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It starts as a pinky promise when they’re eight. Something Alhaitham sincerely doubts Kaveh remembers at all.
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25 May 2026
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“Will you allow me to ask you something selfish?” he asks quietly. “Don’t marry her.”
Kaveh sucks in a deep breath. “You don’t understand, Al-Haitham, I—”
“Marry me instead,” Al-Haitham says.
In which Al-Haitham is the rich and polished bachelor of the town, Kaveh is an architect down on his luck, and all Al-Haitham wants is to make Kaveh his friend.
Really.
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15 May 2026
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A Language meant for Two by Intensely_Reading for moepuff
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
28 Dec 2023
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“You have trouble saying, ‘I love you,’” Al-Haitham states. “So, I’ve come up with a solution.”
“What’s your solution then?”
“We create a gesture to mean love."
Al-Haitham taps the small of Kaveh’s back three times. Tap, tap, tap.
I love you.
(A translation in love.)
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10 May 2026
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a stained-glass variation of the truth by apricitous
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
09 Jan 2023
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“I’m going now,” Kaveh murmurs. He moves closer to his roommate—hair brushing cheek, fingertips grazing shoulder—and his lips pull into something of a smile. “Good night.”
Alhaitham watches him collect his keys from the bowl and disappear into the doorway, red cape plumed against the dusk. He frowns. Something about Kaveh has unsettled him today.
A Kaveh with his edges blunted, without a retort at the tip of his tongue? No. He’s seen that before, time and time again. He’s known that version of him for years: Kaveh at midnight in the library, eyelids heavy with sleep. Kaveh in letters, over all the mundane things. Kaveh inside their kitchen, making them breakfast.
But this is different now. Something new curls between the two of them, nudging at their yearslong rhythm. Something has changed.
Or: Three times Alhaitham does not reciprocate (?), and one time he does.
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10 May 2026
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when we die, we will not be martyrs by luminvies for lilahjs028
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
18 Jun 2023
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“I’m an angel,” the angel says, doing jazz hands a little pathetically. “It means I’m here to save you. Don’t you remember me? We met that day in the records room, but I understand if you don’t remember. You were a little distracted.”
“I was a little distracted being stabbed,” Al-Haitham says unbelievingly. “Also, angels aren’t real.”
In which Kaveh is an angel, Al-Haitham is a disgruntled working man, and this can't end any way but badly.
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28 Apr 2026