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(E) for fluff progressing into sexual content—this isn't fan service. There's plenty dedicated to that.
This is a plot focused slow-burn about Dahlia's conflict between faith and love.
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The week after Venti’s departure marked the beginning of Dahlia’s descent into a very particular, very troublesome crisis he had never considered could be real: He was in love with a god while still living like a broke altar boy.His days without the bard gave him too much space to think. And thinking, he discovered, was dangerous. Thinking was where all his worst ideas lived. Because it was there that he realized that he was juggling a holy relationship with mortal settings, and failing spectacularly at both.
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Dahlia wants a home. A mortal one. With a bed. For… reasons.
He believes he is ready for the “next step" with Venti, and knows the cathedral dorms absolutely do NOT allow romantic…sleepovers.
But everything goes wrong—emotionally, spiritually, and physically—until they both finally confront what it means to love each other as man and god, and how to restore Dahlia's fractured faith properly while loving fully.
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- Part 2 of Tales of a Windborne Flower
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Nearly two years into dating a god, Dahlia had made peace with the contradiction at the center of his love life. Venti was the bard at home. Barbatos was the deity at the altar. It was an arrangement built on deliberate blindness, and so far, it held.
Then the Abyss entered Mondstadt City, and the careful distance Dahlia had maintained collapsed. Loss brought something worse with it—a truth Barbatos had been keeping to Himself: Under the rules of Teyvat, everyone's fate had already been written.
He should have accepted it. Barbatos had pleaded him to.
Dahlia didn't.
And taking the pen from fate came with a price. Changing the ending depended on rewriting the chapters that lead there.
By the time Dahlia reached the last page, he would have learned to live in the version that survived the revision.
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- Part 3 of Tales of a Windborne Flower
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How Dahlia became The Herald of Barbatos.
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"You look like a man who needs one of two things to cheer up:" Venti lifted one finger up, "a miracle from Barbatos himself…” He lifted another finger, "…or someone to drag him out of his misery with questionable decisions. Lucky for you, I specialize in both." He winked, then leaned forward. “Now, my deacon—”“I’m not a deacon yet.” Dahlia corrected automatically.
“—my future deacon,” Venti amended without shame, “which would you prefer?”
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Shortly after the Traveler left Mondstadt and the city regained its peace, Dahlia was announced as a candidate, a soon-to-be-ordained Deacon of the Church of Favonius. Which was great, awesome, perfect, had it not been for a teeny, tiny detail: his faith, or rather the lack of it.And then the wind gets a whiff of his secret.
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- Part 1 of Tales of a Windborne Flower
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Note: [Updates paused while I finish other fics] (dec/9/2025)
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As Windblume approaches, an unfortunate trip to Dragonspine releases ancient magic across Teyvat. Venti the bard, having once sealed the corrupted power as Lord Barbatos, pulls Aether into yet another quest to save Mondstadt, and subsequently, the other nations.
Yet death and pain raced alongside them. Aether's hope became shaky, and his despair great, especially after finding out the truth hidden behind the rhymes of his friend.OR
Aether thinks he can resolve all Teyvat's problems with faith, trust, and ley line dust.
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Celestia fell, the twins reunited, and the ley-lines stabilized—everything should have been okay now that our traveler gets to go back home.
Except it wasn’t.
Aether’s attachment to Teyvat was a reality he did not want to face, especially when it concerned a bard who was his comfort during his long journey.
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Part (1) complete.
Part (2) complete.
Part (3) ongoing
•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~Dahlia's faith fractured, and with it, his whole world.
Seeking thrill and trouble, it was only natural that he fell in love with Mondstadt's most chaotic bard—only to discover that his lover was, in fact, his Archon. Then he became the Herald of said Archon and asked this same Archon to move in with him.
And as if that was not enough drama for him, Dahlia, despite the warnings of Barbatos, decided to challenge his fate and rewrite his own ending himself.- Words:
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beneath the skin by oliveden for RebeccaDarking
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
26 Jun 2026
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“Venti, someone saw you.”
There’s a pause. “Someone saw me,” Venti repeats.
“Nimrod,” Diluc nods. “Got drunk in Angel’s Share afterwards. Charles told me, which means that everyone in the bar must know by now, and probably half the city.” Then he mutters something about Kaeya, which Venti would address if he felt anything like normal. It’ll be fine, probably.
The idea of Nimrod knowing, of half of the city knowing –
Anemo rises up between Venti’s limbs before he can even put the idea into words. He doesn’t think about it, barely processing what he’s doing, before he blinks out in a flurry of teal.
(Venti intervenes with an Abyssal threat and gets caught. Mondstadt doesn't see him again for weeks.)
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Liar with a Lyre by Iriszebracorn for Jazz_intown
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
24 Jun 2026
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"Erm, Venti?"
"Yes?" He didn't look up right away, first finishing his aggressive scribbling.
That should do for a sign out, he pondered, staring at the letter. Sure, there's Bauer, and Beelzebub, but surely he would get it, right? Right.
So he glanced to his left, where Dahlia leaned on the counter, peering over the letter and blinking hazily. It was fine, he already knew more than he should—he knew how to keep a secret or two. Or fifty.
It was bound to happen, when one got paid in gossip.
"Are you drunk?" Dahlia asked at least, squinting at the paper still. At the very least he sounded incredulous.
"Tsk, we're just getting started."
From the moment the first wave of relics was unearthed from the Chasm, people started to speculate.
And Venti preemptively decided to lie as a distraction.- Language:
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so this is the tale my mother told me by oh_fudgecakes for The_Cinderninja
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
28 Jun 2026
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Inside the tower, there’s a heap of something on the floor that Jean quickly realises are feathers— wings in fact, large and white.
Frantic, she immediately crouches. As she does so, however, Venti finally stirs. When he next opens his eyes, looking at her, his eyes immediately widen. Then, in a too-small, too-uncertain voice, raspy and shaky, he whispers—
“Gunnhildr?”
Venti gets de-aged after a close call with Decarabian's god remains in Old Mondstadt. Jean (and others) care for him in the aftermath. In the process, Jean walks the same steps and reconnects with her ancestor before her.
This fic was written as part of the Drunk Twink Summer Exchange and updates every two weeks.
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17 Jun 2026
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Yuu, an aspiring writer and resigned journalist, is assigned to cover a particularly juicy murder...or not quite. Great opportunity for his novel in the making, not so much for the merchant found completely drained of her blood. But even Yuu's (admittedly morbid) thrill would dim once he find how "eat the rich" could become literal.
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11 May 2026
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His breath hitched, his mind came up blank for a frightening moment. None—but no, that couldn't be right. So he focused, pushing past the block until something snapped, and images flooded back to him.
Of many nights spent in this very stool, or at any other table in the tavern, listening to the beautiful melodies crafted in spur of the moment or brought from bygone ages, drinking away his entire savings in wine, under the scrutiny of the red-head, and sharing jokes and stories with unlikely friendships, while buzzing with alcohol-induced fogginess and getting lost in that teal-glowing gaze of said deity. Getting lost in that embrace, in those airy whispers of affection, in red-stained lips.
The tastes and the sounds were so vivid in his mind, yet somehow, it felt wrong, foreign, like a dream mistaken for a memory that he could not place—
How many times?
Countless?
Or none?[Dahlia wakes up from a fading dream, only to find that reality was no longer quite like he remembered. And worst of all, he is the only one who seems to remember Venti.]
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19 Apr 2026