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Kaveh paused. The soft, calming voice coming through the speakers drifted into his ears like a soothing ripple of nostalgia that simultaneously brought him relief and alarmed shock. It was familiar with its gentle, low cadence, and seemed to plunge him into a well of memories he had managed to avoid falling into for longer than he could count.
Or: five years after their breakup, Kaveh finds out that Alhaitham is working as a radio host, and starts listening.
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19 Jul 2026
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“Just because the dormice you gifted me for dinner last night were unexpectedly delicious”—Kaveh caws on, still aggrieved—“it doesn’t mean I'd settle for any plain and ugly stick for the nest! This is why I say you have no appreciation for beauty, Haitham!”
Kaveh’s fastidiousness over the aesthetics of their nest never ceases to puzzle Al-Haitham. What does he mean these aren’t good sticks? Al-Haitham plucked them earlier from a large adhigama tree similar to their own, complete with sprightly leaves, blooming buds, and a bright sheen to its bark—all signs of the tree’s good health.
“Weren’t you the one who once said that functional quality and safety are equally as important as aesthetics?” Al-Haitham retorts with a low ee-chup. “These ugly but sturdy sticks are perfectly serviceable for a durable nest foundation.”
Kaveh and Al-Haitham made for an extremely odd pair in Avidya Forest. After all, whoever heard of a peregrine falcon and a bird-of-paradise sharing a nest together?
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09 Jul 2026
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“Do you think we can save it?” Al-Haitham asks, none the wiser. “It’s just the roof that’s gone. I would trust you to make the arrangements, senior, if I weren’t so worried you’d bankrupt me.”
Kaveh does not take the bait, does not bite back at all. Instead, he holds a hand up to an ash-covered wall. His fingers come back stained.
He wants to say yes. There’s nothing Kaveh wants more than to close his eyes to block out the burnt, blackened view of the house destined to fall. He could imagine it exactly as he left it then: sunlight streaming through the beautifully stained windows. Al-Haitham on the divan, a Kaveh-shaped spot beside him. Not that it would work, even if Kaveh never opened his eyes again. Gods, Kaveh tries, squeezing his eyes shut when the sight becomes unbearable. But the burnt smell permeates the air, inescapable, as the heavy feeling of soot clouds his lungs.
The house is unlivable.After the burning of irminsul, Al-Haitham and Kaveh find their house unliveable. Kaveh is totally normal about this. Totally.
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14 Jun 2026
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If Kaveh told anyone that his current best friend was a crow, they would call him insane.
Especially as a single man living alone, with barely enough time to do anything fun with his actual human friends outside of overworking himself on commissions, stressing over clients, and crying himself to sleep over the occasional glass of wine.
Kaveh gets courted by a crow and unknowingly finds himself a husband.
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11 Jun 2026
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Help! I Time-Traveled and Saw My Future Self Making Love with My Ex-Best Friend. What Do I Do? by trufflelatte
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
19 May 2026
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Wow. What an eyeful.
Two people are on the bed, having passionate sex, if the marks and moans are anything to go by. Heat rushes to his face, and he lets out an embarrassing squeak at the shock.
Both men turn to look at him, but the blond one catches his eye first. Kaveh doesn’t like looking at his reflection, but he’d be damned if he didn’t recognize himself. Thankfully, the sheets pool around the other Kaveh’s hips, so can’t see where his body connects with his partner.
At this moment, Kaveh realizes. If he’s here with his older self, then that must mean…
Oh archons.
After Kaveh and Alhaitham fight and fall out of each other’s lives, they find themselves in a strangely familiar house.
If only they knew what was waiting for them behind that bedroom door.
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19 May 2026
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What We Never Said (but eventually did) by Anonymous
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
10 Apr 2026
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Under Azar's Akademiya, loving the wrong person meant learning to stay silent.
Kaveh mastered it: stolen moments, hidden glances, a roommate who shared his bed and never heard the words Kaveh was too afraid to say.
Then the sky split open, and Alhaitham vanished into the chaos.
Now, with the Abyss tearing through Sumeru, Kaveh is forced to relive every moment he stayed quiet: the first kiss, the brutal fallout, the night Alhaitham found him broken and offered him a home,...
Kaveh has waited years to speak. And now, he won't let anyone take that opportunity from him.
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10 Apr 2026
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For better or worse, Alhaitham wasn’t left alone with his thoughts for long.
The bright green glow on the wall would’ve tipped off even an amateur. If not that, then the not-so-quiet “Fuck” Kaveh let out after slamming his foot into the wall.
If he didn’t already understand how these dreams worked, he would’ve been worried for Kaveh’s safety.
Lucky for him, this wasn’t real. Kaveh would stay alive as long as Alhaitham remembered that.
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or: alhaitham gets stuck in a dream loop that depends on him believing the dreams are real, or "kaveh" dies.
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24 Feb 2026
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My (30M) roommate (28M) thinks we're in a relationship and I’m too awkward to tell him the truth??
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28 Jan 2026
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Well, to be honest, Kaveh didn’t mean to stare.
But there’s something dangerously attractive about the man who takes care of everything.
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20 Jan 2026
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"I don't know what I'd do without you..." He said before he could stop himself.
Alhaitham doesn't tease him. Instead, his arm tightened around him. "You don't have to find out."Bookmarked by Metatomatoes
17 Jan 2026
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He's Half Crazy (But That's Why You Wanna Be There) by Denjimeow
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
07 Jan 2026
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“Oh, he’ll know I told you.” Alhaitham notes, still deadpan.
“He…will? Even if we don’t say anything?” Cyno raises an eyebrow.
“Yeah.”
“How?” Tighnari exclaims.
“Not sure. He’ll probably cite my blinking as the giveaway–that’s what he usually does.”
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In which Kaveh and Alhaitham function with an almost psychic understanding of each other and their friends suffer as outside observers.
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08 Jan 2026
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Alhaitham doesn't believe in anything he can't measure, empirically. When he gets promoted to Director, a role that has him looking over unexplained cases, disappearances, strange sightings—events that don’t fit in any other body of government—his urge to dismiss the occult, the mysticism, and the strange is strong… but when his ex-boyfriend, Kaveh, gets involved in the mystery, Alhaitham chooses to follow the red string until he finds the evidence of what is actually going on…
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02 Jan 2026
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After a particularly hard day at the office, Alhaitham heads to the local bar for a quick drink. There he meets a gorgeous man who he instantly hits it off with and decides to sleep with. Little does he know that this man he’s decided to bed is going to show up in his life again in the most unexpected way… as the expert witness he’s hired for his current case.
In which Alhaitham is a lawyer, Kaveh is an expert architect and the two have to keep their relationship a secret from the adversaries or they could lose the case.
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23 Dec 2025
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Between the Lines, Behind your Back by scarababy02
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
17 Dec 2025
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Years ago, Kaveh tore their joint research paper conclusion page in half, walked out of the office, and told Alhaitham to live his life his way.
Alhaitham listened—on the surface.
Underneath, he kept the torn pages in a drawer and spent the next few years watching from the margins: sitting in the back row of Kaveh’s lectures, nudging audits in the Bazaar, turning monsters away from a desert camp, rearranging variables so the world would hurt him a little less.
When rain and debt and bad timing finally push them back under the same roof, Kaveh discovers what’s been living between the lines of Alhaitham’s life this whole time: a vow he never said out loud, and doesn’t quite know how to return.
Or, Alhaitham spends years yearning for and protecting Kaveh in ways Kaveh was never meant to notice.
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17 Dec 2025
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Kaveh comes home drunk (allegedly) and takes a seat in Alhaitham's lap, much like he had before they started dating.
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09 Dec 2025
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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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30 Nov 2025
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Are you gloating? Are you trying to get me to leave? Kaveh wanted to ask. Do you even care?
But that was the whole point, wasn’t it? That Al-Haitham did care. That was why he found out what he did about Sachin and Kaveh’s father, and it was Kaveh who had to come to terms with the fact that he’d been wrong.
Do you regret staying with me?
Kaveh swallowed. “Even…even that. I do not regret it.”
tfw when your ex-best friend turned terrible roommate never actually saw you as his ex-best friend
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26 Oct 2025
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Kaveh finds a ghost haunting the property he's set to renovate. He needs it to move on – but the ghost, it seems, has other ideas.
"You're not real."
"Your point?"
"You're not real," Kaveh says slowly, "so you can't hurt me."
The ghost stares at him, eyes unblinking.
"I am not real," the ghost acquiesces, "but I most certainly can hurt you."
A HaiKaveh story.
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25 Oct 2025
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Nobody can live in two worlds.
In the mishmash city streets of early 2000s, Alhaitham reconnects with Kaveh after a year or two apart. Kaveh works in his small publication house, making community zines and trying to spread hope, build connection – build a community. It's the first breath of fresh air Alhaitham has had in a long time. But Alhaitham knows nobody can live in two worlds...
... And he may have to destroy Kaveh's dream to achieve his own.
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20 Oct 2025
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Kaveh hates Alhaitham. He's rude, cold, and clearly hates Kaveh just as much. But then why does Alhaitham cook him breakfast sometimes, and check in on him, and buy him gifts?
Kaveh realizes he's in love with Alhaitham, and then he starts coughing up flowers.
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18 Oct 2025