[ maomao is going to patiently listen to every word as she watches the events unfold in the mirror. once it's finished, she will look at zhongli through the reflection of the mirror. there were some...telling sighs. knowing his age and what he is, he may have witnessed the events or heard first person accounts at the time of.
he can guess she will have some questions from the way her hand curls under her chin. ]
[ the answer is easy and immediate, as he watches the artifacts be subsumed to the deep waters. until the memory is gone and it's just the funhouse mirrors and the two of them. ]
Morax is my true name, although I prefer everyone here know me as Zhongli - after all, none of you have come from Liyue, from Teyvat, and have no reason to know me as anything besides that. [ you're his friends and his equals, not his worshippers or anyone that's known him for aeons. ] Rex Lapis is a term of address used by mankind, along with Yanwang-dijun, as mortals referring to me as Morax is considered to be done in disrespect unless used in a particular way.
As young Miss Wanyan was intending by calling me that, even if she was not aware she was doing it to my face.
I now know what to use if you ever get injured here.
[ she probably would never true name him, but it would be tempting if he does get as messed up as some of the others there. ]
It probably would have made her double down harder if she knew who she was talking to. [ a follower is one thing, but the actual person sharing their version of events that went against everything she has ever known... ]
Why did they believe that you were the one who delivered the blow?
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he can guess she will have some questions from the way her hand curls under her chin. ]
Who is Rex Lapis and Morax?
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[ the answer is easy and immediate, as he watches the artifacts be subsumed to the deep waters. until the memory is gone and it's just the funhouse mirrors and the two of them. ]
Morax is my true name, although I prefer everyone here know me as Zhongli - after all, none of you have come from Liyue, from Teyvat, and have no reason to know me as anything besides that. [ you're his friends and his equals, not his worshippers or anyone that's known him for aeons. ] Rex Lapis is a term of address used by mankind, along with Yanwang-dijun, as mortals referring to me as Morax is considered to be done in disrespect unless used in a particular way.
As young Miss Wanyan was intending by calling me that, even if she was not aware she was doing it to my face.
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[ she probably would never true name him, but it would be tempting if he does get as messed up as some of the others there. ]
It probably would have made her double down harder if she knew who she was talking to. [ a follower is one thing, but the actual person sharing their version of events that went against everything she has ever known... ]
Why did they believe that you were the one who delivered the blow?