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chains around my demons, wool to brave the seasons by clouds_hide
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
14 Feb 2025
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Bronco’s house is only five minutes away by bike, but with the biting wind in his face, it takes more like ten, and his hands feel like they’re about to fall off. Simeon really hates winter. The wind chill is unpleasant, but what he dislikes the most is the grey: dirty slush on the roads, bare trees, cloudy skies. He can’t fathom what people mean when they say they only see in black and white—he doesn’t even remember a time before there was color—but on days like these, he thinks he gets close to understanding.
Simeon Saint has always seen the world in a splendid wash of color, so when the ability is suddenly torn from him, he must learn to appreciate what he’s taken for granted.
Written for Manosouta Week 2025, Day 7: Soulmates AU
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we were in screaming color by clouds_hide for eraiklys
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
17 Sep 2024
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Their usual study sessions were now worthless to him. As Kaveh chewed on his pencil, deep in thought, Alhaitham would be fixated on the shape of his lips and how pretty they would look, bitten red and moaning his name. If he stretched while yawning and accidentally revealed a peek of midriff, Alhaitham would be overcome with the urge to kiss him there until he begged for mercy.
Alhaitham and Kaveh explore each other’s bodies.
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- Part 2 of two paper airplanes flying
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there’s just one who could make me stay (all my days) by clouds_hide for LynnDoesStuff
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
17 Sep 2024
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It isn’t Alhaitham lying in that bed.
Not with that red Akasha Terminal, glowing like Mehrak’s display on low battery.
Not with those uncanny red eyes, so sinister in their subtle wrongness.
Kaveh had told Idyia to be careful, that the red-eyed imposter could awaken at any moment and wreak havoc. But he hadn’t. He’d just lain there, barely conscious. Even as Kaveh spoon-fed him, first water and then mashed sunsettias, he couldn’t be roused.
Kaveh had thought he was going to die.
Hungover and angry, Alhaitham recklessly uses a divine knowledge capsule. A corrupted version of himself splits off and flees to search for Kaveh, who is somewhere in the desert, having run off himself. Will they reconcile like in his dreams, or are they doomed to perish in the mirage?
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“Why didn’t you come to class?” Kaveh asked accusingly.
“The first nice day after the rainy season, and you expect me to spend it inside?”
“You’re missing a very good lecture about elastic and inelastic column buckling.”
“So are you,” Alhaitham pointed out. “And don’t lie. As we speak, Professor Firnas is reading a chapter from the textbook verbatim, and everyone in that classroom is falling asleep. If I wanted to listen to someone spout outdated nonsense to me, I would ask the Akasha to read Sage Khajeh’s dissertation aloud while I do something much more valuable, like enjoying the scent of the season’s first padisarah bloom on the breeze, or appreciating the view.” He looked pointedly at Kaveh, who pointedly ignored him.
Two students fall in love and skip class. Not necessarily in that order.
With accompanying art for Chapters, a Haikaveh zine!
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born to be suburban legends by clouds_hide for Pimathy_pim
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
02 May 2024
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“I was offered a position at the Akademiya.”
You already know—you approved the offer letter. “Lecturer?”
“No, professor. Somehow they’re starting me at associate. I don’t have the experience, but…”
He doesn’t have to say it out loud. His portfolio speaks for itself. They aren’t going to make the Light of Kshahrewar jump through hoops for his own office the way they do for fresh-faced all-but-dissertation 20-somethings.
“That’s excellent. Congratulations. You’re going to be exactly what Kshahrewar needs right now.”
Kaveh doesn’t accept the praise. “There’s a woman in Spantamad who’s starting her sabbatical soon,” he says instead of thank you.
This, too, you already knew. You stamped Zinat’s leave form; she told you she was going to Inazuma to study some kind of dangerous contamination on one of the islands. But what does Kaveh have to do with her?
“I’ve arranged to rent from her.”
Now this—this takes you by surprise. “Oh” is all you manage to say.
If you love him, let him go. If he comes back to you, he’ll be yours forever.
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you can hear it in the silence by clouds_hide for raine_write
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
01 Jan 2024
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Doctor Zakariya, with all his knowledge of medicine modern and ancient, won’t be able to help him. But he’ll cross that bridge when he gets to it. Alhaitham shuffles his weight from foot to foot and stands there expectantly.
You’re dismissed. Kaveh sticks his tongue out as he turns the chalkboard so Alhaitham can read it. Alhaitham sighs at him and leaves.
Kaveh loses his voice as the result of an impulse purchase and realizes just how much Alhaitham has been listening.
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when the sun came up, you were looking at me by clouds_hide
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
31 Oct 2023
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As he stood to leave, he looked up and caught the eye of a handsome boy with long, blonde, pinned-up hair with a group of people. They were loitering outside the library, laughing about something he couldn’t hear. Despite the balmy summer air, Alhaitham shivered under his gaze. It felt like he was looking into Alhaitham’s soul with his piercing eyes, red and shiny like rubies. But then, the line of his mouth curved up into a smile, his eyes crinkling in a friendly way, and he waved at Alhaitham. Alhaitham didn’t know what possessed him to wave back, but he did. He stared, transfixed, until one of the boy’s friends said something to him that made him laugh, and he looked away.
On an ordinary college campus, an extraordinary love story blooms.
(Featuring art by @hijackdaw!)
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- Part 1 of two paper airplanes flying
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sugarcane in the easy morning by clouds_hide for Cavalierious
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
17 Sep 2023
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Alhaitham kneels before him.
“You get more beautiful every day,” he says.
“I heard that line yesterday,” Kaveh teases.
“It was true yesterday, too,” he responds, completing their well-practiced back-and-forth.
A sad aspect of aging takes Kaveh by surprise, but his husband of many decades is there to comfort him, and always will be.
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summer went away (still the yearning stays) by clouds_hide for writingrosez
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
10 Aug 2023
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“Tell me what’s on your mind,” Alhaitham prompts.
He doesn’t want to. He would rather eat his own hand than give Alhaitham more ammunition against him, but what choice does he have? Racking his brain for solutions has turned up nothing. If he doesn’t ask for help, Ebeid and Hilmi and the others will never get their library. His dignity is a small sacrifice to make for their education.
“If I tell you, you have to promise not to ask any follow-up questions.”
“That seems quite impossible. When it comes to you, I always have to clarify.”
Kaveh ignores the slight and lowers his voice. “I need to borrow some mora.”
Kaveh runs into trouble when he agrees to help build the library he designed for Aaru Village. If he and Alhaitham can fix the problem, perhaps they can mend their relationship in the process.
(Featuring art by @mechanicaltrees and @PossiblyCats!)
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now that you’re close, I feel like coming undone by clouds_hide
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
09 Jul 2023
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Kaveh isn’t sure what to think of his roommate these days. It was simpler when he had just moved in, when he could resent Alhaitham and hiss at him and argue with him freely. He would spend his days cursing him out, and atone at night by preparing their meals and cleaning the house. Their relationship was still complicated, to be sure, and it probably always would be, but there was a certain simplicity back when Kaveh only had room in his heart for bitterness and hostility.
Kaveh goes into heat around Alhaitham for the first time since they fell out.
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