thinks so hard about him wanting to keep the cock cage on MORE when he's in heat... the rest of the time he's just sort of a scamp who gets horny and wants to hump things. some weird dominance thing he does for fun (he wants to get pushed over and humped instead) but when he's in heat allll he can think abt is taking dick. like his dick is hard and leaking all the time but that's not even what he's thinkin about he just becomes a whimpery hole that has to use all of his self control to not constantly bend over and present to people. hips up and rubbing at himself through his cage begging to get stuffed and bred and lowkey getting off on the fact he can't use his dick so he really is just a hole needing to be fucked rn....

IT'S SOOOO SO GOOD i adore them playing into it... two of fontaine's most respected men sullying their own titles by throwing them back and forth in the bedroom. it's both affectionate and mocking. the fearsome warden of Meropide servicing Fontaine's Chief Justice. "does that feel good, your Honour?" "Mmm, Such a lovely mouth on you, your Grace..." IT'S SOOOO GOOOOOODDDD .. especially as they both lose their cool a bit and their voices both get more desperate. sure they could just moan each others name's but "oh--f-fuck-- Iudex~!" has such a nice ring to it. and Neuvillette's brain is too scrambled to think enough to remember either of their names so "your Grace" and "Duke" are what comes out. maybe a "Warden" here and there.

their erotic roleplay has gotta be insane

HEHEEE THANK UUU i adore taru so much.. every time he mentions the Tsaritsa he has such an interesting sense of adoration. not to call him a Puppy all the time but he literally talks like a dog fawning over its owner
the way he talks about her being a Gentle Soul that had to harden herself just makes me think there is some intimacy to their dynamic. maybe that's what he's gleaned from watching her and their relationships is a bit more parasocial but i think there's equal potential that he's had those close moments to get to learn who she is beyond his God.

i don't think she's replaced his mother at all i think he's still a mama's boy but i imagine after falling into the abyss he probably lost some of that closeness. he went from being a cuddly kid that needed his mama a lot to a teenager that nobody got too close to. i imagine in the abyss skirk probably knocked him around a little bit, even when at first he might've tried going to her for comfort and only got told to toughen up-- skirk doesn't exactly strike me as maternal in the slightest. so by the time childe got back home not only was his behavior scaring people off but i can imagine he himself started to deny himself hugs and kisses, even when his mama kept insisting he was still her baby :( and it just grew into a dynamic where he still loves her to death and his mama loves him but in her mind it's a case of "oh he just grew out of needing and wanting hugs" so she doesn't offer them. and childe tends to deny himself the right to be close to others so he doesn't ask for hugs.

and the tsaritsa can see that in him. this warrior who holds his head high but is also overflowing with loneliness that she can't help but want to help him. whether it's bc she actually wants the best for him or bc she just wants an obedient dog is smth we might only learn over time, and maybe even childe is aware of that but he can't help but indulge in having that sort of maternal figure back in his life. intimacy frightens him but there is something about the Tsaritsa that just calms him from a frightened stray to a docile lapdog. i know arlecchino also sees the Tsaritsa as very kind but at the same time she doesn't seem nearly as blindly devoted, and scaramouche seems straight up distrustful of her. i love that childe sees himself as just a weapon and ignores his own humanity so much he might not realize just how weak he is to emotion (striving for love and affection while having very few actual friends, being really hurt when people are mean to him. easy to tease. he's very soft)

i just need them in public seated together a bit off to the side and zhongli leans over and starts out all sweet.. calling him cute. telling him he looks handsome in this lighting. you chose your outfit well.... it's a shame it might be ruined when i tear it off you later.
muttering about they're gonna do when they get home. or perhaps childe would rather they go to the bathroom to have some fun and just hope nobody catches them. whenever zhongli dirty talks to him like this in private he loves watching childe's hand slowly drift between his legs and starts egging him on. that's right... touch yourself for me..... but in public he gets the satisfaction of watching childe's leg start to bounce and his fingers twitch and loves the moment where childe shudders and whines bc he knoooows he's so desperate rn. he's trying so hard to maintain his composure but when he glances over at zhongli and they make eye contact he's got that subby look in his eyes, brows slightly furrowed, biting the inside of his lip. it's so subtle but zhongli knows that look soooo so well it's his favourite thing in the world. but poor childe gets a simple little kiss for now he gets to spend the rest of the evening until they go home with his legs weak and his underwear wet bc he's leaking all over himself.

YOU GET MEEEEEE he never got to have his awkward teenage years so now he has to experience them as a man in his mid-late twenties. the true queer experience

pls fem!zhongli thinking she's being all suave and sexy asking childe to get her bra for her and she can feel his hands shaking a bit. thinks it's cute. but it starts taking a suspiciously long amount of time she has to turn around like.. are.... are you okay....? and he just puts his head in his hands like "why is this so hard WHY ARE THEY DESIGNED THAT WAY"

patting his shoulder telling him it's okay and reassuring him he's not a loser and cheers him up by taking the bra off herself and letting him suck her titties. works like a charm. (he gets plowed by lady cock after)

he's so in denial that he's a size queen but every time zhongli walks out of the bedroom in his pyjama pants/house robe or anything that isn't his usual trousers childe will NOT be hearing a single word he says. pausing in the middle of reading to just stare at the outline of zhongli's dick as he walks around. he is not hearing a single word zhongli is saying until zhongli literally stands in front of him and snaps his fingers. grabs a pillow to hold in front of himself bc he KNOWS what childe is so distracted by. he tries to insist he's being normal about it "what?? i'm not obsessed! it's normal to... think about your partner's uh....assets. often. yeah." meanwhile he is behind on his workload with the bank bc he keeps just staring at the wall thinking abt zhongli's dick all day

PLEASE... I LOVE IT... emotionally troubled childe i love you.... also childe premature ejaculation i also love u i love the idea that he can't help it he just cums super fast almost every time
it's not just zhongli calling him a "good boy" to make him cum it's that he does it more after. childe shaking and whimpering kind of struggling to recover bc he's overstimulated and zhongli gently rubs his back and covers him in kisses and tells him how good he is. "you're such a good boy... you did so well for me, dear. i'm so proud of you for handling that well..." and childe sort of hiccups and his shoulder shake but it's not from the aftershocks anymore it's bc he's just. so. frazzled. and zhongli's voice sounded so genuine it kind of hit him hard and he has to sit up and wipe tears off his face apologizing bc he doesn't know what just came over him. zhongli so sweetly telling him it's okay and giving him a nice kiss and childe almost gets choked up again.

i love him and the tsaritsa having a real loaded relationship. the idea that she sort of treats childe like her favourite bc he's so young compared to the other harbingers. he's the baby. and although she might not claim the title of "goddess of love" anymore she can't just let childe stand by and be torn apart by the others and constantly picked on. she recognizes his loneliness and calls him in to see her in private one day and he thinks he's going to get a special mission briefing but she just. pats the side of her thigh, gesturing for him to sit beside her. he hesitates bc he knows that's kind of inappropriate but she insists, patting her leg again. and even if he has a weird feeling he can't say no to his God so he steps forward and gently sits down and she places a hand on the other side of his head to pull him close to rest his head on her lap. he's so obviously uncomfortable like he has no idea what's going on or why she's doing this but she starts carding her fingers through his hair and praising him and he can't help but relax. nearly dozing off as she tells him how good of a job he does as her vanguard. eyes closed napping on the lap of his Tsaritsa as she whispers sweet praise to him. she recognizes childe probably has some Emotional Neglect issues bc of a turbulent relationship with his peers and family as a teenager and it's sort of a 50/50 toss up on whether she wants to fulfil that motherly role for him out of love and care and concern, or if she sees it as a way to ensure he never defects from his role under her. hell even childe is aware of the fact he can't entirely know what his relationship with her is and he never knows if he can truly be comfortable being that close with her but he also can't stop himself from indulging when she calls him in to take a nap beside her

but god when it's zhongli doing it. praising him and making him sit at his feet as he pets his hair. he just. knows that's love. that it's genuine. it's not a ploy to make him stay it's just zhongli doing what he wants to do. and i think it would hit him really hard just having that emotional security of being loved unconditionally. no ulterior motives no worries about what it means. it's just love. it's just zhongli. and the fact he can get off on that praise is just an added bonus. i like to think childe is a bit obsessed with doing favours and tasks for zhongli like he'll drop everything if zhongli even vaguely mentions needing something. "oh-- we're out of onion. i'll head to the shops later to--" and childe is already putting his boots on going "oh i've got it!" even though he was just busy with something else. he will do anything for praise especially zhongli's praise. there have been many times where he's gone to do something like buy vegetables and when he comes home zhongli sees he got really good quality produce. so zhongli praises him for it. "oh-- thank you, childe! you really bought a fine selection-- you've got a great eye for quality...." and his voice trails off and he looks down and see that literally just that sort of simple basic praise got childe hard. one "thank-you, darling. you're so sweet." and childe will start dripping down his legs.

i think at this point in the story saying just friend is a bit too simple? i think "mutual respect" is the better term. 100% i think childe sees the traveler as his friend bc he's lonely and sort of hyper-attaches to anyone who is slightly nice to him but i think the traveler is slowly letting go of their initial biases of him and it's gotten to a point of "okay if we see him we can't assume he's doing bad shit he might just be vibing but we gotta be ready. just in case." bc childe is a wildcard. like that's why he's so dangerous bc he's an attack dog that's ready to go at all times even when he's just hanging out. and i think the traveler is becoming aware of those multiple sides of his. we went from "the fatui is pure evil!!!" and seeing childe go to extremes to achieve his goals to seeing him be kicked around bc he really is the underdog among the harbingers. watching him put himself in harm's way to protect his brother (without taking any credit for it) but also seeing him attack Neuvillette as his version of 'solving problems'. alongside getting to know more members of the Fatui like Lyney and Lynette (and while i do get why the traveler was distrustful of them when they found out they were fatui it still bugs me that they didn't even hesitate to get angry at them even after all we did and how we got to know them :( . especially considering they were acting so friendly with a harbinger that they initially never trusted right beforehand.) and even getting to see arlecchino, another harbinger, act cruel when her end goal always had the children's best interest in mind.

i think a big part of fontaine's story has been the traveler seeing that the Fatui are not purely evil. they definitely are not good they do bad things and take extreme measures to achieve their goals but they are not monsters. and that's one of the things i've always appreciated abt the stories of like childe and scara and arlecchino. i don't think they ever took the route of "omg look see!!! they are a good guy they are misunderstood they are angels!!!" it's been more "they are people. they have multiple facets. they have their reasons for what they do, even the seemingly evil actions may be for good causes" which i ADORE bc i don't necessarily want my villains ~redeemed~ just so they can be playable/side with the protagonist i like the amount of grey morality they display and the fact it is literally written all over them that they are morally grey (both arlecchino and childe wear primarily grey attire or at least have a mixed balance of black/white on them. and scara's design has gone from primarily black to much more balanced-- which fits him considering he used to do a lot of shitty things when he was hurting from trauma and being used and now that he's healing he's getting better at being kind) and i hope as more harbingers come out and become playable we get to see different levels of it. i want playable capitano who is a complete sweetheart who might be a bit emotionally distant, and playable dottore who has no redeeming qualities whatsoever

i am one of the people that was a bit thrown off when we got to fontaine and the traveler was so buddy-buddy with childe suddenly not bc i want the traveler to hate him but like... the last time we saw him we were literally trying to convince yoimiya to distrust him. he was just hanging out in the woods talking about his family and he traveler tried to convince yoimiya not to hang out with him. that's not a thing friends do.... and i think i could've come to accept "okay maybe the traveler and him learned to get along.. like.... off screen....?" if they hadn't dumped his ass in the end of the story like ur telling me paimon was stoked to see him after our last meeting entailed us shit-talking him, then we don't even have the decency to be worried about him when he passed out after saving the courthouse ?? i was waiting for literally anyone to go "omg we have to check on childe!!!" after he saved the courthouse and fought off the whale but not even a peep 😭 my boy deserves better than just being a punching bag for the plot i'm glad he at least got to come back for arlecchino's AQ to have a very down-to-earth moment (somebody please drag him back to the hospital and handcuff him to the bed)

when i think of the traveler and childe now the way i see it is. childe does see us as his friend, a very good friend. probably one of his closest friends bc we've seen him at some of his lowest points and his teapot dialogue makes it sound like he considers us borderline family now. but when it comes to the traveler i think we're like... in the late stages of warming up to him. it's no longer "he's a fatui harbinger he's pure evil!!! he's done horrible dangerous things!!!" it feels more like.. "... u aren't. a bad person. but also not a good person. and you are kind of a sad loser (/affectionate)..... if you need a place to stay you can crash on the couch ig" like he's a lost puppy that we're starting to accept is gonna keep following us around and while we haven't gotten him a collar and a bed inside yet we started putting food out for him and made him a little makeshift doghouse with a blanket and he seems really excited about that

i hope things keep developing bc i want him to be our tour guide in snezhnaya. i want him to meet us at the docks as he excitedly shows us around and the traveler is his friend at that point when we get to meet his family and see where he grew up . i want the affection to be mutual but i want it to be earned bc childe is such a good character and i love getting to see him develop from this Terrifying Force of Nature who lurks in the shadows doing evil things to just.. a guy doing his best. he loves his family and has hobbies he enjoys. he just also has a job to do and he intends to do it well. and i wanna see every part of that story because i adore him but also it's been so nice getting to see it develop that's one of the things i love in genshin is how often we get to see relationships slowly grow like with childe and xiao. things were rough at first but now they are getting better and one day i want the traveler to be able to call childe his friend without hesitation. where as rn i think if someone asked the traveler they might hesitate and go "uh... i guess....?"

i say all this with the mindset of like. "when you pull and play a character that's not actually canon to the story" like even though i keep childe in my teapot at all times and i've had him at lvl10 friendship for like 2 years now that doesn't mean the traveler is actually his bestie in the main-plot. in my little fanfiction world he's a permanent resident in my house and him and zhongli are roommates who make good use of the privacy

my brain immediately told me "AU where they're both sugar babies shopping together with their allowances"

wriothesley and neuvillette have had that arrangement for a loooong time while childe and zhongli r still pretty fresh at it (mostly childe...)

childe used to be very self sufficient and forced himself to be masc all the time so wriothesley is showing him that it's fun to like feminine things without it damaging ur masculinity and helps him feel less guilty about using someone else's money (childe thinks of the arrangement as a business transaction rather than zhongli just loving him and wanting to pamper him..)

wriothesley keeps handing childe things to try on and pointing out things he might like and poor childe is so overwhelmed bc he barely knows how to unclasp a bra on another person nevermind himself

PLEASE the fact zhongli is such a little shit is SOOOOOO SO IMPORTANT TO ME IT MEANS THE WORLD TO ME like yes he's suave sexy dom daddy but also he goes "i know you are but what am i" when people start beef with him. that's probably exactly what he said to neuvillette that started the fight in the first place. just THE most petty little shit bickering possible that he is 10000% having sooo much fun with while neuvillette is about to lose his mind at him
zhongli doesn't throw the first punch that turns Verbal Arguments into Physical Fights but mein gott does he have a streak of pushing the other person to start it. very few people (especially in the circles he often hangs out in) have the balls to try and throw hands with him (like. look at him. the average person does not compare.) but once in awhile he runs into someone with Poor Patience and Nothing To Lose and gets what's comin to him. neuvillette being one of those people. naturally it never deters him he thinks it's hysterical

he's the type of brat that makes a great sadistic bully as a dom when he's in the right mood. he's gonna mess with you and tease you and if he's feeling cheeky enough the edging will be insane. that's why he's so good at taming childe when he gets bratty because he KNOWS the game like the back of his hand