cmo post

[dustodust]

ꕥ suggestions ꕥ

▼ pre!death scenarios ▼
➼ guizhong takes X to meet her people
when she's about to teach them something
➼ hurt/comfort after a fight

▼ death scenarios ▼
➼ seeing guizhong get corrupted
➼ last conversation

▼ post!death scenarios ▼
➼ guizhong visiting X as a spirit
➼ X meeting guizhong's reincarnation
(not ningguang though)

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had a con over the weekend but now i'm back for tagging~

[dustodust]

When I am able.

[She is dust, after all. Dust, and dead. One speck, one hundred specks, even one thousand specks of dust amounts to nothing of substance, her sense of self flung out too far and wide to maintain without strong incentive or help. And to linger too long in the world of the living is dangerous in its own right, when thousands of malevolent spirits left over from the Archon Wars still haunt Liyue's peaks and vales. If she were seized by one of them— Archons forbid, if she were to become one! Her love for her people would turn to hatred, her consideration to deadly, deranged obsession. Nothing, save her beloved Zhongli or the silently dutiful Xiao, would be capable of stopping her, and she would sooner disappear for good than put them through that agony.

No, better to drift, as dust ought to. Better to be here but never be present, to exist but never live. Until such time that Zhongli can join her in the beyond, this is how things should be, a delicate balance maintained. And moments like this, when their worlds are allowed to twine closer than usual— they are to remain the rare, bittersweet exception, and she can only do her best to offer him what wisdom and affection she can, in the limited time she has.]

If our people wanted a seer, they would've made someone else their liege lord. Don't dwell on the unknown future, beloved. Enjoy what you have now, so that you'll fight all the harder to save it when the beast of the past rears its head. [She presses a finger to his lips to silence him, anticipating that he would compare the now to back then, when he couldn't save her. Though she was never a seer herself, the words seem a prophecy now as she says them, soft and low:] You will not fail. In your darkest hour, you will find guidance; in your most difficult struggle, clarity; and in your victory, redemption. With his people and allies at his side, the Lord of Geo will conquer the lands once again, for the sake of all of Teyvat.

[And then she tilts her head ever so slightly, gentle in her teasing.]

And I would rather hear about how you've spent your present days in Liyue, besides. Tell me, how was the Lantern Rite this year?