80Roxy08

Le Lion, Le Chien et Le Corbeau

My webcomic, more info and link on my page !

In which Dainsleif is actually Kaeya's biological dad

Kaeya is the result of Dainsleif "indulging" for the first time in centuries with a woman (maybe Eremite fighter) in Sumeru (she helped him hunt down an Abyss stronghold ? Helped dress his wounds ?)

Anyway they go their own separate way after a one night stand, not expecting anything to come out of it, especially since Dainsleif was persuaded he, just like all other pureblooded Khaenri'ahns, is fully sterile due to the curse. But ! Unexpectedly his ring/resistance to corruption has some side effect and Mama Yaya now has a healthy baby that is very much not a Hillichurl despite being half-blood.

She tries to contact Dainsleif cause, hey, in case you were interested in helping me, that baby is yours, but sadly all she manages to do while doing so is catch the eyes of the Abyss Order who decides that's a very interesting test subject, and so she and her baby gets kidnapped.

She probably gets tortured/killed at some point later, and the Abyss Order decides how Kaeya can be used for their plot and so he's sent to live with the Alberichs (hence why that becomes his family name), and he grows up fully unaware of his origins.

Dainsleif would never know anything happened either, so a third person would have to reveal the secret... I think the best/most painful way would be for the Abyss Twin to taunts Dainsleif with it during another of their fight/face-off. Like "Are you sure you don't want to join our cause ? We already took your son after all". Cue Dainsleif being all "???" and then horrified.

And then good big old angst-fest, Dainsleif beating himself up for 1. Once again failing to protect someone close to him 2. Bringing an innocent down because of his curse 3. Causing a child to be used as a weapon in the midst of Khaenri'ah long list of issues and 4. The bitterness of "What could have been ?", bonus point if it involves past Halfdain or Abyss Twin/Dainsleif, of once dreaming of having a family of his own with his partner, a dream that got crushed by the Cataclysm and all that came after, the knowledge that he had one chance, only one in centuries, and yet he missed it, he never was present for a single important moment of that child who is now an estranged adult and possibly an enemy to him.