#xiaoaebedo

all of them are incomplete or abandoned projects.

until he meets aether and xiao.

suddenly he'll find himself spending hours in his lab, or at windrise—and the rare occasion he gets to leave to visit liyue—at dihua marsh, sketching aether and xiao, rolls of paper filled with their expressions, hands, faces, mouths, eyes—oh god, does albedo love their eyes, he carries around several kinds of gold or yellow tints and dyes just to get their eyes right.

- xiao, albedo and aether sharing an apartment

- the three of them growing an immense addiction to plants and their entire living space dominated by every kind of plant they can find and albedo keep a sketchbook/log of each plant and he sketches it and in the sides he writes little notes of its family type, watering needs, little factoids, etc

(just the three of them going plant shopping, and roaming around in a greenhouse thanks)

- they all roughly look the same size so the three of them just share all their clothes with each other, and it happens so often that they don't even have separate wardrobes anymore, it's just one big wardrobe with all their clothes in it and no one can even tell which piece of clothing is whose anymore.

- when they first moved in together (yes all these headcanons are centred around them being roommates, it's brainrot from my wip fic, deal w it), before they started dating, albedo had a crush on his two pretty roommates and he'd spend hours drawing them, to the point where he'd unintentionally filled an entire sketchbook with doodles and sketches of xiao and aether doing random things in their apartment.

- all of them cook really really fucking well and some nights they have these little competitions where they cook meals and they try to see who's dish is the best

- when xiao first moved in and saw his two absolutely unnecessarily pretty roommates, he made sure zhongli and childe never visited because he knew if they ever stepped foot into his apartment they'd immediately realize xiaos crush (it was painfully obvious to everyone except the three of them)

- fashion design major aether, making albedo and xiao model his designs and clothes

- when zhongli and childe finally get to visit, they don't stop going on about how nice xiao is to his roommates because xiao is not usually this nice and it takes every inch of his patience not to throw them out

- aether speaks to the plants when he waters them and xiao and albedo adore the mornings when aether does it

- morning person aether who wakes up with the sun and goes for early morning walks and makes coffee for his 'not-morning-people' roommates because he knows them well enough to know they stay up late and wake up even later, so coffee is as good a reason as any to at least try and get them out of bed

and ??

- xiao gets flour everywhere it's an absolute mess, there's even flour on the ceiling—nobody knows how but it's there and aether is going to have a field day trying to clean that up

however, he can bake like one dish, and it's brownies. it doesn't matter what rendition of brownies—he can make it perfectly. but he refused to accept that brownies exist in any form except the chocolate ones and sees any other style as a hate crime. (projecting ? maybe. deal with it.)

- albedo... can bake.

but it's like "albedo can bake, but should he be allowed to bake ?"

he likes to experiment with the recipe and the measurements and he's always trying to add new and questionable ingredients to the mix and aethers so tired of having to explain to him why you cannot add lemon extract to everything, albedo it will curdle please nobody likes bitter chocolate cake

- aether best boy baker supreme extraordinaire™

absolute god in the kitchen he can do anything. he's one of those people who has recipes memorised and can bake a perfect chocolate cake in his sleep.