Five hundred years apart.

Five minutes together.
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“Even the tiniest spark can start the greatest fires.”

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Five hundred years separated your worlds.

For you, Khaenri'ah was home—a flourishing kingdom whose streets still bustled with life, blissfully unaware of the fate awaiting it.

For Mitya, it was history. A civilisation long since destroyed, its people lost to death, curses, and the passing of centuries.

Yet an ancient device had accomplished the impossible: a fleeting projection into the past, allowing him to see and speak to someone who had lived five hundred years before his time.

You.

Five minutes. That was all the device permitted.

Five minutes to exchange stories, to share laughter, to discover a world neither could ever truly enter. Five minutes in which the distance between centuries seemed almost insignificant, save for the cruel impossibility of reaching out and touching one another.

And perhaps, somewhere between those borrowed moments, something more might begin to grow.

But Khaenri'ah's destruction was already written into Mitya's history, even as it remained an unwritten tomorrow in yours.

One small encounter might kindle a love that defied five hundred years.

And one day...
a kingdom would burn.

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✦ Of Sparks, Flames, and Ashes ✦

THREE MOMENTS · FIVE MINUTES · FIVE HUNDRED YEARS

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✦ I. Where Sparks Find Kindling

The first encounter.

An ancient device. A curious researcher. And a stranger from a kingdom lost to history.

What begins as an extraordinary discovery soon becomes a conversation neither wishes to end.

Five minutes to meet. Five hundred years between them.

✦ II. Of Flames That Know No Time

The love that follows.

Five minutes have become the most anticipated part of every day. Between familiar laughter, affectionate teasing, and complaints about how quickly time passes, two hearts have found a home in each other.

If only happiness could make the minutes last longer.

✦ III. Where Ash Conceals the Embers

The beginning of the end.

An old inventory reveals six years of conversations they could have shared. Mitya mourns the time they never had, unaware that the final minute of their meeting is about to coincide with Khaenri'ah's darkest hour.

He wished he'd found you sooner. Now, he can only pray it isn't too late.

✦ IV. A Name Before Its Time

Five hundred years apart. A thousand words left unsaid.

There were many things Mitya had come to accept about the peculiar little device sitting on his workbench.

That it could project a living image of someone from five hundred years ago, for instance. That its connection lasted precisely five minutes, regardless of how many times he threatened to dismantle it. That his scarf had developed a rather embarrassing habit of curling into hearts whenever a certain someone appeared.

And, perhaps most importantly, that five minutes had somehow become the best part of his day.

What he had not expected was to find a love letter addressed to himself in an archive of ancient Khaenri'ahn botanical records.

But that particular absurdity had begun several weeks earlier.

With a flower.

✦ a little note: intro IV was a spontaneous addition halfway through the bot's testing phase! heavily inspired by the bootstrap paradox, particularly the idea of something existing without a discernible origin due to a causal time loop. what started as a silly little flower sharing mitya's name somehow turned into a love letter travelling five hundred years to reach him. ♡

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“Should the world turn to ash,

let there remain but a single ember.
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I shall find you by its light.”

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✦ A LITTLE NOTE FROM THE CREATOR ♡

fun fact: this entire bot was conceived in the time it took pinterest's little halloween loading animation to finish 😭

i literally opened pinterest to look for inspiration for another genshin bot, and while it was loading, my brain somehow went from thinking about the snezhnaya quest, to khaenri'ah, to time travel, to tragic star-crossed lovers (yes this is about pierro & hroptatyr). by the time pinterest finished doing its thing, i already had the beginnings of a premise. HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN LMAOOO

AND THEN, as i was brainstorming the actual story, a song came on that fit the premise so ridiculously well that i genuinely had to sit there for a moment. like hello??? the timing??? the themes of lost time and missed chances??? 😭

anyway, what started as a completely spontaneous thought has somehow turned into one of the most emotionally devastating bot concepts i've come up with. i was literally tearing up while planning the third intro. OVER MY OWN BOT. HELP.

i hope you enjoy the different scenarios as much as i enjoyed creating them!! whether you want a sweet first meeting, five minutes of domestic bliss, or to personally fight fate itself, there's a little something for everyone. ♡

and as always, if you have any requests, suggestions, scenarios, AUs, dynamics, or little “what if” ideas, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them through my request form (here)! i absolutely adore unexpected ideas, even if i can't promise i'll get around to every single one. if your suggestion inspires a future bot or intro, i'll be sure to credit you! ♡

also consider this my 3/7 mitya bots as part of my personal c6 in one ten pull wishing ritual

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