[Repost] The Rite Of Partings

[Repost] The Rite of Partings…

🐳Tartaglia x Lumine🐳

Summary:

On the Eve of Lantern Rite, Childe had finished his dispatch in Liyue. A year has passed, and he can finally go home, yet, a part of him still reminisce his time in Liyue.

Tags: not a reader insert, Lumine is the traveller, chilumi, fluff, edited, reposting

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“Master Childe, all preparations are ready to board, ” Ekerinka said. With a clipboard in hand, she went over the list once again to make sure everything had been packed, sealed and ready to go. 

Childe stood by the lobby of Northland Bank looking at the big four walls. He began to reminisce about the time he had spent working in this place. Liyue is very different compared to Snezhnaya, despite he wasn’t all that keen to be dispatched in Liyue in the first place; there was a sudden sadness of longing in his heart. 

He will miss this place. The place where danger and actions lurk at every corner.

It was fun, and Childe made sure to have all the fun he wants before he departs this city for good. 

“Master Childe?” Ekerinka asked, once more.

“Yes?” Childe replied without looking back at his subordinate. 

"Are there anything else you wish to add to your packing list?” She asked, pen ready in her hand.

Childe gave a hum and shrugged. He didn’t really have much to pack, other than the trophies the won from fights, as well as souvenirs for his siblings. Besides that, there really wasn’t much as Ekerinka insisted otherwise.

“Nothing, I don’t have anything more to bring back,” Childe replied. He turned to leave the building for some fresh air; inhaling the scent of the harbour once more before departing tonight. 

“Are you sure, Master Childe? Others have requested a lot more items to bring back to the Snezhnaya. Although we do have a space limit on the ship, if you don’t have additional cargo, then I will allocate your space quota to the others.” Ekerinka stated.

However, as she finished her sentence, Childe had already opened the door and left. Fresh air filled his lungs as he wandered through the streets. The Harbour looked quite different from usual, as the members of the Qixing were busy making preparations for this year’s Lantern Rite.

Childe had remembered his first Lantern Rite. The atmosphere was certainly festive and he will admit it was nice to see all the lanterns and decorations, however, he didn’t think it fit into his definition of fun.

During his first year, he was busy collecting debt and finishing his work to even participate, which, he told himself there is always going to be next year. Next year he will be able to see what the festival is all about. Now here he is, a year past and he’s leaving on the night of the festival.

He chuckled on that thought. Such a shame.

Maybe he should have bought a kamera to capture the moments, a little something to show the little ones back home. However, Childe shook his head against the idea. It’s never a good idea to buy imported gadgets in Liyue. They mark up the prices way too high than the original price tag. 

Walking along the docks, he watches as people and children make lanterns in all different shapes and sizes. The Moon Craver Lantern was impressive, it stood with grace and strength at the centre, as if he was looking over Liyue.

For a moment, Childe thought he was lost in the atmosphere, only to be broken off when he saw a Snezhnayan ship docked by the port. The small smirk faded. 

He will miss Liyue. He will miss the buzziling and loud merchants of the city. He ought to ask Zhongli to spar, however, everytime Childe went to the funeral parlor, Zhongli was almost never there. It was until the reception told the Harbinger that Zhongli was away, the young man finally gave up. He will admit that it doesn’t feel all too good to leave past grudges unresolved.

He walked along the streets, having heard Paimon in the background talking to food vendors and commissioners from the Qixing, Childe couldn’t help but play a small game of finding the Traveler amongst the busy crowd. This game has became a small habit of his.

Lumine. 

He will miss Lumine. Not soley for her unique skills, but also the adventure she could go on. To cross mountains and oceans of the unknown is sure alluring to the young Harbinger. This brought a rather conflicted feeling in his chest. Should he be loyal to Tsarista having to be blessed by her majesty and as a duty of a Harbinger? Or, should he abandon his post and just travel with Lumine and jump into the dangerous unknown where his heart desires the most?

His heart fluttered for a moment, before shaking his head to clear the conflicted clouded thoughts. He remembers his ultimate goal since he joined the Fatui, to be the strongest person in the whole of Teyvat, even stronger than the Archons themselves. At that thought alone, he made up his mind. 

Thus, he gave the Blonde hair traveler one last look and turned away. Childe was sure they would both meet again. She made a pinky promise to Teucer, and unresolved grudges back in the Golden House need to be resolved, after all.

On the night of departing, Childe looked out to the port from the deck. He already had his coat ready. The sea out back to Snezhnaya will be a frosty one, but he welcomes it. He misses his family, and though, he will leave Liyue, his heart will always think about the exciting things he saw and engaged during his stay. Liyue was nice, but nothing beats having his family bavk in Snezhaya.

The ship’s engine began to rumble and slowly, it floated further and further away from the docks. Ekerina and the other’s from Northlandbank waved their goodbyes at the port.

As the orange lanterns ascended towards the sky one by one, illuminating Liyue was a beautiful yellow gold. It was certainly a sight to behold. Childe wished he had bought a kamera.

As the lanterns floated towards the sky, some followed the sea wind and blew towards the ship, as one lantern came towards Childe, he gently took it and observed the handiwork. Chuckling as the thought of such activity to be cute. He had heard it was customary to write one’s wishes onto the lantern before letting it fly. Growing a little curious, he thought it wouldn’t hurt to take a little peek at this stranger’s wish.

Carefully he turned towards the writing, and read it.

Letting a laugh, Childe shook his head and with care, he pushed the lantern up, letting it float higher and higher into the air. He watched as it joined the rest. 

In a small voice he said, “I hope your wish will comes true, Comrade.”

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“I wish I could share this moments with Aether”

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Author's notes:

This was written, I believe, after the first lantern rite. I first posted this in A03 before I deleted it. (don't ask)

(C) Punishing Eden

Hello, long time no see, I hope I don't waste your time, or disturb your rest.

I want to request a headcanon for Gray Raven members and Chrome regarding that I finally graduated from my college major, Sociology on May 31st yesterday. I want to know how they celebrate or congratulate me. Thank you very much.

BEEP BEEP... Incoming communication call...Notification: 4 messages

-> <<Accept?>> @runnipost

Incoming comms... <<OPEN>>

Dear Commandant,

Today is the day that you will receive your diploma. Your hard work has finally paid off, and I wish you a happy graduation. Things are going smoothly back here at the base. Lee and I will make sure our common room is well taken care of while you are gone.

To be honest, I don't understand the pursue of an additional education since, you have been very busy with duties and mission, it makes me worried. Yet, this is your decision, and I fully support it no matter what.

Commandant, seeing you work so hard, I want to be there for you, and to do my utter best to be by your side. So, let's work together, Commandant.

-Lucia

Incoming comms... <<OPEN>>

Dear Commandant,

Happy graduation day! I hope you will have a wonderful day at the ceremony. It would be nice if we all can come to attend because, we are happy for you, Commandant. I like to take this moment to thank you for all your hard work. There are times where I worry about your health since you are pushing yourself so hard.

But, Lucia said you will be fine, and I should put my trust in you. Oh, I am glad that you are finally graduating!

Also, I have placed a few refreshments and electrolyte fluids in your bag. Please, use them when you see fit.

-Liv

Incoming comms... <<OPEN>>

Dear Commandant,

Congratulations on your graduation. Liv had made the suggestion that each of us should record a message for you. Though, I am not the best at communicating, know that I am happy for you, [Y/n] .

While you are attending the ceremony, I will be filling your reports and paperwork for you at the time being. I predict, the the speed I am working in, it will all be done within 2 hours, so you don't need to fret and just enjoy your day.

-Lee

Incoming comms... <<OPEN>>

Dear Commandant of Grey Raven,

As captain and on behalf of Strike Hawk, congratulations. I am very glad you made it. Having heard your worries and hardships in the past, I couldn't help but to worry about your well being. However, working along side with you, and getting to know you, I have come to realise that you are a strong person, and could overcome hardships even when times were rough. Right now, this is just one of the many great things you have overcome.

And, I find that very admirable...

So please, Commandant, go enjoy your day. You earned it-

COMMANDANT!

O-oi! Kamui!

*Yawn* What time is it? Did the Grey Raven Commandant left already?...Shucks... Oh well, I can congratulate Commandant next time... Zzzz...

Hehe, captain what are you doing? This is for Grey Raven's Commandant right?

K-Kamui...please... we are filming...

Why is it that every time we are trying to do something serious, you have to come along and ruin it? It's fine, Liv, we still have time to rerecord and send it.

Hello? Congratulations, Commandant! Must be good to finally not pull a lot of all nighters, right? We should do something to celebrate your big day, why not throw a party! Captain! we could use our common room to host it! Wanshi can make the banner, and I can bring in the snacks!

...zzzzzzzzz... yeah...count me...in...zzzzzzzz....

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Kamui, please, we don't need to throw a party for Commandant. Kamui! I said, NO!......These two... Sorry about that, can we record again?

<<End of message>>

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Author's Notes:

Congratulations!!!! You finally did it! I am so happy for you! Sorry that I took me a while to get to this, but nevertheless, congratulations!

I remember how you first started out in my asks, and I am so glad you didn't give up. This is such a happy ending I made this a little extra special :) you deserve it for working so hard!

I hope you with many success this day forward, and I wish you all th best!!

-Punishing Eden

Hello, I want to ask for a headcannon regarding how Liv and Chrome deal with my condition, a person who is picky about eating vegetables and fruit. Are they going to advise me or what? Because I was really picky and often refused to eat some food if it's contain things like eggplant, papaya and so on, end up having stomachache.

Thank you very much.

Operation: E.Y.G....

Pgr Chrome + Liv Head canons

Tags: Fluff, headcanons

You have a bad habit, and you know it. Yet, it never bothered you. Finishing your meal, you got up from your seat in the cafeteria. With the food tray in your hands, you walked up to the utensil collection station; not knowing, there were a pair of eyes looking at you, as you returned your food tray, still, with untouched greens on it...

Liv (Benediction)

Your pickiness is driving her into a frantically frenzy.

She would first tell you about your bad habit of being picky with your vegetable.

You promised her to change.

Until, Liv walked into the cafeteria one day, and saw your vegetables on your plate, untouched.

She gets upset, "C-Commandant! Did you hear what I said a week ago?!"

In reality, you never put what she said about eating your greens at heart. You forgot about it completely.

Ever since, Liv would make extra effort to give you reminders to eat your greens.

"Commandant, don't forget to eat this at least [insert healthy amount] of fibre." she said.

Her tone is never harsh or mean. More so, her tone is soft, but firm.

Sometimes, she would watch you eat, and will not leave until you finishes everything in the plate.

Usually, she won't take such extreme measures, but she couldn't gurantee that you would stick to your promise.

Besides, it's nice to break out of a bad habit.

Chrome (Archlight)

One day, Chrome was looking for you. He heard you were at the cafeteria, hence he went, and saw you eating by yourself.

He walked up to you to ask a series of questions and other mission related things. Only to constantly get distracted by the untouched greens on your plate.

Once the conversation ended, Chrome watched, as you threw away the greens and place the food tray at the collection station.

It bugged him to some extent, yet, he refrains from voicing his opinion, as he believed it was none of his business.

However, the notions of, "A good Commandant, is a healthy Commandant", was something Chrome also firmly believes.

He can't risk to have a mission go wrong if you weren't in the fittest condition.

Unlike Liv, he would, somehow, coax you you increase your intake of fibre and leafy greens.

Such as, randomly put out facts about the benefits of eating vegetables. Or, he would suggest you taking supplements under the guise of, "I heard they help improve your immune system and organ function."

You never caught on. Yet, you never really gave in.

It's not a must for Chrome to get you to stay healthy as with Liv, however if it does impact your health in a huge way, he will not be on standby.

(C) Punishing Eden

The Corruption Starts Within...

The Corruption Au

Pgr Headcanons and Concept

An idea I always have since I started playing this game. I always wonder, what if data chips like Koya are corrupted, as in file corruption, making them unstable, and dangerous to use.

Tag: Au, interpretation of the lore, data chip character(s), concept, mostly about Koya

As we all know, the data chips are memory/battle data from past constructs.

It seems (don't quote me on this), that the data of the chips are sentient to some extent, and are willing to help our constructs in sharing their battle data.

What if there are a few Data chips that are not so willing or friendly?

Koya's memory data is deemed unstable.

The instability was likely due to the damage of his inner device as he (Koya) tried to make a recall while he was ultimately ripped to shreds.

The incomplete/interruption of recall would corrupt file. Amosiv and his team would have to decipher and save the memory data that managed to survive.

I would imagine that Koya's data pysche would be very different from his usual self as well. Like, he wouldn't want to talk to anybody, or refuse to give people an answer.

Holding rage and bitterness about what had happened, as he likely only retained memories of that incident.

And, because of this, constructs who would uses Koya's Data chip would experience mania.

Because the memory data is unstable and corrupted, I think Koya can somewhat influence, or even control the hosting construct, by the data infiltrating the M. I. N. D.

In other words, Koya can either mind control, or take over the hosting contruct's body.

You can see your constructs starting to act a little weird, or a bit out of character because of it.

To be continued?

(C) Punishing Eden

so. i found out where the fandom get its delicious official art from(i love cn servers for this)

here’s some of the official arts i found that i dont think are being circulated about the fandom as much. TIME TO UPDATE YOUR WALLPAPERS GUYS

enjoy

this is like one of the rare times i appreciate knowing chinese. the chinese wikis>>> they have so many high quality official arts. and all the fanart is also linked to it. there are some upright ones for phones too

yall dm me if theres a particular chatacter you want i have some more downloaded(but its mostly the guys)

Punishing : Gray Raven, chibi models collection.

One second before Kamui get his ass beaten.

Also Lee is smiling. Damm. Precious boy.

You can see Watanabe cooking in the back as well.

Lee is an oversized sassy cat, Kuro seems to agree.

Also can you guess the characters in Bambinata's hands? I can see Vera Garnet.

How many cats in the pic?

Don't count out Lee.

If you look closely, in the back, strike hawk members is running away from enraged Chrome.

What did they do that even Camu running for his life...

Some others