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“In case you've forgotten, this falls under my area of expertise.” Alhaitham starts walking into the kitchen, empty bowl in hand. “I’d worry more about whether you can meet the standard you’ve set.”
The nerve!
“You haven’t won anything yet,” Kaveh calls out.
Alhaitham turns the faucet on. “I didn’t say I did. But if that motivates you to produce a result, you’re free to interpret it that way.”
Kaveh glares at his back, crossing his arms tightly. “Oh, I’ll produce a result. Just you wait.”
It’s on, Alhaitham.
Kaveh and Alhaitham on the constraints of language.
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13 May 2026
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Though Alhaitham’s instinctive reaction was to push this inexplicably older version of Kaveh away and demand an explanation, something about the desperation in his grip held him hostage. He could feel the rapid rise and fall of Kaveh’s chest against his own, the quivers in his body from the leftover adrenaline of travelling through what had to be some sort of time portal.
He was still trying to make sense of the situation, pulse roaring in his ears, when Kaveh’s fingers began to shift, sliding down the length of his arm until he reached Alhaitham’s left hand.
Kaveh traced along the veins there, pausing - as if searching for something that wasn’t where it should be. Then his posture fell, softening with melancholy. “Oh,” he murmured, almost to himself. “I’m not back yet.”
Alhaitham stiffened. “What?”
“You’re not my Alhaitham,” Kaveh said with a quiet, somber sigh that wavered faintly at the end.
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23 Apr 2026
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Five Times Kaveh Claimed Alhaitham Had No Heart (and the One Time He Heard It Beating) by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
09 Mar 2026
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Five times Kaveh insisted Alhaitham had no heart (citing such evidence as socks, red pen crimes, debate misconduct, wine-induced philosophizing, and illegal bookshelf relocation), and the one time he was forced to admit—horrifyingly—that the man had been feeling things the entire time.
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- Part 32 of Kavetham / Haikaveh Oneshots & Twoshots
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10 Mar 2026
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what my heart used to know by Lunannex for Crocorobin
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 Dec 2023
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“Well? Are you heading out there to study ancient runes again? Candace mentioned there’s been an influx of primal constructs near Aaru Village recently, so try to come back in one piece, will you?”
“Jumping to conclusions as always.” Alhaitham rolls his eyes. “You’re not entirely wrong, actually. Are you ready to go? I went ahead and made the necessary preparations.”
Kaveh’s brain short circuits. “What?” He asks.
“I just so happened to have a couple of vacation days saved up. Fontaine has an extensive literature catalog, so I figured it wouldn’t hurt to take a trip.”
What. “I don’t— What are you talking about?”
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Or, Kaveh and Alhaitham go to Fontaine.
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06 Mar 2026
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“Apologies for asking this of you, but I need you to listen to me very closely, Amber. Can you do that?”
Amber nods diligently, leaning forward on her knees.
“I would normally do this myself, but admittedly, I am barely holding onto consciousness right now.” Kaeya groans as he props himself up on the rock, trying his best to stay upright. “I need you to stitch up my wound.”
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In which Kaeya and Amber’s mission goes wrong. Or right, depending on who you ask.
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05 Mar 2026
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“You do realize this is unnecessary, right?” Kaveh asks with a tired sigh.
From where he’s sitting across from him on the floor, Alhaitham levels him with an unimpressed look. In his hand lies Kaveh’s wrist, limp and aching as Alhaitham rubs the anti-inflammatory gel over the swollen area.
“If it bothers you so much, you’re free to leave,” he says.
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In which Alhaitham gives Kaveh a hand massage.
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05 Mar 2026
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27 Feb 2026
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A Treatise on Epidermal Irregularities (or, How to Fall in Love with a Freckle) by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Feb 2026
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“Why are you looking at me like that?” Kaveh mumbles, without opening his eyes. He’s been reading, too—or pretending to, which is more likely, because the upside-down architectural plans on the table have not moved in half an hour, and his pencil is behind his ear instead of in his hand.
“I’m not,” Alhaitham says, too fast. Which is absurd. Of course he is. The entire point of his visual cortex is to perceive the world around him, and unfortunately, the world currently includes Kaveh. Shirtless. Glowing. Freckled.
“You’re making that face again,” Kaveh says, one eye cracking open, voice annoyingly smug for someone still half-asleep. “The one where you’re trying to suppress an emotion and failing.”
“I don’t suppress emotions,” Alhaitham replies. “I manage them. Responsibly.”
Kaveh snorts. “Oh, is that what the internal aneurysm looks like? Good to know.”
In which Kaveh weaponizes freckles and Alhaitham forgets the scientific method.
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- Part 31 of Kavetham / Haikaveh Oneshots & Twoshots
- Part 24 of A Treatise on Intellectual Dumbasses and Their Incomprehensible Love
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09 Feb 2026
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After a fight, Alhaitham has a nightmare where he loses Kaveh entirely. Waking brings no relief - only a fear he can't shake, pushing him toward Kaveh's door while praying he hasn't already gone too far.
Instantly withdrawn, Kaveh rose to his feet, silently gathered his blueprints, and turned his back. Dragging a hand over his face, Alhaitham reached for the gentler words he should’ve used in the first place to try and undo the damage - but Kaveh cut him off with a quiet 'leave me alone' and retreated into his bedroom without a backward glance.
It hadn’t even been an insult, but it was somehow all the more piercing for its bare simplicity. In one solitary sentence, Alhaitham heard the echo of every fear he carried about himself - incapable of the softness required to hold something as bright as Kaveh’s trust without breaking it into pieces.
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29 Nov 2025
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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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15 Nov 2025
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“It reminds me of you,” Al-Haitham says, slow and pondering as it is certain, and Kaveh almost topples over right then and there when he realizes that it had only taken work and meal times and sleep to tear Al-Haitham out of this room where he’s perpetually surrounded by the sweetened remembrance of Kaveh built up around him. It’s perhaps one of the most romantic things he could have said at the moment in that understated and yet viciously evident way of his.
God, Kaveh wants to say. Don’t remind me of how much I love you, Al-Haitham.
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15 Nov 2025
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Five times a briefcase cockblocks Alhaitham and one time she doesn’t. Sort of.
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26 Oct 2025
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The first Guide that is brought forward is a mess. Al-Haitham keeps his head down as the exchange commences, and once she is let go, Kaveh himself stands up and makes his way down off his throne. Then he looks at Al-Haitham and asks him to touch his hand.
It takes approximately half a second for Al-Haitham to know that he is doomed for life.
Al-Haitham enters a marriage of convenience with Kaveh, the new king of Sumeru.
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23 Oct 2025
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Deepwater Bloom (and how to fall into it) by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
24 Mar 2025
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“Then let me be insufferable.” His fingers brush against Kaveh’s jaw, tilting it slightly. “Let me love you the way I do.”
Kaveh inhales, pulse skipping. “And how do you love me?”
Alhaitham’s lips twitch, his grip tightening just enough to make Kaveh feel caged, caught—his.
“Without hesitation.”
And then—without hesitation—he kisses him again, deep and slow and devouring.
And Kaveh—who has spent his whole life drowning—lets himself be pulled under yet again.
Or, like a deepwater bloom, something unspoken finally begins to unfold between them.
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- Part 4 of Kavetham / Haikaveh Oneshots & Twoshots
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20 Oct 2025
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“Ah.” Kaveh glows with Dendro, reacting instinctively, but before Al-Haitham can reach him, and before he can do anything, there is a sickening lurch in the space around them—it sends them both stumbling, and Kaveh loses his grip on the doorframe—
—and Kaveh falls outside, tumbling into the shapeless nothing, eyes wide as the darkness swallows him whole—
—And Al-Haitham wakes up from a fitful sleep, and knows that something is wrong.
Or: Al-Haitham and Kaveh are trapped in a time loop.
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16 Oct 2025
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Thesis on a Man Who Would Not Be Studied (or, No Theory Prepares You for Someone Staying) by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
06 Oct 2025
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Or, knowing is not the same as being known.
a character study of Alhaitham
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- Part 106 of Character Studies
- Part 6 of Genshin Impact Character Studies
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07 Oct 2025
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After what felt like hours, Nahida lowers herself gently back onto the floor, breaking her hand formation. She holds her pointer finger to her mouth. She appears deep in thought, contemplating on what to say. Then, she turns to Al-Haitham, her eyes unwavering.
Al-Haitham stares back. Nahida was one of the two people he could not read consistently.
Finally, she says, her words hanging in the air with an ominous weight, “He is dreaming. And he is falling deeper and deeper.
or, where Al-Haitham delves through his and Kaveh's dreams and memories to bring him home again.
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10 Aug 2025
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“... Only if you want to.”
… Unfortunately for Al-Haitham, Kaveh’s face twisted into a pout is more persuasive than it really should be.
“Fine. But if you don’t remember in the morning, you aren’t allowed to start an argument.”
“How could I start an argument about something I’d forgotten?”
“You would find a way,” Al-Haitham replies, and Kaveh just huffs, crosses his arms, and shuts up. “Tell me what to write in this letter, then.”
(or: a Sumeran botany guide, chapters Padisarah and Mourning Flower.)
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27 Jul 2025
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With Great Power Comes a Terrible Rent Split by dtnvrr4
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
27 May 2025
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Alhaitham is just trying to survive his final year of university while juggling his secret identity as Spider-Man without jeopardizing his academic standing or dying. Simple goals. Unfortunately, his biggest obstacle isn’t a supervillain—it’s his endearingly overdramatic roommate.
Who won’t stop asking Alhaitham why he keeps coming home bruised.
And won't stop yelling at Spider-Man to understand basic architectural integrity when slamming bad guys into buildings.
(Or: Spider-Man!Alhaitham and Gwen Stacy!Kaveh)
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- Part 1 of The (Not So) Greater Good
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25 Jul 2025
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A Treatise on Emotional Inefficiency in Cohabitation (or, How to Mislabel Feelings and End Up in Love Anyway) by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
22 Jul 2025
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"You’re angry,” he observed flatly, as if remarking on weather patterns. “Again.”
“I’m creating,” Kaveh snapped. He wasn’t wearing a shirt again, which was likely a war crime, considering how the morning light haloed around his hair like some divine architect who hadn’t finished ascending. “Unlike some of us, I use the emotional spectrum for art.”
“You’re making eggs.”
“They’re symbolic eggs.”
“Of what? Overcooked disappointment?”
“Of repressed homosexual yearning, you cardboard-cutout of a man!”
There was a moment of silence as Alhaitham stared at the flaming skillet and the person having a minor identity crisis next to it.
He moved to the cabinet wordlessly, retrieved a cup, poured tea with all the patience of a man listening to his own execution playlist.
“…Is this about last night?” he asked at last.
Or, the homoerotic epic of two men and one unkissed moment suspended in emotional repression.
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- Part 16 of Kavetham / Haikaveh Oneshots & Twoshots
- Part 12 of A Treatise on Intellectual Dumbasses and Their Incomprehensible Love
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21 Jul 2025