Heartsick for Home- Chilumi Week 2026
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Night Train to Snezhnograd by wisteria_16 for yeuvrays
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
20 Jul 2026
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Childe poured himself a cup, adding a cube of sugar before stirring it. Paimon drank her cocoa, occasionally stopping to peer out the window at the landscape passing them by. Lumine sipped her tea, while the Harbinger leaned back against the bench with his own cup in hand.
She held her mug, unsure of what to say. It had been so long since she'd last seen him. She could tell him everything, from the very beginning ever since they parted ways. But where would she even begin? The tales themselves were quite detailed, so could she even ensure to get all the details of experiencing the camaraderie of fighting alongside friends in Natlan? Then what about in Nod-Krai, where she aided companions in a convoluted plan to defeat both a Sinner? Back to Sumeru, to get rid of one of his colleagues? Or even the instance of her slaying a dragon in Mondstadt?
Just as she opened her mouth to talk, his expression grew wistful, after having taken a sip of the tea. "Tastes like home. Not as good as my mother's, though. Nobody makes tea like my mother."
Or, Lumine unexpectedly reunites with her first Fatui ally aboard a train.
{Chilumi Week 2026 Day 1: Travel}
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- Part 1 of Heartsick for Home- Chilumi Week 2026
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Beautiful was too simple a word for this song.
The melody possessed a strange quality of sadness and longing for something long lost. It rose and fell in a slow, mournful cadence, each note drawing out the next. It made his chest tighten, called to a part of him he had long since buried beneath blood, battle, and the endless roar of the Dark Sea.
He thought of home. A quiet little fishing village beneath a clear sky. The briny smell of the fish market. The sound of his siblings laughing somewhere nearby. His mother's voice calling him in from the cold for hot food.
Childe took a step toward the railing. The figure in the water lifted its head. He could not see its face. Maybe if he just got a bit closer, he could—
A cold hand closed around his arm. "Don't."
Or, Childe finds an unlikely ally in Ying, a mysterious engineer who seems to know the sea far better than anyone should.
{Chilumi Week 2026 Day 2: Water}
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- Part 2 of Heartsick for Home- Chilumi Week 2026
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"You ought to be more diligent about locking your window, Miss Beaumont."
"You know better than to refer to me by that name, Commander Morozov."
"I'd like you to know I considered using the front door. For all of half a second, until I realized how discourteous it would be to wake your father."
Lumine shook her head. "You possess a most peculiar understanding of courtesy."
"I've always thought it one of my finer qualities."
"So fine, in fact, that you presently stand in an unmarried lady's bedchamber."
He paused, then inclined his head. "When you put it that way, it does sound rather improper. And yet... you've neglected to call your maids and have them drag me out. Better yet, you've decided to not throw me out the window."
Lumine arched a brow. "I haven't yet figured out if I ought to."
"I should be disappointed if you did."
Or, two old friends spend one last night together on the eve of his departure for war.
{Chilumi Week 2026 Day 3: Regency}
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- Part 3 of Heartsick for Home- Chilumi Week 2026
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Reunion at the End of the Universe by wisteria_16
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
30 Jul 2026
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"Did I... know you once?" the star asked.
The narwhal went still. The voice was faint, as though coming from very far away, but he knew it all too well. He'd been searching for it ever since that life, and he finally found it. "What makes you say that?"
"I don't know."
The words struck something inside him, and a memory surfaced from the depths of his memory. A girl, her callused hand in his. A voice, laughing.
"You just feel... familiar, in a way."
The star was silent. "Perhaps we might have."
Or, a whale and a star find each other before the heat death of the universe.
{Chilumi Week 2026 Day 4: Memories}
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- Part 4 of Heartsick for Home- Chilumi Week 2026
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Supernatural creatures were the villains of stories told to children to scare them into behaving. Having heard the tales from his parents and older siblings, Childe also recounted them to his younger siblings, aiming to keep them from going outside alone at night. But once they went to sleep, someone had to stay awake and protect them and their precious dreams from the real dangers that lurked outside.
That was where Childe stepped in.
Or, Childe and Lumine go investigate a murder committed by a monster. Things go terribly wrong.
{Chilumi Week 2026 Day 5: Betrayal and Deception}
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- Part 5 of Heartsick for Home- Chilumi Week 2026
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Lumine laughed. "The textbook spent six pages saying what you explained in two minutes."
Ajax shook his head. "Physics textbook writers like making things sound harder than they actually are."
Or, Lumine gets a little help from the nerdiest guy in her quantum mechanics class.
{Chilumi Week 2026 Day 6: AU}
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- Part 6 of Heartsick for Home- Chilumi Week 2026
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The director waved from behind the monitor, one hand raised above the crowd. "Ready for you!"
Lumine took a breath, slipped into her on-camera smile, and headed toward the pit lane.
Someone else was already walking her way.
Childe looked as though he'd wandered onto the circuit without trying to command attention, and somehow managed to do it anyway. His facial structure still held some youth, even though he'd crossed into his forties recently. The silver and blue Fatui Racing gear looked ordinary on its own, but it fit him unfairly well, hugging broad shoulders and a lean frame in a way that made it difficult to remember she was supposed to be here as a journalist. He moved with a confidence that made the bustle around him go quiet.
"There she is," he remarked, reaching out his hand. "The Queen of Shotgun herself."
Or, Lumine is a successful host of a show centered around cars and Formula 7. She meets one of Fatui Racing's most prominent members and takes him for a ride around the circuit.
{Chilumi Week 2026 Day 7: Free Day}
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- Part 7 of Heartsick for Home- Chilumi Week 2026