENT, JUST PUBLISH.
( 🌙 ) THEY WERE SO strange -- but the power they contained and held within theirself was more fascinating than she'd seen on this planet thus far. sure , gods that walked among their people were cool 'n all but .. one that could harness a negative and encroaching energy and use it to their advantage ? how could she not be curious to know more about it. and them. the man who could use it was fascinating outside of the skills they possessed.
LUMINE'S BROW RAISED as the harbinger offers their hand out for her , following it up with a bow and a question if she should follow. goodness .. if she hadn't already stopped a partial plot of theirs she'd have believed them to be utterly simplistic besides for the .. odd air they wrought with them.
ROLLING HER EYES she chuckles , taking the chance and putting her growing trust in them , taking their hand as she half - curtsied with her dress 'fore laughing lightly.
GIVING A LIGHT squeeze she flashes a smirk , waiting for them to begin leading her. ❝ I WOULD APPRECIATE it , considering i've no idea which resturaunt you are referring too .. there's so many in the city itself and close to the bank. ❞
❛❛ THIS IS TRUE , besides the one i am talking about is .. very lowkey . i'm not much for crowds . ❜❜ they know how to handle a crowd of course, know how to put on a mask like the showman they are. however when having their own choice, they'd always go for someplace quieter where they can hear their thoughts and avoid stares from those passing by .
they jokingly ( is it really a joke though ? ) lean down to press a kiss against her knuckles , scrunching their nose playfully at her 'fore standing to their full height and beginning to walk off towards the restaurant with her in tow .
IT'S STRANGE , to have people staring as they walk by, but rather with their normal look of distaste – it's curiously and whispers about the hero who walks alongside them. part of them almost feels pride at knowing that they have her all to themself that night .
an odd feeling, truly .
❛❛ SO PRINCESS , are you going to be eating me out of my mora tonight, or should i only expect that to happen when your little companion is around ? ❜❜
Who was the most influential person in your character's life, and how did that relationship shape who they are today?
SKIRK , despite knowing it for a short amount of time ,,, skirk very quickly became the most influential person in their life. skirk taught ajax basically all they know about survival , about fighting – continuing on despite being exhausted and that was something they needed to live through the abyss at the time && continue through their life when they got back to teyvat .
i think skirk is also a big reason that ajax isn't shy like they were described to be as a kid. i think skirk really managed to push them to be more confident which up until that point wasn't something they were able to do && it's something they carry with them now as an adult. i also think that skirk is one of the reasons ( maybe not the main , but still ) that ajax isn't someone who constantly craves violence. being taught to fight for survival vs for fun and while they still have a lot to learn on that aspect of things it's one of the reasons that they are who they are today.
i don't think its out of bounds for me to say that, without skirk ajax wouldn't even be alive today. meeting skirk was something that was needed and has proved to be a very important part of ajax's life .
@tartagla
It is a miracle their paths have not crossed sooner. The harbinger should count himself lucky given his crimes against Liyue — a fact that makes his presence before Xiao all the more puzzling. ❝ What do you want, mortal? You're quite bold to seek me out. Are you simply that foolish ❞
THEY DON'T WANT TO BE IN LIYUE, they hadn't been back since their failed mission – opting to stay in snezhnaya or even fontaine . though being on a break from duties to heal – recover , they had decided that traveling back there couldn't be too bad .. hopefully their conclusion wasn't wrong .
❛❛ WOULD YOU BELIEVE ME … if i told you that i didn't actually seek you out – and my luck seems to just be that bad these days ? ❜❜ there's that sheepish smile of theirs, hand raising to rub at their neck .. really they didn't want to cause any trouble – as fun as that could be .
( 🎠 ) OH HE'D SAID something wrong. the shift in his brother's vibe ( did that make any sense ? huh. the kid was very in tune with those sort of things after alll. ) told him enough --- yet before he had time to ask the silent request to pick him up was placed , leaving him to respond immediately and be brought into his brother's arms.
HE LISTENED , A small frown now sitting on the younger's face as shining blues looked out toward the forest ajax spoke about. he'd seen mama go into it every so often with a satchel full of items only to return with nothing. it was weird but he had simply figured it was adult stuff. stuff that he would understand when he was older. he guesses now with what ajax is telling him that .. papa doesn't like him because the woods did something bad to his big brother ?
BUT IF .. IT wasn't his big brother's fault why was papa upset with him still ? it was a super long time ago and .. how is that fair ? teucer seems to slouch a bit , clearly unhappy about something going on in his head to anyone in the outside looking in.
SMALLER HANDS GRIP tighter to the other's coat , getting a lot of answers but having many questions at the same time --- unsure where to start was the biggest problem. he felt that ajax wouldn't lie to him if he asked them seriously , that the answers may hurt but .. it'd be nice to know right ?
❝ UM .. OKAY .. but why does papa still get mad or leave when you show up .. did the sending you away not work ? i don't .. understand. ❞
❛❛ .. IT DIDN'T WORK , papa – papa sent me to the fatui in hopes that it would straighten me out , and i'll admit – he had good reason . it was a couple of weeks after i had finally been found again, and i was trying to settle back in, trying to go back to normal – but normal for me included some kids .. bullying me . i was a very shy kid , i didn't like to be the center of attention, i never fought back and so that made me an easy target .. ❜❜
even now, speaking about their childhood wasn't something they found easy – it hadn't been the best childhood , between the bullying and their family situation .. well, if the truth got out no one would be surprised that they ran away from home.
❛❛ BUT , AFTER GOING MISSING … things changed . i wouldn't let them bully me anymore – i didn't fight back at first, i tried to avoid it but, after time that resentment, anger – built up, and up until the dam broke. i won't say i'm proud of what i did, but i won't say i regret it either – but the kids got hurt, and papa decided right there and then that i was too dangerous and needed to be sent away . ❜❜
THEY SIGH SOFTLY , it's not that they blamed their parents for what they did either , they understand – at least they do now. they had been scared, scared that ajax would hurt them, hurt their siblings .. ❛❛ and the fatui was suppose to help , but – instead of seeing those violent tendencies as something bad, they saw it as something they could use , saw me as someone that could be taught , and made into .. a soldier . ❜❜
a weapon .
❛❛ THAT'S WHY PAPA LEAVES , when i come home – because .. to him i'm not who i used to be. i suppose in some way he's not wrong . ❜❜
( 🌒 ) ITS GAZE FLICKED downward to the delusion itself , its expression itself just barely changing .. but to one that knew it well enough ( or had spent a decent amount of time with it ) that it wasn't pleased at all. it believed that those of this planet that held visions were not worthy of such powers as most , in its opinion , didn't earn them through skill. the gods of this planet may have use for those that their gaze has fallen upon .. only time would tell all. ajax having one --- and then a delusion on top of it didn't excite it but the boy was an exception.
LIKE FOR MOST things the abyssal weaponsmaster dealt in , ajax was the exception.
❛ I SEE. WHAT does it think --- ? ❜
IT HUMS IN thought , finally letting go of the boy's chin as it took one more glance over 'fore looking away. it listens further to what they have to say 'fore its gaze returns to them. ❛ YOU FOUGHT THROUGH pain you didn't know existed. survival was your ally and guide --- even without knowing much about the outside until Master's pet got free but even then you didn't falter. ❜ it surmised by ajax's use of the covering that they potentially tried and failed to work with it and see .. pity.
THEY WERE STRONG but if their strength had been more abundant it could have saved them from being functionally blind out of it. as power and strength increase , it wonders if the boy could work with the legacy and regain use of it. hm. only time would tell.
❛ YOU SURPASSED MY expectations. ❜
THEY KNOW IT'S ASKING about achilles – they lean back some against their hands thinking over the question .. ❛❛ IT WAS SORRY , at first – sorry that it could not protect me sorry that it was unable to help me repair my eye . it's annoyed with the delusion now as well , though there is not much i can do about that as i am required to have it. ❜❜
though , they have begun to wear it less and less since fontaine .
❛❛ …THANK YOU . ❜❜ theres so many emotions that swirl through them at their masters statement – so many they're unable to grasp upon . they've always wanted to make it proud – wanted to surpass everything that it had ever thrown at them in hopes that they would truly live up to being its disciple ..
they knew they still had a long way to go , however.
❛❛ … I WAS TERRIFIED , you know ? it's been so long since i was that scared of something . it felt like being fourteen again meeting you for the first time. alone and unsure of what was going on around me – lost . i do not think i would have survived without your teaching – even as long as it's been. i remember them all so clearly . ❜❜
Send me "Good boy/girl" for my muse's reaction to your muse saying that to them!
❛❛ the thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but i was not apart of that dark water. i was a creature within it. a golden cage is still just a cage . ❜❜
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( 🎠 ) THE BOY DIDN'T understand why mama , papa and his big brother all said differing reasons as to why or how he could go outside. why papa had such a look on him when he brought up his big brother and the letters that he'd been sent. it was so .. unfair. confusing.
he DIDN'T LIKE IT at all. looking away he frowns , fingers fiddling with one another as he shifted on the spot. he wanted to argue that even if they went into the woods they came out super strong. at least that's what he can figure anyway --- mama may not look happy a lot but isn't it a good thing that ajax was strong ?
THAT THEY COULD protect their family better ? he had to be missing something if it isn't that simple or .. like he thinks.
SIGHING , ( A LITTLE dramatically mind you ) he kicks at the snow on the ground for a moment before looking back up at his brother and nodding a little bit , relenting within the conversation.
❝ .. OKAY. SORRY BIG brother .. i didn't wanna upset anyone i just .. i'm bigger now right ? i wanna help more ! you .. the woods helped you get strong didn't they ? i don't .. understand. ❞ he's really trying though.
THEY SIGH SOFTLY , they're not upset at him – they can understand the way that he's thinking. in his eyes all he knew was his older brother went into the woods one day and came out stronger than before. the simple side of the story – the one without all the trauma that laid behind it. he doesn't know about the fights, the nightmares – how for the first few years back their mother had gone into the woods looking for them …
because in her eyes her child had been taken and a false one returned .
THEY PAUSE IN THEIR STEPS , reaching out to pick up the younger . they step over to the nearby pile of firewood near their home , sitting ontop of it and placing him on one of their knees. ❛❛ … the wood's didn't help me , not in the way you think. you only see the side of things that i allow you to see, because .. i want you to keep your childhood alive and happy , teucer . ❜❜
THEY LIFT THEIR HEAD to look towards the woods again , scanning the trees for any sign of life . ❛❛ … those woods, changed me – and it hasn't always been for the best. there's a reason mama and papa sent me away because the truth is i was a danger to a lot of people , i didn't know how to deal with what i went through . ❜❜
they still don't
❛❛ AND I LASHED OUT at those around me, that's the reason we don't want you running away the way you do. we don't want you to go through what i've been through . ❜❜
give 'em hell , turn their heads ——— gonna live life 'til we're dead . give me scars , give me pain ——— then they'll say to me , say to me , say to me : there goes a fighter .
by pichu .