#basa.thinks

[basafritters]

Aglaea isn't sure why you keep coming to her as your first choice of company. At first she assumed you might just be another citizen infatuated with the idea of living legends and heroes who will save the future of the land, but just the briefest observation proved otherwise. What you seek is something much more dangerous. Since you've caught her attention, she pays every free moment listening for you through her all-reaching connection of threads. How you long to see the world beyond the sky, to follow your endless imagination. She's listened in as you spin stories of other worlds, and beasts that soar through the sky, and how others become similarly enraptured by your voice. At first, she waved off the issue. While it may turn into something worse, few seemed to think more of your stories than as fiction. If she did not have her duties, if she did not have the weight of the world resting upon her shoulders, then perhaps she would be more willing to let herself be soothed by your ballads and poems of a far off world. Then the travelers from afar came. Everything you ever dreamed of was waiting on the tongues of these strangers. Aglaea might be cruel, but not without reason. It starts as a simple initial prevention, to ensure your paths never cross. But fate soon proves that things are much less controllable than she hoped. If you learned the truth, you would need to be dealt with. You would be a threat to all your fellow citizens, to your family, to the fate of Amphoreus. She cannot allow that, and she cannot allow you to be in that position. Even if she need lock you away, with or without your knowledge and permission, so be it. There is no future wherein she would allow fate to tear you from her sight.

[basafritters]

fascinated by amphoreus as it is now... very excited for the next stages of the main quest, but my first thoughts have gone to the possibility of a yn who is also a memokeeper, apprenticing under black swan... you go with your mentor with the astral express and decide to remain with them on their way to amphoreus, but you're there when the car goes down and crashes. traveling with them through this strange unknown world but you're a memokeeper-- you aren't bound by a physical body and you choose to separate momentarily from your nameless companions. only to end up accidentally ALSO breaking the rules of 'tell no one about the world beyond the sky'... because how can you not? you're not a physical body. you've pledged yourself to the memories of the universe. aglaea would need to see to it that you're kept in check... but maybe some others would be enticed by the stories of the universe, like phainon... perhaps something to do with your role as a record-taker of history, and phainon's current legend being in the making? could be interesting...

[basafritters]

you know what would be really agonizing for albedo? finding out that rhinedottir took on an apprentice, similar to mona and her master. and if that apprentice came to mondstadt, and everything about them served as a glaring reminder that rhinedottir chose you, not him (for whatever reason he can't seem to fully grasp). and thus begins the period of his observations. what makes you a more ideal apprentice than him? what makes you tick? what hidden value is he not seeing that trumps his own as a functional homunculus? but of course, close observation of something can naturally induce some degree of fondness for it. except that fondness would be irreversibly intertwined with his own feelings of jealousy and inadequacy regarding his creator that he's yet to fully process on his own (much less when in regards to this new stranger he's enamored with for, of course, strictly professional and academic purposes. not anything else. of course.)

[basafritters]

pros of having ruan mei as a partner: she'll test your dna for any genetic mutations, risk of disease, possible chronic conditions being carried, etc etc.

cons of having ruan mei as a partner: non-zero chance of her using your dna to then clone you and experiment with the clone by infecting it with various mutations and subjecting it to horrifying tests then showing you the end results

[basafritters]

got lost on a crazy side quest, which is figuring out what the craziest combination of yandere cookie run x reader is and i realized: yn is a witch. which also begs a lot of questions. is it possible to have a character yearning obsessively for a reader who is their god and have it be enticing if they're COOKIES??? is there a market for that. would anyone read that

[basafritters]

Throwing out an idea I had like two-ish years ago, which is Childe x yn who is in some sort of religious position within Snezhnaya because I think not enough people take into account his very dedicated faithfulness to his culture and traditions.... Childe with a yn who he can't pursue because it's against every teaching he's been brought up with, and a direct violation of his religious faith. But the urge is there. If it were any other religious affiliation he'd waste no time in trying to pursue you, but when it's his own? What greater enemy is there than your faith in contrast to your desires?