[ How do you know that you've been waiting for answers without realizing you've been waiting for answers? While Childe was content to just let their relationship, both in and out of Nippon, shift as it would, he would be lying if he said he hadn't been left wondering if Zhongli would offer up any explanation as to what transpired between them.
Reconciliation through fierce combat was the least he could have expected.
Childe isn't so naive as to believe he understands the dealings of the gods. Being used as a pawn was infuriating, surely, but in the end hadn't he sworn himself to be made Her Majesty's weapon, to see Her will be done?
If anything, the betrayal and the revelation that Zhongli was the one pulling the strings the whole time left him feeling more irritated that he hadn't been smart enough to stay one step ahead of the man. That still didn't keep him from tumbling into bed with him every night, though, or... whatever it was they had now. It was easier to see Zhongli as Zhongli and not as the Geo Archon or Morax or whatever other titles he had.
Maybe he'd long since forgiven him. Maybe he hadn't. Pride sometimes took a while to heal. The sex sure helped, though, because there was nothing like getting over being played a fool at the hands of Rex Lapis than to feel those same hands grasping at him in the throes of passion at night.
It's a coping mechanism in some way, surely. ]
... You really liked spending time with me that much? [ Is what he eventually says, voice quiet, disbelieving. ]
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Reconciliation through fierce combat was the least he could have expected.
Childe isn't so naive as to believe he understands the dealings of the gods. Being used as a pawn was infuriating, surely, but in the end hadn't he sworn himself to be made Her Majesty's weapon, to see Her will be done?
If anything, the betrayal and the revelation that Zhongli was the one pulling the strings the whole time left him feeling more irritated that he hadn't been smart enough to stay one step ahead of the man. That still didn't keep him from tumbling into bed with him every night, though, or... whatever it was they had now. It was easier to see Zhongli as Zhongli and not as the Geo Archon or Morax or whatever other titles he had.
Maybe he'd long since forgiven him. Maybe he hadn't. Pride sometimes took a while to heal. The sex sure helped, though, because there was nothing like getting over being played a fool at the hands of Rex Lapis than to feel those same hands grasping at him in the throes of passion at night.
It's a coping mechanism in some way, surely. ]
... You really liked spending time with me that much? [ Is what he eventually says, voice quiet, disbelieving. ]