𝐁𝐄𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐍 • genshin impact

Friendly Adjustments • aether & reader

Main Characters ✰ Reader (You), Aether

Synopsis ✰ One sunny day, Aether finally realizes his teapot furnitures are missing or either turning up on places he doesn't remember putting them at. Alert yet intrigued, he decides to investigate the mysterious entity messing with his humble abode. Unbeknownst to him, this enigmatic person that drives him insane may or may not be from beyond a screen.

Author's Notes ✰ Reader is not controlling the character Aether in this story, since the Traveler moves around their teapot while [Y/N] arranges shit around their home. Some things here just basically don't make sense.

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As the morning sun's bright rays shone upon the grassy lands of his humble abode, golden eyes peered open to take a look at his room's ceiling. Turning to his side, Aether was greeted with the sun harshly landing on his face. He squints from the contact, before backing himself to the wall to let his eyes rest.

A few seconds later, his tired eyes landed on his feather earring on top of the nightstand, reminding him yet again of another busy day to come. He sighed and got off the bed. He stretched his arms in the process, causing a flower vase to crash down the floor.

Aether winced at the sharp sound, his tired self now fully-awake after hearing such a loud noise. He put a palm to his face to calm down, thinking of cleaning up the mess he made on such a bright day. Although he doesn't remember putting that teal vase on his nightstand, Aether decided that he'll deal with it later after eating breakfast. He had to get ready and fix himself first.

Putting a distance between him and the shattered vase, he leaves his room to get ready for an upcoming busy day. Before even leaving his own enclosed space, he can already hear the strings of Venti's lyre being tuned downstairs along with his constant sneezing. As he shut the door and walked along the mansion's carpeted hallways, he failed to notice a clinking sound that resounded throughout his now-empty room.

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"You've gotta be kidding me," you muttered to yourself as you set your sights on a nightstand with no furnishing on top.

"Don't tell me it's another bug again," you grunted to yourself as you skimmed throughout your mansion for the umpteenth time this week. You remember putting a teal vase beside your Traveler's bedside table last night. When you logged in the next day, it was gone.

That's just one example of some furnishings going missing in your teapot. You remember placing a white cat beside Venti which suddenly disappeared, only to find the small ball of fluff outside the following day, cuddling a lonely Razor.

You've e-mailed HoYoverse on the matter, yet they replied with a vague statement and something about Ayaka's breakfast. These missing furnishings were not a big deal to you back then, but having to craft them every time they get missing is starting to annoy you now.

You've convinced yourself that this is just a bug, ignoring your deluded self that thought 'Oh, maybe this is one of those self-aware AUs I've read on the Internet! Maybe the characters themselves are moving these small furnishings–!'

Ridiculous, you thought to yourself.

As you went back on your Traveler's bedroom, you angled the camera to get a bird's eye view, your eyes narrowing once again at the empty nightstand. "Well, someone didn't like that vase," you whispered out to your quiet room.