TheCheerfulOctopus
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"Welcome to a new user experience! You have triggered this interface with the keywords, ‘Stupid game! Stupid devs! I want my f*****g money back!’ You are now bound to the character Tartaglia, the Eleventh Harbinger of the Fatui, codename: Childe! We hope you have an enjoyable user experience and we welcome you once again to Genshin Impact 2.0!”
Those are some of the first words Ajax, starving college student extraordinaire, has the misfortune of hearing upon waking up in a brave new world from what he's fairly sure is a very fatal accident involving water and a shit ton of electricity.
Okay, so he's not dead. That's good. But what's this about him being stuck playing the character Tartaglia? Tartaglia, as in the no-good, one-dimensional, cartoonish villain who met his untimely, gruesome death in the first act of the original game?
Forget this. Like hell Ajax is going to share that fate.
And so begins one man's journey to save himself from his awful destiny.
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28 Sep 2025
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The year is 1825. As the Tsar's daughter, you call the Winter Palace your home. When your father dies unexpectedly, the throne is set to pass to his brother.
At a ball held in the late Tsar's honor, you stumble upon a cell of revolutionaries, but are caught eavesdropping. Forced to confront the future Childe, Kaeya, and Diluc envision for the realm your family has ruled for generations, you struggle with your own loyalties — especially as one of the more brazen dissidents has taken a liking to you.
A story of impossible longing that defies empire and class, set in history.
Includes heartache and smut.[F/n] and she/her for Reader, written in third person.
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26 Jul 2025
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a short second eternity with you by mousepicnic
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
27 Feb 2024
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Cottagecore vampire romance.
Lumine is an orphan who knows nothing of herself. On her 18th birthday, she is sent to an arranged marriage, and finds out that her husband is a vampire. Without the means to escape, she reluctantly stays, and learns more about her husband through the other inhabitants of the manor.
As she gets used to being a vampire’s wife, the truth of their shared past is revealed, and horrors set into motion in the dark upends them both.
Tender and dark, this story explores trauma, grief, loss, and the way people do their best to care for each other despite circumstances.
The story narrative, plot, and themes are heavily influenced by post-modernism and psychological constructivism, and is experimental in certain parts.
Basically a food blog. It is not advised to read this while hungry.
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22 Jun 2025
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There is a popular game in Snezhnaya, one that originates as an activity to keep children occupied during the long winter days stuck indoors while arctic winds howl outside, knocking against doors and windows and carrying with it a violent storm of ice and frost. The game has since been adopted into a drinking game by bored young adults similarly trapped inside those cold, dark grueling months.
The game’s rules go something like this. Each person takes a turn telling two truths and one lie about themselves while the rest of the participants have to pluck out the lie. If the guessers guessed wrong, the person telling the information gets the point. If the guesser guessed right, then the person gets no points.
There is no real end to this game. Children play it until they become bored, adults play it until they become drunk.
Childe plays it until…
Come to think of it, Childe’s not entirely sure why he’s playing.
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A Childe introspection story where he tries to find his heart.
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22 Mar 2024
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It’s been two months since the storm, and Childe hasn’t seen Zhongli not even once, not since that fateful meeting with the Signora where the truth is finally unveiled.
And what a fun little kick to the gut that is, the realization that not only had he been played by all sides, but he's also being tossed aside like trash now that his use had run its course.
It’s not that Childe doesn’t get it. He’s a Harbinger. He knows first-hand what it means to do his duty, to put the mission first and his personal feelings far, far away, preferably locked up in a box, where it wouldn’t interfere with his job. He knows what it’s like working with vipers, to scheme and plot and lie in wait for the opportune moment to stab his opponent in the back.
But this time, this time Childe can’t help but feel a little (a lot) gutted.
Stupid. He’s gotten himself stupidly attached.
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A story about Childe trying to move on after the events of 1.1 Update, but some of his actions have consequences, and those consequences have followed him back to Snezhnaya.NOTE: THIS FIC WAS DRAFTED BEFORE 1.1 UPDATE CAME OUT. MIND THE CANON-DIVERGENT TAG FOR THIS REASON.
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18 Mar 2024