[ kaeya should perhaps be watching his competition, sizing them up, but his eyes are on diluc, and only diluc.
his heart is pounding. so much rides on this day, on his performance.. and diluc's, as well. it's up to kaeya to hunt him down, to fight anyone who dares get in his way, and it's up to diluc to evade any potential suitor that draws near enough to mate him. just the idea of someone reaching diluc before him is enough to set kaeya's blood aflame - he can't allow that to happen, can't allow anyone to even draw close to diluc. where normally kaeya might be laid-back and cool, today he is tense and stiff, his usual languid smile wiped away, his features set. this is likely the first thing kaeya has taken seriously in a long time.
he must. he can't imagine his life without diluc beside him. kaeya will win this thing. he watches with rapt attention as diluc is blessed, as he drinks the draught, kaeya's eye never leaving him even when he runs into the brush and woods, his vivid scarlet hair streaming behind him. soon enough, diluc is gone.
it is now that kaeya takes the opportunity to size up his opponents. near all of mondstadt has turned out for this chance to take the dawn winery's heir for themselves, and all of them are here to win. that isn't acceptable. he studies them, one by one, notes the ones with visions and the ones without, his ears laid back and his tail bristled. he won't underestimate a single one of them, that could be his undoing, but nevertheless he knows that they must fall before him. all of them. the thirty minutes they wait for diluc to disappear into the forest feels like the longest kaeya has ever waited.
but at last, at last they are freed. kaeya is off like a shot, sprinting into the trees, already scenting the air for the telltale traces of diluc's signature smell. if kaeya has one advantage over his competitors, it is that he knows diluc's scent better than anyone ever could. ]
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his heart is pounding. so much rides on this day, on his performance.. and diluc's, as well. it's up to kaeya to hunt him down, to fight anyone who dares get in his way, and it's up to diluc to evade any potential suitor that draws near enough to mate him. just the idea of someone reaching diluc before him is enough to set kaeya's blood aflame - he can't allow that to happen, can't allow anyone to even draw close to diluc. where normally kaeya might be laid-back and cool, today he is tense and stiff, his usual languid smile wiped away, his features set. this is likely the first thing kaeya has taken seriously in a long time.
he must. he can't imagine his life without diluc beside him. kaeya will win this thing. he watches with rapt attention as diluc is blessed, as he drinks the draught, kaeya's eye never leaving him even when he runs into the brush and woods, his vivid scarlet hair streaming behind him. soon enough, diluc is gone.
it is now that kaeya takes the opportunity to size up his opponents. near all of mondstadt has turned out for this chance to take the dawn winery's heir for themselves, and all of them are here to win. that isn't acceptable. he studies them, one by one, notes the ones with visions and the ones without, his ears laid back and his tail bristled. he won't underestimate a single one of them, that could be his undoing, but nevertheless he knows that they must fall before him. all of them. the thirty minutes they wait for diluc to disappear into the forest feels like the longest kaeya has ever waited.
but at last, at last they are freed. kaeya is off like a shot, sprinting into the trees, already scenting the air for the telltale traces of diluc's signature smell. if kaeya has one advantage over his competitors, it is that he knows diluc's scent better than anyone ever could. ]