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"Welcome to a new user experience! You have triggered this interface with the keywords, ‘Stupid game! Stupid devs! I want my f*****g money back!’ You are now bound to the character Tartaglia, the Eleventh Harbinger of the Fatui, codename: Childe! We hope you have an enjoyable user experience and we welcome you once again to Genshin Impact 2.0!”
Those are some of the first words Ajax, starving college student extraordinaire, has the misfortune of hearing upon waking up in a brave new world from what he's fairly sure is a very fatal accident involving water and a shit ton of electricity.
Okay, so he's not dead. That's good. But what's this about him being stuck playing the character Tartaglia? Tartaglia, as in the no-good, one-dimensional, cartoonish villain who met his untimely, gruesome death in the first act of the original game?
Forget this. Like hell Ajax is going to share that fate.
And so begins one man's journey to save himself from his awful destiny.
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01 Jan 2022
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The one where technologies are advanced enough to send the human race to live in deep-space, creating space stations and piloting giant Mechas to fend off dangerous aliens from invading the galaxy.
And yet as one of the most notable Mecha pilots, Childe's biggest problem is not the aliens or his troublesome fame.
Childe's biggest problem is that he's secretly in love with his pretty co-pilot, who also happens to be his, well, occasional fuck buddy.
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- Part 10 of Olde's Vault
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15 Jul 2021
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Ajax kissed like the ocean that raged off the coast of Snezhnaya, the very same one that he had played in as a child, that could be deceptively calm but held within it an undertow that would drag anyone caught unaware down below the waves. It was a force few could combat, and Zhongli was no different.
As Ajax tilted his head to the side for a better angle, Zhongli felt the undertow latch onto him and drag him under.
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07 Jun 2021
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It’s been two months since the storm, and Childe hasn’t seen Zhongli not even once, not since that fateful meeting with the Signora where the truth is finally unveiled.
And what a fun little kick to the gut that is, the realization that not only had he been played by all sides, but he's also being tossed aside like trash now that his use had run its course.
It’s not that Childe doesn’t get it. He’s a Harbinger. He knows first-hand what it means to do his duty, to put the mission first and his personal feelings far, far away, preferably locked up in a box, where it wouldn’t interfere with his job. He knows what it’s like working with vipers, to scheme and plot and lie in wait for the opportune moment to stab his opponent in the back.
But this time, this time Childe can’t help but feel a little (a lot) gutted.
Stupid. He’s gotten himself stupidly attached.
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A story about Childe trying to move on after the events of 1.1 Update, but some of his actions have consequences, and those consequences have followed him back to Snezhnaya.NOTE: THIS FIC WAS DRAFTED BEFORE 1.1 UPDATE CAME OUT. MIND THE CANON-DIVERGENT TAG FOR THIS REASON.
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02 Feb 2021