Starry Knight
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If she had to describe her initial thoughts on it, the word she would use was messy. The browns of his outfit weren’t the same shade as the browns of the clumsily stitched together version the plush was wearing. She had a hard time replicating her brother’s long hair, and the buttons she used for the eyes were a little misplaced.
Still, the white cloth hanging atop his shoulders was translated well enough, and she styled the hair as lovingly as she always braided his, and as misplaced as they were… they were the same color as his eyes. Their eyes.
or: what was a passing hobby for lumine became an accidental courtship between her and her friends
latest chapter: in which she gets a history lesson // zhongli
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- Part 1 of Starry Knight
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The people of Mondstadt couldn't understand a single word that fell from her lips, and yet they stood there, entranced, mystified at the foreign song their heroine sang with her mother tongue. The lyre she held, wooden in craft, seemed to glow at her touch, ordinary string now spun with gold as her fingers strummed a magical tune. If they had their doubts before, it was clear now that Lumine was from another world, for none could ever replicate what she had done.
He called her a songbird, she said she was a star, but that night Mondstadt hailed her a saint.
or: Venti and Barbara know potential talent when they hear it, and Lumine was absolutely bursting with it. They both wanted her to perform with them, but neither could have expected the effect of her song.
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- Part 2 of Starry Knight
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“As for our final pair, last but definitely not the least,” the teacher began, eyes glinting with a hint of mischievousness, “we have Ajax and Lumine. Let’s congratulate our last couple!”
or: In which Ajax and Lumine, two friends who’ve not-so-secretly pined for the other, get paired up in their Egg Baby Project. As they jump between moments of domesticity and moments of chaos and trying not to get their eggs stolen, will they finally grow closer and confess their feelings?
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- Part 3 of Starry Knight
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"Don't worry, Lumi, I won't be a strict tutor!"
or: in which Lumine wants to learn some Snezhnayan, and who else could she ask but a certain boy who grew up with it as his mother tongue. Now if only she could figure out what all those nicknames he called her meant.
Chilumi Week Day 1: High School
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- Part 4 of Starry Knight
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“Then I suppose I have you to thank for finally bringing Vlad and Nadia together, Childe.”
Vlad and Nadia? Two of the bank guards? Was she acquainted with them or something? He wasn’t quite sure if he liked knowing she acquainted herself with Fatui other than him. Next thing he knew she’d tell him she had a run-in with Scaramouche or something.
or: in which Lumine is a massive Vlad and Nadia shipper, and Childe is just content to enjoy her company
Chilumi Week Day 2: Fatui
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- Part 5 of Starry Knight
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She couldn’t hide her surprise when she lifted her head to meet his eyes, and neither could he apparently. Well, she couldn’t blame him— if he, if anyone, saw a girl in a wedding dress in a flower field in the middle of nowhere he’d probably think they were a weirdo or something.
or: in which Lumine wears a wedding dress and coincidentally runs into Childe
Chilumi Week Day 3: Wedding
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- Part 6 of Starry Knight
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“So, you’re spending the Lantern Rite with that adeptus and that fallen Archon? Then an upcoming festival with… two Knights of Favonius captains and a certain Uncrowned King of Mondstadt. Right.”
or: in which Childe gets jealous, and Lumine brings up a certain holiday to make it up to him
Chilumi Week Day 4: Valentines
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- Part 7 of Starry Knight
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“He can’t leave this place,” she began, her thoughts finally becoming a little less muddled, “but he can’t stay here with us either. How do we get him back into… uh, Teyvat?”
“Murder,” he joked, immediately warranting him a slap to the arm from Ying.
or: in which Ying and Ajax, playing Lumine and Childe respectively, are stars of the hit series Genshin Impact. in the middle of their script read-through, "Childe" Tartaglia, who they thought to be a fictional character all this time, suddenly appeared right before their very eyes. as it turns out, his presence was all it took for the two actors to explore their relationship more.
Chilumi Week Day 5: Modern | Domestic
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- Part 8 of Starry Knight
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“Anyway my chuuni phase wasn’t that bad. I got too embarrassed to talk like that in public, and granny would probably get a heart attack so Aether and I kept it to MMOs and virtual worlds.”
“Like what? RuneScape? Maplestory? No, don’t tell you two were IMVU people.”
or: in which Lumine and Ajax come to the realization that they've been childhood friends this whole time... but in an unconventional manner- through Club Penguin.
Chilumi Week Day 6: Childhood Friends
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- Part 9 of Starry Knight
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“So you mean to say,” Childe huffed incredulously, “that the people of Liyue have decided to capitalize on their savior? By creating goods in her likeness?”
or: in which Childe discovers that people have been making merchandise of Lumine, as a good friend he must inspect the wares for himself.
Chilumi Week Day 7: Plushies
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- Part 10 of Starry Knight
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It was as simple as the reason she kept her hair a certain way. Just like the light-blue flowers that adorned her hair, it was what she was used to.
or: in which Lumine's hair grows longer throughout her stay in Teyvat, and she learns nothing quite shows the passage of time like growth
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- Part 11 of Starry Knight
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“If you need me, just call out my name, Xiao… or my cell phone number, and I will be there when you call.”
or: in which Xiao looks back at the promise he made to Lumine back when they were in middle school.
Xiaolumi Week Day 1: Rescue
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- Part 12 of Starry Knight
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“Xiaoooo,” her brother had once said that Lumine hissed like a cat and made a fuss like a toddler when you tried to wake her up, but clearly that didn’t apply to him at all. No, Lumine, consciously or subconsciously, was more soft and gentle in the mornings than expected.
or: Lumine is not a morning person, and Xiao knows this very, very well.
Xiaolumi Week Day 3 & 4: Modern AU, Warmth
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- Part 13 of Starry Knight
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The realization came to him approximately five seconds after he was left staring at her retreating figure. Was he the latte hottay? Did Lumine think he was hot? Was he being flirted with?
or: in which a barista becomes a mess when faced with a gorgeous customer.
Chilumi Summer Day 2: Coffee Shop
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- Part 14 of Starry Knight
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“Your portraits don’t do you justice, princess,” his first words to her are much inappropriate in terms of etiquette, formal greetings and pleasantries all cast aside, though he supposed their meeting now would be considered scandalous to the eyes of many, unbecoming to the conservatives and… amorous to the romantics, so there was no point in being uptight about the rules.
“Is that flattery I hear, my lord?” she questioned, eyes flitting upwards to gaze at him, and if he were a weaker man he would have faltered immediately.
or: in which Dainsleif and Lumine are engaged, yet they have never met before tonight.
Dainslumi Week Day 1 & 6: Royalty, Arranged Marriage
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- Part 15 of Starry Knight
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“I’ll belong to you until all the stars fall out of the sky,” Childe says, and suddenly Lumine is laughing and never before had he seen her look so encompassed by pure joy, this second confession holding much deeper weight now that she understood what he truly meant by it.
or: in which Lumine and Childe share a bed and reminisce on how they got there in the first place
Written for the Chilumi Secret Santa on Twitter
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- Part 16 of Starry Knight
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"Lumine, why do you hang around me so much?"
"Well," the blonde replied with a tiny laugh, "there's probably a dozen and one reasons. For starters, you're cute!"or: a short fic with girls being cute
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- Part 17 of Starry Knight
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it's been too long, i've long forgotten by luminathic
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
06 Feb 2022
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There he stood, at the edges of the Abyss, just like he was rumored to be. It’s in the way he says her name that she knows it’s truly him and not an imitation— it is low, it is deep, and filled with the same pained longing she had not been deaf to weeks ago. The sound of his voice fills her with pain, not due to the way he had spoken her name, but simply because he had.
Lumine did not exist in the Abyss, but she existed with him.
or: a more empathetic look at the Abyss Princess
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- Part 18 of Starry Knight