"Hey comrades! It's me, Childe! "
Mics on, a smiling blue narwhal avatar appears by following the movement of the young man in front of the desktop. Tartaglia, the name, but he is 'Childe' when he starts his stream.
Looking at the non-stop comments flooding up makes him happy, but annoyed at the same time. Annoyed, as he replied the question that appears the most time "Of course i'm fine, I wonder how darn the laws in Liyue is working..." He said as his cursed in annoyance "Anyways, yeah, things got on my head suddenly and it's already not the first time. "
"But don't worry comrades, they blame me, I have a contract lawyer now, heh. " "I'm meeting the Mr. Zhong...li? or whatever he is tomorrow. "Tartaglia laughs on purpose as he continues. "Everything about me will be done by him afterwards so, yeah. " "But I don't care about how things will work afterwards, as long as he is reliable or else i'll f**k him for sure. "
Followed by lots of 'ur gay?!' 'me instead' and 'no you don't' or similar comments, the stream gets into the main content about an 'Impact' game.
The stream lasts for almost two hours, once the room is ended, Tartaglia went to his bed straightly and look at his messages using his phone.
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My dearest sister:
Brother Ajax, we received your letter, hope you are doing well.
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Ajax, his real name. He is originally from Snezhnaya, but got sent to Liyue under the name of 'Fatui' by their boss, alias 'The Tsaritsa'. The Fatuis are not real streamers but secretly is crime hackers. They only did streams for covering purpose, their real job is hacking for the national secret in the country they are sent to and bring it to The Tsaritsa. But instead of hacking, Tartaglia enjoys streaming more as he done only 3% of the work given literally every time.
"That's great. " he placed his phone on the table beside his bed and stare blankly at the ceiling.
"Tonia...Anthon...and Teucer..."He thinks of his siblings, that comes first besides of his work far away in Snezhnaya. The negotiation he just came back from really exhaust him, his eyes slowly shut and fall into a calm sleep from the tiredness he got.
He slept through the tiring night until the next morning, thankfully he still can get up on time and get to the law firm.
"You're late. "
"For one minute. "
A magnetic deep voice greeted him once he step into the person's office.
"The bus is late, neither I can help it. "Tartaglia answered, clueless.
Now only the owner of the office room move his sight from the papers, looking at him.
Grey hoodie, ripped jeans, and black sport shoes..., he observed Tartaglia.
'lousy', is the only thing he can thought when he first saw his appearance, only the shoes part can be accepted on his dressing in this occasion.
"Please, have a seat. "he nodded while keep looking at him before clicking on a different document in his desktop.
"Tartaglia, right? "said the man as Tartaglia sits.
Tartaglia nodded, silent.
"You can call me Mr. Zhongli." "As long as the contract is still valid, all of your cases will be my responsibility. "Zhongli speak as he look away from the desktop , into Tartaglia's face.
"Brown pupils huh? Interesting..."
"and beautiful...? "
Tartaglia accidently gasped in shock when he finally realize how far his thought has gone.
"What's the matter? " "Do you have any question? "asked Zhongli.
"N-no, thank you. "Tartaglia coughs softly.
(Tartaglia's pov)Why he looks so familiar...? Have we met before? But...something on him is different and I...don't know what is it...it hurts inside me...
That night, Tartaglia had a dream. He had a quite fancy outfit and gloves on, a grey base outfit with fascinating patterns and design, single-sided red cape, black high boots, and a mask on the left side of his head. He remembers that the 'him' in his dream has a marble-like blue glass ball with a cool pattern on it wears on his belt, shown through the slit on the right side of his outfit. Everything on him has changed, even there's a stroke of white on his ginger hair.
"Childe, sorry if I keep you waiting. "he only realized that he is resting against the fence in front of a building when he heard a voice approaching. His sub-conscious instruct him to turn behind, so he does. He then saw a person, in a suit with the design concept of a dragon. Long and slim ponytail that almost reach his thigh with neon-brown highlight on the tip of his hair except his bangs, showing his sharp amber eyes with red lining under it and the amber eyes with a vertical, straight and slim diamond-shaped pupil, which resembles a dragon. Rex Lapis, the geo archon, also the god of contracts he original is beneath the name 'Zhongli'.
'Mr. Zhongli?' He thought, but he still greeted him "Hey, sensei! "
'Sensei? Why I call him sensei? ' 'Are we that close? 'He questioned, but he still let 'his body' to 'control' him only to observe what will happen next.
The next thing he do is embracing Zhongli's arm, which he really did not expect. But when he look at his face, he is smiling, a kind, and beautiful smile, unlike the Zhongli he met earlier.
"I'm already yours, you don't have the need to cling me like this on the street. "Zhongli is still smiling while he talks, "I just like to cling on sensei, combat comes to the second no matter what when i'm with sensei. "
"We are lovers...? "Things getting confused as Tartaglia frowned.
The scene changes in a blink, and it comes to a hall with full of coins, the golden house.
"And now...is it your turn to stop me...? "Tartaglia pants heavily while talking with a creepy smile. He is in his usual outfit but black color based and a purple cape, holding a double-headed electro enchanted spear. He is suppose to have his mask on, but it already fall off due to combat, showing his face that are cover with blood splattered from the people and even fatui agents that try to stop him. All of them, end up dying from his spear.
"Tartaglia, calm down, please. "Zhongli on the opposite, holding a golden spear.
"Calm? Heh...if you want me to, amuse me then. "At the moment his word end, he dashes straightly to Zhongli with his spear, thunder flashing sharply in his eyes.
"Please, Tartaglia, calm, your delusion is backlashing you. "Zhongli blocked all of his attack physically, but got no response from him as he keeps attacking.
"Ajax! Calm down! "Zhongli blocked an attack with all of his power, causing Tartaglia to fall backwards and drops his spear.
"Sensei..." said the younger weakly, clear tears that slowly turns into blood tears roll down from his cheek as he went back normal again. "Kill me, please..."
Zhongli tightened the grip on his spear, he had killed and sealed many adeptus and demons into darkness as Morax before, he even lost many that he cherish---Guizhong, Azhdaha...and even more to assume. Throughout the 6000 years, it was lonely for him as he can live immortally. But this time, his inner tells him that he can't lose this human no matter what.
"Tartaglia..."Zhongli is silence for a moment before he keep away his weapon. "Ever since I become a fatui harbinger, my whole life is a sin... " "No, get back all the thoughts, it's just your delusion backlashing you..." "Promise me, you'll be ok..." "Wait--! " Before Zhongli could stop him, Tartaglia summons back his spear and pierce through his abdomen.
"No, Tartaglia, look at me, please..."Zhongli dashed towards him kneel down beside him, carefully let Tartaglia rest on his lap. His movement is very gentle, he don't want to hurt him anymore.
"Don't cry, sensei... " "This is what I deserve...at least my filthy blood didn't stain your glorious Vortex Vanquisher. "Tartaglia's voice is very quiet, he coughed a mouthful of blood before he can even finish his sentence.
"My dear Tonia...Teucer and Anthon...can I leave them to you? " Tartaglia smiles, he felt the cold from his home once again after many years away from his home, Snezhnaya.
"No, take care of them by yourself, they are YOUR siblings. "Zhongli shook his head as he hold onto the cold hand that reaches for him and place it against his cheek.
"I didn't beg you before, sensei... " "But this time...please...and, ...thank you... "Tartaglia said before he completely lost his conscious.
Zhongli let go of the hand that he is holding. As expected, it falls down heavily, followed by a drop of warm tears coming out from the eyes of the archon that was once stone-hearted, dropped on top of the cold corpse's face.
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Tartaglia cried himself to wake from the dream, it's been a long time for him to cry that he can't even remember the last time he cried.
"It hurts, really hurts... "Tartaglia covers his eyes with his hand as tears flowing out from his eyes unstoppable while he tightens his grip on his clothing against his chest with his free hand.
It takes him a moment, until his doorbell rings.
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Welp, I came back with a new topic of ffs(yeah, i'm rotten in genshin already :')
Just trying a new concept to write haha
part 2 will be continue based on the situation ;)
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ℂ𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕤[A Tartali AU]
FanfictionChilde, Tartaglia, or Ajax, which is his real name, is a viral streamer by the Alias 'Childe'. As a streamer, he just needs to sit in front of his desk and money will comes to him eventually. If freedom can be a person, then it would definitely be h...