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    Kaeya tried to think back.

    Hadn't Mondstadt... been a snowy hellscape once? Back around the time of the... Archon... War...

    He stopped dead in his tracks.

    There's... no way, right?

    This kind of thing didn't actually happen... right?

    Fuck.
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    Or, Kaeya finds himself in old Mondstadt on the day that Venti becomes Barbatos, and has to rely on his help to try and get home. But Venti just lost his friends... will he be willing to let a new one go?

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    12 Jun 2026

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    So unique and cool :D

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    A small indulgence now and again never hurt anyone, Zhongli maintains. Though in retrospect, perhaps he had allowed himself a few too many of them. It's regrettable that he had only realized his error when it had come knocking at his door, presenting him with an expense record that would make anyone quail — even the God of Wealth himself.

    “Your expense record this year is nearly ten times your yearly income,” the civil servant tells him. “Could you declare the source of funds for your purchases?”

    After minting a small fortune for the purchase of antiques, Zhongli gets slapped with tax fraud charges that, due to a poor cover up attempt by an ever helpful Childe, blows up into accusations of money laundering for the Fatui. Yanfei and the adepti are pulled in and court shenanigans ensue.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    Based

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    "Mr. Zhongli," Chef Mao says suddenly, "is a little strange, don't you think?"

    Surprised by the sudden and completely unsolicited comment, Xiangling looks up from her wok, tracing her father's eye to said Mr. Zhongli, leaning over an antique vase at one of the roadside stores. In her time at Wanmin Restaurant, however, she has certainly seen her fair share of strange customers, so after a moment, she just turns back to her frying, flipping the xianbing in the wok over one by one.

    "Why do you say that?" she asks, reaching across the counter for the cooking oil.

    "Dearest daughter," Chef Mao says then, "he is lecturing the seller on the origins of his own vase."

    Liyue Harbor is hive full of incorrigible gossips. Xiangling navigates the rumor mill, goes ingredient hunting with Zhongli, and in the process, finds out that Zhongli is very, very bad at pretending to be human.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    Cuuute :0

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    In the quiet devastation following the 6.6 catastrophe—Irminsul burned, Dottore erased from the world— Pantalone, stands alone among the remnants of his husband's laboratory. He uncovers a hidden journal, penned in Zandik's true hand, that confesses a long-held love and a secret experiment: the creation of a child born of their combined flesh, a whispered wish Pantalone drunkenly voiced decades ago and then forgot. But the journal's final, sterile entry is a death certificate: "Subject Lohen deemed unviable. Disposal in the snow. No survivor." Pantalone buries the grief of a son he never knew and accepts a Fatui mission to Mondstadt as a distraction.

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    10 Jun 2026

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    Peak

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    "Bad. Stupid, very stupid." Grace can still hear Rocky's automated laptop-voice through the closed airlock door. "If Grace body poisoned by 'foreign contaminant', Grace die, contaminate spread and Rocky die—"

    There's more blood smudged on the floors, the walls, leading up, up...Oh. There's a handprint. A handprint of blood. There's no way that could have happened without Grace realizing.

    Rocky's still rambling on in the background: "—Adrian die, Stars-Erid-Earth die, all die because Grace is stupid."

    Grace can hardly believe the conclusion he's about to draw. "I think someone's on the ship."

    "Repeat words. I was narrating Grace-Rocky future."

    "Rock, someone's on the ship."

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    An AU where Project Hail Mary and the Quiet Rapture both happen in the same universe, but at different times.

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    29 May 2026