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  1. Summary

    Stories about Allogenes (proto-Gods; “Genshin”s) and their Visions. Ambitions, wishes, and how Visions affect their wielders...
    and, what the Seven elements mean.

    1. Start with Seven Prayers[...], which (re)tells the Vision stories for all the characters up to version 2.4, plus a few more.
    2. Then for post-Sumeru Dendro, see Yet Still You Climb, a story about a brave little cat becoming a nekomata.
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    Any innocence I might’ve had’s been stained black—midnight black—by all the things I’ve seen.

    “Fischl’s Investigations,” I said. I took a long drag of my violet licorice, holding it between my index and middle finger. “If you need a problem solved, you’ve come to the right place.”

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    Hu Tao was merely the latest such adoptee. She came from a long line of funeral directors[...] and had become an orphan and Vision user at age eleven. Not long after, Rex Lapis—who had been helping care for her—made the critical error of seeking Cloud Retainer’s advice on dealing with children. By the end of that night, Cloud Retainer had kidnapped Hu Tao from Liyue Harbour and was teaching her the basics of Adeptal arts.

    Canon divergence AU. The various fics are self contained except where otherwise noted.

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  1. Rec 5

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    Madam Faruzan. There is something I would like to show you, if you have an afternoon free. Meet me at the east gate at second bell? I will bring snacks! — N

    Faruzan read it twice. She set it on her desk. She looked at her manuscript. She looked at the mechanism, which had, in a development she was choosing to interpret as coincidental rather than symbolic, defeated her again this morning on what she had believed was the final calibration step. She looked at the note again.

    She spent two hours not thinking about it during which she accomplished nothing useful and knocked over one of the inkwells.

    She was at the east gate at second bell.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    Faruzan looked down at the cup in her hands. “That was a hundred years ago.”

    “Yes,” Nicole gave a soft smile. “It was.”

    Which was not the same thing as saying it didn’t matter. Faruzan heard the difference very clearly. She heard it in the specific way she hears something she did not know she had been waiting to hear, which is not with surprise but with a sudden and involuntary sense of recognition, like solving the last step of a proof and finding it comes out right.

    Nicole did not try to resolve the weight of it for her, did not offer consolation in the form of reduction, the way most people did, telling her it was long ago as though that erased it, or that she had done so well as though the hundred years had been a performance requiring evaluation. Nicole just acknowledged what was true and then let it be true and sat with her in the light.

    Faruzan thought, when was the last time someone did that?

  2. Public Bookmark 3

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    Stellefly Week 2026 – Day 5: Trapped in a Room

    See title.

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  3. Public Bookmark 18

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    Finally, Chisato tosses her head back and laughs. Takina’s eyes trail the length of her exposed neck, her ears absorbing the sound of her giggles, and warmth washes over her like an ocean wave’s kiss.

    “You say the nicest things sometimes. If you’re not careful, I’m going to start thinking you secretly like me under all that,” Chisato says, a fond smile on her face.

    Takina tilts her head. A bit of condensation drips onto her feet, and she tenses momentarily. “Not possible.”

    it’s not easy loving the girl with a ticking timer over her head

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  4. Rec 15

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    There are precious few types of immortals who can play the role of a god for 500 years. So when the people of Fonatine see a woman walk unbothered from the water and reign unchanging for years they assume she is the missing Focalors.

    They are wrong.

    But the greatest actress of the Khaenirhan stage is in no mood to correct their assumptions.

    Welcome to the series where I pick a Genshin character and create an au where they are Kheanriahn.

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    28 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    “Oh, but it does,” said the real Focalors leaning forward in the mirror, “It does in the eyes of Celestia. As far as they know, you are the new human form Focalors chose to do her duties as the Hydro Archon.”

    Furina raised her chin, “And what are you going to do about it?”

    “Nothing,” said Focalors. “Nothing at all.”

  5. Rec 5

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    While going to pray for a child, a rich and noble Liyuen couple stumble upon a young Liyuen girl, intelligent and driven and possibly an adeptus, everything they need for an heir.

    Or that’s what they think.

    Keqing knows she is “Passing.” It is the only reason she is sent to Liyue, the most dangerous of the seven nations, by the Last Hope Program. But she will be safe, as long as they thinks she’s one of them.

    Welcome to the series where I pick a Genshin character and create an au where they are Kheanriahn. First up: Keqing!

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    And she was good at it. She was so good at being Liyuen. She watched everything her parents did and mimicked it: the way her father held his chopsticks (so different from the way her birth moðir had), the graceful way her mother ate (with manners so different from the Halls of Khaenriah), and the way they spoke (her Liyuen was “too formal” the children playing in the streets told her.) [...]