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Hi hello I love them very much 🥺🥺

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He will never win

Personally, I'm more in the Genshin Impact fandom right now and wasn't sure if I should post genshin arts here because there are a lot of ppg fans following me. But somehow I want my Genshin fanarts to be here as well, so over the next few days I will post my overdue drawings. I apologize to all my PPG followers

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the cover art and an additional piece i drew for @chilumizine last year!

thank you for the opportunity💙

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Disclaimer: I just started Genshin Impact so I'm not familiar with every piece of lore. So this isn't going to cover everything about The Travelers and Venti's relationship. But I wanted to point out some very interesting details I've picked up on so far:

1.) "Beloved of the Anemo Archon" Achievement.

Beloved is a very interesting choice here. While beloved isn't exclusively romantic, it is often used in a romantic context. Beloved indicates that someone is deeply loved... and having the traveler sit in the hand of the statue is a really interesting choice.

2.) "The Outlander who caught the wind". Kind of losing my mind over this because it implies that The Traveler caught the god of Anemo - who is also the God of Freedom.

3.) Venti's association with birds [teaching the first birds that they only needed courage to fly] and the Travelers being winged beings who lost their powers. His association with birds is also consistent with his relationship with Xiao - as Xiao is based on the Golden-Winged Great Peng [which is a being that looks like a half man/half bird. But in Genshin Impact, Xiao is represented as a bird, rather than the bird/man hybrid depiction of the Golden-Winged Great Peng.]

Article about Xiao: here

4.) The very, very interesting pattern of having the Traveler be saved by anemo users during the final moments of major story arcs.

Xiao: saves the traveler from falling to their death. [ And Xiao sacrifices sacrifice himself to save the traveler and their friends in "At Tunnels End".]

Kazuha: saves the Traveler from getting killed by The Raiden Shogun.

The Wanderer: saves the traveler from getting beamed by the Everlasting Lord of Arcane Wisdom.

"May the wind protect you" indeed...

5.) Windwheel Asters, which are used to level up the Traveler, say:

"A plant that adores the wind. To the proud children of the wind, or the citizens of Mondstadt, the Windwheel Asters are "the visible winds".

Having Windwheel Asters be one of the materials to ascend the traveler is interesting... because the ascension materials didn't have to include this flower. It could have even been some made up flower related to the stars. Like a "Star Flower" or something... but it's a flower that "adores the wind"... Also this material could have been any random material.

6.) Venti's very suspicious piece of dialogue "Ah, Traveler! We meet again. What? You don't remember me? Aha, Well allow me to join you on your quest once again. I must see to it that the bards of the world tell the Travelers tale."

Ontop of this, Venti's Windblume poem implies a connection to the Traveler. The Windblume poem is about the Traveler because in the Chinese script "you" and "your" change depending on who you pick. Since Archons can enter peoples dreams and Venti went to sleep for a period of time - it's possible he could have met the Traveler while they were sleeping. And he kept them company during their 500 year sleep - a sleep which was implied to be full of nightmares in the trailer for the beta version of the game [which is voiced over by Venti jsyk].

The reason why I think he met the Traveler in their dreams is because of this line in Ventis Windblume poem:

Who was it that embraced your noble soul in dreams deep

Here's the full Windblume poem:

"Who was it that stroked your bloodied, determined visage By stream flowing small By boulder standing large Who was it that embraced your weary yet noble soul in dreams deep In skies soaring Dear friend I am leading you by the hand Into the night where lanterns shine bright To tell you a tale of freedom and dreams The tale of where this festival begins.”

I highlighted the "noble soul" part because of the description of the Anemo Archon statues:

A monumental stone statue that watches over Mondstadt. Legends say that it was sculpted in the image of the Anemo Archon. "Seeds brought by the wind will grow over time." The statue silently anticipates the arrival of a noble soul to arrive, while thousand winds of time will soon unfold a new story...

[Jsyk you get the "Beloved of the Anemo Archon" trophy by sitting on the hands of the Statue of Barbatos in Mondstadt.]

This is extra interesting when we take into account Venti's close association with The God of time and his roll of being the wind that brings the "seeds" to where they're meant to be. It's obvious that Venti is guiding the traveler to some kind of end goal we're not aware of. And thematically, he's protecting them even when he's not directly involved in their conflict through Anemo users.

Venti also says: "There is not a single song I do not know, whether it be the past, present, or future"

I'm not sure if this is supposed to mean he is ALSO the God of Time - like when "The Anemo Archon" goes to "sleep", "The God of Time" awakens. Or if Venti is given visions by the God of Time to carry out certain events - to be the wind that delivers the seeds to where they're meant to be. But the point is is that he obviously knows future events and he's intentionally keeping them from The Traveler, while guiding them along a certain path. He's not keeping secrets from The Traveler to be malicious, but to make sure they take a certain path to a specific end goal.

And again, he's also been waiting for them to come to Teyvat for an untold amount of time.

7.) When Venti is describing what a Windblume can mean the camera switches to Ventis POV, then it pans over to the Traveler when he says "flowers of love". This is very suspicious because the camera didn't need to pan over to the traveler at all nor did we need a perspective shift to begin with... but it does when Venti says "flowers of love"... how am I not supposed to interpret that as him being romantically interested in the traveler?

Yeah. "love" - at least in english - can mean any kind of love, but it's the choice to have the camera shift to Venti's perspective, then have the camera pan over to the traveler [while still in Venti's POV] as he's saying "flowers of love" is what has me thinking "love" is supposed to mean romantic love in this situation.

8.) Venti and the Traveler missing someone who shares the same face and grieving a time they can't return to.

9.) Traveler to Venti: "Your eyes are the color of the sky in my homeland"

10.) Venti calling the Traveler "My warrior". Again, this is really interesting to me because Venti has been waiting for the traveler to come to Teyvat. He needs the Traveler to be his warrior so that some kind of end goal can be obtained.

But honestly... his teapot dialogue is very sweet.

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Thank god I found that one theory about Venti visiting the traveler in their dreams and keeping them company while they were trapped in a nightmarish dream state for 500 years because "Beloved of The Anemo Archon" is going to keep me up for many nights.

Because like... BELOVED is not a word that's used lightly. It's almost always used in a romantic way and in the instances where it isn't, it's used to imply that a person is deeply loved.

It's such a weird word to use if we assume Venti only knew the traveler during their time in Mondstadt... he hasn't known them for that long and yet, "beloved" is used to describe the traveler in this situation. That's really weird to me... kind of makes me wonder if the Chinese name for this achievement carries similar connotations.

Too bad I can't read Chinese characters lol.

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he's so. Obvious LOL

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“hmph, those words almost make you sound like a friend who actually cares.”

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if evil then why so cute?

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they don’t make men like this anymore

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Suddenly disappear and just as suddenly return? - Definitely yes

It was the toughest six months of my life, so here's a little ChiLumi sketch to lighten things up.

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Trapped in Chilumi and Xiaolumi hell... now Scaralumi is coming for my soul... seriously Scaramouche calling the travelers eyes pretty was so unnecessary lol.

Also the amount of people who are interested in the traveler is insane lksdjfsldfj they keep collecting bisexuals on their adventure 😭.

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I just got into Genshin Impact, so I'm not familiar with the lore or the whole story yet. But I have been reading up on spoilers and I think it's a very interesting writing choice to have all the characters who've saved The Traveler so far be anemo users.

I also think it's interesting that the very first Archon we meet is the Anemo God. A god who's element basically embodies freedom. Venti/Barbatos also holds freedom in a high regard, to the point where he let's the people of Mondstadt govern themselves. He also let's Dvalin choose whther or not he wants to still be the Dragon of the East [one of Mondstadts four winds].

I really like this, because The Traveler gives freedom to the people of Teyvat by helping them defeat some kind of overbearing force. And when the Travelor is in danger, "the wind" comes to their aid. It's almost like Venti is looking out for The Traveler.