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🏰 Gen, rated T for occasional swearing 🍃 5 out of 15 chapters, 38k out of est. 100k+ words posted 🏰 Modern era: Venti lives in a castle and Mond cast are confused 🍃 Slow-burn mystery, long plot, humor and angst 🏰 Venti, Jean, and Diluc as main cast, with Kaeya, Mona, Lisa, and Rosaria as supporting cast

Co-written with @jazzintown and beta-ed by @quasardrawsstuff!

Nahida was born 500 years ago. To put that in real life terms, if you went back 500 years you would find yourself in 1526 ad. About the time of the renaissance.

If nahida was real she would have been about to meet Leonardo da Vinci. Nahida would have been around to see the start and fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Furina is at least 500 years old meaning if furina was a real person she would have been able to meet Louie the 14th and she would have been centuries old at that point. Furina is older than the first opera.

Mavuika is about 500 and a few decades. Meaning that she was around when horses to North America. And that makes her in modern day funnier. This women who could have watched Shakespeare plays

The Roman republic was started about 2,534 years ago.

Venti is about 2,600 years old. Meaning that if venti was real he would have lived through to meet the eutrusisns, 3 Punic wars, the start of the Roma empire, the fall of the Roman Empire.

Ei was said to have lived before the archon war so she’s about 3000 years old but probably older. Meaning that if she was a real person she would have been born doing the collapse of the Bronze Age. she has lasted as long as the Mayan empire .

The pyramids are about 4,000 old. Mammoths finally died out 4,000 years ago. The wheel was invited around 5,000 years ago.

If Zhongli was real he could have meet a mammoth, saw the pyramids be built, and wittiness the creation of the wheel. This guy would have been 2,000 years old when the xia empire was founded (one of the first empires in china) .

venti just randomly start speaking fluent Latin but everyone just ignores it because in their mind he’s just being a theater kid

Ei stares off in the distance with eyes filled with terrible memories when someone brings up the fall of Byzantine

Furina looking through her makeup drawer only to find out that her lipstick expired 400 years ago and the manufacturer when debunked 200 years ago

Nahida having the only copy of a book because it was destroy hundred of years ago and she forget to return it to the library

The hottest stranger Eddie has ever seen is slouched against the far side, eying him like he’s at least interesting. That’s promising.

Eddie waves one cuffed hand at Hot Guy and then tips his imaginary hat. That got an eye roll from Hot Guy but he can work with that, “You come around here often?”

A snort, but not an ignore. Good.

Eddie settles into his seat before asking, “What’d you do to piss off the fuzz…?”

“Steve,” He eventually responds. “And fraud.”

“Funny and cute,” Eddie grins. “Dangerous combination.”

That got a smile out of Hot Guy - Steve - and he leaned closer. Definitely flirting back, “You think I’m cute?”

“I think-“

“Hey!” Hopper snaps from the driver’s seat. “How about you don’t flirt with my son in the back of a squad car? He’s a kid.”

Steve rolls his eyes, flops back against the seat, and bemoans, “I’m sixteen, Hop.”

“And I’m seventeen, man.”

“Really?” Hopper says, holding up Eddie’s fake ID. “This says you’re twenty-two.”

venlia or something

driving away from the wreck of the day

Word count: 3114 words

Rating: T

Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Parings: Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler/Jonathan Byler, Steve Harrington & Nancy Wheeler & Jonathan Byler

Characters: Steve Harrington, Nancy Wheeler, Jonathan Byler, and Robin Buckley

Tag(s): Grief/Mourning, Wakes & Funerals

Summary: On a visit to Hawkins, Jonathan & Nancy find out Steve's also in town, for his dad's funeral. They catch up.