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when all that gold grows out by leaderofthedolphins
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
29 Mar 2025
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Kaveh has no trouble getting commissions now. His clients have long since learned what an honor it is to work with him, and give him little trouble. This Sumeru has slowly but surely gained an appreciation for the arts he hardly has to fight for anymore.
And Al-Haitham. His beautiful husband Al-Haitham, who he wakes up next to every morning and kisses goodbye before he walks out the door. His beloved, who slices fruit for him each night to ensure he eats enough and sees to it that he can’t remember the last time he slept so little he woke up tired in the morning.
The man who saw him drunk and homeless in the tavern and offered him a home. The man who he left with the tatters of their thesis to live in the ghost of their project all alone, and who loved him anyway. The man who cuts off the peels of his apples every night just because Kaveh doesn’t like the texture, whose lips curl up with every kiss he gives him.
How beautiful is it, to be loved enough to be forgiven?
Kaveh finds gray hairs and realizes that he is growing old with Al-Haitham.
For the prompt: "I'll never finish falling in love with you."
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10 Jun 2026
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Hair in a bun, skates laid out on the floor, and an idle tune hummed under his breath — he’s nearly set.
His phone starts ringing while he’s rushing towards a bench to put down his belongings, and he scrambles to reach for it in the depths of his bag. He finds it, finger poised to answer as he looks up.
And that’s when he sees him.
Even through the hockey helmet, Kaveh can see the familiar traces of gray hair. If the height and broad build weren’t a dead giveaway, that certainly squandered any doubt. Alhaitham. The Sumeru Jackals hockey team’s main defenseman. Of course… who else could it be?
Kaveh stares at him for a beat too long before snapping himself out of it. There’s no way. There is no way he’s here.
Or; Renowned figure skater Kaveh returns to the competitive scene after a season of absence. Enter Alhaitham.
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- Part 1 of echoes in motion
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09 Jun 2026
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Alhaitham’s bedroom is destroyed in the attack. He and Kaveh start sleeping together.
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04 Jun 2026
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As Kaveh sorts the jugs into two groupings—one for the punch bowl and one for the drain—a bell chimes, clattering against the front door.
“We’re about to close,” Tighnari snaps at the entering customer.
Kaveh springs to his feet and positions himself behind the register.
“How can I help—”
You.
The customer is halfway to the counter when their eyes lock, and time stops. The man’s shoulders stiffen. Heterochromatic eyes—teal and orange, fire and water, familiar as the breath in Kaveh’s mouth, as the freckle above his left knee—widen with shock and a little disbelief. His mouth drops open, slack, and Kaveh thinks, I don’t think I’ve ever seen him speechless before.
Oh, gods.
Kaveh thought he’d never see Alhaitham again.
After a year without contact, Alhaitham wanders into Kaveh's coffee shop.
Kaveh wants nothing to do with him — he already has enough problems. But Alhaitham's determined to give him just one more, and perhaps solve a few in the process.
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30 May 2026
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The Temple of Silence discovers a remarkably intact set of ruins in the desert. At the ruins' heart is an altar, and around the altar are dozens of skeletons, all intact and undisturbed. It's as if the people who died there simply fell asleep and never woke up.
While investigating the mystery, Al-Haitham falls into a slumber from which he cannot be woken. It becomes clear that without intervention, whatever killed the people in the temple is going to kill him, too. With the combined assistance of Lord Kusanali and a mysterious Ratnik, Kaveh plunges into the realm between death and dreaming to bring Al-Haitham home.
Even with nothing but shattered remnants left to find, Kaveh knows the shape of Al-Haitham's soul as well as he knows his own. He'll put Al-Haitham back together piece by piece if he has to—and in the process, maybe he'll put the pieces of their relationship back together, too.
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28 Apr 2026