Me wanting to visit my homeland vs the EXTREMELY LARGE EVIL BIRD MONSTERS that live like TWO FEET NORTH FROM MY HOMETOWN

It’s finally cold enough I can FUNCTION!!! This is the BEST I’m gonna go for a RUN I’m gonna do a MARATHON

// my entire tl is rerir and flins yall were BUSY holy shit. continue 🍿

I miss my big brother. … He would’ve been better to have the lantern. Teo always knew what he was doing… Aaaah, shut up, stupid, quit thinking about stupid things!!!

I wanna sleep. Can’t find my pillow. It’s been opened like a present and they’re making ‘feather hats’ for the beetles. Can you glue stuff to a beetle?? Is that-? Oh, yeah, no, it’s mad.

I love the gang. I really do. But the bugs. And the yelling. And why is everything sticky?? Always?????

I wanna see my mom one more time.

Everything goes dark, and you die.

every night, i dream you're still here, the ghost by my side, so perfectly clear. when i awake, you disappear back to the shadows, with all i hold dear.

// happy thanksgiving and a proud reminder we were here first and native men are also hotter 👍 🪶

I TOUCHED A SNAKE. I TOUCHED IT. IT WAS MAD BUT I TOUCHED IT. AAAAAAAAA

Bird stole my taiyaki and that just solidifies my theory that birds are intelligent and actively evil and we should eradicate them probably. Scared the HECK outta me…

You’ll be down on your knees and you’ll cry, ꧁꧂ 𝘾𝙍𝙔 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝘼𝘽𝙎𝙊𝙇𝙐𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉. ⭣

it can't have been a year already. it can't have been 5 years already. it can't have been 10 years already. it can't have been... everything, everyone i loved can't keep getting further away. we can't go any further than this. please. i don't want to keep growing up... not without you.

You are the sun, you heal, you burn.

New dead body!?

I have no idea how to use this thing but DANG I LOOK GOOD HOLDIN’ IT.

// yes my miliastra wonderland manekina is xali and yes im legit grinding this stupid game mechanic to be able to play as her in the overworld let me live my delusions

Why did you leave your soul behind?

Dog Fact: There is nothing faster than a dog.

You make a fool of death with your beauty.

seize the day, and SET IT ON FIRE.

HAPPY FREAKIN’ HALLOWEEN!!!! The veil between this life and the next is thinnest on this night, so beware… Lol jk it’s the same as usual actually. If you’re dressed as a ghost just let me know ‘cuz Infernus WILL bite.

// i just think xali dealing with absolutely indescribably horrifying manifestations of spirits day in and day out like oh yeah yesterday there was this spirit that was like a slug made of intestines it was neat. or the hundreds of spiders with tiny human heads that scream when u step on them. girl?

// desperately want to write viscerally disturbing horror but everything i have tried to write isnt SCARY ENOUGH im going insane im gonna have to get creative

I told Itto they just sold a bottle of wine for 30 mil and dude is trying to convince everyone to start an Inazuman winery. My brother in Shogun, you can’t even make eggs without screaming.

A curious, somewhat cautious head tilt— But she feels a strong kinship with this guy and he’s kind enough to not run her off after a citrus-fueled meltdown so, she sits. “Mm… When I was a kid, they were definitely different. They could, like… Fade in and out of… Reality. Or something. +

I’m in the wrong career. I gotta start selling water.

“Well, yeah, but—“ Awkward sigh. “I miss, like… How they were when I was a kid. Felt like they were bigger back then. Sharper. A little scarier, but in a good way. Feels like they’re all cute ‘n soft now. I guess they’ve changed since I was last here.”

… CONFUSED NOISES?? “I-? Okay? Okay. Yeah. No, yeah, that’s— Yup. Makes, uh, makes sense.” Well. The road to awkward is paved with good intentions. “… I miss Iktomisaurs…”

// i cannot Wait ‘til xali gets to be all romancey w/ someone and they’re like haha hey babe i cant feel ur heartbeat….. or ur breathing…. or ur body heat….. so weird haha………

Am I anything? Am I even a person beneath?

What happens to a house when it is left alone? It becomes worn and aged. And its paint peels and its foundations begin to sink. It goes for too long unlived in.

“…. Okay, I see I’ve unlocked the tragic backstory, uh…” Confused gesturing. Because genuinely. What the hell. “You’re, like… Half… Something? Bat? Or whatever? Right? Doesn’t too much acid hurt bats? I’m a people healer, not a bat healer, but— I dunno, man, drink WATER!”

// google is NOT helping me here

A long pause, hands extended like she’s prepared to contain some kins of. Tiny citrusy explosion. And also realizing that, in her helpful intentions, she has no goddamn knowledge of hybrid anatomy, only pure human. “… A-acid?” What the hell. “I mean— That’s… Acidic, right? Does it… Hurt?”

// xali meeting the hounds for the first time like

// xali ‘met u maybe once but ur my little brother and i instinctively am going to mother hen u’ yollocatzin my beloved

“WHAT FR—“ No yelling at the poor boy. Calm down. “What fruit. Which one. I— Listen, your LIFE is in danger here…”

“DO NOT—“ Almost smacks it out of his hands but no, Xali, that’s rude. “… What’s in that. What are you drinking.”

PUT IT DOWN,

i know it's been a year since they diedˎ and that i should be over it by now, but i can't shake this feeling of grief. a part of me is still stuck in that moment they died.

// i’m never sure when 2 throw xali at any of yalls flins bc it would be like a whole Important Character Development scene and i would have to absolutely get out my Deep Xali Lore conspiracy theory encyclopedia to explain but just know . i’m looking at all of u (with love and trepidation)

#GIRP Kyryll Chudomirovich Flins ... But you may call me Flins.

Ah— Infernus caught a poltergeist that was throwing silverware. Even y’all’s ghosts are fancy.

// infernus and vesta looking at xali rn like “mom are we poor”

TWENTY MILLION.

Mondstadt taxpayers, this is what you’re paying for.

I-it’s rotten grape juice that makes you dizzy… I don’t understand…. Fifteen million……