✧…Real Or Not : Genshin Impact

Limits of a god

CHARACTERS: venti; mermaid!reader

THEMES: fluff with light angst. pre-established relationship

WARNINGS: mentions of spoilers from his story quest (not that much but still)

WORD COUNT: 1.1k words

NOTES: this was supposed to be pure fluff but what can i say??? the potential is just-but hey i think this is cute i must say this is one of my favorites. i hope you all enjy this and happy birthday to venti again!

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Merfolk is one of the things that the people of Teyvat had long forgotten as time passed by. But for those who have lived for quite some time, their beliefs are far different from a normal modern mortal.

Venti was one of those—even if he had never quite fully lived as someone like the once Geo Archon did, he believed in these stories. He had even written songs about them, singing in tunes to the people in the tavern as they all think these were merely myths and metaphors for the people of the present.

They were not.

His light feet drags him to the bottom of Stormbearer Point, the sands beneath his shoes, Under the night sky, the water illuminated the glow of the stars and emitted a shimmer of its own.

There was a crisp in the air that he himself knew was due to the peace and serenity of the place; with no monsters around, no people, no wolves–just him and the sea. Until–

He hears the wind whisper to him first, coming to him like an echo of an intake of breath from beneath the water. Then came the sight of a shadow, one that was rarely seen in the human eye. But to a god like him, it seemed likely to encounter such a glorious sight.

The shadow soon emerged from the water and there came you, and almost as instant, Venti’s face brightened and a huge smile curved on his lips.

“It’s been a while, mademoiselle.” he greets and a giggle erupted out of you, looking up at the boy with the same kind of emotion in your eyes.

“Should I call you monsieur then, monsieur Barbatos?” you bite back and he laughs as he crouches in front of you, your forms separated by land and water–which is an ironic thing, Venti thinks.

“Must you tease me that much, Y/n, you know I’m just kidding. Besides, you know how it doesn’t sound that good when paired with either of my names.”

Under the sky and above the water, there’s a pair that were synced in the beating of their hearts. With the stars as the only witness with both of your love for the other, you two felt free. In the land of Mondstadt, of freedom, it felt like only the two of you remained in the world.

It was you who reached out first, your hand above the water as you offered it to him. Without another second, Venti takes it and holds it gently, just like how the wind does when it passes by a tree.

He makes his way to the water until he floated in front of you. Just then, you let go of his hand to holds each side of his face. And even through the slight pain and irritation on his cheeks, all Venti had to do was look into your eyes and he didn’t feel them anymore. After completing what needs to be done, you held his hand again and dove slowly down the water, pulling him along with you.

“Your power never ceases to amaze me.” he says as he grinned at you beneath the waters, the gills that you had given him more visible under the atmosphere of the sea. It shouldn’t fit a human, let alone a god, but in both of your eyes, neither mattered as long as you two could speed more time together.

Times like these are rare, but you treasure each of them. As a creature of the sea and the land, you two had different worlds, different cultures, different identities. And yet you two found similarities to each other and soon developed emotions that others would often find questionable A god of the wind falling in love with a citizen of the sea? Surely there must be a mistake, right? Your love couldn’t be that tragic, right? That’s what you thought too. However, every time you gaze into Venti’s eyes and see the beauty of him and him alone, then the difference doesn’t matter anymore, and you have a feeling that’s what he thinks too.

You swam through corals and fishes, passed by mosses, and reached the seafloor, giggling to each other as time went on. For Venti, time under the sea is slow. He doesn’t have any care about what was happening above, not when he has the love of his life here beside him.

But unfortunately, all good things must come to an end.

Merfolk can grant humans the power to breathe under the water, but it depletes their energy at the same time, which was why you two had to rise up and revert the spell before anything bad happens,

Venti thought it was just a usual meeting, a usual date, just like any other before. However, what he didn’t know, as you were to give news that would break his heart slowly.

“I have to go back.” you breathed as you still held his face just like awhile ago. And the moment he heard the words, time continued again, bringing him back to the harsh reality in the world of Teyvat.

“But why?” he let out and he didn’t mean for his voice to sound so breathless even if he was able to breathe earlier and now.

You avoided his eyes as you answered, the same joy that he was used to seeing in your face nowhere to be found. However, he knew the answer right away. He knew about this from the start so why was he asking?

“You gave me a home, Barbatos, but knowing that there are those who were being robbed of their own, you know this is all inevitable.” Ah, how you loved to refer to him by his name, insisting that no one else could hear anyway and that you two held too many secrets altogether–secrets that hindered the freedom that this land promotes alongside his own identity.

With an aching chest, he holds up his own hand and hovers it above one of your own that still held his cheek, his warmth transferring to your own as if a silent connection of how different you two were–how different were the places of where you two belong to.

“Do you promise to go back to me?” he holds back his tears, but despite his efforts, they were futile.

When you met his eyes once again, he wanted to take back what he said–stop you from going back to save your own people from the waters of Fontaine and probably suffer the same fate as-

“I promise,” you interrupted his thoughts as if you knew what he was thinking about.

Under the sky and above the water, there’s a pair that were synced in the beating of their hearts. With the stars as the only witness with both of your love for the other, you two felt free. But sometimes, even freedom has its own limits.

“ Sure, I’ll play you another tune, but it’ll cost you an apple! “

Sorry Diluc, Thoma is gonna be my main Pyro user for now. And OMG his hangout event. It's a shame that 5 star characters don't have hangout events and only have story quests. Maybe that'll change in the future.

Pay attention to the last photo..... Aww and especially his voice lines regarding us and oath.

Debt

𓄹  ꉂ ╭╯𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘵𝘢 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘦 」?  𓏰𓏰  ベリー  🥢

★ 𓂃 𝘒𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘰 𝘯𝘰 𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘵 / 𝘒𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘰'𝘴 𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭

• 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦/𝘶𝘴𝘦 ‹𝟹

I know I'm I anonymous right now but I love all of your posts!!! I hope you like my request! Can I request the tot boy's s/o popping up in the NXX headquarters out of nowhere? Like they not supposed to be there and know where it is. I want to see their reactions!

Oh and maybe Rosa comment on it on each section because she's also in NXX

𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 ☽ 𝗍𝖾𝖺𝗋𝗌 𝗈𝖿 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗆𝗂𝗌

𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 . . . their reaction to you finding the nxx headquarters.

𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 . . . artem, vyn, luke & marius.

𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 . . . gn!reader + fluff.

# 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗠

when you pop up from behind the couch in the main room of the headquarters, with an adorable smile on your face, artem’s eyes just widen & his jaw goes slack.

he’s in pure shock; did he really do that terrible of a job at hiding the location of the headquarters?

he knows that you’re far from clueless & probably would have figured it out sooner or later, but it still shocks him that you were able to find it this quickly.

he sits on the couch with a stupidly adorable expression on his handsome face, one that he doesn’t often show.

he flushes a bright shade of red when you lean over & kiss his cheek, linking your arms together.

“sweetheart, what are you doing here—?”

bonus: rosa is absolutely enamoured by the dynamic the two of you have, it’s way too cute. it’s rare that she’s able to see artem become so flustered & she’ll definitely tease him for it later.

# 𝗩𝗬𝗡

honestly, he’s not even surprised that you figured it out.

he didn’t go out of his way to hide the location from you, but he didn’t exactly tell you what he was always running off to during the day (while he wasn’t at work, of course).

he greets you with a small smile, rather unfazed at the fact that you discovered the nxx headquarters.

he pats the free seat beside him, the other nxx members staring at vyn in incredulity, not understanding how he was able to be so calm after being found out.

“glad to see you could make it, darling.”

he intertwines your hands together, continuing on with the meeting as if you weren’t even there.

bonus: rosa is quite shocked at first, she thought that doctor richter would have more of a reaction to his s/o finding the headquarters. though, she has to admit that it’s cute to see how gentle he is with you.

# 𝗟𝗨𝗞𝗘

concern is the first emotion he feels when he sees you, that familiar expression on his face; furrowed eyebrows, a slight frown to his lips, arms crossed over his chest.

he hasn’t kept any secrets from you about his line of work, you know full well what he does for a living, but you’ve never had the opportunity to ask where he does his extra work.

he’s made it clear that he wants you far away from any danger, especially concerning his work at the nxx.

“how did you find this place, angel?”

he would 100% lecture you like he was your father.

but his strict façade falls when he sees your pouty little expression & he visibly softens.

bonus: rosa would take your side, reassuring luke that you’re an adult & know how to keep yourself safe. she knows how it feels to have luke fuss over her safety, but she thinks it’s cute how protective he is over his s/o.

# 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗨𝗦

he would probably scream at the top of his lungs if you decided to jump out & surprise him, like the drama-king he is.

he’d need a moment or two to recover from the scare, breathing heavily as he tried to steady his heart rate.

“babe, how did you even—?!”

you blink a couple of times & smile brightly, explaining to him that he was absolutely terrible at hiding his little secrets.

he would definitely be lectured by artem & vyn on the importance of confidentiality, as well as luke chiming in to tell him to protect the person he loves.

he’ll be a little pouty for the remainder of the time you stay, having been scolded by the other nxx members for poorly hiding the location of the headquarters.

bonus: rosa would laugh her ass off at marius’ reaction to you scaring him, she’d probably give you props too. she thinks it’s nice to see him get put in his place every now & then.

© pixiemon

@me whenever I see them together

albedo, what in the devil are you doing?

Gorou absolutely has no permission to be this cute. It's illegal to be this cute

a long but fleeting life

[Pairing/s: Zhongli x Reader]

Genre: angst

Warning: Character death

Zhongli will out live you.

These words have always been in the back of your head, lock up in the darkest corner in your mind ever since it made it's appearance when your dearest beloved had confessed his true identity to you, he was the Geo Archon, the god of war and contracts, the god of your home, and now your fiance, he was Rex Lapis.

He had lived longer than you, he had seen the world crumble and rebuild itself, he had seen wars, deaths, sorrows, and joys. He was older and wiser than you, had experienced far more many things than you, and he continues to do so with you.

Moments with him were precious, even when it's only the mundane things, from drinking tea at dawn to laying on your shared bed talking about the most random things late at night, every second of it is precious.

Furthermore, those precious moments seem to be playing in your head like a broken film as you hold your beloved close to your chest.

He was suppose to out live you.

The atmosphere feels cold, he feels cold, laying limp in your arms, amber orbs softly and faintly glowing as he stares at your crying ones, each drop of tears that fell from your face hurts him more than the huge wound on his stomach, he's running out of time, how ironic time was insignificant to him before, but now that he was at death's door and about to leave you behind, he wishes he had more time

"Zhongli please..." you beg, you beg him to not leave you, beg him to stay just a bit longer, for your sake.

"I'm sorry dearest" his voice was trembling along with his hand that reach out to your face, cupping your cheeks, caressing them as if they were made of glass, "I couldn't see you in that wedding dress."

You cried harder, held him closer, begged to whoever god that could hear you to make him stay longer.

"Dear Celestia, don't take him away from me."

His hand drop from your cheeks, tired eyelids closing to rest as he slip away from you, you call out his name, once, twice, god knows how many times, hoping- praying, that this is nothing more than a nightmare, that this just an illusion, a lie.

Through your grief, a thought came to light.

Rest, now he can finally rest.