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  1. Public Bookmark 31

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    Zhongli growls—growls—and that is not something he is in the habit of doing. No, no, he enjoys keeping a cool head and a refined presence. He is above these fools, these Harbingers of the Snezhnaya court.

    (Except for, apparently, red-headed rapscallions, determined to wear him down to the bone.)

    There is no patience when it comes to Childe. All those years of experience, of practiced politicking, goes right out the window the moment they are within sight of each other. The others are not like this. The others also ignore him for the most part, minus Il Capitano, but Childe seeks him out with admirable persistence.

    Zhongli is a retired Archon with a contract to train The Tsaritsa's Harbingers. Childe is a menace (that he kinda-maybe is falling in love with).

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    27 Dec 2024

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    Xie Lian's last believer is so fervently devoted to him that he seems to think mostly in the form of prayer. That is a terrifying prospect. Xie Lian has never heard of such a case before, not even in hypotheticals, and he finds himself hoping, for his believer's sake, that there is some other explanation for this phenomenon.

    Whatever the reason, a low stream of his believer's thoughts hum in the back of Xie Lian's consciousness.

    His believer does not seem to be aware of it.

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    When Xie Lian ascends for the third time, he is welcomed back to godhood with prayers that he hadn't expected: an ongoing stream of thought from his sole remaining believer. He gathers quickly that this believer is very old, very powerful, and very, very much in love with him.

    For his believer's sake, Xie Lian can cast a spell to shut the prayers out—but only if he has access to spiritual energy.

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    22 Dec 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 52

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    ' Banished and burned at thirteen, Zuko had every reason to ignore signs that the world wasn’t right. Instead, he found his ancestor’s legacy in the home of his enemy and began to question. He befriended colony-born soldiers; lived, learned, and flourished with people of the Si Wong, Foggy Swamp, and Northern Water Tribe; forced himself to accept the truth of the war, alone in a spirit library, and began to plot how to bring freedom back.

    Zuko didn’t just want to end the war. He wanted to upend the order of the world.

    The Air Nomads were gone, Sozin had made sure of that. But they hadn't been the only ones to bend air. A world where airbenders could return was a world where dual-bending existed.'

     

    Zuko's found allies in his goal to bring airbending back. Now he just has to convince the world to accept dual-benders, maybe starting with his crew.

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    21 Dec 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 22

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    'Zuko was tentatively hopeful about this excursion. There were rumors of people living in this temple and flying. He dared not hope the Avatar was amongst them. But, were there surviving airbenders?'

     

    With a new, hard-earned appreciation for Air Nomad history courtesy of Yue, Zuko heads to the Northern Air Temple to see what he can learn.

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    20 Dec 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 50

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    The sound of Xie Lian’s breath catching behind him made Hua Cheng’s heart race. He didn’t know what he was doing. He knew what it sounded like, but it could’ve been anything. He stared at the wall, teeth digging so roughly into his lip it was on the verge of tearing as he tried not to focus on the shifting sounds of the blankets, or the sound of Xie Lian’s soft moan. He needed to mute it. But to do that, he had to turn around. Hua Cheng wasn’t sure how he’d gotten himself into this situation. He wasn’t this guy, he didn’t intrude on people like this, certainly not Xie Lian.

    “Mn San Lang…” Hua Cheng could feel his brain begin to melt as Xie Lian moaned the name he’d given to him and the desire to turn around was getting harder and harder to resist, “It’s okay. You can watch. I want you to watch…”

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    It was only supposed to be a simple job; watch over the newest member of the witness protection program. It wasn't Hua Cheng's fault that he was so pretty. It certainly wasn't Hua Cheng's fault that his mark was trying so hard to tempt him.

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    15 Dec 2024