forget me, my dear (and my grave will sleep soundly)
Book 1 of gone are the condemned, the elegies for the living
Language: English
Akasha (Genshin Impact) Ambiguous/Open Ending Angst Childhood Completed Cyno & Tighnari (Genshin Impact) Cyno (Genshin Impact) Cyno Tells Bad Jokes (Genshin Impact) FanFiction Flowers Found Family Gardens Gen Growing Up Hurt No Comfort Hurt/Comfort Irrationality Let Tighnari say Fuck (exactly once) Memory Alteration Memory Loss Naphis Naphis & Tighnari Nilou & Tighnari (Genshin Impact) Nilou (Genshin Impact) Nilou needs a hug Nostalgia Pre-Canon Sumeru Akademiya (Genshin Impact) Symbolism Tighnari & Tighnari's Father Tighnari (Genshin Impact) Tighnari Needs a Hug (Genshin Impact) Tighnari's Father Wisdom because honestly there's both k I'll stop now lol major beta reader death this time featuring! 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Publisher: archiveofourown.org
Published: Nov 30, 2022
Description:
“Did I know you?” Tighnari blurts out, before they can let go and be on their separate ways.
Nilou pauses in her motion of retracting her hand. She tilts her head. “What do you mean, Tighnari?”
“...I don’t know.” Tighnari breathes out heavily through his nose. “I keep getting the feeling that I know you, that I’ve seen you somewhere, but I can’t place my finger on it.”
Then, a thought occurs to him. “Nilou, have you ever danced in the forest?”
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Cyno regards him for a moment longer, then lets out a breath that can perhaps only be described as fond. “Such an irrational statement, for someone who studies in the nation of wisdom.”
“I know.” The Amurta student shifts, surprising even himself. “I’ve been irrational for a while, I think.”
“Really?”
“Really.”
OR: Tighnari grows up as a child of the forest in more ways than one. And then, he enters the city, exchanging memories of impossible spirits and illusory gardens for wisdom and knowledge.
It's not a fair trade.
OR OR: A story about growing up.