[ like ashes in water ]

Prologue

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In this AU, there are three tiers of the world. The Underworld, Groundlevel, and Skylands. They are all apart of Tevyat, and meld together to make a complete planet.

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Rulers:

Skylands: Barbatos, Tsaritsa

Groundlevel: Zhongli, Nahida, Focalors

Underworld: Raiden Ei/Shogun, Murata

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Species Types:

Gods: Rules over their own nation in one of the three tiers/dimensions that they share with another god/gods

Royalty: The Gods and their family, has wings colored accordingly with their hair color

Angels: Black/white wings (birdlike)

Devils: Black/white wings (dragonlike)

Fairies: All colors of wings, turns see-through after sin/corruption

Humans: Can be gifted Visions by Gods

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Scaramouche, bodily age is 2500 (created 5000 years ago)

5000 years ago, war broke out between the Underworld and Skylands. The Skylands' forces were formidable, and Inazuman rulers had to step in and fight alongside their nation. With them preoccupied with war, the Underworld throne was emtpy. So, Kunikuzushi was created, made to be a substitute for the throne. His reign came to an end when Beezlebul and Yae Miko came back from war. There was no need for an extra person for the throne, so Kunikuzushi was powered down, frozen in time. Thousands of years later, in a freak accident, Kunikuzushi was turned on again. With the realization that he was cast aside like a useless piece of trash, anger and hatred filled him. Leaving his past life behind, he decided to join the infamous Fatui, which was a notorious mercenary guild under the rule of Tsaritsa, the Cryo God in Skylands. Kunikuzushi was no more. There was only Scaramouche, the 6th Fatui Harbinger.

Childe, Age 2400

Ajax was born as the third son in a noble dukedom in Snezhnaya. However, his presence in the family was small to none. In his large family of 7 children, Ajax was neither the oldest nor the youngest. Ajax was always behind his siblings' shadows. In his early years, an attempted kidnapping resulted in him being trapped in the Abyss. In the Abyss there were no rules, except for the strong eat the weak. One had to fight in order to survive. So Ajax fought and fought, and after hundreds of years struggling to keep himself alive, he finally made it back out. His family, for once, actually cared and worried about him. But you can't easily repair a heart that's already been broken. Ajax soon left the dukedom, and joined the Fatui. He threw himself into work, trying to cover up his past as well as possible, and gained the title of Childe: the 11th Fatui Harbinger.

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Yes, Scaramouche and Childe do have a large age gap, but keep in mind, Scaramouche was frozen in time at the age of 2000, (20 years old if it doesn't make sense), and woken up again after 2000 years. And the present is 500 years later since he has woke up
(Age conversion is 100 = 1 year, simple math, use a calculator if needed)

La Signora is alive. (omg I magically revived her from ashes!!)

Scaramouche's wings were originally dark indigo, but he takes potions to turn them into completely black angel wings. Taking the potion too often is fatal to devils/angels, but his blood is Royalty, which means his lifespan is longer than normal devils.

(Lifespan of a Royal is longer than normal creatures.)

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WARNING - this fanfic (will probably) contain the following:

- Violence
- Suggestive Content
- Slight NSFW
- Gore (killing, cutting, stabbing...etc.)
- Angst (it won't be that bad tho)
- Mental Illness
- Manipulation
- Guilt Tripping
-Gaslighting
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Foul Language
- Drugs
- Manslaughter
- Very Super Bad Crimes

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ATTENTION - there will be mentions of multiple ships. If any of them make you uncomfortable, please skip the chapter or cover ur eyes or something.

I ain't planning that far so I'm not listing them down right now. I'll be putting warnings of any sensitive content before each chapter.

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If you are uncomfortable with any of the listed warnings/ships, either stop, or proceed with caution.

There will be warnings before a chapter that contains any of the listed.

Wrote this wayyy earlier but I lost interest and motivation. I picked this back up but wanted to change some stuff. Was going to plan things out with a chart, but could NOT STAND THAT GODDAMN THING...so I'll mostly be freestyling.

Keeping things a bit more on the mild side, no sex or whatev. (at least not explicitly described, maybe mentions?? they might not even get to that base...)

Still debating whether to make side chapters with NSFW, idk if I want to go down that rabbit hole (not that I can't write smut, just if I wanna)

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I do not own Genshin Impact or any of its' characters

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Enjoy your read❤️😌

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