History Fanfic / Liminality

''Back in the age when the gods still walked upon the earth, the deity whom we now worship as Rex Lapis was but one among many.''





''In those days, the rumor among the common folk was that the Lord of Geo was a cold and unfeeling god. His conduct was just in all things and his judgments were rational and dispassionate, but he lacked normal human sentiment. Like the rocks, he was without warmth or softness.''



''Despite this, he has dear friends who have guided him all the way, but no one actually knows about how this unfeeling god met a stranger coming from afar-- whose dazzling smiles and captivating stories helped him to understand human sentiment and mortal bonds.''

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"There are a hundred of stories pertaining to the life of one Rex Lapis and his incognito excursions in the mortal realm, but no one knows about the story how he met someone with the aura of the moon and stars."

* TriangRelations: Type 5. Guizhong is in love with Morax, while Morax is in love with Ying (even if he doesn't realize it).

* BrainsAndBrawn: Morax describes himself and Guizhong as this when he is reassuring her during a moment of crisis.

* GirlOfMyDreams: What Ying is to Morax. Though [[ObliviousToLove he is unaware of it]].

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: A non-romantic variant. Cloud Retainer cares deeply for her friends Guizhong and Morax and only wants them to be happy. She is well aware that Guizhong has feelings for the latter, but is also respectful of the fact that Morax is already in love with another woman. Cloud Retainer chooses to be supportive of them regardless of whatever happens to them.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Guizhong believes that compared to the others, she is a burden due to her inability to participate in fights because of her lack of physical prowess. She can only build things, which in her eyes she sees as being pretty much useless. [[YouAreBetterThanYouThink Morax disagrees]].

* OocIsSeriousBusiness: Guizhong and Cloud Retainer observe that Morax has become this as of late, though they aren't aware that it's because the [[TheStoic God of Contracts]] meets with a girl in his dreams. From being more talkative, to telling others stories that he learns from Ying, to devoting more time to learning to play the song he came across Ying playing one time they realize he is becoming more open with others, albeit still closed off.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThink: Morax tells Guizhong that he values her talent and brains when she has a moment of crisis about being useless.

* JustFriends: While Morax is the brawn to Guizhong's brains, his thoughts see his fellow co-ruler of the Guili Plains as this. A friend that he deeply cherishes and values, but still a friend. Guizhong on her hopes to be more, [[LoveHurts until she finds out about Ying]].

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: A non-romantic variant. Cloud Retainer cares deeply for her friends Guizhong and Morax and only wants them to be happy. She is well aware that Guizhong has feelings for the latter, but is also respectful of the fact that Morax is already in love with another woman. Cloud Retainer chooses to be there for them when it all comes to light.

* MercyKill: Morax does this to [[spoiler: Vassago]] when he finally finds him.

* OocIsSeriousBusiness: Guizhong and Cloud Retainer observe that Morax has become this as of late, though they aren't aware that it's because the [[TheStoic God of Contracts]] meets with a girl in his dreams. From being more talkative, to telling others stories that he learns from Ying, to devoting more time to learning to play the song he came across Ying playing one time.

** Ying describes Morax's eyes as this as well, citing them to be more beautiful than her own brother's.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThink: Morax tells Guizhong this when she has a moment of crisis about being useless during the festival when the miasma was corrupting people.

* AngelicBeauty: Morax sees Ying as this. He describes her as otherworldly to Guizhong when prompted, much to his confusion and to [[LoveHurts her pain]].

* GirlOfMyDreams: Ying is this to Morax. Though [[ObliviousToLove he is unaware of it at first]].
* HearingVoices: Morax deals with this for a time after he catches that flower that fell from the sky. The one that look exactly like the ones in Ying's hair. They begin to die down when he gives her a name at her prompting.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Guizhong believes that compared to the others, she is this due to her inability to participate in fights like the others. She can only build things, which in her eyes she sees as being pretty much useless. [[YouAreBetterThanYouThink Morax disagrees]].

* TheLoad: Guizhong sees herself as this compared to Morax and the other Adepti, unable to fight due to not having the physical prowess to. She very much does not like it.
* LongHairIsFeminine: Ying.
* LoveHurts: Guizhong is very much on the receiving end of this once she learns of Ying.

* FacePalm: Cloud Retainer would very much like to do this after she learns that Guizhong has no idea about Ying, a serious matter considering that the Goddess of Dust is in love with Morax and Morax, as unaware as he is, has feelings for Ying. Too bad that she doesn't have any hands.

Taking place in the middle of the Archon Wars, what if Zhongli when he was still Morax met Lumine in his dreams two thousand years before their canonical meeting? A girl who he calls Ying? And what if he slowly fell in love with this mysterious girl the more they met?

* WhatBeautifulEyes: Morax thinks that Ying's eyes are this during their second meeting. He describes her gold eyes as being that of a regal colour.

* FacePalm: Cloud Retainer would very much like to do this after she learns about Ying and the implications it has for Guizhong. Too bad that she doesn't have any hands due to her being a crane.

* TheLoad: Guizhong sees herself as this compared to Morax and the other Adepti, unable to fight due to not having the physical prowess to.

* GirlOfMyDreams: Lumine is this to Morax. Though [[ObliviousToLove he is unaware of it at first]].

* WhatBeautifulEyes: Morax thinks that Ying's eyes are this during their second meeting. He describes her gold eyes as being that of a regal colour.

Taking place in the middle of the Archon Wars, what if Zhongli when he was still Morax met Lumine in his dreams two thousand years before their canonical meeting? And what if he slowly fell in love with this mysterious girl the more they met?

* LoveHurts: Guizhong is very much on the receiving end of this.
--> And, unbeknownst to him, Guizhong stayed another hour, trying to nurse the unmistakable pain in her chest that she had felt throughout the conversation about her.
* Oblivious to love: Cloud Retainer observes that Morax is this both in regards to Guizhong's feelings towards him, and his own growing feelings for the mysterious woman in his dreams, Ying.