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“Oh…well, at this point, it’s just semantics,” Al-Haitham says, his lips twitching upwards in the slightest movement, which Kaveh has learned to be Al-Haitham’s version of a shit-eating grin. He is the unfunniest man Kaveh has ever met, and Kaveh has met Cyno.
Kaveh chucks a book at him. “That’s not even your main field of research!”Or, five times Al-Haitham talks linguistics, and one time Kaveh does.
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the you that remains (that remains, and remains) by ariasteni
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
14 Oct 2025
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Kaveh—
You promised you would be back three months ago. Your room is collecting dust and your plants are dying.
Al-HaithamKaveh moves to the desert. He is not quite ready for what awaits him there, nor is he prepared to leave behind what tethers him to the forest.
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Kaveh has achieved so much today, it should be fine to do this much for himself. It should be fine to enjoy this much. There is absolutely nothing that Al-Haitham could possibly do to ruin this day!
Of course, this is when Al-Haitham chooses to walk in covered in blood.
Kaveh has enough troubles on his plate even without dealing with his confusing relationship with and unfortunately lingering feelings for his stubborn, infuriating roommate. But when a strange conspiracy begins closing in on Al-Haitham and threatening the precarious balance of their daily lives, Kaveh finds himself having to reevaluate the nature of their relationship and reckon with the ghosts of the past.
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There’s never really a good time, way, or reason to tell Kaveh about his long-lived, amoral, exiled, criminal ex-partner — who, Al-Haitham will note, was not any of those things at the time they were involved.
However, there is definitely a worst way for Kaveh to find out.
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13 Jan 2024
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if kaveh is his mirror, then zandik is his shadow, ever haunting his footsteps with who he could have been.
and al-haitham is the poor fool who loved them both.
"love one another, but make not a bond of love. let these be your desires: to know the pain of too much tenderness, and to be wounded by your own understanding of love."
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Kaveh hosts a late night college radio show, Mehrak at Midnight, that receives an average of zero listeners.
One night, someone listens.
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13 Oct 2025
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say you did create something great. where does that leave you? what do you envision as a magnum opus? what happens when you place more meaning into the product over the process? is inspiration, at its heart, a sort of envy?
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“Aw, you flatter me,” Xiangling teases. At this point, Xingqiu has a few chilis in his chopsticks and is slowly moving them towards Chongyun’s plate.
Wait a second. Did he just switch hands? Since when was he left-handed?
Or, five times someone wonders if Xingqiu might actually be left-handed, and one time he reveals that he is.
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03 Oct 2025
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it happens so naturally—left and right, meeting in the middle. palms press, fingers curl, smiles meet.
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“Alright. I won’t push it,” Beidou says at last, folding her arms over her chest. “Archons know you’re stubborn. And you’ve got every right to be--you’ve been on your own for a long time, I can tell. All I’m saying is...the crew’s here for you, you know.”
Kazuha closes his eyes, unsure of what to make of the fragile sensation that flutters in his chest, the faintest part of him that likes the sound of what she’s saying, that keeps reaching out when there’s nothing to find.
“I know.”
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Or, Kazuha learns to grieve.
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25 Feb 2025
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i want to talk to you, he thinks, a desperate wish tearing at his throat in a wet cough, the taste of copper flooding his mouth. he wants to say it, the words bubbling at the tip of his tongue, but now that he’s finally, truly, ready, he finds that he is out of time.
too late, again.
he is so tired of being too late.
“f...forgive me,” he gasps out instead, his words bitter in how much he’s leaving unsaid.
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In which Albedo concludes that the greatest kindness he can afford Mondstadt is to die.
(Or: a tale of two princes, where one is a fallen kingdom's last hope and the other is its destruction reborn into chalk.)
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and the first time albedo falls in love--
it is all at once, with all the faces in the room, with all of mondstadt and all the people in it. we have finished the sketch of a man who we have now met, filled the vast emptiness within him with thousand of blooming flowers, an unquenchable roaring fire, a terror of ten thousand and a love so strong that, for a moment, even albedo does not know what to do with himself.