Kairi_of_Knives
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You, Other You, Me, and a Case of Snezhnayan Fire Water by Kairi_of_Knives for hautecleres
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
03 Feb 2021
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If anyone ever asked her to write a review of Snezhnayan Fire Water, Lumine's reply would be something to the effect of: Tastes like death. Worst hangover imaginable. Threw up my kidneys. Great for prompting deep, meaningful conversation. 10/10 would drink again.
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Astra inclinant, sed non obligant by Kairi_of_Knives
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
30 Jan 2021
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Tugging him closer, Lumine whispered urgently, "I have a request, Sir Bard. There is a story I wish to hear that only you know. As I understand it, your price for a single song is an apple. I will give you as many as you'd like, whatever would fetch an appropriate fee for your services."
Venti huffed out a laugh, smile crooked. "I fear there may not be enough apples growing across all of Teyvat to pay for such a long tale. We are talking about two thousand years of history here. I could talk all day and still find more to say."
"Then we may negotiate a conversion rate between apples and bottles of wine. I want to hear everything. Big or small. From the moment we first met until now."
Venti nodded as if he had expected that answer, a wry smile on his lips. T'was a lofty request. The simple truth of the matter was this: one could not recount the story of the Traveler without first delving into the origins of the Gods of Freedom and Light. If for no other reason than that they were hopelessly entwined. If he was going to tell this tale, he was going to do it right.
Best to start at the very beginning then.
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Trouble never seemed far off when Childe was around. For the most part, Lumine didn't mind that. Kept things interesting, for sure. Usually, their mutual brand of mayhem looked like epic battles against hilichurls and eldritch horrors from Abyss. But the moment Childe sheepishly croaked out "my parents think we're dating," Lumine just knew that they had stumbled head first into a new form of danger. Sadly, this one wasn't one they could stab their way out of.
Though frankly if this fake dating thing didn't go well, Lumine wasn't above trying it.
(Featuring Tartaglia and Lumine in A Comedy of Errors in Three and some odd Acts.)
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A Puzzle Named Kaeya Alberich by Kairi_of_Knives
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
01 Dec 2020
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"You're a cavalry captain to an order of knights with no cavalry to speak of. Your intelligence network is outstanding yet you never use everything you learn. Jean and Amber are the face of the Knights, while you scuttle about in the shadows laying down scraps of clues for them to find. To make them more successful. Not to mention that you too were a son to Lord Ragnvindr but no one, least of all you or Diluc, acknowledges that anymore. While he shines as the eligible bachelor in the day and Darknight at dusk, you support him from the shadows. And you're here now, with me on a journey with no clear goal at the moment. Lending me your time and expertise when you likely have plenty of work back in Mondstadt. No thanks needed. Nothing in return. It just...makes no sense. You make no sense, Kaeya," Lumine grumbled.
Trust is a tricky thing with Kaeya, as Lumine had learned. Even their months of traveling together weren't enough to make him open up to her freely. Though, if someone told her that all she needed to do to make Kaeya talk to her was wine him, dine him, and challenge him to a game of 20 questions, she would have done so long ago.
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Journeying to the ruined tower in the center of Old Mondstadt was lunacy. Beseeching the God that had forsaken them so long ago to help them now was even crazier. But, Lumine was an Anemo priestess, perhaps the last appointed in Mondstadt. If anyone could succeed in this task, it was her. "Please," she prayed, "hear my pleas, Lord of Anemo. I am your faithful servant. If you have not abandoned us, if you still hear our devotions, grant me passage to your altar."
There was little she would not sacrifice to have her request met. Her time, her body...even her life. Whatever their fickle God asked of her, she would provide.
Though she couldn't have known it yet, meeting his demands would not be so...unpleasant for her, either.
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Flying Together by Kairi_of_Knives
Fandom: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
14 Jul 2020
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Any and all of my stories containing or related to the relationship between Futaba and Akira first described in Trading Hearts.
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A glass bottle clinks under Goro’s feet, kicked away without a care as he corners his prey. He slams him against the cold brick wall of a random shady building in this random shady alleyway, the breath knocked out of the man’s lungs with a tiny, shocked “oof.”
What a pathetic way to die.
His prey barely has a second to act, too surprised and too slow. Too late. Goro grabs a fist full of his frizzy black hair, wrenches his head to the side, and bites.
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23 Feb 2021
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Paimon has a sneaking suspicion that Kaeya will know something about the mysterious symbol left behind at the Liyue docks...
Lumine was excited hearing his name. It’d been a couple of months since the two of them had left Mondstadt for the Rite of Descension in Liyue. They were still looking for the Geo Archon when the Lantern Rite festivities started up. She had written a wish inside a Xiao Lantern to find her brother safe, but her heart had secretly wished to be near someone else instead.
Kaeya was restless, with only his usual duties to keep him occupied. There hadn’t been any further developments with the Fatui or Abyss Order in Mondstadt since the pretty Traveler and her floating companion had left for Liyue. He caught himself thinking of honey amber eyes and golden hair more and more every day. He’d heard through his contacts that they got into some trouble when they first arrived in Liyue, but now things had calmed with the Lantern Rite festivities in full swing. He wondered what she was up to.
A fluffy and smutty story of an inexperienced Lumine getting a taste of Kaeya’s dark side.
Bookmarked by Kairi_of_Knives
23 Feb 2021
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The Burning Rescue firehouse is turning into the place to go if you need to speak on behalf of the Burnish. There’s lockers cleared out for the files, tables pushed together into a tiny office. Ignis brought Lio a tablet computer on the fourth day, said “Government issue,” and dropped a taped-up charger next to it. The building hasn’t run out of coffee yet.
They’re all right, these firemen.
Bookmarked by Kairi_of_Knives
22 Feb 2021
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Maruki plays his ace in the hole, never expecting that Akira already knows.
The punchline is: Goro never expected that either.
(2/2 B Side, or: the AU where Akira figures out what his "wish" is before the deadline.)
Bookmarked by Kairi_of_Knives
21 Feb 2021
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Akira Kurusu hasn’t always been an omega.
At least, that’s what he thinks. But now everyone he meets in this city assumes he’s an omega. He’s treated like an omega. He feels like an omega.
He knows he feels like an omega because he remembers what it was to be an alpha.
[Written for day 31 of Kinktober 2020]
Bookmarked by Kairi_of_Knives
20 Feb 2021