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eternallysarcastic · 3 years

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winter moon/ch.2

Hello! I’m back with a new chapter. Thank you for the positive feedback, I really appreciate it! It makes me wanna write even more

Also if anyone is interested I also post on ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28999362/chapters/71169963

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Chapter 2

“He will be able to help you more than I could in my current state,” Zhongli had said before he left, telling you to simply meet him in 3 days time near Mountain Hulao.

You had filled both him and Xiao in on your reason for coming to Liyue. The Yaksha had paid close attention to what you were saying but in the end none of you had any idea where to even begin. And here you were, 3 days later. No one had shown up yet so you wandered around the river area. You hadn’t seen Liyue in such a long time. For the past 2000 years you had been wandering around Teyvat, no particular goal in mind except finding her.

It’s been 3000 years since you last saw her. You weren’t even sure if she was alive until her constellation had shown in the sky, as bright as ever. You had felt such relief you cried the whole night.

Despite that, millenia passed and you still hadn’t found her. With your weak powers all you could do is wait for the centuries to pass before her constellation was supposed to make another round and show up in the night sky. Last time that happened was 14 days ago and the stars had pointed you here in Liyue. You promised yourself this time you’d find her.

You rounded the corner of a tight passage between two stone walls under mountain Hulao and was met with a giant tree, one branch of it had seemed to have turned into ice, bright glowing flowers grew near its roots. It was beautiful in its own tragic way. You saw how the ice weighed down one side of it and no leaves grew on it. An itch spread across your chest the more you looked at it.

As if in a trance you walked closer to it, the closer you were the more that itch became an ache. You didn’t blink, didn't breathe, just walked closer and closer. You felt past echoes of screams that sounded too familiar to your own, an ancient power you hadn’t felt in millennia came in waves through the tree.

All of a sudden an agonising pain overtook your whole body. You clutched your chest in pain, your breathing laboured and your eyes wanted to squeeze shut from the pain but you simply couldn’t tear them off the tree. Your body was used to pain, having endured millenia of it. But this pain was so different than any sword or arrow could cause.

It started from the deepest depths of your heart, traveled along every nerve of your body and made your eyes burn with hot tears. The screams were louder, there was blood on the trunk of the tree, there were arrows blasing by your head, blood on your hands. What was happening? Why did it hurt so much? Someone make the screams stop, someon-

A hand landed on your shoulder to keep you steady. You hadn’t noticed you were on your knees, trembling hands clutching your heart.

“Are you okay? What happened?” You realised the person who had showed up was Xiao.

You opened your mouth to answer but your throat was constricted. It seemed as if Xiao didn’t even need an answer, seeing you stare so intently at the half frozen tree.

Wordlessly he slid an arm around your waist and hoisted you up, helping you walk back through the narrow path between the mountains and setting you down under the shadow of a nearby tree. You breathed deeply, now that tree was out of sight the ache in your chest seemed to wither. You realised Xiao was sitting across from you, hands in the air as if he wasn’t sure on what to do next, his amber eyes glowed with an emotion you didn't recognise. Was it concern? You tried to lighten the mood a bit as you took another deep breath and released it as a soft laugh.

“I’m sorry. I don't know what happened back there. I apologise if I startled you.” You brushed your tears away with the sleeve of your shirt.

Your words seemed to calm him down as the peculiar emotion left his face and he put his hands back down. You didn’t know what to say. How do you explain yourself when you weren't sure what happened in the first place.

Why did seeing the half frozen tree suddenly trigger such a reaction from you? It felt like a phantom wound had reopened in your chest, a long forgotten agony, swept in the deepest part of your mind.

But why? This is the first time you’re seeing this particular tree, no event had taken place here that you could remember. So why?

“Stop thinking so much.” The voice beside you startled you.

“I’m sorry,” you started. “Stop apologising so much.” His eyes were fixated on you, over your body as if checking for injuries, for discomfort. He hesitated for a second before he looked away and said, “Are you okay?”

“Ah, there’s no need to worry. Pain doesn’t phase me much.” You missed the way his body tensed at your words. “I’m just… confused.”

Xiao had only hummed as a reply.

“Were there ever any major battles that have taken place here?” You settled on asking.

“Liyue is an old place. There have been numerous battles that have taken place and will continue to take place. As a celestial god you should already know that.”

You simply nodded, not replying. Perhaps you had felt the emotions of someone or something during a battle that had happened around the tree. Maybe it had absorbed the intensity of it and sealed it in its core. The previous Moon Gods have had quite high sensitivity to spirits and spiritual signs of power. Unfortunately, your own talents didn't lie there, you were more of a warrior but maybe it had awoken it in you?

A flicker on your forehead took you up from your deep thoughts. You looked up in confusion. Xiao had flicked his fingers against your forehead.

“I said stop thinking so much. This tree has a lot of history to it. Aren't you celestial beings attuned to underlying powers?”

You realised he was trying to calm your fast breathing. It seemed so uncharacteristic of him.

“Yes, that’s true. However, it just seemed as if-” as if you were there when whatever happened took place. You shook your head to clear it of such thoughts. If you were there why didn't you remember? You were an old god, old gods had good memory. Zhongli was proof of that. You wouldn't forget something so major.

You sat in silence for a while as you took slow, deep breaths until you spoke again. Something clicked in your brain all of a sudden. “You were there that night weren't you?”

He didn't bother turning to you and just hummed. You turned to him instead. He was laying against the tree, eyes closed and arms crossed. He looked peaceful and the more you looked at his closed eyes the more the ache in your heart seemed to slowly return.

You turned your eyes away. “Why were you so irritated? I could feel it from miles away.”

“You were too loud,” he simply replied.

“What?” You were sure you hadn't uttered a word that night.

“Your prayers. They were too loud,” he added, noticing your confused expression.

“Oh.” He could hear you? Someone actually heard your prayers?

“Why are you staring at me like that?” His eyebrows creased, the more you looked at him. Why did you have that look in your eyes? Why did your eyes sparkle as if he’d done something no god has ever done.

“You listened.” That’s all you said but you didn't need to say more. The crease in his brow relaxed and that same unrecognisable emotion that he had whenever he looked at you showed up again. You wanted to figure out what it was.

Xiao seemed to act differently towards you, his actions screamed familiarity, as if he’d done this before. You wondered if perhaps you had met at some point of your travels. You reminisced of all the remarkable people you had met so far in your thousands years of life. Yet none of them were anyone resembling Xiao. You’d remember him if you’d ever met him.

Then again, you hadn't visited Liyue in 2000 years and from what Zhongli had told you, the yaksha had kept to his duties for just as long.

You opened your mouth to ask him -

“I apologise for my lateness.” Zhongli had appeared behind you with a tall ginger man in tow.

“Why is he here?” Xiao growled in annoyance as he got up from his place under the tree.

“Oh? Does it bother you that I'm here? Guess I'm gonna have a better time than I thought,” he chuckled lowly. Xiao seemed to want to pounce on him the moment he set his eyes on you, a glint forming in his eyes and mouth turning up into a smirk. “And who do we have here? What is such a pretty lady doing with a short adeptus and an Archon without a gnosis?” He took a step closer to you.

“Oh, I’m-” Before you could introduce yourself, Xiao had stepped in front of you, stopping the taller man in his tracks.

“She’s no one you have to concern yourself with.” Xiao almost growled the words out. You caught Zhongli’s eyes behind the ginger and he shook his head subtly. He didn't want this stranger knowing who you are.

“Hm. Well, I’m Childe but you can call me Tartaglia, pretty lady,” he winked at you.

“Rex Lapis, may I ask once again what is he doing here? I don’t remember you telling me he’s joining.” Xiao asked, still standing in front of you.

“It wasn’t exactly my wish either, but he overheard me telling Hu Tao I’m taking an indefinite leave and decided to follow me.” Zhongli sighed out, a hand on his forehead. “However, he can be useful. The lands beyond my adepti’s protection are dangerous. I don't have my full power back and Xiao’s collateral damage may show detrimental and attract unwanted attention.” Xiao huffed at that and turned his head away with a ‘tsk’. Zhongli was right.

“And what about you? Do you possess a vision?” Childe walked around Xiao in his state of distraction.

“Hm? Oh… uhm…” What were you supposed to say? You had to hide who you were from this strange man.

“She’s electro, now move.” Xiao had put a hand Childe’s chest to push him away from you again.

You didn't understand why Xiao’s was suddenly acting this way. Nor why he was protecting you so vehemently but you knew there was something he knew that you didn't. It was surely connected to that unnamable look in his eyes that he had only when he looked at you.

Zhongli spoke up in the middle of the tension. “I’m sorry for interrupting your chatter-” Xiao ‘tsk’ed again at the wording, “- but we must start moving if we want to reach our destination before the sun sets.”

And so you had walked half a day before the sun had started to set and Zhongli led you to a cave in the mountains, saying the group should rest here for the night.

You started a fire while Zhongli took out some food from a bag he carried.

“Since there is a human in our group, I have taken some rations for along the way,” he said but from the looks of the food in his hands, it just seemed like dishes from a restaurant.

“So, ojou-chan,” Childe took to calling you that at some point on your way, “Zhongli wasn't exactly clear as to why we’re going on this journey.”

“I’m looking for someone,” you replied. Zhongli took out a whole tea cup set and had started brewing a little bit of water over the fire.

“And who exactly is this someone?” Childe asked with a curious glint in his eyes.

You weren't sure if you could share with him so you looked over at Zhongli and then at Xiao, asking silently for approval. Zhongli didn't seem to be paying attention as he was too busy pouring tea in 4 small cups, but Xiao was intently staring at you and Childe over the small fire pit. As soon as you looked at him in question, he seemed to contemplate the answer in his head before he slowly nodded, eyes completely focused on Childe as you turned to him.

“I’m looking for a yaksha.”

“But you have one here?” He asked, his head turning to you in curiosity.

“There is another yaksha, a female. She’s…” you weren't sure how to continue without giving away what you weren't supposed to. “She’s a friend of mine that I lost a long time ago. Her tracks led me here in Liyue so that’s why I came and asked help from Zhongli.”

“And how do you know Zhongli?” He really was relentless, picking apart every sentence. Now you understood why Zhongli and Xiao didn't want you telling him exactly who you were.

You hadn't discussed this beforehand with Xiao and Zhongli so you didn't know exactly how to go about with your story. Were you going to play it off as a mortal or could you somehow weave some truth into your lie? You had to decide for yourself. You breathed out.

“I am not a mortal.” His eyes sparkled at that, a smile graced his features but it seemed dangerous in a way you couldn't describe.

“Oh? Is that so, Ojou-chan?” His voice held an interested lull to it.

“Don't get too excited. I am not an Archon. I am but a simple god with mere electro powers. If it wasn't for Zhongli who protected me during the Archon war I wouldn't have survived.” You weaved your lies easily.

The predatory look in his eyes told you enough as to why Zhongli and Xiao wanted you to hide the truth from him. He was dangerous in a sly way. He reminded you of a wolf that stalked their prey from afar, played with it to test its powers just to beat them down in an instant.

“So are you willing to help me find the yaksha?” You looked into his eyes with determined eyes.

“Very well, then. This should be exciting.” He said and drank the tea Zhongli offered him.

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tosink · 5 years

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( XIAO DEJUN. CIS MALE. ) Rumor has it that ( SHEN KEUNG ) has been spotted skulking around New York City streets recently. ( HE ) is/are a ( 19 / 22 )year old ( LYCAN. ) They have a good reputation for being ( AUTHENTIC & EMPATHETIC, ) but have also been known to be rather ( RESERVED & APPREHENSIVE. ) They’re known for being the ( RETICENT. )

howdy ~ i’m effy. i'm twenty-four, trans masc & use he / they pronouns. uhm, i don’t know sleep personally & i probably died on the titantic. it has been a While since i was in an rp so i’m Nervous but please be my friend & feel free to reach out to plot via here or discord

here’s the TL;DR stats & run down on my guy shen keung.

FULL NAME: shen keung. NICKNAME(S): kee / key, keke, ken. AGE: twenty-two years old. DOB: march 8th, 1997. SUN / MOON / RISING / MC: pisces / pisces / capricorn / scorpio CHINESE ZODIAC: ox. GENDER: cis male. PRONOUNS: he / him / his. ORIENTATION: bisexual SPECIES: lycan. HEIGHT: 5'6½ FROM: london, endland. CURRENTLY: brooklyn, new york city, new york. SPOKEN LANGUAGES: english, cantonese, mandarin, some korean. very little ( mostly literary understanding ) french & japanese. RELIGION: agnostic. EDUCATION: completed high school ; some university. PERSONALITY TYPE: INFP ( the idealist ) ALIGNMENT: neutral good. NOTABLE: occasionally wears wire-rimmed glasses, small divot in right front tooth from long standing habit of holding a pen / paint brush between his teeth

a lil s'nopsis:

he is an artist & thus nearly always covered in some kind of art material, more often than not, paint

used to work part time with his mother while attending college to earn a BFA in the literal fine arts

a year into studying he was bitten

( by a rogue or non-pack unaffiliated lycan, perhaps but who’s to say really, he doesn’t remember the who of it. this is a wanted connection ).

he very nearly didn’t survived

( in fact, technically he died for several minutes before defibrillation brought him back to life. )

he’s got some trauma surrounding the subject & likely won’t talk about it.

subsequently to the attack, he quit working as an assistant for his mother & dropped out of college to come to terms with uh being a lycan & what that meant for him

during that time, whilst on a particularly chaotic full moon bender, he had come in contact with another lycan who helped him with his control & also informed him of the History of their kind / their war / the current tentative state of peace.

( this is also a wanted connection )

generally thinks that keeping the peace would be the best option for everyone & doesn’t particularly see the point of a war

nor feel as though it is really his place to be involved considering the nature in which he was turned

the above being said he does feel a sense of loyalty to the pack for ‘ taking care of him ’

dislikes being in the lycan form to be completely honest, there’s a sense of internalized fear & uh has a bit of a monster complex about it

currently works odd hours at an art gallery to pay rent & has moved into his studio now to save money

his parents’ have quite prominent accents when they speak english, which they used to do much more when he was a child but generally speak a lazy combination of cantonese & mandarin in the house

as a result he has a mishmash of english / new york accent when he speaks english

lil more history ( feel free to skip this bit, i suppose?? it’ll all be on his blog eventually if it isn’t already )

his grandparents immigrated to London, England during the 1950′s, had a single child in the 60′s ( his mother ) who married his father, a fellow Chinese Englishman who studied law

he only lived in london for about three years so he doesn’t have much memory of that but his grandparents still live there & he used to visit every summer as a child

his parents immigrated to New York City in the late 90′s just in time for the turn of the century

his father opened a small law firm

his mother works as a tailor, as stated above, keung used to assist her

they were very close until a few years ago ( after he was turned, he kind of became estranged from them for their own safetly & generally only joins sees them once or twice a month despite them all living in the city )

he used to get bullied as a kid in school for uhm ?? everything. ya know, the early 2000′s? when racism & the word ‘gay’ was tossed around a lot without much thought or consequence

his parents are rather liberal though & were supportive when he eventually came out to them ( there was a learning curve involved but, generally supportive ) before going to college

the only thing they ever had a big disagreement on was that he chose to go to school for an unstable career in art instead of joining his father at the law firm

mostly this was an issue with his father being Openly disappointed any time the subject was broached

this also manifested as a lack of interest in his art which still upsets keung

his dropping out of school has disappointed them further & put more of a strain on their relationship

considers going back to college but the near death experience has made him rather restless & uncertain about his future / what he truly wants

pinterest board for him if anyone’s interested in that.

#underworldshqintro #me: i'm dead please like me #tumblr absolutely ate the quality of my graphic but i am too !! anything to go resize it all #racism /#homophobia /#very little mentions but ya know #please plot with me

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