by a_seagulls_hubris
Rating: Mature, Multi (M/M, F/M), Complete Work
I believe that Director Hu’s decision to fire me for exactly one year has served me well. As… interesting as she can be sometimes, she is wise beyond her years. She has been kind enough to fund my travels to my old haunts, where the living still dwell alongside our ghosts.
She is right, then: we do outlive our ghosts in the end.
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Zhongli returns to Liyue Harbour with one goal in mind: to complete Guizhong's unfinished musical composition in a way that honours her memory. His goal to return to his ordinary life is interrupted, however, when he is drawn into a web of his own unresolved grief and a long-forgotten dreamscape. And at the center of the maelstrom, where the veil between dreams and the waking world weakens, a young Fatuus plays its frayed strings.
Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Tartaglia | Childe/Zhongli (Genshin Impact), Guizhong/Zhongli (Genshin Impact), Zhongli (Genshin Impact), Tartaglia | Childe (Genshin Impact), Hu Tao (Genshin Impact), Xiao | Alatus (Genshin Impact), Guizhong (Genshin Impact), POV First Person, POV Zhongli (Genshin Impact), kinda ambiguous guili but boy is she haunting him, zhongli plays the erhu, zhongli is trying his best don't worry, Dreamscape shenanigans, Body Horror, Tartaglia | Childe is a Mess (Genshin Impact), Unrequited Crush, centipede imagery, Inspired by Bloodborne (Video Game), Modern Era, Blood and Gore, no happy ending for these two, made up some lore, Cannibalism, Mental Health Issues, Implied Sexual Content, non-sexual nudity
Homecoming (6 March 2024)
Ceaseless Watcher (6 March 2024)
Romanticism (7 March 2024)
Misdirection (10 March 2024)
Courage (12 March 2024)
Rift (23 March 2024)
Familiarity (28 March 2024)
what's some deception between friends? (6 April 2024)
the colour of the ocean (10 April 2024)
now and then (10 April 2024)
to bite at the hand that feeds (12 April 2024)
Call of the Hunt (22 April 2024)
Past and Future (27 April 2024)
what one deserves (3 May 2024)
Equivalent Exchange (12 May 2024)
Return (22 May 2024)
everfrost (27 May 2024)
Feast (4 June 2024)
Damnatio Memoriae (8 June 2024)
gluttony (13 June 2024)
sin-eater (17 June 2024)
Epilogue (17 June 2024)