ARISE.

𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝('𝐧𝐭) 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 ; 𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑠

a collection of slightly heart-ache-inspired dialogue prompts by me. change pronouns/tenses/details as needed.

❝ i've been thinking about you a lot. ❞

❝ i can't keep you off my mind. ❞

❝ why do you have to go? ❞

❝ you'd think we'd be better at saying 'goodbye'. ❞

❝ you shouldn't look at me like that. ❞

❝ i shouldn't think about you that way. ❞

❝ do you think we missed our chance? ❞

❝ have i been on your mind? ❞

❝ you are never far from my thoughts. ❞

❝ i can feel your heart beating faster. ❞

❝ i miss the way you smell. ❞

❝ i know i shouldn't, but i want to see you. ❞

❝ you make it easy for me to be myself. ❞

❝ it's always been you, i don't know why. ❞

❝ i've missed your voice. ❞

❝ it should have been me. ❞

❝ i wish i'd known all this before we ended up here. ❞

❝ i hope the way i feel doesn't make things harder between us. ❞

❝ i can't offer you the life you have with them, i know that. ❞

❝ do you wish it was me? ❞

❝ you are my person, i know that. i should have said it before. ❞

❝ you're the only one that makes me feel safe. ❞

❝ it's too late to say it, but i wanted to say it anyway.❞

          the way we process the machinations of our hearts is what paints our auras. none shall be the same as another, but it is a language understood by all.

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( this is basically just a very self indulgent list of various fluff, angst, and suggestive themed dialogue sentence starters. )

❛ i could keep you safe. they’re all afraid of me. ❜

❛ i’m trying to fix your hair, so hold still. ❜

❛ your heart is beating so fast right now. ❜

❛ promise me you’ll still be here when i wake up. ❜

❛ you’re not as bad as everyone says you are. ❜

❛ i thought you’d like some company. ❜ 

❛ clean yourself up. you're getting blood all over the place. ❜

❛ here, give this a try and tell me what you think. ❜

❛ you can kiss me, you know. ❜

❛ come back to bed. ❜

❛ you look good like this. ❜

❛ working together again, it’s just like old times. ❜

❛ how is it you always know what i need, huh? ❜

❛ you’re lucky you got away with only a scratch. ❜ 

❛ i can’t imagine losing someone like that. i’m sorry. ❜

❛ you know you can always talk to me. ❜

❛ the only one who gets to kill you, is me. ❜

❛ so, what do i owe this pleasure? ❜

❛ ah, so you aren’t heartless after all. ❜

❛ may i have this dance? ❜ 

❛ it’s okay, you can touch me. i won't break. ❜

❛ enemies make the best lovers, you know. ❜

❛ hold still. this might sting a little. ❜

❛ we can't keep doing this. ❜ 

❛ you look like you've got something to say. ❜

❛ just relax and let me take care of you. ❜

❛ thought you’d be lighter without all that blood. ❜

❛ i had it under control. you didn’t need to do that. ❜

❛ everything looks so beautiful from up here. ❜

❛ you treat all your ladies like this? ❜

❛ well? how do i look? ❜

❛ can’t sleep? ❜

❛ do you mind if i smoke? ❜

❛ i’m scared of ending up alone. ❜

❛ i don’t think i’ve ever seen you smile. ❜

❛ how long has it been since you've slept? ❜

❛ you are losing my interest, and that’s very dangerous. ❜

❛ i’d suffer hell if you’d tell me what you’d do to me tonight. ❜

❛ you look really pretty right now. ❜

❛ i’ve never cared for anyone the way i care for you. ❜

❛ i’m not wearing any underwear. thought you’d like to know. ❜

❛ just a few more stitches and you’ll be as good as new. ❜

❛ i’d say we make a pretty good team. ❜

❛ i want you to forget this ever happened. ❜

❛ i'm here for business — not pleasure. ❜

❛ if i didn't know any better, i'd say you were jealous. ❜

❛ you'd look better down on your knees. ❜

❛ fine, keep acting like you hate me. ❜

❛ kiss me again. ❜

❛ are you asking me out on a date? ❜

❛ just sit there and look pretty and let me handle this. ❜

❛ you okay? caught you staring off into space again. ❜

❛ well, i do feel better now that you're here. ❜

❛ i'm not drunk enough for this. ❜ 

❛ why is it whenever we see each other, you’re covered in blood? ❜

❛ i was wrong about you. ❜ 

❛ the first time i met you, i had no idea you'd mean this much. ❜

❛ you gonna be a good girl / boy for me? ❜

❛ i’m not afraid of you. ❜

❛ books mean more to me than people anyway. ❜

❛ i just wanted to say thank you for protecting me. ❜

❛ how about a kiss goodnight? ❜

❛ i don’t have time for distractions right now. ❜

❛ you shouldn’t be out here by yourself. ❜ 

while eula had taken on the favonius mantle with express purpose, diluc had tossed away what had practically been a birthright to him as though it'd been nothing at all. the derogatory tales of @lotusbled were aplenty, though in the quiet whispers of some common folk, there were the few sentiments of... kindness. the heiress had always been easy to read — she didn't have anything to hide, wearing her marks of disgrace proudly. diluc, on the other hand...

years of experience and undesirable interactions have given diluc an exorbitant level of detachment when dealing with tavern patrons. from cyrus to his own brother, this one is no different. he goes about his work, absently polishing the same glass over and over while pretending to be deaf to her drunken ramblings. he doesn't care for the theatre of it all, buying into her digs just to achieve a rise from her.

but there's only so much disillusion he can handle before he falls victim to it.

the glass clinks to the counter with a little more force than he intends, and he casts her an indignant glare at the very mention of luck.

" luck has nothing to do with it, miss lawrence... " diluc states with deliberate annunciation. " and there's nothing mysterious about how i earn my reputation. some kindness and tact would not go amiss. now, if you don't mind, i'll be closing up in exactly 10 minutes. "

( this is basically just a very self indulgent list of various fluff, angst, and suggestive themed dialogue sentence starters. )

❛ i could keep you safe. they’re all afraid of me. ❜

❛ i’m trying to fix your hair, so hold still. ❜

❛ your heart is beating so fast right now. ❜

❛ promise me you’ll still be here when i wake up. ❜

❛ you’re not as bad as everyone says you are. ❜

❛ i thought you’d like some company. ❜ 

❛ clean yourself up. you're getting blood all over the place. ❜

❛ here, give this a try and tell me what you think. ❜

❛ you can kiss me, you know. ❜

❛ come back to bed. ❜

❛ you look good like this. ❜

❛ working together again, it’s just like old times. ❜

❛ how is it you always know what i need, huh? ❜

❛ you’re lucky you got away with only a scratch. ❜ 

❛ i can’t imagine losing someone like that. i’m sorry. ❜

❛ you know you can always talk to me. ❜

❛ the only one who gets to kill you, is me. ❜

❛ so, what do i owe this pleasure? ❜

❛ ah, so you aren’t heartless after all. ❜

❛ may i have this dance? ❜ 

❛ it’s okay, you can touch me. i won't break. ❜

❛ enemies make the best lovers, you know. ❜

❛ hold still. this might sting a little. ❜

❛ we can't keep doing this. ❜ 

❛ you look like you've got something to say. ❜

❛ just relax and let me take care of you. ❜

❛ thought you’d be lighter without all that blood. ❜

❛ i had it under control. you didn’t need to do that. ❜

❛ everything looks so beautiful from up here. ❜

❛ you treat all your ladies like this? ❜

❛ well? how do i look? ❜

❛ can’t sleep? ❜

❛ do you mind if i smoke? ❜

❛ i’m scared of ending up alone. ❜

❛ i don’t think i’ve ever seen you smile. ❜

❛ how long has it been since you've slept? ❜

❛ you are losing my interest, and that’s very dangerous. ❜

❛ i’d suffer hell if you’d tell me what you’d do to me tonight. ❜

❛ you look really pretty right now. ❜

❛ i’ve never cared for anyone the way i care for you. ❜

❛ i’m not wearing any underwear. thought you’d like to know. ❜

❛ just a few more stitches and you’ll be as good as new. ❜

❛ i’d say we make a pretty good team. ❜

❛ i want you to forget this ever happened. ❜

❛ i'm here for business — not pleasure. ❜

❛ if i didn't know any better, i'd say you were jealous. ❜

❛ you'd look better down on your knees. ❜

❛ fine, keep acting like you hate me. ❜

❛ kiss me again. ❜

❛ are you asking me out on a date? ❜

❛ just sit there and look pretty and let me handle this. ❜

❛ you okay? caught you staring off into space again. ❜

❛ well, i do feel better now that you're here. ❜

❛ i'm not drunk enough for this. ❜ 

❛ why is it whenever we see each other, you’re covered in blood? ❜

❛ i was wrong about you. ❜ 

❛ the first time i met you, i had no idea you'd mean this much. ❜

❛ you gonna be a good girl / boy for me? ❜

❛ i’m not afraid of you. ❜

❛ books mean more to me than people anyway. ❜

❛ i just wanted to say thank you for protecting me. ❜

❛ how about a kiss goodnight? ❜

❛ i don’t have time for distractions right now. ❜

❛ you shouldn’t be out here by yourself. ❜ 

He can't run. If trouble has finally come for Mondstadt, he needs to stop it before it reaches the city gates. Kaeya's always known that one day he'll have to choose -- but did it have to come right now, when things are finally going all right for him?

He won't bow to fate.

The language she uses is one he hasn't heard in over a decade. He's kept notes to himself in his native language, but they've never been too complex: he stopped using it at seven years old. There are so many words he doesn't know -- there had been no one who could teach him.

But the words rise to the surface of his memory with the ease of doing something he's done a thousand times, as easily and naturally as breathing, though he stumbles on the first few syllables in response. What does one say in a situation like this?

“ .... you're in Mondstadt. Above ground.” He hesitates to say more. “Ah, but see, that's the thing -- I'm on patrol for the Knights of Favonius,” the name in the common tongue slips out before he even thinks to try and translate it. “while you've appeared from nowhere. Are you hurt?”

It's bizarre. Kaeya's wondered sometimes on boring shifts and in twilight hours what it would be like to talk to someone in Khaenri'ahn again, to meet someone who could teach him anything. But in the moment now, the only thing he wants is to do get out of here once he feels certain that she's not a threat.

the words formed in a familiar tongue confirm her assumption. his very presence is comforting, gives her a false sense of safety. and yet, despite the reasonable clarity with which he speaks, antheia understands him even less. fear still runs rampant through her veins but at least for a moment she can relax her stance - letting confusion take hold.

" knights... of favonius? " the repetition sounds strange in her own accent, even more so with such a tone of perplexity. " mondstadt...? who are you...? "

a short step backwards is taken: not out of fear or defence, but to steady herself against the dizzying revelations. none of the landmarks within eyesight are familiar at all, but the brilliance of the blue sky is more astounding than anything else. it had been years since she'd seen anything so illustrious that now she finds herself captivated by it and unable to speak further.

there is no need to defend herself, no need to run anymore. but there are many answers needed to even begin to explain what exactly had happened. she looks to him now, begging with wide, vibrant eyes for any answer he can provide.

" i'm... fine, but khaenri'ah... what is happening there? why are the field tillers suddenly rampaging? do you know who is behind this? please... they... destroyed my home and my family... "

There was plenty that happened in Mondstadt behind the scenes that the jovial, wine-drinking, poetry-reciting citizens would never know of in their entire lives. Kaeya preferred it that way. He and a few others cleaned up the messes and chased away the demons without anyone else the wiser except for each other and Jean. Sometimes he sounded bitter or resentful when he spoke of how oblivious most people were, but that was the farthest thing from the truth. Kaeya didn't want the people of Mondstadt to know about the Abyss Order. He didn't want them to think about the things that moved in the shadows. No, Mondstadt was Mondstadt because people like them existed in the sunlight and people like him cleaned up the chaos where no one was looking.

It was a system that worked.

As fate would have it, however, his patrols around the outskirts of town today were downright... boring. Nothing out of the ordinary, even when he looked for the things beyond it. Or that was true for most of the day, at least, until he was almost back into town, coming up through the fields near Windrise. A strange flash of light caught his eye, and he was quickly and quietly on his way to investigate.

He may not care much at all for the Anemo Archon, but he loved the City of Freedom. He loved Jean. He loved the people who had given him a home and a good life, for the most part.

His first thought was that the Abyss Order was up to something again. If not them, then maybe the Fatui -- no doubt annoyed that Jean had single-handedly prevented them from taking over the city. His hand was not yet on the hilt of his sword, but he could draw it in half of the blink of an eye if ...

... he found a girl? A woman, to be more precise. Kaeya's visible brow pulled in towards the one hidden by his eyepatch. She looked confused - lost - shaken. As he drew closer, he found himself staring into the centers of her eyes.

What he saw should not be possible. But he had to swallow that bubble of anxiety down, try to calm his heart from its sudden uncomfortable racing as it pounded against his ribs. He drew in a breath, scrambling to regain his normal composure as he could not pry his eyes away from the star-shape of her pupil.

Like his. What the fuck?

from dust to dusk, darkness to openness, destruction to benediction. all that the eye could see was tragedy and loss, while the sound and scent of death accompanied it. the screams were entirely overwhelming, the cries and calls of desperation never ended. the ground was opening up to sky - an event unprecedented in any recorded history. a nation renowned for its advancements and amazing technology was now being laid to waste by its very accomplishments.

but even being in the center of it all, one's eyes simply could not fathom exactly what was happening. life as it was known was ending - the heavens robbing from those who saw fit to deny them. is that what it all was? punishment?

she watched helplessly as the hands of fate reached down and stole her family from her, along with her home, career, friends... faced down with the wrath of a bloodthirsty monster, she had braced herself to welcome death as they had, but it did not come.

a split second of horrendous nausea endured, and suddenly the chaos had ended. startling quiet devours her now, the light of a setting sun all but blinding her. the lush green and crystalline blue shock her senses: this is the surface, just as the stories of old had told her. but how did she get there? how could she suddenly be safe and away from the chaos of death of her home world?

her chest heaves with strangled breath, her head spinning around trying to take in all of the sights. there's no one around as far as the eye could see, until at last she spots a man approaching. the first instinct is to run, but she's frozen in place by fear and anxiety. the second is to lash out, to attack and protect herself. but from what?

he regards her with nothing more than curiosity and concern. as he closes the space between them, though, she recognizes the glimmer in his one icy eye. this fact alone calms her substantially, but even as he speaks, his words are in a tongue she does not understand.

" w-what is this? where am i? "

" hehe, it's okay, you don't have to understand. " she hums softly, the tilt of her head only adding to the endearing facade she hopes to portray. sitting across from him over a cup of tea, qianzhi revels in the comfort such simplicity can bring. with her chin in her palm, sapphire eyes are alight with fondness and admiration, locked upon his own. " you're really not as cold as others say you are. or... maybe i'm just lucky enough to enjoy your warmth. "